I have been retained to represent Mr. George Ackerson to address his concerns regarding the reputational damage caused by the following links on blogs and the below Facebook page you control:
I understand that you have a long history with Mr. Ackerson, and that your friendship and professional relationship ended badly. That being said, the extent to which you are posting attacks about him online goes beyond speech protected by the First Amendment to be unprotected defamation.
Further, this defamation amounts to tortious interference with Mr. Ackerson’s and Safer Medical’s business relations, as well as intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The amount of damage being inflicted is quite severe and is recoverable in a legal action against you.
On Mr. Ackerson’s behalf, I hereby request that you remove any and all reference to Mr. George Ackerson from your blogs and Facebook page, including the specifically listed links above and to refrain from posting additional information about him.
Please feel free to contact me should you wish to discuss this matter. We look forward to your prompt response.
Sincerely,
Jennifer A. Kreder Attorney at Law
https://www.facebook.com/JenKreder 27110 Jones Loop Rd Unit 128 Punta Gorda, Florida 33982 (941) 241-7686 jen@JenniferKreder.com JenniferKreder.com
I have created a new set of charts showing the connection of bacteria to various conditions. These charts allow drill down by taxonomy rank (phylum, order, class, genus, etc).
A reader asked how to compensate for some prescription drugs that he takes for other conditions. In an earlier post, I had added the ability to see the Compare Impact on the microbiome of drugs, supplements, etc. for example
Recently I have seen a number of articles looking at how the diet needs of the seniors (over 60 y.o.) are very different from younger people. One characteristics of many seniors is a decrease of microbiome diversity — the same situation that happens with some medical conditions.
Changes with Age
“Beyond descriptive connections between microbial composition and host health status, very few studies to date have dissected the causal role of the gut microbiota during ageing. ” [2018]
“Besides microbiota diversity, reduced microbiota-related metabolic capacity, such as lower short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) levels, in old age may also be associated with aging-related maladies such as irregular bowel transit, reduced appetite, frailty, weight loss, cognitive decline, hypertension, vitamin D deficiency, diabetes, arthritis, sarcopenia, etc. [47–50].”
“As signature bacteria of the long life we identified specifically Eubacterium limosum and relatives that were more than ten-fold increased in the centenarians.” [2010]
“In centenarians, we observed a reduction in the quantity of enterobacteriaceae, bifidobacteria, and bacteroides and an increase in clostridia sensu stricto. The presence of Bifidobacterium longum in the gut seems to be a particular feature in centenarians. It is interesting to note that only 1 strain of B. longum was isolated from each centenarian subject.” [2012]
“We conclude that increasing the proportion of leucine in a mixture of essential amino acid can reverse an attenuated response of muscle protein synthesis in elderly”
“Older adults with Physical frailty and sarcopenia(PF&S) were characterized by higher levels of asparagine, aspartic acid, citrulline, ethanolamine, glutamic acid, sarcosine, and taurine. The profile of non (PF&S) participants was defined by higher concentrations of α-aminobutyric acid and methionine. “
“Most published results, based on data from either epidemiological or short-term studies, indicate a potential beneficial effect of increasing protein intake in elderly adults. These data demonstrate that elderly adults, compared with younger adults, are less responsive to low doses of amino acid intake [18]. However, this lack of responsiveness in healthy older adults can usually be overcome with higher levels of essential amino acid (EAA) consumption [18]. This is also reflected in studies comparing varying levels of protein consumption [19], suggesting that the lack of muscle responsiveness to lower doses of protein intake in elderly adults can be overcome with a higher level of protein intake. The requirement for a larger dose of protein to generate responses in elderly adults similar to the responses in younger adults provides the support for a beneficial effect of increased protein in older populations [8].” [2016]
“The data support the hypothesis that patients with CFS are subjected to some of the problems typical for muscle aging, which is probably related to disorders of muscle protein synthesis and biogenesis of mitochondria.
Bottom Line
There is a lot of literature recently published stating the same things:
Higher protein content than a younger person “The optimum amount for elderly adults (0.24 g/kg/meal) is approximately 70% greater than that for young adults (0.8 g/kg/day) [19], indicating an age-associated anabolic resistance to dietary protein.”
I have made viewing the citations (sources of information) easier. At present, there is at least one academic research using my site to find the articles of interest and validating my encoding of the information into the database.
