Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/U17wLGctSQE   Short Shorts are cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries not quite ready for the clinic.  They’re worth knowing about now during the 5th week of March, 2022.   Alpacas produce unique antibody fragments known as nanobodies that capably neutralize a wider variety of CoVid variants than the antibodies triggered by our current vaccines.  Microbiologists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute show that these nanobodies are not only potent but are easily produced in large quantities.  This makes them very promising therapeutic candidates for squelching CoVid variants as they pop up in a biological whack-a-mole fashion.   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27610-z     The artificial sweeteners aspartame, better known as NutraSweet and Equal, and acesulfame-K, marketed as Sweet One and Sunett, are associated with a 13% increased risk of cancer in general and a 22% increased risk of breast cancer in particular.  Check which artificial sweeteners are in the foods you