Joe Nieusma

Is exercise habit forming? Maybe. Can exercise change the way you think? Absolutely. Is exercise the magic bullet to avoiding all the dreaded neurodegenerative diseases? Probably not, but it certainly helps.   The study by Ashley Yeager entitled, “As researchers unravel the molecular machinery that links exercise and cognition, working out is emerging as a promising […]

Do you ever feel out of it, foggy, drained or distracted and unable to concentrate or stick to a task? It happens all the time for a variety of different reasons that cover the whole spectrum of potential causes. There is an underlying common denominator and a new study out of Europe may have identified

There is a newly published study in the American Chemical Society Omega publication that looks at the additive effects due to the mixture of ingredients found in the vapor producing milieu. I am posting again about vaping and the risks associated with this habit. Mixture toxicology has long been a mystery shrouded in the combination

You have to love dealing with people who manipulate the rules to their advantage without regard to how the initial agreement was worded. What do I mean by this, you ask? Why does a brand new website need a new look? How are these two questions related? And can it be tied into a Thanksgiving

The recent article published in American Pharmaceutical Review in Sept/Oct 2019 was written by Kenny McCleary and Jochen Becker and entitled, “Manufacturing of Highly Potent APIs with Best-Practice Safety and Containment Control Procedures” and talked about all the necessary components of a standard potent compound program.  The whole paper can be viewed at his link.

More recent advances in the pharmaceutical industry that will benefit patients are highlighted here. A blood test for cancer? What does that mean? There is a group working on developing an early detection screening for breast cancer using markers produced by the body. More leading-edge research from the scientific community to benefit humankind. The second

More recent advances in the pharmaceutical industry that will benefit patients are highlighted here. The first describes a novel approach to attack cancer using advanced materials that will help to target only cancer and minimize any collateral damage that normally occurred using only traditional chemotherapeutic agents without the extra targeting strategy.  Nanotubes synthesized from organic

CBD oil products may lead to positive drug tests. What does this mean for “legal” users?  Living in Colorado, the first state to legalize the recreational use of cannabis by smoking and by ingestion, there is a lot of lessons learned about the use and living with legal pot. I am not referring to driving

Risks associated with vaping…  The smoking gun in the toxic reaction to vaping may have been isolated. Highlighted in The Scientist, the culprit apparently is Vitamin E acetate. A vitamin? How can that be? Aren’t vitamins supposed to be good for you? The toxicology-based answer is, as always, it depends. Depends on what you ask?

Changing our drinking water with a new solution I was traveling last week for my other company, TwinOxide, in Louisiana and Arkansas. We were conducting the final series of jar tests using our TwinOxide chlorine dioxide that is ultra pure (99.9%) and therefore has no free chlorine in the final product. This is huge for