Weekly Health Quiz: Plants, Protein and Muscle

1 Which of the following has been shown to dramatically lower mortality in septic pediatric patients?

• Intravenous vitamin C with hydrocortisone and vitamin B1

  Recent research has demonstrated an intravenous protocol of vitamin C, hydrocortisone and vitamin B1 lowers mortality in septic pediatric patients, from 28% to 9% in the first 30 days. Learn more.

• Bolus dose of vitamin D
• Vitamin K2
• Quercetin

2 Who paid for Maine's "No on 1" TV ad campaign, which seeks to uphold the 2019 law that abolishes religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions?

• Private donors, mostly residents of Maine
• Vaccine manufacturers

  Maine's "No on 1" campaign has spent $476,000 on misleading television ads, yet reports raising only $56,000 in donations. The remainder was paid by vaccine manufacturers, which will profit from keeping the vaccine mandate in place. Learn more.

• Arabic oil tycoons
• President Trump

3 Which of the following is responsible for a majority (more than half) of all unintentional drug poisonings in children under the age of 5?

• Caregivers giving the wrong dosage of a prescribed drug
• Leaving pills out in the open, on counters or nightstands
• Storing drugs in containers other than the original childproof packaging

  Recent research shows 51.5% of unintentional drug poisoning cases in children involved drugs accessed as a result of having been removed from its original childproof packaging. Learn more.

• Spilling pills and failing to pick them all up

4 Which of the following best describes a heart attack?

• Sudden onset of stabbing pain in the center of the chest that lasts up to 10 seconds
• Intense fear and a sense of impending doom
• Hyperventilation, trembling, sweating and heart palpitations
• Pressure, fullness or aching in the chest that escalates, reaching maximum severity after a few minutes, and radiates into other areas such as arms, abdomen, back, neck or jaw

  The chest pain associated with a heart attack will typically start as a feeling of pressure, fullness or aching that escalates, reaching maximum severity after a few minutes. The pain will often radiate the chest into other areas, such as one or both arms, abdomen, back, shoulders, neck, throat or jaw. Learn more.

5 Which of the following will promote your muscles' sensitivity to protein signals, allowing you to optimize muscle building?

• Exercising before eating a protein-rich meal

  Exercising before you eat a protein-rich meal boosts your muscles' sensitivity to protein signals, allowing you to optimize muscle building. Learn more.

• Avoiding carbohydrate-protein combinations
• Resting before eating a protein-rich meal
• Eating a protein-rich meal before exercising

6 Which of the following may worsen EMF damage from cellphones and other wireless devices by creating excess superoxide?

• Eating a high-fat diet
• Eating a carbohydrate-rich processed food diet

  When you aren't burning fat for fuel (which creates excess superoxide) and then get exposed to EMFs, a perfect storm of DNA and cellular protein and membrane destruction is triggered. The inability to burn fat for fuel is primarily the result of eating a carbohydrate-rich processed food diet. Learn more.

• Time-restricted eating or longer fasting
• Using molecular hydrogen

7 Which of the following plants makes for an inexpensive yet highly nutritious animal feed when it's fermented?

• Brittlebush
• Prickly pear
• Agave

  The Via Organica farm in Mexico is promoting a novel way to produce inexpensive yet highly nutritious animal feed made from native agave plants. Learn more.

• Acacia