Two things just happened in quick succession to propel me to write this blog about the thyroid. One is quite scary. It’s a Medscape article “Can Surgery Alleviate Persistent Symptoms in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis?” The other was a comment from Ginney who sent me an awesome testimonial from a Mom about her toddler. It’s off topic […]
Continue reading >In a very patronizing, condescending tone, Medscape advises patients “PPIs Just Stop Worrying” because “PPIs Appear Largely Safe in Multiyear Trial.” Of course, if you are not in the “Largely” group you may suffer a long list of side effects, including magnesium deficiency. Since magnesium is responsible for 80% of known metabolic functions and 1,000 […]
Continue reading >“When Magnesium Makes Me Worse” is my most popular blog but it’s time to turn that blog upside down and inside out for those who have awesome positive experiences with magnesium; who understand the shifting that takes place when the body is revved up with magnesium; and who just want to know more. Since I […]
Continue reading >Detox is a hot buzzword in the alternative medical community but for everyone else, including allopathic medicine, the word still resonates with drug and alcohol rehab. Activated charcoal is used in the alternative medicine community to treat GI symptoms and for detoxification. It must be a big enough trend for an attack to be unleashed in an article […]
Continue reading >Drug companies spend billions doing market research on their drugs and here is an example of how they go about it. A survey was conducted to determine “Patient Preferences for Preventive Migraine Treatments and published in the journal Headache as if it were an actual scientific study. Its objective was “To understand treatment preferences of people with migraine […]
Continue reading >Allopathic medicine is terrified of diabetes and all the horrible associated conditions. They are so terrified that they are saying “Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes ‘Needs Aggressive Intervention’” and they mean to do just that. What’s next? Medicating high-risk infants it in the womb? Actually the practice of surgery on infants in the womb is commonplace and […]
Continue reading >I recently came across an article from the Vitamin C Foundation about CoQ10, statins and their interconnectedness of Vitamin C. The author of this article thinks that CoQ10 deficiency is The Greatest Medical Tragedy of All Time. We’re often asked in Customer Service why I don’t recommend Coezyme Q10. Mostly it’s because I think magnesium (ReMag) […]
Continue reading >A Medscape Continuing Medical Education Case Study introduced the topic of Complex Metabolic Patients. What does allopathic medicine recommend to deal with metabolic complexity where patients suffer a dangerous combination of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease? Their solution is to educate doctors to “improve statin management in patients with complex metabolic […]
Continue reading >In a Medscape article titled “Cardiologists Must ‘Get Up To Speed’ on Treating Diabetes”, the doctors interviewed gave their drug company disclosures. Dr. Fonarow is a consultant for Abbott, Amgen, Bayer, Janssen, Medtronic, and Novartis. Dr. Ferdinand is a consultant for Amgen, Sanofi, Novartis, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Quantum Genomics. And Dr. Mancini disclosed relationships with […]
Continue reading >A Medscape quiz about drug side effects assured the reader that “All drugs are associated with adverse effects…and…some require discontinuation of the medication, dosage modification, or other treatment. In a nutshell that is the downside of modern medicine. Drugs and devices are the only options that doctors are taught and even though ALL drugs have […]
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