I’ve written blogs about doctors’ dissatisfaction with their jobs and the high suicide rate. I say it because their patients are also dissatisfied with their drug- and surgery-based treatment. What satisfies doctors? Patients may think that money is a motivation but doctors are increasingly being used to drive revenue into hospitals not into their pockets. […]
Continue reading >I’ve been thinking a lot about the BBB since the 2009 rat study “Enhancement of Learning and Memory by Elevating Brain Magnesium.” Everyone heard about this study because the news that a patented magnesium was able to get into the brain and cerebrospinal fluid – of rats – was promoted relentlessly. The study authors implied […]
Continue reading >I’ve used the title Create the Disease and Offer the Cure before in a post about potential goldmines for Big Pharma in treating Adult ADHD, Fibromyalgia, Middle of the Night Insomnia, Excessive Sleepiness, Shift Work Sleep Disorder, and Insomnia That is Really Depression. In this present blog I’m critiquing an article in Medscape titled “One in Six US […]
Continue reading >Why do I keep harping about the attacks on dietary supplements? It’s because nutrients represent the last bastion of defense that vulnerable medical patients can turn to when drugs and doctors let them down. And allopathic medicine is doing it darndest to keep patients away from supplements. A Medscape article “Supplements and CVD: Why Negative […]
Continue reading >This Medscape article “When Athletes Fail: The Science Behind ‘The Yips’” caught my attention because I’d never heard of this bizarre term ‘Yips’ or its association with athletes. Apparently Yips is a state of extreme nervousness in a golfer that can be accompanied by an involuntary jerk, twitch, or shake that blows an otherwise easy putt. Neurologists are […]
Continue reading >A Medscape article about “When to Start Treating Hypertension” caught my eye, and my mind immediately went to the studies showing that people with magnesium deficiency are at risk for hypertension. The paper that I’m asking everyone to print up and take to their doctor and give to friends and family is called “Subclinical Magnesium […]
Continue reading >How is it even possible that it took the American Heart Association (AHA) until Dec 2018 to produce their “First Scientific Statement on Statin Safety” over 30 years since statins were approved? It comes at a time when the death knell has been sounded for cholesterol being a cause of heart disease. Even the title […]
Continue reading >In what the authors probably assume is a fantastic expose, they conclude that “Dietary Supplements Don’t Prevent Chronic Disease.” The authors first note that the dietary supplement industry had an estimated $41.1 billion in sales in 2016 while the Academy of Nutrition and Dieteticsis cautioning against their “routine and indiscriminate use.” They qualify that while “single- and […]
Continue reading >And how do they propose doing that? A Medscape article, “Federal Task Force Highlights Ways to Limit Opioid Exposure”, says they want to take a closer look at how insurers’ policies deny Americans ways to manage their acute and chronic pain without facing the risk for opioid addiction. Well look no further! They can just […]
Continue reading >After several conversations with a keen and cool millennial, I realized I should consider my own mantra of “adapt, adopt, and survive” when I discuss millennials and their drug intake. You can Google what I’ve previously written about ADHD and Ritalin. My blog, “Recycling Amphetamines” speaks to the generation of young people who have grown […]
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