A new study suggests Dr. Atkins was right: A high carb diet is not a healthy diet, and cutting carbs trims more than just your waistline. While both low-carb and low-fat diets can help you loose weight, Duke University’s well-designed study makes it pretty clear that if you want to reduce your weight and your pressure, a [...]
Posts under ‘The Future of Medicine’
Humans as GMOs? New Vaccine Technology Alters our DNA
I am not a vaccine skeptic. I think that most of our vaccines are safe enough for widespread utilization as long as they do anything stupid during the production process, like contaminate them with squalene or mercury (which they often do, but that’s a topic for another post).
Recently, though, I heard about a new biotech [...]
Does Caloric Restriction Prolong Life?
You may have heard Oprah’s Dr. Oz talking about an amazing new diet that, he claims, might allow us to live 150 years. I noticed that Dr. Oz seemed to be doing his best to highlight the benefits of this diet and downplay any risks, though he wasn’t following the diet himself – and I [...]
Statins and Heart Failure: A Deadly Mix?
If you are one of the five million people in the US with heart failure and you are taking a cholesterol-lowering drug called a statin (examples are lipitor, crestor, vytorin, zocor), you should know about two studies that your doctor probably hasn’t read.
One is called CORONA and the other GISSI-HF. These two large studies are [...]
Health After Healthcare
Have you lost your job and your insurance? Or is your employer cutting back on your benefits?
Are you cutting back on medications to save money?
You’re not alone.
Why Doctors Overprescribe
Hey, give us a break! We get foot-tall stacks of journals every week. You can’t really expect us to do all that reading? What many people do is skim the titles and conclusions. It’s the Readers Digest way to get the information down.
Unfortunately, a little knowledge is dangerous and there’s a huge problem with practicing [...]
