Early in my career I read an article with that title. About the same time, I discovered the Brain-Gut connection, and hundreds of articles on the importance of the gut flora, and nutrition. I also discovered that most of what I had been taught in medical school was obsolete. If you ar
I was clinically depressed in medical school. After running myself into the ground to get there (18 credits per semester, pre-med courses in two years, twenty-hour/week part-time job, and twenty hours/week playing soccer), I was excited, and happy to start medical training. But, findi
I write with all due respect for those who will disagree with the conclusion. As you may know, there are those who do not wish to provide insurance coverage for The Pill. Fine, it is their right, particularly when they feel their moral, and religious beliefs back them up. But, followi
“Medicine, the arts and the humanities,” J. Lancet 2003;362:93 The Nobel Prize in Literature was recently awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro, one of my most favorite writers. I hope you read one, or more of his books. What does literature have to do with health? Read from the article cited abo
The gut being central to health and disease is a concept that needs revisiting from time to time. Despite the tsunami of studies corroborating this simple point (good enough to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908,) I still run into people who find it hard to believe that the answe
“Simplify, simplify, simplify.” Einstein “It is a mistake to imagine that complex disease may not be solved by simple approaches or that their causes are not simple. The grave danger that terms such as ‘multifactorial’ or ‘complex’ is that they may justify the belief that solutions wi
Recently the LDS Church ended its long-standing ban on caffeinated drinks at Brigham Young University. The change triggered several editorials in Utah’s media; some were a bit condescending and judgmental. This blog presents a few references for you to consider on this issue. My only
I used to debate physicians, health care workers, and patients who did not believe in non-pharmaceutical medicine, or integrative concepts based on nutrition. Some of them called me a quack, decades ago when I showed them the nascent evidence on probiotics, omega oils, vitamin D, and
