Antiaging and Hormones

It does not make sense to me to take hormones indiscriminately to stave off the natural effects of aging. Yet, many practitioners recommend them to their patients. It is best to look at IMPARTIAL, NEUTRAL EVIDENCE before venturing into this field. For example, sex hormones for women a
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Medicare “Available” to All?

I hope you take the time to study this issue, instead of blindly accepting what CNN and FOX news are telling you. Both lack the WISDOM of finding a middle ground. How well does a bird fly with only a left or right wing? It is not about CAPITAL or LABOR. It is about a BALANCE of both.
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Processed Foods Are Addicting

Does Big Food know this? Hint: the tobacco wars. Reference Processed foods and food reward J. SCIENCE 25 JAN 2019:346-347. “Evidence is amassing that the nutritional content of processed foods is not accurately conveyed to the brain. This raises the possibility that how foods are prep
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Sweet Little Lies (No need to comment on the obvious)

Sugar: spinning a web of influence BMJ 2015;350:h231 Public health scientists are involved with the food companies being blamed for the obesity crisis, reports Jonathan Gornall. An investigation by The BMJ has uncovered evidence of the extraordinary extent to which key public health e
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Toothpaste Trouble

The CDC recently reported on the problems associated with swallowing too much toothpaste. What is really hard to swallow is the commentary posted on Medscape. The CDC warns about streaky or splotchy teeth if kids use more than a pea-size amount of toothpaste because of its fluoride co
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Lifestyle Medicine

That’s the new name for the old concept of preventing disease by working on the factors that cause it. I hope it gets a solid foothold. It is the answer to practically all the problems that plague or health care system, including its runaway cost. The public and doctors were not ready
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“It is Only With the Heart That One Can See Clearly”

At a fork in the road I read two books. I have tried to live by the more popular one, Its maxims became a guiding light in my life. For example, “It is only with the heart that one can see clearly. What is important is invisible to the eye.” The other book was I read it, and even play
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Depressed, Disillusioned Doctors

Before I entered medical school, I did my Health Administration Master’s Thesis on the time commitments expected of doctors. I killed two birds with one stone: I got a good grade, and I dispelled my reservations about a profession I had started to view as too fuddy-duddy and rigid for
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