Volume 24 • Number 2 • February 2023

Losing weight bedevils most of us (see blog February 2023). There are many ways to address obesity. The best one is the one that works for you. Still, diet and exercise are the cornerstones. But what if you are not motivated to exercise? What if you are not losing weight despite your
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Taking antidepressants? Read this

We have known for decades antidepressants are not as effective as Big Pharma would like you to believe. Negative studies on their effectiveness have been suppressed. However, this doesn’t mean you should stop taking them outright. After you read the article below, I recommend you find
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Are You a Sweetheart?

I hope not in the sense that you heartily abuse refined sugars. They cause TOIL in our cells: Toxicity, Inflammation, Oxidation and Less than optimal Mitochondrial function. TOIL is more pronounced in the cells of vital organs like the brain, heart and kidneys. The processed food indu
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Are You Lonesome Tonight?

We have all experienced the PAIN of loneliness. Yes, Pain. fMRI studies have shown that the pain of loneliness is as real as physical pain. I would say it can have even more serious consequences. I cannot add much more to the excellent article below, except quote the famous philosophe
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Volume 23 • Number 5 • May 2022

Studies linking “disparate” health problems appear in medical journals rather frequently. They also appear to confound patients and some doctors. Rather than pursue an integrative view of such results, the latter dismiss them as “controversial.” This is understandable, if we consider
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Volume 23 • Number 2 • February 2022

Fad diets come and go. The diet du jour is Intermittent Fasting. It is helpful but in moderation and for no more than 1 or 2 months. (Vide Infra). The only sustainable healthy diet is plant-based, Mediterranean. If you must eat meat, at least get rid of red meat. And above all, stop p
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Snake Oil

Why did it sell so well in the Wild West, despite slippery opposition from “learned doctors?” Because it had a lot of obvious benefits for people who seldom ate healthy fats. Today, we still see widely publicized articles po-pooing omega oil’s benefits, even though the weight of the e
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Volume 23 • Number 1 • January 2022

  Before being dismissed by corporate medicine on the grounds that I took too long seeing patients, I was told that I was a rebel. I took it as a compliment Hugo Rodier, MD Why healthcare needs rebels BMJ 2021;375:n2559 “Rebels are needed elsewhere across healthcare, to spot what
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