I recently came across a great book about big pharma called Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care. Written by Peter C. Gotzsche, the book explains how a [...]
Category: Big Pharma
Facts should always outweigh opinions, but they don’t
I often report on the government-industrial-medical complex. This powerful alliance apparently aims to discredit the value of nutritional supplementation. You see, this cumbersome complex doesn’t [...]
The billion-dollar memory thief drug
I often warn about the dangers of statin drugs. In fact, as I’ve explained before, they are metabolic poisons that interfere with your body’s natural production of vitamin D and CoQ10. And [...]
Avoid blockbuster drugs that block vitamin D
By now, you know vitamin D is critical for good health. It supports healthy bones and joints. It improves brain function and longevity. And it reduces your risk of cardiovascular diseases, [...]
Colonoscopy sweepstakes takes the cake
I’ve seen some stupid stunts throughout my medical career. But this latest one may take the cake. Last month, I came across something called the “CBS Cares Colonoscopy Sweepstakes.” The “lucky” [...]
Starving in a sea of plenty
I’ve warned you that dietary supplements remain under attack. The government-industrial-medical complex has mounted a campaign to discredit them. And one way they discredit supplements is [...]
Blame Big Pharma
In my article on 3/6/14 I told you about a deeply flawed article called, “The Six Vitamins You Should Not Take.” The article appeared in the online version of Forbes magazine. At first, I thought [...]
Capping off a new twist to an old tale
You have to hand it to Johnson & Johnson (J&J). They’ve got a great PR team. The company sells an OTC painkiller that lands between 55,000 and 80,000 men and women each year in the [...]
“Low-T”–men’s health or men’s hype?
Today, Big Pharma excels at finding cures for problems that don’t exist. Especially when it comes to men’s health. Just take the largely imaginary epidemic of “Low-T,” for example. A new study [...]
One size still doesn’t fit everyone
Yesterday, I explained how the one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work when making supplement recommendations. This is especially true when talking about iron. I remember taking blood [...]