We now know many of the new, hot Type II diabetes drugs don’t effectively control blood sugar. And they come with a slew of dangerous side effects. So–does big pharma simply throw in the [...]
Category: Daily Dispatch
Have we been treating elevated blood pressure too aggressively?
I’ve been closely studying the effects of high blood pressure since my work in Southeast Asia in the 1970s. It’s clearly the No. 1 silent killer behind cardiovascular disease. Therefore, I’ve [...]
Curiosity–it’s not just a trivial pursuit
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but new research shows it can help keep your brain cells alive. In fact, researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that men and women showed [...]
The relentless, year-round “harvest” you may want to avoid
The calendar is turning the corner on 2014. And in most parts of the country, people are getting ready to prepare for Thanksgiving. Our neighbors to the north in Canada observed the holiday last [...]
Serial killers in white coats cause real horrors
Over the weekend, you may have seen zombies, goblins, and ghosts trolling your street. And we all went through the return to shorter, darker days as Daylight Savings Time ended. Indeed, these are [...]
Government bureaucracy proliferates faster than “superbugs”
Mainstream medicine helped create antibiotic-resistant bacteria–or “superbugs”–with its overuse of antibiotics. The bacteria mutated and adapted to antibiotics faster than we could [...]
Give in to your dark chocolate cravings…and not just today on Halloween
Don’t worry about keeping your hands out of the trick-or-treat goodies tonight. In fact, I recommend you go ahead and give into your chocolate craving–and not just on special occasions like [...]
Feel free to explore, enjoy and marvel at the “unknown”
I scour the medical and scientific literature looking for any findings that can really advance our understanding of health and healing. But they’re not always easy to come by. Most publications [...]
Komen’s shocking “pinkwashed” partnerships
Yesterday, I told you about how little the “breast cancer awareness” industry does to address the real problem of deadly, metastatic breast cancer. This pinkwashed industry seems to have [...]
REAL breast cancer awareness–without rose-colored glasses
When I tuned into the NFL football games this month, I thought I was coming down with conjunctivitis–or “pink eye”–because everything on the TV screen was tinged pink. Then I realized [...]