It often seems that I learned more about human health while earning my Ph.D. in anthropology than I did in medical school. There are probably a few reasons why that is. First, the anthropologists [...]
Category: Heart Health
Switch signals on fats–again
It turns out that government health experts don’t really know much about fat. Despite having so much to say about it over the years. Maybe that’s because they have so much of it between their [...]
Antibiotics and abnormal heartbeats
Antibiotics are overprescribed and overused. In fact, very few people can say they have never taken one. And this has led to the creation of superbugs like MRSA and CRE, as I told you last week. [...]
Women finally achieve equality–and it’s not healthy
Women are finally about to achieve equality with men…in terms of mortality. In fact, a recent analysis–published in the journal Health Affairs–found that women don’t live longer than [...]
It’s April, so go out and get some sun
It’s officially spring–although the meteorologists in New England have not yet received the memo! But the sun is rising earlier and getting higher in the sky. And it’s time for you to spend [...]
A Rose is a Rose is a Remedy
This Valentine’s Day, I’m sure you’ll hear about all the benefits of eating chocolate. But I report on chocolate throughout the year, not just on Valentine’s Day. So today, I decided on another [...]
Most dangerous health risk still ignored
I’ve repeatedly reported on the government’s decades-long, misguided, misinformed and ineffective campaign to control blood pressure. And now mainstream media outlets are catching on. You [...]
Another Outdated Verse in the Gospel of Government Guidelines
For 40 years now, we’ve been told that we need to restrict salt. Another verse in the gospel of government guidelines is the importance of lowering saturated fat consumption. But just like the [...]
The World’s Most Expensive Band-Aid
Surgical treatment of heart disease is a “poster child” for the kinds of abuses and excesses I told you about in the Dispatch titled “Less is more.” Dr. Bernard Lown discovered that the “modern” [...]
The Power of a Good Complement
The medical mainstream is so busy churning out new drugs it doesn’t always seem to have time to consider nutrition. Which is a shame. Because not only do nutrients have the potential to prevent [...]