Cancer Diagnosis-Do Your Homework – YouTube “The amount of difference that you could see in the human body between starting a cancer treatment the day after you’re diagnosed and starting that same treatment 2 weeks or a month after… will have no difference in the outcome.” “I think the first thing somebody should do [after …
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It is the business model for new drugs that provokes Big Pharma to bury risks and exaggerate benefits. A new drug under patent has a high price and no competition, and will make millions or even billions every year it is under patent. A settlement for death or injuries down the road is a nuisance …
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The default model of nutritional deficiency looks something like this: Marker for nutritional status is low Recommendation/treatment is to increase intake of that nutrient The problem is that both of these points may be incomplete, to the point of leading to ineffective remedies.
From the New York Times: [Dr. Fred Kummerow] became a pioneer of trans-fat research, one of the first scientists to assert a link between heart disease and processed foods. It would be more than three decades before those findings were widely accepted. “Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease, except if it’s oxidized,” Dr. …
First, fat was declared to be bad, unhealthy, and disease promoting. Though this belief has hardly subsided there also arose a group of individuals declaring that carbohydrates were the real problem behind disease and should be avoided. Most recently there has been a push to declare protein as promoting poor health. All of these beliefs …
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Dietary carbohydrate dictates development of Type 2 diabetes in the Nile rat. (2013 Sep) Suggests that the Nile rat has a similar etiology of Type 2 diabetes mellitus to humans: high carbohydrate diets. “Dispersing dietary [carbohydrate] by fiber or replacing it by moderate fat (reducing the glycemic index and load) delayed the onset of diabetes but did …
I don’t think the importance of Ancel Keyes’ so-called “Seven Countries Study” can be understated in regard to its effect on US health policy and beliefs. If someone wanted to examine this 60-year-old paper for themselves they would find obtaining any information about it very difficult to obtain. It can be found in PubMed (assuming …
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I was just thinking about how the oils I tend to use are all fruit oils: Coconut Oil Palm Oil Olive Oil I’m not sure if there’s any significance to that but I thought it was noteworthy.
Ignaz Semmelweis’ life paints a portrait of those who make profound discoveries which are deem unscientific by the contemporary medical and scientific communities. Despite his successes in reducing mortality of puerperal fever, aka childbed fever, his ideas were rejected by most scientists and physicians at the time. His attempts and failure to convince doctors of the …