Thank you Don Imus for 50-years of entertainment and enlightenment. At age 77, Mr. Imus signed off at 7:20 this morning for the last time from his flagship WABC (770 AM) in New York in an emotional thanks to, “You,” the listener, and a heartfelt, “I’m going to miss you.” “Much more than a ‘shock […]
Lipitor—Junk Science Math
Originally posted July 7, 2015. Shane Ellison, M.Sc., “The Peoples Chemist,” explains in an email (copied below) the difference between relative and absolute risk. As Shane writes, “Statistical contortionism is the art of converting healthy people into patients by using numbers to exaggerate drug benefits. Lipitor is a prime example.” The message is simple. Never pay […]
Your Odds with Statins: 500 to 1?
Originally posted October 5, 2011. If you are considering a drug such as a statin, do you and your family know about the “number needed to treat” (NNT)? I’ve been looking into NNT and found a Businessweek article from January 17, 2008 that explains the concept well. Basically, NNT is the number of patients who […]
An Attack Plan for Early and Late Stage Cancer: Part V
“A female patient with breast cancer doesn’t succumb to the disease just because she has a mass on her breast; she succumbs to the disease because [when] it spreads either to the lungs, the liver, the brain, it becomes untreatable,” says Hasini Jayatilaka, a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University and part of a team […]
Defeat Pancreatic Cancer with an IoT Toothbrush
Originally posted December 14, 2016. Don’t know much about IoT? Then you are dangerously behind the curve. Well WIRED fills in the blanks for you. One Harvard study found that men with a history of periodontitis had a 64 percent higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer than those with healthy gums. If you’re the type of person who can […]
An Attack Plan for Early and Late Stage Cancer: Part IV
Have you heard of ketosis? In 2015 I wondered if it was the “holy grail” of anti-aging. It’s certainly helpful to avoid sugar whenever possible. But now Dr. Mercola points to some evidence that ketosis may help treat cancer. He writes: Each and every day, more than 1,600 people prematurely die from cancer in the […]
An Attack Plan for Early and Late Stage Cancer: Part III
In a post titled “Science Confirms Turmeric As Effective As 14 Drugs,” Sayer Ji, the founder of GreenMedInfo.com writes that turmeric, primarily driven by its curcumin component “compares favorably to a variety of conventional medications.” On that list of medications are statins like Lipitor, corticosteroids, antidepressants like Prozac, Aspirin, and many more. Ji writes: Another […]
An Attack Plan for Early and Late Stage Cancer: Part II
By create jobs 51 @ Shutterstock.comA piece on Natural Pharma International examines the benefits of proper circulation to preventing cancers from metastasizing. The piece focuses on the helpful attributes of enzymes in fighting cancer. Dietary supplements containing the ten or more pancreatic enzymes are helpful, with the most important enzymes being trypsin, chymotrypsin and amylase. […]
An Attack Plan for Early and Late Stage Cancer
Our immune system can deliver a potent attack against any form of intruder/disease. Cancer patients are laser focused on what to do next when traditional Western medicine, including chemotherapy drugs, fails to eradicate cancer cells from a patient’s body. That’s where focusing on the power of the body’s immune system comes into play. It is […]
Do You Know What Your Resting Heart Rate Should Be?
Dr. John Day, author of The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China, writes that patients ask him everyday what their resting heart rate should be. He explains on his site: What should your resting heart rate be? This is a question I am asked everyday as a cardiologist. Can your resting heart rate, also […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- …
- 21
- Next Page »
