We need an FDA commissioner who sees it. That also would apply to criminally terrible government dietary advice.
Category Archives: Health
The Paleo Diet
Gee, so it turns out that it won’t kill you after all:
Even short-term consumption of a Paleolithic-type diet improved glucose control and lipid profiles in people with type 2 diabetes compared with a conventional diet containing moderate salt intake, low-fat dairy, whole grains and legumes.
The biggest nightmare for Big Pharma is that we can treat Type 2 diabetes (which seems to be a diet-related “disease”) with an improved diet.
Anti-Biotic Resistance
Reversing it with a single molecule.
Faster, please. I don’t want to go back to the early 20th century.
Herpes
They may have found a vaccine/sort-of-cure for it.
Medical Incompetence And Junk Science
This is a frightening story. It’s why I try to avoid hospitals at all costs.
I asked Dr. G, who is now his personal cardiologist, if we needed to do anything to prevent his potassium from going so low again. He said, “If he stays off that drug, he will be fine.” To think that he went through all this because his GP gave him a drug to prevent heart attacks!! What a crazy world we live in.
…The blood pressure medication Dean had taken for 20 years was hydrochlorothiazide. It is the most commonly prescribed medication for blood pressure, not because it is safe or effective, but because it is the one insurance companies choose to pay for!
The dietary and general medical ignorance on display, and the rules, are almost criminal. And I’m sure this is the kind of treatment that my father got when he died of his second heart attack, in 1979. And I consider my high blood pressure (with which I’ve been living otherwise healthily for many decades) to be less risk than most of the prescribed “treatments.”
Artificial Hearts
The latest. I think it would be really weird to not have a heartbeat. I hope that they can further improve on the reciprocating ones, rather than continuous flow.
[Update a few minutes later]
Or is this the future? Printable organs will eliminate need for transplants and donors. Also the need for anti-rejection drugs.
Which reminds me: There was a silly article the other day on how self-driving cars will dry up the supply for organ donors. I have this crazy idea that there’s a better solution to the donor problem than relying on random traffic tragedies.
Regrowing Teeth
…from the inside out, eliminating the need for fillings. Faster, please.
The Appendix
…may have an important function.
I’m always amazed at the hubris of people who think that, just because they can’t figure it out, something evolved in humans has no purpose.
LDL Cholesterol And Heart Disease
A new study says there’s no link.
Obama’s Legacy
It’s not so glorious.
I suspect history will judge harshly. And of course, in doing so, it will be racist.