If you want a great, though challenging, read on how we wound up with the “health care” environment we’ve got today, give Ivan Ilich’s Medical Nemesis a whirl. Early on, Ilich comments on the “illusion” (his term) of doctors’ effectiveness. It’s a passage worth quoting at length: The infections that prevailed at the outset of […]
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From the Archives: Timing Is Everything – Even When Sleeping
Updated from the October 15, 2015 original post We’ve talked before about the relationship between sleep and good health – and how it’s not just the quantity of sleep that counts but the quality of that sleep. That quality, it turns out, may be affected by the timing of your sleep. So suggests research out […]
Drugs vs. Lifestyle, Symptoms vs. Causes
Statin use has skyrocketed through recent years. We’re at the point now where about 1 in 4 adults take this type of drug, and new guidelines from the US Preventive Services Task force would jack that number up even higher. Now, they’re saying that even if you have no signs, symptoms, or history of cardiovascular […]
Breastfeeding Causes Cavities? Actually, It May Protect Against Decay
There are plenty of reasons why breastfeeding matters, starting with the basic fact that it’s naturally our first food. Just as we weren’t designed to eat the hyper-processed junk that gets passed off as food in your local grocery store, we weren’t designed to thrive on manufactured formula and pap through our first years of […]
Supplements Under Attack – Again!
One reason that industry regulation gets a bad rap, no doubt, is that so much bad regulation seems to get passed. It seems like for every sensible rule that gets proposed – for instance, the one that would require amalgam separators in all dental offices – we get another 9 like the one that’s working […]
Timing Is Everything – Even When Sleeping
We’ve talked before about the relationship between sleep and good health – and how it’s not just the quantity of sleep that counts but the quality of that sleep. That quality, it turns out, may be affected by the timing of your sleep. So suggests a new study out of Washington State University. The study, […]
Desperately Seeking the Fountain of Youth?
Recently, a patient emailed an article to Dr. Glaros about one drug company’s quest for an “anti-aging” pill, remarking that it probably belongs in the “Too-Good-to-Be-True Department.” Dr. Glaros’ reply? “It probably does.” Since the earliest days of recorded history, humans have dreamt of being able to stop or reverse aging. Tales of a “fountain […]