Many of my friends refuse to take daily medication. Mostly because they fear they won’t be compliant and remember to take the pills as required. They are not alone- about ½ of all those prescribed meds screw things up. (About 125K deaths a year could be avoided if those folks took their meds.)
Continue reading A Star is Borne?
I’ve written about the practice of feeding antibiotics to our animals. And, why that puts our overall health at risk. After all, if we feed the same antibiotics to animals that we use for disease control, microbial resistance is bound to accelerate. First, because the animals will harbor microbes that get a chance to mutate and those resistant microbes can be transferred to humans via our food. Moreover, the antibiotics we feed our animals often end up in our waterways, which provides yet another process where the microbes can develop resistance to our critical drugs.
Continue reading Animal. Human. Not so different after all.
Playing tennis and basketball as we age, trying to stay active and not succumb to becoming a couch potato has its benefits. And, it’s pains. No, not a pain in the …, but one in the knees.
Continue reading Under the knife or popping pills? Nope- neither!
I’ve written about fecal transplants. Don’t go yech. If your colon is out of whack, then it’s one of the few avenues available to bring your system back into control. I’ve recommended the procedure to friends, who (after their initial disdain and horror) are pleased to have taken my advice. Because they are back to normal.
Continue reading Not for polite conversation?
Let me see. Was that one blue one and two red ones and one each of the white ones? And which ones do I take in the morning and which ones at night?
Continue reading Pushing Pills
For decades, I’ve been telling my clients and friends that they are wasting their money buying vitamins. Because unless you don’t eat properly – or have a very specific condition (like the need for folate by pregnant women, calcium and vitamin D for some post-menopausal women, or those with macular degeneration needing antioxidants and zinc)- there is no value in taking these little pills (except to the manufacturers and vendors).
Continue reading Megavitamins are Megadangerous
We all (ok, 80+% of us, including our employers) pay for health insurance so that we have it when and if we need it. And, we expect that insurance to cover our costs (less a deductible), when we do need it.
Continue reading Take your medicine!