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Posted May 26, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last nite of my physician.
–Matthew Prior, 1664-1721 AD Columbia Book of Quotations 1996
A terrorist could not kill more people than American medicine has. We think of a fanatic pouring some deadly toxin in our water supply or wiping out millions of lives with some superbug. But these assassins come in white coats and are paid by insurance companies. Needless care is one thing, but death by doctoring is another. Once prescription medicine becomes an income stream its purveyors will overlook death to sustain their income stream. In the U.S., even if there is no effective treatment, doctors will find some way to bill insurance.
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Posted May 25, 2018: by Bill Sardi
Bulging discs in the lower spine present a common form of back pain that is not easily resolved with surgery. For the first time supplementation with chondroitin and glucosamine is reported to resolve low-back pain, with relief of symptoms starting after 6 months and evidence by MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) serving as visual proof.
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Posted March 13, 2018: by Bill Sardi
In the land of the blind,
a one-eyed man is king.
Over 130 years ago modern medicine began chasing down the cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and has come up empty handed. No one knows what causes ALS let alone what might successfully treat it. But recent discoveries explain why. Maybe ALS doesn’t originate in motor neuron cells but in the environmental surrounding nerve cells.
The current predicament of ALS patients is next to hopeless. This motor neuron disease is without a known cause and there is no meaningfully effective treatment. ALS affects 5000 newly diagnosed patients annually in the U.S. However, published research on the origin(s) of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS – aka Lou Gehrig’s disease) is mounting at a rapid pace and may portend a therapeutic change of course.
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Posted August 9, 2010: by Bill Sardi
The dietary supplement industry is such a mixed bag these days. It has such promise, but often fails to deliver. For example, garlic pills were once the number one herbal supplement. But studies showed most garlic pills failed to deliver the active ingredient produced by fresh-crushed garlic cloves. Subsequently garlic pills fell from their top-seller spot. Turns out that stomach acid destroys the enzyme (alliinase) that produces the active ingredient allicin. Only if a garlic clove is crushed outside the acidic stomach is allicin produced. Only enteric-coated or buffered garlic tablets produce what a fresh-crushed clove of garlic delivers
This is not to say that there haven’t been a plethora of negative studies that were designed to unfairly smudge the reputation of dietary supplements. Namely, the infamous beta carotene/smokers study, released just prior to the 1994 vote in Congress on the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act which falsely claimed beta carotene increased the risk for lung cancer. Beta carotene was just ineffective (no benefit, no harm), that’s all.
Then there were those contentious vitamin E studies which manipulated statistics in an attempt to show miniscule differences in health risks would kill millions of Americans if they took too much vitamin E. However, subsequent re-analysis and inclusion of data from additional studies reveals statistical variation between studies (a higher proportion of male subjects in these trials) which explains the slightly increased mortality rate among vitamin E supplement users. Researchers now conclude that “high dose vitamin E supplementation can not be regarded proved to increase mortality.”
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