Archives for September 2002

The point of this little story is that blindly prescribing iron to patients can be futile and even dangerous. I first reported on the dangers of excessive iron in one's diet in 1987 in Health Freedom News, the journal of the National Health Federation.

Your best defense against threats from within – viruses, bacteria, chemicals, parasites, fungi, tumors, etc. (it's a jungle in there) is a well-armed immune system.

If you have a good diet, low in carbohydrates and vegetable fats and high in animal fats and animal protein and if you supplement with testosterone as needed, exercise isn't really needed at all to maintain muscle mass and good health.

Of course, for 25 years I've been asking dermatologists, if skin wrinkling is caused by sun exposure, why, then, are old Eskimos so wrinkled when they have only six weeks of summer?

Ten years ago, I was talking with a young doctor about peptic ulcer disease. As it turned out, he had never heard that it is caused by a bacterium, even though, at that time, it had been decisively proven to be caused by the germ H. pylori.

The controversy surrounding silver amalgam dental fillings continues to rage on. Silver amalgam fillings are not silver at all, but half mercury with a little silver added, along with copper, tin and zinc.

Dr. E. Fuller Torrey posits that cats may carry infectious diseases that could cause schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Torrey thinks they may be passing along Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite in cat feces, that causes brain lesions in humans and, if he's right, schizophrenia.

The low-fat diet revolution was thrust upon us a mere 30 years ago. So most adults under the age of 40 don’t even realize it used to be accepted knowledge that fat satisfies your appetite and thus prevents obesity and that carbohydrates and sugar make you fat; just a few decades ago it was as simple as that.