6 Fictions About Antibiotic Resistance, and What to Do About It
Antibiotic resistance is a real disease and it’s one of our own making. Why there should be flesh-eating bacteria …
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5 Questions for People to Ask About Their Prescriptions
Everyone deserves the answers to five questions about their prescriptions, especially as they age. And if physicians and families …
7 Translated Toxic Ingredients on Food Labels
When you are cruising the grocery store aisles, you probably flip over a few items to scrutinize their nutrition …
Eat your way to better health: how to avoid statins, PCSK9 drugs for cholesterol
Though I’ve written about this in the WSJ and the NY Times before, I thought I’d lay out a …
What About Plastics? Why Using Only 2, 4 and 5 is Not Enough
A little estrogen in the wrong place (like around your waist, or in your food) can drop your other …
Meds Without Benefits: Drugs that Cause Dementia
As many as a third of people over 65 take anticholinergic drugs—shown to increase risk for dementia, including Alzheimer’s–significantly. …
Can Food Save the Life of Medicine?
I gave a talk at UCSB’s Food Summit recently UCSB coverage here, which is part of the important University …
Your Liver and You, Part II
In Part 1, I covered what the liver does and how it works, and why you should love your …
Four Alternatives to Cynicism and Corruption in the Medical World
It’s easy to become cynical in the medical world: too many physicians feel forced to comply with standard metrics …
It’s Getting Easier to Find Good Drug and Health Info…
…but you still need a curator: someone you trust to help you interpret–with and for you–what you find, read, …