My friend’s 20-year-old daughter was sent to jail last week for her connection to a drug-dealing operation involving meth. She comes from a stable Christian family and was raised in the church. But at age 6 she was put on ADHD medication (Concerta) to address her impulsivity and inability to focus on her school work. Her parents took her off it in less than a...
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Our Halloween was a bit different this year. My husband lost a fight with an electric saw while working on a house project resulting in a trip to the local ER. As an earlier article implored do everything you can to avoid the hospital! But when an accident or injury occurs embrace the modern healthcare system for everything it does well: saving life or limb.Be mindful...
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Ever heard the expression “too good to be true?” We’re warned about the over-zealous claims of any product from a young age. But somehow the warning signals around Ozempic and its other glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist brethren (GLP-1 RA or just GLP-1s) continues to be drowned out by the hype.It doesn’t matter that we’ve been here before with amphetamines for weight-loss in the 1940s and...
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A friend of mine has two kids both currently completing pre-med studies at different colleges and applying to medical schools. When I recently suggested they consider naturopathic or homeopathic options their reactions were typical of the uninformed. I was a little saddened at the prospect of two young, bright, would-be doctors entering the very broken conventional medical industry where they would be brain-washed from day...
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A good friend of mine recently lost her Mom to what started out as an ear infection. By the time the US medical system had finished with her she’d added a bladder infection, the flu, and kidney failure. She died in the hospital surrounded by loved ones.This is an all too typical scenario when the conventional standard of care is followed: using a toolbox driven...
Read MoreWhen you’ve left your corporate job of 25 years with hundreds of colleagues across the world you work with daily, it can be a lonely road to start out on your own. Writing is an isolating sport. Even with the independent consulting work I now do, I tend to be the only one in the room that looks at the world as it truly is, based...
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Whatever side of the vaccine debate you fall on I know you’ll find this conversation enlightening.One of the books I include in the recommended further reading of my book is Turtles All the Way Down written by two Israeli doctors who have chosen to stay anonymous. (We get into why in the discussion). It was originally written in Hebrew in 2018 but has been translated...
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I had an interesting conversation with a naturopathic doctor recently on her podcast. She had read that I was an actuary and fell into the tiny percentage of people who had some idea of what an actuary is and does. In her case it was thanks to an excellent article in The Epoch Times by Jeffrey Tucker (also published by the Brownstone Institute) imploring health...
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One of the best ways to monitor your health is through the testing of the most vital of bodily fluids—your blood. Flowing into every nook and cranny of your body, blood carries oxygen and important nutrients and hormones to your cells, as well as transports waste products to the lungs, liver, and kidneys for excretion. Thus, your blood provides a treasure trove of information on...
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My cat Oscar died last weekend. He was diagnosed with a heart condition just two weeks earlier at not quite six years old, barely middle aged. However, this is not a story about a cat but a very human story about how we accept the status quo, the marketing messages and what everyone else seems to be doing, rather than thinking critically and doing our...
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