This week, the new guidelines on preventing heart disease were released by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. The media reported widely about this. Now, for most people, monitoring LDL-cholesterol and total cholesterol levels is not indicated. If your risk of developing cardiac disease is over 7.5% over a ten year
The nutritional police are losing! We are closer to having the freedom to speak about nutrition without fearing arrest by the nutrition police. This week, the Michigan House of Representatives voted 71-39 to repeal the Dietetics and Nutrition Licensure Law. All the republicans and 1/3 of the democrats voted for the repeal. The next step
I am pleased to announce the release of my newest book, Overcoming Thyroid Disorders, 3rd Edition. I have been working hard on this new edition. It contains two new chapters as well as new case histories. The entire book has been updated and expanded. One new chapter is titled, “In Defense of the TSH
Round 1 goes to us. I wrote to you on October 11, 2013 about the idiotic nutrition law that was signed into Michigan law a few years ago. Responsible citizens who don’t want a nutritional police state spoke in front of a Michigan House Committee on October 29, 2013 in Lansing, Michigan. I was one
I just received the following email today: We have a 14 yr old daughter that has developed cysts on her breast and the radiologist turned us onto you. We have view viewed some of your videos on youtube. We live in Minnesota and would like to know how we can get in touch with a
The butt-kicking time has come. What am I referring to? It is time to repeal a bad law. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND–formally known as the American Dietetics Association) claims it is the “…world’s largest organization of food and nutritional professionals.” The AND (wrongly) believes that only its members–primarily Registered Dieticians–should be legally
I am rarely rendered speechless, but after reading the latest article published in JAMA, yours truly had his tongue tied up. The title of the article is, “Effect of Statin Therapy on Mortality in Patients With Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.” (JAMA online October 9, 2013). The authors of this article hypothesized that statin therapy may decrease the
The FDA is still at it. On the homepage for FDA.gov, it states that the FDA is “Protecting and Promoting Your Health.” You have got to be kidding me. The FDA is too busy doing the bidding for the Big Pharma Cartel to worry about the health of the U.S. I have chronicled the FDA’s
I have been practicing medicine for 20 years. In my early years, I practiced conventional medicine as I was taught in my training. During those years, I used drug therapies to treat a variety of illnesses. However, I began to question the wisdom of solely relying on drug therapies as their mechanism of action did
My patients always give me quizzical looks when I tell them they need to increase their salt intake. You see, I have been checking salt levels on nearly every patient that has ever seen me. My experience has clearly shown that most patients do not consume enough salt. I know you are probably thinking that