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Stay Hungry
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Leading scientist in the field of nutrition
Dr. Paul Clayton
Is Pisces compatible with Cancer?
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When Bill Lane’s book ‘Sharks Don’t Get Cancer’ was published in 1992, it made quite a splash. It spawned a shoal of shark cartilage extracts which sold at inflated prices to cancer sufferers, without much effect. One of these, Bill’s own product Benefin, was trialed in patients with...
Diet and Destiny
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If you have spent time in the American South, you know that Southerners barbeque, fry or deep-fry almost anything that moves or grows. The eponymous Southern fried chicken is a staple on lunch and dinner menus. Breakfast, of course, involves bacon, preferably crispy and carcinogenic. Sugar is shovelled...
Swarm from the Swamp
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Vaccines are the parents – and the poster children - of magic bullet or Pasteurian medicine. Each vaccine is super-specific, and only protects against the pathogen it is aimed at. Vaccines are super-safe; vaccine injury certainly occurs and can be devastating, but is not in the same league...
Stranger Together
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Some say the quickest route to a man’s heart is through his stomach, others prefer the fifth left intercostal space. Meanwhile, persuasive new evidence indicates that the high road to his testicles may run through the colon and highlights, once again, the importance of the gut-brain connection. Men’s...
Uncontrollable Urge
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Anyone who does a good deal of teaching knows that running curricular laps can become a bit – well, routine. Every now and then, however, a student will surprise you with an unexpected and potentially valuable piece of information. These are the moments that make it all worthwhile....
Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner – and Why
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Mealtime has become a minefield, with allergy and avoidance for the main course and anaphylactic shock for afters. But this is a very recent development. When I was growing up in the 1950’s no one had food allergy, and we all shared the same food. Dinner parties were...
Human Error #404
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I just read an interesting paper in Molecular Psychiatry (1) which beautifully illustrates the increasing power of analytical medicine and, at the same time, the profound error and danger of the pharmaco-centric model. The authors, who represent nine research centres scattered around the USA, propose a brave new...
Foie Gras
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If you are not yet convinced that the modern diet is degrading and shortening our lives, consider your liver. As waistlines expand, so does the incidence of non-alcoholic liver disease (NAFLD). Thanks to our modern diet and lifestyle, NAFLD is now reckoned to affect an astonishing quarter of...
Just One Word. Plastics. Think about it
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In the early 1960’s, plastics were hot. Advances in plastic chemistry and technology created the ubiquitous plastic bag. Young designers started using plastic in furniture, dishes, ceiling tiles, clothing … but by the end of the decade, plastic had already come to signify cheap and artificial. In the...