I'm going to go an unusual direction today and swerve from my normal focus on psychiatry to comment on the general direction of medicine. In some ways, psychiatry, with its drug-heavy focus, is the forefront of medicine (and not in a good way), so perhaps it is not so far outside my specialty that I will make a fool of myself.Young the Giant. Cough Syrup (right click to open in new tab)My...
Selasa, 31 Januari 2012
Sabtu, 28 Januari 2012
Someone (Stephen B) emailed me via Google +, which I didn't know was possible, mostly because I have yet to bother to figure out anything about Google +, mostly because my reading pile is dangerously high and Google+ wasn't very iPad friendly. If I'm going to figure out any new complex system of communication with circles, it had better be with my feet warm and snuggly under the covers, thus...
Minggu, 22 Januari 2012
To start off, here is Elvis Presley's last Number 1 hit: A Little Less Conversation (right click to open in new tab)Yesterday I put up a little post discussing a very theoretical possible link between acetaminophen and autism. The main point is that acetaminophen is known to gobble up glutathione like gangbusters, and some of us will be...
Sabtu, 21 Januari 2012
I know. The link seems silly. Tylenol is for babies, right? Far safer than aspirin for fever, after all. Pediatricians recommend acetaminophen (tylenol) all the time.Let me not mislead you, for everything I am about to write about is tenuous. And yet all doctors will have a wrinkle-nosed reaction to tylenol, simply because if you overdose on the stuff, even in small amounts,...
Minggu, 15 Januari 2012
Last Thursday I had to report for jury duty. Fortunately my number was on the higher side, so it involved me sitting in a room for a while reading some papers while the slots for the criminal case were filled. I'm glad I wasn't selected -- the case involved the deaths of small children in a fire. Ever since I had a couple of my own small children, I find it much harder to be "clinical"...
Kamis, 12 Januari 2012
I've covered the importance of omega 3 fatty acids in the brain a number of times. However, when anyone asks me for specific recommendations, I've had to be distressingly vague. Typically I hem and haw and suggest that someone try to eat plenty of clean cold water marine fish, but if one wants to supplement, it's likely that a mix of EPA/DHA...
Sabtu, 07 Januari 2012
Quite a bit of feedback on my rant from yesterday. In truth I would probably keep these rants to myself, except I keep getting asked about what I think about certain matters, so I'm assuming there is wider interest in these opinions. The rants garner big audiences, for what it is worth. If you don't like them but enjoy the more sciencey stuff, you can stick to my Psychology Today...
Jumat, 06 Januari 2012
Evolutionary medicine is important. A common sense, evolutionary based approach to general preventative health care and diet advice could possibly prevent your obese, demented and expensive nursing-home future, change the debt burden, create a healthy, productive, and prosperous individual subset amongst the oppressive planetary burden of 7 billion agricultural-dependent humans. The stakes...
Minggu, 01 Januari 2012
Thanks to Oregon, another diet and dementia study hit the press (or internet-prior-to) last week. A modest number of seniors were tested for levels of all sorts of vitamins and fatty acids, given cognitive testing, and then some had MRIs as well. The punch line is that those seniors with the highest levels of B vitamins (B1, B2, B6, B12, and folate) and vitamins C, D, and E had the best...
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