Vitamin C for Your Health
While most animals are able to produce vitamin C on their own, humans cannot. Instead, we must obtain our vitamin C from foods. Individual vitamin C needs may differ widely from person to person. Similarly, your requirements can change throughout your life. In regard... read more
Physicians to Avoid
He (or she) prescribes medication without testing you for anything. Doctors are big on scientific evidence. They demand that millions of dollars be poured into research to prove that things work. Yet, when you visit his office, he often doesn’t gather any... read more
Dangerous Tattoos by Dr Theodore Dalrymple
An editorial in a recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine drew attention to the outbreak of skin infection caused by tattooing. The bacteria that cause the infection are of the same family as that which causes tuberculosis. They are difficult to detect,... read more
Fifty Shades of Low Testosterone by Virginia Hopkins, MD
I’ve been trying to figure out why EL James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is a runaway bestseller among women from twenty to seventy. (It’s been close to a year on the NY Times bestseller lists.) When I first started listening to it, I thought for... read more
