40 Articles

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Bioidentical Hormones Prevent Osteoarthritis by Jeffrey Dach MD
(1 comments) Degenerative osteoarthritis is a progressive joint destruction from years of wear and tear. Recent medical research shows that menopausal estrogen deficiency is causative in developing degeneration of the joints. Bioidentical Hormone Supplementation not only reduces risk for developing degenerative disease, it also reduces over-all mortality.

Friday, January 21, 2011
Lexapro For Hot Flashes Medical Victimization
(4 comments) A new JAMA study by Ellen W Freeman shows that Lexapro is "marginally" more effective than placebo for Hot Flashes. This is laughable. Surely you must be joking? SSRI drugs are addictive drugs with adverse side effects including loss of sexual function, akasthesias, agitation, movement disorders and violence and suicide.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Protect Your Family from Bad Drugs
How can you determine if you are dealing with a BAD DRUG? Here are the early warning signs: 1) The drug has been recalled or given a black box warning. 2) The drug is in litigation with numerous lawsuits against the drug company. 3) The drug has been banned in other countries.

Thursday, December 9, 2010
Anti-Aging Breakthrough
(1 comments) A new study in Nature shows dramatic reversal of aging in mice. The "biological clock" of these mice had been modified to make them age rapidly. They were then treated with a drug which dramatically reversed the effects of aging.

Thursday, October 21, 2010
Synthetic Hormones Cause Breast Cancer, New JAMA Study
(3 comments) A new study in October Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reviews 11 year follow up data from the Womens Health Initiative Study and finds synthetic hormones cause breast cancer, and these cancers tend to be the more aggressive.

Friday, October 8, 2010
Vitamin C Saves Man Dying of Viral Pneumonia
(10 comments) Allan Smith, a New Zealand Dairy farmer, contracted Swine Flu while away on vacation in Fiji. When he returned home, the flu quickly evolved into severe pneumonia which left him in a coma on Life Support in the Intensive Care Unit.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Medical Ghostwriting and Bioidentical Hormones
(2 comments) Medical ghost writing, as we have seen in the women's hormone literature, is a form of plagiarism, scientific misconduct and fraud. It is harmful to the public and should be banned.

Saturday, July 3, 2010
10 Ten Bioidentical Hormone Fallacies of Staness Jonekos
A recent article on hormones for menopause caught my attention. I was puzzled by the fact that the author, Staness Jonekos, has no medical credentials, training or even a rudimentary knowledge of biological science. Rather, she is an actress with a theater arts degree from UCLA. She chronicled her menopause experience with a book and blog entitled Menopause Makover.

Saturday, June 19, 2010
Why Natural Thyroid is Better than Synthetic
(4 comments) As of 2005, 10 million people in the U.S. take Synthroid, the second-most prescribed drug in the U.S. However, Natural Thyroid is vastly superior to Synthroid, and this article explains why.

Saturday, June 12, 2010
Bioidentical Hormones According to Chris Woolston of the LA Times
An article caught my attention on bioidentical hormones appearing in the June 7 Los Angeles Times. The writer, Chris Woolston, is a medical journalist with a master's degree in biology, and a surprising command of the topic. I found his article more balanced than a previous article by AP writer Marilynn Marchione which could be described as junk journalism. Nonetheless, Woolston's article contains a number

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Mega-Dose Vitamin Therapy in the ICU
The media faithfully bombards us with the message that vitamins and minerals are useless, harmful or even killing us. Seemingly oblivious to this negative message, physicians quietly go about their business using megadose vitamin therapy in the intensive care unit. Succesful results are appearing in medical journals, establishing mega dose vitamin therapy as a credible and serious treatment.

Sunday, May 16, 2010
Mainstream Medicine Goes Alternative
(1 comments) An editorial in the May Annals of Internal Medicine proclaimed a shocking "medical heresy", that less health care is better than more health care. US Health care is generally assumed and expected to be beneficial, yet when outcomes are measured, studies show that more health care equates with worse outcomes, not better.

Thursday, April 22, 2010
The Case for Selenium As Cancer Preventive
This article examines the case for selenium as a cancer preventive agent. The evidence is now overwhelming that dietary selenium is an essential mineral important for health. Selenium deficiency is a known cancer risk, and supplementation is beneficial for those with selenium deficiency.

Thursday, March 25, 2010
Fosamax Study Denies Femur Fracture Link
(2 comments) A recent NEJM article March 24, 2010, by Dennis Black MD denying the link between Fosamax and spontaneous mid-femur fractures might raise a few eyebrows. Firstly, there is the problem of conflict of interest. The study was funded by Fosamax maker, Merck, and the authors are all on Merck's payroll.

Friday, March 19, 2010
Fosamax Induced Fractures, More Bad News
As if Fosamax didn't have enough problems, another nail was hammered into the coffin at the 2010 AAOS Meeting. Two separate studies revealed that Fosamax disturbs bone formation, and is implicated in spontaneous mid-femur fractures.

Monday, February 22, 2010
BioIdentical Hormones For Anxiety and Depression
Susan was post menopausal and suffered from anxiety and panic attacks which seemed to precede an episode of hot flashes. Susan started her Estradiol and Progesterone, vitamin B12 and Magnesium. Six weeks later, Susan reported that her anxiety and panic attacks were almost gone...

Monday, February 1, 2010
Selling Sickness, Fast Food in Hospitals
(7 comments) Forty per cent of hospitals have fast food in the lobby. While you might consider this an outrage, the hospital probably considers it business as usual. Fast food causes chronic disease, and a future source of new revenue for the hospital. fast food causes obesity, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistant diabetes, hypertension and accelerated cardiovascular disease, ..

Friday, January 22, 2010
Bioidentical Hormones Beneficial After Hysterectomy
Dr. Parker followed 30,000 women for 24 years after their hysterectomy. Half had ovaries removed and half had ovaries preserved. The group with ovaries removed did, in fact, have a lower rate of ovarian and breast cancer. However, this was overshadowed by a marked increase in death from heart disease and other cancers. The group with the ovaries removed had a higher all cause mortality rate..

Monday, December 7, 2009
Huge Loss for Synthetic Hormones in Court Case
(2 comments) A 112 million dollar punitive award says loudly that the jury was outraged by the "wanton and reckless” conduct by Wyeth for peddling a cancer causing pill. The punitive damages were awarded to two breast cancer victims who took Wyeth's synthetic hormone, Prempro, all the while thinking it safe.

Friday, November 27, 2009
Mad Over Mammogram Guidelines, Slowing the Runaway Train
(2 comments) The mainstream media, government and corporate medicine have strongly opposed the revised guidelines with slick marketing techniques, and fear mongering with appeals to emotion rather than evidence based medicine. Kathleen Sebelius, for example, appeared on national television advising women to ignore her own Department's task force panel, and start your mammogram screening at 40. These opposing views avoid the real issues...

Monday, November 23, 2009
Iodine Treats Breast Cancer, the Evidence is Overwhelming
(4 comments) Clinicians such as David Brownstein MD are reporting breast cancer remission in women supplementing with Iodine tablets. Current research from Mexico, Japan and India reveals the exact molecular mechanisms involved. Iodine kills breast cancer cells, while sparing normal ones. There is now overwhelming evidence for the routine use of Iodine in breast cancer prevention and treatment.

Friday, November 13, 2009
Spontaneous Remission Cancer Breakthrough
Spontaneous remission has been well documented in the medical literature for vitually all types of cancer. Dr Steven A Rosenberg at the NIH has been using spontaneous remission with some remarkable results. His treatment is currently the most effective treatment for patients with metastatic melanoma producing tumor regressions in 50% of patients...

Thursday, November 12, 2009
BioIdentical Hormone Disinformation From AP Medical Writer, Marilynn Marchione
A USA Today article trashing bioidentical hormones caught my attention because it contained almost pure misinformation. Written by Associated Press AP medical writer Marilynn Marchione, this syndicated article was broadcast over the news media. Marchione's writing is a perfect example of trash, or junk journalism. I find it astounding that the news media force feeds this kind of nonsense to the public.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Failed Hatchet Job on Larry King, Suzanne Somers, Knockout
(1 comments) Hatchet Job? Suzanne Somers Larry King Knockout Interview, I was astonished at the failed hatchet job on the Larry King - Knockout interview Friday, Oct 23. Here is my review of the TV interview as four doctors fought it out..

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Knockout by Suzanne Somers, Questions Cancer Treatment
(7 comments) Suzanne's new book, Knockout, relates her personal story with cancer in which she searches for doctors curing cancer with new techniques. and interviews pioneering MD's who successfully treat cancer patients using new treatments not recognized by the cancer establishment. The book brings to light new information that the cancer establishment desperately seeks to suppress, and indicts chemotherapy as ineffective...

Sunday, October 11, 2009
PSA Screening for Cancer, A Failed Medical Experiment
(2 comments) PSA is Prostate Specific Antigen, a protein discovered in 1986, and a marker for prostate cancer and inflammation. This article will show you that PSA screening for prostate cancer is, in fact, a 20 year failed medical experiment which provides little or no benefit in saving lives. The large US study, the PLCO, showed no mortality benefit from PSA screening.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Dangers at the Grocery Store
(2 comments) Is Your SuperMarket a Minefield ?Recently, I went shopping with my 11 year old nephew, and was shocked and unprepared for the experience. Like other kids his age, he preferred diet sodas containing aspartame and brominated vegetable oil (BVO). He also preferred processed foods high in MSG.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Obama's Health Reform in Jeopardy? Don't You Believe it
(1 comments) Although it may appear that corporate medicine's opposition is strong enough to kill health care reform, I would argue that Obama's health reform is now a slam dunk inevitability. Not only that, Obama's public health plan will mean the end of the health insurance industry. And, I say good riddance to this bloated evil empire.

Saturday, June 20, 2009
Newsweek and Oprah, A Comedy of Errors
(2 comments) Why should Newsweek attack Oprah Winfrey? Here's Why: Oprah's TV show advocates Natural Medicine and Bioidentical Hormones in direct competition to the interests of the Pharmaceutical Industry that makes synthetic hormones. Newsweek is merely an attack dog for the drug industry. A typical issue of Newsweek magazine contains $2 million in pharma ads, That's Why.

Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Unreliable TSH Lab Test
Conventional primary care doctors use the wrong lab panel. They never do a Free T3 test which is the most informative thyroid lab test, and instead rely on the TSH which is not a direct measure of thyroid function and can in fact be unreliable. Most conventional doctors are unfamiliar with the use of natural thyroid which contains both T3 and T4, and instead use Synthroid which is less effective...

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Wheatgrass, Natural Medicine in the Kitchen
(3 comments) This case report about wheatgrass intrigued me, as it suggested a biologically active agent in the wheatgrass juice with a beneficial effect on breast cancer. Over the years, I had seen wheatgrass juice sold at various juice bars, and have even tried it a few times without thinking much of it. However, this story motivated me to look further.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Cannabinoids, Wonder Drugs of the 21st Century
(5 comments) Although cannabis was a medicinal plant for thousands of years, its medical use was suppressed and banned throughout most of the 20th century. While banned in the US, major scientific breakthroughs were made in Israel, Spain, Italy and Brazil. These breakthroughs are propelling the natural plant compounds called cannabinoids into "the wonder drugs of the 21st century".

Saturday, February 28, 2009
Why ACOG is Wrong About Biodentical Hormones
An ACOG news release dated Feb 3, 2009, provides misleading and incorrect information about bioidentical hormones. ACOG is partially funded by Wyeth and serves as a mouthpiece for the pharmaceutical industry.

Friday, February 27, 2009
Vitamin D Prevents Common Cold and Flu
(4 comments) Are you sneezing, with a runny nose, and aches and pains? You may have the common cold. Rather than go through a week of misery, better to prevent Colds with Vitamin D. A new study published Feb 23, 2009 in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that Vitamin D prevents the common cold. In this study, patients with low vitamin D levels had 40% more flu episodes.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Why We Need Single Payer Health Care
(10 comments) These two arguments in favor of a single payer heath insurance system (moral and economic) are so compelling, that one must conclude the only reason we don't have single payer now is because of lack of representative government. The obvious conclusion is that our government does not serve the people who elected them.

Sunday, February 22, 2009
Why BioIdentical Hormones?
In this article, we address the question, why are bioidentical hormones important? What do they do and why do we need them? What is a bioidentical hormone? First of all, let us look at the definition of a bioidentical hormone, and how they differ from the synthetic hormones offered by the mainstream medical system.

Friday, February 20, 2009
A Review of Stop the Thyroid Madness, a New Book
Stop the Thyroid Madness: a Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Thyroid Treatment by Janie Bowthorpe book review by Jeffrey Dach MD Written by a non-professional, this is the most important thyroid book to come out in the last few years.

Friday, February 20, 2009
Bioidentical Hormones on Oprah, Are They Safe?
You may have seen the recent Oprah Winfrey TV show with guest, Suzanne Somers, singing praises for biodentical hormones. One question every woman wants to know is: What is the safety of bio-identical hormones as routinely used in medical practice? Let's try to answer this question.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Cardiac Bypass, Angioplasty and Stenting by Jeffrey Dach MD
(5 comments) The following thirty nine medical studies compare invasive treatment with conservative treatment of coronary artery disease. Invasive treatment with bypass surgery, stent or angioplasty is compared with conservative treatment with drugs.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Molecular Biology Trumps Darwin
(7 comments) To celebrate Darwin's Birthday, Science Magazine ran a special devoted to evolution. An article by Stern and Orgogozo entitled "Is Genetic Evolution Predictable" presented a stunning break from neo-Darwinism. The authors presented a convincing refutation of the "Blind Watch Maker" argument of Richard Dawkins. Quite the contrary, the "Watchmaker" had his eyes wide open.