17 Articles

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.