Quotes About Medicine

Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who weren't given the drug.

As an example, a recent report in the prestigious Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who weren't given the drug.

You might not remember the days when doctors endorsed smoking cigarettes,

Por desgracia, la mayoría de los médicos alópatas no está dispuesta a buscar la explicación para dichos trastornos motores en la alimentación ni están al tanto de los descubrimientos más recientes.

The only way to stop this internal pathway run amok is to consume an adequate amount of dietary cholesterol and back way off on carbs. Which explains why my "high-cholesterol" patients who go on my diet can safely return their levels to normal without drugs while enjoying cholesterol-rich foods.

When asked to comment on the results, UCLA researcher Beatrice Golomb said, "Regarding statins as preventive medicines, there are a number of individual cases in case reports and case series where cognition is clearly and reproducibly adversely affected by statins."30 Golomb further added that various studies have demonstrated that statins either negatively affected cognition or were neutral, and that no trial has ever shown a positive outcome.

As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, even slight elevations of blood sugar that are far below the diabetes range have been shown to significantly increase the risk for the development of untreatable dementia.7

Anyone who's already been diagnosed with high cholesterol and prescribed a statin will be in for a rude awakening: I'm going to explain what's really going on in your body and tell you how to remedy this condition easily, deliciously, and without drugs.

Scientists have documented time and time again that C-reactive protein—a commonly used laboratory marker of inflammation—is lower among people who keep an exercise routine.

When the Templars came back from the Middle East, they brought back all this knowledge that had been lost in Europe during the Dark Ages. Medicine, science, astronomy, architecture, cartography. The Church hated it.

The Templars were Christians, sure, but they also venerated Mother Nature and the stars and the seasons. Whereas the Church wanted nothing to do with nature. They saw science and medicine and astronomy as challenges to their doctrines. They wanted people to have faith, not knowledge.

Such research has sometimes been misinterpreted to mean that "all diets are alike," or "sticking to a diet, any diet, is the only thing that matters." But these conclusions are simply wrong. This sort of faulty reasoning wouldn't withstand scrutiny in other areas of clinical research. Should we abandon a promising new cancer drug, simply because participants in the experimental group didn't take most of the medicine?

In a sense, the calorie balance view of obesity is like considering fever a problem of heat balance. It's technically not wrong, but also not very helpful.

In these pages I will tell you the story of how I changed from a scientist-researcher, completely ignorant of the body's natural defenses, to a physician who relies above all on these natural mechanisms.

Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

Present-day science, conventional medicine, and the mindset of 'better living through chemistry' have delivered their results, and they are less an excellent. Essentially, due to poor results, these methods no longer reign supreme.

The case of medicine is, at first sight, rather more intractable than that of astrology, for it is hard to disprove astrology: one would need to compare the lives of a group of people all born at the same moment.

For example, the latest studies are showing that lifestyle changes are often actually better than drugs and surgery in treating and even reversing many of the most prevalent chronic diseases, including stable coronary heart disease and early-stage prostate cancer.

Hundreds of oncogenes that promote prostate cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, and other conditions were switched off in only three months. We published this research with Dr. J. Craig Venter (the first person to sequence a human genome) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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It strengthens the womb. It is given to women who are in danger of miscarrying so they can retain the child," he explained.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.