Category Archives: Medicines

Should Everyone Over 50 Be Given Statins?

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

Here we go again with the call for statins to be given to more and more people. Poppycock. Especially when you actually see the statistics of how well they work. I have read a few reports this week on the … Continue reading →

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On Metformin? Take B12 and Folic Acid

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

I know quite a few of you who have been offered Metformin for diabetes and PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome). But, if you are on it, did you know that it is quite likely that you will become folic acid and … Continue reading →

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High Blood Pressure? Think Meds

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

Whenever someone mentions they have developed high blood pressure, the first thing I ask is if they have recently started a new type of medicine. Come to think of it, I ask that of most new symptoms. Several types of … Continue reading →

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Aspirin: Good or Bad? Again

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

The recent study by Prof Peter Rothwell published in The Lancet has again suggested that aspirin could be a wonder drug, this time for cancer. Sounds helpful, but is it? I start to wonder when actually you remember that this … Continue reading →

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Breast Cancer Dropped When HRT Concerns Raised

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

Interesting and illuminating short piece about HRT this morning from WDDTY: HRT (hormone replacement therapy) is a major cause of breast cancer, researchers have established this week – kicking into touch recent efforts by doctors to resurrect the discredited treatment … Continue reading →

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Deaths: Vitamins 0, Drugs 197,000

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Time to redress some of the shockingly untruthful and misleading media reports about the safety of vitamins now. According to a piece in FoodsMatter, there have been no deaths attributed to vitamins in the US in the last 27 years. … Continue reading →

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Statins and Diabetes Risk

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

D. Telegraph 22.5.11 HIGH DOSE STATINS LINKED TO DIABETES. 100s of 1000s of people on high dose statins are increasing their chance of developing type 2 diabetes.   80mg of simvastin or atorvastin increases the chance of type 2 diabetes by … Continue reading →

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Milk Desensitisation Successful

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

A recent study at Stanford School of Medicine shows that temporarily using a drug can lower IgE classical allergy reactions to milk during oral desensitisation treatment, lowering the reactions for long enough for the therapy to work. Previously, this has … Continue reading →

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Vaccinations, Statins and HPV

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

If you are interested in the vaccination debate, take a gander at FM’s latest review of a recent conference by the British Society of Environmental Medicine which looked at the truth and supposed science behind some of our ingrained medical … Continue reading →

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Statins Over Prescribed

Posted on January 22, 2011 by

Read the link below to the Daily Telegraph story: ‘MILLIONS TAKING STATINS ‘NEEDLESSLY’. How long have I and others wittered on about the dubious necessity of prescribing statins for so many people? At last, sense looks like it is winning. There … Continue reading →

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