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Aside from death and taxes, life’s only other certainty is that you have a body, over which you have complete sovereignty and which is protected by law, including human rights legislation. If somebody attacks you, the assailant will be prosecuted...
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Breast cancer is one of the major ‘ladykillers’ – and so governments want to be seen to do something, not least because it affects half the electorate. For the past 24 years – and at a total cost of £2.3bn - women in the...
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Imagine you’re a Venusian paying a visit to Earth, and I’m in the welcoming party. Over a bubbling Martian cola I tell you we have a major health problem on the planet – cancer. Our standard therapies kill cancer in 40 per cent of cases...
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Our main feature this month (http://www.wddty.com/kill-not-cure.html) highlights two disturbing statistics about Big Pharma: in 2011, it was recorded as the most fraudulent industry group in the world, while its drugs became more lethal than traffic accidents,...
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Praying for another’s wellbeing is problematic, even at this time of year when our thoughts might turn to miracles and healings of the sick. It’s not a problem for the sender or receiver, but it most certainly is for the scientist, the researcher,...
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Using our voices has always been the key to healing and transformation in traditional cultures, and was a major contribution to a healthy community in our own – until we stopped. Having pioneered the rediscovery of the voice in the West, I take...
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The West is going through financial turmoil. Its governments are bankrupt, and are being forced to cut back on public expenditure. For David Cameron’s UK government, the National Health Service (NHS) presents a special challenge: not only is it...
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Early expatriate settlers in Spain could eat well from local produce. Now in many areas agricultural land has been built on or abandoned, and where foodstuffs are still grown there is evidence of forced growth for speed and size using a wide range of...
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We live in an age of complexity. We switch on the lights in our home, but don’t really understand how the electricity works. We turn on the taps in our bathroom, without completely grasping how water can run through the pipes. We’re probably...
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This is the 22nd year that we’ve been producing a monthly issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, and people always seem to ask: Don’t you ever run out of things to write about? Thus far, we don’t seem to have any problems, but thanks...
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The August issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You just arrived at our home in the wilds of Spain – and I wanted to add some further thoughts to the main story about chemicals in pesticides and the damage they can do to our health ( http://www.wddty.com/scary-scary-how-does-your-garden-grow.html...
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Pity the poor parents who want to do the right thing when it comes to vaccinating their child. Even suggesting that they have concerns about side-effects can be likened to questioning the existence of God to a 12th-century pope—such is the doctor’s...
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st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The fact you read What Doctors Don’t Tell You (WDDTY) or its website suggests you support independent journalism – whether you realise it or not. Journalism is itself enduring some bad press right now with the...
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The cancer at the heart of medicine is its need to serve two masters: the patient and the pharmaceutical company’s shareholders. In an ideal capitalist system, this does not necessarily present a problem. The very best drugs will become the most...
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Earlier this month, What Doctors Don’t Tell You reported on the importance of selenium and vitamin K to healthy ageing. It prompted us to check on what we ate with useful amounts of these two substances. Naturally, we started with the first meal...
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A recent WDDTY e-news bulletin reported on research into the potential benefits of tangerines and the possibility that they will be marketed as a new power fruit. It reminded us that the first two plantings in our then rather bare and embryonic garden...
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Pity the poor general practitioner. He doesn’t have the tools for the heroic gesture, unlike his counterpart in emergency medicine who saves lives, patches people up and generally performs miracles on a daily basis. The general practitioner deals...
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Before the discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo, the Sun orbited the Earth. It didn’t, of course, but everyone accepted that it did because the popes and the Roman Catholic Church told them so. Medicine operates in a similar fashion. Its governing...
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I’m old enough to remember a time when the pharmaceutical industry was concerned about social responsibility. During the 1970s and early 80s, middle managers and executives were attending regular workshops on the subject. While market domination...
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Philosophy is the art of asking the difficult question, and it is the engine room of most of the sciences. Physicists, astrophysicists and biologists, for instance, are driven by the quest to understand the complexity of life and how it began. Medicine,...
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We are fat and getting fatter by the day.Several years ago, Johns Hopkins University did a study showing that, if obesity trends continue, in four years, an astonishing three-quarters of all Americans will be overweight. In Britain, according to an Oxford...
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Twice in previous blogs we have referred to the plant Stevia rebaudiana . It is among the sweetest plants in the world and is widely used in some countries as a substitute for sugar, honey and artificial sweeteners in both home cooking and manufactured...
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The biggest headache for any drug-company executive is the placebo, or ‘sugar pill’, used in controlled trials to show that a drug in question works. Patients are divided into two groups, one of which is given the active drug, while the other...
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Nearly a year ago, Hollywood was shocked when actress Brittany Murphy, just 32, died from pneumonia, which she contracted after taking over-the-counter drugs. Within five months, her doting husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, aged 40, was also...
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I have just finished hand-harvesting our olives and those of our friends - some 800 kilos in all were gathered up. It was four long days of satisfying exercise on sunny wintery days for four 60- and 70-year-olds. There were no motorized tree shakers to...
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