As a quick introduction: when I write theses Health Tips, I usually flip through medical journals and medical libraries. Most often I’ll refer (or rather I sadly once referred) to the National Library of Medicine. This astonishing resource of worldwide medical research is now history. Here’s what appears when you click to it. Trump cut […]

Sex hormones are not to be taken lightly. Some recent research measuring blood levels of estrogen in several hundred young women and then making facial “composite photos” showed that those with normal to high (but not too high) levels of estrogen were more physically (read “sexually”) appealing. Go overboard with estrogen and all sorts of […]

You’ll not get the true facts about this from our President, whom, if you remember, also once suggested that injected disinfectant, like bleach, might kill the COVID virus. However, people being people, Poison Control Centers from around the country did get hundreds of calls from COVID patients who, listening to an authority figure, used a […]

You may find this a bit unbelievable but as recently as the 1960’s there was still a debate about whether smoking caused lung cancer. Many doctors puffed happily away, even in hospital corridors and advised the same of their patients. The smokiest room in any hospital was the Doctors’ Lounge. The reason for this protracted […]

You’re tired of being overweight, and you’ve been a victim of the tyranny of the last ten, twenty pounds or much more as long as you can remember. You’ve tried everything. You’ve been dieting and nothing happens that ever lasts except hunger. You exercise to exhaustion, lose some pounds and gain them back. No matter […]

This is really important. Your longevity, the number of years you’ve got left this side of the sod, and equally important, how you will physically feel during those years, what diseases you may (or may not) develop will pretty much depend on the state of your inflammation. Did you ever wonder why some obese people, […]