What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ February 2023 - March 2023

I‘ve just returned from the US, where I sawa batch of my close American girlfriends, who are mostly my age. I was heartsick to learn that of the two dear friends who’d had surgical facelifts, one was still in pain a few years later (a one-in-amillion chance, her doctor had told her—not very comforting when you are that one in the statistic), and the other’s face was still numb after more than a year. The surgeries had been well done. Both looked lovely and not artificially pulled, but they had come at a terrible price. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m as vain as the next woman. I like to look good. But the lengths to which my friends had gone got me thinking about women and aging, and why women “of a…

Dr Damien Downing, a specialist in allergy, environment and nutrition, is current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, on the editorial board of Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Chief Medical Advisor of cancer charity Yes to Life (www.yestolife.org.uk), and author of numerous books including The Vitamin Cure for Allergies. Dr Michel Odent, a French-trained surgeon and obstetrician, is a pioneer of the natural birth movement, emphasizing home and water birth. Founder of the Primal Health Research Centre in the UK, he has written some 50 scientific papers and 11 books. Dr Sarah Myhill has worked in the UK National Health Service and private practice since 1981. Honorary Secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine for 17 years, she is a frequent lecturer and author of Sustainable Medicine and Diagnosis and…

Covid coverage I’m writing to express appreciation for the way WDDTY has covered the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine campaign. A major reason so many people, including me, turn to alternative medicine and news is the mainstream versions seem to follow a defined narrative. In this case, WDDTY has highlighted several aspects of the pandemic that mainstream news has not: problems with the vaccines from their development to their staying power, the movement to crush conflicting data and methods, and the use of vaccines generally for both revealed and hidden purposes. It’s been said that lies are more effective when mixed with truth. The same seems to be true of vaccines—I have little doubt that most of them work, but too often other ingredients have been added to accomplish evil goals, as WDDTY described…

Adopting a healthier lifestyle is a more effective way to prevent heart disease than taking medication. This is especially true for young and middle-aged people who have early signs of high blood pressure (hypertension), say researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Eating healthily and dropping processed food, exercising, and cutting back on alcohol can together be more effective than heart drugs, such as antihypertensives, for reducing blood pressure levels, and can prevent 26,000 cases of heart disease and 2,900 heart-related deaths over a 10year span in the US alone. Changing your diet is the single most important way to reduce your chances of heart disease even if you have high blood pressure, the researchers say. This means eating more fruit, vegetables, lean meats, nuts, seeds and grains— and cutting…

If you want to stay healthy and lose weight, you should breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper. In other words, eat most of your calories at the start of the day and not the end. That's what we’ve been told, but it’san old saw that doesn’t have any grounding in science; intact, it doesn’t matter much when in the day you eat your major meal, according to a new study. The only merit of a big breakfast is you probably don’t feel hungry later in the day and so eat a lighter lunch and dinner, say researchers from the University of Aberdeen. They gave 30 overweight volunteers either a heavy breakfast or a heavy dinner every day for four weeks before switching the groups over. But…

Taking a multivitamin every day could reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer’s or dementia. It slows cognitive decline by up to 60 percent, which represents nearly two years of healthy brain functioning. These improvements were achieved bY taking a supplement every day for just three years, say researchers from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. They tested the effects of a multivitamin on a group of more than 2,200 people aged 65 and older. The participants were given either a multivitamin or a placebo, while another group was given a cocoa extract supplement—whose flavanols were thought to improve cognition—or a placebo. Although those given the cocoa didn’t show any enhanced cognitive function after three years, those taking the multivitamin showed “statistically significant” improvements. People with heart problems—who are at the highest risk…