What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ June 2022 - July 2022

Renowned orthopedic surgeon David Hanscom came to the conclusion reached by many of his colleagues in their quiet moments: spinal surgery wasn’t helping his patients, but mostly making them worse. He then embarked on a radical way of treating his patients that eschewed surgery and focused on where pain—and healing—starts and ends: in the mind itself (see page 56). Paradigm-shifting new scientific research has now verified what we’ve long seen in our work: that most of the benefit you get from a drug or a placebo has to do with just the thought about getting medicine, and not the drug itself. This was the conclusion of the largest meta-analysis review of brain placebo research from an international consortium of university researchers, led by Tor Wager, a distinguished professor and the principal investigator of…

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 and comorbidities In your Apr/May 2022 issue, you mention that almost all the Italians who died of Covid-19 had comorbidities, like arterial hypertension, irregular heartbeat or heart failure. I suggest that these people were often ill in the first place because of nutritional deficiencies, and, in most cases, their treatment made them more deficient. For example, vitamin D is highly effective against respiratory viruses, and vitamin D deficiency can be caused by anticonvulsants, bile acid sequestrants, cholestyramine, cimetidine, colestipol, corticosteroids, glutethimide, heparin, isoniazid, mineral oil, neomycin, phenobarbital, phenolphthalein and phenytoin and primidone (see Moss M. Drugs as anti-nutrients. J Nutr Env Med, 2007; 16(2): 149–66). Is it true that the older you are, the more likely you are to die of Covid, or is the reality that the more drugs you take,…

Med diet protects against dementia and memory loss Eating a Mediterranean diet—and cutting back on red meat and processed food—could protect you from dementia and general cognitive decline as you get older. The diet is high in polyphenols, plant-based molecules that researchers believe can protect against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Israel have tested various diets—including two types of Mediterranean diet—on a group of 284 people, whose brains were measured 18 months later by MRI scans. The researchers were shocked by the extent of shrinkage in the brains of those over 50 who were eating a standard ‘healthy’ diet. But there was hardly any shrinkage in either of the groups eating a Mediterranean diet: one was eating walnuts with the diet, and the other was also drinking five cups of…

mRNA Covid vaccines increase rate of myocarditis 133 times, CDC admits The mRNA Covid vaccines can increase the chances of myocarditis (heart inflammation) by as much as 133 times in boys up to the age of 15, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted. Older males also face a dramatically increased risk after having either a Pfizer or Moderna jab. Researchers from the CDC admit the real risk could be far higher still because of under-reporting of adverse reactions. Most cases happened after the second dose. The greatest risk was among adolescent boys between 12 and 15 years old, with reported myocarditis cases 133 times higher than would be expected. Cases were 79 times higher among teenage boys between 16 and 17, and there was a 32-fold increase in young…

Slowing down and taking things easier as we get older could be a big mistake. Instead, we should stay active for as long as we can. Inactivity, especially during retirement, could be one of the big drivers of the epidemic of chronic diseases, new research suggests. Staying active as we get older promotes processes in the body that support healthy aging, such as the release of antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, and improves blood flow, say researchers from Harvard University. As a result, we reduce our risk of chronic illnesses such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers. It doesn’t only make good sense—it could be in our evolutionary make-up. The scientists discovered from 40,000-year-old fossils that hunter-gatherers were active for around 135 minutes every day—roughly six to 10 times…