Category Archives: Health

NYT: Standing Up at Your Desk Could Make You Smarter

Psychiatrist Richard Friedman writes: We’ve known for a while that sitting for long stretches of every day has myriad health consequences, like a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes, that culminate in a higher mortality rate. But now a … Continue reading

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Politico: Jackson troubles shine light on a fact of Washington life: Sleeping pills

From Politico: Ronny Jackson, the White House physician who is battling to save his nomination to be the secretary of veterans affairs, regularly handed out the sleep drug Ambien and the alertness drug Provigil to West Wing officials traveling on … Continue reading

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Staying Free Of Crippling Pain Requires The Maintenance Of My Spiritual/Physical/Psychological Condition

I wrote about this six months ago.

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The ADD Con

Comments at Steve Sailer: * Even more ridiculous is how they allow players to work around these problems when their personal doctor attests that they have ADD or a testosterone deficiency, so need prescription drugs to remedy it. A-Rod was … Continue reading

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VOX: Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work – The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half

Your health is too important to be left to your doctors. For example, almost all chiropractors and physical therapists treating on a lien basis are useless, according to the 2016 book CROOKED: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting On … Continue reading

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