This tech isn't at all new but FDA approval, rightly or wrongly, should mean a lot of long term depressed folks will buy these. Cost alone should help drive placebo up even if nothing real here. Can't help but wonder what trade-offs & risks yet unknown might emerge in time if

@IrishTimes Dull article about a potentially fascinating area. The truth is that the ever-growing market for untrained health influencers is explained entirely by medicine & dietetics so regularly missing the therapeutic mark.

Echoes my own cautiously optimistic view on AI (at least in the short term): AI and humans should not be opposed but ought to cooperate! "Self-improving AI races ahead unsupervised. Co-improving AI drags humanity upward with it."

Man has his life saved by Grok from @xAI after a ruptured appendix: "I’m 49. 2025 has been the best year of my life… until two nights ago. For 24 straight hours I had constant, razor-blade-level pain in my stomach. Couldn’t lie flat, could only get minor relief sitting on the

This chart is from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). And the jump that begins in 2021 raises a pretty big question: what changed?

@wilsonhlthcoach If true (and I see no reason to think otherwise) then surely the question, both clinical & academic becomes what specific dietary component exclusion(s) associated with full carnivore may be responsible for the marked improvements: in other words, what *specific* plant food

Shocking story about just 1 Vioxx death

Not sure about the prank thing: I'm more shocked by this clip suggesting that morbid obesity is now normal amongst US nursing staff.

The top researcher on effects of different light wavelengths on mitochondrial health says LED bulbs are as problematic for health as asbestos. People will kick & scream about this, but Dr Jeffery’s lab has strong data on harmful effects of LED bulbs & the benefits of red light.

@BiggestComeback Believing that one's own extreme diet (that clearly helped oneself) is certainly the cure-all for everyone else is thankfully ultra rare amongst smart practitioners: but of course super common amongst single individuals. I assume this latter anomaly is due to: zero exposure to

Dissection of a gallbladder to reveal gallstones

Experts found the bacteria linked to multiple sclerosis. Scientists have identified two strains of gut bacteria that may be directly involved in triggering multiple sclerosis, offering a new path toward treatment or even prevention. In a groundbreaking study, researchers from

Is your multivitamin actually doing anything? This review pulled together data from dozens of studies looking at how daily multivitamin/mineral use shows up across real biological systems; not just “general health,” but cognition, immunity, pregnancy outcomes, eye health, and

Neuroimaging provides “no neurobiological basis for any psychiatric condition or symptom” Ref: “Functional neuroimaging in psychiatry and the case for failing better” (Nour et al., 2022)

@toobaffled Wonderful story. Happily I've been witness to many similar. But alas not true of all under the ASD umbrella "diagnosis" (which we'll some day learn includes many quite unrelated issues from genetic ones like fragile X to oxygen loss at birth etc.)

The UK National Screening Committee has advised against routine screening for prostate cancer with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test, saying that the harms would outweigh the benefits https://t.co/20BrPNR2Hd

This is a fantastic infographic on the PSA test for prostate cancer screening (and why it's not recommended in the general population)

Your beliefs about food can change your hormones more than the food itself Study participants drank the same 380-calorie shake, but labels changed their ghrelin response: -“Indulgent” 620-cal label: steep ghrelin drop -“Sensible” 140-cal label: minimal change

Apparently Ben's doctors told him he'd " be sick forever ..[his] gut issues were labeled “chronic,” “lifelong,” and “incurable.”. Apparently they weren't otherwise "labelled " at all! Not IBS, much less IBD nor anything at all t'would seem. The description offered however was

Sama incorect here (again!). Those figures concern production: not consumption. Netherlands is the number 2 in the world for dairy export (north of €10Billion p.a.) They actually consume around only c one fifth of what they produce.