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Book Preview: #1 There have been two main ideas about cardiovascular disease over the past 150 years: the cholesterol hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. The cholesterol hypothesis has become so dominant that it stands alone, unquestioned and unchallenged.
#2 The alternative hypothesis is that blood clots, and blood clotting, are the key players in cardiovascular disease. From...
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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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#1 Nausea is worse than pain. I remember thinking this during the early days of my first pregnancy, a pregnancy I had prayed and wept for, despaired about, and agonized over. But 6 weeks in, I found that I was hating every moment.
#2 Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is a common problem that affects 70 to 90 percent of pregnant women. It is unclear if it is a disease...
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#1 This book is a collection of stories about the effects of aging on patients, doctors, and nurses. It is both conventional and countercultural, fact- and story-based, affectionate and opinionated, part battle cry and part lament.
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#1 The reading brain is the result of our intellectual evolution, and it has changed over time as we have learned to read new things. It has expanded our capacity to think, feel, and infer, and it has changed how we communicate.
#2 The brain's ability to learn new things is based on its plastic design, which allows it to make new connections among structures and circuits...
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#1 Cara was a thirty-something woman who came to see me because she was struggling with depression. She had friends, but much of what they had already achieved served only to remind her of what she had not. She was single and longing for a committed relationship, but she saw herself as less than desirable.
#2 The key to healing from the Western world's emphasis on knowledge...
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#1 The most common form of acid damage is gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, which has more than doubled since 1995. It is not always easy to diagnose, as it can only be seen in patients with throat-based symptoms.
#2 Acid reflux is when gastric acid from the stomach goes the wrong way, or refluxes, up into the delicate tissues of the esophagus, causing a burning...
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#1 Your spine is an important part of your body, and it provides you with structure and support. It is also a protector, serving as a bony barrier between your spinal cord and nerves.
#2 The spine is made up of 33 spool-shaped bones called vertebrae. Each vertebra is about an inch thick and stacked one on top of another. The vertebrae are supported by ligaments and connected to muscles...
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#1 Dr. Robert Gallo was the keynote speaker at the 5th International Conference on HHV-6 and -7, which was dedicated to the human herpes virus 6. Many Americans still believe he is the scientist who discovered the HIV virus, which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
#2 John Crewdson, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, was among the first to criticize Gallo's...
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#1 It took until late February for the first patient to come to the South Side ER, a flight attendant named Terri who came with a cough and a story. She had shaken hands with clients in Seattle, where the ICUs were overwhelmed with infected patients.
#2 As the nation continued to collapse, I was unable to make decisions for my friends regarding when to take their kids out of school...
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#1 I began giving out celery juice in 1975 to help people with various ailments. It was such a powerful remedy that if a child was screaming or crying after eating a lot of candy, I would give them celery juice to calm them down.
#2 I began doing lectures in health food stores around the country in the 1990s, and I would teach people about the healing benefits of straight celery juice....
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#1 Neurosurgery residency. Rule number one: You aren't the same when the air hits your brain. The brain is like a 1966 Cadillac, with bricked-in personality. You can't play with it.
#2 The rules of a surgical residency are: never stand when you can be sitting, never sit when you can be lying down, never use the stairs when there are elevators, and always eat and shit...
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#1 Dr. Michael Moskowitz is a psychiatrist-turned-pain-specialist who has often been forced to use himself as a guinea pig. He and another psychiatrist-turned-pain-specialist, Bobby Hines, have set up a pain clinic in Sausalito, California, which treats West Coast patients with intractable pain.
#2 The brain can turn off pain because the function of acute pain is not...
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#1 The application process is long and requires you to submit your primary application by a certain date. You should consider forcing yourself to apply within the first couple months of the application cycle opening.
#2 You should plan to take the MCAT no later than March or April of the year you are planning on applying. Delaying your test to make sure you are prepared...
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#1 The traditional approach to medicine does not seem to be able to explain the current problems with our health. We are beginning to realize that the brain and the gut communicate with each other, and that their cross talk is important for our health.
#2 The medical system's disease model worked extremely well for certain acute diseases, such as infections, heart...
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#1 The Romans were a latecomer to the power politics of the Mediterranean. They borrowed many institutions from the Greeks and Phoenicians, but put their own accents on them.
#2 The Romans were able to conquer most of the Mediterranean because of the political and military stability that republican institutions and militaristic values provided. The empire's northern...
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#1 The origins of behavioral differences between men and women have been a topic of conversation since ancient history. However, the idea that the brain could be the principal means by which males and females behave differently is modern, having been accepted only in the 1960s.
#2 Hormones are powerful chemicals that affect every part of our bodies and brains, and they...
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#1 A growing trend in the United States is doctors doing unnecessary vascular procedures on unsuspecting patients. These procedures include ballooning, stenting, and even lasering harmless plaques in leg arteries.
#2 The event reminded me that health screening can be a powerful tool to detect disease and prevent tragedy, but it can also be a business model to recruit...
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#1 The endocannabinoid system is the primary way that cannabidiol, along with all the other beneficial compounds in cannabis and hemp, interacts with your body. It is a system present in all mammals and other living creatures that bridges many physiological locations and other systems in the body.
#2 While we can infer a lot from pre-clinical studies, we don't...
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#1 Psychology is the science of the mind, and it is a science because it uses scientific methods of enquiry to develop theories about how humans think and behave. It is the study of all that.
#2 Psychology is the study of the human mind and human behaviour. It is derived from the Greek word psyche, which means life or breath, and the Greek word logia, which means the...
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