We obviously have a mental health crises. It is worsening over time. I’ve alluded to this in previous posts. Briefly, here’s how are politicians are addressing the issue: The Left’s Solution More funding, expanding coverage via Medicare/Medicaid/Obamacare, expanding coverage for substance abuse, emphasizing social determinants of mental health – education, poverty, housing. The Right’s Solution …

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What health related progress have we made over time?  As I mentioned in a previous post, rates of infectious disease have plummeted dramatically over the last few decades. Life expectancy has increased (at least until very recently). Why? Mostly this is due to vaccinations, antibiotics, food security, basic healthcare and sanitation.  It really had very …

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Last week’s post included a list of various chronic diseases that we are suffering from at higher rates than our paleolithic ancestors. Included in that list, to the surprise of many, were certain types of cancers. We have good evidence to link colon, breast, lung and prostate cancers to modern lifestyles. These are all among …

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Best estimates are that homo sapiens have been roaming the Earth for ~315K years. For >95% of that time we lived as hunter gatherers. In comparison to our paleolithic ancestors we suffer from a large number of diseases that used to be rare. How do we know that? Obviously there are no writings from that …

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Once in a while someone will come along having watched some sort of health documentary asking if its true that doctors don’t learn about nutrition in medical school. If not, they take it as a fact that medical schools are not particularly interested in nutrition or even worse are aligned with Big Pharma to push …

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