This is the first of several posts about food. After that, I have a review of the state of anti-aging medicine, which remains the world of notions, potions, lotions, and much more. Ray Kurzweil, takes 250 supplements a day, David Sinclair, of resveratrol fame, is down...
In June, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that the next round of Covid-19 boosters be targeted against the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant. Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax will use the same platforms to manufacture the new boosters...
Covid-19 Remains a Dangerous Illness This year the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) expects 125,000 Americans will have died from Covid 19 in 2022. 1 out of 8 people dying is under the age of 65. The risk of dying is 20 times higher in the unvaccinated than in those...
The annual influenza epidemic begins in the southern hemisphere and works its way north. It enters the USA in the southern and western states. The CDC uses reports from Australia to monitor the type and severity of each year’s incursion in the southern hemisphere....
Main Image credit: Sumanley xulx from Pixabay Dear John, It has been three weeks since the first report of the omicron variant. The newspapers are filled with headlines with contradictory information. If you feel confused, you are not alone. What should one do about...
Delta is Hunting You and Your Children Ins and Outs of Booster Shots Winter is coming. People will spend more time indoors, and the opportunity to spread Covid-19 is greater. Among the unvaccinated, the Delta variant is turning this into a massacre. Vaccination is...
Modifying the Rink Works; Masks on the Players Does Not The governors of Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Minnesota, and other states have closed indoor ice rinks due to because they are COVID infection sites. Community skating rinks are designed to keep a slab of ice...
Just When You Thought It Was Safe to go Outside… The Lone Star tick is already found in large numbers in New Jersey, Long Island, and Fairfield County in Connecticut. This aggressive human-biting tick has the potential for altering the dynamics of existing and...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread all over China and multiple countries around the world. The History Last December, ophthalmologist Li Wenliang, based on an influx of sick patients at his office, warned fellow doctors in Wuhan, China, to take respiratory...
Eastern Equine Encephalitis is spread by mosquitoes. So is malaria, Zika, and a dozen other serious diseases, I have written about permethrin extensively as an agent to reduce the incidence of Lyme disease. It is a neurotoxin for insects, but not for men or women, and...
This year there will be over 400,000 cases of Lyme disease in the US civilian population, an increase of 300% over 20 years. At the same time, there has been a decreased incidence of 95% in our deployed military. Welcome to the Lyme War. These contrasting outcomes...
“I love everything in the world … except for ticks.” – The Dalai Lama American medicine has failed to prevent and treat Lyme disease in the US civilian population, and you can now get Lyme disease in all 50 states. A 10-year-old playing in his...
