Psychedelics for weight loss or weight management? How about for fighting our growing rates of obesity? One researcher studying it thinks it might be possible. There is a renewed interest in how psychedelics might be used to treat and/or prevent various health ailments. It’s getting less and less taboo to talk about the health benefits […]
What is the public health equilibrium? It’s a term I coined to describe the balancing act that is public health, which I’ll describe in this blog. This is my perception, vision, thinking and not anyone I work for or consult for. This blog was inspired by one of my recent tweets: I don’t think the […]
Is there an emerging epidemic of cancer in young people? Some research suggests there is. When you consider the possibility of this along with rising rates of obesity and related chronic issues, it’s quite concerning. Not only will young people’s lives be cut short, in years, quality or both, but trying to pay for healthcare […]
Running with Headlines & Headline Science Troubles: For today’s musings in scicomms…What’s in a headline? And what do we do with headlines? To explain, let me share a Running with Headlines experience that happened: I recently had Dr. Shuji Ogino (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School) on my Causes or Cures podcast to […]
Celebrate Lost Loved Ones Map: Mapping our way out of the Opioid Epidemic: Hey there. The opioid epidemic is still raging, and people are still dying as a result. Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic made it worse. The opioid epidemic is the biggest health disinformation campaigns in my lifetime. It was fueled by a cartel…though not […]
The Risk Factors for Colon Cancer: Hey everyone! As you know I like to feature a lot of prevention-related topics on the Causes or Cures Podcast, mainly because the US does a horrible job at preventing disease. It feels like we are always responding to a “too late” health crisis versus investing in preventing the […]
This blog will focus on Credentialism and the Ant-Credential Movement in the realm of scientific discourse, but first, a quick joke: So, what is credentialism? Essentially, it’s equating someone’s degrees and diplomas with his/her intelligence, capacity to do a job, and capacity to understand a particular topic. While traditionally it has been discussed in […]
Dr. Mark Mattson on Intermitent Fasting and his new book: A Causes or Cures Podcast Hey everyone, hope you’re all doing okay. I invite you to check out my latest Causes or Cures Podcast with Neuroscientist Dr. Mark Mattson. He is a repeat guest on Causes or Cures, having come on in 2019, when […]
The first real-time prediction of COVID Vaccines has been created by a team of researchers in Hong Kong. I was lucky to talk to one of the lead researchers, Professor Maggie Wang, on my Causes or Cures Podcast. Obviously, durability of COVID vaccines and how well they work against, what seems like, an endless army […]
You might have heard someone mention a nasal spray for COVID. I’ve heard people talk about it here and there, though not in much detail. Lucky for me and my podcast listeners, DR. Hector Aguilar-Carreno came on Causes or Cures to discuss his and his team’s research on a nasal spray for COVID. His and […]
Even if you reside under a rock, you’ve heard about the problem of online misinformation. While discussions around online misinformation went mainstream during the 2016 presidential election, they exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least for scientific misinformation, which is a reminder that we now have categories of misinformation…political, scientific, health…as if there is […]
An unusual monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria started in 2017 after the country hadn’t see a human case in40 years and is ongoing till this day. Unfortunately, it wasn’t discussed (or even referenced) in the mainstream media until now, 2022, when the outbreak spilled over into the wealthy countries. While conspiracy theories, anxiety-inducing headlines and panic […]