The Perils of Diagnostic Overshadowing
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Diagnostic overshadowing is a phrase used to describe a cognitive bias employed by many practitioners. It assumes that all of a patient’s
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Virginia Woolf, an English writer who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness narration, was a tremendous diarist. Her diaries and her
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The Great Lyme Explosion
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Ever since I learned about connections between trehalose, the synthetic sugar now pumped into all food products (Figure 1.), and virulent infections,
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Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs): We’re ALL at Risk
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I’m lying in my bed, with my arms and legs straight out. I figured out pretty fast that any stress whatsoever on
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A healthy blood-brain barrier is necessary for keeping unwanted molecules and cells from entering into the brain from the bloodstream. Without a healthy
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Maple Syrup Urine Disease at 52 Years of Age
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There are some rare diseases that appear at birth known as inborn errors of metabolism. Their symptoms are nonspecific in most cases
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Throughout the past few years, I have been prescribing thiamine more and more often for individuals with a range of different health
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Gastrointestinal Disease and Thiamine
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The gastrointestinal (GI) tract, long thought to be specific only to the process of digestion, starts at the mouth and ends at
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