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For months, Jeopardy host Alex Trebek was plagued by stomach pain. He had no idea what was causing it.
Eventually, he went to the doctor and got a terrible diagnosis: pancreatic cancer. And it had advanced to stage 4, which is considered incurable. Median survival is only three to six months.[1]
The good news is that Trebek has already beat those odds.… Read More
Doctors didn’t know what to make of it. They had never seen it before…
The patient was peeing purple.
A 70-year-old woman had been hospitalized with a stroke. Her doctors reported that the woman’s urine “appeared purple.”
At first, the medical staff was at a loss to explain it.
Urine color is, in fact, a common diagnostic indicator. But none of the doctors had ever heard of purple urine.… Read More
Until recently, mainstream doctors often advised patients against drinking coffee.
They believed the caffeine could cause the heart to speed up and beat irregularly. That myth was finally debunked in a 2016 study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.[1]
Other recent studies have found that coffee actually improves heart health. And it also:
When it comes to prescription drugs, newer is not better.
An international panel of researchers conducted a study in which they looked at 946 new drugs approved after 2002. They concluded that 92% were less effective or worked about the same as older drugs.
Only 8% were an improvement on older drugs. Just two medications out of 946 were true breakthroughs.… Read More
Prostate cancer is so common in the U.S. that screening is a standard part of men’s checkups. In India, prostate cancer is so rare that it’s not even a concern.
American men get 23 times more prostate cancer than men in India.
The story is similar for breast cancer. American women get five times more breast cancer than women in India.… Read More
More Americans take statin drugs than any other prescription medication.
This is true even though study after study shows these cholesterol-lowering drugs have little benefit for the vast majority of people who take them. And they often cause serious side effects such as memory loss, muscle pain, and diabetes.[i]
Statins are supposed to work by lowering your “bad” LDL cholesterol.… Read More