Root Cause Medicine: The Truth About Lasting Health

One of the most lucrative and destructive lies ever sold to the public is that the symptoms we experience are the disease that needs to be treated by our medical system. Once symptoms were made synonymous with the problem to fix, the medical industry achieved a triple win. The first win is with the sale […]

Understanding Correlation and Causation: The Hidden Truths About Vaccines and Side Effects

It is not uncommon that people decide against a doctor-recommended prescription medication because they read the list of potential side effects. These are symptoms collected and reported by patients in a clinical trial conducted to get through the FDA approval process. How do we know that the medication being tested is what caused the side effects listed? Most commonly it is due to the strength of the correlation: if no study participants reported nausea prior to taking the medication, and then 20% of them reported nausea upon starting to take the medication, we all understand it is reasonable to conclude that the medication probably caused the nausea. Most people want to know what side effects have been correlated with intake of a prescribed medication.

Need a New Disease to Generate More Profits? Just Move the Goalposts

Many diseases in the US are not actually defined by symptoms we experience, but by values determined through testing. It is obvious, once you think about it for a moment, that if you narrow the “normal” range on the test, then more people will fall outside that normal range and thus will be a candidate for treatment. And, shocking to exactly no one, that treatment will likely bring billions of dollars of additional revenue into the medical machine.

First, consider osteoporosis. With a strong tendency to be diagnosed in women over the age of 50, about 1 million women are diagnosed with osteoporosis annually in the US, and another 2-3 million diagnosed with more mild bone density loss called osteopenia. And how is this diagnosed and treated?