Posts belonging to Category Drug Warnings'

Reinventing the wheel

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:     Here (finally!)  is some research accomplished in 2009 which supports the clinical practice of IPT which was called quackery in 1940. It demonstrates that the IGF-1 receptor is the back door, unguarded, which we can use to bring chemo drugs preferentially into the cancer cell.   Elegant research in 2009; stupendous clinical work [...]

The Science behind IPT

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:   Back in the summer of 2002,  a very skeptical Dr. Brad Weeks  traveled to Chicago to the office of  Dr. Steven Ayre and had his world rocked!   Dr. Ayre  taught him the procedure of  IPT -insulin potentiated therapy which seemed too good (too simple, really!) to be true.
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SSRI no better than placebo.. worse actually.

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:   Old news.  Had the ’scientific” journals reported the real and total science in the firest place, had the marketers not gagged the investigators (see the fiasco of how the unpublished data on Paxil bordered on the criminal)  the fad of SSRI medications would never have been tolerated.

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Emperor SSRI has no clothes

Dr. Weeks Clinic:   Some straight thinking about the relative worthlessness (compared to placebo or exercise or vitamin B shots or even tryptophan) of SSRI antidepressants. And yet more difficulty getting straight answers about … side-effects.

The Antidepressant Dilemma

The latest news about antidepressants and depression is worth taking seriously

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Propolis and myrrh are similar – both drop choleserol

Christmas Cholesterol Epiphany:
‘Myrrh’ May Have Cholesterol-Lowering Properties
ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2009) — Laboratory experiments suggest that the resin of certain trees of the Middle East, known commonly as the “myrrh” of the Christmas story, may have cholesterol-lowering properties. Research published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health discusses the hypocholesterolemic effects of [...]

Niacin, glorious… “you’re still the one.”

Dr. Weeks Comment:  No news here.     My friend and mentor, the late and great Abram Hoffer demonstrated this important attribute of niacin (vitamin B3) in the early 1960’s. His work was ignored because, well,  because no money can be made from the selling of a naturally occurring supplement, whereas billions can be “earned” [...]

Zicam warning – as always, buyer beware!

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:   Pharmaceutical, patented drugs are designed to be effective at reducing symptoms. They do so, universally, by poisoning an enzyme process or disrupting normal metabolism.  In contrast, corrective medicine,  well,   it works by correcting those biochemical functions which are not working optimally, and health is restored. In corrective medicine with “fix” people with [...]

SSRI drug company fined more than $1 billion.

Dr. Weeks’ Comment:   Let’s review – A medical doctor is a doctor of   “medicine”  (just as a juris doctor is a doctor or teacher or law,  and a doctor of philosophy teaches philosophy).   Medical doctors are not trained in aspects of health, nutrition, lifestyle modification or elegant management of  mental or spiritual aspects of life.  [...]

You want some Co Q 10 with that statin?

Dr. Weeks Comment:   In 1989 the patent (see below) was filed which demonstrated the importance of never prescribing a statin drug without also prescribing Co Q 10.   So, tell me, why didn’t your your doctor tell you to take Co Q 10 when he or she was handing out statin drugs like candy?
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Niacin beats statin drug – head to head. Cheaper and more effective and safer!

Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Watch out America. The FDA is about to take away your niacin.  This vitamin B3, famous for its “flush” was  championed by Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D. Ph.D.   1917-2009 in the treatment of people suffering with hallucinations and delusions (adrenochrome toxicity treated with niacin) and also in the treatment of vascular diseases (heart [...]