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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 6, 2010
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 [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 6, 2010
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.
I want to share [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on February 23, 2010
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: This is so sad. Tragic also.
FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish
Farm in PA
In what used to be a free country it seems the FDA even want the Amish to stop drinking raw milk. In a total disregard for his health freedom, agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on February 21, 2010
Dr Weeks’ Comment: A great man and a dear friend has passed, yet the wake of this great scientist and physician continues to shake the medical and psychiatric community almost a year after his death..
Abram Hoffer M.D., Ph.D
Pre University
I was born on a farm in Southern Saskatchewan in 1917 in our first wooden house. My [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on February 19, 2010
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Any oncologist will tell you that while the PSA (prostate specific antigen test) is meaningless and often fatally misleading, it is the only available test for monitoring prostate cancer risk and prognosis and so…. we use it!
Patients at the Weeks Clinic are urged to consider the following tests and not just “settle [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on February 1, 2010
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real and total science in the firest place, had the marketers not gagged the investigators (see the fiasco of how the unpublished data on Paxil bordered on the criminal) the fad of SSRI medications would never have been tolerated.
Where were the “experts” on [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on January 24, 2010
Dr. Weeks’ Comment:
Only Mae West would say that too much of a good thing is wonderful.
As for cancer patients, opiates not only delay healing, but they stun the immune system too. People with bone mets who are on opiates are not being optimally served.
Here is an option to ask your doctor about: Xyrem (GHB) [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on January 22, 2010
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.
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The Antidepressant Dilemma
The latest news about antidepressants and depression is worth taking seriously
Published on [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on January 22, 2010
Dr. Weeks’ comment: shady dealings.
They don’t teach this stuff in medical school.
Psychiatrist – Charles Nemeroff – Florida
http://www.finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2010/prg012010b.pdf
failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from a pharmaceutical company… The Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) is now investigating the matter…tthe researcher from Emory who had failed [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on January 21, 2010
Plant Switches Pollinators When Caterpillars Strik
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Published: January 21, 2010
It is not a perfect situation, the relationship between coyote tobacco and hawkmoths.
Sure, the hawkmoth does a good job of pollinating the plant, Nicotiana attenuata, which grows in the Western United States and flowers at night. But the hawkmoth has this annoying habit of leaving [...]
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