Health and Medicine

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The Technical Term for the Con Is Polypharmacy

Doctors have become no better than drug dealers on the street. Might as well go back to the 80s when drugs actually made us feel better.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Wellness

Wellness is more than mind, body, soul. We are missing a critical nod to a part of us, without which we can never be whole.

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Why Cancer, Obesity and Depression Rates Never Go Down

In our society, if you believe that the inherent design of nature is good and nourishing, that environmental toxins are real and damaging, and that balance is key (or that extremes are bad), our current health system offers nothing in the way of solutions.

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Doctors Are Upselling, Not Doctoring

At Chanel, we used to say, “Do not try to sell a customer an eye cream when they come in looking for a lipstick.” Not that there was anything wrong with selling eye cream. But there was something wrong with such a blatant effort to steer a customer to a more expensive item without addressing her needs first for the express purpose of generating a higher commission for yourself.