Pesticides are everywhere; surely someone must have tested them and shown them to be safe for human exposure? Surely, they aren’t linked to brain damage in children? If you’re convinced by that reasoning, read no further—and miss how a study linked an organophosphate pesticide, chlorpyrifos, to “measurable differences in brain structure, along with reduced motor…
As mold toxicity becomes more and more recognized as a legitimate medical malady, more and more providers are trying to treat it- with some success. We are thankful for this recognition and the fact that more sufferers are being freed from their prison of an invisible diagnosis, but I have some words of wisdom for…
With the growing epidemic of mental health diagnoses in our current world, much research is going into answering the how’s, why’s and what’s of stress. We not only want to understand how stress impacts our mental health, but what to do about it. In our clinic, we deal with the impact of stress on our…
Children with Post COVID After Round Two In caring for anyone with COVID, we have to keep our eyes open and our minds alert for both acute issues and chronic post-COVID issues. This study heightens our concern for repeated bouts of COVID in children because of the increasing the risk of post-COVID symptoms. While we…
The Mouth Brain Axis While we may all recognize a connection between our mouths, our brains, and what comes out of the two, this study suggests a two-way street in which mouth disease may adversely affect brain health. We all know that our mouths can get us in trouble by inflammatory words, but apparently physical…
When Vitamin D Gets an F In Immunity These days, visiting a health food store, online or in person, can feel like walking down the Las Vegas strip, what with all the glitzy claims and promises of miraculous health. After all the flashy advertising, our patients have questions, even about old favorites like vitamin D. …
A New Pathway for Autism Therapy In the ongoing story of autism, researchers may have discovered a brain area which plays a key role in the outworking of autism as well as its connection with higher rates of epilepsy. Learning of such novel mechanisms for autism pathology can be as exciting as reading a well-written…
Parents across the globe have stared down their fussy eating children over mealtimes for centuries and over those centuries those same parents have often been blamed for their children’s frustrating eating habits. Many parents have even doubted their own parental abilities when their children fought against broadening their diet beyond a short list of tastes…
The word “addiction” brings up images of crack pipes, alcohol bottles, lottery tickets and other sickly fascinations, but the bigger issue may be the number of people addicted to ultra-processed foods. Consider: while drugs, gambling, and other unsavory addictions definitely harm those trapped in them, this study estimates 21% of Generation X women have a…
Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days, but this article may cause some rage of its own. In this study, researchers tested a type of AI called a Large Language Model on different medical ethics cases. When tweaks were made to some of these cases, the AI defaulted to intuitive answers rather than taking…