In the not too distant past, before sophisticated brain imaging tests became available, it was the job of the neuropsychologist to assess brain function and brain damage based upon an array of cognitive and behavioral tests. These tests measured the functional capacity of different brain regions. They were entirely behavioral and performance based and could, […]
Why Publish Another Case?Just last week, we published a case of classic beriberi in a 23 year old man, and now, yet another case comes to our attention. Most in the medical profession are under the false impression that beriberi, thiamine deficiency, has been eradicated in Western cultures. It has not. In fact, a number […]
Together with Dr. Lonsdale, I am proud to announce the release of our new book: Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia, and High Calorie Malnutrition.If you have followed our blog, Hormones Matter, for any amount of time, you’ll know that we spend a lot time writing about mitochondrial distress. Mitochondria are the engines that fuel our cells […]
A desperate mother sent me an email about her 23-year-old son and it was easy to recognize that this young man had full-blown beriberi. You may or may not know that beriberi is well known as a vitamin B1 deficiency disease. Because the medical profession is convinced that this disease never occurs in America, it […]
For years I have struggled to get people to understand the relative simplicity of what causes us to get sick. Our medical model implies that each disease has a specific cause, and therefore, has a specific treatment. If you look seriously at what makes us tick, there are several obvious factors involved. Yes, we are […]
Thiamin(e), vitamin B1, is spelled with and without an ‘e’. Originally thought to be an amine, the ‘e’ was dropped when the formula became known, but the spelling using the ‘e’ is still used in many texts and across the internet. We spell it with the ‘e’ on this site because of the enhanced search […]
One of the things I most love about social media and health research is the opportunity to identify patterns of illness across different patient groups. Here is an example of finding research from one patient group, ThyroidChange, that likely spans many others (Gardasil injured, post Lupron Hashimoto’s, and Fluoroquinolone reactions – to name but a […]
What is Energy?Energy is an invisible force. The aggregate of energy in any physical system is a constant quantity, transformable in countless ways but never increased or diminished. In the human body, chemical energy is produced by the combination of oxygen with glucose. This reaction is known as oxidation. The chemical energy is transduced to […]