The Internet Can Help You Solve Medical Mysteries
There are now medical detective sites on the internet where you can get assistance with a hard to solve medical situation or you can get a second opinion.

CrowdMed.com is a site that you plug in your symptoms, history and test results. A team of health care experts will analyze your situation. The cost starts at $99.

PatientsLikeMe.com has you connecting with fellow patients for advice on symptoms and treatments. While the service is free, the company can sell your disease data, but not your personal information.

CureCrowd.com gives you feedback on the most and least effective treatments for a variety of conditions. The site is free.

(Reported AARP The Magazine)  

Ways To Treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

While Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has a wide array of symptoms and is very difficult to diagnoses, the most common symptom is overwhelming exhaustion. It’s been estimated that 1 to 2.5 million people in the country have CFS and about 90% of the cases are undiagnosed. In addition, the disease affects women twice as often as men and the age range when CFS strikes is between 40 and 60 years old.

Symptoms of the disease worsen after physical, mental or emotional exertion. The medically approved treatment of physical activity and cognitive-behavioral therapy has recently been discredited. According to Dr. Andrew Weil there are some natural options you can experiment with to reduce your symptoms of CFS, such as, ginseng or a tonic made from Cordyceps mushrooms. He also recommends taking coenzyme Q10, eating 2 cloves of raw garlic a day and taking astragalus.

Other options include: doing 20-minutes of isometric yoga and meditation; drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day; and going to bed and waking at consistent time.

(Reported Prevention.com, January 2018)  

An Option For Getting A Colonoscopy

Let’s talk down and dirty. It’s not great fun having to go through the preparation for a colonoscopy, as well as having to be sedated for the procedure. While colonoscopies are 90% accurate in detecting cancers, there’s a new test that has a 92% level of accuracy. It’s call Cologuard and it requires no prep plus you can do it at home. You simply take a sample of a bowel movement and mail it to the lab for analysis. The lab is looking for both blood and cancer related DNA in the stool.

The cost is covered by Medicare and some insurers cover it. The only negative is that the test needs to be done every three years verse every 10 years for a colonoscopy. Since it’s been estimated that there are 23 million adults who have not been screened, this will give them a much easier alternative to a colonoscopy. So…forget the adage no pain, no gain (even though it is usually applied to sports) and get your insides checked out the easy way.

(Reported AARP The Magazine)  

Our Ears Are More Accurate Identifying Emotional States Than Our Eyes

When we look at a person, we will tend to analyze what we see to determine their emotional – how they are feeling. It turns out that your ears may be better at discerning a person’s emotional state than your eyes. Researchers at Yale University conducted five experiments and discovered that people who listened to what others said and how they said it were better able to recognize the speaker’s emotional state. So…saying “would you mind repeating that” may help you understand what is going on inside another person.
(Reported Prevention.com January 2018)  

A New Way To Learn Subconsciously

There’s a new way to learn that could help you master complex manual skills without even trying. It’s called passive haptic learning and it combines using wearable computers coupled with your sense of touch. In this study the participants were playing online games while they wore a pair of Google Glasses that were programmed to deliver audio signals of words spelled out in Morse code. In addition, half the participant’s glasses were equipped with a built-in, bone-conduction transducer that simultaneous delivers taps behind the right ear. After each hour-long session, they were asked to tap out letters in Morse code. At the end of four session, they were asked to tap out a sentence that used the entire alphabet in Morse code.

The group that received only the audio signals were only about 47% accurate in typing out the sentence, while the group who received both the audio signal and the tap behind the ear had a 94% accuracy level. Similar results were achieved by participants that used tactile gloves which delivered vibrations to the fingertips to teach piano and Braille. So…we may be moving into a new way of learning – tap that!

(Reported Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology)  

The Influence Of Drug Companies Goes Far And Wide
The drug companies influence on our health care system impacts all areas of our lives and health. It’s hard to get independent reporting on the negative impact of drugs when drug company representatives sit on the board of major media companies, such as, The New York Times which has had on its Board Schering-Plough and Eli Lilly affiliates while The Washington Post had Johnson & Johnson.

Another example relates to the military. Over a nine-year period, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spent $717 on a drug called risperidone to treat PTSD in troops. This drug worked no better than a placebo. Matthew Friedman, former executive director of the VA’s National Center for PTSD, admitted to receiving money from the drug company AstraZeneca.

The Center for Disease Control also receives millions of dollars from the drug industry in gifts and funding which raises questions about the CDC’s impartial judgment on the benefits of drugs that it is approving.

Finally, even when a drug is pulled from the market because of the discovery of doctored test results or the reporting of negative outcomes, the original research reports in the, journals is not pulled or noted to be false. This means that new researchers are continuing to cite a bogus study.
(Reported Mercola.com 12/27/27)  

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