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Nature continues to put drugs to shame, yet why has no one heard of this research?
In Part 1, honey beat a steroid fourteen-fold for chronic cough, turmeric stopped prediabetes in 100% of trial participants, and saffron ran even with Prozac. The response told us something: people are hungry for the studies nobody puts in a press release.
So for Part 2, we went back into the archive — 455,000 studies, hand-mapped since 2008 — and pulled ten more. This time we went after the drugs people take every day: the antibiotic for recurrent UTIs, the beta-blocker for blood pressure, the Alzheimer’s blockbuster, the stimulant given to millions of children, the benzodiazepine for sleep, and the antidepressants tens of millions of people take every morning.
Same rules as Part 1. Every study is a human trial. Every one is indexed in our database. Every one links to the long-form article or abstract so you can check the work yourself.
And the same caveat: this is research information, not medical advice. Some of these trials are large and well designed — the St. John’s wort meta-analysis covers 27 trials and 3,808 patients; the mindfulness trial ran in The Lancet. Others are smaller or single studies. I’ve given you the design and the numbers for each so you can weigh them. Never stop a prescribed medication without your practitioner.
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How the companies that pay for the trials end up writing the rules your doctor must follow, from the Xigris scandal to ivermectin, and why getting caught never stops them.
https://open.substack.com/pub/pierrekory/p/medical-guidelines-are-not-guardrails


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From a friend on Facebook:
Birth control is one of the most common gateway drugs into psychiatry for young women.
I see the pattern over and over. She starts the pill or an IUD. Months later she’s anxious, irritable or depressed. Nobody connects the dots, so she gets a diagnosis and a psych med while the hormones keep destabilizing her mood.
A Danish study followed over 1 million women. Every hormonal method raised the risk of ending up on an antidepressant, and for teens on the hormonal IUD that
(Part Two of my reporting on the resurgence in hormone replacement therapy. Part One, on the 2002 findings of the Women’s Health Initiative, is here.)
Let’s get this part out of the way first.
Garnet Anderson is a woman.
And in menopause.
And a University of Washington professor and the lead author on the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative paper that reported estrogen-progesterone hormone replacement therapy carries increased risks of heart attacks and breast cancer.
Let’s get this out of the way second: Anderson does NOT want to pull hormone replacement therapy from the market.
She does not minimize menopause symptoms or the reality that hormone therapy treats them for many women. When I emailed her to ask her what she thought of the recent HRT resurgence and the attacks on her 2002 paper, she answered:
We all acknowledge that they [hormone therapies] are quite effective for [menopausal symptoms]. There was no reason to test hormone therapy for menopause.
What was the point of the WHI research, then? As Anderson explained, the National Institutes of Health funded the study to see if hormone replacement therapy could reduce cardiovascular disease in women:
We were simply trying to develop high-quality data to support (or refute) that claim, since the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] had refused to approve the heart disease indication based on the observational data. As surprising as it was to all of us, the WHI data revealed that hormone therapy effects are inconsistent with disease prevention…
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-lead-author-of-the-jamawomens
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second, is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Marcus Aurelius – Roman Emperor and Philosopher (121 – 180)

The Milky Way galaxy travels through space at 600 kilometers per second relative to the cosmic microwave background, pulled along by the immense gravitational forces of massive structures like the Great Attractor. As it makes this high-speed journey, its outer stellar disk does not sit perfectly flat; instead, it undergoes a slow, wave-like vertical oscillation where stars and gas ripple up and down. This warped, vibrating motion across opposite sides of the disk closely resembles a giant butterfly flapping its wings, a cosmic distortion that scientists believe is triggered by ongoing gravitational tugs from nearby satellite galaxies and invisible halos of dark matter.
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