The Unreliable TSH Lab Test by Jeffrey Dach MD This article is part one of a series, click here for part two, and click here for part three. A Woman with Low Thyroid Condition Suzy is a 59 year old post menopausal woman with low thyroid function. About three months ago, she started her bio-identical […]
Risk Factors For Breast Cancer Wrong Again
Risk Factors For Breast Cancer, Wrong Again Ignoring the Environmental Cause by Jeffrey Dach MD An article appeared in the San Fransisco Chronical entitled, “Risk Factors of Breast Cancer – How to Reduce Them” by Dr. Nima Grissom breast surgeon. Breast cancer rates are Twenty Per Cent Higher in the San Fransisco Bay Area, and […]
Great Women in Medicine Rachel Carson
Great Women in Medicine Rachel Carson by Jeffrey Dach MD Although Rachel Carson was a marine biologist, I believe she deserves recognition as one of the “Great Women In Medicine” . I will explain why. Her landmark book, “Silent Spring”, is credited with motivating the government to create the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and […]
Great Women in Medicine Elizabeth Kenny
Great Women in Medicine, Sister Elizabeth Kenny by Jeffrey Dach MD During the polio epidemic of the 1940’s, mainstream treatment of flaccid paralysis by orthopedic surgeons involved tendon transplant, after which the limb was immobilized and placed in a cast for many months. This was described in the 1913 Journal of Orthopedic surgery here. Sister […]
Selenium and Thyroid More Good News
Selenium and the Thyroid, More Good News from Mainstream Medicine by Jeffrey Dach MD A Feb 2013 article in Clinical Endocrinology declares “More Good News!!” on Selenium and the Thyroid.(1) They go on to state, “In patients with Hashimoto’s disease and in pregnant women with anti-TPO antibodies, selenium supplementation decreases anti-thyroid antibody levels and improves […]
Attention Deficit Disorder Exposed as Drug Marketing Ploy
A Patient on ADD ADHD Drugs and Anovulation: Case Study Nancy is recently married at the age of 24 and she would like to start a family. Nancy came to see me in the office because she has not had a normal menstrual period in a year. A health professional friend of the family familiar […]
Saying Thank You for a Trillion Cells
Saying Thank You for a Trillion Cells by Jeffrey Dach MD I was sitting at my desk chatting with a patient as I usually do discussing the trillion cells in our body, and what they look like under the microscope. And it occurred to me that we live our lives having no idea what these […]
My Vitamins Are Killing Me Part Two
My Vitamins Are Killing Me Part Two by Jeffrey Dach MD For Part One Click Here. Every year or so, we are can expect an orchestrated media blitz funded by the drug industry to convince us that vitamin supplements are bad for us. They whisper in our ear the message that our lowly vitamin pill […]
Remission from Crohns Disease with Low Dose Naltrexone LDN
A Case of Remission from Crohns Disease with Low Dose Naltrexone LDN by Jeffrey Dach MD Tom came into my office about 6 months ago. He is a 32 year old male with a long history of inflammatory bowel disease. He has been evaluated and treated by many gasteroenterologists over the years, and was told he […]
Antacids Associated With B12 Deficiency
Antacids Associated With B12 Deficiency in New Study by Jeffrey Dach MD A new study from Kaiser Health published in JAMA showed that use of a PPI (proton pump inhibitor) antacid is strongly associated with B12 deficiency..(1) This has been known for many years. We need gastric acid in order to absorb vitamin B12, so […]
Testosterone and the Stock Market Mania
Testosterone and the Stock Market Mania by Jeffrey Dach MD Could the stock market boom and bust cycles be caused by raging hormone levels that surge out of control ? A stock trader turned neuroscientist studied hormone levels on Wall Street and found that profits made was determined by high testosterone levels starting off in […]
Modern Medicine, Organized Crime and Peter Gotzsche
Modern Medicine, Another Form of Organized Crime by Jeffrey Dach MD See the video presentation below by Dr. Peter Gotzsche on how modern medicine has become an organized crime syndicate.. Dr. Peter C Gøtzsche is an internist MD in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also a University professor and Director of The Nordic Cochrane Centre. A […]
Heading Towards Extinction with GMO Food
Heading Towards Extinction with GMO Food by Jeffrey Dach MD Gary Null has done a great service with his film on GMO Food which brings awareness to the health threats of Genetic Engineered Food, a topic for which the population is oblivious. According to Bruce Lipton PhD, we are heading towards extinction as a human […]
Anne Wojcicki Founder of 23andMe in Battle With FDA
Anne Wojcicki, Founder of 23andMe, in Battle With FDA by Jeffrey Dach MD Anne Wojcicki, founder of the online genetic testing service 23andMe. is now in a tooth and nail battle with the FDA. It was announced that the company received a warning letter from the FDA demanding they cease marketing their home genetic testing […]
More Misinformation on Bioidentical Hormones
More Misinformation on Bioidentical Hormones by Jeffrey Dach MD CBS News says that Bioidenticals are no safer than other hormone replacement therapy. This is incorrect, they are actually safer. Recently, CBS News did an interview with Dr. Christina Matera entitled, “Bioidenticals no safer than other hormone replacement therapy” Although Dr Matera managed to get some […]
Environmental Pollution Found in Newborns
Is Your Baby Toxic from Environmental Pollution? by Jeffrey Dach MD There is alarming news from the University of California about toxic chemicals in virtually all pregnant women. Tracey Woodruff found 163 different chemicals in pregnant women including banned Flame Retardants and DDT. A previous 2004 study showed 287 toxic chemicals in babies cord blood […]
Twenty Five Things About Natural Medicine
Counting Twenty Five Things About Natural Medicine by Jeffrey Dach MD 1) We all need extra vitamin C because of a genetic mutation in the GLO gene in human ancestry 40 million years ago. Animals have a working copy of the gene, and make their own vitamin C from Glucose. We cannot. 2) After age 50 vitamin […]
Vitamin B6 Pyridoxine for Trigger Finger
Vitamin B6, Pyridoxine for Trigger Finger and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Jeffrey Dach, MD Jim is a 46 year old retired New York policeman who uses power tools to repair his house. His problem is chronic pain at the base of the thumb and wrist. The pain worsens with use of the hand, making it […]
Selenium Toxicity Diagnosed by Dr. House
The Case for Selenium, Part Two by Jeffrey Dach MD Selenium Toxicity Diagnosed by Dr. Gregory House Selenium Toxicity from consumption of Brazil Nuts, selenosis, was “reported” on an episode of Dr. House, a medical TV show that often takes artistic liberties to enhance entertainment value. Not Really In reality, there has never been a […]
New Statin Guidelines, Not Everyone is Enthusiastic
New Statin Guidelines, Not Everyone is Enthusiastic by Jeffrey Dach MD On Tuesday, The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology changed the guidelines giving even more people statin drugs. The new Guidelines increases the number of healthy people to be placed on statins by 70%..(1) OpEd in the New York TImes Two […]