The Medical Journal of Australia’s badly trained puppy has left a puddle on the carpet

Yesterday, the 6minutes Newsletter, a mouthpiece for the Medical Journal of Australia and a supposed source of reliable information for Australian doctors, published an exceptionally substandard article on hormone replacement therapy for women. It is so riddled with errors, it is hard to know where to start the criticism. Here’s the link: http://www.6minutes.com.au/news/latest-news/safe-therapies-underused-in-menopausal-women Let me begin by saying that The 6minutes Newsletter publishes material that seems to have no one in charge filtering the substantive parts of the information database they mine from the accompanying…

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Newscorp rivaling Fairfax for stupid reporting on Paleo diets: and that’s difficult to do!

IN Australia, there is a concerted effort on behalf of food manufacturers to stop any references to healthy eating from reaching the public. The Paleo diet is under attack by ignorami who have no understanding whatsoever of the natural human diet that we evolved on. For over two million years modern humans have eaten a certain way: that is, until the last few centuries but particularly in the last 50 years. That way was called Paleo. Forget the variations of Paleo for the moment: it is…

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Fairfax Media, Dubious Academia and the University of Sydney

Just posted from Fairfax Media: ‘Nutritionists warn of dangers in Paleo dieting’ and the article goes on to say incredibly idiotic stuff like: ‘The Paleo diet might be heading for extinction, like the cavemen who inspired it, after the country’s leading nutrition body warned Australians that the popular eating plan is potentially dangerous.’ Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/nutritionists-warn-of-dangers-in-paleo-dieting-20140805-100iup.html#ixzz3idmGAAEa First, to call it Paleo meant that humans evolved on this diet and secondly, cave men did not die out but kept on reproducing and that is why you and…

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Medical Tribunals: revenge, ignorance and failing the public

Today, the ‘Australian Doctor’ reported on the sanction of a GP who may or may not have performed substandard medicine. I cannot judge that but I can comment on the tribunal’s attitude to the use of testosterone supplementation. Here is part of the their findings: ‘Although the tribunal described the doctor as an “intelligent, passionate man who cares deeply about his patients”, it said his “narrow view” of medicine caused him to interpret symptoms, signs and pathology reports in a way that was out of…

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Testosterone Therapy for Life

    Abraham Morgentaler, M.D., is an Associate Clinical Professor of Urology at Harvard Medical School, and is the founder of Men’s Health Boston, a center focusing on sexual and reproductive health for men.     Based on thirty years of research, Testosterone for Life covers the safest medical and natural treatments, latest scientific breakthroughs and benefits, and case studies of men who have rediscovered their zest for life. It shows the most effective, clinically proven way to reverse the effects of low testosterone and…

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