In the late 1870s, something very strange happened to the French-Canadians lumberjacks in Moosehead Lake, Maine. When startled, they would jump in the air, imitate those around them, and even obey random commands. This was the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine disorder. American neurologist William Beard found that the disorder began in childhood, was familial, rarely …
Dr. J Compton Burnett was trained as a MD in Vienna Austria in 1865. On hearing remarkable claims of cures made by homeopaths he set out to disprove them. In the late 1800’s when children came down with a fever they were admitted to a ward for observation. Once they developed localized inflammations, catarrhs, measles, …
Our intestinal tract is the largest organ of our body and, according to some, is the most important. This digestive organ or ‘lawn’ contains roughly 10,000 square feet of surface area similar to a football field in size. Seventy percent of our immune system emanates from the bowel and Peyer’s patches. These are lymphoid bodies …
Your birth order has a subtle influence on your tendency to exhibit a variety of characteristics. For example the first born tends to be more a conventional leader and cautious while later siblings unconventional and revolutionary, and risk takers. The first born has a higher IQ than subsequent siblings. When it comes to stature the …
New research suggest that the ability to balance on 1 leg may tell us more about a person’s brain health and risk of stroke. Struggling to stand on 1 leg for less than 20 seconds was associated with a higher risk of stroke, small blood vessel damage in the brain, and reduced cognitive function in …
Danish farmer Ib Borup Pedersen and his family have been raising pigs since 1959. It was only after he switch his feed to Monsanto’s GMO feed – which had been grown with glyphosate – that he became alarmed at the growing incidence of malformation among his newborn piglets. Deformities include gaps in piglets’ skulls, deformed …
Oxytocin is a hormone that increases after a woman gives birth to a child. Oxytocin is also seen to increase in animals after they give birth. Which is why oxytocin has always been perceived to be a “bonding hormone”. Simply put, if mommy gives birth to baby, oxytocin increases so that mommy bonds with baby …
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The last several weeks with the measles “epidemic” in the news there has been increased social pressures on those parents who have chosen not to immunize their children. This social pressure has even come to bear on presidential candidate and medical doctor Rand Paul who at the top of the week said that he had …
Recently, I had a patient who had undergone a hysterectomy and while the surgeon was in there he removed her appendix to eliminate the chance that she might have an appendicitis. Ever since man began dissecting human bodies, they have been puzzled as to what purpose if any the appendix has. Charles Darwin felt that …