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Medical Ethics, Misinformation, & Personal Choice

Medical Ethics, Misinformation, & Personal Choice Contents I. Informed Consent II. The Misinformation Problem: From Every Direction III. The Vaccine Question IV. Where Autonomy Meets Others V. Navigating It as a Person VI. Bring It All Home VII. Cross-Links Where rigorous thinking, personal autonomy, and responsibility meet. Everything so far has been building toward a […]

Alternative & Integrative Medicine

Alternative & Integrative Medicine Contents I. Why the Alternative World Is So Appealing II. It Is Also an Industry III. What Works, What Is Placebo, What Harms IV. Why “But It Worked for Me” Is Not Enough V. Integrative and Functional Medicine: Reading the Label VI. How to Evaluate Any Alternative Therapy or Supplement VII. […]

Pharmaceuticals & the Profit Model

Pharmaceuticals & the Profit Model Contents I. How the Money Works II. What the Incentives Produce III. When the Incentive Turns Deadly IV. Why the Fines Don’t Stop It V. Holding the Balance VI. Reading a Drug’s Claims VII. Pulling It Together VIII. Cross-Links What changes when healing becomes a business, and how to read […]

Diagnostics & Systems Navigation

Diagnostics & Systems Navigation Contents I. You Are the Expert on Your Own Body II. Asking the Right Questions III. What a Test Can and Cannot Tell You IV. More Testing Is Not Always Better V. Navigating the System Itself VI. Putting It Together VII. Cross-Links How to work with the medical system as a […]

The Role of Modern Medicine

The Role of Modern Medicine What It Gets Right Contents I. What Medicine is Great At II. What Makes Us Healthier? III. Matching the Tool For the Job IV. The Red Lines V. Pulling It Together VI. Cross-Links Before this section examines what is wrong with the medical and pharmaceutical industries, it has to be […]

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Outlive The Science and Art of Longevity Author: Peter Attia, MD Topics: Health, medicine, longevity, exercise, nutrition, mental health All information is attributed to the author. Except in the case where we may have misunderstood a concept and summarized incorrectly. These notes are only for reference and we always suggest reading from the original source. […]

Our Technological History

Our Technological History Contents I. Capturing External Energy II. Domestication: Engines of Flesh III. The Mixed Blessing of Agriculture IV. The Collective Brain V. Harnessing the Elements VI. The Energy Economy, and the Nine-Ton Human VII. The Delayed Consequences VIII. Building a Better Zoo IX. What We Do Not Know X. The Takeaway XI. Cross-Links  […]

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer Author: Thomas Seyfried Topics: Nutrition, physiology, fasting, ketogenic diet cancer, mitochondria All information is attributed to the author. Except in the case where we may have misunderstood a concept and summarized it incorrectly. These notes are only for reference, and we always […]

Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To

Lifespan Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To Author: David Sinclair Topics: Longevity, cancer All information is attributed to the author. Except in the case where we may have misunderstood a concept and summarized incorrectly. These notes are only for reference and we always suggest reading from the original source. Contents Part I: […]