Category Archives: A New Way to Practice Medicine

The Scientific Method and Tempus Clinic; building your own biological model of your health The reason I make what may seem like almost a fetish of ‘the scientific method’ is that we have all suffered from failing to understand it … Continue reading →

If there are not hundreds there are at least dozens of newsletters and websites devoted to health advice. People are told to get their cellular telomere length assessed, to only shower with filtered water as municipal water causes cancer, the … Continue reading →

Let me explain. Occasionally a general interest newspaper will recount that some sociological or medical journal had reported that ‘believers’ live longer, worry less, have better sex lives, lower blood pressure; whatever. And by ‘whatever’ I mean you can just … Continue reading →

For an overview of the sorry history of food diaries see Gary Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories.” Read it, if for no other reason than to rehearse the details of how politics pollutes science. Argue with his conclusions if you wish … Continue reading →