Cleanses…schmeanses

Oh, the high colonic. The use of it has been attributed to increasing your health. John Harvey Kellogg of cornflakes today, of course, is said to have used them to manipulate the intestinal flora. In the late 1800s, he founded a sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan. During this time, he promoted a vegetarian diet as …

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Living with a Daily Monster

Life with a chronic illness is both exhausting and terrifying. I never know if my counts will suddenly drop and I’ll progress to AIDs or if I’ll catch a preventable disease since Karen left her devil spawn unvaccinated because of Jebus or that McCarthy hoochie and the band of idiots about Autism. It's a world …

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Just say no

Or why everyone relapses   As always, a patient presents to the ER with a dependence on prescription drugs. In the workup of the patient, I found the usual pattern with opiate prescribing. Use over time creates tolerance and starts an increased need for medication. In the current prescribing climate, we want the person to …

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