Defense medicine – nasal and GI – xylitol and oral rehydration

October 11, 2014 No Comments

Common Sense Medicine looks at our body’s defenses, those functions of our body that protect us from insults in our environments. These functions have developed over the years by natural selection and are the best that are available to us. They are strongest where we are most vulnerable–at the openings to our bodies where we […]

Enterovirus D68: Something to try from America’s favorite country doctor

September 10, 2014 No Comments

The recent epidemic of enterovirus respiratory infections for which we have no means of prevention or treatment other than supportive therapy leads me to make this suggestion: try keeping your noses clean. The prototypical enterovirus is the one that causes polio so they are not to be taken lightly. And like with polio we will […]

The Problem of Antibiotic Resistance

July 26, 2014 No Comments

I am writing this from Ghost Ranch in New Mexico where I am in a group studying with John Phillip Newell about The Rebirthing of God, the title of his latest book. One of the key points in his message is the need to connect with who we are; we come from the earth, the […]

How we got started

July 18, 2014 No Comments

I studied history before I studied medicine. I learned there that people could respond to a particular challenge in a variety of ways. Medicine tends not to see that way; drugs need to be standard so the 'average' person is who gets treated, but the 'average' person doesn't exist. And our treatments are often based on the wrong [...]

Explaining our World in Terms of the Quantum Reality

March 7, 2014 No Comments

If you read anything about general science in your spare time you know that physicists are presenting a variety of models as they try to explain our world in terms of the quantum reality that is the ground of our existence; it’s not easy. Most of their models are mathematical and based on a number […]

Models, Medicine, and Our Future.

January 23, 2014 No Comments

If you read anything about general science in your spare time, you know that physicists are presenting a variety of models as they try to explain our world in terms of the quantum reality that is the ground of our existence, and it’s not easy. Most of their models are mathematical and based on a […]

Coping with Autism

January 23, 2014 No Comments

The first researchers looking into autism decided it was caused by “the refrigerator Mom”. Mothers were cold and withdrawn and didn’t give their children the love and care they needed to develop properly. The outrage of loving and caring mothers put that to rest in short order and we have gone on to look at […]

Alternative Treatment for C. Diff Infections

January 23, 2014 2 Comments

Arizona and the rest of the nation is now plagued with the gut infecting bacteria Clostridium difficile, which most know as C. diff. These bacteria used to grow in our GI tracts when our normal bacteria were damaged by too many antibiotics, but we now have a problem with this bug because it has become […]

The Crisis in Healthcare

January 23, 2014 No Comments

The Institute of Medicine was established by President Nixon in 1970. It is part of the American Academy of Sciences and its membership is taken from that prestigious group. It was formed to help find ways to make our health care system work better. More than thirty years later their report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, concludes that […]

Asthma: Its Cost, Alternatives, and Prevention

January 23, 2014 No Comments

According to the New York Times report on asthma, printed on their front page on Sunday, October 13th, this condition costs us in the U.S. about 56 billion dollars every year. That is a sizable chunk of change and a good part of it goes to the pharmaceutical companies making the drugs that allow asthmatics [...]

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