Medical Library
76 evidence-based articles + 10 holistic-medicine book reviews — in each of the 3 languages. Endocrinology, metabolism, nutraceuticals, anti-aging. Scientific perspective without populism.
Diabetes & Remission
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500+ Patients in Remission: What Standard Medicine Gets Wrong About Type 2 Diabetes
She was 54, had lived with diabetes for 11 years, and was on four medications. They told her the disease was progressive…
Can Type 2 Diabetes Be Cured? A Scientific Look at Remission
"Can type 2 diabetes be cured?" — millions of people ask this question worldwide. Conventional medicine says no, only ma…
Insulin Resistance: Why It's the Real Cause of Type 2 Diabetes
High blood sugar is a symptom, not the cause. The real problem is insulin resistance. While you fight symptoms, the dise…
Endocrinology
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Hyperprolactinemia and Dopamine: Why It Is Not About a Pituitary Tumor
When labs show elevated prolactin, women are often sent for pituitary MRI under the assumption of a prolactinoma. But in…
Cortisol and Adrenal Health: Why 'Adrenal Fatigue' Isn't a Diagnosis but a Real Problem
The term "adrenal fatigue" dominates integrative medicine discussions, yet it has never been recognized as a legitimate …
Testosterone in Men Over 40: When TRT Is Truly Necessary
After age 40, testosterone declines by 1-2% annually. But age-related decline is not always benign. We examine when TRT …
Metabolism & Weight
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Obesogens: Why Diet and Exercise Are Not Enough. Book Review: Blumberg "The Obesogen Effect"
The obesity pandemic cannot be explained by "eat less, move more" alone. Professor Bruce Blumberg of UC Irvine coined th…
Ozempic and GLP-1 Agonists: The Dark Side of "Miracle Weight Loss Injections"
GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic have been hailed as miracle weight loss drugs. But behind the dramatic before-and-a…
Thyroid
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Low-dose naltrexone (LDN) in Hashimoto thyroiditis: mechanism, dosing, protocol
Naltrexone at 1.5–4.5 mg/day (10 times lower than addiction-medicine dosing) ceases to act primarily as an antagonist an…
T4 → T3 Conversion: Where Deiodinase Fails and What Functional Hypothyroidism Is
Thyroxine (T4) is a prohormone; the active hormonal form is triiodothyronine (T3). The D1/D2 deiodinase enzyme in the li…
OCPs and Thyroid: Why "Levothyroxine Just in Case" Is Iatrogenesis
L-thyroxine + OCPs to a young woman "just in case" — this is not treatment, it is intervention into the endocrine axis w…
Supplements & Nutraceuticals
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Cordyceps: Why Wild Himalayan and Lab-Grown Are Two Different Products
Cordyceps supplements have surged in popularity, but wild Himalayan cordyceps and lab-grown varieties are fundamentally …
CBD Oil: Evidence-Based Benefits for Pain, Anxiety, and Neuroinflammation
Cannabidiol (CBD) — the non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid from Cannabis sativa — has become one of the most researched m…
Berberine vs Metformin: A Doctor's Evidence-Based Comparison for Type 2 Diabetes
Berberine has been called "nature's metformin" — but how does it actually compare? As a physician who has used both in c…
Anti-Aging
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Spontaneous Remissions: Anomaly or Unstudied Mechanism? Alexander (Cureus, 2025) and RRMI
Medicine calls it an anomaly. But the data says otherwise. 60 documented cases of radical remission — unexpected recover…
NAD+ and Cellular Aging: What's Behind the Hype
NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) is a central coenzyme of energy metabolism whose levels decline by roughly 50% …
Diagnostics
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CGM Sensors: How Real-Time Glucose Monitoring Is Changing Diabetes Treatment
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has revolutionized diabetes management by providing real-time data instead of isolat…
HOMA-IR: The Blood Test Your Doctor Isn't Ordering (But Should Be)
Your doctor measures fasting glucose and HbA1c but never orders fasting insulin or calculates HOMA-IR. That's like check…
Neurology
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Migraine: Accurate Diagnosis and Treatment Beyond Painkillers
Migraine is not "just a headache." It is a neurovascular disease affecting 12% of the population. Standard painkiller tr…
Nootropics: What Actually Works for the Brain According to Science
The nootropics market is valued at $6 billion and growing at 15% annually. But which of the hundreds of "smart drugs" ar…
Insomnia: GABA, Glycine, Magnesium — The Perfect Sleep Formula
Chronic insomnia affects 10-15% of adults and is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabet…
Cardiology
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Endothelium: The Foundation of Vascular Health and a 20-Year Window of Reversibility
The endothelium is not a passive lining of the vessel but the body’s largest endocrine organ: 1.5 kg, 4,000 m², an area …
Trans Fats and the Heart: Molecules Without a Safe Dose and the Inflammatory Cascade
Trans fats are the only dietary nutrient for which the WHO officially recommends zero. Every additional 2% of energy fro…
6 Early Markers of Cardiovascular Risk: 10–15 Years Before a Heart Attack
The standard lipid panel (total cholesterol, LDL-C, HDL-C, triglycerides) was developed 60 years ago for screening large…
Gastroenterology
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Hepatoprotectors: a myth of post-Soviet pharmacology — what really helps the liver
The category of “hepatoprotectors” — Essentiale, Heptral, Carsil, Hofitol — is a commercial phenomenon of the post-Sovie…
ALT Without Symptoms: Silent Liver Diseases That “Normal” Tests Miss
The liver suffers silently. Pain appears only when the capsule is stretched or fibrosis has progressed to cirrhosis. Blo…
Gallbladder, cholestasis, and the sphincter of Oddi: when bile does not flow
Cholestasis and biliary sludge are common but underdiagnosed causes of right upper quadrant heaviness, nausea after fatt…
Book Reviews
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Outlive — Peter Attia: three ideas that reshape the approach to longevity
Peter Attia, a physician and longevity researcher, reframes what "treating" means in his book "Outlive" (2023). Three ke…
The Hormone Cure — Sara Gottfried: cortisol, thyroid, and estrogen dominance
Sara Gottfried, a Harvard-trained gynaecologist, formulates three theses in "The Hormone Cure" (2013) that have reshaped…
Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker: four phases, sleep debt and brain clearance
Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley, formulates three ideas in "Why We Sleep" (2017): the four phases of sle…