Why to vote yes to Initiative 81 ?!

Patients with advanced-stage cancer suffering from treatment resistant anxiety and/or depression experienced significant reduc­tions in both anxiety and depression with improvements of mood following a single guided psilocybin treatment, with no safety concerns or clinically significant adverse events. Other studies demonstrate efficacy of other psychedelic agents to relieve anxiety and stress disorders related to end […]

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New study on intermittent fasting

Well this study is very applicable to my health as I have been following intermittent fasting for over 5 years now. In this well designed randomized trial obese patients lost more weight doing daily 16 hours intermittent fasting. However, the weight loss was small (2 lbs on average) and significant proportion (65%) of this loss […]

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PAINWeek task force released new Guidelines on Medical Cannabis for Chronic Pain

Last week during the virtual  PAINWeek meeting, the international task force shared the guidelines for dosing and administrating on medical cannabis. Allan Bell, MD, one of the members of the task force, explained that their main focus was to provide directions to clinicians. Though medical cannabis has been suggested to treat chronic pain, there is […]

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Alzheimers patients and pandemic isolation

This post is continuing with theme of Failure of US healthcare to treat older adults. Isolation for all older Adults strongly associated with increased mortality but in patients with Alzheimer’s disease it appears to be even bigger problem! Imagine that your loved one is in nursing home and you can’t visit her! She is all […]

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How medical cannabis can help you?

This article from “Washington Post” tells the story of Jackson Leyden, who started to have seizers few months after his eighth birthday, and how his parents came to a medical marijuana treatment. Though since 2016, when the article was published, medical cannabis has become more popular and more common, this article gives a basic understanding […]

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