The Big Pharma Scandal: the Drugs Don't Work.

The biggest scandal the pharmaceutical drug companies are covering up is not the expense of their drugs, nor even their side effects. The worst scandal is that the drugs don't work - and Big Pharma knows it, says Ben Goldacre.

Reboxetine is a drug I have prescribed. Other drugs had done nothing for my patient, so we wanted to try something new. I'd read the trial data before I wrote the prescription, and found only well-designed, fair tests, with overwhelmingly positive results. Reboxetine was better than a placebo, and as good as any other antidepressant in head-to-head comparisons. It's approved for use by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the MHRA), which governs all drugs in the UK. Millions of doses are prescribed every year, around the world. Reboxetine was clearly a safe and effective treatment. The patient and I discussed the evidence briefly, and agreed it was the right treatment to try next. I signed a prescription. Read more

Premature Ejaculation: Men More Concerned Than Women

A new study on premature ejaculation finds that men are actually more upset about it than women.

 ... As you may suspect, PE is fairly common, experienced by about 20 to 30 percent of men at any given time.

PE is also subject to different definitions among scientists as well as laypersons. For example, some young men – relatively inexperienced with sex and perhaps holding themselves up to standards of staying power seen only in porn – think they have PE if they can’t last 30 minutes during sex. When researchers put a time stamp on PE (and not all do), it’s often considered to be ejaculating within one or two minutes, without being able to control it. Read more

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Chocolate Shown to Prevent Strokes in Men

A daily dose of chocolate is shown to prevent strokes in men, according to a new study by Swedish researchers.

A wealth of scientific evidence continues to demonstrate the powerful health benefits of consuming a wide variety of polyphenols from natural foods. In past studies, resveratrol, curcumin and grape seed extract have been shown to help prevent cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and dementia as these amazing compounds alter genetic expression to improve cellular metabolism and improve critical biomarkers. Read more

Exercise Primally: Move, Lift, and Sprint!

Forget endless, mind-numbing cardio, says Mark Sisson. Move slowly, lift heavy things, and sprint a little to achieve primal fitness,

For as much as I emphasize the importance of food with regards to health and body composition and deemphasize the purely mechanical act of burning calories through arduous, protracted exercise, you still do have to move. You have to lift heavy things. You have to move very quickly every once in awhile. You have to stay active. These behaviors are absolutely essential to your Primal foray. So, let’s dig into Primal exercise, shall we? Enough food talk.

First off, if you haven’t downloaded a copy of Primal Blueprint Fitness, my free e-book that lays all this stuff out, go sign up for the newsletter to gain access. It’s free and you get tons of other cool freebies, so there’s really no reason not to do it. Plus, it’ll flesh out everything discussed in today’s post. Second, click on the pyramid to the right to zoom in. And we’re off… Read more

The Natural Route to Pain Relief

Tess Pennington reveals the natural route to pain relief.

Got a headache? Here, have some Tylenol!

Did you pull a muscle exercising? Motrin might help!

Pain happens, and there’s a pill for nearly every pain. But what happens if the pharmacies are closed? There are other options besides popping a pill – give these methods a try! Read more

End the Nightmare of Sleep Loss

There's a biological reason why we can still feel tired during the week even after a good weekend lie-in, says Sarah Rainey.

It’s 3.21am on Saturday. The digits on the alarm clock cast an acid-green glow over the room, and the music from the bar I left four hours earlier is still resonating in my ears. The red dot on my BlackBerry is blinking, while an unread message lights up my iPhone screen. As I twist and turn, only one thought sustains me as I yearn for sleep: at least I can have a lie-in in the morning.

Sleeping in is a guilty pleasure of the weekend. A couple of luxurious extra hours in bed to help us catch up on sleep lost during the working week is what we think we all need. But according to a new study, sleeping in doesn’t help us feel more awake. It doesn’t boost our energy levels. In fact, it has the opposite effect. It disrupts the body’s internal clock so much that just a few extra hours makes us feel even more tired than normal on Monday morning. Read more

Avoid Artificial Sweeteners

Artificial sweeteners are dangerous, and useless for weight loss, says David Brownstein, MD.

An article in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2012;96:640-6) was titled, “Low-calorie sweetener consumption is increasing in the United States.” The authors used the information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in order to report their results. Specifically they looked at the consumption of low-calorie sweeteners (LCS) during the years 1999-2000 as compared to 2007-2008. They reported that in 2007-2008, as compared to 1999-2000, the consumption of LCS increased from 6.1% to 12.5% among children and from 18.7% to 24.1% among adults. Furthermore, the increase in LCS were observed in all weight, age, socioeconomic and race-ethnicity subgroups in both children and adults. Read more