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By Guy McCardle, on February 15th, 2012

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If you are anything like me, you love bacon. I’m fixin’ to become a member of the bacon of the month club, that’s how much I love it. If you are nothing like me, you could be a vegetarian. If you are a vegetarian, statistically [...]

February 15th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Health, Podcast | One comment | Edit this post
By Guy McCardle, on January 30th, 2012

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Disclaimer:  You are about to read a shampoo article written by a bald man.  That doesn’t invalidate anything I have to day, I’m just letting you know in the name of full disclosure.  Heaven forbid someone gets upset in the comments section and lashes out [...]

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By Guy McCardle, on January 19th, 2012

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Matthias Rath is a medical doctor turned vitamin entrepreneur. He runs the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and is the former head of Cardiovascular Research at the Linus Pauling Institute. Rath has been called “the most powerful crackpot on the Earth” due to the [...]

By Guy McCardle, on January 7th, 2012

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Well, season two of “Brad Meltzer’s Decoded” is over and I’m wondering how many of you have seen it.  I had to admit that before I started watching the show last year, I had no idea who Brad Meltzer was.  That is certainly [...]

By Guy McCardle, on December 30th, 2011

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Imagine if you will, yours truly, a college senior at age 21 resting peacefully in my bed on an average weekday night.  As usual, I’m exhausted and I begin to drift off to sleep in a matter of minutes.  Tonight, however, won’t be an [...]

By Guy McCardle, on December 24th, 2011

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As we sit today perched on the threshold of a new year, our thoughts inevitably turn to the past and what might have been. For as long as human kind has existed, we have postulated about our future and what life might be like “one [...]

By Guy McCardle, on December 14th, 2011

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As long as there have been human beings we’ve wondered how we came to be.  Imagination is one of the most powerful tools in the evolutionary toolbox.  As a species filled with boundless curiosity, we inevitably desire to seek our origins and speculate about our [...]

By Guy McCardle, on December 9th, 2011

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You know a food fad has really made it mainstream when the local mom and pop Italian restaurant here in the heart of rural Pennsylvania starts serving gluten-free pasta.  I asked the server what was the deal with the new type of pasta, and she [...]

By Guy McCardle, on December 1st, 2011

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Louis Pasteur must be rolling over in his grave.  As you probably remember from your high school Biology class, he was the Frenchman who invented a method of preserving food and drink by submitting them to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time [...]

By Guy McCardle, on November 18th, 2011

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Almost all substances are toxic under the right conditions.

“Sola dosis facit venenum (only dose makes the poison).”

-Paracelsus, the father of modern toxicology

 

As a Medical Officer in the U.S. Army I had the opportunity to oversee the vaccination of thousands of our [...]