Category Archives: – Reviews, books, devices

Is Italian flour healthier than American?

Picture of Elon Musk as a farmer (with rocket in the background), drawn by Grok AI December 12, 2024- by Steven Greer, MD

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The Medical Advocate

Now available on Amazon. The Medical Advocate is an important book on the American healthcare system.

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Meatless diets are a bad idea

April 29, 2024- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Putrid food of the 19th Century

November 29, 2023- by Steven E. Greer, MD I have been watching a 48-part lecture by a University of Virginia historian on the Civil

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Book: The Pfizer/Moderna mRNA Vaccine (i.e., gene therapy) Toxicity

September 1, 2023- by Sucharit Bhakdi, MD et al

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Tony’s Virus

October 15, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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My experience with Smile Direct Club dental aligners

December 12, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD Smile Direct (SDC) is depressed in valuation ($11.5 or market cap $4.4 Billion) due to the pandemic.

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The Breville blender is an essential tool for a meatless diet

November 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Trying Beyond Meat for the first time

November 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Go Vegan?

November 3, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD My diet is much better than it used to be. I eat a lot more plants and almost no red meat. I snack

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Essay: How Google accidentally invented surveillance capitalism

March 24, 2019- by Steven E. Greer I read a few more pages of Surveillance Capitalism (it will be a tough slog to finish this). As

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Review: “The Bleeding Edge” documentary on unsafe medical devices

November 1, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD The Netflix 2018 documentary “The Bleeding Edge” reviews modern cases of medical devices

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The Year in Review: 2018

December 29, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD The biggest stories this year related

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Book Review: Fat Chance by Robert H. Lustig, MD

February 9, 2013- by Steven E. Greer, MD How did our ancient ancestors evolve from being pure meat eating carnivore hunters into grain fed

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What 1982’s Blade Runner got right about 2019

September 3, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD I watched again the 1982 classic Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford,

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Maybe my brain was spared

July 26, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD Last week, I sat next to an Ohio State University offensive lineman while attending a Roger Waters

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Book review: “ADHD Does Not Exist” By Richard Saul, MD

March 20, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Richard Saul, MD strived to be provocative with his new book ADHD Does Not Exist. He not only succeeded,

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How ADHD became such a prevalent condition

October 7, 2009- interviewed by Steven E. Greer Authors of “ADHD: medicating children”, Rick Mayes and Catherine Bagwell, discuss the history of ADHD

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Review: Walk-in urgent care centers are the way to go

January 6, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD A patient asked for my help yesterday with a sinus infection that was lingering. I referred him to

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The egregious athletic coaching most kids receive

March 25, 2016- by Steven E. Greer, MD In 2005, at age 37, I got some good PGA golf lessons at Muirfield Golf Club in Ohio: Jack Nicklaus’

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