When I was in college, healthcare costs were 11-12% of gross domestic product. Currently it is 18.3% (2021)… remember that dollars spent on healthcare inflate as well as the gross domestic product inflate, but each does not inflate at the same rate. There is no way that our current medical technology (drugs, CT scans, MRIs,Continue reading “Highly processed foods and fructose intake lead to elevated insulin levels and mitochondrial dysfunction, which, in turn, lead to 80% of chronic illnesses in the US.”
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help you to be less depressed and less anxious, but I cannot make you happy. help you have fewer cravings for your addictive substances, but I cannot make you clean and sober. help you decrease the risk of a second heart attack and stroke, but I cannot take away your atherosclerotic artery disease. help decreaseContinue reading “I CAN…”
THE VAST MAJORITY OF HEART FAILURE PATIENTS NEEDING TRANSPLANT, KIDNEY FAILURE PATIENTS NEEDING DIALYSIS, AND STROKE PATIENTS NEEDING REHABILITATION WOULD HAVE HAD THEIR ORIGINS IN THE ASYMPTOMATIC PERIOD 20-40 YEARS PRIOR. TWENTY TO FORTY YEARS PRIOR, SUCH PATIENTS WOULD HAVE BEGUN THEIR MEDICAL JOURNEYS WITH THESE PREVENTABLE AND TREATABLE CONDITIONS: HYPERTENSION, DIABETES, TOBACCO ADDICTION/USE, AND OBESITY.
Charles Tadros, M.D. August 24, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri