Hi AT22–

Meat always costs more than carbs.  You can get less expensive cuts of meat and shop carefully for everything else, but a good low-carb diet is going to be somewhat more expensive than a junk one.  But you pay now or you pay later.

Cheers–

MRE 

Hi Mmmm–

Most of the improvement in high blood pressure comes within the first couple of weeks.  It is a fluid release phenomenon, but I think there is probably more to it than that.  In our experience, somewhere between 75%-80% of patients with hypertension will be able to get rid of their meds with a good low-carb diet; the other 20% to 25% can usually achieve a reduction in medication, but must continue to take some meds.

Hope this helps.

Best–

MRE 

PS. Dr. Eades, thank you very much for your blog I enjoy a fresh view on health that will definitely affect my future patients.

Hi Roy–

Thanks for the kind words about the blog; I’m glad you enjoy it.

You are absolutely right about patients expecting perfect health to be delivered to them on a platter without their having to do anything more than take a pill to get it.  It’s a sad situation.

BTW, the Divinity Implant comes in your Senior year.

Cheers–

MRE 

Sure you can, you’ve heard of Ancel Keyes and his work “The Lipid Hypothesis”?

…or maybe that’s interpretive fiction, or interpretive science?

-Ogden

Hi Ogden–

MRE

Take Care,
Mary

Hi Mary–

Fifty isn’t all that bad.  I can still remember when I turned fifty…sort of.

Cheers–

MRE

Hi Martha–

You’re way ahead of me; I can’t even remember what science fiction is.

Cheers–

MRE

Hi Paul–

Sounds like you’ve got your priorities straight.

Good luck.

MRE

Hi David–

Let’s hope so.  Then maybe we can bump it to 50!

Cheers–

MRE

Hi Mary–

Yep, she’s got about 5 more years of her free ride, then the party is over.  Start preparing her for it now, although she probably won’t believe you.  Ah, the folly of youth.  As George Bernard Shaw said, “It’s a pity that youth is wasted on the young.”

Cheers–

MRE 

We doctors like people to think we know what we’re talking about, and may be so convincing that we convince ourselves too. Because other people’s lives depend on it, we have a big emotional need to be right and are uncomfortable with the thought that none of us really knows enough to be a good doctor. Even if we know everything that is known, we still don’t know that which is yet unknown.Scientists, on the other hand, are very comfortable with the unknown; it is their bread and butter. When scientists disagree there is no more at stake than the scientists’ amour propre, whereas medical disputes get rancorous because forever in the background is the thought that the other chap is damaging patients.

Science does not in itself make its practitioners haughty (the contrary, if done honestly), whereas medicine does. The main reason for that, I think, is because doctors get used to seeing other people undressed while they themselves are clothed. Once you have seen dukes and archbishops in their underpants they’re never quite the same again.

Taken together it becomes ever so easy for us doctors to start believing that we know everything, and that makes us unreasonably unreceptive to new ideas. That is the reason why medical journals must continue force-feeding original scientific studies to their unwilling readers. David L J Freed, allergist

Hi Nancy–

Thanks for the quote–it pretty much sums it up.

Cheers–

MRE