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  • Low-Fat Milk vs. Yogurt, Declining Health, More BMI Skepticism… and What Makes Us Itch?

    February 2024 Short Bits from Doc Gumshoe – News both Good and Not So Good

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  • Short Bits for November

    Doc Gumshoe with some updates on COVID-19, the polypill, diabetes, opioids and pain management, and more...

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  • De-Teasing Chris Wood’s “Epidemic-Ending” Diabetes Breakthrough

    What's up with the 500-1,000% Gain predicted for Biotech Millionaire's July 2, 2021 Catalyst?

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  • A Change in the Testing Process as a Way to End the COVID-19 Pandemic – and a Couple of Other Possibly Promising Innovations

    Doc Gumshoe looks at testing, herd immunity, and a few updates in diabetes and lung cancer

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  • Ten Major Threats to Global Health According to the World Health Organization

    Doc Gumshoe looks at pollution, vaccination, and the WHO's priorities and plans

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  • End of Winter Miscellany

    Doc Gumshoe checks in on Alzheimer's, Coffee, Gluten, Diabetes, C. Diff and Fish

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  • “Triple-Digit Profits from the Diabetic ‘Patch’ Company Going to $1 Billion.”

    Today the pitch that’s been catching my eye is from Mitchell Clark for his Biotech Breakthrough Stock Report — we haven’t covered this newsletter before, but we have certainly covered teaser spiels from Mitchell Clark’s wide variety of Lombardi-published newsletters in the past (before he was a biotech expert this week, he was a bible […]

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  • Where is the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Heading?

    [ed note: Michael Jorrin, a medical writer who we have dubbed “Doc Gumshoe” (he’s not a doctor), shares his thoughts with us once or twice a month — what follows is his latest missive, the words and opinions below are his alone.] I didn’t plan it this way, but the timing of this Doc Gumshoe […]

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  • The Why and the What of Diabetes Management

    Doc Gumshoe looks at Type 2 diabetes

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  • Comments

  • Family doctor told me that the diabetes drug which have been reported to have weight loss benefits is do popular among h...

  • I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea. However, I have not used a CPAP mask or machine. Instead, my medical professio...

  • From AMJC: "While sugary beverages have been linked to diabetes and obesity, the evidence has been mixed on diet drinks....

  • The Risk Benefit Analysis for Covid immunization is strongly against the mRNA ‘vaccine’. Not only does that immunit...

  • There is increasing evidence that many of the chronic illnesses that are increasingly plaguing the US and many others ar...

  • Seems there is always so much energy devoted to pushing the idea that there will never be enough energy to make somethin...

  • I am looking at a pharmaceutical company that has a combination oral product that decreases LDL-C by 63%, raises HDL, ...

  • It won't just be dementia, heart disease & diabetes they will save money on. It has been found that in as well as losin...

  • As a primary care doc, I prescribe ALOT of diabetes meds. Also, see ALOT of obese and morbidly obese people who would L...

  • Mounjaro is a diabetes drug that was approved last year. It is likely to also be approved for weight loss this year....

  • As a physician, it's almost sad how much people are flocking to these medications. Almost no patients seem to have ever...

  • I thought that Mounjaro was principally for diabetics, like Ozempic. I am taking Ozempic and for diabetic control it is ...

  • The new drugs function as designed. The first was the Novo version; I made a lot of money on it. Now, the hype is Lill...

  • I don't know if that lawsuit will end up meaning anything. It's a class-action suit over Actos (an older diabetes drug)...

  • Statins have over 300 side effects including type 2 diabetes. Why would an intelligent person choose to take them....

  • It seems that the off label use of Metformin is more substantial than its use for Type 2 diabetes. Are there any studie...

  • This from yesterday's newsletter, already public, first mainstream report about Tirzepatide trial results. From the Gua...

  • Travis , Great review and insight - as always.Would you consider taking a look and doing a file on: 6/6/2022 Stan...

  • I observe the likely cost: 'it’s an expensive drug, a couple thousand dollars a month, and may have to be taken in per...

  • The drug of the future is (almost) here! It is currently in Phase 2 trials, almost complete, but the trials are being d...

  • There is already a drug with anti-aging potential that has been around for a long time, Metformin. Used mainly for type...

  • I have another important comment to make. Keep reading. Say 'Korean Red Ginseng/Panex Ginseng (4.5 grams)'. I have som...

  • jwtx5929: There is indeed comparatively little reporting about the many who contract COVID 19 with few to no symptoms....

  • I’m a “value investor”, retired, manage my own investment portfolio, and been a subscriber to Dr Eifrig ‘s new...

  • open, wd, and cmps have all been recommended in a few other motley fool subscriptions, so it can't be any of those... i ...

  • Is this the same Chris Wood as the Biotech Millionaire ad about an “EPIDEMIC-ENDING” DIABETES BREAKTHROUGH?...

  • I can help anyone with diabetes. In 2015 I got my first stroke, in 2010 my wife who was 60 yo died from inflammatory bre...

  • As a phycisian myself I am a bit wary of the drug being advertised as a game changer i diabetes type 1 in general.1. ...

  • No problem. I just noticed under my post there is a hashtag DM. The DM in my post stands for diabetes mellitus. Any way ...

  • Type I diabetes is a terrible thing to have to deal with. My daughter developed it after the birth of her second child t...

  • I am a physician although not an endocrinologist. I deal with vascular complications of type 1 and type 2 DM. In my mind...

  • Type I diabetes is usually diagnosed after the development of severe symptoms after most of the damage is already done. ...

  • Chris Wood is now promoting his top stock of 2021 as a "diabetes cure" that can reverse diabetes in just 14 days. Here's...

  • @docgumshoe"I can’t think of a single thing that our friend could have done to prevent the development of AD. " ...

  • From all the information presented by the mass media and government concerning Covid, I have seen nothing about stre...

  • Two things everyone should know. Section 3710 of the CARES ACT pays hospitals 20% more for covid-19 admissions. Also,...

  • No doing the most basic research means just that. I am not a pundit. I just don't like being lied to. If you look at th...

  • That's easy. If you have heart failure and COVID the death is listed as a COVID death. Diabetes and COVID? COVID death. ...

  • Remember that BSE is from eating tainted beef. Supposedly it passes up through the cribriform plate. So it is not inconc...

  • It is truly unornate that there is no one that seems to know their history or that can apply some sense to covid 19 ...

  • Injections are nasty indeed. This is why I bought a few shares of Oramed (ORMP) which seems to be in final testing stag...

  • Danish Novo Nordisk is a specialist in diabetes drugs, which have a link to obesity, and its trials are doing well. You ...

  • Stop the madness! I am a 57-year-old man. I take no medications whatsoever and recently had a life insurance exam and wa...

  • So... The side effects of Big Pharma are historical vs some of the suggested natural solutions such as Berberine, the bi...

  • You make no mention of Berberine, a biproduct of Coptic Salt. It has essentially solved my type 2 diabetes problem. And...

  • I like the sound of this. There re several significant diseases that could possible incorporate this technology with sof...

  • Doctor or medical writer —- we are all health care providers. Thank you again for your well written articles. Sadly...

  • $CMXC - This Bioelectric Breakthrough Could Disrupt The $300 Billion Diabetes Market"Cell MedX’s eBalance tech...

  • Just read a promotional email by Dr. Sears. It touted the stem cells for diabetes, oxygen therapy for cancer, and the '...

  • Tess, here's the list from the presentation I saw:AL SEARS FOOTNOTES TO HIS PRESENTATION: “The biggest breakthrough ...

  • I admire your passion for investigating Big Pharma's solutions for cancer. However, in our current health care system ...

  • Great that advances are being made but as long as the US remains addicted to sugar and processed foods, jet fuel for dia...

  • Can’t compete with private unicorn, INTARCIA, WHO HAS A MEDICAL IMPLANT DEVICE THAT ONLY HAS TO BE RELOADED ONCE A YEA...

  • Thank you for the great article. In these hate-filled times the advertisers just threw another hyperbolic bone to the ...

  • Senseonics and Domo have both gone down the tubes since Mampilly hyped them. SENS is at $1.11 this morning (July 18, 201...

  • The trouble is that curtailing smoking for valid health reasons has in part resulted in an epidemic of obesity - all th...

  • Ray Blanco is talking about an announcement soon (May 2019) that will change forever the field of medicine and provide t...

  • What a tour de force! Good historical discovery!! But the echo of failure resounds still! Just saw another reference t...

  • I’m a member of the Paul Mampilly “Inner Circle” membership and I’m up 30% since joining. I have done exactly w...

  • Those clues about the diabetes sensor indicate that Mampilly has recommended Senseonics (SENS)...

  • Mampilly's advertisement includes the link to a 1.5 hour long video "Revolutionary Wealth Summit". In the video, the com...

  • PAM Day: In case you are not aware, Type III diabetes, AKA insulin resistance in the brain, is a precursor to Alzheimer'...

  • I block Blanco! TRUST NOTHING.My brother has Alzheimers.. JUST ORDERED A BOOK ON THIS AND BELIEVE LACK OF EXERCISE AND ...

  • again these guys are in front of me. just when i wanted to propose the vanadium pyramids to waren buffet, bill gates an...

  • Did a quick search on benefits of krill, and benefits of CBD. The more I searched, the larger the list became. Maybe...

  • For all who are sceptical about this company, do have a close look at page 16 of https://www.resverlogix.com/upload/even...

  • Resverlogix Announces Participation at Prominent Industry and Investor Conferences March 16th, 2019 - Poster Session: Ap...

  • Interesting and comprehensive, as usual. I suppose if the medical mafia was really geared toward creating a healthier po...

  • Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancer are all metabolic diseases which can be prevented/reversed by a well formulated keto...

  • Hello Doc, All, I have hesitated to mention this company involved in this field, but since we are on a common thread, na...

  • Dr. Dale Bredesen (MD) has written a book THE END OF ALZHEIER'S. If he is correct, the major precipitating factor for m...

  • All the plaque and the problems they cause didn't have any effect on my two grandmothers who were born in the late 1890'...

  • The specific preclinical drugs are for diseases that tend to be exacerbated by aging bodies — diabetes, cancer, cardio...

  • Where do you guys get that depression is the 7th leading cause of men? Google shows Diabetes....

  • Another company in a very similar situation (starting Phase III trials) is Reservalogix, RVX.TO, RVXCF, with a C$400M ma...

  • The pitch clearly states this is supposed to treat the 7th leading cause of death among men. Rudimentary search comes up...

  • $ZFGN ow > Zafgen Announces Positive Full Results in Phase 2 Proof-of-Concept Trial of ZGN-1061 in Patients with Difficu...

  • Indeed Sears does some weird stuff one would want to pass up but in general at least he gets his patients healthy. Meanw...

  • Ha, have to try that. Thanks Cleveland.See, that's the trouble with a lot of our society.Simple stuff that work...

  • $CWBR 8K > CohBar to Present CB4211 Novel Mechanism of Action at American Diabetes Association 78th Scientific Sessions...

  • My PSA tracked your experience however it was always accompanied by a rectal exam. 8 years ago my Internist let out a ...

  • $VLRX, TNDM fp > I am long Tandem and it is y largest percentage gainer this year. Both concerns focus on Type II DM...

  • $RKDA - Arcadia Biosciences Achieves Key Resistant Starch Wheat Technology Milestones, Prepares for Commercial Launch ...

  • #EndPoints: NEW In wake of a setback at Eli Lilly, Merck KGaA's leading BTK drug for autoimmune disease clears PhI...

  • $ZFGN fp - March 6, 2018 4:05 PM EST Zafgen Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Financial Results; Announces Posi...

  • $TNDM - February 15, 2018 Reduced Time in Hypoglycemia Demonstrated in Tandem Diabetes Care's Pivotal Trial for the t:s...

  • $TNDM fp -Thank you Glenn! Tandem Diabetes Care Applies for Health Canada Medical Device License Commercial launch of...

  • AMEN to that, and you can add CANCER and other modern lifestyle diseases. The medical profession based on pharmaceutica...

  • Well said Myron, if Ray Charles or al hibler were alive they could see that conventional medicines heal nothing. They tr...

  • Diabetes and cognitive decline - https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/891959?src=soc_tw_180131_mscpedt_news_mdscp,mdsc...

  • $ZFGN, I'm long also, but at a small position. Wish I had loaded up when it was at 2 and change. I seem to recall some...

  • I use D-Mannose for UTI's instead of antibiotic. It is awesome with D-Mannonse being the active ingredient in cranberry ...

  • Hi Ira: Wow....all of us want to be you. I'd say the magic in you isn't so much good genes though clearly you've got hig...

  • $CWBR#MindBlowing#Thank you Dr. KSS: Excellent Article: Forbes Magazine: "The Cult of DNA-centricity"https://www.for...

  • Yearly Costs of Chronic Pain Exceed Those of Cancer, Heart Disease, and DiabetesThe annual cost of chronic pain is as ...

  • Alzheimers IS treatable in early stages and perhaps mid stage depending on individual, genes, etc. Dr. Dale Bredesen (g...

  • What are you, a SHILL for the pharmaceutical industry"Alzheimers like cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many more ...

  • If Mr. Jorrin is serious about taking an unbiased look at alternative therapies then I suggest he or anyone else interes...

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