Naturopathic Maine

When cancer patients complain of losing weight, they are told to go home and eat ice cream. But this advice doesn't work. Why? The loss of weight and muscle mass during cancer has less to do with calories and more to do with the process of fighting cancer. One of the things that happens is that the body starts to use its own muscles to provide essential amino acids for defense. The process of eating your own muscles leads to increased fatigue, less activity, and more muscle loss from inactivity. It's a downward spiral. But simply adding more calories isn't going to reverse that cycle. The body needs amino acids, not calories. Providing the body with specific amino acids, or taking a hormone that forces the body to build lean muscle, may provide more benefit than eating more. Even adding drugs may not help. Two drugs, Megace and THC were not effective at increasing quality of life. Megace did give patients more fat, and THC did help appetite, but neither significantly...

The Lancet just published a comprehensive report that states that 22% of human deaths are directly caused by poor diet . Just to put that in perspective, poor diet kills 11 million people a year, while tobacco only kills 7 million people a year . So eating better is going to make your life better even if you smoke like a chimney? I have to admit, this study is comprehensive. You're going through the data from 195 countries. And it all sounds very convincing. Right up to the point where they estimate that salt kills three million people a year. Wait, what? We had a New England Journal of Medicine report on salt being a killer back in 2014. These researchers estimated that too much salt killed 1.5 million people a year. They assessed every study on salt up through 2014. So we would have to assume that A) either deaths from salt intake have doubled in the last four years or B) either the Lancet or the New England Journal of Medicine is wrong. There's a third option, that the...

Thoughts On Belief Here is something I shared with a dear friend who said it was helpful in her journey to discover her own spiritual truths. She graciously allowed me to share it with any of you who may find it helpful. There is no absolute truth in science or mathematics. Or if there is, I can't find it. But there is a five book mathematical treatise on an effort to exhaustively define the term "one." In physics, the most solid of the sciences, we are wrestling with the reality that likely 95% of the universe is made up of "dark matter" and "dark energy." More importantly, the laws of matter conservation are not maintained on a quantum level. Things do just appear and disappear. But that's completely irrelevant to your current internal struggle. Which I did myself, by the way. I think Descartes is interesting in that he made both the philosophy "I think, therefore I am" and the Cartesian plane we use in mathematics. One man impac...

I apologize to those of you who have been confused by my sudden interest in promoting Viagra. It’s not me. It’s the Russian Mob using maloneymedical.com to rip people off. Yes, I’m taking legal action. But the law is slow and people are getting hurt and confused. (My current website is naturopathicmaine.com , but if you’re confused, just email me. Or use your phone for what it was intended and give me a call.) Please don’t assume I’ve decided that erectile dysfunction is my guiding passion going forward. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. In November of 2017, I stopped paying on maloneymedical.com . It was an old domain, and I foolishly thought because it had my own name in the title it would be worthless to anyone else. How wrong I was. Godaddy auctioned off my domain to the highest bidder. He took maloneymedical.com , added a fake copy of my old website using Wordpress, hosted the new fake website on Amazon, and tried to hide himself by using Godaddy’s evil twin D...

I just finished writing a book on memory and dementia, and I have some good news and bad news. The good news is that we can do something about dementia. It's easy, straightforward, and we've only started to get a handle on it in the last ten years. The bad news is that we aren't going to be uploading our brains into computers any time soon. I know, smart guys in the tech world wander around talking about the singularity, the moment when computer brains will surpass human brains. They're wrong. Using existing technology, computers cannot equal a human brain. Not even close. To reach the power of the two pounds of wet, pink sponge in your head, we would need a thousand times the existing world wide web. All of it, in every country in the world, now a thousand times that computing power. Why? It's pretty simple. A computer is based on binary. An on/off switch like a light switch. It's either on or it's off. So a supercomputer is a huge room filled with...

We get these disturbing posts on our phones these days. I think of them as "horror clickbait," stories that are so disturbing we have to read more. I can't do anything about many of the stories, but I can help a little with the ones to do with our health. The clickbait story was that processed food will shorten your life . By how much? Oh, about 14%. That sounds terrible until you take a step back and do a little math. 14% of a human life... that's...round to 70 years, round down to 10%... and you have at least seven years of your life lost to processed food. That's pretty dramatic. For comparison, smoking like a chimney your whole life will drop your expected span by about ten years . Are we really saying eating processed food is as bad as chain smoking? Then I went looking for the study. It's not a great format. A survey of English eaters . And a fairly arbitrary splitting up of food into minimally processed, processed, and ultra-processed food. By arbi...

The short answer is maybe.  If you have a B12 level higher than normal, being screened for a variety of cancers is not a bad idea. The risk is higher for a range of cancers. Keep in mind this is an elevation in B12 that is not in response to taking a lot of B12 supplements. ( http://www.b12-vitamin.com/ blood-levels/ ) Here's the risk from a range of different cancers. (Image from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848986/) The key is that the marker may not only tell if you are at higher risk, it may also tell your chances of survival. " When testing for trend in survival rates between the three Cbl level groups, we observed trends toward lower survival with higher Cbl levels for all three follow-up periods for both patients with localised and non-localised cancer. The differences in survival with higher Cbl levels were similar after 2, 5 and 10 years" ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/ science/article/pii/S187778211 5002854 ) B12,...