Today I had the deep pleasure of meeting Dr Georgia Ede, another Boston area psychiatrist, creator of a fascinating website entitled Diagnosis: Diet, that I recommend to all of my readers. It is unfortunately exceedingly rare for me to meet a like minded psychiatrist, one who shares my conviction about the centrality of nutrition’s power to… [Continue reading]
Public Health Crisis
Spotlight Finally on Miralax
On Friday May 25th an article appeared in the New York Times titled Drug For Adults is Popular as Children’s Remedy. It addresses the widespread prescription by pediatricians and GI specialists of Miralax, a colorless odorless liquid laxative for long term treatment of constipation in children, despite the fact that it has never been approved… [Continue reading]
Bipolar Disorder? Really?
It is a sad reality of contemporary American psychiatry that many clinicians do not have the time or appropriate training to talk and listen to patients. Instead they are quick to assign the diagnosis du jour, which is often stunningly incorrect, and implement the corresponding treatment, with disastrous medical and psychological consequences. Every Tuesday I… [Continue reading]
