Follow Which Science?

For decades, OB-GYN’s advised their female patients that the benefits of hormone replacement therapies (HRT) outweighed the risks. That was found not to be true, and many women suffered.

The Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) is not prostate specific. Pregnant women have elevated PSA levels in their blood serum.

For decades doctors placed depressed patients on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s), to balance their serotonin levels and treat their depression. Yet, in 2022, “huge bodies of scientific evidence found no direct link between serotonin and depression.” (1)

Many of you know that I believe that mycotoxins are sometimes mistaken for viruses. A cancer-causing fungal mycotoxin called “aflatoxin” potentiates certain viruses like Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and Human Immuno-Virus (HIV) and makes them more deadly.  This is largely unknown in the medical community, but well published.

Now comes a new report that should confirm to all of us that “following the science” should be reconsidered. This time, I could not delineate the misunderstanding any better than the reporting website, medpage.com.

“Hospitalized patients with dementia and dysphagia are often prescribed a “dysphagia diet,” made up of texture-modified foods and thickened liquids in an effort to reduce the risk for aspiration or other problems. However, a new study calls this widespread and long-held practice into question.

Investigators found no evidence that the use of thickened liquids reduced mortality or respiratory complications, such as pneumonia, aspiration, or choking, compared with thin-liquid diets in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and dysphagia. Patients receiving thick liquids were less likely to be intubated, but they were actually more likely to have respiratory complications.”

To err is human, but to shout to we, the people, “follow the science” begs a very important question. Which “science” should we follow, doctors?  Is it the “science” of 1960?  Perhaps the “science” of 2024?  Or might the “science” of 2085 be preferential?

Research and References

1. Psychology Today Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202207/serotonin-imbalance-found-not-be-linked-depression

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