Medicine & Your Body
- Antibiotics Antibiotics are life-saving for bacterial infections but massively overprescribed, with serious consequences for gut health and antibiotic resistance 3
- Birth Control How hormonal birth control works, what it suppresses, and why the 'period' on the pill isn't a real period 3
- essential-oils Essential oils contain real pharmacological compounds — terpenes, phenols, and aldehydes — with demonstrated antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and anxiolytic properties. Here's what the research supports. 3
- Immune System How your immune system works and why it's more capable than most people realize 3
- natural-anti-inflammatories NSAIDs block COX enzymes but come with gut, kidney, and heart risks. Nature offers its own COX and LOX inhibitors — curcumin, ginger, omega-3s, boswellia, and more — that fight inflammation through overlapping pathways without the same side-effect profile. 2
- pharmaceutical-side-effects Modern medicine excels at acute care, but the default approach to chronic disease — prescribing medication without addressing root causes — comes with costs that patients deserve to understand. 3