Back in my private practice days, I met a well-known visual artist, who had come in for some medical assistance. He was quite elderly by that time and his cognitive condition tended to make him somewhat taciturn (Latin taciturnus, ‘disposed to be silent’.) By his second visit, I had researched a bit about him and his style
Many people talk nowadays of their triggers. By this they mean some event that caused them to feel an intense and usually negative emotional reaction to something, or even someone. Our triggers in the present are the result of our past experiences and conditioning, and some triggers often go back to early childhood experiences. Commonly the brain
Variety (Latin, varietatem, ‘a kind, species’) may be the spice of life, but it also turns out to be very difficult thing to control. Cyber is used nowadays to denote matrix-like AI stuff that flies around us on our phones, earbuds, and wireless routers. The prefix ‘cyber’ is actually a neologism (Greek, ‘new word’) spawned from an original concept known
NB: I’ve been writing a series of daily entries for January 2025. They deal with a variety of issues, some medical, and some personal. I’ll be cross-posting many of them here as well. Ernest Hemingway wrote that the easiest way to get started writing a novel was to make sure that the first sentence was
Dr. Peter D’Adamo There are thousands of digestive enzyme supplements out there and available to the general public. Most are rudimentary; however, a few are formulated in a manner that is quite imaginative and inspired. Over my all-too-many years in practice, I’ve used many quite successfully in my patients, particularly in situations where the person’s
What do an extension cord, a trip to Disneyland, and a serving of spinach have in common? Apparently, they can give you cancer. At least in California. California’s Proposition 65, also called the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act was enacted in 1986. It is intended to help Californians make informed decisions about protecting
By Peter D’Adamo A few years back, upon purchasing a new textbook, Protein Misfolding Diseases: Current and Emerging Principles and Therapies. I began my exploration by doing what any self-respecting academic would do when presented with a 900+ page reference work: I leafed thru the Index, hoping to recognize something that interested me. Here I
Many of you will remember the terrible catastrophe that befell the astronauts of Apollo I. On January 27, 1967, while still training for the first space expedition that would eventually lead to a manned mission to the Moon, all three crew members were killed in a fire that engulfed the cabin. There were several reasons
1. Rheingold: Interactive Interactions Who among us has not had a client or a friend that was currently on a bouillabaisse of 3-4 pharmaceuticals and perhaps 5-6 (or more) dietary supplements? Ever wonder what exactly was going in there? Perhaps a nifty little app I recently coded might be just what the doctor orders. Rheingold
Here are three training videos for the Opus23 suite of bioinformatic software apps I’ve coded. They’re kinda technical, but constitute almost a short course in genomics and the microbiome in and of themselves. Enjoy!
Starting with the February 28th Training Session, we’ve implemented several exciting new changes and improvements to the Opus23 Basic Certification Training, the day-long training that certifies the student (upon successful completion of the requirements) and permits them to begin using the Opus23 platform on their own clients.
Working to find the cause, the root of the trouble, is what Dr. D’Adamo’s shift of five students at the University of Bridgeport Naturopathic Medicine Clinic do every Wednesday for patients of the community.
In another installment of Science by Agenda™, a group headed by super-vegan diet doctor Neal Barnard claims to have ‘debunked’ the blood type diet. The results? Surprise! The researchers discovered all blood types do best on vegan diets. Well, that settles that. The investigators published their objective scientific results in an ultra low-impact journal article
I’m sorry at I’ve not been more diligent and consistent in my Covid-19 reporting. The situation since my last post has been ever-evolving and fluid, and quite frankly I haven’t felt that I had the necessary expertise to comment in anywhere near an authoritative manner. I’ve opted instead to moderate a science-based Facebook Group, ‘Journal
Chloroquine is a malarial drug first discovered in 1934. It’s still in use for malaria management, although the most common species of malaria-causing organisms are long resistant to it. Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) also has anti-malarial activity, but is much more commonly used to treat certain auto-immune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. Both of
A rush is on to understand what underpins the progression of Covid-19 from a mild flu-like presentation, to out-of-control pneumonia, and ultimately, system-wide collapse. We know some factors (comorbidities) that tend to increase the risk of severe consequences of Covid-19, such as age, gender, high blood pressure, and even ABO blood type. In addition, severe
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a protein on the surface of the cell membrane, is now at center-stage in this outbreak as the key receptor for the spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2. ACE2 is part of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) is an elegant cascade of protein linkages that orchestrate key processes in human physiology by affecting the diameter
Most of us have heard of, or even occasionally used the supplement melatonin. It is the most popular over-the-counter sleep remedy in the US, resulting in sales in excess of US $400 million during 2017. Melatonin is a hormone that is primarily released by the pineal gland in the brain and helps to regulate the
A close friend, who was also a patient, once told me (after he was diagnosed with melanoma) that, when a child, his father, a physician, was also diagnosed with a terminal illness, but was strangely calm and collected about it. When my friend asked him about it, he replied that ‘a frightened person dies a
“Out of this nettle – danger – we pluck this flower – safety.” — William Shakespeare When I think of nettles, I remember an observation one of my student classmates at John Bastyr College shared with me that he had learned in an undergraduate botany class. Stinging nettles (Urtica spp.) have fine hairs on the