It’s the things you can’t see that count the most in life. Whether it’s industrial toxins lurking in tap water or Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds being blown across our precious farmland, the damage isn’t seen until it’s too late. Lives are ruined and the corporate no-gooders are speeding off in the get-a-way car, middle finger in the air. That’s exactly what happened with Prozac.

Are We Making Drugs To Treat Disease or Emotions?

When I worked for the drug giant as a young, naive chemist, Prozac (fluoxetine) was being marketed to “correct a chemical imbalance.” Sales raked in enough profit to solve world hunger for decades to come. Newsweek hailed it as, “A Breakthrough Drug for Depression.”

I…

Medicinal chemistry was my first passion. Flying my second. Both provide immense benefit, but have very little room for error. That’s why I triple check everything when it comes to swallowing a pill or shoving in the throttle to lift my family from the comfortable bonds of gravity. You should do the same.

The New York Times hailed them as “wonder drugs.” Doctors use them as the first line of defense against heart attack, stroke, inflammation and whatever else they can make sound dreadful and scary. Despite the spin, cholesterol lowering drugs (fibrates and statins) are proving to be not so wonderful. As outlined in my…

Depression. Weight loss. Smoking. Poor libido. Lack of focus. The prescription drug bupropion, known commercially as Aplenzin, Zyban, Wellbutrin, Wellbutrin SR, and Wellbutrin XL has been marketed to cure them all…And that’s illegal because there isn’t a single study to prove such claims.

In fact, former vice-president Lauren Stevens of GlaxoSmithKline was indicted for making the illegal, unapproved statements about her drug, but was soon acquitted by a federal judge who said, “the defendant in this case should never have been prosecuted and she should be permitted to resume her career.” Meanwhile, people suffered miserably.

Bupropion was pulled off the market in 1986 by the FDA because of an unacceptable incidence of seizures, but was quickly…

Some things won’t change in 2012. I’ll still be a bald, tattoo sporting chemist who sings rap music way too loud while driving. My kids will still know more about the benefits of individualism over collectivism than most adults. And many people will still believe that they need to lower their cholesterol with Lipitor (or any other cholesterol-lowering alternative) to save them from heart attack and stroke.

The myth is so prevalent that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association issued new guidelines set out to put children as young as 8 years old on cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins). Yet, there isn’t a single study to support the claim and considering the many side-effects of statins,…

Mom of six gets back into her skinny jeans with Hormone Intelligence Therapy!

If you want to lose weight in 2012, you need to calculate your “ideal weight,” which is based on a perfect balance of body fat and muscle. This will give you something to aim for and help you monitor muscle growth over time, which is the most important measure of any fat loss effort. Muscle slows the metabolic aging process by quelling high blood sugar, therefore, the more you have, the slower you age.

If you’re currently not overweight, this trick will not work! It’s only designed for people who are currently lugging around “too much weight.”

To get started, measure your…