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Arnold R. Eiser is an internal medicine physician and author of Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age: New Insights from Neuroscience, Integrative Medicine, and Public Health.

What Chadwick Boseman’s death reveals about cancer prevention and risk factors

Arnold R. Eiser, MD
Conditions
November 30, 2024

We lost a very talented actor and director, Chadwick Boseman, way too early to colorectal cancer in 2023. When I recently became aware of his enormous talent, I resolved to examine his premature death as best I could with the hope of sparing others such a life snuffed out in the midst of a highly successful career.

Although I usually work in the sphere of neurodegenerative disorders, a curious phenomenon links …

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What Chadwick Boseman’s death reveals about cancer prevention and risk factors

Challenging conventional wisdom: How to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Arnold R. Eiser, MD
Conditions
January 29, 2023

Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating illness without effective treatment. Yet it may, in fact, be largely preventable. The first shocking fact to absorb is that the pathogenesis is largely extracranial, though assuredly not entirely so. That clearly defies the conventional pharmacologic wisdom, which has obsessed with amyloid-beta as the offending agent and has approached it by crafting and evaluating antibodies against it. The FDA has even bought into that theory …

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Challenging conventional wisdom: How to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Paracelsus and the birth of toxicology

Arnold R. Eiser, MD
Conditions
February 25, 2022

An excerpt from Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age: New Insights from Neuroscience, Integrative Medicine, and Public Health.

When my wife and I visited Salzburg Austria a few years ago, we stayed in a small boutique hotel formerly part of the Saint Sebastian monastery. In its famous church courtyard cemetery are buried both Mozart’s wife and his father, …

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Paracelsus and the birth of toxicology

How the postmodern ethos challenges medical professionalism

Arnold R. Eiser, MD
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April 19, 2014

Postmodern cultural values have seriously impacted medical care and the patient-physician relationship. Corporate control of medical care, computerization of medical information and consumerism in the clinical encounter, plus the destruction of the myth of the physician are all embodiments of postmodern values.

Postmodern thinkers such as Foucault, Lyotard, Levinas, and Bauman offer powerful insights  that can be applied to understand how current values have changed medical practice, including issues such as …

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How the postmodern ethos challenges medical professionalism

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