🫁 Tuberculosis Treatment

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Everything Is Tuberculosis

by John Green • 2025

Tuberculosis is curable. Its persistence reveals not biology but a record of whose lives are valued.

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Everything Is Tuberculosis 91%

Tuberculosis is curable. Its persistence reveals not biology but a record of whose lives are valued.

by John Green 2025

4.32

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🦠 Infectious Disease 🏥 History Of Medicine 🌍 Global Health Inequity 🏴 Colonialism And Disease 💊 Drug Resistance

World Without Cancer

by G. Edward Griffin • 1974

Cancer as a nutritional deficiency, cured by apricot seeds, and the cartel that buried the science.

4.31

495

🎗️ Cancer Treatment 🍽️ Dietary Deficiency 🕵️ Medical Conspiracy 💊 Pharmaceutical Corruption 🏥 Alternative Medicine

World Without Cancer 88%

Cancer as a nutritional deficiency, cured by apricot seeds, and the cartel that buried the science.

by G. Edward Griffin 1974

4.31

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🎗️ Cancer Treatment 🍽️ Dietary Deficiency 🕵️ Medical Conspiracy 💊 Pharmaceutical Corruption 🏥 Alternative Medicine

Forbidden Health

by Andreas Kalcker • 2019

A single dose cured 154 malaria patients; the protocol, why it works, and why it's banned.

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🌿 Alternative Medicine 🫧 Oxygen Therapy 🪱 Parasite Cleansing 💊 Big Pharma Critique 🤫 Medical Cover-Ups

Forbidden Health 87%

A single dose cured 154 malaria patients; the protocol, why it works, and why it's banned.

by Andreas Kalcker 2019

4.29

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The Emperor of All Maladies

by Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2010

Cancer's biography: a killer that turns out to be a warped reflection of our own biology.

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The Emperor of All Maladies 87%

Cancer's biography: a killer that turns out to be a warped reflection of our own biology.

by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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War on Ivermectin

by Pierre Kory • 2023

A Nobel Prize-winning drug could have ended COVID. The agencies that buried it, from the inside.

4.68

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🏭 Pharmaceutical Corruption 🦠 Early Covid Treatment 🔇 Scientific Censorship 🏛️ Institutional Capture 📢 Medical Whistleblowing

War on Ivermectin 87%

A Nobel Prize-winning drug could have ended COVID. The agencies that buried it, from the inside.

by Pierre Kory 2023

4.68

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Ten Drugs

by Thomas Hager • 2019

Ten drugs that each reshaped medicine, and revealed the price of every cure.

4.18

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Ten Drugs 87%

Ten drugs that each reshaped medicine, and revealed the price of every cure.

by Thomas Hager 2019

4.18

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Curing the Incurable

by Thomas E. Levy • 2002

A vitamin cured sixty straight polio cases. The world forgot. The dosing that erases infections.

4.39

158

🧬 Orthomolecular Medicine 💊 Vitamin Therapy ⚡ High-Dose Nutrients ✨ Antioxidant Therapy 🦠 Infectious Disease

Curing the Incurable 87%

A vitamin cured sixty straight polio cases. The world forgot. The dosing that erases infections.

by Thomas E. Levy 2002

4.39

158 ratings

🧬 Orthomolecular Medicine 💊 Vitamin Therapy ⚡ High-Dose Nutrients ✨ Antioxidant Therapy 🦠 Infectious Disease

Mountains Beyond Mountains

by Tracy Kidder • 2003

He cured untreatable TB in a one-room Haitian clinic. That was just his warm-up.

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Mountains Beyond Mountains 87%

He cured untreatable TB in a one-room Haitian clinic. That was just his warm-up.

by Tracy Kidder 2003

4.20

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The Ozone Miracle

by Frank Shallenberger • 2017

Oxygen use predicts disease risk with striking accuracy. The home ozone protocols that restore it.

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🌿 Alternative Medicine 🧬 Functional Medicine 🔬 Cellular Health 🛡️ Disease Prevention 🏠 Home Remedies

The Ozone Miracle 86%

Oxygen use predicts disease risk with striking accuracy. The home ozone protocols that restore it.

by Frank Shallenberger 2017

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The Good Virus

by Tom Ireland • 2023

Bacteria-eating viruses saved lives for a century. Then the West abandoned them as antibiotics rose.

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🦠 Phage Therapy 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🌍 Microbial Ecology 🥶 Cold War Science 🧬 Molecular Biology History

The Good Virus 86%

Bacteria-eating viruses saved lives for a century. Then the West abandoned them as antibiotics rose.

by Tom Ireland 2023

4.38

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The Primal Prescription

by Doug McGuff • 2015

Government, not the free market, broke US health care. The way out is deregulation and dinner.

4.24

131

📊 Healthcare Economics 🦴 Ancestral Health 💊 Drug Regulation 🗽 Libertarian Economics 🧑‍⚕️ Healthcare Consumers

The Primal Prescription 86%

Government, not the free market, broke US health care. The way out is deregulation and dinner.

by Doug McGuff 2015

4.24

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Doctored

by Sandeep Jauhar • 2014

Fee-for-service broke the healers. A cardiologist's personal account of what American medicine lost.

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Doctored 86%

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by Sandeep Jauhar 2014

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So Very Small

by Thomas Levenson • 2025

How humanity finally saw the invisible world, defeated it, and may now lose the rematch.

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🏥 History Of Medicine 🦠 Germ Theory 🤒 Infectious Disease 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🔬 Microbial World

So Very Small 86%

How humanity finally saw the invisible world, defeated it, and may now lose the rematch.

by Thomas Levenson 2025

4.30

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To Repair the World

by Paul Farmer • 2013

A doctor's manifesto: replace charity with long-term solidarity and treat the impossible as doable.

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To Repair the World 86%

A doctor's manifesto: replace charity with long-term solidarity and treat the impossible as doable.

by Paul Farmer 2013

4.11

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God's Hotel

by Victoria Sweet • 2012

Time and observation healed patients at America’s last almshouse in ways modern medicine can’t.

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🏥 Hospital Memoir 🕰️ Long-Term Care 👩‍⚕️ Doctor-Patient Relationship 🙏 Spiritual Healing 📋 Healthcare Bureaucracy

God's Hotel 86%

Time and observation healed patients at America’s last almshouse in ways modern medicine can’t.

by Victoria Sweet 2012

4.11

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🏥 Hospital Memoir 🕰️ Long-Term Care 👩‍⚕️ Doctor-Patient Relationship 🙏 Spiritual Healing 📋 Healthcare Bureaucracy

What Seems to Be the Problem?

by Laura Marshall-Andrews • 2022

She treated the life behind the symptoms, and the NHS put her on trial for it.

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🏥 General Practice 📋 Nhs Memoirs 🌿 Holistic Medicine 🔄 Integrative Medicine 💔 Trauma And Healing

What Seems to Be the Problem? 86%

She treated the life behind the symptoms, and the NHS put her on trial for it.

by Laura Marshall-Andrews 2022

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Cannabis Is Medicine

by Bonni Goldstein MD • 2020

Cannabis activates your body's master regulator. A physician shows what it treats and how.

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135

🏥 Medical Cannabis 🌿 Plant Medicine 💊 Chronic Pain Management 💉 Opioid Alternatives ⚕️ Integrative Medicine

Cannabis Is Medicine 86%

Cannabis activates your body's master regulator. A physician shows what it treats and how.

by Bonni Goldstein MD 2020

4.44

135 ratings

🏥 Medical Cannabis 🌿 Plant Medicine 💊 Chronic Pain Management 💉 Opioid Alternatives ⚕️ Integrative Medicine

Patient Zero

by Lydia Kang • 2021

The hunt for patient zero almost always finds a scapegoat, not a cause.

4.13

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🏥 Medical History 🌍 Disease Ecology 🔍 Outbreak Investigation 🦠 Germ Theory 🏛️ Disease And Society

Patient Zero 86%

The hunt for patient zero almost always finds a scapegoat, not a cause.

by Lydia Kang 2021

4.13

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Ending Medical Reversal

by Vinayak K. Prasad • 2015

Why standard medical treatments from stents to hormone therapy keep getting overturned.

4.36

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📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🧪 Clinical Trials 🔍 Overdiagnosis 💊 Pharma Influence 🩺 Patient Empowerment

Ending Medical Reversal 86%

Why standard medical treatments from stents to hormone therapy keep getting overturned.

by Vinayak K. Prasad 2015

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Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

by Ian Harris • 2016

Many common surgeries work no better than a fake incision: a surgeon reveals the evidence.

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🔬 Evidence-Based Medicine ⚠️ Medical Overtreatment 💊 Placebo Studies 🧪 Clinical Trial Critique 💰 Conflicts Of Interest

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo 86%

Many common surgeries work no better than a fake incision: a surgeon reveals the evidence.

by Ian Harris 2016

4.16

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Booster Shots

by Adam Ratner • 2025

Measles erases immune memory. It also erases societal memory, and that amnesia is more dangerous.

4.33

577

🏥 Public Health 🦠 Infectious Disease 📊 Epidemiology 📜 Medical History 💉 Vaccines

Booster Shots 86%

Measles erases immune memory. It also erases societal memory, and that amnesia is more dangerous.

by Adam Ratner 2025

4.33

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🏥 Public Health 🦠 Infectious Disease 📊 Epidemiology 📜 Medical History 💉 Vaccines

Dissolving Illusions

by Suzanne Humphries • 2013

Infectious disease death rates fell before vaccines. Credit goes to sanitation, not shots.

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🏥 Medical History 💉 Vaccine Controversy 🏘️ Public Health 🚰 Sanitation And Health 🦠 Disease And Society

Dissolving Illusions 86%

Infectious disease death rates fell before vaccines. Credit goes to sanitation, not shots.

by Suzanne Humphries 2013

4.62

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Extra Life

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For millennia, humans lived to thirty-five. Then, in a century, we doubled it. How that happened.

4.19

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Extra Life 86%

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by Steven Johnson 2023

4.19

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by Michael Lewis • 2021

A handful of outsiders saw COVID-19 coming and built the warning system the CDC refused to.

4.32

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🏥 Public Health 🦠 Epidemiology 🚨 Pandemic Response 💥 Systems Failure 🗄️ Bureaucratic Failure

The Premonition 86%

A handful of outsiders saw COVID-19 coming and built the warning system the CDC refused to.

by Michael Lewis 2021

4.32

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🏥 Public Health 🦠 Epidemiology 🚨 Pandemic Response 💥 Systems Failure 🗄️ Bureaucratic Failure

The Butchering Art

by Lindsey Fitzharris • 2017

Surgery was a death sentence until Joseph Lister found the invisible killer: germs.

4.30

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The Butchering Art 86%

Surgery was a death sentence until Joseph Lister found the invisible killer: germs.

by Lindsey Fitzharris 2017

4.30

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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

by Bill Gates • 2022

Most of COVID's suffering was avoidable. The blueprint to ensure nothing like it happens again.

3.76

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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic Summary

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic 86%

Most of COVID's suffering was avoidable. The blueprint to ensure nothing like it happens again.

by Bill Gates 2022

3.76

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Better

by Atul Gawande • 2007

Between what medicine knows and what it does, the stubborn details that close the gap.

4.25

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Better 86%

Between what medicine knows and what it does, the stubborn details that close the gap.

by Atul Gawande 2007

4.25

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The Song of the Cell

by Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2022

We are 37 trillion cells in conversation. Learning that language has already cured the incurable.

4.29

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🧬 Cell Biology 🔬 History Of Science 🏥 Medical History 🦠 Microbiology 🛡️ Immunology

The Song of the Cell 86%

We are 37 trillion cells in conversation. Learning that language has already cured the incurable.

by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2022

4.29

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Notes on Nursing

by Florence Nightingale • 1858

A patient's room decides their fate more than their doctor. The 1859 manual that proved it.

3.79

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🏥 Nursing Fundamentals 📜 Modern Nursing Origins 🕰️ Victorian Medicine 👁️ Bedside Observation 🌿 Environmental Health

Notes on Nursing 86%

A patient's room decides their fate more than their doctor. The 1859 manual that proved it.

by Florence Nightingale 1858

3.79

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Deadliest Enemy

by Michael T. Osterholm • 2017

Microbes evolve in 20 minutes; humans take 25 years. That gap is our deadliest vulnerability.

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🦠 Infectious Disease 🌍 Global Health Policy 🚨 Pandemic Preparedness 💊 Antimicrobial Resistance 💉 Vaccine Development

Deadliest Enemy 86%

Microbes evolve in 20 minutes; humans take 25 years. That gap is our deadliest vulnerability.

by Michael T. Osterholm 2017

4.33

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🦠 Infectious Disease 🌍 Global Health Policy 🚨 Pandemic Preparedness 💊 Antimicrobial Resistance 💉 Vaccine Development

Lies My Doctor Told Me

by Harmony Clearwater Grace • 2015

Osteoporosis drugs may weaken bones, and calcium pills can harden your arteries instead.

4.29

168

🦴 Bone Health 💊 Pharma Critique 🩺 Functional Medicine 📰 Medical Misinformation 🏥 Patient Advocacy

Lies My Doctor Told Me 86%

Osteoporosis drugs may weaken bones, and calcium pills can harden your arteries instead.

by Harmony Clearwater Grace 2015

4.29

168 ratings

🦴 Bone Health 💊 Pharma Critique 🩺 Functional Medicine 📰 Medical Misinformation 🏥 Patient Advocacy

The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care

by Sally C. Pipes • 2008

The 46 million uninsured is a mirage; government is the real problem.

3.54

🏥 Healthcare Policy 📉 Free-Market Economics 🇨🇦 Single-Payer Critique 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏛️ Government Failure

The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care Summary

The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care 86%

The 46 million uninsured is a mirage; government is the real problem.

by Sally C. Pipes 2008

3.54

24 ratings

🏥 Healthcare Policy 📉 Free-Market Economics 🇨🇦 Single-Payer Critique 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏛️ Government Failure

An American Sickness

by Elisabeth Rosenthal • 2017

American healthcare eats nearly a fifth of the economy, and the money isn't buying better health.

4.29

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🏥 American Healthcare 💰 Healthcare Economics 🏢 Corporate Medicine 🛡️ Health Insurance 💪 Patient Advocacy

An American Sickness 86%

American healthcare eats nearly a fifth of the economy, and the money isn't buying better health.

by Elisabeth Rosenthal 2017

4.29

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Cannabis Pharmacy

by Michael Backes • 2013

Your body runs on cannabinoids. A guide to using cannabis for pain, nausea, and neuroprotection.

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🌿 Medical Cannabis 🌱 Herbal Medicine 💊 Pain Management 📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🏥 Patient Guides

Cannabis Pharmacy 86%

Your body runs on cannabinoids. A guide to using cannabis for pain, nausea, and neuroprotection.

by Michael Backes 2013

4.27

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Health Guide

by Mahatma Gandhi • 2004

Gandhi's health code: why fresh air, two meals, and self-restraint beat every medicine.

3.52

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🍃 Natural Healing 🌀 Holistic Health 🥗 Dietary Reform 🥬 Vegetarianism 💧 Nature Cure

Health Guide 86%

Gandhi's health code: why fresh air, two meals, and self-restraint beat every medicine.

by Mahatma Gandhi 2004

3.52

154 ratings

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The Healing Factor - Vitamin C Against Disease

by Irwin Stone • 2017

A genetic defect stops humans from making vitamin C. Correction takes grams, not milligrams.

3.50

🔬 Orthomolecular Medicine 🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🛡️ Antioxidant Therapy 🦠 Immune Support 🧘 Adrenal Health

The Healing Factor - Vitamin C Against Disease Summary

The Healing Factor - Vitamin C Against Disease 86%

A genetic defect stops humans from making vitamin C. Correction takes grams, not milligrams.

by Irwin Stone 2017

3.50

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Rough Sleepers

by Tracy Kidder • 2023

The homeless die ten times faster. A Boston doctor found that trust is the only cure.

4.34

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🏥 Homeless Healthcare 🧱 Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty 💊 Harm Reduction 📰 Narrative Journalism

Rough Sleepers 86%

The homeless die ten times faster. A Boston doctor found that trust is the only cure.

by Tracy Kidder 2023

4.34

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🏥 Homeless Healthcare 🧱 Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty 💊 Harm Reduction 📰 Narrative Journalism

In the Land of Pain

by Alphonse Daudet • 1929

Pain resists words. A dying novelist splits himself: half suffers, the other half watches.

3.68

597

🏥 Chronic Illness ✍️ Literary Memoir 📖 Illness Narrative 💀 Terminal Illness 🤕 Chronic Pain

In the Land of Pain 86%

Pain resists words. A dying novelist splits himself: half suffers, the other half watches.

by Alphonse Daudet 1929

3.68

597 ratings

🏥 Chronic Illness ✍️ Literary Memoir 📖 Illness Narrative 💀 Terminal Illness 🤕 Chronic Pain

Follow the Science

by Sharyl Attkisson • 2024

The medical system is not broken. It works exactly as the drug industry paid it to.

4.25

569

💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩻 Medical Corruption 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📊 Research Misconduct 💉 Vaccine Policy

Follow the Science 86%

The medical system is not broken. It works exactly as the drug industry paid it to.

by Sharyl Attkisson 2024

4.25

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Longshot

by David Heath • 2022

338 days from sequence to shot. The twenty years of failure that made it possible.

4.16

140

🧬 Vaccine Development 🦠 Pandemic Preparedness 💉 Medical Innovation 📖 Scientific Backstories 🏢 Biotech Startups

Longshot 86%

338 days from sequence to shot. The twenty years of failure that made it possible.

by David Heath 2022

4.16

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Forbidden Knowledge

by Terence H. Young • 2023

What your pharmacist doesn't tell you, and why the safest drugs are the least promoted.

💊 Big Pharma 🛡️ Regulatory Capture ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🔒 Information Control 📢 Whistleblowing

Forbidden Knowledge 86%

What your pharmacist doesn't tell you, and why the safest drugs are the least promoted.

by Terence H. Young 2023

💊 Big Pharma 🛡️ Regulatory Capture ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🔒 Information Control 📢 Whistleblowing

A Cancer in the Family

by Theodora Ross • 2016

Your family cancer history is a message; decode it and reduce your risk before diagnosis.

4.11

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🧬 Hereditary Cancer 🧪 Genetic Testing 🛡️ Cancer Prevention 💪 Patient Empowerment 🎯 Precision Medicine

A Cancer in the Family 86%

Your family cancer history is a message; decode it and reduce your risk before diagnosis.

by Theodora Ross 2016

4.11

190 ratings

🧬 Hereditary Cancer 🧪 Genetic Testing 🛡️ Cancer Prevention 💪 Patient Empowerment 🎯 Precision Medicine

Limits to Medicine

by Ivan Illich • 1974

Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.

4.04

612

🩺 Medical Criticism 💊 Medicalization 🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness ⚠️ Medical Harm 💀 Death And Medicine

Limits to Medicine 86%

Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.

by Ivan Illich 1974

4.04

612 ratings

🩺 Medical Criticism 💊 Medicalization 🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness ⚠️ Medical Harm 💀 Death And Medicine

The Cannabis Manifesto

by Steve DeAngelo • 2015

A racist ban turned a wellness plant into a dangerous drug. The evidence for undoing it.

4.10

367

🏛️ Drug Policy Reform 🌿 Cannabis Wellness ⚖️ Racial Justice ✊ Civil Rights 🛡️ Harm Reduction

The Cannabis Manifesto 86%

A racist ban turned a wellness plant into a dangerous drug. The evidence for undoing it.

by Steve DeAngelo 2015

4.10

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🏛️ Drug Policy Reform 🌿 Cannabis Wellness ⚖️ Racial Justice ✊ Civil Rights 🛡️ Harm Reduction

Nine Pints

by Rose George • 2018

How a single fluid shaped history, underpins a brutal global trade, and still defies science.

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🏥 Medical History 🌍 Global Health 🩸 Menstrual Taboos 🎗️ HIV/AIDS Crisis ⚖️ Pharmaceutical Ethics

Nine Pints 86%

How a single fluid shaped history, underpins a brutal global trade, and still defies science.

by Rose George 2018

3.82

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🏥 Medical History 🌍 Global Health 🩸 Menstrual Taboos 🎗️ HIV/AIDS Crisis ⚖️ Pharmaceutical Ethics

The Miraculous Results Of Extremely High Doses Of The Sunshine Hormone Vitamin D3 My Experiment With Huge Doses Of D3 From 25,000 To 50,000 To 100,000 Iu A Day Over A 1 Year Period

by Jeff T. Bowles • 2013

Vitamin D at 100,000 IU daily reversed his chronic illness: the evolutionary hibernation signal.

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☀️ Vitamin D 🧪 Orthomolecular Medicine 🔬 Self-Experimentation 🦎 Evolutionary Medicine 💊 Medical Conspiracy

The Miraculous Results Of Extremely High Doses Of The Sunshine Hormone Vitamin D3 My Experiment With Huge Doses Of D3 From 25,000 To 50,000 To 100,000 Iu A Day Over A 1 Year Period 86%

Vitamin D at 100,000 IU daily reversed his chronic illness: the evolutionary hibernation signal.

by Jeff T. Bowles 2013

4.06

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Regenerate

by Sayer Ji • 2020

Melanin isn't just skin color: it's a solar panel that can power your cells.

4.14

348

🧬 Epigenetics 🦠 Gut Microbiome 🗿 Ancestral Health ⚕️ Functional Medicine 🌿 Holistic Health

Regenerate 86%

Melanin isn't just skin color: it's a solar panel that can power your cells.

by Sayer Ji 2020

4.14

348 ratings

🧬 Epigenetics 🦠 Gut Microbiome 🗿 Ancestral Health ⚕️ Functional Medicine 🌿 Holistic Health

The Price We Pay

by Marty Makary • 2019

A CT scan costs $487 here, $13,000 there. A surgeon follows the money.

4.45

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🏥 American Healthcare 💰 Healthcare Economics ⚕️ Overtreatment 💊 Opioid Crisis 💸 Healthcare Pricing

The Price We Pay 86%

A CT scan costs $487 here, $13,000 there. A surgeon follows the money.

by Marty Makary 2019

4.45

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Mosquito

by Andrew Spielman • 2001

Smaller than a fingernail, deadlier than all wars combined: the insect that decided empires.

3.89

436

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Mosquito 86%

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The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick 86%

Caloric restriction, cold showers, and the other ancient secrets of people who never fall ill.

by Gene Stone 2010

3.43

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