Provocative Therapy
Surprise! Surprise! Stress can cause heart attacks!
In a discovery of cosmic significance, it has just been proved scientifically that men are more likely to suffer heart attacks and strokes after enduring great stress. Didn’t we already know this? Apparently not. Let me explain…
Organisations such as the British Heart Foundation (BHF) have until now claimed that ‘there is no evidence to [...] Read more »
The Disappearance of the G-spot
In the history of anatomy, it is an extremely rare occurrence for a part of the body to be declared not to exist. Yet this week the Journal of Sexual Medicine will publish an article that claims that the ‘idea of a G-spot is subjective’ – which means that the much written and chattered about [...] Read more »
2010: Will irony will show us the way?
Meditating on the decade that was, the words of the poet W.H. Auden came to mind:
The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to [...] Read more »
The Pie gets more emphatic!
The Pie Man has the noble duty of delivering this pie chart to those who jeer at homeopathy and CAM because they consider them to be less than evidence-based. In the name of truth and beauty*, the Pie Man attempts to make it clear that most of common conventional medical interventions are far from evidence-based [...] Read more »
Of Rats and Junk Food Junkies
It’s official. Junk food is almost as addictive as heroin! And no I’m not being provocative just for the hell of it. (Provocative therapists should never be gratuitously provocative.) No, the men in the white coats with bad news this time are neurobiologists, Dr Paul Johnson and Dr Paul Kenny. The Daily Telegraph reports today [...] Read more »
Good News for Men: Fast cars are good for your health!
People love to mock men who buy Porches when they enter middle age. Common ways of belittling these guys is to mutter things like ‘mid-life crisis’ or ‘male menopause’. Well it turns out that fast cars, especially fast red cars really are good for the health of middle-aged men!
There is now evidence for this and [...] Read more »
Could sperm be the secret elixir of eternal youth?
With more and more talk of prolonging life to 100 and beyond, doctors may feel under increasing pressure to be able to deliver what the media promise. Clerics are in trouble too: Why talk eschatologically about life after death when it might be possible to live forever [...] Read more »
Provocative Therapy and Homeopathy
On the website of Frank Farrelly, the founder of Provocative Therapy, is a quotation by a homeopathic doctor attending one of Frank’s courses in Germany. The doctor (unnamed) sees similarity between the processes of Provocative Therapy and Homeopathy in that they are both contrarian in methodology, paradoxical in effect and stimulate a natural healing response [...] Read more »
Less fun for girls?
Just returned from holiday and glancing at the headlines saw this one warning all women to ‘Cut food and drink to avoid breast cancer’. The Daily Mail headline is explained further by the subheading ‘18,000 women a year could be saved by exercise and dieting’
Here’s the thing: Research by none other than the World Cancer [...] Read more »
Obesity: The way the West will be lost?
As a physician, I’m aware of the dangers of obesity to health of course. But never in my wildest dreams did I suspect that obesity could be the cause of the decline of Western civilisation? Did I even think that it could be a reason why we could lose the struggle in Afghanistan, a place [...] Read more »
