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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
It is a fair question to ask of anybody telling you about a medicine: what is their interest in it. Good clinicians answer without flinching, and some have said the unwelcome thing to a room that paid for their flight.
You are not accusing anyone by asking. Talks, printed materials and study days are often funded by the company that makes the drug, and that funding…
There is an old joke among researchers that you should use a new treatment quickly, while it still appears to work. It is funny because early results really do tend to shrink.
First studies are usually small, run by people who believe in the thing, and more likely to reach print when they come out well. Replication brings…
A workable rule for anything new: do not be the first to use it, and do not be the last either. Both ends carry a cost.
Being first means carrying the risks nobody has found yet. Being last means somebody waits years for help that was already sitting there. Most…
If you want to try something alongside your treatment, saffron or whatever it is this year, a decent threshold is whether it is safe and legal. Tell your prescriber either way.
Clinicians who fight over every supplement tend to end up the last to know what someone is actually taking, which is the genuinely risky outcome.…
Holding off on treatment can feel like the safe, neutral option. For a child who is struggling now, it is a choice with its own costs rather than an absence of one.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
It is completely reasonable to want to try gentler things first, and many of them are worth trying. What is worth resisting is the sense that doing…