MESSAGE, to friends of cbhrt.ca, November 25, 2023 Hi, and best wishes, to all, for the festive season and the new year! Following much deliberation, I have elected to migrate my “WordPress” website (cbhrt.ca), to Substack. cbhrt.ca, Vs substack I started cbhrt.ca, a free service, via “WordPress” in July of 2020, in the interest of readers and their doctors. The WordPress site, with 18 pages and 77 blog posts, is expensive to maintain and up to now (December 2023), my request for donations has fallen on deaf ears. Contributions have been zero. Substack on the other hand, is available at…

This just in (November 08, 2023), from Medscape news – A report, by Khushi Mandowara: a Biogen-Sage Therapeutics pill called Zurzuvae, is available for treating Postpartum Depression. Zurzuvae will cost $15,900, for a 14 day treatment, which may need to be repeated. Background: In pregnancy, maternal hormone production goes into overdrive. Not only are Estradiol (the main Estrogen), Estriol (the main estrogen of pregnancy) and Progesterone (the“pregnancy hormone”), increased: DHEA, Testosterone, Thyroid Hormone and particularly, Allopregnanolone (the brain hormone), all increase. Production of these hormones reduces a couple of days before delivery and “hits bottom” after childbirth.The result is a sudden, acute…

The Controversy The controversy regarding “Israel’s right, to defend itself”, vs. the Palestinians’ complaints of discrimination and “underprivileged status” is currently a conversational “hot potato”: each side in the debate about the Israeli-Hamas war finds it difficult to appreciate the other’s attitude and reactions. Obviously, without detailing one argument or the other, a disconnect exists: a “knee-jerk response”, which renders each unable to understand the other’s inability to see their point of view. Perhaps, in the name of mutual understanding, we should examine the reasons for our failure of reason; but such examination would necessitate protracted explanation, inevitably leading to…

Here we go, to BAT, again! Graphic 1, from Wikipedia: BAT cells have many active mitochondria and WAT cells have hardly any. On the other hand, white fat cells swell, with a huge globule of fatty acids and oils, while BAT does not store fats. A few WAT (white adipose tissue) progenitor (stem) cells can convert to “Beige adipocytes” in cold-weather conditions, or when stimulated by continuous administration of Triiodothyronine (T3), but they are less efficient heat producers than the BAT is. White, brown and beige adipocytes (from Wikipedia). A report from “Medscape”, written by Courtney Southwick, dated 10/17/23, advises…

Long Covid, Depression and Anxiety This just in: a report, from “Medscape Medical News”, on an article documenting the neuropsychiatric complications of Long Covid, especially the high rates of depression and anxiety. The note was written by Sarah Novak and published on 10/10/23 (designation of this article as “news” is “iffy”, since the original article is more than 2 years old; but it’s worth a comment, anyway – vide infra). To quote Ms. Novak, “It’s a surprising finding that shows that those with Long COVID complications may experience more mental distress than people with other chronic illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s…

Re: interferon Covid 19 and “Long Covid” continue to present a thorny problem for individuals, doctors, nurses, hospitals and the public health system. Much has been written about Covid and new reports continue to occupy my newsfeed– I flag all interesting looking reports (on many subjects – not just Covid) and I try to examine them for interesting material on an ongoing basis. Occasionally, however an important paper is overlooked. This one, on INTERFERON, was published in Feb. 2023: but I only just found it, while reviewing unread articles. The paper was submitted by Prof. Dr. F. Perry Wilson, MD,…

A new article, which has created a stir in “Covid sciences” circles, was noticed and reported on 3/7/23, when it was still at the “preprint” stage: many news feeds carried it. I have eliminated Scientific terminology and the fine details of the trial protocol, so as to render this very important article easier to understand, by my readers. The full article was published by CT Bramante et al., on 6/8/23. In case you want to read it, here are the particulars:“Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3…

We continue to be bombarded with scientific articles, detailing new modifiers and new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease: most of these are ineffective, but some reports do contain a hint of a possible solution. Encouraging news The latest effort is entitled “ALZ-801 for 2 years sustained cognition in early Alzheimer’s: no safety issues seen in a 2 year long, Phase 2 trial of Alzheon’s oral therapy”, posted by Steve Bryson, PhD, in “Alzheimer’s news today”, on 22 September, 2023. This report describes a Phase 2 clinical trial (NCT04693520), designed to evaluate the two-year safety and efficacy of daily ALZ-801 in 84…

Medscape Medical News, a medical information newsfeed, sends me daily suggestions for articles to read, and I save the URLs for interesting items. In the batch I received on September 18, 2023, is a report regarding the risk profile of statin drugs, by Megan Brooks. The report advises us that “A newly published scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) focuses on the impact of aggressive low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering on the risk for dementia and hemorrhagic stroke.” You can access Ms. Brooks’ report by clicking on the link, or at https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996569?ecd=mkm_ret_230923_mscpmrk_neuro_brain-diet_etid5882072&uac=235227EV&impID=5882072, via your browser. The article, on…

About Lyme disease: its relationship to Intracellular Hypothyroidism: origin, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment. An old friend, who is an avid and successful vegetable gardener, is passionate about mushrooms, especially chanterelles (Fig. 2), which abound in the woods of Ontario and are easily found, if you know what to look for. So successful is he in the chanterelle hunt, that he is able to augment his income (a bit!) by selling them to knowledgeable restaurants. 2023 has been a bumper year, for chanterelles and my friend, while keeping himself amply supplied, sold his surplus for more than $1,000. In July however he…