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…