Category: Critical Thinking & Health Literacy
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Do Parasites Cause Cancer? The Real Science Behind a Highly Contested Claim
Parasites causing cancer and anti-parasitic drugs curing it are two different claims, at two different evidence tiers. Here’s the real, documented science — including a close look at the viral fenbendazole story and what the actual evidence does and doesn’t support.
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Magnesium: The Invisible Deficiency Behind Anxiety, Migraines, and Poor Sleep
Magnesium is involved in 300+ enzymatic reactions and may be the most overlooked mineral deficiency in modern diets. Here’s the honest, carefully-sourced picture on its role in nervous system excitability — including what the evidence does and doesn’t support.
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Potassium: The Mineral Most Americans Are Dangerously Deficient In
Salt gets all the attention in electrolyte conversations — potassium is the more consequential gap for most people. Here’s what it actually does, why modern diets fall short, and the real cardiac risks of supplementing carelessly.
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Why Won’t Anyone Agree on Salt? The Sodium Debate No One Is Framing Honestly
Cardiologists say cut it. Functional medicine says most people need more. Medical Medium says only “mineral salts” from vegetables count. Here’s why the confident voices disagree — and the medication and diet factors none of them are accounting for.
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You’re Not Stuck — You’re Seeing Clearly
This post closes out the full argument — not with instructions, but with something most systems have a structural interest in keeping just out of reach: confidence in your own judgment. You’re not stuck. You’re seeing clearly.
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Support, Not Control: A Simpler Way to Think About Healing
Healing sounds complicated until the underlying principle gets simplified: the body doesn’t respond well to being forced, it responds well to being supported. Here’s what that actually means in practice.
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You Don’t Need Certainty — You Need Clarity
After seeing the patterns clearly, the real question becomes what to do with the awareness. Here’s why the goal was never a new system to obey — and why clarity, not certainty, is what actually makes a decision genuinely your own.
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Nature Isn’t a Luxury Input — It’s a Baseline One
Modern indoor life quietly eliminates inputs the body was built to receive — morning light chief among them. Here’s why nature isn’t a luxury add-on to wellness, but closer to a baseline the body was already calibrated to expect.
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Isolation Dressed as Capability: Why Independence Isn’t the Same as Doing Everything Alone
There’s a version of independence that looks admirable from a distance and costs considerably more than it appears to. Here’s why isolation is sometimes dressed up as capability — and why real support is a variable that changes outcomes.
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The Skill School Never Taught: Evaluating Instead of Receiving
Following instructions and evaluating whether they’re true are two entirely different skills — and only one of them was ever systematically taught. Here’s why that gap isn’t a personal failing, and how the skill can be built now.