Edfuscation in biomedical research and education
On 28 May 2016, I coined and defined the terms "edfuscate" and "edfuscation" to denote a type of education (formal information transmittal) that is contaminated with the intent to confuse, generally for the sake of creating some type of dependency, whether that is subjugating the reader/attendee/student to the pseudoknowledge of the writer/teacher, maintaining the status quo via use of thought-terminating clichés, or artificially creating a need for a service or product. Educ
Studying (not Traveling) is the Path to Learning and Gaining Expertise and Mastery
Textbooks and video tutorials: Inflammation Mastery, 4th Edition contains the updated version of most of the main protocols, bound together in a single volume of nearly 1200 pages. The work is also available as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine; Volume 1 contains Chapters 1-4 and Volume 2 contains Chapter 5. One can get oriented to the work by viewing the PDF excerpt, a large file of approximately 50 pages including the Table of Co
Functional Medicine for Inflammatory Disorders and the Foundational Diet-Nutrition
Title: Functional Medicine for Inflammatory Disorders and the Foundational Diet-Nutrition Protocol: Introduction to Dr Vasquez's "Functional Inflammology Protocol" and Supplemented Paleo-Mediterranean Diet Description: This ebook excerpt provides an introduction --via text, illustrations, and video presentations-- to the structured and integrated "intellectual structure" of functional medicine, which allows for a complete comprehension of disease, thereby facilitating better
Books and Learning
Dr Vasquez: "Headlines and soundbites allow us to select and reinforce the ideas we want to see and hear. Articles provide information; essays provide perspectives and ideas. Textbooks can simply provide organized information, as an assemblage of articles, or --if structured-- can provide complete systems of thought, allowing not simply for the transmission of information but for the transferal of intellectual structure, an integrated system of thought." Emerson: "It is remar
Conferences and Your Carbon Footprint: The most expensive and least efficient way to access new info
Summary: Most of the time and effort and money invested in traveling to a conference has nothing to do with learning; we should consider the lack of learning efficiency, or learning inefficiency, and the massive costs in transportation, plus the residual carbon footprint Air-travel leaves a huge carbon footprint Article: Specific Climate Impact of Passenger and Freight Transport Environ. Sci. Technol., 2010 Calculator: carbonfootprint.com/ What time-money costs are involved i
Poisoning Our Brains with Pesticides such as Glyphosate: autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity dis
Poisoning Our Brains with Pesticides: autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia Quote: "Boston, MA – Toxic chemicals may be triggering the recent increases in neurodevelopmental disabilities among children—such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia—according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The researchers say a new global prevention strategy to control the
Fix your Fibromyalgia with Dr Vasquez's Updated Protocol
Original CME publication and validation in 2008: Monograph commissioned and accredited for continuing medical education (CME) by the Institute for Functional Medicine, titled "Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies." Updated in 2011 as "Fibromyalgia in a Nutshell" and then completely revised in early 2016: Now available in beautiful full-color as Pain Revolution for Migraine and Fibromyalgia: The Paradigm-Shifting Guide for Doctors and Patients Dealing with Chroni
Pesticide (including Glyphosate) Exposure with Neurologic Dysfunction and Disease (including Parkins
Quote: "Case reports have described Parkinson disease in individuals exposed to OPs; to herbicides including glyphosate, paraquat, and diquat; and to fungicides including maneb and other dithiocarbamates. Higher concentrations of organochlorines, particularly dieldrin, have been found in postmortem brains of Parkinson disease patients compared to patients with other neurologic diseases.", from Kamel and Hoppin Association of Pesticide Exposure with Neurologic Dysfunction and
Nutritional ignorance in medicine: Critique of the garbage published in Journal of Pediatrics on glu
Article being reviewed: Norelle R. Reilly, MD. The Gluten-Free Diet: Recognizing Fact, Fiction, and Fad. Journal of Pediatrics 2016 in press May Importance: This article was widely distributed in the media via press releases and television coverage; therefore its accuracy/falsity is of potential high importance based on wide distribution and the fact that it was published in a presumably important journal, which has revealed itself to be unreliable by virtue of this publicati
BRAIN INFLAMMATION BLOG #2: The Hijacking of Fibromyalgia
I was right in 2008 and 2011: In 2008, I published the first (to my knowledge) integrated model of fibromyalgia in a CME monograph commissioned by the Institute for Functional Medicine. In 2011 I created the video immediately below based on the book I had just published titled Migraine Headaches, Hypothyroidism, and Fibromyalgia which has now been replaced by the full-color Pain Revolution in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (digital ebook available) and the cheaper grayscale excerp