The balance in my love-hate relationship with alternative and natural medicine starts to tip towards hate. Mostly because of the endless stream of nonsense and noise the proponents generate and the harm it causes to innocent people. This email I recently got is a good example of the d

The web is full of rumors and hearsay about vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) for acne, but there’s a gaping black hole when it comes to credible, evidence-based information. Let’s fix that now. The point of this post is to take a critical look at the claims that you can treat

No matter how much I write there are always some questions I haven’t answered. That’s why I like getting questions and feedback from you. They also give me more material to write about. After an email from a reader in Norway I got this idea of answering some of the questions as Reader

When you are reading about natural acne cures sooner or later you are going to bump into Candida. Alternative medicine proponents almost universally demonize Candida. This yeast that lives in all of us is said to be behind countless, unrelated health problems. While it’s true that Can

Many Candida proponents say you can diagnose Candida with what’s known as the ‘spit test’. Basically first thing in the morning you spit in a glass of water and wait for 10 to 20 minutes. If you see ‘strings’ or ‘legs’ hanging down from saliva, or cloudy saliva, or cloudy specks suspe