Thanks for this focus on disease and all of your investigative journalism, so much needed in these days of the MSM otherwise just "entertaining" us to death. I'm a retired physician/psychiatrist and author of the e-book "Stress R Us", available online for free thanks to the good folks at Stanford. I do wish that you'd include the explanations of the data displayed on your pieces, often at the bottom of the pics but cut off in your reprints. As for COVID-19, I am a LONG COVID survivor and contracted the viral infection in Dec. 2019 in Madison, WI. It spontaneously cleared after a mild flu-like 10 days, but returned with steadily increasing multi-organ involvement 3 mo's later and lasted 15 mo's, significantly infecting every organ in my body, and from which I only survived after 2 Pfizer vaxs. Still have many symptoms/signs, and the medical lit indicates much higher number than in your piece. Both of my cousins down here in rural SE Ohio have symptoms, including the unsteady gait from neurological damage. The truth of the ongoing LONG COVID impact on us is yet to be fully laid out. The accurate list of the top ten killers you display are also called, mostly, "stress diseases", and rightly so, as NONE of them are found in Hunter-Gatherer/pastoralists living in their traditional lifeways. "Paleolithic Prescription" by 3 anthropologist/physicians is a good reference. As for the "depression" mention, our overactive stress responses caused by our stressor filled "modern" "built" physical environments/lifeways is well established as the cause and is elaborated in "Stress R Us". Thanks for your work and HAVE A VERY HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR!. Gregg Miklashek, MD
Thanks for this focus on disease and all of your investigative journalism, so much needed in these days of the MSM otherwise just "entertaining" us to death. I'm a retired physician/psychiatrist and author of the e-book "Stress R Us", available online for free thanks to the good folks at Stanford. I do wish that you'd include the explanations of the data displayed on your pieces, often at the bottom of the pics but cut off in your reprints. As for COVID-19, I am a LONG COVID survivor and contracted the viral infection in Dec. 2019 in Madison, WI. It spontaneously cleared after a mild flu-like 10 days, but returned with steadily increasing multi-organ involvement 3 mo's later and lasted 15 mo's, significantly infecting every organ in my body, and from which I only survived after 2 Pfizer vaxs. Still have many symptoms/signs, and the medical lit indicates much higher number than in your piece. Both of my cousins down here in rural SE Ohio have symptoms, including the unsteady gait from neurological damage. The truth of the ongoing LONG COVID impact on us is yet to be fully laid out. The accurate list of the top ten killers you display are also called, mostly, "stress diseases", and rightly so, as NONE of them are found in Hunter-Gatherer/pastoralists living in their traditional lifeways. "Paleolithic Prescription" by 3 anthropologist/physicians is a good reference. As for the "depression" mention, our overactive stress responses caused by our stressor filled "modern" "built" physical environments/lifeways is well established as the cause and is elaborated in "Stress R Us". Thanks for your work and HAVE A VERY HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR!. Gregg Miklashek, MD