April 2024 Dear Colleagues and Friends, Although we continue to see an avalanche of information and commentary as the pandemic and political narratives escalate, my commentary section will be a bit shorter this month. I will be participating in Dr. Simon Yu’s Acupuncture Meridian Assessment (AMA) standard workshop April 25-28, 2024 [see Dr. Yu’s website for current registration information]. For now I am busily updating my lectures since I last dusted them off for presentation. Although the history lecture changes little, we are seeing more and more information about [...]
A Report on the 53rd Medicine Week Congress, Baden-Baden Germany 2019 In the few weeks that have passed since the closing of this venerable annual Congress, I’ve managed to recoup, regroup and reorganize not only from the jetlag (after 27 hours of travel and nine time zones coming home) but also within my busily working head. Somehow, this time it was necessary to let the impressions, and information and perceptions gel into a strong focus. As I have on so many occasions, I participated in this year’s congress for [...]
AcciDental Blow Up in Medicine Battle Plan for Your Life By Simon Yu, MD This book shares new information, innovative approaches, case studies and experience, and doctor-patient journeys to illustrate what you can do to get to the roots of your health challenges and empower your health. It contains guidance for physicians, dentists, and other members of healthcare teams who work with patients facing serious chronic and “unexplained illnesses.” For patients, it includes practical health advice and tips that you can use to find new practitioners to work [...]
Forensic Case Study from New York Who else committed the crime of Post-Lyme? The Integrative Medicine for the Treatment of the Tick-borne Diseases Conference will be held in Baltimore on April 20-21, 2018, and the Lyme Disease Association of Delmarva invited me give a talk. I told them I do not treat Lyme disease, I am not Lyme-literate, nor specialized in Lyme disease, in tick-borne disease. They may not like what I have to say, and may be asking the wrong person to give a [...]
Studies show that an infection with the pathogen Toxoplasma gondii can impair the working memory of the elderly (1). Every second German carries the pathogen in himself. Toxoplasmosis is known above all in connection with the health risks during pregnancy and for immunosuppressed persons. But how is the effect on the memory capacity of the elderly explained? The parasite only reproduces in the bowels of cats. The parasite eggs get into foreign organisms through the cat’s excrement, for example to birds or mice. To again come back into the [...]

