Celiac.com 05/16/2020 - Yes, I’m “just a vet,” but I have realized something very important.  If MDs studied veterinary medicine like I have studied human medicine, we would be a lot further down the road toward solving many medical puzzles.
For instance, dogs get multiple sclerosis (MS).  We call it degenerative myelopathy.  It occurs primarily in large breed dogs, with German Shepherds being the number one victim.  In fact, the condition in the dog is so similar to that in people that it was once thought that humans may have contracted it from dogs.  (As canine distemper virus is a paramyxovirus, and with measles and mumps being paramyxoviruses, such transmission may be possible, especially when we see that many viruses that afflict humans are harbored in animals).  If the dist...

Celiac.com 09/24/2021 - Dogs generally rupture cruciate ligaments during a certain stage of their lives.  This is about the same time that other dogs are blowing discs, developing heart murmurs, and suffering from immune mediated diseases and that first big wave of cancer.  Some patterns beg answers, like why do the same old breeds have this happen and even the same time of year?  I don’t think this is a coincidence.  We see a pattern in almost all immune-mediated diseases of tissue, whether it be the eyes, neurological system, or even the kidneys.  They rupture ligaments in one leg and then six months or a year later, sometimes to the day, they blow the other.  
One kidney of the cat with immune glomerulonephritis is almost always smaller than the other.  It’s the breeds that are t...

Celiac.com 10/22/2021 - The iceberg starts by scratching the hull.  The captain and crew had early warning signs but it all happened so quickly from there.  The destruction continues on and the hull is breached, allowing water to rush in.  We are seeing this happen now.  People are starting to perish aren‘t they?  Next, the boat starts to list to starboard.  Passengers are abandoning ship while the crew goes into emergency status.  The pumps are started and priorities set.  It's a bit chaotic but many are still being hopeful and thinking positively.  Those with vision imagine the worst-case scenario and act accordingly.  "I think we can patch this thing up if we back away now and try not to drive this rock any deeper."
Unfortunately, this is man's ‘M.O.", isn't it?  We do have to...

Celiac.com 11/05/2021 - This is going to be a bit different from most of your medical lectures, I think.  I hope you are up for “different”.  If nothing else, the hard copy in your conference notes will give you something to read on the plane home.
“Hmmm—which metaphor do I use to best illustrate the fate of conventional medicine as we now know it?  Which one will give the clearest vision of the dramatic paradigm shift that is now taking place, one that will change the way we practice the art of healing for the rest of man’s days?  Which will they grasp, take to heart, and run with to share with their clients, patients, and loved ones, to give them the good news—the fabulous news—this ‘gospel’ of medicine: That we are in sooooooo much more control of our health destinies than we hav...