Peanut allergies and hormone replacement therapy are just the beginning.
Dr. Marty Makary examines how some of the medical establishment’s biggest health recommendations in recent decades have been unfounded and even dangerous.
“Suddenly emergency department visits for peanut anaphylaxis — a life-threatening allergic swelling of the airways — skyrocketed, and schools began enacting peanut bans,” writes Makary. But in 2002, the National Institutes of Health declared that HRT resulted in a “26% higher incidence of breast cancerThe pronouncement came from a study of nearly 17,000 women by Stanford and Harvard researchers, but it wasn’t backed up by the actual data. There was no “statistically significant difference in the rates of breast cancer among women on HRT compared to those who took a placebo,” writes Makary. “The authors had misrepresented their data. But amazingly, hardly anyone noticed.
But, he writes, “the overprescribing of antibiotics is causing more harm that we may realize” — namely to gut health, which can potentially lead to a host of health issues. More research is needed, but Makary notes this is yet another assumption we shouldn’t take for granted.
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