As you may have heard me say before, not all doctors are saints. Patients often tend to revere doctors — of which I heartily approve! But as with any group there are always bad apples. And if not all of the apples are bad, there are also incompetent ones. Sometimes they are well-meaning. Sometimes they are just hoping nobody catches on so they don’t lose their livelihood. But I am definitely NOT anti doctor, anti medicine, anti prescriptions or anti anything else. I know there is good and bad everywhere. Unfortunately, in medicine, the bad or the incompetent can mean the death or suffering of innocent people.
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My new private email letter is out. It is brief, but it has some amazing information in it. Read more on …
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My family wanted me to see “Fiddler on the Roof: because it celebrated the “shtetl” — the little Russian village like the one where my “Bobie,” my grandmother of blessed memory, lived before she emigrated to the United States. I did not see it until it reached our local movie theater.
There was one line in that musical that burned upon my personal soul more than any other. It is from perhaps the most famous song from that production, “If I were a Rich Man.” Tevye, the poor little old milkman is daydreaming about what his life would be like if he were a wealthy man. Read more on When The World Encourages You To Gain Weight…
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If you think I bare my soul in this blog, then you would be surprised at how much further I can take – “to the next level” as they like to say – in my private, opt-in newsletter.
I don’t just reprint blog posts in the newsletter – or vice versa. I jump right in to the deep end.
I haven’t produced a newsletter recently – although in some promotional things on my various web page I have called it “weekly” (that’s stretching it). But I have a new one coming out tomorrow. Read more on What Changed When I Wasn’t Looking…
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I’m getting getting ready to send out my first private-list email of the year — and it is long overdue!
If you are not already on my mailing list and want to make sure you receive this newsletter, you can still sign up.
Just fill in the form in the top right-hand corner of this page and click the button. You MUST opt-in to receive this letter, it is sent directly to your email and not available on the web for public viewing. Of course, you can opt-out at any time, if you wish. But this is a non-commercial, non-spam type of newsletter. It is chock-full of my personal opinions and details on what I’m doing in various parts of my life.
You won’t want to miss it — and it is free — so try it out and see. I predict that by Monday, it should be delivered and ready to read.
Take care and be happy — enjoy your weekend.
Dr. G
Filed under News by on Jan 17th, 2013. Comment.
I recently initiated what I call “The Renegade Doctor’s Massive Weight Loss” support group for people who must lose 100 lbs or more for health reasons.
Registration is free and I will be sending regular messages by email about how I achieved my 160-lb weight loss withough diet, exercise, drugs or surgery, as well as recent research, myth-busting facts, nutritional supplement news,and general encouragement and support for those who are undertaking a major weight loss.
Most diet articles, books and programs are for people who want to lose ten or twenty or maybe as much as 50 lbs. However, the majority of obese Americans are well over that. Carrying around 100 lbs or more of extra weight is often called “The American Disease,” and foreigners make jokes about fat Americans and their cheeseburger-culture of overeating and obesity.
It’s terrible to be shamed and made to feel guilty because of your weight. It’s not only cruel strangers, but family members and even doctors who perpetrate such behavior.
Nothing is simple if you do it alone, and massive weight loss is a difficult project. In fact, it’s generally considered hopeless and overweight people are advised to get surgery or take drugs that have harmful side effects.
I’m making my support group available to anyone who is interested, and to make sure that you aren’t getting spammed, I’m making it by subscription only.
Of course, like my subscription newsletter, it is free to sign-up and you can discontinue at any time.
With so much focus on weight and body image in our culture, it is no wonder that people who are heavy get depressed and develop all kinds of physical and emotional symptoms.
Here is the web page where you can read what the support group is all about and sign up for the mailing list.
There will also be free phone conferences, brochures and other support material to help you.
I know how difficult it is — I know how painful living as an obese person can be. And I know the solution.
Take care and be happy — and healthy.
Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
The Renegade Doctor
Filed under weight by on Jul 20th, 2011. 1 Comment.
One of the most popular posts in this blog recently was about the so called “fountain of youth” research into teleomeres.
Well, if you just can’t get enough and want to keep up on the latest developments on longevity research — I mean real science research rather than “try-to-sell-you-a-supplement” research — you should subscribe to my free newsletter.
I send this directly to subscribers and it contains information that does not appear in this public blog. You have to be one of the few, the proud, the well-informed.
My most recent newsletter has an update on teleomere research. You don’t have to miss out. Just go sign up — or as we say in the dot-com world “opt-in” — and you’ll start getting this regularly.
Best of all, you don’t have to miss out on what has been printed earlier. I have an archive of all my past newsletters available — just a click away.
I hope you sign up so we can keep in touch even better.
Take care and be happy!
Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
The Renegade Doctor
Filed under Aging by on Jul 15th, 2011. Comment.
Cute but deadly E. Coli
Subscribers to my newsletter got to read my inside information and some exclusive insights on the E. Coli disaster that is devastating Germany.
But you can read this and other special material that isn’t included in my blog just by signing up for my free newsletter.
The nice Internet Fairies drop it into your email box approximately once a week and they jealously guard your personal information so no mean old spammers will get it.
Of course, as with all ethical and reputable newsletters, it’s easy to unsubscribe any time you get bored with piercing insights into hot topics, interesting oddities of the medical-legal world and the unique opinions of a Renegade Doctor.
I use my brain to give your brain a treat, so if it sounds like something you can wrap your neurons around, go sign up.
PS — there are links to all the back issues you’ve missed. You can find out what I advised about taking Omega-3 Fish Oil supplements, or the puzzling celiac disease that causes so many symptoms and is so easy to treat, or how you can be your own shrink with EFT.
Here’s a handy link to opt-in. Please do it today — I’d love to see your eyes scanning my newsletter next week!
Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
The Renegade Doctor
Filed under Disease by on Jun 12th, 2011. Comment.