by Dr Fredric Coe and Jill Harris, LPN | May 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Is plant based milk as good a calcium source as whole milk? Is reduced fat milk as good as whole milk? What do we mean by ‘good’? Why not a couple of calcium pills and forget about drinking any kind of milk? Simple question, complicated answers. Why...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 22, 2024 | For Scientists
Perhaps because we are at the threshold of medicine itself, and therefore at the junction between science and medicine, it might be worthwhile to view science in society from a broader perspective. I confess at the outset a lack of expertise. The societal forces that...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 21, 2024 | For Scientists
As difficult as it is to imagine a novel and useful set of facts, or some new way of doing things, the difficulty is much greater when what may prove useful is how nature does something. For unlike facts, or a made thing whose function we can easily test, we cannot...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 18, 2024 | For Scientists
This is the third of a group of articles that concerns science in relation to commerce and society in the case of medicine. We’ve already spoken about empiricism as one of the three forms of knowledge, but we haven’t said very much about what it looks...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Jill Harris, LPN | Oct 15, 2024 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
We have already shown you that drinking just some sugar water will raise your urine calcium and at the same time lower your urine volume. The net effect will raise kidney stone risk by saturating stone forming salts. We obviously did not do a good enough job. It...
