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London Izabella-Ryén Gadd was just 12 years old when she died. She was a bright, empathetic, and deeply loved young girl who locked arms with her mom when they walked together and felt everything more deeply than most. Looking back at her life, it is clear that London was not a broken child. When she…Continue reading Not Broken, Betrayed: How the System Killed 12-Year-Old London Gadd
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Nobody in their right mind would seriously defend the puppy mill operations that exist in the United States. Yet, like so many other seemingly well-intentioned causes captured by the nonprofit industrial complex (which, let’s not forget, often profits from a problem rather than solving it), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals…Continue reading The Puppy Mill Industrial Complex
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As of 2022, one in four emergency departments in the United States was staffed by a private equity-owned physician group. That figure is likely higher today, given the rapid pace of acquisitions since then. Here is an example. When ER physicians arrived for work at Valley Health in Winchester, VA, on April 2nd, they had…Continue reading The Private Equity Takeover of America’s Emergency Rooms
An 84-year-old woman wakes up in excruciating back pain. An ambulance rushes her to Vancouver General Hospital. She is frightened, hurting, and barely settled into the emergency room when the first physician approaches her. Before any diagnosis. Before any treatment plan. Before so much as a scan. The very first words out of the doctor’s…Continue reading The Quiet Kill: How Assisted Suicide Became a Growth Industry
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For those who still need proof that the pharmaceutical industry views human health as a commodity and patients as revenue streams, a new review published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics just handed it to you—documented, sourced, and damning. The study abstract declared: “Reported bribes amounted to about US $12.6 million, with sanctions exceeding…Continue reading Nineteen Companies. Twenty-One Investigations. Zero Admissions of Wrongdoing.
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For decades, an increasingly unhealthy American public has been handed the same story. The human body is fragile, complicated, and largely dependent on medical intervention to function properly. Got a problem? Hold on, there’s a drug for that. Feeling run down? Probably a deficiency. Something more serious? Here’s a lifelong prescription. What we haven’t been…Continue reading Your Body Was Never Broken. That Was the Point.
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“Life is what happens when you’re making plans. This is one of those stories.” That’s how Del Bigtree introduced Ed Clay during a recent conversation on The HighWire, and it’s hard to think of a better way to describe the path that led Clay from professional fighting to running a regenerative medicine hospital. The Nashville-born…Continue reading Ed Clay’s Hardest Fight: Former MMA Fighter Steps Into One of Medicine’s Most Controversial Frontiers
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The framers of our Constitution incorporated two divine rights into the founding documents of America: religious freedom and church-state separation. The failed pandemic response strained these rights, and many others, for U.S. citizens seeking vaccine exemptions on religious grounds. The legal battles playing out over COVID-era religious violations and state-level moves to deny such rights…Continue reading 2026’s Pivotal Fight For Religious Medical Freedom
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That “sugar-free” label center stage on the protein bar wrapper? Or the one promising guilt-free bit of sweetness in our morning cup of coffee? Well, it turns out that hailed sugar-free sweetener might be doing something our bodies—and our brains—were not designed to handle. Yes, we’re talking about erythritol, the innocent sweetener that sits in…Continue reading Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier: The Erythritol Problem
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