Gluten: How Much Is Too Much?

If you have a gluten-related disease, know someone with gluten sensitivity or just wonder about how someone could ever give up croissants for life, you might be interested in a nice article in MedScape that asks the question, how much gluten is too much? gluten is present in tons of food – everything […]

Taming The Retch

For the last week, we here at Doc Gurley headquarters have been experiencing a 24/7, one-after-the-other, family-wide puke-o-rama. If you didn’t know better, you’d think we were joyfully re-enacting a cruise-ship Norwalk virus outbreak – perhaps for a rapt CDC audience. You know what it’s like – one day, you’re busy with your many tasks. […]

Meet The FTC, Your New Drug Watchdog.

The FTC recently stepped in and – after lengthy (and more than fair) warnings – charged five companies with ‘making false and misleading claims for cancer cures’ and they are set to go in front of judges in court. Several other companies settled for fairly trivial financial amounts and before even that over a hundred […]

A Silver Lining In The Silver Lining…

Here’s a nice data-review in the Harvard Health News about the role of optimism and health. This article is a good summary of several large studies on whether having a better outlook on life can help your health. It is a long article (four online dense pages), so here, for all you Doc Gurley readers, […]

From The Malebag: Man Up, Dude!

Reader Response: The recent Doc Gurley post, Asking: Or Is It Pimping? provoked interesting and very insightful comments from our readers – and also revealed a profound difference of opinion. One school-of-thought reader put it most succinctly by stating: “Sounds like whinning (sic) to me, Gurley…Man up, dude.”

Doc Gurley Perspective: I, for one, love […]

Joy Tidbits

Here’s a great article about specific, science-based ways to increase the joy in your life. Based on some relatively small studies, these tips range from the abstract to the hard-nosed. Take a look at the list below, then read my take on two of these tips – one gets a yes! and, one gets an […]