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Blind Spots When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means

Marty Makary
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 ISBN: 9781785126918
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Is HRT unsafe? Should you avoid giving peanut butter to small children? Will eating eggs cause your cholesterol to rise? In Blind Spots a medical expert shows how inaccurate research has driven these myths, and reveals what you really need to know to make good decisions about your health.More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in history. Why? In 2000, the American Academy of Paediatrics followed the UK Department of Health in issuing a strict recommendation that parents avoid giving their children peanut products until they were three years old. The resulting lack of early exposure drove intolerance, and the US now leads the world in peanut allergies.How could the experts have gotten it so wrong? This is just one example. Doctors said for decades that opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid crisis. They refused menopausal women hormone replacement therapy, causing unnecessary suffering. They demonised natural fat in foods, driving patients to eat processed carbohydrates as obesity soared. They over-prescribed antibiotics and caused a drug-resistant bacteria crisis.When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when medicine is interpreted through dogmatic groupthink, it can harm patients. In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics and reveals the truths essential to our health.