Medical & Health Memes 🌲🐸🌲

While elevated blood sugars contribute substantially to vascular disease, implying it is the only cause would be an oversimplification…

📚This is a book from 1897 by a physician : Read what the doctors themselves were saying about themselves at the times and tell me your thoughts : “Gentleman, 99 out of every 100 medical facts are medical lies, and medical doctrines are for the most part stark, staring nonsense.” “The greatest mortality of any profession, is that of doctors themselves.”

The real machinery of bone health is cellular, hormonal, and mechanical, not a magic vitamin. The myth that K2 “cements” calcium into bone is a sales tactic, not science. Billions have been made on the back of a story that dissolves under even basic biological scrutiny. https://medicinegirl.substack.com/p/not-a-wham-bam-thank-you-maam-vitamin

https://bartoll.se/2026/07/fit-mom-gave-herself-colon-cancer/

🎆 For about ten years, the most trusted face in cigarette advertising was your doctor. In 1946 R. J. Reynolds launched a campaign with a slogan that ran everywhere: more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette. The image was always the same. A wise, kindly physician, white coat, stethoscope, the very picture of expertise, having a quiet, reassuring smoke. The message needed no translation. If the doctor smokes them, they are safe. Now let’s look at how that "more doctors smoke Camels" finding was actually produced. Reynolds sent representatives to medical conventions and handed out free cartons of Camels. Then, as the doctors left, they asked them which brand they had on them. The men had a free packet of Camels in their pocket, because they had just been given one. That was the survey. That was the “science” behind the most famous medical endorsement in advertising history !

https://bartoll.se/2026/07/cholesterol-inheritance-scam/

🎆 The tallest people on the planet in 1850 had never seen a loaf of bread. They rode the American plains and they lived on buffalo. Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology, measured over a thousand of them across eight tribes, and the figures sat forgotten in an archive until two economists, Steckel and Prince, dug them out and published them in the American Economic Review in 2001. The Cheyenne averaged five foot ten. The Sioux and the Blackfeet a shade under. Every plains tribe stood taller than the white settlers pushing west at around five foot six, and taller than every nation in Europe, who were shorter still. The people the United States was busy calling savages were the best-built human beings alive, and the men sent to civilise them had to look up to do it. The diet was the buffalo. Meat, fat, marrow, liver, tongue, the hump, pemmican pounded from dried flesh and rendered fat to carry them through winter. Grain barely featured. The plate a modern dietitian would confiscate built the tallest population in recorded history.

https://bartoll.se/2026/07/carnivore-will-not-make-you-sick/