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Trapped Between What Modern Medicine Knows and What It Cannot Say
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A Message from Dr. McMillan
One of the greatest challenges now facing medicine is not scientific—it is ethical.
Clinicians are increasingly encountering patients who are clearly unwell, yet fall outside existing clinical guidelines. Tests are normal. Protocols offer no direction. And so the question becomes uncomfortable but unavoidable: do we prioritise patient advocacy, or do we retreat into professional fraternalism and self-protection?
At present, too many patients are being left in limbo—not because answers don’t exist, but because pursuing them requires stepping outside rigid frameworks. That takes courage. It takes humility. And it takes a willingness to say, “I don’t know yet—but I will not abandon you.”
The future of medicine may well depend on how we answer that question.
Dr. Philip McMillan
In this week's January 9th, 2026 update:
Covid-19: What modern medicine knows and what it cannot say
Vejon: This week’s featured Vejon video
Health: It could be a good idea to ditch the diet This new year
Infographic: Patients who are 'Fine'
News: Medical news in brief
Education: Heal yourself. Help others. Learn the ROOT approach
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FEATURE ARTICLE
COVID-19
Patients who are 'Fine': Trapped Between What Modern Medicine Knows and What It Cannot Say
Authors: Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan
Current Omicron variants are neurotropic, causing neurological symptoms like headaches and nerve pain rather than respiratory illness.
Patients present with genuine suffering but normal test results, leaving doctors without established diagnostic frameworks.
Treatment requires simultaneously addressing immune dysregulation and clotting abnormalities to break the self-perpetuating cycle.
Patients progress through stages: persistent infection, immune dysregulation, chronic inflammation, metabolic collapse, and organ failure.
Why this is important: Millions of patients are experiencing genuine symptoms that standard medical tests cannot detect. As COVID variants increasingly target the nervous system rather than the lungs, doctors find themselves without diagnostic tools or treatment protocols, leaving suffering patients dismissed as "fine" while an unrecognized health crisis could be slowly unfolding.
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HEALTH
Why It Could Be a Good Idea to Ditch the Diet This New Year
Author: Beverley O’Hara, Leeds Beckett University
BMI is a flawed measure, it doesn't assess body fat, fitness, or metabolic health, and people can be healthy at various sizes.
Cultural pressure to be thin causes psychological harm, with eating disorders rising sharply among children and adolescents.
Environmental factors like processed food and sedentary lifestyles drive weight gain at a population level, regardless of individual willpower.
Focusing on body acceptance, fitness, and diet quality offers more sustainable benefits than pursuing weight loss targets.
Why this is important: Millions abandon New Year diets feeling like failures, but research shows this guilt is misplaced. Body size alone is a poor indicator of health, and our obsession with thinness fuels eating disorders and psychological harm. Embracing body acceptance over weight loss targets may be the healthier, more rational choice.
INFOGRAPHIC
EDUCATION
The McMillan Community is home to the ROOT Approach - a clear, structured system for understanding inflammation, health timelines, and recovery.
We are building a 12-week guided course designed to help you apply ROOT principles to your own health first, and then safely support others through education, insight, and pattern recognition.
This is for those who want understanding — not shortcuts.
MEDICAL NEWS IN BRIEF
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
🚥 Successful 40-Hz Auditory Stimulation in Aged Monkeys Suggests Potential for Noninvasive Alzheimer's Therapy: A rapidly spreading flu variant is driving a surge in U.S. cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. With fewer than half of Americans vaccinated for flu, health officials urge action. Current flu vaccines still reduce severe illness, making it critical to get vaccinated before the outbreak worsens. [SOURCE]
🚥 Illness Is More Than Just Biological – Medical Sociology Shows How Social Factors Get under the Skin and Cause Disease: Your zip code can predict your lifespan as reliably as your genetic code. This research reveals how poverty, racism, and social class physically embed themselves in our bodies, causing disease and early death. True health reform requires fixing housing, education, and employment, not just hospitals. [SOURCE]
🚥 New AI Model Predicts Disease Risk While You Sleep: Your routine sleep study might become a crystal ball. By analyzing brain waves, heart rhythms, and breathing patterns from a single night, this AI can forecast your risk for Parkinson's, dementia, heart attacks, and certain cancers years before symptoms emerge, potentially transforming one test into a whole-body health preview. [SOURCE]
🚥 Eating More Food Preservatives Linked to Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Common preservatives lurking in everyday processed foods and drinks may be quietly raising your diabetes risk. French researchers tracking over 100,000 adults found that higher intake of these shelf-life extenders was linked to up to 49% greater odds of developing type 2 diabetes, suggesting fresh foods remain the safer choice. [SOURCE]
🚥 Why Nail-Biting, Procrastination and Other Self-Sabotaging Behaviors Are Rooted in Survival Instincts: Compulsive behaviors like obsessive handwashing may not be mindless habits after all. Researchers found brain inflammation triggers more deliberate decision-making, not less. This challenges decades of assumptions and opens doors to new treatments for conditions affecting millions, from OCD to addiction. [SOURCE]
🚥 Widely Used Pesticide Linked to More Than Doubled Parkinson's Risk: Millions were exposed to chlorpyrifos before restrictions took effect. Current research pinpoints exactly how the pesticide damages brain cells and identifies a specific cellular process that, if restored, could protect neurons. For those with past exposure, this opens doors to targeted monitoring and potential preventive treatments for Parkinson's disease. [SOURCE]
BOOK NOOK
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