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About the Author
You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. After a career in surgery, his focus is to make sense of the madness, and bust myths. Dr. Simpson, an advocate of culinary medicine, believes in teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and doctor “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.

The China Study – Part 1

Part one of our review of The China Study. Examining how Dr. Campbell’s views about animal proteins cause cancer. While many vegetarians use The China Study as the basis for their belief, we might have to shake a few beliefs by examining the basis for his beliefs using modern science and a skeptical eye.

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What We Know About Fat

The USDA recommendations for using less saturated fat and more monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fat were not based no the scientific literature. What we really know about fat, and diet – based on prospective studies, is here- and it isn’t what you think it should be.

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Red Meat and Early Mortality

Does red meat increase your mortality? According to the recent report it does- but when you analyze that report, you find that correlation does not equal causation, and here are just a few major flaws with that study.

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Salmon: How I Like It

I fell back in love with salmon in Alaska when I was in my 20’s. Here are some of my favorite stories, recipes, and tricks about how to make and love some great salmon.

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Road Kill Diet: Introduction

How I started my culinary journey in the South (well, if you are from Alaska everything is in the South). This is a bit of road-kill introduction – don’t worry, no animals were harmed in writing this story. This was a book I was writing called “the Road Kill Diet” but somehow it just never got off the ground- I think it should

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Unethical Medicine Sanctioned

Are we returning to the Dark Ages, where science is less important than political thought? We need to advance our medicine, and not spend resources on Alternative therapies of no benefit.

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Simple Tips to Age Well

Science agrees on a few simple things to help prevent old age from becoming senile old age. Here are a few tips that all of us in medicine agree on- and it just so happens my 87 year old dad and 83 year old mom practice them.

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Scrambled Eggs via Chef Gordon Ramsay

Making the perfect scrambled eggs is an art that is required of any who wish to learn the basics of cooking. Gordon Ramsay has prospective chefs make him scrambled eggs, just to see if they do it right. Well, here is how to do it- along with a video from the man himself.

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Transplant or Hospice

A nurse in Arizona recently steered a patient away from transplantation and to hospice. Was this an act of an angel of mercy – or a rogue nurse blinded by limited experience and education using her position to steer a patient to hospice.

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