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Gregory Sloop

Publicizing the Benefits of Donating Blood Could Relieve the Blood Shortage

The American Red Cross declared a blood crisis in January 2022 because of decreased donations caused by the CoVid-19 pandemic. This blood…

4 min readApr 17, 2022

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Publicizing the Benefits of Donating Blood Could Relieve the Blood Shortage

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Gregory Sloop

Bloodletting: The Magic Bullet for the Diseases of Superabundance

Outdated notions about bloodletting make it the object of physicians’ scorn — and gross-out everyone else. It was how benighted medieval…

6 min readSep 16, 2021

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Bloodletting: The Magic Bullet for the Diseases of Superabundance

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Gregory Sloop

Optimal Hydration Will Limit Complications after Vaccination for COVID-19

One lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that inflammation increases the thickness or viscosity of blood. This is because the…

2 min readSep 14, 2021

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Optimal Hydration Will Limit Complications after Vaccination for COVID-19

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Gregory Sloop

The Antarctic Icefish: Intelligently Designed

The biochemist Michael Behe distinguishes between evolution, the idea that organisms derive from their ancestors, and the process by which…

12 min readJun 5, 2021

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Gregory Sloop

Medical Fads, Part I. Vitamin D Supplementation and the Pitfalls of Observational Studies

In their book Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2015) Vinayak Prasad…

4 min readDec 15, 2020

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Medical Fads, Part I. Vitamin D Supplementation and the Pitfalls of Observational Studies

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Gregory Sloop

Fear of Food

Confront your fear and prolong your life with the dietary strategy known as “calorie restriction”

7 min readDec 3, 2020

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Fear of Food

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Gregory Sloop

Elevated Blood Viscosity Causes Complications of COVID-19

One of the extraordinary medical aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the high rate of blood clotting in critically ill patients. In one…

5 min readJun 16, 2020

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Elevated Blood Viscosity Causes Complications of COVID-19

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Gregory Sloop

Managing the Diseases of Superabundance

One hundred years ago, most deaths in the U.S. were caused by infections, and life expectancy was in the low to mid-fifties. One might…

9 min readJul 1, 2019

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Gregory Sloop

The Vascular Elasticity Theory of Aging

Mother Nature sometimes shares her secrets in the form of fun facts. For example, mammals usually have roughly the same number of…

7 min readJun 3, 2019

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What Do Paradigm Shifts Look Like?

How often is the mainstream proven wrong within the span of a single lifetime? We no longer believe the sun goes around the Earth, but the…

10 min readMay 13, 2019

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What Do Paradigm Shifts Look Like?

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Gregory Sloop

Gregory Sloop

Associate Professor of Pathology, Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine. Always fighting the power. Thank you for reading my work.

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