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Lindsey Elmore

Lindsey Elmore is a Speaker, Author, and Advocate of Natural Wellness
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10/31/2026

If you take a blood pressure medication and a diuretic, the most dangerous
thing in your medicine cabinet might be the ibuprofen.

Not because ibuprofen is a bad drug. Because of what those three do to your
kidney on the same day.

In a study of roughly 487,000 people, adding a painkiller to just ONE of
those blood pressure drugs did not raise the rate of kidney injury. It is
the full three together - a diuretic, an ACE inhibitor or ARB, and a
regular NSAID - where injury went up about 31%. In the first 30 days, 82%.

Pharmacists have a name for it. I was taught the deadly kidney triad;
the literature calls it the triple whammy.

Here is the mechanism. Your kidney’s filter has a pipe in and a pipe out,
and filtering depends on the pressure across it. Prostaglandins hold the
inlet open. Angiotensin II squeezes the outlet shut to keep pressure up
inside. The NSAID blocks the prostaglandins, so the inlet narrows. The ACE
inhibitor or ARB blocks angiotensin II, so the outlet relaxes open. The
diuretic drops the volume. Narrow the inlet, open the outlet, drop the
volume, and filtration pressure falls through the floor.

You cannot feel your kidneys. What you feel is tired, puffy ankles, peeing
less, no appetite - and all of it gets filed under getting older.

Caught early it is usually reversible. Left running, with a stomach bug or
a hot day on top, it may not be.

The guardrail: do not stop your blood pressure medication over a video.
That is not the piece you touch. The piece that is yours is the one you
bought yourself - and ibuprofen hides in cold and flu boxes, sinus
combinations and menstrual products. Read the back.

On all three regularly? Ask for a basic metabolic panel: creatinine, eGFR,
and potassium, because this combination pushes potassium up too.

Comment WHAMMY and I will send you the drug names, the safer painkiller
swaps, and the exact thing to ask for.

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween!

10/29/2026

In 2021 I posted a deck called “How type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome
cause breast cancer.” I drew one arrow, from body fat to breast cancer, for
every woman at every age.

Two things were wrong with it.

The first is the word cause. Women with type 2 diabetes have about fifteen
percent more breast cancer than women without, across thirty studies. That
is real, it is consistent, and it is an association. When somebody finally
tested the insulin story properly — 3,649 women, randomized to metformin or
placebo, double-blind — the hazard ratio came back 1.01. Nothing.

The second is bigger. That arrow only points one way after menopause. Before
menopause, the largest pooled analysis ever done on the question — nineteen
cohorts, 758,592 women — found the reverse. Higher BMI, fewer breast
cancers.

So: after menopause, your body fat is where your estrogen is made, and that
link is strong enough to be worth acting on for a dozen reasons besides this
one. Before menopause it runs the other way and nobody can tell you
confidently why. The authors of that study wrote that they do not advocate
weight gain to prevent breast cancer. Neither do I. It is a finding, not
advice.

Every number is on the slides with its source. If I am going to ask you to
check the evidence behind a claim, my own old slides go first.

Comment SOURCES and I’ll send you all six studies and a video to Eat to Beat Cancer.

10/27/2026

Testosterone has two exits.

One is aromatase, which turns it into estradiol. The other is 5-alpha reductase, which turns it into DHT. Both are supposed to be open. Estradiol is not a female hormone, DHT is not a villain — they are two things testosterone becomes, in everyone, every day.

Which is exactly why there is an entire aisle selling you control over two enzymes.

I know, because I printed that list in 2021. Foods, herbs and nutrients that “inhibit” each one. One source, no effect sizes, no sample sizes, and no way for you to tell a petri dish from a prescription.

Here is what was missing.

Saw palmetto is on that list as a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor. It has been tested properly, twice. STEP: 225 men, a year. CAMUS: about 369 men, 72 weeks, escalated to triple the usual dose. Symptom improvement came in at 2.20 points on saw palmetto and 2.99 on placebo. Placebo won.

Chrysin is on there too, for aromatase. It does inhibit the enzyme in a dish. In seven volunteers given 400 mg by mouth, oral bioavailability was somewhere around 0.003 to 0.02 percent. It never reaches the enzyme. That is not a supplement, it is a pharmacokinetics problem.

So the question for anything sold as a hormone blocker is which tier it sits in. Tested in people and it works. Tested in people and it lost to placebo. Or never tested in people at all.

There is a prescription on one side of this argument and a failed supplement on the other, and the post would be worth nothing if it were also a sales pitch.

Save it for the next time someone sells you an enzyme. The full lesson on both is on my YouTube.

10/26/2026

Lies, damn lies, and statistics is used by big pharma daily to influence your thinking about how beneficial medicines are.

Take this example.

“Cuts your risk by 36%.”

That headline is true. So is “it moved things by 1.1 percentage points.” Same
trial, same data, two numbers. Only one of them ever makes the press release.

The trial is ASCOT-LLA, 2003. Ten thousand people with high blood pressure,
atorvastatin against placebo, three and a bit years. Heart attack or fatal
heart disease happened to 3.0% of the placebo group and 1.9% of the drug
group.

Subtract: 1.1 percentage points. That is the absolute risk reduction.
Divide that by the 3.0% you started at: 36%. That is the relative risk
reduction.

Neither is a lie. But only one of them tells you what might happen to you.

And here is the number nobody prints: 91. Ninety-one people take it for three
years so that one avoids a heart attack. That might be a deal you want. It
might not be. You cannot tell from “36%.”

One more thing, because almost no one reporting this trial mentions it: the
benefit showed up mainly in men. In women it was 1.9% against 1.8% —
underpowered, inconclusive.

This is not an anti-statin post. Relative risk answers a real question.
Reporting it by itself is the trick, and the supplement aisle does it harder
than pharma ever has. I recommend supplements. Ask me for the absolute numbers too.

Three questions that survive any headline: how many out of a hundred, with and
without? How many have to take it for one to benefit? And over how long?

Save this one. You will need it this week.

10/26/2026

Spirit Halloween really nailed it this year.

These costumes are so me!

10/24/2026

About one in ten of you has “allergic to penicillin” on your chart. More than nine out of ten of those labels are wrong.

Most started the same way. You were three, you were on amoxicillin, a rash appeared. The virus causing the ear infection very often causes the rash too — the antibiotic just happened to be in your hand.

And most of what gets called allergy never was. Upset stomach, diarrhoea, a yeast infection: side effects. Hives, swelling, wheeze, throat tightness inside the hour: allergy.

One exception, and it is not negotiable. If your reaction involved blistering, peeling skin or your organs — Stevens-Johnson, toxic epidermal necrolysis, DRESS — you keep that label forever. None of this applies to you.

Everyone else: the swipe has the four questions to ask at your next appointment. Do not test this at home.

Nothing to buy here, which is rather the point.

Send this to the person who has been saying it for thirty years.

10/23/2026

The reason caffeine feels good — and not just less tired — is that it takes the brake off your dopamine.

Here is the whole mechanism, and it is simpler than people make it.

Every thought and every heartbeat spends ATP. When you spend ATP it breaks down in steps: ATP, ADP, AMP, adenosine. Adenosine is the ash. It is what is left behind by a day of being alive, and it climbs from the second you wake up. That rising level is what your brain reads as “we have been awake a long time.” Sleep pressure is not a metaphor. It is a molecule.

It lands on two receptors that do different jobs. A1 is everywhere and it is inhibitory — that one is the heaviness, the eyelids. A2A sits packed into the striatum right beside your dopamine receptors, damping dopamine down. So blocking A2A does not only make you less sleepy. It releases dopamine signalling. That is the part that feels like the day became workable again.

Caffeine does that by sitting in those receptors and doing nothing — a competitive antagonist. Competitive matters: two molecules, one chair, higher concentration wins. So the adenosine never stops being made and never goes anywhere. It stacks up behind the blockade where you cannot feel it. When caffeine levels fall, it wins a competition it was never losing, and all of it lands inside about twenty minutes.

That is the crash. Not the caffeine wearing off. The bill arriving.

Two studies, and I am giving you the sample sizes because almost nobody does. 400 mg six hours before bed cost people about an hour of measured sleep and they did not notice — twelve people. And a double espresso three hours before bed moved the melatonin rhythm about forty minutes later, roughly half the shift you would get from three hours of bright light — five people. Five. Not settled, but caffeine moving the clock and not just the feeling is worth knowing.

Caffeine is a loan, not income. I am not telling you to quit. I am telling you to move it earlier.

Comment CRASH and I’ll send you what I drink at three in the afternoon.

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