chronic illness

The MAHA Report Is Mostly ‘Data Vibes’

Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. — Fri, 30 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Who would be so callous as to not want our children to be healthy?

The Make America Healthy Again movement, now firmly ensconced in the White House under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, released a 73-page assessment last week called “The MAHA Report.” It’s meant to give a bird’s-eye view of the problem with American children’s health, paving the way for a multipronged strategy due next August.

Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Bit of a Fad

Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:06:49 +0000

There is a shell game at the heart of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again campaign, and it has to do with the mitochondrion.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Answering Criticism

Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:16:50 +0000

Last September, we published an article I wrote on multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), specifically on a French-language report commissioned by the Government of Quebec to understand the state of our knowledge on this condition. We recently received a number of emails critical of the article from people who have MCS and were unhappy with the conclusion of the report: that MCS seemed to be caused by chronic anxiety and not by exposure to minute amounts of chemicals in the environment.

The Debilitating Puzzle Box of Long COVID

Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:36:09 +0000

Imagine sitting in front of 40,000 tiny pieces that you have to assemble into a jigsaw puzzle. Except that some of these pieces may belong to a different puzzle. There is no box to tell you what the final image looks like. And in front of you is a massive hourglass, its sand slowly and inevitably flowing down, and as time goes by, more and more people suffer. You must solve the puzzle while minimizing suffering.

Zeroing in on the Cause of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Sometimes, science doesn’t give you the answer you wanted. You may be certain you know what is causing a mysterious phenomenon, but a well-done scientific experiment denies you that satisfaction and points you in an unexpected direction. Reality can be stranger than hypotheses.