TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT · CHAPTER 9

The Milk Switch

One of dopamine’s quietest jobs is keeping men from making milk, and a common pill can switch it off. I walk through the one pathway where dopamine acts as a hormone, what happens when a drug cuts its brake line, and why the bill arrives months later in somebody else’s clinic. Then I tell you the cheap test almost nobody orders, and the fix that saves the treatment instead of throwing it away.

13 pages · 16 references, every one verified · written by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP

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The receipts behind Chapter 9

The book makes the argument. This supplement shows the evidence, claim by claim: the study, who was in it, the number and where it sits in the paper, what it does not show — and the questions to bring to your own physician. It is written to be shared with your doctor.

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