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Peer-reviewed papers, clinical case reports, and ongoing studies supported by Common Sense Medicine — organized by research area.
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Explore Dr. Jones's published works, clinical papers, and downloadable PDF whitepapers (77 PDFs).
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2026
Our healthcare system is controlled by an hegemon with little interest in our health. We the people need to understand and address that problem.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2025
The Wilderness Rules: A Forgotten Compass for Power and Principle In my recent book Common Sense Medicine: Making America Healthy Again (before RFK purloined it) I discus…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2025
ISEMPH Poster HOW DOES OPTIMIZING OUR DEFENSES CHANGE THE SYSTEM? Knowles and Boucher( described our airway defenses, pointing out the major role of the mucin glycans: “I…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2023
Xylitol optimizes our airway's major defenses and reduces adherence of major pathogens
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2020
The end of our pandemic is at your pharmacy
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2018
Our defenses are often bothersome and therefore seen as something to treat. But treating them destroys their survival benefit, which is why they are there.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2018
Seeing with New Eyes Einstein was right on when he said that we can’t fix our problems as long as we think the same way we did when we created them. That holds true in lo…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
Healthcare Revisited–Again! at Common Sense Medicine know that any healthcare system must pay attention to significant facts in order to work. We also have suggestions to…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
Evan McMullin wants to elect a bunch of Independents to balance the dominant powers in our government. In order to do that he needs some help.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
Empowering individuals with both finances and information works better than entitlements and regulation. This approach doesn't lead to dependence.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
When incentives prioritize survival and profit over diversity, systems lose resilience. A look at bankers, corporate capitalism, and political survivalism through an evolutionary lens.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
While criticizing Duterte for killing drug users, we ignore the deaths of our users, where six times as many die annually. There is a better way.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
Government is more than defense. It include a more perfect union, justice, tranquility, the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty – and we aren't doing well.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
The important thing about Russian interference in our elections is preventing a recurrence. We also need to see more clearly where the problem is. Here are some points and suggestions.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
Twitter: bees, bugs, and superbugs as a means of communication, is big in the bug world. Bacteria release chemicals to communicate–it’s called quorum sensing–and when the…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2017
Dr. Baker shows why illness care is not a good model
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2016
safety is not found in a police state; it's found in the co-operation that in itself is built on a safe environment
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2016
what every bullying program needs and why every school needs one.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2016
Xylitol found to help us cope with antibiotic resistant superbugs. Can we tame bacteria?
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2016
there are alternatives to antibiotic resistant bacteria. They are cheap, demonstrated to work, and drug free.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2016
Nsouli CRS Xylitol 7/6/15 12:50 pm Xylitol Nasal Irrigation: A Possible Alternative Strategy for the Management of Chronic Rhinosinusitis Nsouli TM, Diliberto NZ, Nsouli …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2016
women's values can play a role in reducing violence.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2015
Our bodies do a better job with immigration than our governments. Can we learn anything here?
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2015
terrorist want to produce the most expensive response they can for a minimal expense. So far we have accepted that strategy. We need to stop it.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2015
Negotiating in our warfare with bacteria is possible and it works. Bacteria attach to us via sugars complexes on our cells. The right sugars can compete.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2015
Charity is more likely to make us feel good; if we really want to help we need to empower the other to make their own way.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2015
bacterial resistance is a problem, but it is not unsurmountable. Preventing the adherence of pathogens pushes them to adapt in friendlier ways.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2015
If you want to know what xylitol does in the nose read this.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2015
Killing germs doesn't work; let's try feeding them. Bacteria have a sweet tooth; feeding them the right sugars makes for friendlier adaptation, reduces the need for antib…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Many would like to use creative destruction on our healthcare system. That's the wrong approach. Complex adaptive systems can be tweaked very effectively.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
The people of Singapore are part of their healthcare system. Unlike our 3rd party payer system, they play an active role. Their marketplace medicine works.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Our war on drugs is founded on our fear of them. Fear stimulates primitive responses that are not necessarily the most rational. We need to choose better.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Cyborg science is predictable. Human beings aren't. Cyborg science is mechanical thinking, but we can adapt in novel ways that are not predictable.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
CDC info is not all that accurate. They try to make us comfortable. We shouldn't be.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Analysis is a mechanical concept; it doesn't consider the ability of all living organisms to adapt to changes in both their physical and social environments
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Analysis vs. Common Sense The problem with the analytical model is that we have developed the tools to take anything apart to a level where its complexity reveals either …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Diversity is a far better measure of the health of a system than is survival. There are ways to enhance cooperation and diversity follows.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Chinese students score well on tests, but they don't have any Nobel Prize winners. Testing promotes technocrats; we need innovators. We need something else.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
We all have defenses that help us cope with environmental challenges. They come with symptoms that are often treated. That is wrong headed thinking.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
The subjects we study in school aren't isolated from each other - they are intertwined.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Our children should be learning and adapting at school. Not just by listening, but through exploration and experience.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
A little prevention goes a long way towards staying healthy. Here are some tips to reduce the risk of catching Enterovirus D68.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Our ability to recognize and encourage adaptation will benefit our schools, hospitals, and politics.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Imagination and creativity are childhood qualities that we should never let go of.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Strengthen Community Capital so there are no more Fergusons. Drugs and prisons also show how short we are in community capital. How to rebuild community.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
The Problem of Antibiotic Resistance I am writing this from Ghost Ranch in New Mexico where I am in a group studying with John Phillip Newell about The Rebirthing of God,…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
How we got started I studied history before I studied medicine. I learned there that people could respond to a particular challenge in a variety of ways. Medicine tends n…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
But not if you have insurance? Insurance is designed to pay for the unexpected crisis. Health insurance started that way in the U.S. but gradually, because the companies …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Thank You, Standard and Poor's Thank you Standard and Poor’s for telling us what we already know. Now can we do anything about it? Right now many of us feel a bit like Cl…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Explaining our World in Terms of the Quantum Reality If you read anything about general science in your spare time you know that physicists are presenting a variety of mo…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
What's the WIR Could the WIR help us, or Greece, or Spain? Common Sense Medicine is all about resilience, about giving people the information and the power they need to m…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Alternative Treatment for C. Diff Infections Arizona and the rest of the nation is now plagued with the gut infecting bacteria Clostridium difficile, which most know as C…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Asthma: Its Cost, Alternatives, and Prevention According to the New York Times report on asthma, printed on their front page on Sunday, October 13th, this condition costs…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Coping with Autism The first researchers looking into autism decided it was caused by “the refrigerator Mom”. Mothers were cold and withdrawn and didn’t give their childr…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Models, Medicine, and Our Future. If you read anything about general science in your spare time, you know that physicists are presenting a variety of models as they try t…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Partisan Politics on a Larger Scale As a physician, I am endlessly intrigued by the processes of adaptation that has led to our being on this earth; and I am amazed that …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
The Crisis in Healthcare The Institute of Medicine was established by President Nixon in 1970. It is part of the American Academy of Sciences and its membership is taken …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
What the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Movements Have in Common, and Why It’s Important The Tea Party sees a major problem in the size of government and its incurs…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
Studies from the medical literature on the dental and medical uses of xylitol
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2014
We all have friendly bacteria that help us stay healthy by competing with invaders.. Removing them is not in our best interest. Helping them is!
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2013
Coping with the Cold Season One of our primary goals at Common Sense Medicine is to teach the value of our defenses and to explain that the bothersome symptoms they somet…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2013
Coping with Antibiotic Resistance Claude Bernard is reported as saying the he could eat Pasteur’s anthrax with impunity. Not many today have his nerve; we have gone down …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2013
Bacterial Infections and the Flu We recently returned from a trip to find that a close friend had died in the week we were gone. From healthy to dead in a week is what we…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2012
Whatever Happened to Honoring Defenses? This post is based on a presentation given in the Dupont Summit conference dealing with science and public policy at the Carnegie …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2012
How Blood Transformation is all about how we see ourselves in the world. We are stuck if we limit that view to the egos we have constructed over the course of our lives. …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2012
Making Health Care Affordable Saving American Health and Healthcare: A view from the margins. If Wendell Berry is right then we ought not to be looking to our temples of …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2012
Medicare Reform? Medicare reform is shaping up to be the issue for our time. “We, the people,” like our bread buttered on both sides and we don’t like change. But Medicar…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2012
Sandel argues that medicine doesn't belong in the marketplace. But removing it has been very costly, and it hasn't made us any more healthy. There is a mixed option.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2011
Letter to Berwick An open letter to Don Berwick Dear Don, I was really glad when President Obama chose you to lead the Department of Health ad Human Services. First of al…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · 2010
Common Sense Medicine Welcome to Common Sense Medicine ® where we try to see our bodies and the practice of medicine that we have established to care for them in a new wa…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · n.d.
Read what Dr. Lon Jones has to say about alternative medicine treatments, and about changing our analytical paradigms about the body.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · n.d.
Our drug policy is based on our irrational fear of mind altering drugs. We need a more rational policy.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · n.d.
Common Sense Medicine Research Areas of research we support: Child centered Play Therapy North Texas State University is a leader in Child centered play therapy. Play is …
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · n.d.
Common Sense Medicine focuses on holistic health. Learn how to recognize complex adaptive systems in the human body and other societal mindsets.
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · n.d.
our medical model of homeostsis mistakenly treats many symptoms that contribute to making us sicker
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · n.d.
How Bacteria Stick Below you will find a link to a 10-page PDF on the subject “How Bacteria Stick”. Once clicked, it should either open on the same page or open a new pag…
Dr. Lon Jones, DO · n.d.
The CDC has provided treatment guidelines for Stage 3 of COVID-19. We also should treat it in Stages 1 & 2. The best treatment is through the nose.
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