Articles – General Health
Beating Colds And Flu
As a child I had a severe disease called rheumatic fever that could have compromised my immune system for the rest of my life. Afterward, I experienced at least three severe colds a year through my school years and into early adulthood. However, in the last twenty years I have only had one mild cold. If I can do it, you can do it too, and this is how.
A New Ginkgo Biloba For Improved Anti-Aging
Ginkgo has been prescribed for many hundreds of years by Eastern healers. The tree itself is thought to go back over 150 million years. Some trees live to be over a thousand years old and are so hardy that the only tree to survive near the epicenter of the atomic blast at Hiroshima was a Ginkgo Biloba tree.
More Drugs For Our Children
As more knowledge of the causes of heart and vascular disease come to light, it has become evident to many heart specialists and researchers that cholesterol is not the culprit that it has been thought to be for so many years.
Dangerous Drugs Prescribed to Children and the Elderly
We Do Make A Difference… The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease… Keep Complaining And May God Bless You For Your Patience And Courage. Ten states have sued Eli Lilly regarding Zyprexa: AK, CT, LA, MS, MT, NM, PA, SC, UT, and WV. Five states have sued Janssen regarding Risperdal: AR, PA, LA, SC, and TX. [...]
The Danger In The Agribusiness Takeover Of Public Schools
In President Bush’s latest national budget proposal, there is a 1/3 cut in funding for agricultural research at our land grant colleges. This is part of a multi-year drive by this administration to completely eliminate regular public research funding. When that happens, the future of agricultural research at our land grant colleges will belong to biotech conglomerates like Monsanto.
The Battle Over Hormone Replacement Therapy
In the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the synthetic hormones Premarin and Prempro were linked with increased risk to stroke, breast cancer, heart attacks, and circulatory disease. In fact by 2004 the breast cancer numbers for the USA dropped significantly, related directly to women’s discontinuing these two dangerous drugs.
Get Through Tough Times – Increase Happy Hormone Levels
Over the years, I have had good results helping customers and patients carefully substitute Tryptophan 5-HTP for their SSRI drugs. This, with a few exceptions, has been very successful. Many patients have been grateful to have their libido back while still getting effective, and comparably inexpensive, anti-depressant activity.
Drinking Water Tainted…
It doesn’t make sense to put chemical sewage into the body as a solvent. Examinations in my practice clearly demonstrate that the chemicals in our water are poisoning our children and adding to the ever increasing rate of childhood morbidity.
Let’s Kill Some Cats Or Who Put The Fox In Charge Of The Hen House
IAMS pet food is advertising a cat treat/food that they claim cat’s love and is good for them. It contains meat, vegetables, grain, and fruit. That’s the recipe for a deadly cocktail.
The Antibiotic Resistant Infections Problem Has Been Escalating For Decades
As I read the front page article in the Star, I was reminded that this problem has been escalating for decades. We first heard about it as a headline over twenty years ago. Obviously, little or nothing has been done to reduce the cause of this embarrassing result of over prescribing antibiotics.