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Frequently Asked Questions: Acupuncture
At the Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine, our team is dedicated to bringing you the very best treatment options from alternative, traditional, and holistic medicine. Acupuncture is an ancient ...
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Acupuncture Can Lower Blood Pressure
A recent study has proven that the effects of acupuncture can actually lower blood pressure for those suffering from hypertension, a condition in which the force of the blood against the artery walls ...
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Frequently Asked Questions: Acupuncture
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Neurorecovery Program
Neurorecovery program - Specifics Treatment is office based, every day for 10 ‐ 13 consecutive days (duration depending on the specific drugs you have been taking) – including Fridays and week‐ends. ‐ ...
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Addiction and Withdrawal are Diseases of Damaged Neurotransmitter Receptors, Not of Defective Morals.
Neurorecovery is a program that helps those receptors heal. The hardest part is the cravings. Cravings are the need to use a drug just to stay on an even keel, to avoid the unbelievably bad sensations ...
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Neurorecovery Program
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What is the Difference Between Food Allergies & Food Intolerance
It isn’t uncommon for some people to have physical reactions to certain foods, but these reactions are frequently confused as a food allergy, rather than a food intolerance. The symptoms can be ...
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Body Burden and Chronic Disease and Detox
Body Burden and Chronic Disease and Detox CNN’s Anderson Cooper did it. So did David Duncan for National Geographic. And Bill Moyers of PBS did it. All had their “body burden” tested and were dismayed ...
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Gluten Sensitivity, Celiac Disease, Wheat Allergy, and Cancer
Gluten Sensitivity, Celiac Disease, Wheat Allergy, and Cancer When we think about gluten sensitivity, we immediately think about celiac disease. Scientists are finally beginning to realize what those ...
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What is the Difference Between Food Allergies & Food Intolerance
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A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo?
The New York Times Magazine published an article about a corporate lawyer who took on DuPont Chemicals when he realized that perfluorochemical waste that they were dumping into a 66 acre landfill in ...
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State of Emergency in Flint, Michigan After Children Poisoned With Lead from Tap Water
By Nicolas Peters, MD It is almost too horrible to be true. In an effort to save money, Flint, Michigan switched its water supply from Detroit to the Flint River in April 2014. Not only did the river ...
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A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo?
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High Glycemic Foods Are Linked To Increased Incidence Of Alzheimer’s Dementia/Disease
Resistance Starch I just saw an interesting article in the New York Times yesterday. I looked into the scientific literature – and, sure enough, to my surprise, the storage temperature of cooked rice ...
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Alzheimer’s and nutrition – Is it too late to make changes?
The concept of metabolic morbidity is interesting – chronic dysfunction in metabolic state due to a multitude of factors, primarily decreased energy expenditure (poor exercise) and increased energy ...
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Exercise and the brain – why bother?
When we think about declining functions in our later years, it is important to remember that there is a spectrum of decline, a slope of dysfunction. In the end, hardly anyone gets out of this world ...
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High Glycemic Foods Are Linked To Increased Incidence Of Alzheimer’s Dementia/Disease
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Autism Treatments - Scam? Or Hope For The Future?
I just read an another article debunking most of the “alternative” or “biological” therapies, functional medicine, in short, saying that for children with autism these therapies are a scam, expensive ...
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Vaxxed - A Film Review
An Autism Media Channel Film, directed by Andrew Wakefield & Produced by Del Bigtree. This film had been pulled from the Tribeca Festival in New York at the end of March. The Tribeca Film Festival was ...
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Body Burden and Chronic Disease and Detox
Body Burden and Chronic Disease and Detox CNN’s Anderson Cooper did it. So did David Duncan for National Geographic. And Bill Moyers of PBS did it. All had their “body burden” tested and were dismayed ...
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Autism Treatments - Scam? Or Hope For The Future?
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Disulfiram—Mitigating Unintended Effects
Martha M. Grout¹,* and Kenneth B. Mitchell² 1 Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ 85258, USA 2 Nizhoni Functional Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ 85258, USA * Correspondence: ...
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Disulfiram—Mitigating Unintended Effects
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Exercise and the brain – why bother?
When we think about declining functions in our later years, it is important to remember that there is a spectrum of decline, a slope of dysfunction. In the end, hardly anyone gets out of this world ...
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Neuropsychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease - Part III
Click here for part 1. Click here for part 2. How is Lyme disease diagnosed? Please see this Lyme disease prevention blog if you are looking for some suggestions on how to prevent this disease. Method ...
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Neurorecovery Program
Neurorecovery program - Specifics Treatment is office based, every day for 10 ‐ 13 consecutive days (duration depending on the specific drugs you have been taking) – including Fridays and week‐ends. ‐ ...
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Exercise and the brain – why bother?
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Nutritional Therapy & Chemotherapy: Supporting Stronger Recoveries
Many, many cancer patients struggle with gastrointestinal symptoms during their treatment. Chemotherapy can be exceedingly hard on the body, and often the associated gastrointestinal problems, such as ...
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Frequently Asked Questions About IPT-LD
The American Standard of Care considers IPT to be an "experimental” therapy, and therefore not “medically necessary,” despite the fact that IPT has been in use for more than 70 years, and is used as a ...
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Integrative Cancer Care
Chemo, surgery, radiation - this is the mantra of current recommendations for cancer therapy. Treatment options on the website of the Mayo Clinic, “the most innovative, progressive care anywhere” are ...
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Nutritional Therapy & Chemotherapy: Supporting Stronger Recoveries
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State of Emergency in Flint, Michigan After Children Poisoned With Lead from Tap Water
By Nicolas Peters, MD It is almost too horrible to be true. In an effort to save money, Flint, Michigan switched its water supply from Detroit to the Flint River in April 2014. Not only did the river ...
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Chelation Therapy for Heart Disease
Chelation Therapy: Unproven Claims and Unsound Theories according to the Quackwatch naysayer. Alternative Heart Treatment Moving Into the Mainstream according to a Newsmax Health report published ...
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Chelation Therapy for Heavy Metals and Heart Disease – The Natural Solution
Chelation therapy: (pronounced Key-LAY-Shun) is derived from the Greek word chele meaning claw of a crab. It refers to how a chelating agent grabs onto an electrically-charged mineral ion such as ...
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State of Emergency in Flint, Michigan After Children Poisoned With Lead from Tap Water
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Nutritional Therapy & Chemotherapy: Supporting Stronger Recoveries
Many, many cancer patients struggle with gastrointestinal symptoms during their treatment. Chemotherapy can be exceedingly hard on the body, and often the associated gastrointestinal problems, such as ...
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Integrative Cancer Care
Chemo, surgery, radiation - this is the mantra of current recommendations for cancer therapy. Treatment options on the website of the Mayo Clinic, “the most innovative, progressive care anywhere” are ...
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Metronomic Therapy
Another Option for Cancer Treatment Tumors are a lot like parasites, and even a little bit like babies, in that they grow and develop in the human body, and are not rejected as foreign by the immune ...
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Nutritional Therapy & Chemotherapy: Supporting Stronger Recoveries
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Use Of Statin Drugs To Lower Cholesterol
Common knowledge has it that “having high cholesterol can increase your risk of heart disease… High cholesterol can cause atherosclerosis, a dangerous accumulation of cholesterol and other deposits on ...
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A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo?
The New York Times Magazine published an article about a corporate lawyer who took on DuPont Chemicals when he realized that perfluorochemical waste that they were dumping into a 66 acre landfill in ...
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Juicing - Why and How
Juicing – Why and how Juicing is often referred to as a “juice cleanse”. People juice for many different reasons. For most of us, we start juicing when we are feeling ill and when easier measures (of ...
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Use Of Statin Drugs To Lower Cholesterol
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Neuropsychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease - Part III
Click here for part 1. Click here for part 2. How is Lyme disease diagnosed? Please see this Lyme disease prevention blog if you are looking for some suggestions on how to prevent this disease. Method ...
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Neuropsychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease - Part II
Click here for part 3. Or click here for part 1. How do I know if I have Lyme disease? Could it be something else? Or am I just crazy? Is Lyme disease the “disease du jour”, as some have termed it? “I ...
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Neuropsychiatric manifestations of Lyme Disease Part I
Click here for part 2. Click here for part 3. “Doctor, I can’t go on like this. I would rather be dead than live a lifetime with this anxiety and depression, feeling as terrible as I do. Everyone ...
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Neuropsychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease - Part III
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Clostridium difficile Infection in the 21st Century – Part II
We know that C diff infection is a big problem in healthcare settings – hospitals, nursing homes, other forms of care homes – because those who are most vulnerable to the effects of the infection are ...
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Clostridium Difficile Infection in the 21st Century - Part I
Definition of Clostridium difficile infection : CDI is defined by the presence of symptoms (usually diarrhea and/or pain and huge dilatation of the colon – called toxic megacolon) and laboratory ...
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Clostridium difficile Infection in the 21st Century – Part II
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ArMA wants to know how I feel about COVID-19?
Every time I run the numbers, the mortality rate remains the same – hovers between 1.4 and 1.8% - since I have been counting the numbers. In the meantime, we have spent untold amounts of money in an ...
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Hospitals scramble as monoclonal antibodies become less effective
This is hardly a surprising development. Monoclonal antibodies are effective against ONE clone (MONOclonal). Not against all variants. The SARS CoV-2 virus is highly mutable, changing its form and ...
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Death Rates From COVID by Vaccination Status
A very interesting article which reflects a reasonable way to look at the issue of whether vaccination against COVID is helpful or merely an exercise in futility. If we are to believe these figures, ...
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ArMA wants to know how I feel about COVID-19?
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High Glycemic Foods Are Linked To Increased Incidence Of Alzheimer’s Dementia/Disease
Resistance Starch I just saw an interesting article in the New York Times yesterday. I looked into the scientific literature – and, sure enough, to my surprise, the storage temperature of cooked rice ...
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Exercise and the brain – why bother?
When we think about declining functions in our later years, it is important to remember that there is a spectrum of decline, a slope of dysfunction. In the end, hardly anyone gets out of this world ...
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Avoiding Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s
Martha M Grout, MD, MD(H ) The June 2019 Web-MD magazine, delivered to my office door, has an article entitled: Guarding the Mind: the latest research points to ways you can lower your odds of ...
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High Glycemic Foods Are Linked To Increased Incidence Of Alzheimer’s Dementia/Disease
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One man’s experience with Aspartame®.
From Bill N, published with his permission Aspartame is a poison and withdrawal from Aspartame is real. I started consuming Aspartame when I became a diabetic about 15 years ago. I am an active 61 ...
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Lifestyle Changes & Diabetes
Diabetes... the scourge of the 21st century. So much medicine, so many surgeries, all promising "disease management" while implying "cure". Anne Peters, MD, endocrinologist at the Keck School of ...
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SouthWest Diabetes Symposium 2019 Part IV
Foods & Natural Medicines for Diabetes - Berberis Most of our drug treatments for diabetes started out as plants that the pharmaceutical industry chemically manipulated – to change the potency, ...
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One man’s experience with Aspartame®.
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Nutritional Therapy & Chemotherapy: Supporting Stronger Recoveries
Many, many cancer patients struggle with gastrointestinal symptoms during their treatment. Chemotherapy can be exceedingly hard on the body, and often the associated gastrointestinal problems, such as ...
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Post Concussion Syndrome, Chronic "Mild" Traumatic Brain Injury
Post Concussion Syndrome, Chronic “Mild” Traumatic Brain Injury Incidence According to the Centers for Disease Control statistics1, 1.4 million people in the United States sustain a traumatic brain ...
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Supplements - Friend or Foe?
Rekha V Shah, MD, MD(H) There is so much contradictory information in the media, it is easy to become confused about the value of vitamins, minerals and other supplements. We hear multivitamins are ...
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Nutritional Therapy & Chemotherapy: Supporting Stronger Recoveries
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Disulfiram—Mitigating Unintended Effects
Martha M. Grout¹,* and Kenneth B. Mitchell² 1 Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ 85258, USA 2 Nizhoni Functional Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ 85258, USA * Correspondence: ...
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Disulfiram—Mitigating Unintended Effects
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A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo?
The New York Times Magazine published an article about a corporate lawyer who took on DuPont Chemicals when he realized that perfluorochemical waste that they were dumping into a 66 acre landfill in ...
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Avoiding Exposure to Chemicals
Christmas is a time of reflection on the year gone by, celebration of new beginnings, and feasting. How often we say: “Well, I went off my diet during the holidays.” We are immersed in a chemical ...
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Body Burden and Chronic Disease and Detox
Body Burden and Chronic Disease and Detox CNN’s Anderson Cooper did it. So did David Duncan for National Geographic. And Bill Moyers of PBS did it. All had their “body burden” tested and were dismayed ...
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A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo?
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What is Evidence-Based Medicine in the Context of the Human Network?
Wikipedia’s definition: “Evidence-based medicine is an approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from well-designed and well-conducted ...
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What is Evidence-Based Medicine in the Context of the Human Network?
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Is Medicine a Profession or a Business?
A recent article in the free journal published by MedScape poses that question. My instinctive reaction was to pull back in alarm. “Profession” means an occupation which requires a certain number of ...
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Frequently Asked Questions About IPT-LD
The American Standard of Care considers IPT to be an "experimental” therapy, and therefore not “medically necessary,” despite the fact that IPT has been in use for more than 70 years, and is used as a ...
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Neurorecovery Program
Neurorecovery program - Specifics Treatment is office based, every day for 10 ‐ 13 consecutive days (duration depending on the specific drugs you have been taking) – including Fridays and week‐ends. ‐ ...
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Is Medicine a Profession or a Business?
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State of Emergency in Flint, Michigan After Children Poisoned With Lead from Tap Water
By Nicolas Peters, MD It is almost too horrible to be true. In an effort to save money, Flint, Michigan switched its water supply from Detroit to the Flint River in April 2014. Not only did the river ...
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State of Emergency in Flint, Michigan After Children Poisoned With Lead from Tap Water
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Alzheimer’s and nutrition – Is it too late to make changes?
The concept of metabolic morbidity is interesting – chronic dysfunction in metabolic state due to a multitude of factors, primarily decreased energy expenditure (poor exercise) and increased energy ...
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Nutritional Therapy & Chemotherapy: Supporting Stronger Recoveries
Many, many cancer patients struggle with gastrointestinal symptoms during their treatment. Chemotherapy can be exceedingly hard on the body, and often the associated gastrointestinal problems, such as ...
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Integrative Cancer Care
Chemo, surgery, radiation - this is the mantra of current recommendations for cancer therapy. Treatment options on the website of the Mayo Clinic, “the most innovative, progressive care anywhere” are ...
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Alzheimer’s and nutrition – Is it too late to make changes?
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Neurorecovery Program
Neurorecovery program - Specifics Treatment is office based, every day for 10 ‐ 13 consecutive days (duration depending on the specific drugs you have been taking) – including Fridays and week‐ends. ‐ ...
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The Effect of Obesity on Health
I just attended a seminar – the 6 th Annual Southwest Diabetes Symposium” sponsored by a large number of pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly and Boehringer-Ingelheim – on the treatment of ...
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What Does Magnesium Deficiency Mean for Your Health?
Magnesium is a crucial electrolyte that aids in proper nerve, muscle, and enzyme function. It helps the body use energy and is important for moving potassium and sodium in and out of cells. It also is ...
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Neurorecovery Program
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Nature vs. Nurture: What Causes Cancer in Children?
By Nicolas Peters, MD Once a parent hears those four horrible words, “Your child has cancer,” and the shock has set in, one of the first questions I hear is “Why did my child get cancer?” That ...
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Playing Genetic Roulette - Our Food and Our Genes
There is a battle going on in this country, between food producers, food manufacturers (now there's a scary term!) and food eaters. The fight is about genetically modified foods, and has mainly to do ...
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Whoops! The Legacy of Genetically Engineered Food
By Mary Budinger Published in Townsend Letter October, 2010 The history of genetically engineered (GE) crops reads like a series of unintended consequences. Whoops, the wind blew that GE seed into the ...
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Nature vs. Nurture: What Causes Cancer in Children?
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6 Things You Should Know About Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a much more common condition than many people are aware. Affecting over 200,000 people each year, IBS is an intestinal disorder causing constipation, bloating, diarrhea, ...
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MSG - Monosodium Glutamate - and Colon Cancer Stem Cells
An article published in the journal Nature reports that intestinal stem cell activity is regulated by Calcium signaling. [1] Dietary l-glutamate stimulates intestinal stem cell division and growth by ...
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Probiotics for the Common Cold?
By Nicolas Peters, MD Many people have heard about using probiotics for stomach and intestine problems and, in fact, several studies have shown them to be effective in children for treating viral ...
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6 Things You Should Know About Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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Dannon and GMO-Free - How Did it Take so Long to Reach Our Ears?
A press release from Dannon Food Company in April 2016 reads: “ Dannon commits to bring all products from three flagship brands (Dannon®, Oikos® and Danimals®) towards the use of fewer and more ...
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Genetically Modified Foods and Pesticides. Are they as safe as we are told? Where do our Presidential candidates stand?
On March 23, 2015, the World Health Organization declared glyphosate to be linked to development of cancer in both animals and human. Glyphosate is the principal ingredient in Monsanto’s RoundUp®, ...
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GMO Foods Q & A
Over 60 countries have banned GMOs, Why? Why haven’t we banned them in the U.S? Do you think we should ban them? Why? Do you think consumers understand what a GMO is? What foods have the most GMOs in ...
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Dannon and GMO-Free - How Did it Take so Long to Reach Our Ears?
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Can Tick Bites Cause Heart Disease?
Those who hike often know to check themselves for deer ticks after every outing. Deer ticks (or blacklegged or bear ticks) are small, bloodsucking parasites that attach themselves to various animals. ...
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Gluten Sensitivity, Celiac Disease, Wheat Allergy, and Cancer
Gluten Sensitivity, Celiac Disease, Wheat Allergy, and Cancer When we think about gluten sensitivity, we immediately think about celiac disease. Scientists are finally beginning to realize what those ...
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Chelation Therapy for Heart Disease
Chelation Therapy: Unproven Claims and Unsound Theories according to the Quackwatch naysayer. Alternative Heart Treatment Moving Into the Mainstream according to a Newsmax Health report published ...
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Can Tick Bites Cause Heart Disease?
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Mercury-Free Dentistry Week
To acknowledge this Mercury-free dentistry week, Joseph Mercola MD just published an interview with Charlie Brown, the president of Consumers for Dental Choice and former Attorney General of West ...
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Chelation Therapy for Heavy Metals and Heart Disease – The Natural Solution
Chelation therapy: (pronounced Key-LAY-Shun) is derived from the Greek word chele meaning claw of a crab. It refers to how a chelating agent grabs onto an electrically-charged mineral ion such as ...
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Mercury-Free Dentistry Week
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Homeopathic and Integrative Medicine in Arizona
Different from Integrative Medicine in other states of the Union. Most doctors consider Integrative Medicine to be the same thing as Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) – i.e. the use of a ...
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FTC Enforcement Policy Statement on Homeopathic Remedies
“Efficacy and Safety Claims Are Held to Same Standard as Other OTC Drug Claims.” On November 15, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission announced a new "Enforcement Policy Statement on Marketing Claims ...
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Homeopathic Medicine Under Fire... Again
We must be doing something right in the world of healing medicine, if the pharmaceutical world is so determined to "prove" through emotional language that homeopathy is invalid. The lowest form of ...
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Homeopathic and Integrative Medicine in Arizona
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What is IBS?
According to the Mayo Clinic, “ Irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS ) is a common disorder that affects the large intestine. Signs and symptoms include cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea ...
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What is IBS?
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Disability Benefits & Lyme Disease
If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, this condition may cause you to stop working because of the disease’s complications. If you know that you will be too sick to work for ...
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The High and Hidden Cost of Insurance
Did you ever grumble to yourself: “My insurance won’t let me…” buy this drug, have this procedures, do this test? Did that seem unusual to you? Do insurance companies typically practice medicine? No. ...
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Health Insurance Costs Continue to Rise
Shelley Heinley, Patient Coordinator and Martha M Grout, MD, MD(H) The Huffington Post reports on September 29th, 2015, that the hypothetical costs of health insurance for a family of four with ...
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Disability Benefits & Lyme Disease
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Chemotherapy In The Real World Leads To Increased Rates of Hospitalization
This is the conclusion reached in an article published in JAMA Oncology in September 2015. No mention is made of nutritional status or lifestyle habits in the article, only of rate of hospitalization. ...
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Chemotherapy In The Real World Leads To Increased Rates of Hospitalization
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What is Evidence-Based Medicine in the Context of the Human Network?
Wikipedia’s definition: “Evidence-based medicine is an approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from well-designed and well-conducted ...
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Threatened by Madrid, Catalonia Referendum Is Game of Cat and Mouse
When I read this article in the NY Times, [1] the sentence that struck me the hardest was from a message taped on a wall in Arenys de Munt, a town that held the first straw poll on independence in ...
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Homeopathic and Integrative Medicine in Arizona
Different from Integrative Medicine in other states of the Union. Most doctors consider Integrative Medicine to be the same thing as Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) – i.e. the use of a ...
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What is Evidence-Based Medicine in the Context of the Human Network?
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Integrative Cancer Care
Chemo, surgery, radiation - this is the mantra of current recommendations for cancer therapy. Treatment options on the website of the Mayo Clinic, “the most innovative, progressive care anywhere” are ...
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Frequently Asked Questions About IPT-LD
The American Standard of Care considers IPT to be an "experimental” therapy, and therefore not “medically necessary,” despite the fact that IPT has been in use for more than 70 years, and is used as a ...
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Insulin Potentiation Chemotherapy in the News?
This excellent article on cancer and sugar appeared in the New York Times Magazine recently. The author talks about the Warburg effect, and points out that cancer cells begin their lives damaged – ...
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Integrative Cancer Care
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Frequently Asked Questions About IPT-LD
The American Standard of Care considers IPT to be an "experimental” therapy, and therefore not “medically necessary,” despite the fact that IPT has been in use for more than 70 years, and is used as a ...
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Integrative Cancer Care
Chemo, surgery, radiation - this is the mantra of current recommendations for cancer therapy. Treatment options on the website of the Mayo Clinic, “the most innovative, progressive care anywhere” are ...
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Insulin Potentiation Chemotherapy in the News?
This excellent article on cancer and sugar appeared in the New York Times Magazine recently. The author talks about the Warburg effect, and points out that cancer cells begin their lives damaged – ...
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Frequently Asked Questions About IPT-LD
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Ivermectin for COVID-19 – quackery or therapy?
Ivermectin for COVID-19 – quackery or therapy? It is rare to read something that looks at multiple sides of a question as politically and emotionally fraught as pre-hospital treatment for COVID. Still ...
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Ivermectin for COVID-19 – quackery or therapy?
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How to Avoid Rapid Weight Gain While Enjoying Your Vacation
Although summer vacation is coming to an end, I am sure many of us have future vacations we are already daydreaming about. I recently went on an amazing cruise to Jamaica (Jamaica mon!) and it got me ...
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Being Healthy on Vacation
Although summer vacation is coming to an end, I am sure many of us have future vacations we are already daydreaming about. I recently went on an amazing cruise to Jamaica (Jamaica mon!) and it got me ...
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Rethink Your Drink
We are in the midst of summer and it is hot, hot, hot! With this heat comes thirst, and many of us are apt to reach for a cold soda or Gatorade to quench that thirst; but, could this be making us even ...
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How to Avoid Rapid Weight Gain While Enjoying Your Vacation
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State of Emergency in Flint, Michigan After Children Poisoned With Lead from Tap Water
By Nicolas Peters, MD It is almost too horrible to be true. In an effort to save money, Flint, Michigan switched its water supply from Detroit to the Flint River in April 2014. Not only did the river ...
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State of Emergency in Flint, Michigan After Children Poisoned With Lead from Tap Water
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Disulfiram—Mitigating Unintended Effects
Martha M. Grout¹,* and Kenneth B. Mitchell² 1 Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ 85258, USA 2 Nizhoni Functional Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ 85258, USA * Correspondence: ...
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Disulfiram—Mitigating Unintended Effects
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Regarding Bill to Help Children with Lyme Introduced in House of Representatives
New Jersey Congressman Christopher Smith has introduced a bill which could change the way children with Lyme Disease are treated by our government and their schools. The bill is called “Children ...
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Regarding CDC Doctor Webinar: Help or Hindrance for Patients?
I had high hopes when I learned that the CDC was planning a webinar for physicians, to teach them the latest research data on Lyme disease. Imagine my disappointment when the information all turned ...
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When Lyme Disease is not Lyme Disease?
Remember the old joke about “When is a door not a door?” It took me the longest time when I was a small child to understand the answer to that riddle – “When it is a jar” was my understanding, and ...
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Regarding Bill to Help Children with Lyme Introduced in House of Representatives
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What Does Magnesium Deficiency Mean for Your Health?
Magnesium is a crucial electrolyte that aids in proper nerve, muscle, and enzyme function. It helps the body use energy and is important for moving potassium and sodium in and out of cells. It also is ...
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Post Concussion Syndrome, Chronic "Mild" Traumatic Brain Injury
Post Concussion Syndrome, Chronic “Mild” Traumatic Brain Injury Incidence According to the Centers for Disease Control statistics1, 1.4 million people in the United States sustain a traumatic brain ...
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2009 Lyme-Induced Autism Conference
Report from the Lyme-Induced Autism Conference of 2009 Published in Explore! For the Professional September, 2009 Reprinted with permission of author By Mary Budinger A toxic soup of heavy metals, EMF ...
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What Does Magnesium Deficiency Mean for Your Health?
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Mild Cognitive Impairment – AKA Early Dementia, Early Alzheimer’s
Why would you want to know if you are just having a “senior moment” or if you are on the path to Alzheimer’s disease? Conventional medicine tells you that there is no cure, there is only staving off ...
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Mild Cognitive Impairment – AKA Early Dementia, Early Alzheimer’s
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Symptoms of Testicular Cancer
Testicular cancer starts when healthy cells in a testicle change and develop in an uncontrollable fashion, resulting in a cancerous tumor being formed. This type of mass is malignant and capable of ...
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Prostate – The Most Troublesome Gland
The prostate gland completely surrounds the urethra, making it the single most troublesome gland of the male reproductive system. When the prostate becomes enlarged, as it tends to do as early as age ...
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Erectile Dysfunction
If you’ve ever told a doctor you had erectile dysfunction, did the doctor talk to you about cardiovascular disease or diabetes? Erectile dysfunction, ED, is more than just a bedroom frustration. ED is ...
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Symptoms of Testicular Cancer
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Mercury-Free Dentistry Week
To acknowledge this Mercury-free dentistry week, Joseph Mercola MD just published an interview with Charlie Brown, the president of Consumers for Dental Choice and former Attorney General of West ...
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State of Emergency in Flint, Michigan After Children Poisoned With Lead from Tap Water
By Nicolas Peters, MD It is almost too horrible to be true. In an effort to save money, Flint, Michigan switched its water supply from Detroit to the Flint River in April 2014. Not only did the river ...
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Study Links Autism Risk to Distance from Power Plants, Other Mercury-Releasing Sources
News release of Thu 24-Apr-2008 from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/540091/?sc=dwhr Research led by Raymond Palmer, Ph.D., of The ...
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Mercury-Free Dentistry Week
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Osteoporosis – a Disease of Elderly Women?
Or a dysfunction due to lifestyle, diet and microbiome? Not so much a disease of elderly women. Anyone who has chronic inflammation is a candidate to develop osteoporosis. According to the Centers for ...
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Cui Bono? Who Benefits From Our Microbiome? - Part II
On the face of it, one would think that the bacteria in our bodies benefit far more from their association with us than we do from our association with them. We give them places to hide out, protected ...
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My Microbiome and Me: United we Stand, Divided we Fight
In this current climate of isolationist sentiment, both political and medical, it is difficult to conceive of the concept of friendly cooperation among all our parts. And yet we have always known that ...
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Osteoporosis – a Disease of Elderly Women?
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High Glycemic Foods Are Linked To Increased Incidence Of Alzheimer’s Dementia/Disease
Resistance Starch I just saw an interesting article in the New York Times yesterday. I looked into the scientific literature – and, sure enough, to my surprise, the storage temperature of cooked rice ...
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High Glycemic Foods Are Linked To Increased Incidence Of Alzheimer’s Dementia/Disease
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High Glycemic Foods Are Linked To Increased Incidence Of Alzheimer’s Dementia/Disease
Resistance Starch I just saw an interesting article in the New York Times yesterday. I looked into the scientific literature – and, sure enough, to my surprise, the storage temperature of cooked rice ...
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High Glycemic Foods Are Linked To Increased Incidence Of Alzheimer’s Dementia/Disease
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Addiction and Withdrawal are Diseases of Damaged Neurotransmitter Receptors, Not of Defective Morals.
Neurorecovery is a program that helps those receptors heal. The hardest part is the cravings. Cravings are the need to use a drug just to stay on an even keel, to avoid the unbelievably bad sensations ...
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Neurorecovery Program
Neurorecovery program - Specifics Treatment is office based, every day for 10 ‐ 13 consecutive days (duration depending on the specific drugs you have been taking) – including Fridays and week‐ends. ‐ ...
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Addiction and Withdrawal are Diseases of Damaged Neurotransmitter Receptors, Not of Defective Morals.
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Charles Alan Bennett RN (07-02-1965 – 12-24-2021)
It is with deep sadness and regret that I write this note. Our friend, colleague and AZCAM nurse died in the afternoon of December 24th, Christmas Eve, after an intense battle with the SARS Co-V 2 ...
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Regarding Bill to Help Children with Lyme Introduced in House of Representatives
New Jersey Congressman Christopher Smith has introduced a bill which could change the way children with Lyme Disease are treated by our government and their schools. The bill is called “Children ...
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Regarding CDC Doctor Webinar: Help or Hindrance for Patients?
I had high hopes when I learned that the CDC was planning a webinar for physicians, to teach them the latest research data on Lyme disease. Imagine my disappointment when the information all turned ...
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Charles Alan Bennett RN (07-02-1965 – 12-24-2021)
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The Effect of Obesity on Health
I just attended a seminar – the 6 th Annual Southwest Diabetes Symposium” sponsored by a large number of pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly and Boehringer-Ingelheim – on the treatment of ...
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Homeopathic Medicine
The goal of homeopathic medicine is the cure of chronic illness and restoration of health. This is fundamentally different from the goal of allopathic medicine, which is management of chronic disease ...
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A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo?
The New York Times Magazine published an article about a corporate lawyer who took on DuPont Chemicals when he realized that perfluorochemical waste that they were dumping into a 66 acre landfill in ...
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The Effect of Obesity on Health
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Avoiding Exposure to Chemicals
Christmas is a time of reflection on the year gone by, celebration of new beginnings, and feasting. How often we say: “Well, I went off my diet during the holidays.” We are immersed in a chemical ...
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FOOD 201 - Is Organic Really Better?
Despite the economic downturn that began in 2008, the organic food sector continued to grow. Perhaps an ancient instinct to protect our children is causing more parents to spend a little extra on ...
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Avoiding Exposure to Chemicals
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Osteoporosis – a Disease of Elderly Women?
Or a dysfunction due to lifestyle, diet and microbiome? Not so much a disease of elderly women. Anyone who has chronic inflammation is a candidate to develop osteoporosis. According to the Centers for ...
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4 Things You Can Do to Prevent Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones become brittle and fragile due to a loss of tissues. This can be caused by a vitamin D deficiency, hormonal changes, or other causes, and the result is ...
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Hip Implants Replaced with Stem Cell Cartilage
New research from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests cartilage grown from stem cells could be used to replace hip implants. Currently, traditional hip replacement ...
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Osteoporosis – a Disease of Elderly Women?
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Autism Treatments - Scam? Or Hope For The Future?
I just read an another article debunking most of the “alternative” or “biological” therapies, functional medicine, in short, saying that for children with autism these therapies are a scam, expensive ...
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Discussing Cancer with Your Children
When parents are diagnosed with cancer, one of the most difficult things to do afterwards is inform their children about the situation. They may feel consumed with their own thoughts and fears enough ...
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Childhood Cancers
Many people are not aware of the extent of childhood cancers in our country. More than 40,000 children undergo cancer treatment each year in the US. 1 in 5 will not respond to first-line standard ...
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Autism Treatments - Scam? Or Hope For The Future?
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Avoiding Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s
Martha M Grout, MD, MD(H ) The June 2019 Web-MD magazine, delivered to my office door, has an article entitled: Guarding the Mind: the latest research points to ways you can lower your odds of ...
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Avoiding Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s
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Statins for diabetics?
2015 guidelines from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommend a statin (cholesterol-lowering) drug for almost everyone with diabetes. The 2018 guidelines from the American Diabetes ...
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Statins for diabetics?
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Using the Body's Stem Cells to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
While medicine that can help the body heal itself only appears to be science fiction, an approach involving stem cells is now under proper assessment as a possible treatment for multiple sclerosis ...
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Stem Cell Used to Treat Paralysis Caused by Spina Bifida
According to new research from UC Davis Health System, the lower-limb paralysis associated with spina bifida may be treated prior to birth through a combination of unique stem cell therapy with ...
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Evidence Points to Stem Cell Therapy Helping Spinal Cord Paralysis
According to a recent experimental stem cell therapy treatment developed by Asterias Biotherapeutics, stem cell therapy may be helping patients with spinal cord paralysis regain some motor functions ...
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Using the Body's Stem Cells to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
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Using the Body's Stem Cells to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
While medicine that can help the body heal itself only appears to be science fiction, an approach involving stem cells is now under proper assessment as a possible treatment for multiple sclerosis ...
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Stem Cell Used to Treat Paralysis Caused by Spina Bifida
According to new research from UC Davis Health System, the lower-limb paralysis associated with spina bifida may be treated prior to birth through a combination of unique stem cell therapy with ...
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Evidence Points to Stem Cell Therapy Helping Spinal Cord Paralysis
According to a recent experimental stem cell therapy treatment developed by Asterias Biotherapeutics, stem cell therapy may be helping patients with spinal cord paralysis regain some motor functions ...
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Using the Body's Stem Cells to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
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Thermography for Breast Cancer Screening and More - Valid Technique? Or Another Scam?
“OCTOBER SPECIAL RATES” in honor of breast cancer awareness month. 30% off our usual low rate on all tests done in October. In 2014 we read the following description of breast thermography: ...
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Thermography or Mammography?
Image courtesy of MediTherm Mammography has really been taking significant hits recently. More than half of cancer-free women will be summoned back for further testing after a mammogram shows a false ...
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October - Breast Cancer Awareness - Consider Thermography
For all those who doubt the validity of thermography, here is a reference to a well-designed study published in the American Journal of Surgery, a mainstream publication, that should provide some ...
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Thermography for Breast Cancer Screening and More - Valid Technique? Or Another Scam?
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On Vaccine Safety and Efficacy
National Nurses Week allows me to reflect upon and embrace the responsibility that comes with being part of a cohort the public endorses as most honest profession 17 years in a row. In my opinion a ...
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Did the Vaccine Do It?
A well-written article published on GreenMedInfo describes a child who was given the MMR vaccine at the age of 18 months, and after a short life filled with adverse neurologic events eventually died ...
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Vaxxed - A Film Review
An Autism Media Channel Film, directed by Andrew Wakefield & Produced by Del Bigtree. This film had been pulled from the Tribeca Festival in New York at the end of March. The Tribeca Film Festival was ...
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On Vaccine Safety and Efficacy
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Thermography for Breast Cancer Screening and More - Valid Technique? Or Another Scam?
“OCTOBER SPECIAL RATES” in honor of breast cancer awareness month. 30% off our usual low rate on all tests done in October. In 2014 we read the following description of breast thermography: ...
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Activation of Innate Immunity to Reduce Lung Metastases in Breast Cancer
Breast cancer continues to be a leading cause of cancer death in women. The cancer kills, not because it invades the breast, but because it invades the whole body, particularly the bone and the brain. ...
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My Sister's Song Medicalizing Young Women - A Dangerous Trend
My Sister’s Song Medicalizing Young Women – A Dangerous Trend By Dr. Sherrill Sellman These days, young women are besieged by many challenges. Social pressures, economic concerns, health problems, ...
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Thermography for Breast Cancer Screening and More - Valid Technique? Or Another Scam?