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How Do We Diagnose Your Health with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
People need to work on being healthy rather than waiting until they get sick. How Do We Diagnose Your Health? In medicine they diagnose disease, but what do you do to diagnose health? What is this thing called the wellness buffer? How do we put space between ourselves and when our bodies start to malfunction?
Dr. Len and Dr. Kunin discuss taking the...
How Do You Know if the Treatment Your Doctor Prescribes is Good for You?
submitted by: admin on 03/05/2015
How Do You Know if the Treatment Your Doctor Prescribes is Good for You?
According to an article published in the NY Times on February 2, 2015, far fewer people benefit from medical treatment than we're led to believe from our doctors, advertisements such as direct to consumer TV ads, ads in medical journals, and even in medical journal articles, and...
Hypertension
submitted by: admin on 02/19/2015
Hypertension is caused most of the time by lifestyle habits that can be improved to make a major difference in your blood pressure. Mainstream medicine looks to the quick fix with an array of anti-hypertensive drugs that can work, but at the price of a multitude of known and unknown side effects that can be disabling or even lifethreatening. Most people with...
Hypertension Management
submitted by: admin on 10/08/2013
Simple approaches to diagnose and manage newly found hypertension are explored. White coat hypertension is discussed. The significance of systolic, diastolic and pulse pressure are discussed. Pre-hypertension is also reviewed.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Overview
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Irritable bowel syndrome is defined and its symptoms, evaluation, and treatment reviewed. Treatment in mainstream and nutritional medicine is explained and contrasted.
Is DCIS Cancer or Not?
submitted by: admin on 07/09/2016
Women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are confused about whether or not DCIS is cancer or not. MDs are no different! About 2% of DCIS cancers are lethal and the other 98% will die with it and not from it. Twenty to twenty five percent of all breast cancers are DCIS. Mainstream treatment for this condition includes surgery, radiation,...
Mammograms
submitted by: admin on 02/17/2015
There is considerable confusion about the role of mammograms in breast cancer detection in premenopausal women. The US is the only country in the world making the recommendation that they be done on women under the age of 50. The people standing to profit from doing mammograms in this age group are the mammogram industry, Big Pharma in the sale of chemotherapy,...
Mammograms Remain Controversial
submitted by: admin on 06/18/2016
One third of cancers detected by mammography may not be life-threatening according to the November of 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Over the past 3 decades, an estimated 1.3 million women have been over-diagnosed of breast cancer that has led to treatment for a cancer for which they did not need treatment.
Many of these cancers...
Mammography: More Harm than Good?
submitted by: admin on 06/18/2016
Screening mammograms could be doing more harm than good according to an article published in the British Medical Journal in December of 2011. The benefits of mammograms were not so apparent because of the risk for overtreatment. Data showed that for every 2000 women taking a mammogram throughout 10 years, one will have her life prolonged, and 10 healthy...
Managing Digestive Disorders with Len and Vicki Saputo
submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki provide an overview of digestive disorders, their physiology, and management using natural solutions. This indepth review offers specific measures for diagnosis and treatment. In general, probiotics, l-glutamine, UltraClear Sustain, and quercetin do miracles for most people with IBS. A healthy lifestyle also does a lot to restore normal...
More Harm Than Good in Women Over 70 From Mammograms
submitted by: admin on 04/01/2014
In a paper presented at the European Breast Cancer Conference on March 21, 2014, studies out of the Netherlands concluded that doing mammograms in women from age 70-75 as a screening test did not reduce the incidence of advanced stage breast cancer or save lives. They did report that doing mammograms in this age group led to unnecessary overdiagnosis and overtreatment...
Neurologists Caution Against ADHD Drugs
submitted by: admin on 05/24/2016
The American Academy of Neurology published an article in the March 2013 issue of Neurology a statement advising against the use of neuroenhancing drugs to boost academic achievement is school tests in normal kids. They say the drugs have not been adequately studied in normal kids; it makes you wonder if these drugs are a good idea for kids with these...
New Breakthroughs in Pain Management with Richard Gracer, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
The first step in considering treatment is to make an accurate diagnosis. The body heals itself and we need to support it to promote healing by looking at a wide range of therapies that range from nutrition to surgery. Lifestyle medicine is the first place to start. Having flexibility in choosing a treatment is key to finding the best treatment.
New...
Physician-Nurse Views on Health Care
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
MDs and nurses have unique approaches in dealing with patients. MDs are more diagnostic and therapeutic and nurses actually care for patients in general. The differences between curing symptoms and healing are discussed.
Preventive Medicine Saves Money but Early Detection May Not
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Seventy five percent of health care spending is for preventable chronic diseases. If you can prevent these diseases from occurring, it stands to reason that it will cost far less to deal with them. However, there is massive confusion about what preventive medicine is. What it is not is early detection.
Preventive medicine requires living a healthy...
Prostate Cancer (video miniseries)
submitted by: admin on 04/08/2015
Most men will get prostate cancer during their life time. That's right, if you live to be 90 years old your risk is 90%! If you live to age 50, 50% will have prostate. However, 98% of prostate cancers do not need treatment because we die with them, not from them! The trick is to tell who is in the 2% that will die from it. With new technologies coming into...
Prostate Cancer Overview
submitted by: admin on 02/17/2015
The PSA era is over. Modern research has shown that it leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment and far too many surgeries, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapy. Prostate cancer is very common, but only about 2% need to be treated. Preventive measures and environmental toxins are reviewed. The relationship of various hormones is discussed.New tools...
Prostate Cancer Overview
submitted by: admin on 06/30/2016
The PSA era is over. Modern research has shown that it leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment and far too many surgeries, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapy. Prostate cancer is very common, but only about 2% need to be treated. Preventive measures and environmental toxins are reviewed. The relationship of various hormones is discussed.New tools...
PSA- Is the Era Over?
submitted by: admin on 04/25/2024
The PSA era is over. Modern research has shown that it leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment and far too many surgeries, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapy. Prostate cancer is very common, but only about 2% need to be treated. Preventive measures and environmental toxins are reviewed. The relationship of various hormones is discussed.New tools for diagnosis...
Psoriasis
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
This is a good basic overview of the cause, clinical findings, and treatment of this chronic illness.
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