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What is Real Health Care Reform?
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
What is real health care reform? It is not what happened with the Affordable Care Act of 2010. Our present level of health care will now be available to 30 million more uninsured people, but as far as health care itself is concerned, we lost ground. It will be difficult to maintain the same poor standard of care now existing (we are ranked 37th in the world by...
What is Socialized Medicine
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Socialized medicine means that the government pays for health care. Universal health care means the everyone gets health care, but does not require it be paid for by the government. Obama’s health care plan is discussed.
What is Sufficient Treatment for Cancer?
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
When do you know you're getting the right cancer treatment? How do patients get reliable information for treatment? How far should mainstream physicians go when recommending treatments? We need doctors that are knowledgeable in both mainstream and alternative therapies so patients can get the best of both worlds. FDA off-label usage is discussed.
What is the Clinical Importance of Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure
submitted by: admin on 07/11/2014
A review of 1.25 million medical records of 30 year olds and older from a primary care practice for 5 years in England and looked at the different effects of systolic and diastolic blood pressure when it came to intracerebral bleeds, angina, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and renal disease. They published their results in the May issue of the journal The Lancet.
It...
What is the Difference Between Brown and White Fat?
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
There are many different ways to classify fat: saturated, trans, unsaturated, brown, white, and essential fatty acids. Some are essential for life and some are lethal. Where fat accumulates is also important. If white fat accumulates inside the abdominal cavity it predisposes to the metabolic syndrome and type two diabetes with all of its complications....
What is the Right Exercise for you?
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Exercise helps our bodies adapt to increased demands. Qigong is a powerful tool that helps our body and mind adapt to higher levels of capacity. It is about a harmony of mind, body, and spirit but also includes the marshal arts and extraordinary self regulation that can result in doing feats that seem impossible. Where mind goes, chi flows and where...
What is Well-Being with Jimmy Parker
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Well being includes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual perspectives. The example of how a tennis player addresses a tennis match is discussed in this regard. What we think can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What is Your Intestinal Bacterial Type
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
An individual's intestinal bacteria flora falls into certain patterns that are independent of nationality, gender, and age according to a 2011 article in the journal, Nature. They believe that the composition of the GI microflora is a new biological fingerprint, just as our blood type or tissue type.
We depend on our GI microflora to metabolize...
What Test Can Predict Mortality 10-15 Years Early
submitted by: admin on 01/07/2015
In a study out of Johns Hopkins University that was published in the December 2014 issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology, researchers found that the amount of mitochondrial DNA found in blood directly correlated with frailty and longevity 10-15 years before symptoms appeared. Patients were followed over 10-20 years looking at the amount of mitochondrial DNA...
What to Say and Do to a Friend Who is Seriously Ill
submitted by: admin on 04/14/2014
When a close friend or family member is seriously ill, there is a lot you can do to support the healing process. Your simple presence,willingness to listen, and deep caring may do a lot to reduce inflammation and promote the healing process. Even though few of us are trained in this area, simple commonsense approaches can do a lot. Our willingess to help out...
What Types of Jobs Increase the Risk for Heart Attacks?
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
People with demanding jobs and not much freedom to make decisions are more stressed out and have a 23% higher risk for a heart attack according to a study published in the September 2012 issue of the Lancet. Among about 200,000 people 30,000 had job strain and 2,300 had a heart attack over about a 7 year period.
Stress causes insomnia that leads...
What we Believe Influences our Health
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
We know that what we think has a powerful effect on our biochemistry and physiology, but just how powerful is this effect? Examples such as placebo, nocebo, voodoo, intention, being in the zone, are explored. The ticklish questions that arise include how far should a health care practitioner go to use these tools and how much must a patient know about...
What You Can Do to Allow Your Doctor to Treat Cancer Integratively
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
It is a felony in the State of California for an MD to treat cancer with anything except surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Yet, legislation was passed in 2004 making it legal for MDs to use any complementary and alternative therapy (CAM) so long as they do not try to dissuade patients from mainstream therapies and they do no harm. We need...
What You Can Do to Shrink Your Tumor if You Have Cancer
submitted by: admin on 09/29/2014
There have been many studies documenting that exercise increases survival and quality of life in people with cancer. A study published in JAMA in May of 2005 showed that just 3-5 hours of walking at 2-3 mph reduced deaths by 50% for women with hormone sensitive breast tumors. There was an absolute 6% decrease in mortality at 10 years. A second study published...
What You Need to Know About Atrial Fibrillation
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Atrial fibrillation occurs when the top part of the heart, called the atria, beats at around 300 beats per minute and leads to ineffective contraction of the atria. This predisposes to clots forming in the left atrium that can break off and travel to the brain and block circulation and result in strokes. Anticoagulation is the treatment of choice but there is...
What You Need to Know About Bisphenol A
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Bisphenol A is found in plastic bottles and is carcinogenic. It is now ubiquitous. One of the problems in assessing the safety of chemicals is that we don't look at the cumulative effect of thousands of environmental toxins. It is a hormone disruptor.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COVID 19
submitted by: admin on 03/25/2020
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COVID 19
Len Saputo, MD March 23, 2020
Corona viruses have been around forever. We know they cause the common cold, and for most of us they do not ordinarily cause serious illness. However, for those of us who are over the age of 70 or have an underlying disease that compromises immunity, the new COVID 19 can cause...
What You Need to Know About Irritable Bowel Syndrome
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
IBS is very common but poorly understood. Symptoms are described. Drugs control symptoms but never deal with the underlying cause. The nature of the microbial ecosystem is very important because their metabolic products affect our physiology. The role of the microbial ecosystem and of intestinal permeability are reviewed.
What You Need to Know About Medical Marijuana
submitted by: admin on 04/18/2015
A study of 19 patients in a convalescent hospital in Israel using medical marijuana showed that it is helpful to improve appetite, ease pain, reduce tremors, improve mood, concentration, communication skills, and improve sleep. Permits for medical cannabis in Israel increased from 400 in 2009 to 11,000 now.
Cannabis has been used for 2000...
What You Need to Know About Radiation Exposure
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
The radiation disaster in Japan is a serous problem in Japan, but not in the US yet. The levels of exposure up to this point have been diluted sufficiently that it is only a minor issue for those of us who live on the west coast. The best treatment is the use of antioxidants to combat the ionizing radiation such as natural vitamin E, selenomethionine, vitamin...
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