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submitted by: admin on 05/24/2016
We tend to focus on what causes Alzheimer's disease and how to treat it, but what about how to prevent it? The UCLA Center on Aging has come out with 10 strategies to prevent this common disease. These strategies include coffee, flossing your teeth, keeping your brain active, exercise, omega 3 fatty acids, low stress, adequate sleep, weight control,...
submitted by: admin on 10/16/2013
The largest study ever done on how we should treat hypertension showed that thiazide diuretics and lifestyle are what was recommended. It exposes the mercenary nature of big pharma in promoting their new designer drugs that work no better than older approaches that are cheap.
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Physicians get so technical and so scientific in medicine that they think of medicine as a pure science. In actuality, medicine is more art than science. During their medical training physicians are taught that medicine is a science. They are taught to be scientists, to be objective, and to not get connected to their patients. For Dr....
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Cultural creatives come to life when they become more than interesting thoughts. There has been a turning point where people are taking action. The Wellness City Challenge in Walnut Creek is a great example.
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
When should cholesterol be treated? Cholesterol is essential for life. We must have it to make vitamin D, most hormones, cell membranes and coenzyme Q10. The fractions of cholesterol are important in predicting arteriosclerosis.
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Dr. Miller explains that without respect for patients you cannot be a healer. This respect needs to be addressed in medical school and applied to students as well. Listening and caring are indispensible ingredients for everyone.
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Modern democracy was designed to provide complete economic and religious freedom. But there is more...we need community at all levels. Corporations now have far more power than ever intended. John explores the dream.
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
You can't really blame MDs for practicing defensively when they are trying to do the best job they possibly can for their patients and they don't want to be involved in a malpractice case if they make an error. In a study of 1200 orthopedic surgeons 96% admitted practicing defensively. This came to an estimated $2 billion cost annually. Many...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
According to an article in the NY Times in January of 2013, it appears that Johnson and Johnson, the manufacturer of the DePuy metal on metal hip resurfacing prosthesis, knowingly and willingly sold this product even though they had full knowledge that it was defective and would cause widespread disability, suffering, and even deaths. More that 10,000...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Drs. Welby and Kildare are now a thing of the past for the most part. Today's fragmented health care has lost the personal relationship between doctor and patient and is oriented to saving money and getting people back on their feet and back to work as quickly as possible. The personal relationship where a healer listens and cares has become "unaffordable"...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Helicobacter Pylori is found in 50% of human beings. Sometimes it causes problems and at other times it is protective. It is associated with type 2 diabetes, ulcers, and gastric cancer but is protective against asthma, colitis, and intestinal infections. Managing its presence is tricky. Mainstream doctors tend to use triple therapy (two antibiotics, proton pump...
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Shamans are practitioners of the soul. The phenomenon of soul loss is explained. We lose parts of our soul as we pass through life and don't resolve our problems. The shaman is a dreamer. Dreams often sh ow us where the parts of us have gone and can show us where we can recover our missing parts.
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
As soon as we have expectations we have desires and the fear is that if we fail we won't be okay. Desire with attachments are the most challenging. Life isn't just about us individually as it is as a collective whole.
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
We need to look at harnessing our biology to heal, but we also need to look to the emotional roots to learn the deeper meaning of our dis-ease. Judith shares her early years of emotional challenge very openly. Wholeness requires coming to congruency with all of who we are.
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
While doctors often save lives, they are sometimes insufferable know-it-alls who bully nurses and do not listen to patients. There is a way of interviewing aspiring physicians to identify those people who jump to improper conclusions, fail to listen, or are overly opinionated. More than a dozen medical schools are now screening applicants to see if they have...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
We live in a culture characterized by fragmentation within and alienation without. All that is in the universe will heal itself if properly stimulated. Health and healing is about creating the conditions that allow healing to occur.
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
The School for Self-Healing is affiliated with the Self-Healing Research Center in San Francisco. The purpose of these organizations is to teach people how to self-heal and to provide trainers who can teach this as well.
Bringing nature's power to other people's life is one of the major goals in training patients and students in training how to do...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
The journey from shock to managing treatments, dealing with family and finances, and dealing with getting treatment is discussed. Taking time to digest what happened is important.
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
The community carries within itself its own special powers of regeneration. Technology cannot do what connection to spirit can. Conventional medicine is radically depraved of the capacity to access, benefit from, and participate in the regenerative powers of the universe. This is our number one health problem in the US. The goal in healing...
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Roche pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Tamiflu, has refused for 3 years to release key data from their Tamiflu research trial that "justifies" its use in influenza to the prestigious Cochrane Review. What are they trying to hide? Why has the FDA, CDC, and WHO endorsed using Tamiflu within the first 48 hours of symptoms of the flu when...