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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...
Prostate Cancer with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Dr. Len and Dr. Kunin talk about prostate cancer and some manifestations of it. There have been big changes in how we look at prostate cancer in the last several years. The whole era of the PSA test is now over according to Thomas Stamey, the inventor of the test. We have now gotten to a situation where we are over treating most men who have...
Proton Pump Inhibitors Increase Risk for Kidney Failure and Heart Attacks
submitted by: admin on 05/24/2016
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) such as Prilosec, Nexium, Protonix, and Aciphex have been available for about 20 years and each year about 15 million people use them and bring in $10 billion every year. PPIs are vastly overprescribed by MDs and because they are available over the counter, are overused by patients.
The major known side effects of PPIs include...
PSA- Is the Era Over?
submitted by: admin on 11/24/2024
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...
Purification with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
How do we begin to reverse the effect of pollution in our bodies? This Prescriptions for Health "Fastrack" show discusses purification, which is really another way of talking about how we detoxify and purify our body from the things we expose ourselves to. When we talk about pollution in today's world, the key words are oxygen radicals....
Reactions to Everyday Stress Predict Future Health
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
It is not stress itself that causes health problems, it is how we react to stress that will determine our health 10 years from now according to the November 2012 issue of Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
Researchers at Penn State surveyed 2000 people daily for 8 days regarding the level of stress in their lives and measured their cortisol level....
Red Meat Consumption Linked to Cardiovascular and Cancer Mortality
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
A Harvard study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in March of 2012 found that red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality. They also showed that substituting other healthly protein sources was associated with a lower mortality risk.
They studied 37,000 men and 83,000 women for up to...
Regenerative Medicine with Richard Gracer, MD
submitted by: admin on 11/24/2024
The natural healing process is stimulated by both ozone and platelet rich plasma. Both stimulate the production of healing growth factors. Dr. Gracer explains how they work his experience of what they do.
Regulation of Supplements
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
The regulation of supplements is problematic. We clearly need regulation because supplement companies tend to make statements about what they do that is not proven, but at the same time we also need to have access to using them, especially if they are safe. A balanced regulation is what is needed. MD control of supplements is being suggested; yet they...
Replacing Effort With Skill, Part 11 with Ofer Erez
submitted by: admin on 11/24/2024
Trying harder is a reflection of not having mastered a particular skill. When we get better at whatever we're doing, it becomes easy and effortless.
Revising School Nutrition Standards
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Eighty percent of a survey in the US showed that we need better food standards to reduce calories, fat and sodium and encourage fruits, vegetables, and low fat dairy. There is some value to this, but there's more. Sugar and high fructose corn syrup should be very limited and certain fats need to be in our diets. Because there are vending machines with fast...
Safe Household Products
submitted by: admin on 08/04/2014
There are about 17,000 chemicals in common household products and few are tested for safety or tested before they are put on the store shelves. The terms on the labels (organic, natural) are unregulated.
Commercial cleaners are polluting our homes and contributing to the rise in chronic diseases including asthma and allergies because they weaken our...
School Kitchen Garden Programs Work
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Grow it, try it, and you just might like it! That is the motto many schools are using to encourage kids to eat more fruits and veggies. A program out of Australia published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior in March of 2013 recruited 764 kids in grades 3-6 and 562 parents. Each class had 45 minutes a week in the garden with a trained...
Screening Does Not Reduce Prostate Cancer Deaths
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Screening does not significantly reduce prostate cancer deaths but it does lead to overdetection and overtreatment. The cancer detection rate is 40% higher with testing, but to prevent one death from prostate cancer more than 1400 men would need screening and 48 would be unnecessarily treated. The era of the PSA is over.
Shifting From Disease Care to Health Care with Richard Miles
submitted by: admin on 11/24/2024
Today’s MDs are faced with adapting from looking at the universe as potentially hostile to the concept that it is intelligent and self managing. An intervention imperative has emerged for financial and technological reasons.
Shocking Effects of Taking an Occasional Sleeping Pill
submitted by: admin on 05/28/2014
Sleeping pills are not safe for anyone! Not for people with congestive heart failure (CHF), and not for healthy adults with insomnia. We are not talking about minor issues; we're talking about problems leading to hospital re-admissions, death, or an increased risk for developing cancer!
According to information presented in May of 2014 at the...
Should MDs be Paid for Performance?
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Pay-for-performance schemes financially reward MDs for hitting special numerical targets such as hospital stay, readmissions, use of certain drugs, and cost controls. An article in the August issue of the British Medical Journal take the position that pay-for-performance will do more harm than good by changing the mindset of the physician. The Accountable Care...
Should Medical Research Forego Placebo Testing?
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
The results of a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial re-opened debate on whether it is ethical to conduct placebo-controlled studies because it puts those in the placebo group at the disadvantage of not being in the treatment arm. One could make the point that placebo is not really necessary because all that needs to be done is to see if patients...
Should Patients Have Access to Their Medical Records?
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Most patients want access to their medical records including the doctor's notes according to an article published in the December issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. In this study, called OpenNotes, 37,000 patients and 170 physicians were surveyed. Of the MDs 63 refused to participate and 80% of patients liked the idea of having access to their records....
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