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New Research to Curb C. Diff
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a vicious bacterial infection in the intestinal tract that causes a bloody diarrhea caused by the overgrowth of C. diff. It is usually caused by treatment with oral antibiotics and kills 14,000 Americans every year. Ironically mainstream medicine has elected to treat this condition with very powerful antibiotics and...
Nutritional Medicine with Geoffrey Marx
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
Nutritional medicine is an important fundamental of good health. What we eat determines our health now and how we age. It can be the basis for healing. Without taking in the raw materials we need, we simply cannot make certain cellular products and we'll malfunction. Biochemical individuality is discussed.
Nutritional Medicine With Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
Nutritional medicine is a fundamental cornerstone of maintaining good health. Yet it is understudied in mainstream medicine. Much of the work in modern orthomolecular medicine began in psychiatry as orthomolecular psychiatry. Dr. Kunin gives the example of most schizophrenics who have damage to the niacin receptors in their brain, which can be repaired...
Optimal Nutrition in Preparation for Surgery
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
An article published in the journal, Surgery, in March of 2013 showed that what you eat before surgery may affect your recovery. They demonstrated that in mice consuming a high fat diet that there was more inflammation in the body. These authors also pointed out that when fat tissue is traumatized at surgery that there is a flaring of inflammation...
Options in Treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
Mainstream treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease sometimes require very aggressive treatment with steroids, TNF alpha blockers, chemotherapy, and even surgery, but they also require nutritional support of the GI tract with probiotics, l-glutamine, quercetin, digestive enzymes, essential fatty acids, and optimal...
Overdiagnosing Hypothyroidism?
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
We cannot rely solely on blood tests to access thyroid function; they miss too many people with hypothyroidism. Measuring the basal metabolic test is the gold standard to diagnose hypothyroidism.
Overtreatment of Sinus Infections with Antibiotics
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Sinus infections are overtreated with antibiotics. Only about 3% of sinus infections are bacterial�the rest are viral. Antibiotics don't work in viral infections, but they are still too often prescribed.
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases and the Failure of ATP Production
submitted by: admin on 05/28/2016
Parkinson's disease is not cured by any treatments we have today. Treatment is centered on blocking the symptoms of this chronic disease. There is a failure of energy production in vital areas of the brain that make dopamine. The energy producing part of the cell, the mitochondria, don't make enough energy to make dopamine and Parkinson's disease...
Peptic Ulcer Overview
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Peptic Ulcers affect up to 10% of us over our lifetime. Symptoms generally include burning in the upper abdomen, dull aching pain, and sometimes nausea and vomiting, especially if they are complicated by hemorrhaging or perforation of the intestinal wall. Peptic ulcers occur in the esophagus, stomach and duodenum. H. pylori is believed to cause about 50% of all...
Physiology of Cancer
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Cancer is an environmental disease that occurs in individuals and treatment must be individualized to each person. Lifestyle affects the expression of cancer as well and should be addressed. Supporting the biological terrain is another aspect of treatment that is not addressed in mainstream oncology.
Prescriptions for Health Radio Show: April 22, 2011
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
April 22, 2011
Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki explore the following topics:
Hospital errors
Preventive drugs
Indictment of Glaxo attorney
Flu vaccine development
Can antidepressants cause breast and ovarian cancer?
Fish oil for depression
The role of spirit in treating asthma
Probiotics for urinary tract infections
Probiotics for respiratory illness in male...
Prescriptions for Health Radio Show: March 11, 2011
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Prescriptions for Health on DemandMarch 11, 2011 ...
Preview of Probiotics: Why They Are Important
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
The definition, function, and importance of probiotics are reviewed. The ecosystem of the intestinal tract is composed of at least a thousand different species of microbes. It is easy to disturb this sensitive and complex balance that can lead to important effects on our digestion and absorption of nutrients, our immunity, and overall wellness.
Preview, Peptic Ulcer Overview
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Peptic Ulcers affect up to 10% of us over our lifetime. Symptoms generally include burning in the upper abdomen, dull aching pain, and sometimes hemorrhaging and even perforation of the gut lining. They occur in the esophagus, stomach and duodenum. H. pylori is believed to cause about 50% of all peptic ulcers. NSAIDS including aspirin are common causes of ulcers...
Preview: Antibiotics and the GI Tract
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
This is an extensive review of what antibiotics do to the microflora of
the GI tract. Many MDs overuse antibiotics "just to be sure" that a
bacteria may be causing symptoms; this is very dangerous thinking. It is
common knowledge that antibiotics are massively overused in treating
colds, flus, ear infections, etc. Yeast syndromes, leaky gut syndrome,...
Preview: Candida
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Candida is a controversial condition that is generally not recognized in mainstream medicine but often highlighted in alterntive medicine. An overgrowth of candida albicans is the culprit and associated symptoms can involve any organ system in the body and cause an enormous range of symptoms. By eradicating candida with antifungal agents and a diet low in carbohytrates...
Probiotic Synergy™ & ® Probiotic Supreme
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Health Medicine Essentials
Probiotics
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
The microflora of the gut is composed of thousands of microbial species microbes that live in a complex ecosystem. When this is disturbed it is dangerous and can lead to a wide range of intestinal disorders. Probiotics are the natural microbes found in the gut and they can be replaced.
Probiotics and Allergies
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
The role of the digestive health in allergic conditions is not appreciated in mainstream medicine. The mechanism of how this works is explained with particular attention to the normal microbes that reside in the human gut. They direct the immune system to react or not react to what we are exposed to in our environment. The effects of antibiotics on the gut microflora...
Probiotics and Eczema
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Probiotics, known as friendly microbes, can treat eczema. How they work to protect us is discussed and some of their applications are discussed with specific reference to eczema.
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