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How to Manage Menopause and HRT Problems with Hyla Cass, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/02/2013
Lifestyle that includes a healthy diet, exercise, low stress, adequate sleep, and weight management are keys to managing menopause. For PMS black cohosh, essential fatty acids, and neurotransmitter management with 5-HTP, St. John's wort, natural estrogens and progesterone can all help the symptoms of menpause. PMS and menopause are diseases caused in part...
How to optimize your child's IQ
submitted by: admin on 10/02/2013
Supplementing your child's diet with essential fatty acids, enrolling them in pre-school, and engaging them in interactive reading can increase their IQ by 3-10 or more points according to a study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science in January of 2013.
Supplementing pregnant women and newborns with essential fatty acids were...
How to Prevent the Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease
submitted by: admin on 10/08/2013
According to the European Society of Cardiology, 80-90% of all cardiovascular disease is preventable and up to 50% could be prevented by imposing population level changes through taxes and regulation of advertising. They recommend population-based interventions from local and national government aimed at unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and reducing...
Hypertension: Nutritional Support Protocol
submitted by: admin on 12/21/2024
Hypertension is caused most of the time by lifestyle habits that need improving. 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 as yet unknown side effects that can be lifethreatening. Most people with hypertension can get off of their drugs if they will adopt a healthy...
Is Obesity Linked to our Gut Microflora?
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
A recent Cedar-Sinai study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in April of 2013 could predict who is obese based on a breath test for hydrogen and methane. The question raised is are there bacteria in the gut that cause obesity by allowing the body to extract calories better. The issue that was not raised is could having...
Is Practicing Nutrition Without being a Registered Dietitian a Crime?
submitted by: admin on 07/10/2014
In states like North Carolina, it is against the law to provide nutritional advice even for free if you are not licensed by the American Dietetic Association. This means that, under the law, you could not advise a diabetic to avoid sugar unless you are a registered RD! While it is only a misdimeanor, it is punishable by fines and even imprisonment....
Kids and Snacks
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Kids are eating snacks that are now making up more than a quarter of their calorie consumption. Do we need legislation to stop this? Nurse Vicki discusses healthy solutions and Dr. Len explains the challenges.
Lack of Sleep and Risk for Aggressive Breast Cancer
submitted by: admin on 06/30/2016
Getting less than 6 hours a night of sleep is a risk factor in postmenopausal women with stage 1 or 2, estrogen positive, node negative breast cancer using the Oncotype DX tumor test. It measures the risk of tumor recurrence based on the expression of 21 oncogenes.
Lack of sleep causes inflammation in the body that increases the risk for obesity,...
Link Between Mother's Diet and Childhood Obesity
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Medical researchers have discovered that a mother's nutrition during pregnancy can affect a child's risk for obesity many years later. They show that diet can change how DNA expresses itself with regard to appetite regulation. These epigenetic changes suggest that measures to prevent childhood obesity should also target on improving the mother's nutrition...
Listen to Your Body Diet with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
The Listen to Your Body Diet is implying that your body knows what it needs and according to Dr. Kunin, that is exactly right. Dr. Kunin recognized that all the stuff about nutrition is focused on micro-nutrition, meaning vitamins, minerals, and small dose things like amino acids, etc., Proteins, Fats and Carbohydrates (PFC) make up the major bulk of what...
Low Calcium Diet Promotes Kidney Stones
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Women with a history of kidney stones have a higher absorption rate of calcium present in the diet. Consuming adequate calcium reduces calcium absorption from the gut and helps prevent calcium stones. Most people with calcium kidney stones mistakenly lower their calcium intake. Low calciium intake actually increases the absorption of calcium from the gut and...
Lowering Cholesterol: What Does it Do?
submitted by: admin on 12/21/2024
Lowering cholesterol is not directly correlated to stopping arteriosclerosis and extending life. Inflammation is the cause and should be the primary target. Statins have serious side effects but have value in some people. Berberine causes more cholesterol receptor to form that bind with cholesterol and thereby lower its levels.
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...
Managing Menopause with Ellen Cutler, MD, DC
submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
Too much sugar and grains are a common cause for menopausal symptoms. Digestive enzymes and BioSet testing for allergies are also helpful. Leaky gut is related. Hormones are not the cause of menopausal symptoms.
MDs admit being unqualified to deal with obesity
submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
An article In the December 2012 issue of the British Medical Journal reports that 56% of MDs felt they could not help obese people lose weight. They felt that measuring the body mass index (BMI) and putting people on low calorie diets would be a major step forward. For the time being they felt that dieticians and nutritionists would be better at helping...
MDs Fail to Promote Prevention
submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
A Bastyr University study showed that patients with type 2 diabetes who were being followed by MDs did better in controlling blood sugar levels when they received naturopathic care over 6 months. This points out that MDs don't practice the lifestyle measures that naturopaths recommend. Prevention is for the most part given lip service in mainstream medicine.
Conventional...
More Diabetes Drugs Found to Cause Cancer
submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute in August published an article showing that both Avandia and Actos increase bladder cancer by more than 400% compared to baseline incidence in diabetics. These drugs account for more than 20% of all drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes. Actos ranks 9th in the sales of all pharmaceutical drugs. This is remarkable...
Never Be Fat Again
submitted by: admin on 10/29/2013
Raymond Francis wrote the book, Never Be Fat Again, and explains why being overweight is a symptom, not a cause for this disease. Much of the cause of obesity is related to inflammation in the body caused by an unhealthy lifestyle that includes a poor diet, lack of exercise and sleep, too much stress, and exposure to environmental chemicals. There is a lot...
Never Be Fat Again with Raymond Francis
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
There is a pandemic of obesity and diets will not solve the problem because they are not scientifically sound. Our cells know what they need in our diet and if they don't get it they send messages to our appetite center saying eat. However, what we eat is not what we need; it is fast food that is relatively devoid of the nutrients we need. Environmental toxins...
Nutrition and Cancer with Donald Abrams, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
About 40% of all cancers is caused by bad diets. Plant-based, organic foods are the cornerstone of a healthy diet. Cruciferous veggies, heavily pigmented fruits, berries, certain spices such as turmeric are important.
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