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Vitamin D's Role in Health and Disease with Joe Prendergast, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
There is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency because we don't get sufficient sun or supplementation. Just 1300 units of vitamin D would lower the risk of all cancers by 50%. Toxicity is very low. A combination of Diovan, megadoses of vitamin D and l-arginine restores elasticity of arterial walls.
What Does Your Doctor Worry About?
submitted by: admin on 01/20/2015
An article published in WebMd in December of 2014 interviewed 21,000 MDs to see what they worried about in making decisions about patient care. Issues included assisted suicide, abortion, patient confidentiality, medical mistakes, financial matters, sexual relationships, reporting incompetent doctors, and using placebos.
Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki discuss...
What is Native American Medicine About with Phillip Scott
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Dr. Len and Phillip Scott (Chief Blackhorse) discuss Native American Medicine.
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...
When is it Okay to Take an Antidepressant
submitted by: admin on 09/13/2014
In our pharmaceutically oriented culture, antidepressants are often looked as the solution for depression. We want the quickest fix that will get us back on our feet and back to work. And the medical profession has been trained to resort to using antidepressants, especially the SSRI type that include Prosac, Zoloft, Celexa, Lexapro, Paxil, and Luvox rather than...
Who is More Likely to Benefit from Placebo?
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Personality traits that include being good at coping, altruistic, trusting, and honest make placebo treatment more likely to work as opposed to anger and hostility according to an article from the University of Michigan that was published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology in November of 2012. Their study showed that about 25% of the placebo response...
Why Antidepressants Don't Work
submitted by: admin on 03/01/2015
SSRI antidepressants, according to research published in the February issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, may increase serum levels of serotonin, but actually lower levels in the brain. This family of drugs blocks the re-uptake of serotonin by nerve tissue, which raises serum levels but actually lowers levels where we need them the most -- in...
Why it is Important to Spice Up Your Meals
submitted by: admin on 12/18/2014
A study published in November of 2014 in Nutrition Today shows that high antioxidant spices enhance our health and protect against diseases such as heart disease. The researchers found that when eating a high fat diet that by adding high antioxidant spices such as garlic, rosemary, oregano, cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, ginger and black pepper, that levels...
Why Medicine is Not So Evidenced Based with Beverly Rubik
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Today's medicine gives the illusion that it is evidence-based. Self healing through placebo is subtracted from the effect of our treatments. Healing is a multifactorial process that is far more than using drugs, technology, and surgery. There are conflicts of interest, fabrication of data, fraudulent inclusion of popular names on papers that they...
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