April 22nd
You don’t hear a lot of guys these days bragging about how much they sleep. Your typical male looks at sleep and sees an unproductive waste of time, an indulgence of the newborn, the retired, and the slothful.
Sleep experts, on the other hand, see it as a restorative daily health tonic, an ally of the [...]
April 22nd
Heart disease
Now the biggest single killer in the western world, cardio-vascular disease emerges last of all the western diseases as a population becomes westernized. Even today rural peoples around the world have very little coronary heart disease. Among the rural Bantu in southern Africa coronary heart disease occurs at a level of only 1 or [...]
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April 20th
April 22 is celebrated every year as Earth Day and this year I’d like to encourage you to think about changing your diet in ways that would benefit both your health and the health of the environment. And I can think of no better way than to follow the precepts set forth by Michael Pollan, [...]
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April 20th
A criticism of medical training is that specialisation has led to each specialist tending to adopt a tunnel-vision approach. Thus, anaesthetists treat chronic pain with nerve blocks.
Surgeons cut nerves or remove vertebral discs, according to their special interest. Psychiatrists either use psychotherapy or tell patients they are imagining the pain. Doctors often prescribe narcotic-based, or [...]
Read more of CULTURAL ASPECTS OF PAIN: DOCTOR-CAUSED (IATROGENIC) PROBLEMS…
April 20th
This is the excruciating aftermath of an adult’s bout with shingles — or herpes zoster, the same virus that causes chicken-pox in children. The virus appears to lie dormant in a nerve root for decades in some people and later appears, sometimes in response to stress or to physical upset.
This infection also produces rashes on [...]
April 19th
There can be several different causes for urticaria (also called nettle-rash or hives) of which allergic reactions are just one. Where allergy is at the root of urticaria, it is probably the mast cells found in the lower layers of the skin that cause the problem. When they degranulate, the mediators released have a powerful [...]
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April 13th
Avitaminosis, as well as a deficiency of other vital substances, seem to be strongly implicated in the development of cancer, but research in this area is still inconclusive.
Metabolic disorders, for example chronic constipation and constant fermentations in the intestines as a result of dysbac-teria, are also very damaging.
Lack of oxygen plays a decisive part in [...]
Read more of ARTHRITIS AND GOUT – KNOWN CAUSES (AVITAMINOSIS AND METABOLIC DISORDERS)…
April 13th
A commonly used treatment for acid reflux does not improve asthma symptoms or asthma control in those patients who do not actually have symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux (GER), according to a new study published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine. This suggests that silent GER (acid reflux that causes only minimal or no reflux [...]
Read more of Asthma treatment not always helped by PPIs like Nexium…
April 13th
0. You’re down on fasting but I feel better when I fast?
A. There are two reasons why you would feel better when you fast:
1. The withholding of all foods from the body is an effective way of removing the symptoms of food allergy. This is the reason many chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers experience a significant [...]
April 13th
White Hour and sugar are the most fattening foods and it is a sad fact that most people who are over-weight eat far too much of these foods. If they are not taking vitamin and mineral supplements they will incur severe nutrient deficiencies as well.
Most weight-reducing diets are vitamin and mineral deficient which further aggravates [...]
Read more of SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS: DIETING INDUCES METABOLIC IMBALANCES…