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We know that too little vitamin D is not healthy, but how about too much? Until recently, it has been believed that megadoses of vitamin D might not be a good idea, but that it was relatively harmless. However, a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism looked at 250,000 people from Denmark showing that levels below 20 nmol are...
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The importance of sleep in restoring and maintaining health are discussed. Insomnia has been linked to hypertension, diabetes, cancer, & arteriosclerosis by causing inflammation. Mechanisms are explained.
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We all too often focus on how sick we are, but it also makes sense to focus on how healthy can we be. Lifestyle is the most powerful medicine. Orthomolecular medicine uses naturally occuring substances to support health and wellness and prevent disease. "Naturology" or natural medicine, or naturopathy puts nutrition first...that comes before drugs but...
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What happened to Drs. Marcus Wellby, Ben Casey, and Kildare? How did physicians lose control of the practice of medicine? It began in the late 1980s when MDs refused to deal with the cost of delivering health care. They took the perspective that they would help their patients, but wanted nothing to do with regulating healthcare services. They gave...
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People need to work on being healthy rather than waiting until they get sick. How Do We Diagnose Your Health? In medicine they diagnose disease, but what do you do to diagnose health? What is this thing called the wellness buffer? How do we put space between ourselves and when our bodies start to malfunction?
Dr. Len and Dr. Kunin discuss taking the...
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The Women's Health Initiative documented that instead of preventing breast cancer, heart attacks, and strokes that it did just the opposite. The story behind the creation of HRT is shocking and Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki share it. The financial greed of big pharma is exposed.
Yet women need help with their symptoms of menopause that make their quality of...
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Nutrition is important in itself, but it needs to be applied to the whole person to meet them where they are. There is a lot of conflict in the "right" diet. Starting with how people relate to food is often complicated but very necessary. Nutrition is about healing through food. Local, seasonal, organic food is important but who you eat with and how...
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Holistic nutrition looks are how everything fits together; this includes all aspect of food. It is important to appreciates how food interrelates with our culture and with nature. This provides great insights into how the world works and how we can influence how it functions.
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The role of spirit in life leads the way for some people like Jim Parker who is a world champion tennis player. The choices we make in life have a lot to do with how it unfolds; so from that perspective we co-create our future. Tennis matches for a mature tennis pro like Jim are a dance with your partner who happens to be on the other side of the net. Your partner...
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Health insurance companies outright cheat many people who develop chronic disease that will cost a lot of money to treat them. Historically, with newly found breast cancer are simply denied further insurance once their diagnosis is made. This is know as recission, and it is illegal, but they do it anyway and usually get away with it because these individuals...
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"A Return to Healing" Blog: Fri, 12/04/2009 - 11:14 — BBelitsos
In a very helpful article authored by our friends at the American Association for Health Freedom, we learned that the 40 percent of Americans who pay out of our pockets for some form of natural healing or integrative medicine will...
submitted by: admin on 09/23/2013
The FDA doesn't regulate skin care products. A cosmetic manufacturer may use any ingredient without government approval and most of the 25,000 chemicals used, have NOT been tested for long term toxic effects. The associations that are supposed to assess the safety of the ingredients are made up of the chemical companies that manufacture the cosmetics!...
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Finding a restaurant with healthy food is not easy. Because Americans eat out so often, we need accountability from restaurants. Ed is consulting with restaurants and certifying those that have certain standards. Ratings are based on freshness, local and natural, organic, and affordability
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We are more concerned with how we look than how safe the products we put on our skin are. Cosmetics are not regulated to protect us as they should. Most products contain many toxic chemicals that are absorbed through the skin and poison the body for years. Nurse Vicki reviews these issues and offers suggestions of what you can use to be safe and still...
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Negatively charged ions are healthy. Sick building syndrome and outdoor pollution are discussed in terms of positive ions that restrict blood flow and increase adrenalin and serotonin levels.
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What real health care reform is being discussed? The corruption between Congress and the health care industry is explored and the potential outcome of the proposed bill is discussed. The lack of transparency is discussed.
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Dr. Bristow is a former president of the national AMA and reviews the challenges he has faced in health care throughout his distinguished career. He also presents his ideas for solutions to what we're now facing in health care from the points of view of cost, availability of insurance, the epidemic of chronic diseases, and the safety of medications.
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One of the founders and developers of Health Medicine shares the story of how the model came into existence. The economics involved with health medicine practice are a limiting factor. The nature and style of Healing Circles is reviewed. Two aspects of these circles were information exchange to connection of the entire group was most satisfying.
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Health Medicine is defined, its history reviewed, and its principles described. It has been brought into clinical practice at the Health Medicine Center.
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