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How Chocolate Reduces Risk for Heart Attacks and Strokes
submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
Scientists from LSU Medical Center reported at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition on how the flora in the intestinal tract digest chocolate and convert its large, poorly absorbed, polyphenols that protect the heart and brain from inflammation, into smaller, more easily absorbed antioxidants. They recommend building up the gut microbes that accomplish...
How Do We Diagnose Your Health with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
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...
How Do We Get and Get Rid Of Type 2 Diabetes?
submitted by: admin on 01/09/2017
Type 2 diabetes is largely a disease of lifestyle, especially diet and exercise. However, stress, sleep, and certain pharmaceutical drugs predispose to developing it. The metabolic syndrome is discussed and the concept of insulin resistance is reviewed.
How Do You Know if the Treatment Your Doctor Prescribes is Good for You?
submitted by: admin on 03/05/2015
How Do You Know if the Treatment Your Doctor Prescribes is Good for You?
According to an article published in the NY Times on February 2, 2015, far fewer people benefit from medical treatment than we're led to believe from our doctors, advertisements such as direct to consumer TV ads, ads in medical journals, and even in medical journal articles, and...
How Does Cancer Spread?
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
The role of stem cells in cancer metastasis is addressed. Communication between cancer cells and the tissues where it will eventually spread is discussed. Why cancer cells spread to only certain organs and tissues is addressed.
How Does Our Body Detoxify
submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
Detoxification is an aspect of human health that MDs are aware of but not well trained to practice. Yet we live in a sea of toxins and our food, water, air and soil are severely polluted. Our bodies are remarkable capable of getting rid of most of these toxins through our GI tract, respiration, kidney function, bile excretion, and skin. Many toxic chemicals are...
How Efficiently Does Your Body Use Oxygen
submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
Oxygen utilization is different from how much oxygen we take in when we breathe. We can take in 100% oxygen and still not have normal oxygen utilization at the mitochondrial level if our mitochondria are not functioning properly. In an article published in the May 2014 issue of The Townsend Letter, Dr. Frank Shallenberger explains that if our oxygen utilization...
How Electronic Medical Records are Backfiring and affecting Your Doctor VIsits
submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
If you are frustrated with the limited time your doctor has during your office visit, be prepared for this to get even worse. According to a study published in the October 2014 issue of the International Journal of Health Services, the average doctor now spends nearly 17% of his or her time on billing, obtaining insurance approvals for services, financial...
How Exhaustion Can Increase Your Risk for a Heart Attack
submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
A Mount Sinai School of Medicine study presented at the November 2014 American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions stated that fatigue, irritability, and demoralization can increase the risk of first time cardiovascular disease by 36%. This is known as "vital exhaustion." In Japan this syndome is known as Karoshi and in general medicine there's...
How Far Will Big Pharma Go to Market Their Drugs
submitted by: admin on 03/28/2014
A study done at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in March of 2014 documented that just in the District of Columbia, Big Pharma spent nearly $100 milliion on marketing pharmaceutical drugs. More than $30 million was spent on payments and gifts to physicians, hospitals and other health care providers. This included grants,...
How Healthcare Died and Became a Business
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
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...
How Healthy Can You Be? With Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
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...
How I Practice Medicine with Wes Rocki, MD
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
Bringing the wisdom of different practitioners together creates a healing environment. There is tenacity towards life in every cell without which no medical intervention could work. Mother Nature is a combination between the cooperation of billions of cells in the human body with the environment. Medical lpractitiobners can help some patients, but they can harm...
How Important is Blood Sugar Control in Type 2 Diabetes
submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
Scientists at Tufts University School of Medicine claim that the primary goal of treatment in type 2 diabetes is no longer blood glucose control. They published this work in the February 2014 issue of the journal, American Family Physician. Doctors have been imprinted with the concept that control diabetes and you'll control its complications; while...
How is the Quality of Your Sleep?
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
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.
How Many Influenza Deaths in Children were there in 2010?
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
The CDC reported there were 115 deaths in kids under the age o 18 in the year 2010. A closer look reveals that half of these deaths (58) were in kids who were immunocompromised, so the vaccine would not likely have been of any benefit. Of those who died, about 1/3 were immunized, which means that the vaccine did no good. Now we're down to 38 kids under the...
How MDs Balance Work and Home Life
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
How MDs Balance Work and Home Lives
submitted by: admin on 10/04/2013
An article published in the August 2013 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine reviewed 7200 MDs and 900 of their partners and found that there was more burnout and depresssion and more work-home conflicts in MDs working longer hours, are younger, are female, and who hold academic positions at teaching medical centers.
Medical training...
How Much Calcium Does Your Body Need?
submitted by: admin on 06/28/2014
Increasing daily calcium does not reduce the risk of fractures beyond a certain amount, which is 750 mg per day. Most MDs in the US overdose supplementation, thinking that more is better to prevent or stop the progression of low bone mass...osteopenia and osteoporosis. Studies on more than 60,000 women showed that women had the lowest risk of having a fracture...
How much iron do you need?
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
Iron balance is critical. Too little and kids will be retarded, and too much and we age prematurely. About five percent of the population has the recessive gene for iron overload. Iron metabolism should be a routine assessment.
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