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High Quality Relationships Improve Survival in Breast Cancer
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
A Kaiser Permanente study published in the November issue of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment showed that either large or high quality social networks extended survival in early-stage invasive breast cancer. They looked at more than 2200 women and found that those who were socially isolated were 34% more likely to die. Women with small networks...
Holistic Law: Finding My Soul with Gary Gwilliam, JD
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
Finding one's soul as an attorney is about discovering who we are and what our purpose is in everything we do. Work as an attorney tranformed into understanding who a client is and what they need for healing. Education becomes the most important aspect of what we do whether an MD, school teacher, or attorney; it is about teaching healing.
Homeopathic Detoxification with Bill Kneebone, DC
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
Dealing with our toxic load is under-appreciated. Dr. Kneebone discusses his approaches from the perspective of homeopathic and other forms of detoxification. Homotoxicology is discussed. Lifestyle measures are discussed as the primary approach. There is an epidemic of toxicity, even in children that leads to compromised immunity. The Body Burden Study verifies...
Hospital Profits are Declining
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Hospitals are experiencing financial challenges because people are unemployed and don't have insurance. They have to accept emergencies and sometimes cannot get reimbursed for what they spend. Delivering health care for more people will only make the problem worse for hospitals as reimbursements will be going down.
Hot Flashes May Protect the Heart
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
Hot flashes and night sweats with menopause are a nuisance for women, but the good news is that their suffering may not be in vain. Research has shown that women who suffer from hot flashes and night sweats may be at a lower risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke and death.
How a Hip Resurfacing Procedure nearly Killed Dr. Len
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Being the Patient
The importance of patient empowerment
Len Saputo, MD
Introduction
Surely doctors must know what is best for their patients. Right? Don't be so sure! Yet most doctors take the position that because they are trained for a decade or more they have a tremendous advantage over their lesser trained patients. After all, that is why...
How Artificial Sweeteners Cause Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity
submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
According to the October 2014 issue of the journal, Nature, artificial sweeteners such as saccharine, Splenda, and Nutrasweet (aspartame) cause changes in the human microbiome (intestinal microflora) that lead to glucose intolerance (insulin resistance) within one week in more than half of the subjects of a small study. When stool from these people was tranplanted...
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 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 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 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 11/23/2024
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 Many Influenza Deaths in Children were there in 2010?
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
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 11/23/2024
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 Vitamin C Do You Need?
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
The RDA for vitamin C is enough to prevent scurvy, but not enough to prevent heart attacks, strokes, cancer and many infectious diseases. According to the Linus Pauling Institute, we should raise the RDA from 70 mg in women and 90 mg in men to 200 mg per day. While we could get 200 mg per day in our diets, few of us consume 5-9 servings of fruits and...
How Much Vitamin D Do You Need to Prevent Osteoporosis?
submitted by: admin on 06/18/2016
Vitamin D is essential to keep our bones from developing osteoporosis, but how much do we need? Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that we need more than 800 IU per day to lower the risk of developing osteoporosis. A study published in the NEJM in June of 2012 showed that there were 30% fewer hip fractures and 14% of all...
How Prevalent is Mental Illness in the US?
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
The World Pharmaceutical Market Summary shows that antidepressants and mood stabilizers are the third most commonly prescribed medications and that antipsychotics are fourth! Most families have serious dysfunctionalities that lead to stress, anxiety, and depression.
Our value system is misguided and leads to materialism taking precedence over service and...
How Safe Are Newly Approved Drugs?
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
New drugs are the poorest tested and Americans are the guinea pigs for the first few years after release. Most new drugs have new side effects reported and 20% wind up off the market or with black box warnings. The FDA does not regulate Big Pharma and has a conflict of interest position with them
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