Dr. Health Index - Holistic Medicine
Articles on Holistic Medicine Issues Written By Walt Edwards, Ph.D.
Walt Edwards, Ph.D. - Dr. Health
Leading Cause of Death in US: Medical Errors and Prescription Drugs
Ten years ago, Professor Bruce Pomerance of the University of Toronto concluded that properly prescribed and correctly taken pharmaceutical drugs were the fourth leading cause of death in the US. More recently, Johns Hopkins Medical School refined this research and discovered that medical errors and prescription drugs together may actually be the leading cause of death. Basically this means that the primary form of "health care" and treatment actually kills more people than any disease plaguing our society.
Reduce the Aging Process, Prevent Heart Disease, Cancer and Diabetes
You can slow down your aging process and help reduce heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Here are some tips from U.S. News and World Report on how to do it:
Suggestions to Support Healthy Aging
Most people want to maintain their bodily function well into their later years. Whether imbalances are caused by genetic predisposition, by normal wear and tear on our bodies, or by environmental and lifestyle factors, the proper nutrients can compensate and help our bodies maintain their dynamic homeostasis.
Metabolic refers to metabolism, or how the body uses energy. Metabolic syndrome is a collection of risk factors that, when combined, greatly increase a person's risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes. You may have metabolic syndrome if you have at least three heart disease risk factors.
Deep down, Americans tend to believe that more care is better care. We recoil from efforts to restrict care. However, it's easy to come up with arguments for why we need to do so.
No Financial Motivation to Practice Preventive Medicine in U.S.
The present practice of treating disease with pharmaceutical drugs and surgery that is practiced in the U.S. will continue to cause the increase of medical costs and eventually bankrupt the new health plan.
Disease and disability are far more expensive than even the most costly health foods and supplements. If you don't take care of your body and continue to abuse it by eating the wrong foods and inactivity, the cost will be far higher than your grocery bills could ever be.
Your Perception is Everything to Your Health
When patients get better by ingesting a sugar pill, medicine defines it as the placebo effect. Rob Williams suggests that it would be more appropriate to refer to it as the perception effect. He refers to the belief effect to stress that our perceptions, whether they are accurate or inaccurate, equally impact our behavior and our bodies.
A Paradox in Disease Theory and the Confession of Louis Pasteur
Infectious disease medicine practiced today is based on the "germ theory" as put forward by Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). His theory viewed the body as a sterile machine that will operate properly unless a foreign substance is introduced. In contrast, the famous French physiologist, Claude Bernard (1813-1878) focused on the importance of the body's internal environment, contending that the whole must be sick before any germ can make us ill.
The Aging Process is a Challenge We All Must Face
There is a growing awareness in the medical community that a lot of what has been diagnosed and treated as depression among older people may instead be a natural process of reorientation. There's a kind of drawing-inward that seems to be part of the process of aging. Not a paranoid drawing-inward or being afraid of the world, just a kind of deepening.
CoQ10 Provides You Another Reason to Smile
Studies have shown that people with gum disease almost always have low levels of CoQ10. That's because in order for your gums to heal you need healthy levels of cellular energy and CoQ10 is the substance that energizes your cells. As early as the 1970s, researchers reported that CoQ10 dosages as low as 50 to 75 mg per day often healed deteriorating gums, sometimes within days.
Vitamin D Boosts Your Health All Around
Vitamin D is not "just a vitamin," but rather the only known substrate for a potent, pleiotropic (meaning it produces multiple effects), repair and maintenance seco-steroid hormone that serves multiple gene-regulatory functions in your body.
Facts About Statin Drugs and Cholesterol
It's safe to say that a drug intended to prevent heart disease, but which actually causes heart failure, is not the right treatment for most people. Statin drugs offer a "cure" that is far worse than the disease.
Every surgery, even a so-called "minor surgery," is potentially dangerous. Government statistics estimate that 12,000 people die each year from unnecessary operations. So why would doctors recommend unneeded surgeries? Besides the financial considerations to fill hospital beds and utilize surgical suites, physicians are stuck in the mindset that invasive procedures are the best treatment course for their patients.
Turning Healthy People into Patients
Direct-to-consumer drug ads on TV often plant a seed in your mind that you may be sick. Drug companies are masters at disease mongering - inventing non-existent diseases and exaggerating minor ones, with the end result making you rush to your doctor to request their drug solutions. This is particularly true for emotional problems like depression.
Modern Medicine About as Scientific as Throwing Darts
Medical journals, the supposed bastions of scientific research, have become little more than infomercials for drug and high-tech hospital procedures. This pollution of medical literature has been validated in recent years by numerous conventional physicians and policy makers.
You can expect to see a lot of panic over this issue, but the key is to remain calm - this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976.
Consider Making Positive Changes For Your Life Journey
Evaluate your quality of life and consider making some positive changes for your life journey. What good is wealth in our lives if we have poor health? Good health is one of those things that we don't appreciate until it is gone.
The Greatest Force In The Universe: Your Mind
When thoughts are directed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire - thoughts become powerful. Every medical student learns, at least in passing, that the mind can affect the body, and that some people get better when they believe (falsely) they are getting medicine.
Can Cancer Be Caused By a Fungus Called Candida?
Oncologist T. Simoncini, M.D.'s research has led him to believe that something as simple as a fungus, Candida, is the leading cause of cancer; that cancer itself is in fact a fungus, and what we refer to as a tumor is nothing more than the body's attempt at protecting itself from that fungus.
Red Flag Concerns to Good Health
Here are some major red flags to keep an eye on as you wend your way through the health information universe.
Stroke Prevention Starts With Some Lesser Known Facts
Homocysteine has been getting attention recently as an important risk factor for hardening of the arteries. Although studies have yet to definitely prove that lowering homocysteine levels prevents strokes, the treatment is simple and safe enough that there's little risk in lowering your homocysteine levels while further studies are being done.
Are U.S. Vitamin Recommendations (RDA) Out of Date?
It was in 1941 when the first RDAs (Recommended Daily Allowances) for vitamins first came out. Clear little easy-to-understand numbers that let you know how much of a vitamin you needed to prevent a deficiency disease (like rickets or beri-beri). First we had the revised RDAs which morphed into the RDIs (Reference Dietary Intakes) and the DRIs (Dietary Reference Intakes). And let's not forget the AIs (Adequate Intakes) and the ULs (tolerable upper limits). This all could make your head spin just thinking about it.
AMA History, Splenda, Aspirin, Niacin Flush, The A1C Blood Test and More
The American Medical Association (AMA) was dictatorially led for the first half of the 20th century by Dr. George H. Simmons and his protégé Dr. Morris Fishbein. Simmons and Fishbein both served as general manager of the organization and as editor of its journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Some researchers estimate that the number of people suffering from mitochondrial dysfunction, which may lead to autism, is much more common than the current estimate of one in 4,000 people. In fact, it could be as low as one in 50, which would be staggering.
MEDICAL HERBALISM:
The Science Principles and Practices of Herbal Medicine
Medical Herbalism contains comprehensive information concerning the identification and use of medicinal plants by chemical structure and physiological effect, the art and science of making herbal medicine, the limitations and potential of viewing herbs chemically, and the challenge to current research paradigms posed by complex plant medicines. It also includes information on toxicology and contraindications, the issues involved in determining dosage and formulation types for an individual, guides to the different measurement systems and conversion tables, and the pros and cons of both industrial and traditional techniques.
With additional sections devoted to the principles of green medicine, the history of Western Herbalism, the variety of other medical modalities using medicinal plants, an extensive resource directory, and a discussion of treatments organized by body system, Medical Herbalism is the comprehensive textbook all students and practitioners of clinical herbalism need to develop their healing practices.
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