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 Holistic Medicine for the 21st Century |
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- Why Do We Have Such A Problem With Cholesterol?
Or do we? Where is the proof that high cholesterol is actually so bad for us? Is there any real evidence? Full article here.
- Conventional And Alternative Treatment of Bipolar Disease
In 2001, 30,000 Americans diagnosed with bipolar disease committed suicide. Clearly, the system failed them, and continues to do so to this day, as no fundamental progress has been made in conventional psychiatry. But is the system failing patients and their families even more radically than this one startling statistic already shows? A more vital question would be, in what actual form does bipolar syndrome really exist? Is it partially a contrived syndrome that is projected on to patients, a figment of imagination in the minds of a psychiatric profession for whom drugs are the answer to everything? And to the extent that it is an objective (as opposed to a subjectively constructed) phenomenon, how can we best treat it and heal patient suffering? Full article here.
- Why Is Mercury So Dangerous To Our Health?
The human body is an extremely complex meta-system: a system composed of many interacting sub-systems. To nourish and renew itself, it relies on its metabolic system. The metabolic system is, in turn, composed of many smaller, component systems, or pathways. Most of these pathways involve enzymes. Mercury interferes with many of these pathways, inactivating enzymes and grabbing on to essential nutrients. This causes havoc as both brain and body rely on metabolic consistency for normal functioning. Just imagine a country where the supply and distribution of raw materials has been sabotaged: the entire economy might swiftly be shut down. Full article here.
- An Alternative Look At Anxiety and Depression
- Chronic Inflammation: How to Prevent Cancers, Strokes and Heart Attacks
Increasingly, chronic inflammation is being seen to lie at the root of life-threatening, modern diseases. For example, cardiovascular disease, still the number one killer in the US, was commonly thought to be due to cholesterol and to the slow, mechanical build up of plaque on arterial walls. Instead, we are now coming to understand that the real cause is chronic, undetected infection that give rises to inflammation and to the formation of vulnerable plaque. So-called vulnerable plaque is an unstable clot or globby deposit in arteries that can easily be dislodged, traveling to the heart, carotid artery or brain, and precipitating cardiac infarct, or stroke.. Full article here.
- Understanding Pleomorphism and Regenerating the Bio-Terrain
Louis Pasteur is the father, and in some senses the godfather, of modern germ theory. His belief that the invasive presence of a single micro-organism lay at the causative origin of all infectious disease process rapidly became the ruling dogma in allopathic medicine, and was the philosophical and ontological underpinning for the systemic administration of anti-biotic, and later, anti-viral therapies, not to mention anti-fungal and anti-protozoal medications, indeed all manner of anti-bacterial agents - even anti-bacterial soaps – and last, but not least, anti-inflammatories. The germ was the villain of the piece, and the message was simple: kill the germ. Any physician who deviated from this dogma found himself in a precarious position at odds with the institutional powers that be, much like a so-called heretic during the times of the Spanish Inquisition. Full article here.
- Endotoxins: Homocysteine Dangers Resulting From Faulty Metabolism
Endotoxins are toxins that are produced by us and within us. How is it possible, you might say, that the human system can produce its own toxic by-products? Well, it is all down to timing. If a substance is not eliminated or converted into a harmless form in a timely manner, it will create a toxic situation in the body. The best example of this is constipation: when constipated, the waste materials in stool (including dangerous heavy metals) stay too long in the gut, and can leach through the mucosa of intestine wall into the entire system via the interstitial fluids, ending up in the liver. Urine is considered sterile when it directly issues from the body, but if either a malfunctioning kidney or bladder back up and some urine enters the blood, we have uremia, which is a highly dangerous condition. The principal organ that clears us of internal toxins is the liver: the liver consistently performs this function for us by conjugating metabolic by products which would otherwise poison us. Conjugation is the liver's way of detoxing us. Full article here.
- Prevention and Treatment of Osteopenia and Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a condition in which bone structure weakens and becomes brittle. As a result, fractures can occur quite easily, sometimes with devastating results. Osteopenia and osteoporosis (a more advanced and serious form) commonly afflict people over the age of fifty in the US. In fact, roughly 25% of men and as many as 50% of all women over the age of fifty can expect to suffer an osteoporosis related bone fracture at some time in their lives. Hip fractures are the most worrisome as complications lead to death for 20% of patients within about twelve months of the fracture. These fatalities are caused by complications setting in: most common are pneumonia and blood clots, either from the injury itself or from post-surgical effects. Full article here.
Anxiety and depression are extremely elevated in the United States with a sharp spike for both conditions occurring in West Virginia, and particularly high rates of depression occurring in Oregon and Washington. In the Pacific North West, with its annual low levels of sunlight and concomitant Vitamin D deficiency, depression is well above the national norms. Both anxiety and depression — whether clinical or sub-clinical — also correlate with common physical illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes. The table below, provided by the CDC (Center for Disease Control) highlights correlations between anxiety/depression and many common physical problems and behavioral problems. Full article here.
