Americans Consumption of Iodine Dropped 50%
Scientists are discovering eating enough iodine may be beneficial to reduce breast cancer and breast disease. Continue reading…

Radiofrequency Ablation Safe and Effective for Reducing Pain from Bone Metastases

From the Science Daily report (Jan 5, 2010), “Image-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA), a minimally invasive cancer treatment which can be performed in the outpatient setting, significantly reduced the level of pain experienced by cancer patients with bone (osseous) metastases. Continue reading…

Abuse in Childhood Linked to Migraine and Other Pain Disorders
If you’ve experienced child abuse, either physical or mental, and currently experience migraines now, they may be interconnected. Continue reading…

Is the Secret to Happiness Really A Secret?
Most of us innately know what makes us happy, yet we may not want to acknowledge it.  Why?  Because it is too simple to be true.

Human nature likes to think things are more complex than they really are.  Complexity makes us feel smart, intelligent, accomplished, and gives us an excuse when we don’t achieve it.  Yet if we are not happy, it is because achieving happiness is too complex… or is it? Continue reading…

What is the HCG diet?
Lots of people are using HCG, a growth hormone, to lose weight fast and effectively. Does this miracle diet really work? And is it safe? Continue reading…

This is an interesting article, reprinted for your consideration.

December 29, 2009

Forty Years’ War

Old Ideas Spur New Approaches in Cancer Fight

By GINA KOLATA

Mina Bissell will never forget the reception she got from a prominent scientist visiting Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked. She gave him a paper she had just published on the genesis of cancer.

“He took the paper and held it over the wastebasket and said, ‘What do you want me to do with it?’ Then he dropped it in.” Continue reading…

Stress Management Techniques for Heart Disease

• Practice Tai Chi, QiGong, music therapy, meditation, spiritual practice, and emotional clearing

• Avoid toxic exposures:  alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, medications/drugs, pop

• Address hormones:  men require a thorough hormone panel done to assess testosterone function

• Testosterone supplementation for men and women using pellets last 3-6 months or topical applications, reduce toxic exposure (phlatates)

• Women:  have saliva or urine test completed, along with thermography to address all hormone function – herbs, bio-identical HRT, etc

• Adrenal Hormones must be addressed: stress hormones, saliva test

• Check thyroid with adrenal augmentation

• Heavy metal toxicity – urine test with challenge

• Treat with chelation

• Newest treatment on the block:  Essential phospholipids combination especially from Europe to treat metal toxicity, but also to treat plaques in the arteries and reduce oxidative damage in the arteries

Interesting Facts About Heart Disease

1. Male pattern baldness, hair in the ear canals, and creased earlobes are associated with a higher risk for heart disease in white males.

2. Research indicates that genetics are involved in the development of atherosclerosis.

3. Men who were clinically depressed had a greater risk for heart disease and heart attack than men who were not depressed.

4. Abnormally high blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine are strongly linked to an increased risk of coronary artery disease and stroke. Continue reading…