High fat diets cause heart disease everyone knows that, right? Well, actually, no, now we are learning that fat is essential to good health. Fish oil is good for the heart, trans fats are bad. How do we know which fats are which? Should we all just become vegetarians and forget about it?...(click to read the entire article)
A new approach to surgical treatment of degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine has recently been approved on a limited basis in the United States. Just as we now are able to replace worn-out hip and knee joints with metallic and plastic artificial joint products, the new lumbar spine technique allows for replacement of damaged, painful or inadequate intervertebral discs...(click to read the entire article)
Are your patients toxic? The answer increasingly appears to be yes—and your job, in order to maintain optimal health and reduce the incidence of the diseases of aging, is to detoxify them. That conclusion is one being reached by more and more anti-aging practitioners...(click to read the entire article)
Vitamin D may be one of the most fundamentally important building blocks available to us for creating and sustaining vibrant health. In addition to its classically understood role in bone formation and calcium absorption, research has uncovered myriad roles for vitamin D, ranging from increasing muscular coordination to preventing cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases and radiation-induced tissue damage...(click to read the entire article) PDF Version
There is a valuable tool that is often overlooked for cases of inflammation, particularly in cases of sports injury and arthritis: enzymes. As the unveiling of the new food pyramid suggests, diet is and inseparable issue to health, and many acute and chronic conditions may be helped by proper nutrition. However, as we age, many of us experience a decline in the amount of enzymes we produce. It is no co-incidence that we are learning that of the chronic diseases of aging are linked to inflammation...(click to read the entire article)
Inflammation is the body's first defense against infection, but when it goes awry, it can lead to heart attacks, colon cancer, Alzheimer's and a host of other diseases...(click to read the entire article) PDF Version
I attended this conference March 3-5 in Cancun, Mexico, which presented the history and clinical application of ocean water therapy. In the late 1800’s, scientists like Claude Bernard and Walter Cannon were discovering that the fluids of the human body were identical to seawater...(click to read the entire article)
Science verifies the tradition of Noni Herbal and natural products have been used for
centuries throughout the world in every culture. The scientific community has begun to
show more and more interest in these products as the benefits become even more well
known...(click to read the entire article) PDF Version
In a recent study published in the Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics 2008, the effects of EPA (in the form on PlusEPA made by Minami Nutrition) was compared to the antidepressant drug fluoxetine, the drug commonly used for alleviation of this widespread disease...(click to read the entire article)
An Intro to René Quinton’s Marine Plasma
Quinton made connections between bio-terrain,
infectious disease and chronic illness that have only
in the last twenty years been proven. He applied the
principles of hygiene in the treatment of inflammatory
conditions on an advanced level long before modern
researchers would validate his theories and clinical
observations...(click to read the entire article) PDF Version
What Is Quinton™ Marine Plasma™? In the overwhelming response to June’s article, we have heard many speculations regarding what marine plasma is. Let me just begin by saying what marine plasma is not....(click to read the entire article) PDF Version
In the beginning, Dr. Robert Furchgott in 1980 found that the endothelial lining of the walls of blood vessels made a substance that kept the vessels smooth and dilated. This was Nitric Oxide (NO). Soon it was discovered that l-arginine converts to NO in the endothelium....(click to read the entire article)