“Did you know there are two things that will give better results in preventing heart attacks than all the new heart and cholesterol-lowering drugs combined? Increase your intake of pure water and eat a Mediterranean Diet. This combination alone will reduce your odds of suffering a heart attack by more than 50%.”
“A simple injection or a minor surgery can now, fairly routinely, lead to months in the hospital or loss of a limb or loss of your life. It’s a new world out there, and nature is letting us know that there is a price to be paid for medical hubris (exaggerated pride or self confidence).”
Sally Davies is the chief medical officer for the entire country of England. She says that antibiotic resistance (bugs becoming superbugs that resist all drugs and antibiotics) poses a catastrophic threat to medicine and could mean that patients having minor surgery risk dying from infections that can no longer be treated. She adds that any one of us could go into a hospital for minor surgery and die. And that routine operations like hip replacements could now be deadly.
The diabetes epidemic continues to fly under the radar. And that is just what pharmaceutical and organized medicine folks want. The reason is simple. Right now 1 in 10 Americans has type 2 diabetes—a disease cause by eating junk and failing to exercise.
By the mid 2000s, it will be 1 in 3! This truly astounding statistic should be front-page news as one of the greatest threats to our nation. Instead, it is barely discussed except for television commercials touting that “We deliver your diabetes supplies right to your door for free. We’ll even bill Medicaid for you” or commercials that simply skim the surface of this truly epidemic disease. And, why not? Diabetes is a $116 billion annual industry in the United States. This is how America has been taught to deal with diabetes and it simply means that the medical and pharmaceutical industries will make three times more money—approaching half-trillion dollars annually.
The annual physical is dying an agonizing death because the medical profession refuses to believe the facts that a good annual physical has no effect on mortality. When it comes to disease-specific mortality – how soon you die from a disease – it also has no effect. When it comes to dying from cancer or heart disease, the annual physical has no effect.
Literally millions of people continue to suffer from low thyroid because they remain undiagnosed or incorrectly diagnosed. Perhaps the most classic symptom of low thyroid is lowered body temperature. Broda Barnes, MD, was the first to alert everyone to this classic symptom and instructed people to take their Barnes temperature (under the armpit for 10 minutes daily) over at least 5 days. If your underarm temperature is found to be below 97.4, your odds of having low thyroid are very high.
We had a patient who was slowly becoming sick and sicker. She had basically retreated to the couch because she was almost too uncoordinated to walk, any movement caused severe pain, and she suffered daily spasms throughout her stomach and gut. She doctored everywhere, had biopsies, muscles studies, x-rays, brain scans, blood tests and more. All tests were normal, and she was told she could be suffering from multiple sclerosis or other diseases that were still undiagnosed but were killing her. No one asked this woman what she ate or drank.
There is a group of individuals, including children who suffer from severe mental problems and are often misdiagnosed as having schizophrenia or attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). These people are, in fact, pellagrines—people suffering from a pellagra-like syndrome that we call B-complex deficiency syndrome (BCDS). For these people, their incurable schizophrenia and intractable mental problems are not only treatable—they can be cured.
No matter which category you fall into: weekend warrior, just trying to get a bit of exercise, or semi or pro athlete, you feel the same pain and frustration when you suffer a sports injury.
Being physically active and keeping fit are important factors for maintaining a happy lifestyle. Aside form the vanity factor of looking good, the active person can enjoy an enhanced immunity to sickness and disease, a less stressful disposition, better blood circulation (and the host of benefits that brings) and improved sleep patterns. These are just a few of the good things.
Everyone suffers from headaches at some point in their lives. Many people endure the agony of severe headaches and migraines on a weekly or daily basis, and yet we know very little about headaches, or their causes. However we do know ways to prevent or relieve the symptoms of a headache.
Identify.
Look after your back and you’ll enjoy a much happier, more active lifestyle. There are many things you can do to optimize the health and wellbeing of your back, some are obvious – don’t lift overly heavy weights – but need to be emphasized again, and some might be somewhat less known. Here are 10 tips to looking after your back and keeping it in a healthy condition.
1. Understand why you have back pain. Usually back pain is not the result of an accident or trauma. Face up to the fact that you may eat too much and not exercise enough, both of which play a key role in the health (or lack thereof) of your back.
