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Keeping your teeth and gums healthy can save you from heart attacks and strokes: The Cardiovascular Series

November 24, 2010

There are literally billions of dollars being spent on finding new cures for heart attacks, strokes and other health problems. But often the simplest most powerful routes to healing are forgotten in the economic gain oriented health care system we are in. Today we explore the simple and powerful topic of dental hygiene and how [...]

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Magnesium: The Missing Mineral

November 16, 2010

Magnesium: The Missing Mineral Magnesium is a ubiquitous mineral found in our soils and in varying concentrations in the water supply. It is the fourth most abundant mineral in the human body and very important for health. Of the hundreds of nutrients I deal with on a regular basis, magnesium is the one mineral that [...]

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Addictions: The Biology of Dependence

November 3, 2010

Addictions can be treated using a holistic perspective addressing physical, chemical, nutritional, mental and spiritual tools.

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Keeping your thyroid in tune. The natural way to treat hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s Disease.

October 27, 2010

Your thyroid gland lies in the area of your neck, on either side of the larynx (voice box) shaped somewhat like a butterfly and is an important player in the hormonal orchestra of the body. I call it an orchestra because the hormones act in concert and when one player is out of tune the [...]

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Calcium Supplements: To take or not to take?

October 13, 2010

A study released in the British Medical Journal suggested that people who take calcium supplements are at slightly higher risks of getting heart attacks. To some of us this is a familiar story and many are starting to grow weary of the contradictory information being thrown us over the decades. First they told us that [...]

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Keeping your bones strong. How to prevent and treat osteoporosis. Part 2 of 2.

October 6, 2010

So now that we have discussed in detail the different factors that cause osteoporosis the obvious question comes on when do we need to treat it and what can we do to prevent and treat it?First it is important to keep in mind what we are trying to prevent. We are trying to prevent those [...]

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Keeping your bones strong: How to prevent and reverse osteoporosis. Part 1.

September 29, 2010

In the United States alone, there are 10 million diagnosed cases of osteoporosis. And another 34 million have ‘osteopenia’ or mild bone loss.  We as a society have learned to accept osteoporosis as just one of those inevitable things that happen with age. However osteoporosis is not a normal inevitable process of aging. There is [...]

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A Vision For Your Health

September 22, 2010

When you think about someone in excellent health what do you visualize? Do you visualize someone spending hours sorting out supplements and examining menus for hidden traces of allergenic foods? Someone who wakes up in the morning fearful of what hidden toxins are lurking in the environment waiting to pounce on them? No, the person [...]

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Prevention and Treatment of Heart Attacks, Strokes and other Cardiovascular Disease.

September 15, 2010

1. Introduction: Cardiovascular Disease includes the conditions of angina (chest pain due to decreased blood flow to the blood vessels in the heart), heart attacks, stroke and high blood pressure. The American Heart Association estimates that more than 80 million people in the United States has some form of cardiovascular disease, the majority being high [...]

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Autoimmune Diseases: Treating the Cause

September 8, 2010

It is estimated that, one in 31 people have an autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases are defined as those diseases in which a person’s own immune system attacks one or more tissues or organs, resulting in functional impairment, inflammation, and sometimes tissue damage. It can vary from mild diseases like thyroiditis (inflammation of the thyroid) to [...]

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