It’s not actually that simple at all. The title of this internet newspaper article is “Government concedes vaccine-autism case” is somewhat misleading.
There are approximately 5000 cases before federal court in the states where cases of autism being caused by vaccinations are being considered. As I posted before mercury plays a large role in my treatment [...]
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Very commonly, I will work up patients with a stool microbiology test to assess overall gastrointestinal flora. This is a stool culture test that is unique in that it not only looks to culture disease-causing germs, but also looks to quantify whether or not there are enough of the good bacteria that normally inhabit the [...]
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Posted in Environmental Medicine, Immune system, Uncategorized, tagged allergies, asthma, clinical ecology, Environmental Medicine, multiple chemical sensitivity, naturopathic medicine, total load syndrome on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Elke asked to share a previous post on neuronal plasticity with her chemical sensitivity group. I thought a quick post on MCS would be interesting, as it can affect a wide variety of diseases, and there seems to be general interest in detoxification for health as well.
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a descriptive diagnosis that [...]
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The vast majority of the reading and research I do is from electronic copies of full-text articles published in the medical literature. However, today I have been reading a book that was published for the general public that was written by a psychiatrist.
With the plethora of books that are being published which are similar [...]
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Posted in Immune system, Nutrients, infections, tagged bird flu, echinacea, hydrotherapy, influenza, naturopathic medicine, ultraviolet blood irradiation, vitamin C, vitamin D on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, not too worried anyways.
Tamiflu undoubtedly can be very helpful as an adjunctive treatment, particularly in the very frail patients who are susceptible to serious complications and death from influenza.
That’s right, an adjunctive treatment! I would have to say that the naturopathic treatments should be primary, along with standard supportive care, in patients who have [...]
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Posted in Anti-aging, Immune system, infections, tagged chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic infections, CRP, fibromyalgia, mercury, mercury toxicity, multiple chemical sensitivity, naturopathic medicine on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
There are two very common tests that I will run on patients presenting with multisytem chronic diseases and symptoms. One is called hs-CRP, or highly sensitive c reactive protein, and the other is a simple blood mercury level.
The hs-CRP is an excellent gage of chronic inflammation in the body. It tells us if the immune [...]
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