Sometimes patients believe they have “dodged a bullet” when they have a procedure such as cardiac bypass, or angioplasty to open up an artery. However, such invasive procedures only open up or treat a single blockage in a single artery per procedure, whereas coronary artery disease is really a marker for impaired circulation throughout the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
You can’t have “a little bit of diabetes,” and you can’t have just “a little bit of coronary artery disease”
Posted in Anti-aging, Cardiovascular, tagged coronary artery disease, heart disease, naturopathic medicine, vulnerable plaque on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Can you spare an hour 5 days a week, to just maintain your weight?
Posted in Anti-aging, Energy, tagged detoxification, myoden, naturopathic medicine, weight loss on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A study published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine is likely to upset a great number of people. The study looked at a variety of exercise and diet patterns in women, and noted that to maintain a loss of 10% of your body weight exercise had to be done for 55 minutes for [...]
I had no idea the conventional internal medicine physicians were thinking the same thing…
Posted in Anti-aging, Environmental Medicine, tagged chelation, detoxification, mercury, naturopathic medicine on July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As part of my continuing education, I attend a variety of conferences in North America that deal with broad naturopathic medicine, and also conferences geared towards medical doctors but in “alternative” specialties, such as chelation or environmental medicine.
But I also love detailed reviews on conventional internal medicine, including the reviews put forth by the specialty [...]
Miracle drug aspirin may prevent osteoporosis, but the natural option is better
Posted in Cardiovascular, Nutrients, tagged aspirin, fish oil, naturopathic medicine, osteoporosis on July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s funny how the media can read their own conclusions from recently published research. Take the first paragraph in an article that describes research on the effect of aspirin on mice, done in southern California:
Taking one Aspirin a day may help prevent the bone-wasting disease osteoporosis, according to research by two scientists at the University [...]
