Posted in Anti-aging, Environmental Medicine, tagged bisphenol, naturopathic medicine, plastic on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
From the Globe and Mail,
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In reaction to a Globe and Mail report that Health Canada is poised to take action on bisphenol A, or BPA, the widely used compound in polycarbonate plastic, Forzani Group Ltd. , one of Canada’s largest sporting goods retailers, issued a statement saying it has replaced all water bottles containing BPA [...]
Posted in Anti-aging, Energy, Environmental Medicine, Immune system, infections, tagged autism, chronic fatigue syndrome, Environmental Medicine, fibromyalgia, mercury, naturopathic medicine on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The post on PCB’s in fish has lead me to quickly write a post on some of the effects of mercury, and why it is such an important factor in many chronic diseases. I have posted on mercury and metal detoxification in the past, but on this blog largely it has been in relation to [...]
Posted in Anti-aging, Environmental Medicine on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
As an update to the below post, Dr Ward mentions that to consume wild salmon, look for a label that says either wild salmon, Pacific salmon, or Alaskan salmon. If it says Atlantic salmon, or just salmon, more likely than not it is farmed salmon and should be avoided.
Posted in Anti-aging, Environmental Medicine, tagged chelation, Environmental Medicine, farmed salmon, heavy metal toxicity, naturopathic medicine, pcb on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Farmed salmon. Dr Ward informed me of this piece of information she obtained from a past conference. She has a special interest in environmental medicine, and thus always has interesting pieces of information on how toxins affect our health. Previously, non-organic butter was the highest concentration of PCBs in the diet, but it has been [...]
Posted in Environmental Medicine, tagged autism, mercury, naturopathic medicine, thimerosol on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Mercury detoxification plays a large role in my treatment of patients with chronic disease. It is important in the treatment of many varying chronic diseases because it is a fundamental cellular poison. As an example, there was an article published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in 1999 that showed patients with [...]
Posted in Environmental Medicine, tagged autism, biomedical, chelation, detoxification, mercury, naturopathic medicine, thimerosol, vaccines on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
