Posted in Alzheimer's, Environmental Health, Exercise, Holism, Informed Consent, Mental Health, Recommended Reading, Stress, Vaccinations, Wellness, cancer, nutrition, tagged nutrition, relaxation, Mental Health, toxins, Exercise, hpv vaccine, Gardasil, Alzheimer's disease, noise, cell phones, mobile phones, pain, granite, radon on August 1, 2008 | No Comments »
HPV Vaccine Adverse Events Worrisome Says Key Investigator (MedScape Today)
Concerns about serious health risks - including neurologic and autoimmune complications - from the use of Gardasil and other human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are being raised by Diane Harper, MD, at Dartmouth Medical School. Once a principal investigator in HPV vaccine clinical trials for Merck and [...]
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Posted in Drugs, Environmental Health, Holism, Informed Consent, tagged alternative medicine, blood pressure, CAM, Drugs, Environmental Health, MS, multiple sclerosis, pollution, saliva, toxins, wound healing on August 1, 2008 | No Comments »
What’s Wrong with that ‘Viagra for Women’ Study in JAMA? (Jim Edwards’ NRx)
Licking Your Wounds: Scientists Isolate Compound in Human Saliva that Speeds Wound Healing (PhysOrg)
Fresh Scent May Hide Toxic Secret (Seattle P-I)
Exposure to Bad Air Raises Blood Pressure (Science Daily)
‘New Car Smell’ Becoming Less Toxic (CNET News)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Multiple Sclerosis (abstract, [...]
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Posted in Holism, Informed Consent, Video, dental health, dentistry, fluoride, mercury, root canals, tagged fluoride, holisitic dentistry, mercury, root canals, Stress on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Drugs, Environmental Health, Food, Holism, Mental Health, Recommended Reading, Wellness, homeopathy, nutrition, tagged Activia, children, depression, emf radiation, homeopathy, multitasking, nutraceuticals, probiotics, Prozac, SSRIs on July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Live Safely and Thrive in the Wireless Age (Central Sierra Health Resource Guide)
An excellent overview of the health risks of Electro Magnetic Frequency (EMF) radiation from mobile phones, computers, microwaves and other technological conveniences - along with tips and resources for minimizing your exposure. To access the article, follow the above link and scroll to [...]
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We’re not really fond of articles like this: The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating.
Why?
Because they always somehow manage to leave you with the impression that if you just eat these “superfoods,” you can directly cause a desired health outcome. Just as our parents and guardians tried to persuade us to eat our veggies when [...]
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We describe our office as one that practices “integrated, biological dentistry.” But what does it mean, exactly, when a practitioner uses those adjectives?
Broadly speaking, biological dentistry considers the teeth, jaws and oral tissues in their physical and energetic relationships with the rest of the body. More, it acknowledges that we are each an infinitely complex [...]
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Posted in Drugs, Environmental Health, Holism, Industrial Medicine, Mental Health, Recommended Reading, Stress, Wellness, tagged Holism, Drugs, Wellness, relaxation, Mental Health, Environmental Health, Industrial Medicine, Recommended Reading, walking, Stress on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Why Bother? (NY Times)
Global warming is real and happening, with so many causes that it seems there’s nothing we can do as individuals to help our environment heal. Apathy is the easy choice - until you read Michael Pollan’s encouraging essay on why our choices matter - environmentally and just plain mentally - even choosing [...]
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Posted in Environmental Health, Holism, Informed Consent, Mental Health, Recommended Reading, Video, Wellness, nutrition, tagged toxins, raw milk, brain imaging, bliss, stroke, bipolar children on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The Bipolar Child Strikes Again (Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry)
You may have read the recent set of Newsweek articles on bipolar children (here, here and here). But the fact that even diagnosing such a condition in children - sometimes as young as 2 - is problematic (to put it mildly) seems to have been lost on [...]
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Percentage of U.S. nursing home patients on antipsychotic meds: 30
Percentage on antipsychotics at Providence Rest in the Bronx, where massage, aromatherapy and other alternative treatments are the norm: 2 to 3
Source: A Touch of Grace: Massage Therapy Aids Retired Nuns (WSJ)
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Two notable articles touching on matters of wellness recently ran in the New York Times - in the Business section, of all places. Both are brief, pointed and worth checking out.
The first is Why Leisure Matters in a Busy World, a short interview with Alison Link on the need for leisure and its role in [...]
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