Children usually come into this world with great vitality and health. However for some children, the emotional or physical health of the mother can leave its imprint on the fetus as it is growing. And when this child is born it immediately will begin to manifest symptoms from the onset. Courtney was one such child. …
I have known Louise for 5-6 years now. She is the type of person that spends a lot of time worrying about her family which consists a daughter and son and recently widowed father. So when she comes in for a routine acupuncture treatment or for just feeling under the weather, we spend a couple …
Rachael, who is in her early 40’s, has not felt well for at least the last 6 years. In her words, ” I have been so cold sensitive. So cold that it has consumed my life. I cannot even drink cold liquid. The only thing that will get me warm is a steaming hot shower. …
Anti-depressants like Wellbutrin are one of the top 5 selling classes of drugs today. Go to you doctor with the least little bit depressed and you will most likely walk out the door with a script for an anti-depressant. For most of her life, Kathy experienced short periods of depression. But when she went through …
Over the last several years there has been numerous studies published in medical journals and lay magazines of the benefits of wine. This has led many people to believe that it is good to drink wine so they will consume 1-2 glasses of wine at dinner time. However, one study that took PET scans of …
In the early 1990’s there were several studies done that evaluated the effects of Lithium in drinking water in Texas. There are areas in Texas where lithium is not found naturally in drinking water and other areas where it exists in concentrations of 70-170 part per million. What these studies found was that in those …
The most common question I get this time of year is “should I get the flu vaccine?” To answer this question we really need to first look at the efficacy of the vaccine. The influenza A and B viruses for which people are being vaccinated against the account for less than 15% of all flu-like …
You would be hard press to find anyone that would discount the benefits of eating organically. And it would seem logical that organic crops are better for the environment than the massed produced crops. But this might not be so. Norman Borlaug, the father of the “green revolution”, and winner of the Nobel peace prize …
Yesterday I came across an article titled, Cancer Incidence Before and After Kidney Transplantation. What the study found was very intriguing. The authors found in their research that kidney transplantation is associated with a marked increase in cancer risk at a wide variety of sites. Specifically there was an astounding 3-4 fold increase in the …
Because prostate cancer growth is fueled by androgens- especially testosterone- androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the treatment of choice for the 40% of men with this cancer who have disease that has spread beyond the prostate. But ADT has been shown to have many deleterious effects on the body. These include osteoporosis, increase in body …