Currently one out of nine adults older than 65 develops Alzheimer’s. Just recently the FDA approved a new controversial drug for Alzheimer’s disease that has triggered a lot of questions from patients and doctors. The drug, called Aduhelm and made by Biogen, removes amyloid, a sticky substance in the brain that is a defining feature …
Alzheimer Disease – The Glymphatic Connection – Part I Read More »
The founder of Osteopathy, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still said, “the body has a self-healing, self-regulating mechanism that tends towards health.” There are many therapies that we use at Renaissance Health Centre that utilize our body’s own innate healing ability. But, what most patients do not realize is that they too can influence their own health just …
“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.“ As a Man Thinketh” by James Allen Today the gold standard in medical research is what is known as a double-blinded study that utilizes placebos. The reason placebos are used is because …
Aside from being asked which COVID vaccine one should get I am also asked “If I have had the COVID infection do I still need to be immunized?” Before I answer this question let’s look at the studies. These first two studies that follow examine whether a person who has had Covid needs one or …
Cardiovascular disease which includes hypertension, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, heart failure, and stroke are commonly seen in our clinic. Nationally, these diseases affect approximately 1 in 3 and are the cause of death in 1 out of every 2.8 deaths. I have found intravenous chelation therapy to be very effective in treating …
How good are you at reading what someone else is feeling? For some people, it is a natural gift in that they can sense without reading body language if someone is hurting inside or angry. For most of us (99 out of 100), it takes a lot of effort to be a human lie detector …
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Previous studies have demonstrated that living near high-power lines can be detrimental to one’s health. A new Swiss study analyzed almost 5-million people (95% of the Swiss population) to determine if exposure to magnetic fields from power lines is a contributing factor in neurodegenerative conditions. They found that people living within 160 feet of a tower increased their risk …
A recently published epidemiological study from Sweden found that women who breastfeed have a reduced risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Breastfeeding babies from 1 to 12 months reduced the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis by 25%. For your baby, there is no more perfect food than breast milk. In addition, to the above finding, other studies have shown that breastfed …
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Our Chemical World To give you an idea of the number of new chemicals being introduced into our world today look at the exponential growth in just 1 year. In 2009 alone over 10 million new chemicals were registered with the Chemical Abstracts Service, bringing the total number of registered chemicals to 50 million*. Liver …
Vulvodynia Vulvodynia is a chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva — (the female external genital organs including the labia, clitoris, and entrance to the vagina). This disease is usually referred to in medicine as essential vulvodynia. Which loosely translated means we essentially do not know what causes it. However, those trained in alternative …