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July, 3, 2011
Mass screening has been sold to American consumers as the way to catch life threatening diseases in time. Mass screening has been sold as preventive care when in reality it is early detection. And, unlike prevention, mass screening has its benefits and its risks. Gilbert Welch, MD, author of Should I Be Tested for Cancer, Maybe Not and Heres Why, roiled the conventional medical community, the media, and the American public by presenting the fact that science fails to back up mass cancer screening. | Summers Produce Stand
May 8, 2011
The power of the produce-stand now resplendent with the rich colors and inviting smells of ripe fruit and summers vegetable bounty is lost to all-too-many Americans. Walk the aisles of a public or farmers market at summers end and marvel over the blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, the grapes and currants, fragrant peaches, and the amazing heirloom tomatoes, just to name but a few of natures treats. | The New American Family-mother and dad are overweight and the children are overweight, too: Obesity can now be inherited
March 23, 2011
If you have recently been to a U.S. theme park, it is startling to most to notice the waistlines of American families. Mom and Dad are overweight and more often than not, every child is overweight, too. Many experts were quick to comment that obesity must be related to genetic susceptibility. Really, what about mother and fathers lifestyle and the lifestyle messages they teach their children? |
Natural Health Science News Vitamin Research: Vitamin D: the Key to Prevention and Treatment of Colds and Flus.
These studies explain how Vitamin D works to prevent flus and respiratory disease as well as to minimize flu symptoms. | NHSN Health Minutes with Deborah Ray: More
Click the Title to listen to the audio | Deborah Ray Interviews: | Voices of Natural Health Science News interviews the current president of ACAM (American College for Advancement in Medicine, professor, clinician, and researcher Jeanne Drisko, M.D. Dr. Drisko brings us up-to-date on the current research trial focusing on chelation therapy and her ongoing passion for clinical research in such areas including vitamin D. www.ACAM.org |
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What is Integrative Medicine?
Energy expressed through thoughts and feelings, energy becomes physical. Hence, we are all energy beings. It is true that at any point in time, anyone can become free of a given illness or symptom simply by directing their focus towards the state of health they desire.
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Dr. Blatman joins us to tell of his journey to integrative pain management and the front line on which physicians like him who belong to the American Holistic Medical Association find themselves when offering innovative approaches, as he does to therapies including prolotherapy, in order raise the standard of care to their clinical patients.
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 | Donna's business experience and passion for a holistic approach to life come together in her leadership role for the AHMA. Donna joins us to relate the mission of the American Holistic Medical Association to bring together physicians and consumers educating them about the "whole person" approach to healthcare. www.holisticmedicine.org |
 | Dr. Shrader treats environmental illnesses and allergy with modalities such as nutritional therapy (oral and IV), dietary therapy and many others, and employs IV therapy for detoxification when necessary at the Santa Fe Center for Allergy & Environmental Medicine is located in the picturesque city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. www.aaemonline.org/ |
 | Charles G. Brown, formerly Attorney General of West Virginia, is national counsel, Consumers for Dental Choice. His work focuses on petitioning federal and state agencies to do their duties under the law. For example, his lawsuit against FDA brought about a radical turnaround in FDA's position on amalgam, and a court-required date to classify amalgam (July 2009). believe it's time for the manufacturers of this toxic device to switch to non-toxic alternatives.
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 | L. Terry Chappell, M.D., board member of the International College of Integrative Medicine, practices Family Practice and Preventive Medicine in Bluffton, OH offering patients an array of integrative therapies. Dr. Chappell joins us to share with a white paper that details his plan for health care reform with special emphasis on safety and choice with integrative medicine. Celebration of Health Association |
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 | Jonathan Emord has litigated before federal courts and agencies for the past twenty-three years, defeating the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a remarkable six times in federal court. Jonathan joins us to tell his story about his passionate defense of health freedom. |
 | Dr. Hoffer has taught many physicians to look at the orthomolecular agents, such as ascorbic acid and niacin, which can rebalance the patient's biochemistry and have profound benefit for their mental health challenges. As Dr. Hoffer shares with us these same agents have great benefit for patients' other health challenges including cancer and heart disease. www.orthomolecularvitamincentre.com |
 | Dr. Ghen's interest and expertise in biochemistry has shaped his patient approach to use nutrients not only as preventive but as therapeutic agents. He is board certified in anti-aging medicine and has written a text book in anti-aging medicine to guide other practitioners. |
 | Wendy shares with us the 'education' mission of the International College of Integrative Medicine. We learn of the upcoming 50th Congress and the speakers who will educate and empower the practitioners who attend the ICIM conference. http://icimed.com/ |
 | Sharon Smith, who became the spokesperson for the Cherrix family, joins us with Abraham Cherrix to bring us an update on Abraham's story. Abraham faced cancer at age 15, chose not to use chemotherapy a second time sparking a custody battle with the state of VA, and became the face that launched Abraham's Law in VA to guarantee freedom of health care choice for families and their children facing terminal diagnoses when their wishes conflict with conventional cancer care. We celebrate Abraham's recovery and desire at age 18 to now help others. |
 | Dr. Alschuler is the current president of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. She shares with us their mission to bring wellness and health-creating concepts into government healthcare reform. America's need for physicians on the front line to work with patients' whole health is also a topic of conversation. Dr. Alschuler has also written a seminal book about integrative cancer care and shares that work with us as well as her clinical practice that focuses on integrative cancer care. |
 | Dr. Lonsdale has developed an unusual knowledge of the role of biochemistry in most, if not all, diseases. This, in turn, led to his better understanding the role of bad nutrition and its adverse effects on the biochemistry of the body. It became clear to him that the symptoms reported by the patient could be related to the underlying biochemical cause. In most instances this was caused by lifestyle and poor diet. It is the abnormal body chemistry that must be corrected and that can only be done by dietary changes. |
 | Dr. Hauser has used prolotherapy personally as he pursues fitness. Prolotherapy has offered healing for many who faced a life of pain and debilitation without Dr. Hauser's innovation. Dr. Hauser's love of writing has led to many books that share his expertise and mission to get to the root of his patients' problems, treating patients as a whole and not just a diagnosis. |
 | Dr. Hudson, an award winning practitioner, is a national lecturer, contributor to many magazines, books, author, educator and researcher. She has over 22 years of experience and expertise in women's health utilizing nutrition, nutraceutics, herbs, natural hormones and other therapies to treat all gynecological and primary care conditions. Dr. Hudson is the Program Director for the Institute of Women's Health and Integrative Medicine. |  | Richard Kunin, MD is a true pioneer in medical nutrition who joins our series focusing on practitioners who have made significant changes in clinical care. In 1972, Prevention Magazine wrote about Dr. Kunin as the first person to combine computer diet, vitamin and mineral testing, and hypnotherapy -- a prototype of holistic medicine. Dr. Kunin pioneered the use of vitamins and minerals in current medical practice and co-founded the Orthomolecular Medical Society with Dr. Linus Pauling in 1976. |
 | Dr. Teitelbaum, Medical Director of the Fibromyalgia & Fatigue Centers, joins us for the series which focuses on Integrative Medical Heroes who have changed clinical practice. Dr. Teitelbaum shares that he personally battled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia while attending medical school in the mid 70's. He discovered treatments that were unknown to the medical community and began a quest that became his life's passion helping those who suffer from these debilitating illnesses with a unique SHINE protocol which has helped so many address CFS and fibromyalgia. |
 | Robert Abel, Jr., M.D., a board-certified ophthalmologist in practice for 34 years, joins our practitioner series focus on those who have changed the course of clinical practice. Dr. Abel has investigated amazing connections between the course of his patients' eye problems and their overall health. The course of his father's cataract diagnosis changed with Dr. Abel's clinical practice to focus on vitamins, supplements and herbs, daily activity, and other lifestyle factors. |
 | Dennis Courtney, MD broadcaster and medical pioneer joins our series focusing on practitioners who have made significant changes in clinical practice. Dr. Courtney shares his focus on innovative heart therapies including counter pulsation therapy. His core approach is always to focus on ways to improve the body's ability to heal. He is among a unique group of practitioners who acknowledge that the roots of disease may often be dental-related offering his patients a comprehensive medical-dental approach to restoring good health. |
 | Dr. Lonsdorf aptly fills the definition of a Natural Health Science News Hero as a practitioner who has changed the practice to medicine to address the healing and care of patients. Named “one of the nation’s most prominent Ayurvedic doctors” by the Chicago Tribune, Nancy Lonsdorf, M.D. is a popular speaker, author and recognized Ayurvedic expert specializing in healthy longevity and women’s health issues. Over the past twenty years, she has treated more than 15,000 patients using Maharishi Ayurveda. |  | Dr. Victor S. Sierpina, MD, is a noted educator, Professor of Family Medicine with tenure at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Sierpina is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Holistic Medicine. He is currently the chair of the integrative medicine consortium. Dr. Sierpina shares with us his fascinating research into clinical nutrition including glyconutrients and how nutrition can be used adjunctively in primary care with a focus on chronic degenerative diseases. |  | Robert H. Schneider, M.D., F.A.C.C., is a physician, scientist, educator who joins our practitioner focus at Natural Health Science News as one of the world’s leading authorities on scientific, natural approaches for heart disease, high blood pressure, stress and other cardiovascular risk factors. Dr. Schneider is board-certified in preventive medicine, is a certified specialist in clinical hypertension and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and author of Total Heart Health. |  | Attorney Kent Masterson Brown is an experienced lawyer in areas of trial and appellate litigation involving the adjudication of issues (some of them constitutional issues) arising out of the regulation of the health care industry and the administration of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as antitrust issues within the health care industry. |  | Amy Menefee leads the efforts of Americans for Prosperity to create a grass roots movement called Patients United Now. Amy's discusses with us Patients United Now' grass root efforts, the dilemma facing U.S. health care, and possible solutions. Patients United Now favor policies which keep insurance costs down and help those patients with pre-existing conditions get coverage. They believe buying "care insurance" should be like buying car insurance: flexible, transparent and simple. |  | Stanley Gardner, MD is a valued member of the physician team with Dr. Derrick Lonsdale and Dr. James Frackelton at Preventive Medicine Group outside Cleveland, OH. During his years in the Philippines and his first thirteen years of practice, Dr. Gardner observed many diseases which could be prevented entirely, healed more quickly, or have caused less damaging results through the application of proper nutrition. |  | Liz Lipski, PhD, CCN, is a noted clinician, author, speaker, talk-show host, educator, and consultant. She is well known for her landmark book Digestive Wellness which will soon be in its 4th edition and the companion book for children’s digestive wellness among other healthcare focuses. |  | Burt Berkson, MD, PhD is a noted medical practitioner, researcher, educator and author. Dr. Berkson shares his own fascinating story of becoming acquainted with the metabolic antioxidant, lipoic acid, to help two victims of mushroom poisoning recover from certain liver failure and possible death with Natural Health Science News. Dr. Berkson served as the FDA’s principal investigator on lipoic acid for 23 years and is the CDC’s current expert consultant on hepatic/liver toxicity and lipoic acid. |  | John Young, MD is a noted medical practitioner, researcher, speaker, and innovator. Dr. Young’s desire to go beyond modern medicine’s focus on pushing prescriptions and procedures has led him to rediscover several Nobel Prizes in Medicine and use them along with the tenets of basic biochemistry and physiology to create a unique clinical practice of medicine. Dr. Young shares with how he uses a simple lifestyle program to reverse chronic disease. |  | Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D., director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, a Washington D.C.-based research and advocacy organization promoting free market health insurance reforms, and a visiting scholar with the Dallas-based Institute for Policy Innovation joins us to explain the challenges of the U.S. healthcare system, the dangers of government-controlled healthcare, and what you can do to influence the current effort for healthcare reform. |  | Dr. Steve Hotze, founder of the Hotze Health & Wellness Center, joins us to tell us about his innovations in clinical practice that includes helping achieve optimal health and lifelong wellness through the natural treatment of allergies and yeast sensitivity as well as balancing the hormones. Dr. Hotze shares his belief in evaluating an individual's symptoms and then treating their underlying causes naturally. |  | Dr. Gary Null has been one of the foremost advocates of alternative medicine and natural healing for over three decades. A multi award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Null has written over 70 books on nutrition, self-empowerment and public health issues, including his most recent, Death by Medicine. His syndicated public radio show, Natural Living with Gary Null, earned 21 Silver Microphone Awards and is the longest-running, continuously aired health program in America. |  | Carole Baggerly is the founder and director of Grassroots Health, a non-profit organization promoting vitamin D awareness. After her own experience with breast cancer and osteoporosis, she learned the connection among these diseases and vitamin D deficiency, which triggered her role as an advocate. Carole shares with us her inspired work at Grassroots Health which has launched a worldwide public health campaign to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic in a year through a focus on testing and education with all individuals spreading the word. |  | Dr. Haley has emphasized studies on the biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease. His research in the biochemical aberrancies in Alzheimer's disease also led to his identifying mercury toxicity as a major factor in this disease. He was one of the first to propose that the organic-mercury preservative (Thimerosal) in infant vaccines was the most likely toxic agent involved in Gulf War Syndrome and autism related disorders |  | Dr. Brownstein has lectured internationally to physicians and others about his success in using natural hormones and nutritional therapies in his practice. Dr. Brownstein with a popular newsletter has also authored nine books including Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Cannot Live without It which has changed the practice of medicine by focusing on the widespread nature of iodine deficiency and why iodine is so important for optimal health. |  | John Jacob Cannell, M.D. began to study the effects of vitamin D, he immediately realized that the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) of the U.S. Government's Institute of Medicine (IOM) was placing many Americans at risk with less than optimal recommendations for vitamin D sufficiency. He founded the Vitamin D Council to educate and empower practitioners, researchers, and consumers about the widespread nature of vitamin D deficiency and why we should all care about this important public health issue. |  | Dr. Jonathan Wright's Green Medicine Radio Program can be heard saturdays from 1-2 PM (Pacific time), on 570 KVI in the Seattle / Tacoma WA area. “Green Medicine” recognizes that our human bodies are made up of the same substances and energies that make up planet Earth. So using these same materials and and energies is the very best way to prevent and treat illness, turning to patent medicines only when there is no other alternative. After all, if you drive a Ford, it’s best to maintain and repair it with Ford parts, not with Toyota or Chevrolet parts. And following the concepts of Green Medicine won’t just make us healthier, they make planet Earth healthier, too. We hope you enjoy these recent programs. Visit Dr. Wright's website http://www.tahomaclinic.com for more information about his practice. | .jpg) | October 25, 2010
After recently celebrating his 96th birthday, Jack LaLanne, acclaimed by all to be the “Godfather of Fitness” shares with us his latest endeavors. Better Balance for Life at his web site, www.jacklalanne.com, his latest project, helps to educate all of us how to achieve and maintain balance to avoid falls as we age. Jack reveals some of his famous LaLanneisms including how dying is out of the question for him at present because it would be bad for his image. Clearly, Jack is still on top of his game even at age 96 mentally and physically. He is a great inspiration to all of us that our lifestyle does matter and wise choices can improve our quality of life as well as help to extend it. He remains a leader in educating and empowering us that regular physical activity and wise nutrition choices are essential components because who among would not like to “be like Jack at age 96?” |  | October 25, 2010
The father of Vitamin D research, educator, researcher, and author, Michael Holick, PhD, MD joins us with an update on the importance of vitamin D from his latest book entitled “The Vitamin D Solution.” Thanks to his original interest three decades ago and continued passion, we understand the critical role of vitamin D for good health from reducing our risk of many common cancers, reducing our risk of autoimmune conditions, reducing our risk of heart disease, reducing our risk of periodontal disease, and more. Dr. Holick educates us that every tissue of the human body has a receptor for vitamin D. Hunter gatherers from whom we evolved are now known to have produced 100,000 IU vitamin D daily from sun exposure. With the Institute of Medicine’s new recommendations for vitamin D expected out the end of November 2010, Dr. Holick tells us about assessing our vitamin D status, how to supplement responsibly, and the exciting ongoing research about vitamin D’s importance. |  | Harry Preuss, MD, Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology joins us for our Health Hero Profiles at Natural Health Science News to talk of the latest research into metabolic syndrome and weight loss. Dr. Preuss is also a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), and Co-Chairman of the GUMC Internal Review Board. His specialty is in the area of nutrition. Dr. Preuss educates us about the profound effect our lifestyle choices can have on insulin resistance that can help prevent and even reverse central obesity, high blood pressure, high triglycerides and cholesterol, and elevated fasting insulin levels preventing diabetes years before it manifests itself. |  | Mr. MacAdam is the Chief Executive Officer of the MBVax company and a scientist and technology executive. He is the former president of CRS Robotics Corporation, a manufacturer of laboratory robotic systems, and former president and chief executive officer of Tm Bioscience Corporation, a manufacturer of biochips and developer of DNA technologies. Mr. MacAdam is the author of Spontaneous Regression: Cancer and the Immune System. His scientific interest and continued dedication to the work of William Coley, MD in order to make Coley’s fluids available for research and compassionate clinical use brings him to Natural Health Science News to educate us about this important treatment option for those facing cancer. www.mbvax.com |  | Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D. has been a research biochemist since 1959 and a legend in the natural products community. His first areas of research interest were in the development of pharmaceuticals, spectrophotoluminescence and analytical chemistry. His laboratory research led to his discovery of biological antioxidant synergism in 1962 which has been the focus of his research and patents ever since. In 1970, Dr. Passwater shifted the emphasis of his research from pharmaceuticals to nutrients. He joins Natural Health Science News to discuss the latest research on Vitamin D and his critical clinical importance as well the IOM vitamin D recommendations. Dr. Passwater who has been a leader in selenium research and education brings us up to speed on the latest in the importance of selenium in clinical use. |  | Stephen A. Hoption Cann, Ph.D, Chief Scientific Officer of MBVax, is a clinical assistant professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include the epidemiology of cancer, the phenomenon of spontaneous regression of cancer and other diseases, fever therapy and the work of Dr. William Coley. Dr. Cann joins Natural Health Science News to discuss his scientific interest in the work of Dr. Coley and how he joined forces with Mr. MacAdam to reproduce Dr. Coley’s CMT vaccine, develop a clinical protocol, and assist in the ongoing research effort and its use in clinical settings. Dr. Cann published in an issue of Postgraduate Medical Journal his work into Coley’s fluid and its clinical significance http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14707241. |  | Renowned medical and radiation oncologist Charles Simone, MD who has pioneered the concept of 10 lifestyle choices including nutrition to optimize any treatment approach to cancer joins us. Dr. Simone elaborates on the recent revelation that “the way we have always done it” regarding surgery and treatment of cancer was not backed by solid science. Dr. Simone shares with us his landmark work that included finding in the medical literature research that using nutrition and antioxidants along with chemo and radiation helped the kill but as importantly aided the patient’s quality of life. |  | Dr. David Brownstein, practicing clinician, author, and educator joins us with his vast clinical experience in the medical use of iodine. With the recent media focus on potassium iodide and its use to help prevent the thyroid’s uptake of radioactive iodine as in the case of nuclear disasters, Dr. Brownstein educates us how important iodine is each and every day for optimal health. As he relates his clinical experience, many Americans may not be aware of their iodine deficiency and how that may affect every aspect of their health. Dr. Brownstein has written extensively on the subject of iodine and teaches other practitioners about its importance for their patients. |  | Dr. Randy Christensen, the medical director of Crews’n Healthmobile, a free mobile medical clinic to treat homeless children in the Phoenix area. His book Ask Me Why I Hurt relates the poignant stories of homeless children who suffer from a litany of health challenges often without any family support. His passion to help these children set the stage for a foundation, Ask Me Why I Hurt Fund, to make a difference in their lives medically as well as their living conditions. Ask Me Why I Hurt is an engrossing story that will touch your heart and educate you, yes, it can and is happening in the land of plenty. |  | Talented medical journalist, author, and managing editor of Longevity Medicine Review, Lara Pizzorno, joins us here at Natural Health Science News about a topic dear to Lara’s heart. She has recently authored the book Your Bones to let us know her own educational experience to address the challenge of her challenge of less than strong bones and the science to back up the fact you can have strong bones for life-naturally. Lara shares with us that strong bones are more than just calcium and your lifestyle choices can help keep bones strong even though a family history may predispose otherwise. | |
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