Using natural medicine to live a high quality life
Posted in Doctors, Health, Health Care, Medicine, Natural Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Supplements on Mar 31st, 2010
We’re told that the supplement industry lacks the strict controls of the pharmaceutical industry (quality control, safety testing, regulatory oversight, etc.), and therefore we are taking our lives into our own hands when we take supplements. Right?
Posted in Business, Doctors, Health Care, Health insurance, Insurance companies, Malpractice, Universal coverage on Mar 29th, 2010
The concern over rationing in health care has been all over the place lately with the political fight over health insurance reform. Is rationing an unfortunate necessity?
Posted in Book Review: Business, Book review, Business, Emotional Health, Environmentalism, Health, Mental Health, Spiritual Health, World Health on Mar 11th, 2010
Enter Business as Unusual by Anita Roddick, one of the founders of the Body Shop. In this book she talks candidly about her experience from founding the Body Shop to making it a worldwide company. How she never compromised her principles despite intense pressure within and without the company to stop “her silliness and get with the program”, that is, running a business with the bottom line as the only goal.
Posted in Doctors, Health Care, Medicine, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Pharmaceuticals on Feb 10th, 2010
In part III of this series, my intention is to outline how I as an alternative practitioner use EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) in my practice. Alternative or natural practitioners are often dismissed by conventional practitioners with the refrain “not enough evidence” or “hasn’t been proven to work”. This is true only under the strict definition of EBM we talked about in part II but as I will show I base my practice on a great deal of evidence, much of which is not given significant value by the conventional community.
Posted in Business, Environmentalism, Health, Random Thoughts, World Health on Nov 21st, 2009
Is business part of the problem? Can it be part of the solution?
Posted in Doctors, Health Care, Health insurance, Hospitals, Insurance companies, Medicine, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Pharmaceuticals on Nov 13th, 2009
Continuing the discussion of evidence based medicine, this article discusses the current, and in my opinion, misguided interpretation of evidence based medicine.
Posted in Doctors, Health Care, Health insurance, Hospitals, Insurance companies, Medicine, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Pharmaceuticals on Nov 5th, 2009
Evidence based medicine (EBM) has emerged as one of the key concepts being debated in leading medical journals, doctors offices and conventions, insurance boardrooms, and government agencies as a major piece of the effort to reduce costs and improve outcomes. In this series I’ll be explaining what evidence based medicine should be (part I), is (part II), and how I use it in my practice (part III).
Posted in Alpha Lipoic Acid, Business, Doctors, Health Care, Hospitals, Low Dose Naltrexone, Medicine, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Pharmaceuticals on Oct 1st, 2009
If Naturopathic Medicine worked MDs would di it, right? Unfortunately a combination of ignorance, arrogance, and greed often combine to keep effective therapies out of public awareness.
Posted in Business, Childbirth, Childbirth: Conventional, Childbirth: Natural, Doctors, Farming, Food, Food: Conventional, Food: Organic, Health Care, Links, Medicine, Natural Medicine, Pesticides, Pharmaceuticals, Random Thoughts on Aug 5th, 2009
Here are four links to interesting articles/posts I’ve come across recently.
Posted in Business, Family farms, Food, Food: Conventional, Food: Organic, Natural Medicine, Pesticides, Small business, Wal-Mart on Jul 30th, 2009
A recent study suggests that organic food may not have any more nutrients than conventional food, but the benefits of well made organic food extend far beyond nutrient content.