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 Health, Health Care, Physical health, Recommended practitioner on Mar 11th, 2010
I was lucky enough to have a session with Ross Meyer of Real Health earlier this week. Ross is a personal trainer and health coach, but he goes so far beyond your average personal trainer it feel strange to call him one.
Posted in Allergies, Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Health Care, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 4th, 2010
Before undertaking an ECD (Elimination-Challenge Diet) it’s important to determine your motivation. What is going to give you the drive to persist through the early cravings? What is going to allow you to say no when you get in situations where it would be so much easier to simply say yes? Unless you plan to be a hermit for the 3-4 week duration of the elimination part of the diet, you need to have motivation.
Posted in Health, Health Care, Medicine, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine on Feb 15th, 2010
Nothing in the alternative medicine world attracts more disdain and haughtiness from skeptics than homeopathy. “Homeopathy,” they sneer, “only idiots and charlatans practice homeopathy.” So what is homeopathy?
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 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 Celiac disease, Digestion, Food, Health Care, Natural Medicine on Nov 9th, 2009
Drugs and supplements may contain gluten in the form of binders and stabilizers used to make the pill or put in the capsule to fill up space. A patient with CD may be doing a great job avoiding gluten in the food they eat and still getting gluten from the prescription drugs or supplements they are taking.
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 Children's Health, Doctors, Health Care, Hospitals, Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Swine Flu on Nov 2nd, 2009
“Remove the term H1N1 from the equation.” If your child had regular flu, would you take him to the hospital? If the answer is no, then don’t take him/her to the hospital now.