1. Reduce/eliminate sugar from your diet 2. Reduce/eliminate wheat from your diet 3. Reduce/eliminate polyunsaturated vegetable oils (corn, cottonseed, canola, safflower, soy, “vegetable”) from you diet. 4. Take at least 1000mg of fish oil daily 5. Take at least 2000IU of Vitamin D3 daily What are your thoughts? We’d love to hear them. Please share [...]
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Ear candling is a popular practice among some alternative lay practitioners. It involves placing a hollow wax cone (a ‘candle’) in the ear and lighting it on fire.
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Posted in Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Feb 17th, 2010
In our quest to keep our pets healthy, we had transitioned from supermarket kibble to high end dog and cat food. When we learned about the raw diet we slowly transitioned to a raw meat diet for both our cats and dogs. The changes we have seen after adopting this diet have been phenomenal.
If a change from a junk food to a high-quality diet could make such a tremendous change in our pets, how would we feel if we did the same thing? And so we decided to do just that.
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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?
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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.
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Posted in Autism, Children's Health, Digestion, Digestive Health, Emotional Health, Food, GAPS diet, Health, Medicine, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Probiotics, Reactions: Food on Feb 2nd, 2010
Autism is a devastating disorder of childhood that has been rapidly increasing over the past 20 years. According to the Autism Society of America autism is “a complex developmental disability typically appears during the first 3 years of life and is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain, [...]
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