Dr. Gerstmar's Thoughts on Health, Happiness, and Well-Being from Aspire Natural Health

Desertification, the process by which fertile lands become deserts is a serious and increasing problem in much of the world.  Because of ecologically unfriendly practices, clear-cutting forests, plowing up ground to use as crop fields, over-grazing animals, etc. a growing portion of once fertile land is literally turning into desert.  How to deal with it [...]

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Another piece from Dr. Michael Eades recent blog post (http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/supplements/sunshine-superman) talking about one of the causes of fibromyalgia, vitamin D deficiency. “…the huge epidemic of fibromyalgia we are seeing today is in great measure a consequence of vitamin D deficiency.  Without enough vitamin D, bone doesn’t harden as it should.  It grows, but is softer [...]

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A fascinating discussion posted by Dr. Michael Eades at his blog (http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/supplements/sunshine-superman) “Dr. Holick begins his book with a fascinating comparison of a ten-year-old girl growing up somewhere along the equator to a ten-year-old girl growing up in the United States or Europe.  The former will probably never learn how to use a computer, never [...]

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There are a large number of things that can cause infertility but one of the biggest we are seeing right now is due to excessive insulin.  High insulin levels cause the ovaries to produce excess testosterone.  While women need testosterone (just as men need estrogen) to feel and function well, normally they need only a [...]

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The conventional medical community states that gluten intolerance is a fairly rare phenomenon.  My clinical experience and the clinical experience of other alternatively minded doctors in the field suggests that gluten intolerance is far more common.  I find when I ask people to remove gluten from their diet for 30 days, 80-90% of people report [...]

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Jay Parkinson, a New York based MD, came down with a sinus infection.  Jay is an idealistic doctor who quit has practice to found The Future Well an institute dedicated to finding innovative solutions for healthcare.  Because of this transition he is without health insurance.  So when he came down with a sinus infection he [...]

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Maybe, according to research done with mice.  (http://news.discovery.com/human/can-bacteria-make-you-smarter.html) ‘"We found that mice that were fed live M. vaccae navigated the maze twice as fast and with less demonstrated anxiety behaviors as control mice," said Dorothy Matthews in a press release. "Mycobacterium vaccae is a natural soil bacterium which people likely ingest or breath in when [...]

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A recent study reported here (http://health.msn.com/health-topics/alternative-medicine/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100260077) begins to show what we’ve known for a long time,  “…we found that meditators anticipate pain less and find pain less unpleasant, [even though] it’s not clear precisely how meditation changes brain function over time to produce these effects.” The bad news, “those with upwards of 35 years of [...]

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Some of what conventional medicine does is fantastic.  It’s treatment of trauma and life-threatening conditions is the best in the world.  But much of it is ineffective, costly and harmful.  Critiques of it are not just coming from the “alternative” community anymore but increasingly from within conventional medicine itself. Dr. John Briffa (a British MD) [...]

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From Time Magazine (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1993220,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly). “To figure out exactly how unhealthy a TV-guided diet would be, researchers studied food commercials [during 100 hours of TV over a 1 month period in 2004]”  Using only the foods advertised on TV they constructed a 2000 calorie per day diet and then analyzed it.  They found “it exceeded the [...]

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