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 "To treat thyroiditis, I've done nutritional consults on people that were under the care of other physicians. When I suggested that they had thyroiditis and that it was to be treated with low doses of thyroid hormones, I was met with skepticism from the other doctors." Dr. Langer says that most of his patients have symptoms that are both psychological and organic in nature. "Many people come into my office with an organic kind of illness that has been misdiagnosed as being either psychosomatic or primarily psychological," he says. "- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "Most lab tests adequately measure 25-hydroxy-vitamin Dy However, physicians commonly use vitamin D2, or ergocalciferol, to replace severe deficiencies. This form of D comes from plants, and most labs don't measure it accurately. This is important because underestimating the blood level of both forms of vitamin D may lead to overestimating what you need for D replacement; then concerns about toxicity may arise.
The DiaSorin method and HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography) verified with tandem mass spectroscopy are the two methods that measure both forms of vitamin D."- James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) |
| "So there are simple things like that which can be done and which, in this modern age, can get overlooked by conventional physicians."
Dr. Vickar says he checks for magnesium levels in all of his patients, "especially adolescents who drink a lot of soda pop. I also do zinc, copper, and manganese levels because there is some evidence that low manganese is implicated in tardive dyskinesia. A low magnesium level is implicated in irritability, nervousness, even nerve conduction problems and seizures." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
| "Most people, including physicians, would routinely attribute these symptoms and diseases to aging or genetics. They would say that time and genes were just running their course. I would routinely dispense a diagnosis and then send patients down the symptom-curbing path of anti-inflammatory drugs, pain medications, antidepressants, and sleep aids. Unfortunately, I saw that my own interventions often did little to stabilize or alleviate my patients' problems, so I searched for clues that would help me better understand this symptom/disease bundle." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) |
 "It is not surprising that Plato, when describing his Utopian Republic, emphasized that physicians would be limited in the power they held over the populace. The biomedical view of Alzheimer's disease is the dominant framework in our world today. But it need not dominate your life—we can make the choice to reframe the way we age.
The Whitehall II study undertaken by British researcher )oan M. Griffin and colleagues revealed that elderly women who reported having less control in their lives had higher rates of cardiovascular disease and mental illness."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "As seniors experience cognitive decline, physicians may either apply the standard "Alzheimer's" label or help patients and their families face the challenge of their own brain aging more positively and proactively—this choice will ultimately produce the personal beliefs that patients and their families will carry with them into the final chapters of their lives." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "For example, certain drugs, called inotropic agents, are given by well-meaning physicians to improve the pump function of the heart. In many instances, however, the heartbeats caused by these agents are so strong that the heart is unable to supply enough energy to support them. In these cases, the drug therapy actually exacerbates, rather than offsets, the underlying cardiac disease. This example of a commonly misapplied medical treatment shows that a solid understanding of the basic energy metabolism in the heart is critical when devising effective therapies for treating cardiac disease."- Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "I have seen a slow paradigm shift during my thirty years of practicing cardiology regarding the perceived availability of effective, natural alternatives for the treatment of a wide range of cardiovascular disorders—problems like angina, arrhythmia, high blood pressure, and congestive heart failure (CHF). More physicians have expanded their approach to heart disease, and accept and recommend complementary therapies as equally judicious treatment interventions." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) |
 "In the past, women's pain was often written off by physicians as anxiety or as having a psychological cause. Frequently, a woman with chest symptoms or shortness of breath was sent home with a prescription for Valium or an antidepressant.
Even today, when a woman sees her doctor for symptom assessment, she may find herself caught up in a diagnostic dilemma. Because her symptoms are often less definitive or dramatic than those of men, her doctor may underestimate them or fail to order follow-up tests."- Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) |
| "I believe that we physicians don't really "cure" anyone. We merely coach, care for, and support our patients . . . only nature heals.
I actually learned this lesson from a physician named Paracelsus, who stated during the Reformation, "Nature cures, the doctor only nurses." Paracelsus was centuries ahead of his time when he observed and wrote that patients themselves have the power to create real healing. He noted that it was the role of the physician to help stimulate and nurture that power, and mobilize the intrinsic forces in the patient that can offer resistance to disease." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) |
 "In this surgery, physicians will sometimes create an internal pouch, called an ileoanal pouch, to prevent the need to wear an external appliance to store stool (fecal waste). Sometimes the lining of this internal pouch becomes inflamed. This complication is known as pouchitis. Thirty-two percent of patients with an ileoanal pouch have had at least one episode of pouchitis. Pouchitis can cause symptoms similar to ulcerative colitis, such as crampy abdominal pain, diarrhea, dehydration, increased frequency of stool, fever, bleeding and joint pain."- Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
| "Defeat Autism Now, better known as DAN, is one of the US's preeminent organizations comprised of private physicians and researchers exploring novel biomedical protocols for the recovery of autistic children. DAN's therapeutic philosophy focuses on the treatment of the underlying causes of autism's symptoms. The method of screening is based on thorough medical testing, scientific research, and clinical experience." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "As a result of such tactics, scientists and physicians are often reluctant to publicize their concerns.
There are avoidable exposures to carcinogens that the public never learns about, and that the industry is able to suppress, because the FDA never points out dangers in cosmetics and personal care products independent of the industry itself. The key player in this process is the industry's trade association."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "Center for Holistic Urology at Columbia University Medical Center, and an associate professor of clinical urology at Columbia University College of physicians and Surgeons, is a major force in research into prostate cancer chemoprevention with herbs and nutrients. Dr. Katz wrote a case report on a patient who went through the research center's Phase I Zyflamend trial. The study builds on Dr. Katz's extensive laboratory research demonstrating that Zyflamend slows growth of prostate cancer cell lines and may reverse the pre-cancerous prostate condition called PIN."- Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "A growing number of physicians are recognizing the importance of natural adjuncts to therapy and are recommending the use of Flor-Essence. Michael Schachter, M.D., F.A.C.A.M., former president of the American College for Advancement in Medicine, advocates, "The complementary approach to the management and treatment of prostate cancer is quite different from the conventional approach and perhaps more beneficial for some patients." Dr." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "In the early and mid 1900s, Rene Caisse and several physicians spent countless years evaluating each of the eight herbs to see if any one of the herbs was the main reason that this formula worked. As with many herbal combinations from natural medicine, it appears that the "sum is greater than the parts." The synergy of multiple components is far more powerful than any one component. While examination of each of the eight herbs in Flor-Essence reveals positive effects from each, it is the interaction of all of them that produces the reportedly amazing healing effects of Flor-Essence." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Reports on their use have recently appeared in Oncology News International, In Touch (a news magazine sent to more than 90,000 orthodox physicians), and in a national press release issued by Congressman Dan Burton, chairman of the Committee on Government Reform. Beard first proposed in 1906 that unidentified substances produced by the pancreas—which we now call pancreatic proteolytic enzymes—were not only key to bodily digestive processes, but they also protected against cancer. Indeed, Beard called them the main defense against cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "Harlan Krumholz, suggested that at least part of the answer had to do with the prestige and the billions of dollars these procedures generate each year for "hospitals, physicians, and vendors of medical equipment." One year later, Drs. Richard Lange and L. David Hillis wrote an editorial addressing the same subject. A major study (VANQWISH) had shown, once again, that there was no advantage to performing cardiac catheterizations routinely on clinically stable post-heart attack patients with no warning signs of further heart problems."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Indeed, the authors of the paper, based on data from the Framingham Heart Study, warned: "Physicians should be cautious about initiating cholesterol-lowering treatment in men and women above 65 to 70 years of age. Only randomized clinical trials in older people can settle the debate over the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of lipid-lowering interventions for reducing mortality and morbidity in this population." At the time the updated guidelines were published, no such studies had been reported." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Arnold Relman and Marcia Angell have publicly lamented the changes in doctors' continuing education meetings over the years: "To many senior physicians who have watched the atmosphere at these meetings decline in quality from the sober professionalism of a few decades ago to the trade-show hucksterism of today, it is a dispiriting spectacle." I am a little younger. By the time I entered private practice, the drug industry was already playing a significant role in "educating" doctors about new drugs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
| "Probiotics are known to help fight diseases of the intestines that involve inflammation such as colitis and irritable bowel disease, but these diseases are difficult to treat by conventional methods. physicians use pharmaceuticals to stop inflammation, but this is not very effective. Researchers are working on using probiotics as carriers of antiinflammatory chemicals which could target the intestinal lining. This would mean a more targeted way to control the inflammation in these diseases and offers new hope to these patients.
The excitement surrounding probiotics is warranted." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
 "In studies carried out in major hospitals in Holland and England, nearly one fourth of the patients who suffered serious but not fatal heart attacks gave evidence of having had some form of consciousness with distinct perceptions during the time their EEG was flat. physicians Pirn van Lommel, Peter Fenwick, Sam Farnia, and B. Greyson have shown that the experiences recounted by the patients often correspond to what actually happened during the time they had zero brain function."- Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) |
 "Misled by the FDA and the drug companies, most physicians who prescribe psychiatric drugs vastly underestimate the frequency and severity of medication-induced suicide as well as other potentially life-destroying adverse effects such as violence, mania, and psychosis caused especially by antidepressants, stimulants, and tranquilizers.
Medical spellbinding in technical language is intoxication anosognosia—the inability when intoxicated by drugs to recognize the mental and emotional impairment caused by the intoxication."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
| "Up until a few decades ago, most mainstream physicians and scientists believed that the placenta formed a barrier that prevented the mother's contaminants from entering the umbilical cord and circulating through the fetus. Subsequent research dramatically altered that viewpoint. Dr. Alan Greene, a Stanford University pediatrician, describes the placenta as a "free-flowing, living lake" inside mothers from which the umbilical cord draws nourishment for the fetus." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Reports began surfacing from hospitals and physicians in 1930 that users of one cream were developing paralysis, abdominal pain, blindness, and other severe symptoms. Only after injured consumers filed lawsuits against the manufacturer was the cream removed from the market in 1932, though in some areas of the U.S. the product continued to be sold for another year. Exposes began to appear in the media showing how widespread the dangers to health and safety had become." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "Forty percent of all French physicians practice homeopathy! A report from 1991 calculated that total costs associated with this type of care per patient was on average 15% less than costs associated with conventional medicine.
Source: Drug Store News, May 17, 1999 "Clinical Study Suggests That Homeopathy Could Save Healthcare Dollars" by Rob Eder www. findarticles."- Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) |
 "He suggested that the death of many mothers due to fevers after childbirth was caused by the failure of physicians to wash their hands between deliveries. It was more than two decades before his ideas were even partially accepted—even though he significantly reduced the incidence of both mother and infant mortality by implementing this procedure in his clinics. Today, Semmilwies is considered to be one of the great physicians of his time. One can only wonder how many mothers and infants of that era suffered and died needlessly until his ideas were implemented."- James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.) |
 "Nor do these numbers include the patients whose cause of death is deliberately obscured to protect the physicians and hospitals involved.
Add in these numbers, and you find that deaths from adverse reactions to drugs may number as high as 700,000 a year. (Actually, the FDA estimates that only 1% of all adverse reactions are reported'—which, if true, would make 700,000 a very conservative estimate."- Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) |
 "Many physicians, but especially those who work in high-wire specialties like neurology, emergency medicine, and radiology, live with the quiet but persistent fear that they will be sued for failing to order an imaging test—or failing to correctly diagnose a disease on a scan that's been performed. An emergency doctor's worst nightmare is the patient who presents with atypical chest pain that gets diagnosed as heartburn, but who actually has a dissecting aneurysm or a heart attack."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
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