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"After I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology, I held a number of traditional leadership roles that included chairmanships of the Departments of Psychology at two state hospitals, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Frostburg University, and staff psychologist at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. Along the way, I led the National Hospital Privileges movement, which succeeded in winning hospital privileges for psychologists and ensured that patients in general hospitals would have access to psychological services." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"David Rosenhan, a Stanford University professor of law and psy- chology, pretended to be hearing voices and got themselves admitted to psychiatric hospitals across the country.2 Once they were admitted to the hospitals, they resumed acting normally. The hospital staff and physicians then viewed all their "normal behavior," such as note taking, as "abnormal." It was only the regular "crazy" patients who could tell them apart! The same thing happens to you once we assign you a label like depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, or dementia." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"We've watched her work magic, capturing imaginations in schools and in hospitals. With stories reflecting the breadth of human experience and emotion, she weaves tales that carry people on journeys of heroics and love, fear and forgiveness. Over time, Eve has seen her tales lift children with severe illness up the staircase of health and transport ailing adults to happier moods and faster healing. Eve's belief that healing is facilitated by stories is well-substantiated by medical research." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "And the two of us teach the Brilliant Health model to some of the biggest corporations and hospitals in the United States. The Creation of the Brilliant Health System OUR STORY It all began with a simple idea. We wanted to improve our lives. So we decided to interview the five happiest people we knew. What those first five said was so intriguing we made what felt like a daring decision: to set out on an ambitious and ultimately exhilarating three-year journey to interview profoundly happy people all over the world. What a great idea for a book, we thought." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"A new study conducted by scientists at the German Cancer Research Center Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), collaborating with researchers of the University hospitals in Hamburg-Eppendorf, provides clear evidence that postmenopausal women with low blood levels of vitamin D clearly have a significantly increased risk of breast cancer. The study was released in April 2008 and published in the medical journal Carcinogenesis." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "You can visit a number of hospitals and ask the patients whether they felt good about their life prior to falling ill. The overwhelming response would be, "No." Without being a medical researcher, you would have conducted one of the most important research studies anyone could ever do. You would have stumbled over the most common cause of ill health which is, "not loving yourself," or, to use a different expression, "not being happy about how your life turned out." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "His doctors at one of the most prestigious university hospitals in Germany had just "given" him three more weeks to live when he sought me out for help. According to them, his cancer was too advanced and widespread to consider having treatments of chemotherapy or radiation. Healing Cancer Versus Fighting It George had lost one of his kidneys to cancer one year earlier. After emerging from the operating room, his doctors gave him a "clean bill of health." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "The above risk could be reduced by enriching the blood with nitric oxide, but very few hospitals do so. In a study reported in the March 20, 2008 New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that patients who were given older units of blood had higher rates of in-hospital mortality. At one year, mortality was significantly less in the patients given newer blood." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Our heart failure readmission rate at hospitals is practically nil thanks to CoQIO (coenzyme Q10), L-carnitine, D-ribose, and magnesium. These nutritional supplements nourish and support the mitochondria, the cellular power plants that generate ATP, the energy source for the primary biochemical reactions in the body. We covered magnesium in chapter 6. Now we turn our attention to CoQIO, L-carnitine, and D-ribose. The cells of the heart muscle are loaded with mitochondria." - 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.) "Lumbrokinase has been used in Chinese hospitals since the early 1990s. Nattokinase has been the subject of seventeen studies, including two small human trials. In one, volunteers who received 200 grams of nattokinase before breakfast showed a heightened ability to dissolve blood clots. On average, the volunteers' ELT (euglobulin lysis time, a measure of how long it takes to dissolve a blood clot) dropped by 48 percent within two hours of treatment, and volunteers retained an enhanced ability to dissolve blood clots for two to eight hours." - 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.) "REPPED: Preface From Crisis to Prevention: The Transformation of Two Cardiologists We consider ourselves a new breed of cardiologists—making our patients healthier and keeping them out of hospitals. We were once "typical" board-certified cardiologists. We did thousands of angiograms and performed emergency cardiac procedures. We rolled up our sleeves at all hours of the day and night. We did what we were trained to do and thought we did the very best for our patients. We saw ourselves as saviors." - 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.)

"There are two hospitals contract a Staph infection. ways this an happen. First, a bacteria like Staph can mutate so it can evade an antibiotic. Staph bacteria can become resistant to penicillin, a common antibiotic, when it mutates to be able to produce an enzyme which destroys the penicillin. Secondly, it is possible for one bacteria to borrow the resistant gene (section of DNA) from another bacteria, thus allowing it to evade an antibiotic. This is how Staph can become resistant to the antibiotic methicillin and glycopeptides treatment." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Each pot was to be watered with 1 percent saline solution, slightly stronger than the kind used by hospitals for giving intravenous infusions to patients, which can stunt a plant's growth. Each of the other three batches of plants was to receive watering with the salt water, but only after the water had been held by one of three people for half an hour. The control batch would be watered with the solution that had not been exposed to anyone. The first vial was held by a healer with a green thumb and a passion for plants." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Some hospitals have their own birthing centers, with a midwife and sometimes a doula to assist. To find a midwife in your area, you can start at the American College of Nurse-Midwives' homepage (www.midwife .org/find.cfm). Whatever you do, think through this decision carefully. Do your utmost to give birth in a soothing, nurturing, healthy, and relaxing environment. Chapter 6 Developing Your Baby's Palate For all the cultural transformations we've undergone over the last half century, none has been so dramatic as the way we eat." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"More effective, because more widely available, was the one great medical innovation of late antiquity: the hospital, which evolved from the Christian xenodochia, combinations of treatment centers, hospices, and poorhouses, which spread from their original locations in Judaea during the late fourth century to Rome, Ephesus, and (largest of all) the hospitals built and staffed by St. John Chrysos-tom during his tenure as Bishop of Constantinople." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Calm Birth: New Method for Conscious Childbirth by Robert Bruce Newman is a good introduction to a meditation program employed by many hospitals and birthing centers. The Calm Birth method prepares women for childbirth through breathing techniques and various other calming practices. Getting massages, either from your partner or a professional, will also help counteract stress. Relax, recline, rest! Again, rest whenever you can. Dr. Sarah Brewer recommends leaving work between the twenty-eighth and thirtieth weeks of pregnancy, but that's obviously not an option for a lot of expectant mothers." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Some of the chemicals used in hospitals can be toxic and may pose dangers to newborn babies. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Green Book, "Epidemics involving absorption of chemicals through the skin in newborns include hypothyroidism from iodine in Betadine scrub solutions, neurotoxicity from hexachlorophene, and hyperbilirubinemia from phenolic disinfectants used to clean hospital equipment." If you're interested in learning more about your birthing options, do some online research. You can find information on freestanding birthing centers (for example, www." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Just look at the food served in typical hospitals: artificially processed, high in additives, salt, sugar and artificial sweeteners, and trans fatty acids. We already know how important a healthy whole-foods diet is in maintaining our kids' health. So why are we feeding kids who are already sick food that does nothing to heal their ailing bodies? If anything, this food only creates more problems. Dr. Sencer's integrative oncology center has established many nutritional holistic protocols for kids with cancer. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The majority are offered by hospitals and health-care centers and are recognized by the American Diabetes Association. Depending on the facility, the program can include classes, support groups, and/or counseling services on all aspects of diabetes management, from basic information about the disease to meal planning, stress management, traveling with diabetes, weight management, effects of medication, glucose monitoring assistance, pregnancy and diabetes, and exercise plans." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Other major sources of serious infections in the United States?hospitals and nursing homes—are responsible for most complications, costs, and deaths due to hospitalization. We know that institutionalized people are at very high risk for vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sun exposure. Hospital-acquired infections are four times more common in African Americans and others with high melanin content. Most people with HIV have low levels of both vitamin D and activated vitamin D." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"I was the only cardiologist to use it as an intravenous intervention in our small community hospital; my training in large city hospitals had convinced me that it worked. Nowadays, IV magnesium is more commonly used to reverse acute migraine headaches. I've treated headaches in postmenopausal women, including migraines, that responded really well to IV magnesium, as have many pain clinics. I also recommend 400 milligrams (mg) of magnesium orally once or twice a day for prevention." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "It requires special laboratory equipment and highly trained personnel not available at most hospitals. However, Quest Laboratories will provide the service throughout the United States. In general, I recommend that if any patient fails to respond to standard levels of coenzyme Q10 intervention (90-150 mg per day), it is essential to obtain a blood level for coenzyme Q10." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Ribose put on formulary at several hospitals (United States) for treating pre- and post-operative cardiac surgery patients. Although the presence of ribose in genetic material makes it one of the most widespread substances in the human body, scientists were not able to find it in the blood, and it was thought that ribose might not be physiologically important in its free form. In other words, researchers were not sure that circulating ribose would be metabolized by the cells, whether it was removed from the blood or not." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Several hospitals in the United States have already made this move. Ribose can be administered in a wide variety of clinical settings for cardiovascular disease: ?Coronary artery disease ?Stable and unstable angina ?Myocardial preserving agent during PTCA or angiogram ?Myocardial preserving agent during cardiac surgery (cardioplegia) ?Recovery from cardiac surgery or major cardiac event, such as heart attack ?Congestive heart failure and cardiac hypertrophy to promote diastolic cardiac function ?Atrial and ventricular arrhythmia ?" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"For instance, childbirths were not always carried out in hospitals, they were carried out in homes; nor were processes such as sexual dysfunction, hyperactivity, or circumcision previously considered primarily medical issues. Over the years, these and an increasing number of everyday practices have been caught in the net of medicalization and given narrowly scientific frameworks. We now have rigorous labor standards for pregnant women, pills to treat impotence and ADHD, and circumcision is an unquestioned hospital procedure for 80 percent of American families." - 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.) "Having spent my life within the scientific, political, economic, and social institutions of the AD field—universities, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies—studying and treating human aging and disease, I am ready to challenge the power that the mainstream "Alzheimer's disease" myth has over us and help people see what I have seen and to think critically about the evolution in thought that has occurred over the past several decades, which has shaped the way we see our aging bodies and minds and the way we act toward them." - 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.)

"Staphylococcus aureus (Staph) Decades ago, a strain of Staphylococci (Staph) emerged in hospitals, which was resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. Called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), it was one of the first germs to outwit most drugs. This infection can be fatal. About one-third of us have staph bacteria living on our skin or in our nose. People with Staph are called colonized, or not infected, as they have no illness from this bacteria. Healthy people can be colonized with MRSA and have no ill effects." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers had little choice but to accept discounted fees in order to be included in the newly formed networks of health care providers; otherwise they risked losing access to their patients. These so-called volume discounts controlled prices during the transition to managed care, but the apparent solution was short-lived. Once the discounts had been factored in, this apparently exquisite solution to controlling costs—local health care budgets set by the marketplace instead of the government—became the problem." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In most hospitals, the sole concern of the certified nutritionists who prepare hospital "food" is putting together a proper balance of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. As you will soon learn, this is tantamount to nutritional insanity. • Proteins are essential for the growth and repair of all body tissue. Ptoteins ate made of amino acids, some of which your body can produce by itself, and some of which must be included in your diet. A great deal is made about the need for protein, but the fact is our protein requirements are not really very large and are easy to fill." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "And finally, combine that 700,000 with the number of people who die from misdiagnosis, inappropriate treatment, secondary infections received in hospitals, or just plain physician error, and the startling fact you're left with is that the modern medical paradigm, despite all its accomplishments, is arguably the single leading cause of death in the United States. Understand, this is not an attack on medical doctors—the vast majority of whom are extremely competent, highly dedicated, and (as I mentioned earlier) often even heroic." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

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