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"The defense then focused on my 1995 Safe Shopper's Bible (co-authored with David Steinman) which provides information on undisclosed carcinogenic ingredients and contaminants in mainstream consumer products—food, cosmetics and toiletries, and household products; the book also lists safe alternatives manufactured by the growing non-mainstream or alternative safe product industry. I was taken through a long list of mainstream products and asked whether I thought selected examples were carcinogenic." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"O O n c 73 m to who is firmly planted in the mainstream. (For help on finding a doctor, see Recommended Reading and Resources.) Bioidentical hormones are compounds that have exactly the same chemical and molecular structure as those produced in your body. They're usually made by compounding pharmacies and prescribed by doctors knowledgeable in nutrition who take a holistic approach to hormone replacement and human health." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"What can they teach us too about discontents and countercurrents within the profession of mainstream medicine itself, the ways that doctors and scientists also feel and respond to the shortcomings of the phys-icalist story of illness? This book takes an historical approach to tackling these kinds of questions." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Perhaps most important of all, he had clearly signaled that he was not interested in colonizing all of medicine on behalf of Freud but simply wanted to claim a cluster of chronic disorders that mainstream medicine had long been notoriously unsuccessful in treating anyway. Why should anyone mind letting the Freudians take a crack at them?" - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "This was a story as good as any to be found in countless New Thought texts since the turn of the century, but what gave it particular authority was that it was published in the most prestigious mainstream medical journal of its day.49 And it certainly did not hurt that the man who was telling the story was a prominent public intellectual. "If Joe Blow of Altoona" had sent in an article of this sort to the NEJM, fumed one of Cousins's rare critics, "it wouldn't even get the courtesy of a rejection." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "In spite of positive thinking's overwhelming emphasis on physical healing, mainstream American medicine barely paid any attention to the claims and testimonies of its teachers and followers. Even American psychosomatic medicine, focused as it was on Freud and psychoanalytic perspectives, seems barely to have registered the existence of the faith healers and positive thinkers. Indeed, the only reference to positive thinking to appear in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine before 1970 was in an article from 1962 by George Vail-lant on psychosomatic aspects of schizophrenia." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"It's a shared, collective prejudice against practices that aren't in the mainstream of Western medicine. It's a subtle, shared distrust of "natural" or non-pharmaceutical interventions (witness the utterly ridiculous website "Quackwatch," which has never encountered a drug treatment it didn't like, or a non-drug treatment that it did). And it's an over-reliance on a particular form of scientific investigation that may not always be perfectly suited for uncovering what some of these non-traditional treatments have to offer." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Today the field of positive psychology is thriving, new research on positive emotions is being aggressively funded, and mainstream media are running headlines about the connection between happiness and health. Harvard University offers a course on positive psychology that has become its best-attended class. The University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center offers a master's degree in applying positive psychology as a therapeutic tool." - 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.)

"Although accepted by Duke University, this diagnostic tool is not a mainstream technology. "...The establishment ignores safe and effective alternatives to mammography, particularly trans illumination with infrared scanning," Dr. Epstein points out. Thanks to the discoveries of the North Carolina Institute of Technology (NCIT), a privately funded research center, thermal imaging, done using the protocol established by NCIT, may find developing breast cancer 10 years earlier than mammography. (Check out BreastCancerCured.com for more information)." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that even though there is no scientific evidence that chemotherapy works, neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on it. The mainstream media has never reported on this hugely important study, which is hardly surprising, given the enormous vested interests of the groups that sponsor the media, that is, the pharmaceutical companies. A recent search turned up exactly zero reviews of Abel's work in American journals, even though it was published in 1990." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Do the mainstream media ever report about the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in the five-year survival rate of colon cancer patients?4 Or how many oncologists stand up for their cancer patients and protect 4 Confirmation of deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) as a predictive marker for lack of benefit from 5-FU based chemotherapy in stage II and III colon cancer (CC): a pooled molecular reanalysis of randomized chemotherapy trials. (D. J. Sargent, S. Marsoni, S. N. Thibodeau, et al." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS Historically, conventional mainstream medicine has not been able to offer women a known cause for PMS, nor has it been able to offer a management approach short of pharmaceuticals with as many side effects as relief. Fortunately, new research has led to a better understanding of PMS and to new and more successful conventional and natural treatments. Self-care with natural therapies is the dominant method women use to manage PMS." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"As of this writing, mainstream medicine still sees the cholesterol story this way: Excess amounts of LDL, or "bad cholesterol," cling to the walls of arteries. Over time, a buildup of these deposits, called plaque, will narrow the arteries and restrict blood flow to the heart. Heart disease and heart attacks are often a result of the restricted blood flow caused by the plaque. HDL is considered "good cholesterol" because it reverses the action of LDL by removing the plaque. Enter niacin. What niacin does that medications can't do is both lower the LDL cholesterol and raise the HDL cholesterol." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Growing up, she had owned a health-food store in the small town of Pomp-ton Lakes, New Jersey, which had offered an array of health foods and supplements decades before health-food stores became part of mainstream America. She had been well known in their community for her vast knowledge about how a healthy diet and dietary supplements can affect overall wellness. Over the years she had often chastised her son for focusing only on pharmaceutical drugs when treating patients. " - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In that regard it's firmly in the mainstream of traditional views on alcoholism. That it is a wonderful program and has saved lives is not in question. But it has never addressed the biochemical underpinnings of alcoholism. The Sugar Connection Some people feel the time to do just that is long overdue. They argue that our view of alcoholism as a "character defect" that can be treated exclusively by talking and support is out of date." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"According to one physician, it is "any diagnosis, treatment or prevention that 143 complements mainstream medicine by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy, or by diversifying the conceptual framework of medicine."3 Perhaps the most straightforward definition is that they are "interventions neither taught widely in medical schools nor generally available in U.S. hospitals."4 Note that both these definitions define alternatives for what they are not, a problematic reminiscent of the divide between the concepts of sickness and health." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Acupuncture will become mainstream for treating strokes. Targeted amino acid therapies will be used to treat depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Our serotonin and dopamine will be supported naturally, without medications that stifle your sex drive, drain your energy, or weaken your spirit. We will use herbs and supplements to improve our metabolism and enhance conventional treatments. In the future, our vitamins and antioxidants will be measured and monitored to make individualized vitamin supplements that will change as your environment changes." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"This sleek chain of upmarket Chinese medicine salons exemplifies a consumer trend to regard the medicines of other cultures as mainstream 'lifestyle' commodities. It also illustrates the increased visibility of Chinese medicine on the western high street, and the durability of orientalism as a marketing tool for Asian cultural products. practitioners too are concerned about the effects of competition, widely variable levels of training, and consequent damage to their own and their therapy's reputation." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Cadmium and mercury synergize with lead and cause all kinds of physiologic havoc not really addressed in mainstream medicine. We believe that much of the rise in blood pressure that we see with aging in Americans—the incredibly common disease state that we call essential hypertension—has a basis in accumulative heavy metal overload. Mercury presents another insidious threat. The cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems are extraordinarily sensitive to mercury." - 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.) "Before 1990, vitamins and minerals were seen by most physicians as substances in food that prevented nutritional deficiency states such as scurvy, beriberi, rickets, and pellagra. mainstream medicine viewed supplementation as unnecessary, believing people got all the nutrition they needed from their diet. For decades, only a small minority of nutritionally oriented physicians recommended supplements as a potent, safe, and inexpensive medical option . . . and many of them actually got in trouble for doing that." - 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.) "And our mainstream cardiology journals have opened their pages to nutritional interventions. For the sake of our patients and the economics of medicine, the future must bring about a union in which there will be no separate alternative medicine and conventional medicine. Instead, we must have smart medicine in which physicians consider combinations of nutrition, lifestyle, pharmacology, and surgery to prevent or treat CVD. Hopefully, this union will occur in time to help you and your family, and before our expensive disease management approach bankrupts the Medicare and Medicaid programs." - 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.) "In 2002, the standard-bearer for mainstream U.S. medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, published a report from Harvard researchers acknowledging that "most people do not consume an optimal amount of all vitamins by diet alone." Because of this suboptimal intake and the "strong evidence of effectiveness" from controlled trials, "it appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements." The wealth of research has greatly influenced the way the two of us practice cardiology. Unlike most cardiologists, a comprehensive supplement program is a major part of our practice." - 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.)

"Now unable to heal the causes of the original cancer (in addition to the newly created ones), Snow's body developed new cancers in the liver and other parts of the body. The mainstream media, of course, still insist Snow died from colon cancer, thus perpetuating the myth that it is only the cancer that kills people, not the treatment. Nobody seems to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from this condition while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy and deadly radiation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"I had been practicing mainstream medicine, along with a few clearly effective alternative remedies, but over the last few years, I had become increasingly aware that this wasn't good enough. Now I knew why. My discoveries about the myth of excellence in American health care led me to realize that the commercialization of medicine wasn't just causing doctors to prescribe unnecessary drugs and procedures. It was actually subverting the quality of medical care. I must respectfully disagree with President George W." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It was only in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Belgium, with the discoveries of Hardenpont and van Mons, that good pears hit the mainstream. These new fruits found their most receptive audience in the New World, writes Ian Jackson in his unpublished History of the Massachusetts Pear Mania of 1825-1875. High-society tasting parties led besotted investors to throw capital into speculative orchards, many of which flopped. "There has been more money lost than made, for I could enumerate five persons who have utterly failed to every one who has made pear culture profitable," wrote P T." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "New Zealand's biochemistry firm Hort-Research will be making a fortune in coming years as their red-fleshed apple—a revamped heirloom—hits the mainstream. The company's star fruit breeder, Allan White, a self-styled "fruit fashion designer," has also created a non-GMO Bartlett pear and Asian pear hybrid that he says tastes so good it'll blow people's socks off. Quebec government fruit breeder Shahrokh Khanizadeh recently found a type of apple that doesn't turn brown after being sliced open." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"It is important to stress that many of the ideas covered in the coming chapters are little known outside the field of psychiatry and even within the mainstream parts of the field. The reason for that is simple. What follows are ideas, not products. There is no money to be made off of them, and hence, they have not been commodified into the larger culture. There are no marketing budgets, no product detailers, no prime-time DTC commercials, and certainly no fortunes to be made from these approaches." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "By the late 1980s, mainstream America had had enough of cocaine in the bathroom at yuppie parties, of LSD in college, of marijuana in the suburbs, and certainly, of heroin and crack in the streets. There was a particular revulsion against intravenous street drugs, and the new plague, HIV and AIDS, associated with them. Crack became particularly notorious, as tales of its addictiveness and human devastation—"crack babies" and sunken-eyed, spindly "crack whores"—spread." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Acupuncture Acupuncture has ancient origins but has now fully entered into mainstream practice. You'll find acupuncture clinics in most cities, which are owned by practitioners who are educated in accredited alternative medicine colleges and universities that are licensed by the state. Major universities, including the University of California at Los Angeles, have prestigious schools and research centers dedicated to studying alternative and complementary medicine and to training medical students in these practices." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "Yoga is such a mainstream practice that most health clubs and gyms offer yoga classes as part of their regular schedules. Adults in our society certainly need them; workplace pressures and the demands of raising families can get stifling, and without healthy outlets to alleviate stress, many of us would be tearing our hair out at the roots. Pressure is an inescapable part of work and home life for adults. Homework, the classroom dynamic, and social pressures are things that typically introduce a lot of stress into the lives of school-age children." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

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