‘Darwinian medicine’ in focus at World Health Summit

AFP October 19, 2009 A d v e r t i s e m e n t A new field of medical research is looking at the emergence of modern epidemics like asthma and obesity through the prism of Charles Darwin’s 150-year-old theory of evolution. In focus at a World Health Summit, which finished Sunday in Berlin, was evolutionary or Darwinian medicine, which aims to help doctors and medical researchers recognise that humans have evolved down the ages. The body “is not a machine, like a machine designed b

The wild Weil world of woo

Dr. Weil is often seen as the smiling “mainstream” of alternative medicine. He’s a real doctor (unlike, say, Gary Null), and much of what he advocates is standard and uncontroversial nutritional advice. But Weil illustrates the two biggest problems with so-called alternative medicne: once you’ve decided science is dispensible , the door is open to anything , no matter how insane; and no matter how altruistic you may start, sooner or later you start selling snake oil. Most doctors out there

What Most Doctors Won’t Tell You About Toxins

Over the past few years, I've noticed that cleansing the body of toxins has become one of the most common topics that new clients want to consult with me on. There's a ton of information on the world wide web on the growing presence of toxins in our environment and how these toxins affect our health. And of course, there are countless programs and products that are touted to cleanse and detox the body of toxins. This post is my take on everything that you really need to know about toxins and

Will California Fail?

Letter to Obama From the Mad As Hell Doctors by Paul Hochfeld - Common Dreams As one of the Mad As Hell Doctors from Oregon, I had the surprising good fortune of being an uninvited, but welcomed, guest to the President Obama's recent meeting in the Rose Garden with physicians from around the country. I hand-delivered the following letter to one of President Obama's aides. I wonder. Has he read it? October 5, 2009 Dear President Obama, Although I would dearly appreciate being

The Science and Practice of Iridology

by Ellen Valentine, CNC Iridology is a non-invasive and inexpensive way to understand tissue condition in the body, and its location, through the reflex organ, the eye. Because messages are sent via nerve endings, through the spinal cord and the optic thalami, the iris of the eye reflects inflammation, or health, in every organ in the body. Many doctors have noted changes in the eyes of their patients. They recognized that physical conditions, and the taking of drugs, caused varied discolora

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