If you ask any average person on the street what causes heartburn, he’ll tell you “too much acid in stomach” or in simple terms he’ll say it as “acidity”, because the mainstream [...]
Chronic low-grade inflammation seems to play a role in all of the major diseases — heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and certain cancers. Chronic inflammation fuels many of the devastating complications of type [...]
While diabetes is diagnosed on the basis of elevated blood sugar alone, this is only the tip of the iceberg. The association between inflammation and the initial development of insulin resistance and [...]
Reason # 1: Healthy hydration is about the water you hold in the body, not the water you drink that passes straight through. As we age, our cells lose water. When we [...]
Almost half of U.S. adults are now classified as having high blood pressure based on the updated definitions. But does this mean everyone with a diagnosis of hypertension needs medications? A new study published [...]
Steroids (Corticosteroids) Steroid drugs can induce a form of iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome, and are probably the most widely used drugs which confer a high risk of diabetes. Corticosteroids mimic the action of [...]
When lovastatin (Mevacor) was approved by the FDA more than 30 years ago there was no hint that it could raise blood sugar. Ditto for many of the popular statins that followed, [...]
We don't know. Cured is not defined, and therefore cannot be proven. It cannot be disproven either. For non-infectious diseases, conventional medicine cannot distinguish between remission and cure. Because cured is not [...]
Modern medicine, conventional medicine, allopathic medicine has many names, but little science. What should it be called? Bureaucratic Medicine??? Conventional medicine is best understood as a complex set of bureaucracies. What is [...]
You have probably heard that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” more times than you could ever count. This message has been ingrained into your belief system since you [...]
