Getting the Most From Your Blood Test, Part 3
So now let’s look at an overview of the most common tests and what the values may mean for you. Remember that there are three ranges when viewing your blood test: the average range of the lab, the optimal range … Continue reading
Getting the Most From Your Blood Test, Part 2
So let’s begin where we left off… you have now had your blood test done and you want to review the results for yourself. I had mentioned in Part 1 that you should not leave your blood test review simply … Continue reading
Prostate Panic!
For many years I had very few men coming in worried about a high PSA test. In fact, I could count them on one hand over a 10 year span. So imagine my surprise when in the last year I … Continue reading
Getting the Most From Your Blood Test, Part 1
Probably the most-asked questions from my patients have to do with their blood tests. Conventional medicine places a great deal of emphasis on blood tests, and consequently so do you as the patient. So how can you get the most … Continue reading
Antibiotics: Friend or Foe?
The trend is to abhor antibiotics. To decline their use no matter what, to tell your doctor that you will not allow such poisons into your system. But the truth is that antibiotics have been saving lives since the 1940′s. … Continue reading
Mold Toxicosis: Sneaking Around Your House
Are you afraid of your pillow? One of the funniest scenes in the movie Four Seasons has Carole Burnett asking her friend if he really is afraid of his underwear after he tearfully confesses anxiety over a number of personal … Continue reading
Making An Informed Decision About the Flu Vaccine
Everyone is concerned about the flu. With the Swine (H1N1) Flu virus invading our population, fear becomes a big motivating factor in looking for preventive options. The one suggested and even insisted upon by most allopathic physicians, television commercials and … Continue reading
Are Greener Lightbulbs the Way to Go?
I’m sure you have noticed that the light bulb section in your local store is really changing. It is amazing how quickly businesses have taken the new compact florescent light bulbs. That is because at heart we all want to … Continue reading
Are Mammograms Effective?
Research on 500,000 women worldwide seems to suggest that through current breast cancer screening techniques there are many more unnecessary breast cancer treatments administered than previously thought. Recently a report was published in the Cochrane Library that seems to point … Continue reading
Spin The Bottle: The Truth About Fiji Water
Fiji Water travels across oceans, on diesel-belching ships, in bottles made from Chinese plastic. It bolsters a military dictatorship whose subjects drink dirty H2O. Meet the official drink of the green elite. Read what Mother Jones magazine discovered: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/fiji-spin-bottle
