Prolotherapy is becoming recognized as an effective treatment for athletic related injuries and has several advantages over conventional approaches. New or old nagging injuries respond equally well to Prolotherapy. Injured ligaments of untreated joints are weaker and...
New evidence highlights the dangers to children of even low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides (OP). Members of this family include chlorpyrifos, acephate, diazinon, diethylphosphate and malathion. The authors of the new report published October 24, 2018 by...
Synthetic air fresheners invoke ideas of fresh ocean breezes, floral fields, and perfumes by the press of a finger from a can or whiff from an impregnated tree dangling from the rear-view mirror. We use them daily to negotiate common household smells like dirty...
It is a Nasty One this Winter Every so often we encounter a winter where influenza hits particularly hard. This is such a winter, especially for the southwestern states. In California, outpatient visits and hospitalizations for Influenza are reported as “above...
Charles is a pleasant, married, middle-aged man that works in construction; who is hands on and supervises a small team. By all accounts, he feels well now, but when we first met he suffered from ongoing fatigue, unrelenting muscle pains that couldn’t be explained,...
Yes, sitting and sweating away in a hot room has tremendous health benefits. If you’ve been avoiding your gym’s sauna; think again. Evidence shows that the benefits of sauna usage not only alleviates rheumatic pain, and helps to clear toxins from your body, but it...
Drug textbooks and handbooks alike have long documented that Metformin use lowers vitamin B12 levels. Metformin is the most commonly prescribed medication for type II diabetics. It accounts for millions of prescriptions each year. Dr. Jill P. Crandall of the Albert...
According to a study in the European Journal of Endocrinology, drinking more than two soft drinks a day doubles the risk of developing type II diabetes and Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood (LADA). LADA shares features of both type I and type II diabetes. LADA...
If you’ve been procrastinating, making excuses or otherwise putting off total knee replacement surgery, chances are the longer you put it off the better. New findings suggest knee pain alone is insufficient evidence of the need for knee replacement surgery, especially...
The Human Toll of Cognitive Decline and Dementia Cognition is our most unique characteristic. Our capacity for learning, recall, language, and judgment are what make us human. Decline in cognitive function is one of the most feared disorders of aging. Mild forms of...