Alternative Medicine
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Lower Cholesterol Naturally
Cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease and peripheral vascular disease, but not for stroke unless it is extremely high. Total cholesterol should be less than 200, with LDL or bad cholesterol less than 130. HDL, the protective or good cholesterol, which functions to carry cholesterol away from blood vessels, should be over 50. The most important number is the ratio of total cholesterol to good cholesterol (Chol/HDL), and this number should be less than 4.0.Unfortunately, many physicians are prescribing statin drugs to patients with high cholesterol who have no history of heart disease. In women with no history of heart disease, cholesterol-lowering drugs provide no benefit in preventing heart attacks.
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Thanks!
Thanks for the tips Dr. S! I didn't realize more than 7 eggs a week could raise my cholesterol! I will make sure to cut back!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Myths Surrounding Psychiatric Drugs
I have been in the practice of Internal Medicine for 30 years. For the last 20 years I have worked in holistic medicine. That involves a merging of conventional medical practice with alternative techniques. It especially involves using nutritional therapies and other approaches that help the body to heal itself, and limiting the use of drugs and surgical procedures, which may worsen the condition they are intended to treat, or create damaging complications.Drugs and surgery are overused. Hundreds of thousands of patients in the United States are killed or seriously injured every year by their treatments. Physicians are trained and habituated to prescribe the medicine or the operation that will resolve the condition. Doctors are addicted to giving drugs.
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Scary information from an alleged physician
This passage quoted below is wrong in every way. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.
And it is grossly irresponsible for this Dr. Sosin to pontificate on a subject that he obviously knows nothing about. Or is it that he's taken his cues from the Scientologists? Shame on you! If you're going to pass yourself off as a medical expert, you should really think about getting the facts first.
Get the facts on Adult ADHD, and don't be mislead by this misinformation that completely ignores a huge body of medical literature and the life stories of many people who have sought ADHD treatment and been immensely grateful for it.
Gina Pera
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Drugs are recommended for life because the diagnosis is considered permanent. Therefore, a five-year-old child labeled with ADHD is prescribed Ritalin®, and because psychiatrists believe that ADHD persists in adulthood, this amphetamine-like drug is prescribed forever. Never mind that amphetamine-like drugs are addicting and may lead to addiction to other drugs.
Because there is almost no science involved in the understanding of psychiatric illness, and almost no understanding of how the drugs work, it is often the case that the drug chosen is ineffective.
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It always does my "heart" good to know there are some physicians out there looking for a better way...Carol Stanley "For Kids 59.99 and Over"