As we progress into winter with all of its various maladies, prevention is our first line of defense. It is said that “the best defense is a good offense” that is never so true as it is for the immune system. Some people feel that their only hope of avoiding the flu is to get
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As we are getting ready to go back to school, we can’t help but wonder how long it will take before our child gets sick and the illness spreads through the family. It is the same concern nearly every family of school-aged children has. Now is the time to build up the protective fences to
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The past few years we’ve read headlines revealing the findings of research regarding “post-concussive syndrome”. We have learned that injury to the brain can lead to long term cognitive deficits such as dementia, emotional instability and certain psychiatric illnesses, impaired attention and memory, impaired expressive language and others. Sonja Orloska, MD, of the Psychiatric Centre
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Auto-immune disorders have taken center stage in medical research these days. Some interesting data is surfacing that sheds some light on the mechanisms behind the body seemingly attacking itself. Dr. Mark Anderson, a medical researcher, says that all body parts can be affected by auto-immune diseases. “It’s not that there are so many auto-immune diseases
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Autoimmune diseases such as Grave’s Disease (thyroid), Rheumatoid arthritis, Scleroderma (skin), Crohn’s Disease (bowels), etc. are red flags that the body is getting into serious trouble. All humans appear to have some type of auto-immune vector in their body. All have cancer cells. All have cholesterol plaque on their arteries. All carry viruses and bacteria
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There is much finger-pointing going on as scientists, medical professionals and concerned individuals are trying to make sense of the significant onslaught of auto-immune disorders. According to Virginia T. Ladd, President/Executive Director of the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), autoimmune diseases affect more than 23.5 million Americans, with 75% of those being women. Autoimmune
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With more than 26 million Americans diagnosed with asthma, and 225,000 people worldwide dying from asthma, it’s time we take another look at it. So often, we are led to believe that asthma is just something that happens to us – “it’s in your genes”. But we have more to do with it than originally
How would you like to be asthma free for life? You can! But first, you have to find out why you have asthma in the first place. Generally, there is no one single causative factor. There are several health factors that have mounted together and the result is the disease we have labeled asthma. The
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The line is blurring. Ages ago it seemed that arthritis was simple. It was “a little rheumatism” or osteoarthritis. But as we journey down this path of progressive bone deterioration, the line between the two is getting a little muddled. It used to be you had one or another; today it’s common to have both.
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More and more people are opting for alternative forms of medicine. Also known as complementary medicine (used in conjunction with conventional medicine), wholistic medicine (meaning the whole person as opposed to isolating systems or symptoms), holistic medicine (meaning natural, non-chemical remedies), or traditional medicine (dates back to the majority of time until the industrialized revolution/chemicalized
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