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What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ4 min readDiet & Nutrition
Comment Medicinal Mouthfuls
That food can cure illness isn't exctly a new idea. More than 2,000years ago, the Greek physician Hippocrates, whom we now consider the Father of Medicine, famously wrote, “Let food bethymedicine.” While an increasing number of doctors acknowledge th
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What Doctors Don't Tell You is supported by some of the world's leading pioneers in nutritional, environmental and alternative medicine. Each is an authority in his or herfield; many have broken new ground and inspired new practices in medicine. Dr D
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Upfront
Eating chocolate and drinking red wine may be good for us—but you can have too much of a good thing. Having a little of what we fancy is better for us than having more. Any benefits from consuming food and drink that are rich in procyanidins, a class
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Covid-19 News
Worrying news for the manufacturers of the Covid-19 vaccines—they're not indemnified against individual claims from people whose health has been damaged by the shot. Even then, the government will still ultimately pay the claimant, at least in the UK
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It's Proteins, Not Plaques, That Cause Alzheimer's
The theory that plaques in the brain cause Alzheimer's disease has taken another hit with the discovery that it has more to do with a lack of protein. The plaques—a buildup of protein fragments—have been the focus of Alzheimer's therapy since German
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Running Away From Cancer
Cancer cells are different. Instead of feeding on oxygen, as healthy cells do, they thrive on glucose—the sugars in the blood that come from carbohydrates—and this also produces lactate, an acid that allows the cancer to spread. It’s not news. The pr
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Uncovering The Power Of Peels
Andy Aubin was 70 years old and had diagnosed prostate cancer, a disease that had killed his father. On top of that, he was suffering from Parkinson's disease when he first sought help outside of mainstream medicine. Just as he began treatment, howev
What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ2 min readDiet & Nutrition
How Much Liquid You Really Need Every Day?
It’s a myth that you need to drink 2 L of water—that’s around eight glasses—every day in order to maintain good health. The bad news is you probably need far more, but the good news is you’re already consuming more than you realize. In fact, on avera
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Florida Is Urging Young Men Not To Have The MRNA Covid Vaccine
The Florida Department of Health has discovered an 84 percent increase in heart deaths among men aged between 18 and 39 within 28 days of having the vaccine. State Surgeon General Dr Joseph Ladapo says that young men should seek out a safer, non-mRNA
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The Healing Effect Of Meditation
Integrative physician Isaac Eliaz describes a patient, Rebecca, whom he first saw in 2011. She was 70 years old, all alone, and with stage 4 lung cancer that had metastasized to her bones. "I don't want to die," she told him, in tears and clearly fri
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Digging Deeper On ADHD
Fergus was 9 years old when his parents brought him to see me many years ago. He was charming and bright, but wildly hyperactive, and had a diagnosis of ADHD and a possible diagnosis of autism. He knocked a few things off my desk in the consulting ro
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Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
Rajiv was 42 and in shock. He had just been told by his local hospital that he had developed type 2 diabetes. It had not come completely out of the blue; his blood sugars had been in the “prediabetic” warning range for a couple of years. Now the hosp
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Stress: The Cancer Connection?
Psychological stress has long been linked to cancer. More than 2,000 years ago, Galen, a Greek physician, noted that depressed people were more prone to developing the disease. In 1759, an English surgeon wrote that cancer went along with “disasters
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Super-foods For Super Agers
Sweet jacket potatoes with smoked mackerel, horseradish and parsley Sweet potatoes cook quickly in the microwave and can be counted as one of your seven-a-day. I often serve them for a quick lunch, straight from the microwave, with just some crumbled
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Vegetable Curry With Chickpeas And Dates
This curry takes about the same time to cook as wild rice, so cook them side by side on the stove for a complete main course. 1 Tbsp (15 mL) olive or rapeseed oil 1 large red onion, chopped 1 2-in. (5-cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated 1 clove
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Vegetable Rancheros
This makes a speedy, slightly spicy lunch or supper dish, Mexican in origin and simply delicious. I tend to use half a chili, or a little chopped chili from a jar, as I prefer my food not too spicy, but do use the whole chili if you prefer your food
What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ2 min read
Thai-style Chicken With An Orange, Tomato And Mixedleaf Salad
This is a great way to serve chicken with three different cooking options: choose between oven roasting, grilling or cooking on the BBQ. It makes a delicious lunch or supper with tangy flavors. I recommend buying the best quality chicken you can affo
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Dark Chocolate Mousse With Cointreau And Fresh Fruit
This is a rich, full-flavored chocolate mousse made from just eggs, dark chocolate and a little Cointreau or orange juice. A little of this delicious dessert goes a long way, so serve in small dishes. Small, china coffee cups also work well. The mous
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The Best Cancer Diet
Hippocrates, widely regarded as the Father of Medicine, famously said, “Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food.” He was spot on. What we eat and drink could very well be the primary indicator of whether a person develops cancer, overco
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Anti-cancer Foods Cheat Sheet
I understand that making these healthy changes to your diet may not be easy at first, but I promise it's worth it. When you realize how much better you feel after eliminating all the junk from your life—and understand just how delicious eating real,
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Juicing For Detox
One of the easiest ways to incorporate these healthful foods into your diet is by juicing. In many cultures, juicing is recognized as a powerful detoxification tool, helping to eliminate metabolic waste and environmental toxins from the body. More an
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A Sample Day Of Healthy Eating… With Recipes!
So, now that you know which foods to eat and which to avoid, let's put it all together and look at a sample day. (*recipes included in this article) Drink 6-8 oz lemon water or mint tea with lemon. You may also drink 2 oz wheatgrass juice if desired.
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How I Beat Cancer
Leafy greens (e.g. kale, spinach, Swiss chard, watercress, arugula) Broccoli or broccoli sprouts Cauliflower Purple cabbage Slice of red, yellow or green onion Leeks Red, yellow or green peppers Half or whole avocado Sunflower seeds Almonds or walnut
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My Daily Anticancer Routine
Here's what a typical day looked like for me while I was healing cancer, and even now. One of my intentions was to live as closely to nature as possible, sleep in total darkness, and let the sun wake me up naturally instead of being jarred awake by a
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The Golden Ration Of Food
At Alliance for Natural Health, we’ve done years of research on the optimum diet and have boiled it down to two pictograms—one ‘plate’ for vegetarians/vegans and another for meat-eaters. To the left of the diagonal white line, you’ve got all-importan
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Food As Medicine
Was Hippocrates correct? Can we cure diseases simply by eating the right foods? More importantly, can we reverse some of the most serious diseases of our time by changing our diet? To many doctors, this idea seems preposterous. But the answer is uneq
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Food As A Potent Cancer Killer
Here are some of the known benefits and ways that foods and nutrients affect different stages of cancer. Note these foods come in a variety of colors, sometimes called the "rainbow diet," and they all act at different stages of the cancer pathway. Wh
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Fasting Away Lyme Disease
I ’d like to tell you about a place called 1 Bed Avenue. It’s where I used to live—sometimes for months at a time. Diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012, I received outstanding care from the specialists I saw. All the same, I didn’t get better. I lived
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What Is Lyme Disease?
Lyme, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (named after the researcher Willy Burgdorfer, who first identified it), is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the United States. If a person is bitten by a microscopic tick in the genus Ixode
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The Doctor's Story
Michelle arrived at my clinic with terrible symptoms. She had been bedridden intermittently for several months and could not walk. She had debilitating pain in the joints of her arms and legs, and because of this, she could not sleep at night. She al
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A Needle In Time…
Doctors working for the East India Company began learning and writing about acupuncture in the late 1700s. The ancient Eastern medical practice slowly began creeping into the West along with the increasing numb ers of Chinese immigrants. However, in
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Advantages Over Laser Treatments
Both facial acupuncture and laser treatments use controlled skin damage as the way to stimulate the body's natural production of new collagen and elastin. However, the "damage" done by facial acupuncture is much less because the technigue is much mor
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Healing Acne With Acupuncture: Geetanjali Tuli, 42, London
Geetanjali moved to London from India. She had severe acne issues because her skin is very oily, which didn't suit the climate in the UK at all. She had some acne scarring and growing concerns about pigmentation problems around the sides of her mouth
What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ11 min readChemistry
Nourish Your Body, Not Your Cancer
Any integrative practitioner knows that nutritional supplements are worth their weight in gold. And harnessing the healing potential of these vitamins, minerals, herbs and nutrients is taking powerful medicine. When it comes to cancer—or most any hea
What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ6 min read
A Hyper Hound
Q Qur two-year-old boxer, Tyson, is hyperactive even though he is no longer a puppy. He will not settle and cannot be trained. We think he has severe ADHD and would really like some help calming him down without the Prozac our vet wants to give him a
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From Hippocrates To Hypocrisy
You’re given a prescription for a drug. The illegible handwriting of the doctor tells you to take one pill 43 times a day with mules. You correctly interpret the instructions to mean that you take it three times a day when you eat—but doyou? None of

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