“Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food.” Hippocrates
Did your grandmother teach you, as mine did, that you are what you eat? We used to chuckle about her obsession with whole wheat, and felt she was going overboard when she counseled us to avoid sugar. Grandma lived to [...]
Entries from June 2008
Carbohydrates: Heroes or Villains?
June 21st, 2008 · 6:52 PM
Tags: aspartame, carbohydrates, constipation, hemorrhoids, insulin, insulin resistance, joint pain, kidney stones, saccharine, sucralose, sugar
Inconsistency in “Drug” Enforcement
June 19th, 2008 · 7:29 PM
From the Wall Street Journal Article (June 17, 2008) titled “Antipsychotics Will Display Drug Warning”:
The Food and Drug Administration said it will add so-called boxed warnings to the labels of older antipsychotic drugs, reflecting recent findings that the drugs could be dangerous for elderly people with dementia.
Older antipsychotic drugs have recently been found to kill [...]
Tags: FDA
A Visceral Fear: Heart Attacks That Strike Out of the Blue
June 18th, 2008 · 1:03 PM
From MSNBC:
Tim Russert was the Managing Editor and Moderator of “Meet the Press” and political analyst for “NBC Nightly News” and the “TODAY” program. He anchored “The Tim Russert Show,” a weekly interview program on MSNBC. Russert also served as senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News.
The sudden passing of NBC’s [...]
Do Lower Cholesterol Levels Reduce Heart Disease Risk?
June 18th, 2008 · 12:31 PM
Research relating to cholesterol: link to article about Russert’s heart attack
Cholesterol lowering trials in coronary heart disease: frequency of citation and outcome, U Ravnskov.
Does the lowering of serum cholesterol concentrations in the blood prevent coronary heart disease or more importantly overall mortality, or is it based on citation of supportive trials only?
As documented in [...]
Welcome to Dynamic Health and Energy
June 16th, 2008 · 12:16 PM
Since beginning my practice of alternative medicine, I’ve encountered questions that range from very simple to very complex in their answers; for example:
What about “bad” energies for our health?
Could you address the issue of cell phones and if they could be related to brain cancer?
I’m overweight, depressed, and nothing seems to work. Help me, [...]
Tags: energy medicine
Allergies—Nothing to Sneeze At
June 14th, 2008 · 9:51 AM
Recently a young woman came into my office with a common complaint: With the advent of pollen season, her eyes were watering and itchy; she was congested and miserable and unable to sleep, sneezing constantly. Many of you relate.
In order for us to understand an immune system gone awry (which is what allergies are [...]
Free Report on Alternative vs. Conventional Medicine
June 13th, 2008 · 2:09 PM
Dr. Gardner is convinced that there are core principles that, if followed, will lead EVERYONE to more dynamic health. His philosophy is best encapsulated in his exclusive report, the Comparison of Alternative and Conventional Medicine. For your own free copy of the Comparison of Alternative and Conventional Medicine, enter your name and email [...]



My doctor says I can get all the vitamins and minerals I need from my food. What is your opinion on this?
I used to say the same thing to my patients, back in the days before I studied healthy alternatives. It is the party line of allopathic medicine, although that is starting to change. Here's the bottom line, and I'll follow up with some info on what allopaths are now doing: