"Comparison of Alternative Medicine and Conventional Medicine" and daily health secrets.
Stan M. Gardner, MD, was trained in traditional Western medicine. He received a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Utah State University, attended medical school in the Philippines (where he learned firsthand about alternative methods of healing), did a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and practiced conventional medicine for 15 years. He has practiced alternative and energy medicine for over 10 years.
I love your articles. I only wish that physicians like you were the norm rather than the exception.
— Todd
I have high cholesterol and the medicines prescribed are beginning to cause side effects. Basically, muscle ache. Are there natural foods to take to help lower the bad and raise the good cholesterol?
I assume the cholesterol-lowering drugs you are on are statins, which I take
Tags: carbohydrates, diabetes, garlic, high cholesterol, insulin, niacin, protein, red yeast, rice, statins
Calorie Counters Have it Right, Diet Study Says
Recently released information in the Wall Street Journal shows that calories do count—that it isn’t what you eat, but how much. Participants were put in one of four diet groups—2 low-fat groups and 2 high-fat groups, with a high-protein and normal-protein groups being the other parameter. All diets [...]
Tags: calories, carbohydrates, cholesterol, diets, exercise, fats, fiber, glucose, obesity
Update: I just came across an excellent article linking diabetes with thiamine deficiency. Check out the article here.
(Can anyone get this information to Larry H. Miller?)
A patient recently came into my office for a consultation. She was in her early 50s, overweight, and was struggling with constant tiredness and a sense of being overwhelmed. [...]
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“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 [...]
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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: