"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.
Thank you and him for Stan Gardner’s excellent articles on health. And
this one on allergies is stellar! He has indeed done his homework and
communicated to us some very important information in an organized and
useful way.
A reader writes: I’ve been reading a lot about coconut oil. Is it really as wonderful as I hear, and should we be eating it, cooking with it, and putting it on our skin and hair?
Coconut oil is a saturated oil with very little omega-3 or-6 oils. This makes it good for
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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: