"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
Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2008
Two studies on stents were recently presented at a cardiology conference. The first found that many patients are being given stents without adequate documentation of ischemia (inadequate oxygen). They are doing it based on visualization of arteries that appear blocked on X-ray, and not on documentation of ischemia as recommended in [...]
Tags: death, heart attacks, heart disease, inflammation, placebo, stents
Take the following true-false test and see how you do. I’ll give you the correct answers below, from an alternative medicine standpoint, and I’ll explain each answer so you can understand the science behind them. (Of course, what you might call “correct” depends on if you believe the information I share with [...]
Tags: antioxidants, cholesterol, CoEnzyme Q10, heart attacks, statins, strokes, vitamin D
Author’s Note: Recently I received a couple of responses to my article on cholesterol that asked some good questions and were thought-provoking. I want to share with you those questions, as well as the answers I gave to them. This is a good way to enlarge on some of the principles that [...]
Tags: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, heart attacks, heart disease, statins
I need to get off of caffeine. I became addicted to it after suffering headaches and taking excedrin. Now I have rebound headaches and even diet coke fills in when I need an extra boost. I have tried weening myself off and never made it. Is that the only way off?
There are only 2 ways to stop the addiction to caffeine--cold turkey and have a miserable 3-7 days or slowly, which just prolongs the misery, and may not work. My wife's mother described herself as a 'coffee-a-holic', drinking up to 13 cups per day. She stopped cold turkey, had a miserable few days, and has never touched it since. Sometimes energy work like acupuncture or Jin Shin Jyutsu or cranial-sacral may take away some of the side effects. Be sure you are on a good multiple vitamin, as this may also help with your strength and your resolve.