"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.
Dr. Gardner: What an awesome article about toxins! What can we do? I am eagerly awaiting your next articles.
— Debbie
Wall Street Journal
Living With a Lifesaving Drug’s Side Effects
A recent Wall Street Journal article touts the benefits of a new drug called Gleevec, which is effective against certain cancers, but carries with it significant side effects. The Journal mentions one person, Alice Sulkowski, taking the drug and states that she has had difficulty dealing with
Tags: cancer, diet, drugs, lifestyle, pain managment, sick care, side effects
The Wall Street Journal
‘Alternative’ Medicine Is Mainstream
Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, Rustum Roy, Andrew Weil
The evidence is mounting that what was formerly called ‘alternative medicine’ should be combined with ‘traditional medicine’ and focus on the science—what works and is cost-effective. Last year $2.1 trillion was spent on health care in the U.S., or 16.5% of the [...]
Tags: Add new tag, alternative medicine, Chopra, coronary bypass surgery, cures, diet, HBO, healing, hyperbaric oxygen, illness, lifestyle, medicine, Ornish, Roy, Weil
In this recent Wall Street Journal article entitled Secrets of the ‘Wellderly’, sixteen of the nineteen paragraphs talk about longevity in terms of genes, and finding the DNA keys that could be modified to help us live longer. To quote Nir Barzilae, head of the Longevity Genes Project at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in [...]
Tags: age, aging, elderly, genes, health, lifestyle, longevity, quality of life, smoking, vegetarianism, wellderly
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: