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Our nervous system is very similar in that it retains more of our past than we always need. Old scars, injuries and even beneficial surgeries create local areas of scar tissue that continue to send impulses to our nervous system. These impulses of which we are unaware can result in uncomfortable or painful sensations either…
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The universe is made of bits of matter called atoms. They come in all sizes, shapes, and “colors†stuck together in all different combinations. Take one oxygen atom and stick it with two hydrogen atoms and you get H2O – water. Take two oxygen atoms, stick them together and you get well, oxygen, O2, a…
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Our environment is filled with all types of chemicals and synthetic stuff. Although not labeled poison, they can never the less accumulate in our bodies and disturb and alter our immune and other regulatory systems. This explains in part the increase in various inflammatory conditions and illnesses, including arthritis, colitis, dermatitis, lupus, allergies, asthma, and…
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Written by: Dr. Neil Raff Below is a traditional list of things that cause pain from both our skeletal system and our nervous system, with brief descriptions of each. What I want to call your attention to are two causes, one musculoskeletal and the other neuralgic, which are very common, severe, and yet not fully…
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The doctor that has saved more lives than anyone else! Who is he? Luther Terry MD, the surgeon general of us who in 1962, finally forced the cigarette industry to include a warning saying smoking is dangerous to your health. The number of lives saved is probably in the 100 of thousands, or even more.
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The Sauna is a wonderful treatment that was developed in Scandinavia many years ago. The benefits are mainly sitting in a warm or hot, steamy room that is quiet while wrapped in a towel, if you prefer, with no radio newspapers cell phones or announcements. It’s just a relaxing time. Something we all need. One…
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If you could, would you go into a drugstore and take certain pharmaceuticals off the shelf because you thought you might have high blood pressure or diabetes or some such illness? Of course not, you would only take such powerful drugs under a doctor’s supervision. But vitamins and nutrients are very important for our health,…
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” Prolotherapy is an injection-based complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapy for chronic musculoskeletal pain. It has been used for approximately 100 years. However, its modern applications can be traced to the 1950s when the prolotherapy injection protocols were formalized by George Hackett, a general surgeon in the U.S., based on his clinical experience of…
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Doctors seem to be ordering more tests than ever, especially imaging studies, such as CT scans, MRIs, and PET scans. Why? Well, there are two reasons. First, these type of studies gives accurate images of internal parts of our body for suspected diagnosis. Blood tests give a great deal of information about body functions, the…
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The air we breathe has 18% oxygen that which is two atoms of atomic oxygen stuck together, which is written as O2. The amount of oxygen getting into our bodies is carefully regulated by our lungs. Too little oxygen slows our metabolism down, but too much such as in hyperventilating can cause dizziness, numbness, and…
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