Fish Oil

For those of you looking to add nutritional supplements to your daily vitamin intakes, here’s something to consider!

In order to possess a healthy body, it helps to have, above all else, a healthy functioning brain. So why not add fish oil soft gels to your daily vitamin intake? For many years, fish has been known as . . . → Read More: Fish Oil

Diet

With all the conflicting diet information out there, it is no wonder that the public is confused. Should we be on a high carb, low fat diet or a high fat and low carb? How about protein? High protein or low protein? To compound the problem, much of the information disseminated to the public is a . . . → Read More: Diet

Supplements

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Psychoneuroimmunology and the Future of Medicine

The term “psychoneuroimmunology” is an important addition to the lexicon of big medical words. It is a significant moment when a new subject is assigned some complex terminology like this and then becomes incorporated into the jargon of medical science. The process both lends a necessary measure of mystery and confers certain validity on the subject . . . → Read More: Psychoneuroimmunology and the Future of Medicine

Prayer

Dr. Larry Dossey, an internist from Dallas, Texas, did a study a number of years ago that proved scientifically that people’s prayers were of measurable benefit to those prayed for. The study involved people with heart attacks who were admitted to the intensive care unit at the hospital where Dr. Dossey worked. Patients admitted to the . . . → Read More: Prayer

Healing Ourselves

 Healing is a conscious process through which an ailing person becomes whole. It is not just “curing the disease,” which is a simpler, more mechanical process. Healing involves us in who we are, what we have done, and the choices that we have about what to do now. It is an ever more ennobling process which . . . → Read More: Healing Ourselves

Developing a Spirit of Achievement

History has shown that alignment with principles targeting development of a certain kind of spirit can result in Olympic triumph, success in commerce, political victory on an international level and recovery from hopeless progressive diseases. Such is the spirit of achievement. For those recovering from serious illnesses, the promise and reward is not simply about personal . . . → Read More: Developing a Spirit of Achievement

My medical opinion

Unmanageable as the many problems besetting the medical profession are these days, there is one particularly important problem which has to do simply with the matter of nomenclature. Confucius said that the beginning of management is to call things by their proper names. Doctors, it is said, do health care. In actual fact what it is . . . → Read More: My medical opinion

Hoist by One’s Own Petard

Published in the Townsend Letter, Oct. 199

I always thought a petard was some sort of medieval weapon – like one of those things with a big rounded blade and a smaller pointy thing sticking out of the other end, all mounted atop a longish wooden shaft. Spanish, I thought. Thus, to me, getting hoist by one’s . . . → Read More: Hoist by One’s Own Petard

Doctor to practice alternative methods for treating cancer

Conference will discuss how to scientifically evaluate if new treatments are working

Kenneth Patchen. Antioch News. July 31, 1997. A7.

“We need to bring human values into our science,” said Dr. Steven G. Ayer [sic]. To do this, he will soon begin a new stage of his medical practice, education, and career.

Ayer, [sic] a Grayslake resident practicing at . . . → Read More: Doctor to practice alternative methods for treating cancer