Buyer Beware. Especially if you have cancer. More unproven and questionable "natural" therapies are promoted for treating cancer than for any other condition. Many are worthless. Some are dangerous. We naturopathic doctors hear about these 'therapies' constantly from our patients. Sorting through them separating from the good from the worthless is a constant challenge.
Allergy sufferers take notice! Did you know that many clients find they no longer have seasonal allergies when they clean up their diet a bit?
It's true. Many a person who has thought they are allergic to dander, dust mites, ragweed, grass pollen, tree pollen, leaf mold, or whatever else, find they have far fewer allergy symptoms and sometimes complete relief when they avoid a few common culprits.
Guess what they are. You probably eat them every day:
Toxins are a fact of modern life. It's good to plan on doing one or two detoxes or cleanses per year. A good cleanse will help your body get rid of all the things that make people become sick , tired and overweight. Better out than in!
Good cleanses can focus on cleaning out the bowels, giving the liver some extra help for getting out toxins that we all come in contact with in our food, water, and air, not to mention household cleaning products and hobbies that involve solvents and petroleum products, paints, and other things that eventually cause obesity, heart disease, cancer, and all the things we'd rather avoid.
People who arrive at my office on a statin frequently complain of one of the following things as a direct side effect of the drug:
SAD, or Seasonal Affective Disorder is often overlooked in sunny Colorado. As hours of sunshine plummet toward their low on the winter solstice next week, Vitamin D production comes to a screeching halt. In cities at the latitude of Denver and farther north, it's impossible to get Vitamin D from sunshine from roughly late September until late March, depending on the altitude.
MAKE SURE YOU READ YOUR LABELS AND use common sense. Locally grown, sustainable agriculture still trumps organic.
See what tricky stuff you need to watch out for even at Whole Foods. Some "organic" foods are being sourced from China where all bets are off:
What the heck is integrative medicine? Perhaps the common idea is that the practitioner incorporates ideas and practices from more than one discipline. Maybe it means they refer out to someone who provides services that are less mainstream.
What if one practitioner was able to provide just about anything you and your family might need short of surgery? That's what many people believe is the best part of Dr. Julie
Barter's practice.
The symptom is not always the problem!
What if the cause of your knee pain wasn't your knee but your gallbladder?
Cholesterol is not the bad guy!
No really, it's true. Cholesterol is the duct tape of the body. It is for patching up holes (damage) to blood vessels and internal organs. Cholesterol is actually a structural material for maintaining integrity of vital body parts like your arteries, veins, liver cells, brain cells, and much more. Here are just a few other things for which cholesterol is needed:
Adrenal and sex hormones are made out of cholesterol
The myelin sheath that protects the brain is made in large part of cholesterol
Every single cell requires cholesterol in its wall or it gets leaky
