Natural Healing News

by Maria Troia —  Moving the bowels on a regular basis is an important key to good health. When we are constipated, in addition to feeling bloated and uncomfortable, our health is compromised because the elimination of toxic waste products has slowed down. AMMA Therapy, a 5,000-year-old healing art from Korea that involves a specialized […]

by Betsy Timmerman —  Many years ago, I met Dr. Carolyn McMakin in California at a fibromyalgia conference sponsored by the National Fibromyalgia Association. She was demonstrating her frequency specific micro-current (FSM) program and was touting it as a virtual cure for fibromyalgia. At the time, there were few practitioners of the art, but today […]

by Dr. Mark Starr —  Oprah Winfrey’s metabolism has been up and down — and up again. Adventures with the bathroom scale and swings in energy eventually got her focused on her thyroid. In her magazine, she wrote: “My body was turning on me. First [it was] hyperthyroidism, which sped up my metabolism and left […]

by Dr. Todd Rowe —  Homeopathy is the fastest growing form of alternative medicine today, and is well-represented and popular in countries all around the world. As it is making its way to the United States, now is a great time to consider a career in this satisfying and lucrative field. Today, people are seeking […]

by Pavel Gershkovich —  Is your blood as thick and sticky as ketchup, or is it more like grape juice? Thick and sticky blood is not a good thing, and the modern American diet makes this condition commonplace. Medical books call it “blood viscosity,” and it is a significant risk factor for heart disease and […]

by Jackie Lapin — Today’s headlines are filled with stories about our broken medical system, people who suffer because of a failed safety net or of those who cannot afford the care that would help them. Then there are the tales of those who can afford treatment but are not cured or healed by modern […]

by Dr. Kenneth Muhich —  In a recent U.C. Berkeley Wellness Letter (Volume 28, Issue 2, November 2011), the chair of the Editorial Board, John Swartzberg, M.D., went off on anyone and everyone in complementary and alternative medicine, including one of their own, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Suzanne Somers, a spokesperson against many of the unsafe […]

by Dr. Martha Grout —  The idea that the body runs on energy was not easily accepted at first by Western medicine. Today, however, we routinely use an EEG to measure the electrical output of the brain, an EKG to measure the electrical output of the heart and a defibrillator to restart the heart. Every […]

by Dr. Larry Wilson —  The thyroid gland is not large, but it functions as the “spark plugs” of the body, giving a person plenty of energy for every bodily activity. Thyroid problems are among the most prevalent health disorders. Hypothyroidism. The most common thyroid condition is called hypothyroidism, or a low-functioning thyroid. Symptoms often […]

by Dr. Hayle T. Aldren —  Parkinson’s Disease (PD) in high-profile celebrities, like Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali, has raised awareness that this debilitating, neuro-degenerative disease is second only to Alzheimer’s in occurrence and can affect relatively young people. But most are still unaware that new research shows how natural treatments can favorably influence […]

by Dr. Martha Grout —  The conventional treatment for cancer is the familiar trio of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Oncologists are trained to apply a one-size-fits-all approach to the chemo, then send their patients home to cross their fingers and hope for the best. This is the American standard of care. Several studies have done […]

by Dr. Christina Kovalik —  Obesity is a huge problem in today’s world. It is a common cause of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, inflammation, arthritis, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Obesity affects 40 percent of the population, and 50 percent of people in the United States are overweight due to poor lifestyle choices, diet, stress, and environmental […]

by Stephanie Reese —  Did Lou Gehrig really have Lou Gehrig’s disease? A new study suggests that repeated concussions from playing sports can cause a motor-neuron disorder with symptoms that mimic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS (as Lou Gehrig’s disease is also called). Both conditions include weakness or numbness in the limbs, uncontrollable muscle twitching […]