ALLERGIES & THE COCA TEST

ALLERGIES & THE COCA TEST C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Unquestionably it is the most accurate way to test for allergies. To make it simple, check your pulse before you get out of bed. Then check it 30 and 60 minutes after each meal. If your pulse goes up 10 points or more when you…

Wilhelm Reich Was Right

Wilhelm Reich Was Right C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Wilhelm Reich, the second most important psychiatrist of all time, after Carl Jung, emphasized the importance of orgasm for optimal health. In his most foundational book, THE DISCOVERY OF THE ORGONE: The Function of the Orgasm, Reich said “Psychic disturbances are the results of the sexual…

Aftershock

AFTERSHOCK—A Preview(C) C. Norman Shealy, M.D.,Ph.D. AFTERSHOCK— Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown by David Wiedemer, PhD, Robert A. Wiedemer and Cindy Spitzer, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, 2010 The authors who predicted the current meltdown two years before it was obvious to most people have done it again. Why…

Holos Institutes of Health

HOLOS INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (C) C. Norman Shealy, M.D.,Ph.D My interest in research began in 1953, the summer after my first year of medical school. I spent that and the next two summers researching the amygadala of the cat, under the tutelage of Dr. Talmage Peele, a great neurologist and neuroanatomist. In 1959 my first…

YELLOW IS BETTER

YELLOW IS BETTER(C) C. Norman Shealy, M.D.,Ph.D I have never done well with sunglasses, as I cannot see well enough with most of them when I garden. Some years ago my wife gave me a pair of yellow golf glasses and for the first time I could see better than without sun glasses. I do…

Use it or Lose it

— USE IT OR LOSE IT (C) C. Norman Shealy, M.D.,Ph.D. I have written more than once about the benefits and the NECESSITY of physical exercise. Indeed, if you want to feel good and be healthy, adequate physical exercise may be more important than anything else. When you build slowly to adequate physical activity, you…

Limonene

GERD-FREE with d-LIMONENE (C) C. Norman Sheasly, M.D.,Ph.D. Significant heartburn is a major problem for which the proton pump inhibitors (PPI) have gained the number three spot on the PharmacoMafia’s income list! The problem with the little purple pill and its clones is that they block a major immune defense–hydrochloric acid (HCL). Hydrochloric acid is…

What is Health?

What is Health? (C) C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. For almost 70 years there has been a national and individual state debate over the issue of medical treatment, oddly called health care. Prior to 1926 there was no insurance to cover hospitalization and prior to the 1930’s there was no insurance to cover physician fees….

DEATH BY BODY MASS INDEX

DEATH BY BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Death itself has never worried me. On the other hand, any illness which decreases quality of life certainly does! Obesity is one of the major destroyers of quality of life. Today one-third of Americans are overweight (BMI 25 to 29) and another one-third qualify…

Feeding Your Temple

FEEDING YOUR TEMPLE (C) C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Recently as I was putting my garden to bed for the winter, I offered some of the current season’s goodies to someone who turned all of them down. I was suddenly aware of the restricted variety of foods that most people have. Having been an avid…