Chocolate Bliss: The Benefits Of Eating Dark Chocolate
The neurotransmitter anandamide initiates the blissful benefits of eating dark chocolate. According to Wikipedia: Anandamide, also known as arachidonylethanolamide or arachidonoylethanolamine or AEA, is a naturally occurring endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter found in the brain of animals, as well as other organs. It was isolated, and its structure elucidated by William Devane and Lumir Hanuš in […]
FETISHES – OR THE NUTS AMONG THE BERRIES
Many years there was a book titled, THE NUTS AMONG THE BERRIES. And, throughout history there have been many extremists, as there are today. Indeed there is fundamentalism in nutrition, as well as in politics and religion. Today, some of the fundamentalists are vegans (4% of Americans who are as loud as the atheists) who […]
Losing Weight and Cholesterol with the Broda Barnes Diet
Broda Barnes, M.D. published his classic book, HYPOTHYROIDISM: THE UNSUSPECTED ILLNESS in 1976, (Harper and Row). He felt that 40% of Americans suffered from hypothyroidism, as demonstrated by low body temperature. He emphasized the remarkable array of illnesses that were inadequately treated because of the failure of physicians to diagnose concurrent hypothyroidism: fatigue, migraine and […]
Youthful Aging – From a Death Wish to A Life Wish
YOUTHFUL AGING-FROM A DEATH WISH TO A LIFE WISH Suppose there is a healthy life expectancy of 150 years. Would you take advantage of it? After 13 years as a neurosurgeon, I pioneered successful non-surgical rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain and depression. Eighty-five percent of over 30,000 patients recovered and were able to live […]
Antioxidant Nutrition
Other than air and water, we need amino acids, essential fats, vitamins, minerals and a wide variety of antioxidants. There are eleven essential amino acids, a dozen essential vitamins, several essential fats and well over 5000 antioxidants. As I have discussed in earlier articles, we can live with a remarkable variety of diets – ranging […]
COLD – Fx
This product is a proprietary extract of North American ginseng, developed and available in Canada for 10 years and endorsed by their hockey association. Initial studies with the Edmonton Oilers reported that the players had fewer colds and flu. Researchers at Eastern Virginia Medical School conducted two separate double blind, placebo controlled studies, giving COLD-fX […]
Silver for Health – Argentyn 23
SILVER FOR HEALTH-ARGENTYN 23 Colloidal Silver was widely used by physicians in the first 4 decades of the 20th century – at times it was given intravenously to cure otherwise fatal infections. Unfortunately when the PharmacoMafia introduced one antibiotic after another, use of silver was abandoned and even ridiculed by The Establishment. Now we have […]
HYPERTENSION Treatment: Effective Alternatives To Prescription Drugs
The sphygmomanometer, the inflatable cuff for measuring blood pressure, was invented by an Italian physician in 1896 and popularized in this country in 1901 by Harvey Cushing, the ”father” of neurosurgery. For 100 years, NORMAL blood pressure was considered 120/80. The upper figure is systolic – the pressure in the blood vessels when the heart […]
Sun Health
SUN HEALTH For many years dermatologists and physicians in general have been warning everyone to avoid sun. Obviously sunburn is dangerous and painful. But the avoidance of sun and its natural health benefits is having disastrous effects on health, increasing as one matures. There are many benefits from sunlight, from regulating pineal/pituitary function, to improving […]
POMEGRANATE – A UNIQUE FOOD
POMEGRANATE—A UNIQUE FOOD Protein, vitamins, essential fatty acids, minerals and antioxidants are the critical foods for health. Note that starch and sugar are not; glucose can be made from protein. Of course, I am not recommending that one eat only protein, but it is important to be reminded that protein is much more critical than […]