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The 12 Secrets to Healthy Living

1. Avoid taking unneeded drugs All medications have side effects, but some of the most damaging are those for pain. Up to two million people are hospitalized and 190,000 die each year from side effects or reactions or reactions to prescription drugs. Sin... Read >

Both stimulatory and inhibitory effects of dietary 5-hydroxytryptophan and tyrosine are found on uri

Introduction Two critical neurotransmitters, serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) and dopamine,are synthesized from the amino acids tryptophan and tyrosine, respectively.1,2 Serotonin synthesis in vivo is accomplished by a two-step process converting tr... Read >

Rebuilding Your Health

Welcome to Rebuilding Your Health. This book introduces you to the basic concepts of health and how you can find the "root cause" of your illness or disease condition. It can become your road map to finding the cause of your health challenges, creating op... Read >

Functional Diagnostic Medicine

Functional diagnostic medicine Unlike conventional medicine, a new science called sees disease not as an enemy but as an opportunity for change and growth. Like complementary and alternative medicine, it views a person's body as self-regulatoryâ€"that is... Read >

Living in a Toxic Body in a Toxic World

Our bodies face numerous challenges on a daily basis. Many of these challenges come directly from our environment. Pesticides, fumes, synthetic materials, cigarette smoke, caffeine, preservatives, and medications contribute to our toxic world. In addition... Read >

Genetic analysis of human embryos by metaphase comparative genomic hybridization (mCGH) improves

Objective:To assess the benefit of selecting blastocysts for cryotransfer based upon prior comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) karyotyping of blastomeres derived from their cleaved embryos of origin. Implantation and birth rates per transfer of previ... Read >

Food and Nutrients in Disease Management

I. INTRODUCTION Since amino acids obtained from dietary sources are the precursors of mood-regulating neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine, amino acids are considered to hold potential in treating depression. Neurotransmitter precursors ar... Read >

Body Talk

I do not believe the Atkins diet will get much respect from the nutrition community unless improvements in heart attack rates or cholesterol plaque buildup in the heart are found in carefully designed studies. I'd like to see funding for such studies, but... Read >

An Excerpt From the Book “Curing the Cause and Preventing Disease, A New Approach to the Diagnosis

The Three Pillars of Healthâ€"The Basic Foundation of Your Overall Health Let's begin with a discussion of your health in the context of the three main body systems: - the hormonal/immune system, - the digestive system, - and the detoxification system... Read >

A New Show in Town

Many people believe that illness, degeneration, disease, and pain is a normal process of growing old and that conventional medicine looks for defects, causes, risks, and genetic markersâ€"all while attempting to suppress the symptoms of disease. In this e... Read >

Gomparison of Specificity and sensitivity of lceneX Lyme western Blots using lceneX Griteria and GDG

Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease - the most common tick-borne disease in North America.However,the diagnosis of the disease has been problematic.Steere et al.2a reported that at least 80% of Lyme disease patients have a characte... Read >

Low-Fat Diets and Weight Change

The Article by HOWARD AND COLLEAGUES1 in this issue of JAMA, which reports on the largest,most ambitious randomized dietary intervention trial conducted to date, has concluded that a low-fat diet program does not produce weight gain.1 Despite the impressi... Read >

Comparison of the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone Diets for Weight Loss and Heart Disease

Popular Diets have become increasingly prevalent and controversial.1 More than 1000 diet books are now available,2 with many popular ones departing substantially from mainstream medical advice.3 Cover stories for major news magazines, televised debates,an... Read >

Meta-analysis: The Effect of Dietary Counseling for Weight Loss

Obesity-related medical problems are among the most serious health problems facing U.S. adults.Approximately 65% of U.S. adults are overweight (body mass index[BMI] _25 kg/m2), and approximately half of overweight adults are obese (BMI _30 kg/m2) (1). Cor... Read >