AFTER MY PREVIOUS BLOG ON MERCURY, I’m sure many of you are depressed and discouraged about mercury and its toxic effects. The bad news is today I am going to review more of mercury’s toxic effects and expand on what I learned at the medical conference on mercury I mentioned in my last article on [...]
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YOUR BODY MAY BE a toxic waste dump. Worried? You should be … We are exposed to 6 million pounds of mercury and the 2.5 billion pounds other toxic chemicals each year. Eighty thousand toxic chemicals have been released into our environment since the dawn of the industrial revolution, and very few have been tested [...]
UNTIL THE LATE 1960′S THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY BELIEVED that autism was caused by “bad mothering”. Today, most people — and most of the medical community — believes that Autism is a genetic brain disorder. I’m here to tell you that neither one of these statements is true. Think about it. Rates of autism have skyrocketed [...]
MORE THAN 10 MILLION Americans have migraines creating a burden of mostly unnecessary suffering. These severe, nearly disabling headaches can occur anywhere from once a year to three to four times a week. They can last from hours to days. They are often associated with an aura, light sensitivity, nausea, vomiting, and severe throbbing pain [...]
EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD a sore throat, rash, hives, or a sprained ankle knows about inflammation. These are normal and appropriate responses — your body’s defense system — to infection and trauma. This kind of inflammation is good and we need it to survive. The trouble occurs when that defense system runs out of control, [...]
TAKE A BLOOD TEST called C-reactive protein. It measures the degree of hidden inflammation in your body. This is important because almost every modern disease is caused by or affected by hidden inflammation, including heart disease, cancer, obesity, and dementia as well as arthritis, autoimmune disease, allergies, and digestive disorders. Then once you figure out [...]
THE ULTRAWELLNESS LIBRARY combines my best articles, videos and recipes and those from my expert staff to help you learn more about taking charge of your health. It’s easy to browse by subject, below (or search at any time from any page by using the search box up in the top right column). Simply click [...]
IN THE INTRODUCTION, I explained how our current model of medicine ignores the real causes of disease. Now we’ll examine the first of 7 keys to UltraWellness. Our thinking about how we get sick is completely wrong. You can’t “catch” disease. You can’t “get” cancer or heart disease, diabetes, or dementia. Our medical system is [...]
MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW how poorly they feel until they feel better. In fact, most of us don’t recognize fatigue, digestive problems, aches and pains, allergies, headaches, and more aren’t just annoying symptoms. They are early clues to impending diseases that can disable and kill us. Most heart disease starts in the womb. You can [...]
A SIMPLE BLOOD TEST can save your life. It is called C-reactive protein and it measures the degree of hidden inflammation in your body. This is important because almost every modern disease is caused by or affected by hidden inflammation, including heart disease, cancer, obesity, and dementia as well as arthritis, autoimmune disease, allergies, and [...]
HOW DO YOU FEEL today? Seriously, how do you really feel on various scores like this: Does your mood and energy level swing up and down? Do you crave sugar or salt? Are you overweight and putting on more and more belly fat? If you are a woman do you have premenstrual syndrome, painful or [...]