Alternative Medicine

News & Notes Spring 2014

If we listen to our body, we can pick up the faintest, earliest warnings that something is amiss. With skill, these messages can be detected long before the health issue becomes serious...

8 Health Benefits of Kissing

Kissing is a uniquely human trait that’s said to have emerged as a way to pass germs from one person to another, ultimately building immunity. But that’s rather unromantic, isn’t it?

3 Ways to Fight Colds and Flu with Immune-Boosting Juice

Raw fruit and vegetable juices are great immune system fortifiers, especially during an active infection with a cold or flu.

Will Obamacare Support Alternative Holistic Practices?

It’s going to be very interesting to see what effect the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has on alternative medicine practices...

Obamacare Escalates Drug-Dependent Healthcare

We need access to universal healthcare that includes more than just drugs.

Secrets of Aboriginal Healing: A Physicist's Journey with a Remote Australian Tribe

Quantum physics and cellular biology are just discovering what the Aboriginal healing system has tapped into for thousands of years; consciousness exists at a cellular level...

Musings: Take the Plunge Into Commonsense Good Health

Many people mistakenly believe their bodies are frail and prone to disease. On the contrary, our bodies are infinitely wise in the ways to keep us healthy and adapt even the most unhealthy physical specimen into a living, breathing vehicle...

Has IBS Caused You To Know Where All The Bathrooms Are On Your Route?

Has IBS caused you to know where all the bathrooms are on your route? Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) affects 1 in 5 adults in the United States, making it one of the most common ailments.

Smart Meters and Yoga’s Role in Rebalancing the Earth

Many nations, including former Soviet block countries, cautiously regulate wireless technologies with exposure limits designed to protect against unknown risks...

Blue Light Treatment for MRSA

MRSA infections can be effectively treated with blue light therapy, which was approved by the FDA more than a decade ago for the treatment of severe acne.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta Embraces Medical Marijuana

He admits to getting it wrong and is apologizing for being “too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis.”

The Mysterious Hum Heard Around the World

There's some speculation that the Hum could be the result of low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, audible only to some people...

Before Drugs and Surgery, Consider Giving Laser Therapy a Try for Pain

Laser therapy is particularly effective for repetitive motion injury, such as carpal tunnel as well as chronic issues such as arthritis...

Mercury In Your Mouth Is Dangerous!

An estimated 40-50 percent of dentists in the US no longer use amalgam (mercury) fillings because mercury is a known toxin to our bodies and the environment...

Do This One Very Simple Thing To Combat Seated Stress

The best way to counteract the negative effects of sitting for long periods is not fitness routines or walking, but simply to stand up frequently during sitting sessions.

Don't Remove Your Breasts Until Reading the NCI Disclaimer

The celebrity-style announcement of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy to "prevent" breast cancer has injected a new level of fear and disinformation about breast cancer into public discussion.

10 Tips to Restore A Healthy Sleep Cycle

If you are having trouble sleeping on a nightly basis, you know how poor sleep affects your days. However, there are simple steps to take to get real results...

Reiki Success in Fertility Planning

In many areas of the world, medical treatments or health and wellness models include the integration of some type of energy medicine to treat the whole body. When one’s energy is out of balance, the body is impacted in some way...

The Wild Medicine Solution: Healing with Aromatic, Bitter, and Tonic Plants

Calling for a return to daily traditional cuisine, Guido Mase draws on his storytelling skills to reveal both the historic and contemporary uses of aromatic, bitter and tonic plants...

7 Keys to Lifelong Sexual Vitality: The Hippocrates Institute Guide to Sex, Health and Happiness

Healthy sex is potent medicine, and there is a wealth of scientific evidence to support the life-extension powers of this foundational drive....

Alzheimer’s Linked to Diet and New Type 3 Diabetes

New information is leading researchers to wonder whether Alzheimer’s may be a new version of diabetes, tentatively called type 3 diabetes, which hits the brain...

Waking Up to the Mind-Body Connection

An interview with paralyzed yoga teacher Matthew Sanford by holistic magazine publisher Carol Bedrosian reveals how turning off the body tuned in healing stories of the mind-body connection...

APA Reverses Its Position on Energy Psychology

In 1999, the American Psychological Association banned its continuing education organizations from granting psychologists continuing education credit (CEs) for studying energy psychology....

Should I Get the Flu Shot?

The research and statistics supporting vaccine safety and effectiveness is not sound and has widely been questioned...

Smart Meters: The Winter Solstice Tsunami of 2012

During the summer of 2012, I housesat in a suburb of Boston. After a short time, I began feeling an in-rush of disruptive energy blanketing the neighborhood, inside the house and out...