Diagnosis and Treatment

Leaky Gut Syndrome: What Is It?

What you should know if you think you have leaky gut syndrome.

"Leaky gut syndrome" is said to have symptoms including bloating, gas, cramps, food sensitivities, and aches and pains. But it's something of a medical mystery.

Expanded Treatment Focus Markedly Improves Lyme Disease Patient Outcomes

Many people think of Lyme disease as an illness caused by the bite of an infected tick. Though the bite may be a triggering event, this perspective is simplistic and does not take into consideration the numerous issues that both the patient and doctor must evaluate and treat in order to attain the best possible outcome. For those patients that become chronically ill after having been infected with Lyme-related organisms, there is often much more to the puzzle than simply controlling the numerous infections which may have been introduced.

What Is Holistic Dentistry?

Your teeth and gums play an important role in your body’s overall health. Holistic dentistry recognizes this connection and takes a whole-body approach, using tools and procedures that promote total wellness. Holistic dentistry, also called alternative dentistry, is the equivalent of alternative medicine for dentistry.

Medical Marijuana

There are few subjects that can stir up stronger emotions among doctors, scientists, researchers, policy makers, and the public than medical marijuana. Is it safe? Should it be legal? Decriminalized? Has its effectiveness been proven? What conditions is it useful for? Is it addictive? How do we keep it out of the hands of teenagers? Is it really the “wonder drug” that people claim it is?

Dr. Dale Bredesen on Preventing and Reversing Alzheimer's Disease

Dale E. Bredesen, M.D., is a professor of neurology at the Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Dr. Bredesen’s laboratory focuses on identifying and understanding basic mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative process and the translation of this knowledge into effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. He has collaborated on the publication of more than 220 academic research papers.

Spanish Scientists Find Secret to Rewinding 27 Years of Old Age

Scientists at the prestigious National Cancer Research Institute in Spain didn’t set out to find the secret to human immortality...

But then Dr. Maria Blasco...

A Spanish Scientist who studied under two Nobel Prize winning biologists...

PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injuries: A Functional Treatment Model

For decades, we treated brain disorders blindly, without even knowing what was really going on inside. 

Not only did that mean we could mistake one problem for another, it meant an overall lack of information to successfully treat brain issues for optimal function. In some cases, the wrong treatment could even make matters worse. On top of that, issues identified as mental illness were kept separate from the physical brain, leaving many patients suffering without answers. 

Israeli Scientists Claim They're On The Path To A Cure For Cancer

It doesn't seem possible. But they say it's true.

Can polio, a killer virus from the past, treat cancer in the present? Duke is optimistic.

Dr. Allan Friedman places a catheter into a tumor in a patient's brain during a procedure at Duke Hospital. The catheter delivers a genetically modified form of the poliovirus to treat glioblastoma.

VIDEO: Measles Virus as a Cancer Fighter

What would your reaction be if your medical provider told you your only treatment option left was to be injected with a high dosage of the deadly measles virus?

Stacy Erholtz battled multiple myeloma for 10 years, undergoing multiple chemotherapies and two stem-cell transplants only to relapse each time. Just as she ran out of treatment options, her doctors at Mayo Clinic suggested a radical treatment, a single high dose of the measles virus.

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