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By Mimi Guarneri, M.D., ABIHM
This post was first published online at the Atlantic magazine, in response to an article by David H. Freedman in the July/August edition, “The Triumph of New Age Medicine.” See that article at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-triumph-of-new-age-medicine/8554/
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by Robert Anderson, MD, ABIHM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 36,000 to 41,000 persons die from influenza during each flu season. Infected with flu viruses, hundreds of thousands experience illness and loss of productive work time each year, leading to 300,000 hospitalizations and healthcare expenditures of $ 10 billion yearly. Public health authorities therefore urge wide-scale administration of influenza vaccines which are prepared yearly to include the most likely flu viruses the CDCP believes will be the most likely offenders in a given flu season. Read More
By Erminia (Mimi) Guarneri, MD, Bonnie J Horrigan, and Constance M Perchua, PhD
Note: This is the final installment of an article originally published in Explore Magazine, posted with permission of the publisher.
Effective Interventions from Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine interventions for depression and stress include MBSR, Transcendental Meditation, cognitive therapy, and other mind-body therapies such as biofeedback.
In a recent literature review published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, investigators concluded that MBSR was useful as an intervention for a broad range of chronic disorders and problems. “Improvements were consistently seen across a spectrum of standardized mental health measures including psychological dimensions...
By Sanford H. Levy, MD, FACP, ABIHM
There is an emerging body of data suggesting a role for curcumin in cancer prevention and as an element of cancer treatment. Curcumin, derived from the Indian spice turmeric, blocks nuclear factor-kappa B(NF-kB), and thus reduces levels of inflammatory cytokines in the body. Curcumin also interferes with the formation of advanced glycation end products, compounds which trigger inflammation and may increase the risk of cancerous mutations in cells. Read More
by Patrick Hanaway, MD
The gastrointestinal microflora has been a subject of medical science since the early 20th century when Nobel laureate, Eli Metchnikoff, proposed that many diseases were related to the action of gut bacteria and that consuming beneficial lactic acid-producing bacteria (by drinking fermented milk) was health promoting because it prevented growth of putrefactive bacteria in the gut. Recent scientific advances have re-awakened interest in these clinical observations, highlighting the role of the gut flora in metabolism, protection, and immune regulation. Read More
by Allan Warshowsky, MD, ABIHM
The New York Times slogan “All the news that’s fit to print” was put to the challenge recently with a front page story on the ”HCG diet”. This weight loss protocol, created by Dr. A.T.W. Simeons in 1954, is a 500 calorie per day diet eating only specific foods and 2 injections of the pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) daily for 28 days. The addition of the HCG injections was not to increase weight loss, but to assuage the hunger feelings and increase fat loss in specific areas to improve body composition. Initial studies were...
by Wendy Warner, MD, ABIHM
At the Scripps Natural Supplements conference recently held in San Diego, there were a number of great talks, but the one that really got my attention concerned integrative holistic dermatology. I’m not a particularly good dermatologist, so the idea of having natural medicines to use got me excited. Read More
by Sanford H. Levy, MD, FACP, ABIHM
Vitamin E is a fat soluble vitamin which functions in part as an antioxidant in the body. Vitamin E is in fact a family of eight closely related chemical compounds – alpha, beta, gamma, and delta tocopherol, and alpha, beta, gamma, and delta tocotrienols. Read More
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Integrative Approaches to Sleep and Sleep Disorders
by Victor Sierpina, MD, ABIHM
Our society doesn’t really contribute to healthy sleep. Our staccato, frenzied pace, overstimulation with media, caffeine, and nocturnal lights all break the natural rhythms of the body that are conducive to good sleep. Read More »
Vitamin D May Prevent Tamoxifen- Associated Joint Problems
(This article was originally published in Holistic Primary Care)
Women with breast cancer often experience severe joint pain as a consequence of treatment with aromatase inhibitors like Tamoxifen. Researchers in Barcelona suggest that vitamin D supplementation can prevent or at least reduce the pain.
This is important because severe arthralgias often limit a woman’s willingness to complete tamoxifen treatment.
Daniel Prieto-Alhambra and colleagues at the Hospital del Mar, studied a cohort of 290 breast cancer patients undergoing treatment with Tamoxifen or another of...