Mind Over Respiratory Illness
As far as mortality rates go, respiratory illness is the clear “winner.” What’s not clear from the health industry’s mechanistic paradigm is why respiratory symptoms form. Or why respiratory illness affects different people differently in different parts of the world. Why do some people have asthma while some people are prone to chest infections? Why […]
What You Can Do About Stroke
07/26/2016 11:02 PM The #2 Cause of Death Worldwide Stroke can make you lose control of your muscles, vision, speech. Or it can make you lose your life. The World Health Organization lists stroke as the second leading cause of death worldwide, right after ischaemic heart disease. There are few if any treatments. […]
Mind Over Heart Disease Part 2 (Podcast)
08/02/2016 11:15 PM Unlike ischaemic heart disease, non-ischaemic heart disease actually affects the heart. The clinical term is “cardiomyopathy,” literally, “illness of heart muscle.” However, non-ischaemic heart disease includes symptoms that have to do with the heart muscle, valves, the pericardium, and more. The health industry sees your heart as the sort of “engine” […]
Mind Over Heart Disease Part 1
07/20/2016 10:51 PM The #1 Killer Worldwide We now have amazing mechanical technologies to help repair your body after a heart attack. But the health industry is still stumbling around on how to prevent or heal it. Or even to recognize that you have heart disease: when it’s a serious case of coronary […]
HIV Positive? What You Can Do About It
08/06/2016 11:43 PM AIDS (AutoImmune Deficiency Syndrome) was a terrifying new disease that first appeared in 1981, and then exploded into a global epidemic. The health industry has not yet found a cure and vaccine. Health professionals soon announced they’d discovered a retrovirus called “Human Immunodeficiency Virus.” The American Food and Drug Administration approved […]
The Ups and Downs of Blood Sugar
08/22/2016 Normal blood sugar range fluctuates around a setpoint of 70-110 mg/dL or 700-1100 parts per million (ppm). Your blood sugar level will go up or down whether you’ve just eaten, when you’ve exercised recently, and when you experience stress. It’s been almost a century since Charles Banting’s discovery that high blood sugar (“diabetes mellitus”) […]
How Disease Happens
10/26/2013 For thousands of years, it’s been a fundamental premise of Western culture that discomfort, unusual behaviour, or changes to our bodies are bad things. Resulting from evil forces. Conventional medical philosophy, in particular, believes this. It just uses different words, such as “malignancy,” “genetic control,” “toxin,” and “viruses.” The belief in bad things happening […]
Mind Over Insomnia
Insomnia is when you can’t fall asleep (“nighttime insomnia”) or you can’t stay asleep (“morning insomnia”). Chronic insomnia is when you have trouble sleeping more than twice a week for more than 3 months. Insomnia isn’t because of light, noise, stimulants and sedatives, heavy meals, uncomfortable bed, poor routine, discomfort from pain or restless leg […]