Townsend Letter back issues from January 2009:
Townsend Letter receives Legacy Media Award.
Jan 01, 2009 ... In October 2008, at the Las Vegas meeting of the American College for the Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), the Townsend Letter was honored for 25 years of publication. The Legacy Media Award, conferred by ACAM president Jeanne Drisco, MD, was accepted by Townsend Letter publisher and ...
Letter from the publisher.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Obama Presidency That Tuesday evening in November when Barack Obama was elected president was one of the few moments of unbridled euphoria in 2008. The electrifying announcement by the networks and news services of Obama's win, coming much earlier than most similar election ...
National College of Natural Medicine to expand Portland campus: South Waterfront area growing as a hub for higher education and research.
Jan 01, 2009 ... National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) recently announced that college officials had completed negotiations with Andrew and Deborah Davis of Portland for the purchase of three office buildings on 1.5 acres of land adjacent to the NCNM campus and a quarter-acre lot across from the ...
State-of-the-art mushroom-growing facility nears completion in San Diego county.
Jan 01, 2009 ... Rising from the valley floor in the rugged terrain of San Marcos, northeast of San Diego, is a tremendous modern building that looks as if it might manufacture computer chips. However, strictly speaking, it's a farm. That is, it's a farm the way a modern mechanized dairy operation ...
ConsumerLab.com finds melatonin supplements range in strength but ingredient quality is high.
Jan 01, 2009 ... ConsumerLab.com announced test results today from its new Product Review of Melatonin Supplements. Melatonin supplements may help treat certain sleep disorders and disturbances, including jet lag. Melatonin may also be beneficial in conditions ranging from cluster headaches to certain ...
Your dentist can save your life.
Jan 01, 2009 ... Dr. Ronald Schefdore, an Illinois dentist with over 30 years experience, believes that the data is in. Bleeding gums is the most common warning light that indicates a serious risk of heart disease and other problems. "Look in your mouth," he says. "If your gums are bleeding or ...
Medical scans.(Shorts)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Health insurers are hiring radiology benefit managing companies to pre-screen and give prior authorizations for computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. By employing these companies, insurers reduce the number of unnecessary tests and cut spending. Costs for ...
Autism-chelation study canceled.(Shorts)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In September 2008, the National Institute of Mental Health canceled a scheduled trail that was designed to evaluate succimer (DMSA) chelation therapy as a treatment for autism. The trial would have tested the hypothesis that mercury exposure contributes to autism, according to MedPage ...
Bioenergetic devices and functional medicine.(Shorts)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Some functional medicine practitioners use energetic techniques and devices to help them assess (and sometimes treat) patients. Pulse diagnosis, used in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, and applied kinesiology, developed by George Goodheart, are two such techniques. Like pulse diagnosis, ...
Washington State targets energy devices.(Shorts)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In December 2007, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided to block the importation of the Electro-Physio-Feedback-Xrroid system (EPEX), an energy device manufactured in Hungary by William Nelson, because of a Seattle Times probe. Seattle Times reporters Michael J. Berens and ...
Computed tomography scan hazard.(Shorts)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Computed tomography (CT) exposes patients to higher levels of radiation than most doctors realize, according to a review article in the New England Journal of Medicine. In CT (also known as CAT) scans, a computer integrates X-rays taken from different angles to form a detailed cross ...
Functional medicine.(Shorts)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Functional medicine deals with the body's regulatory functions, which underline chronic illness and promote good health. Like Chinese, Ayurvedic, and other traditional medicine systems, functional medicine considers disruption of the body's innate regulatory systems to be the cause of ...
Harry Oldfield.(Shorts)
Jan 01, 2009; ... What does an energy field look likes? How do we study it if we can't see it or measure it? British biologist Harry Oldfield is one of many scientists who have turned their interest to energy fields. He has developed three devices so far that provide a way to explore bioenergetic fields: ...
The Analyst[TM].(Shorts)(Product/service evaluation)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Patient health histories have always played an important role in diagnosis. Now, health history services are being offered inline. In some cases, these services are simply a way to get consumers to buy product being sold from the same website. In some cases, these service are simply a way ...
Wikipedia reliability.(Shorts)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Wikipedia, a free and very popular online encyclopedia, gained legitimacy in December 2005 when the prestigious journal Nature reported that Wikipedia's accuracy for science-based articles nearly equaled the highly regarded Encyclopedia Britannica. Nature's assessment was based on a study ...
Kaiser Permanente offers herbs, supplements, and guided imagery.(Pathways to Healing)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Kaiser Permanente, a group model HMO with nearly nine million members nationwide, is offering various complementary therapies to its members as an integrated part of their health care. Kaiser offers guided imagery audio programs from Health Journeys to all its members, available on its ...
War on cancer: a productive to China.
Jan 01, 2009; ... This fall I took a two-week trip to the People's Republic of China. The purpose of the visit was to meet Chinese cancer doctor and to gain knowledge of complementary and alternative medical (CAM) treatments for cancer in this vast and ancient land. A secondary purpose was to lecture at ...
Literature review & commentary.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Testing vitamin D status In this review article, the author points out that more than 50 metabolites of vitamin D have been described, but only a few of these have been quantified in blood. The serum half-life of vitamin D is around 24 hours, thus making its concentration in ...
Townsend's New York observer: update on Lyme disease.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Since I "signed on" with Townsend Letter, my columns have included reports and analyses of developments in Lyme disease. Most of the developments have been political. This column begins with a report of a precedent setting legal development and ends with mention of four studies on the ...
Optimizing metabolism: more than willpower: Curbing food cravings during weight reduction.(Clinical report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction Food cravings are a leading cause of poor diet adherence. Diet adherence is the best determinate of successful weight loss. Therefore, we can improve diet stick-to-it-ness by getting rid of food cravings. Smart dieters will do everything possible to avoid food ...
Growth hormone secretagogues in perspective.(Clinical report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction The parenteral administration of human growth hormone (HGH) has become an intervention of great significance in anti-aging medicine. There is now frenetic interest in using reliable GH secretagogues in the form of peptides, such as GHRP-2. Although age-related ...
IgG allergy testing.(immunoglobulin G)
Jan 01, 2009; ... There is no question that the foods people eat have a big impact on their health and quality of life. The discussion about adverse food reactions and their associated health problems has grown in quality and intensity over the last several decades. From some of our earliest concerns about ...
Micronutrients, immune function, and women's health.(Clinical report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction Nutrition is an essential component of overall health, and eating a varied and healthy diet is one of the easiest things a woman can do to prevent or delay the onset of a wide variety of illnesses. There is an enormous amount of research literature that suggests ...
Urinary neurotransmitter analysis as a biomarker for psychiatric disorders.
Jan 01, 2009; ... A biomarker is a measurement used as an indicator of biological actions. Biomarkers are prevalent in most branches of medicine. Measurement of specific biological features allows practitioners to determine diagnoses and prognoses and predict treatment outcomes by providing objective ...
Blood metal analysis to biomonitor and diagnose acute vs. chronic Metal intoxication.(Disease/Disorder overview)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Defining Metal Intoxication Blood is a part of the human circulatory system. It transports oxygen, nutrients, and toxins to and from the cells and organs. The nutrients and toxins taken in will either "feed" body cells, be stored, or be excreted through the urinary or digestive ...
Functional lab tests to evaluate immune competencies in chronic illness and chronic infection.
Jan 01, 2009; ... In previous articles in this series, we reviewed that when healthy, we are tolerant to and resilient in the world outside us. We are resistant to infection and recycle any foreign antigens to which we are exposed. Our immune defense and repair system has the dual responsibilities of ...
Urinary neurotransmitters: testing to optimize treatment based upon a clinical diagnosis.(Clinical report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction Diseases as seemingly diverse as restless leg syndrome, insomnia, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and carbohydrate food cravings may reflect underlying imbalances or inadequacies in neurotransmitters. While every aspect of this hypothesis is ...
The role of the clinical laboratory in Integrative and Functional Medicine.
Jan 01, 2009; ... This disease, so frequently attending all long voyages, and so particularly destructive to us, is surely the most singular and unaccountable of any that affects the human body. For its symptoms are inconstant and innumerable, and its progress and effects extremely irregular: for scarcely ...
The best heavy metal chelator: rise ... for sentencing.
Jan 01, 2009; ... With scientific studies continuing to detect an alarming consistency of a heavy metal presence within modern human populations, the subject of an effective treatment for heavy metal toxicity has received a corresponding spotlight, especially in alternative medicine media. The heavy metal ...
Inhalation insulin and oral and nasal insulin sprays for diabetics: panacea or evolving future health disaster part 2.(Clinical report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In Part I of this article, we discussed diabetes treatments and the dangers of alternative inhalation insulin delivery systems when used as a replacement for insulin shots. (1), (2) In recent times, we have seen the research we discussed supported. Six cases of lung cancer, as well as six ...
Removing mercury amalgam fillings before chelation.(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Dr, Bruce Dooley's letter, "Mercury Testing and Treatment," was a welcome addition to the subject of mercury toxicity and treatment. It is indeed alarming how widespread the problem of significant tissue burden of mercury is. I feel that a few important points were left out. The single ...
Lyme disease: simple bacteria or complicated parasite?
Jan 01, 2009; ... As the author of four Lyme disease books, I've been researching Lyme disease as a full time profession for seven years now. This does not mean I know everything--not even close. The more I learn each day, the more I realize I don't know. But, what it does mean is that it is a very rare ...
Vitamin D supplementation may cause immunosupperssion, promoting chronic bacterial infection underlying diverse chronic diseases.
Jan 01, 2009; ... A topic of current widespread interest is that of vitamin D and its role in health and disease. In the July 2008 issue of the Townsend Letter, (1) Dr. J. Cannell commented on the work of Professor TG Marshall. It appears that Dr. Cannell has several misconceptions regarding Prof ....
Victoria's secret.(Cartoon)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Victoria's secret ViCTOR'S ...
The way we address cancer is cause for concern.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Consider this: cancer is not a tumor; it's a process. Since cancer was first diagnosed nearly 500 years ago, the medical profession has treated it based on the theory that cancer is a tumor. This theory says if you can remove or destroy the tumor, you have cured the disease. As the years ...
Who said we've got global warming?(Cartoon)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Who Said We've Got Global Warming? ...
The collapsing health care system.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This editorial is being written just after the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 778 points because of the failure to pass the $700 billion bailout bill. Another headline that appeared in the news today was that Medicaid costs will soon be spiraling out of control, primarily because of the ...
Taking aim at free radicals.(The Super Antioxidant Diet and Nutrition Guide)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Super Antioxidant Diet and Nutrition Guide by Robin Jeep and Richard Couey, PhD Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 1125 Stony Ridge Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902; 434-296-2771 Softcover; c. 2008; $ 19.95; 240 pp. A large body of ...
Fostering cooperation through communication.(How to Talk with Your Doctor)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... How to Talk with Your Doctor by Ronald L. Hoffman, MD Basic Health Publications, Inc., 28812 Top of the World Drive, Laguna, California 92652; 949-715-7327 www.basicealthpub.com ISBN- 13: 978-59120-112-0 Hardbound; c.2006; $24.95; 258 pp. ...
Keep moving.(Stop Aging-Start Training)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Stop Aging-Start Training by Salvatore Fichera, MS Basic Health Publications, Inc., 28812 Top of the World Drive, Laguna Beach, California 92651, 949-715-7327 www.basichealthpub.com Softcover, c. 2008, $18.95, 245 pp. Right here in the pages of ...
Treat the patient--not the blood tests!(Pain Free 1-2-3!)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Before the development of lab testing, most physicians had to rely on the art of medicine to diagnose and treat. They had to come to grips with their underlying insecurities and infallibility and fall back on their medical arts, minds, and intuition. This required listening to the patient ...
An excellent response by a woman with irritable bowel syndrome, fibrocystic breast disease, anxiety, and grief.(Healing with Homeopathy)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Such a Big Shock? A forty-two-year-old high school French teacher from Eastern Washington, Kristin first visited our office four years ago for help with her irritable bowel syndrome and fibrocystic breast disease. She mentioned immediately that she and her husband had had ...
Tamoxifen-induced pseudo-menopausal syndrome symptoms.(Chinese Medicine)(Clinical report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Approximately 75% of breast cancers are estrogen-receptor-positive ("ER-positive" or "ER + "). In these cases, estrogen sends signals through the receptors that tell breast cancer cells to grow. Cells with estrogen receptors grow and multiply when estrogen attaches to the receptors. These ...
News from the Annie Appleseed Project's first national conference.
Jan 01, 2009 ... The Annie Appleseed Project, online at www.anniappleseedproject.org since June 1999, held its first national educational conference, "Evidence-Based CAM for Cancer," in January 2008. The location was sunny West Palm Beach, Florida. As the Annie Appleseed Project is a Florida-based ...
Calendar of events.(Calendar)
Jan 01, 2009 ... JANUARY 3-4: TRANSFORMATION IN THE CLINICAL SETTING--Awakening the Mystical Body with Peter H. Fairfield, L.Ac in San Diego, California. Learn a new clinical model--based on Asian medical and spiritual systems and modern brain and biomed--that works with the underlying emotional and ...
D-Ribose, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia.(Women's Health Update)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Issues of cellular metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction are very important in women's health, creating numerous problematic changes that result in hypothalamic suppression as well as dysfunctions in the brain, heart, skeletal muscles, liver, and endocrine system. (1) The hypothalamus ...
Holiday leftovers again?(Cartoon)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Holiday Leftovers Again? ...
Nutritional Influences on Illness: cataracts: vitamin C, vitamin E, and the carotenoids.
Jan 01, 2009; ... With its continual exposure to light and ambient oxygen, the optical lens is at high risk of photooxidative damage. Oxygen free radicals cause cataracts by oxidizing the lens proteins while also impairing the proteolytic enzymes designed to eliminate the damaged proteins. Normal lenses of ...