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“Bad Cholesterol”: Good Marketing, But Is It Good Medicine?

By Cleaves M. Bennett, MD | Contributing Writer - Vol. 8, No. 3. , 2007

The cholesterol model of heart disease, which labels LDL as “bad” and HDL as “good,” has certainly helped drug companies sell a lot of statin medications. But has it really reduced the impact of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in this country? “Not really,” says Dr. Cleaves Bennett, one of the nation’s leading experts on hypertension, kidney disease and preventive medicine.

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Fibroids, Endometriosis & Breast Cancer: Treating Systemic Estrogen Toxicity

By Janet Gulland | Contributing Writer - Vol. 8, No. 2. , 2007

According to Dr. Joel Evans, a holistic gynecologist, these three disorders are far more related than many doctors realize. All reflect maladaptive responses to systemic estrogen, and all are related to obesity and insulin resistance. Rather than focusing on the tumors, physicians ought to be working with women to lose weight, reduce insulin levels, improve estrogen metabolism, and lower inflammation.

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Making Waves: Tuning Biorhythms Through Cyclic Exercise

By Roger Lewin, PhD | Contributing Writer - Vol. 7, No. 1. , 2006

Everyone knows exercise is good medicine. Far fewer people understand how to optimize the health benefits of regular exercise. As with many other things, it is not a matter of blindly doing more, but of bringing physiological intelligence to the process.

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Ecology and Public Health: Healing the Web of Life

By Erik L. Goldman | Editor in Chief - Vol. 8, No. 4. , 2007

PORTLAND, OR—Environmental issues are inseparable from health care issues, and holistically minded physicians need to step up and assume leadership in the effort to reverse environmental degradation.

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Dances with Mushrooms: Clinical Researchers Discover Maitake Medicine

By Florence M. Rollwagen, PhD | Contributing Writer - Vol. 3, No. 2. , 2002

Maitake mushrooms (Grifola frondosa) are native to Northern Japan, growing wild in cool hardwood forests. It is said that in ancient times, people would dance for joy to find these large, tasty, medicinal mushrooms growing in clusters of 100 pounds or more. This, of course, is why they were called “the dancing mushroom.”

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Lycopene Has Health Benefits Beyond Prostate Cancer Prevention

By Stacey J. Bell, DSc, RD | Contributing Writer - Vol. 8, No. 2. , 2007

A recent National Cancer Institute sponsored study has challenged the notion that increased lycopene consumption can prevent prostate cancer. But on closer analysis of the data, that conclusion is hardly written in stone. A wealth of other research shows that this valuable nutrient, found abundantly in tomatoes, can lower blood pressure, reduce cardiac events, and even protect against sunburn.

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Decrease in Breast Cancer Has Experts Asking, WHI?

By Tori Hudson, ND | Contributing Writer - Vol. 8, No. 2. , 2007

The recent National Cancer Institute report showing a major downturn in breast cancer rates in 2003 had a lot of people saying “I told you so,” and attributing the downturn to a drop-off in hormone replacement therapy. But it may not be that simple. Dr. Tori Hudson offers her thoughts on this hot topic.

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DHA, Not EPA, Is Big Fish of Omega-3s

By August West | Contributing Writer - Vol. 1, No. 1. , 2000

Many commonly used pharmaceuticals deplete key nutrients, leading to a progressive decline in nutrition and health status. This chart, the first of a series, identifies nutritional depletions associated with diuretics, cholesterol lowering drugs and other cardiovascular medicines, and outlines simple nutritional interventions to correct the problems.

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Is Diabetes an Environmental Illness?

By Staff Writer - Vol. 8, No. 4. , 2007

PORTLAND, OR—Few people think of type 2 diabetes as being an “environmental” disease. But new data, recently published in prominent diabetes journals, point to an etiologic connection between exposure to “persistent organic pollutants (POPs)” and risk of diabetes, said John Peterson “Pete” Myers, at the annual meeting of the American Holistic Medical Association.

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