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OMNS News Service – Vitamin C and Sepsis
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, May 24, 2017 Vitamin C and Sepsis: The genie is now out of the bottle The enormous effectiveness of vitamin C in helping to resolve any of a wide variety of infections comes as no surprise to anyone who has made at least a minimal effort to study the large body of…
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MEDICAL CURIOSITY: Where Has It Gone?
What happened to curiosity as it pertains to searching for causes of poor health? Maybe it’s payback. Lack of curiosity leads to the next step: complacency. Some doctors and patients have retained their curiosity, but many more have not. Over the last several decades, there has been a cultural shift in attitudes about healthful living…
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Dementia – can we educate and reduce risk?
At the inaugural Swisse Preventative Health Symposium held in Melbourne last Friday, I was privileged to hear a fascinating address by Professor David Smith, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford on “the role of nutrition in the prevention of cognitive impairment”. He classes dementia as a disease – not an inevitable part of ageing and certainly…
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Soil Health Impacts Human Health – A New Perspective to Consider
Are pharmacists fully engaged with the full spectrum of health and an understanding of their patient’s lifestyle? Some information currently appearing in this edition of i2P suggests that Health Literacy ought to be a prime focus for pharmacists to assist their patients in understanding what impacts exist that are involved in health changes that can…
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Orthomolecular News – Niacin Rescues Cannibalistic Hamsters The Historical Significance of 1940s Mandatory Niacin Enrichment
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 28, 2017 by W. Todd Penberthy, PhD In a newly published research study, Tissier and colleagues at the Universite ‘ de Strasbourg, France, identified wild hamsters that were eating primarily corn monoculture diets and exhibiting siblicide and maternal infanticide. Cannibalism was one of the theories for the decline of their…
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The Balance Tips for Better Health – Major Chemical Companies are to be Held Accountable
On December 14, 2015 i2P published an article regarding the setting up of an International Citizen’s Tribunal (titled the Monsanto Tribunal) that was designed to prosecute the crime of “ecocide” as practiced by Monsanto and associated global chemical manufacturers. While not recognised legally, it will provide a court of public opinion based on evidence and…
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Have you changed?
You have donated a Saturday to learn about an area of your professional skill set that some marketing groups, along with some official Pharmacist bodies, have deemed “unscientific, no evidence and snake-oil territory”. Complementary medicines…….your patients are asking questions about these issues and you don’t have the answers. So, what has changed? Do you know…
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Education – Bring it on!
I continue to be amazed at the options available to give better results to our patients. No more is this evident in the area of complementary medicines. Young pharmacists to whom I speak give me the impression that complementary medicines are unproven, unprofessional and almost “beneath” them from a patient care perspective. What they are…
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Asthma Perceptions
I know that we’ve come out smelling of roses in the ethics survey this week, but our role in managing inhaler technique in asthma is under a cloud. 90 % or so of people with asthma don’t use their inhalers correctly, according to research released by the National Asthma Council. I don’t believe that this…
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Why is there a need for the Health Australia Party (HAP)?
Many Australians rely every day on natural medicines and/or the services of a natural health practitioner to maintain their health. Yet this significant contribution to the well-being of grateful ordinary Australians goes largely unacknowledged by politicians, the news media and mainstream medicine. Rather instead we see an extraordinary bias against these therapies, to the point…