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Natural Remedies for Itchy Eyes

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If your eyes feel itchy, are red or have that sticky and gritty feel, relief is on the way. Try one of these simple, natural remedies for relief. Ingredients Chamomile tea Salt Eyebright...

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Toxins and Processed Foods – Part II

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Toxins, Genotype, and Toxin-Clearing Abilities First, let’s define what I mean by a toxin. A toxin is a chemical or substance that brings imbalance to the body’s cells, creating an adverse environment....

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Toxins and Processed Foods – Part I

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Besides the food itself being toxic and the huge number of chemicals added to it as it is processed, most commercially grown foods come to us with residues of pesticides. Consider the food chain where...

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Summer Herb Garden: A Veritable Medicine Chest

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Summer is here and with it comes lush herb gardens full of medicinal plants, many of which are the universal healers. In a past column, we focused on basil, a staple of the kitchen medicine cabinet. Add...

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Basil: Nature’s Immune Booster

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In past articles, we’ve talked about ways to build our immune system. With summer gardens soon to burst into full bloom, it’s a great time to look at some of the medicinal plants that are common to...

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Mindful Dining: Setting a Table Fit for a King and Queen

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In these hectic times, eating nothing or grabbing something on the go are the two choices often facing us. Not eating when you need to is not healthy, but there is also a difference between consuming food...

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Special Diets for Special Conditions: An AntiCancer Diet

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Special diets making claims about the health benefits of their protocols are very popular today. It can be confusing that new diet regimens appear all the time and that the whole field of nutrition seems...

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The Three Major Periods of Life

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Traditional health and medical systems view the elderly’s physical abilities, general health, and role in society quite differently. To understand this viewpoint, it helps to consider the three major...

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Cardiovascular Disease and the Apo E Gene

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Cardiovascular disease accounts for the number one (heart attack) and number three (stroke) causes of death in the United States. Combined, these account for 40 percent of all deaths. Cardiovascular disease...

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The Chocolate Heart Prescription

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February is a special month—lots to think about. February is sometimes 28 days and sometimes 29 days, and is the month that we recognize as a time to bring awareness to heart disease. It is also a month...

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The Three Doshas

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The Three Doshas

As we discussed in previous articles, Classical medical traditions like Ayurveda and Chinese medicine define health and healing by describing the principles involved in the way our body and minds function....

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Spices & Herbs: Nature’s Best Medicine

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Spices and Herbs

Spices and herbs are the greatest healers in the plant kingdom and as such, we need to understand the tremendous contribution that these gifts of nature have made throughout the centuries in the science...

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Accessing Your Past Memories

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Accessing Your Past Memories

Why do people travel back to their past lives?  They believe, as I do, in the reality of past lives. They want to explore the process of time travel, using it as a learning quest. They also seek personality...

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Ayurveda and the Language of Scientific Metaphor

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Ayurveda and the Language of Scientific Metaphor

Our word “science” comes the Latin root scire, which means “to know.” All traditions of medicine are based on science, the way of “knowing” things. Each scientific tradition, be it Ayurvedic,...

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ANGRY? OR SAD? OR BOTH?

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Angry, Sad or Both?

IMAGE HEALING HYPNOSIS It’s alright to FEEL anger. It’s perfectly NORMAL to feel hurt and upset or rejected, even betrayed. What’s NOT ALRIGHT is to allow your anger or sadness to devour you or...

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Nutritional Supplements: How Necessary are They?

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Nutritional Supplements - How Necessary Are They?

Most Western health practices promote the need vitamin and mineral supplements in order to be healthy. This concept, however, reflects a misunderstanding of what nutrients are and how our digestion metabolizes...

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A Patient’s Story: Janet

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A Patient's Story

When Janet came to see me the first time, she was taking eight medications every day. She had chronic body pain, some joint pain, deep fatigue, migraines, and diarrhea 12 to 14 times a day. Her cholesterol...

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Dental Health Series: Part 3 – Root Canals

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Root Canal

When the living part of the tooth, the pulp, is severely damaged or invaded by decay, the tooth will die and infection may spread to the jawbone tissue. A root canal is a dental procedure used to resolve...

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Dental Health Series: Part 2 – Cavities and Amalgam Fillings

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Dental Amalgam

Cavities are spots of degeneration in the tooth enamel and are created in two ways. First, through improper nutrition or problems with the digestive process, the tooth pulp is not properly nourished, causing...

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David Russell, PhD

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David Russell

David Russell, PhD, D.Sc, Boomer-Living Director. For the last thirty years, David Russell has taught Classical medical disciplines in Europe, Nepal, and the USA, as well as diagnostics and homeopathy...

Pamela McDonald

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Pamela McDonald

Pamela McDonald, Boomer-Living Director,is a Board Certified - Primary Care and Nurse Practitioner, and devoted to the prevention of heart disease and chronic illness. Pam is graduate of Andrew Weil, MD’s...

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Dental Health Series: Part 1 – Our Teeth and Our Body

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Our teeth represent one of the most neglected and misunderstood systems of the body. This is unfortunate because the oral cavity (mouth) plays an extremely important role in the health of our bodies and...

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Who needs Lipitor when you have the APO E Gene Diet?

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Doctor and Patient

A Patient’s Story: Dora For 16 years, Dora had been working with her primary care doctor to solve her cholesterol mystery. Despite trying many different medications, reading all the books about lowering...

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Eating A Healthy Diet on a Limited Budget

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Healthy Diet

During times of increased stress and change, eating a healthy diet is one of many things you can do to maintain good health. Daily exercise is another. Consider a daily walking program. As little as 20...

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Healing Summer Sunburns and Stings

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Sunburn

Sunburn When exposing parts of the body directly to the sun, such as while swimming, do not wait until you feel your skin starting to react, but seek shade and cover your body with a light layer of...

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