The Risks of the Fast-Tracked Flu Vaccine

August 26, 2009
By Melanie Segala
Managing Editor, Total Health Breakthroughs
Most of us in the alternative health field have reservations about the government’s rush to inoculate nearly everyone with the swine flu vaccine this fall and winter. With the possibility of adverse effects from the vaccine itself and the heavy metals that are used as preservatives, [...]

Can This Supplement Cure Cancer?

By Al Sears, MD
CoQ10 is the one supplement I take every day, without fail.
New evidence of an even greater benefit is pouring in. And over the next couple of weeks, I’ll tell you about some of the amazing discoveries happening in CoQ10 research.
CoQ10 is a powerful cancer fighter.
Researchers in Tokyo gave rats a carcinogen that [...]

Enjoy Your Doctor Visits While You Can

By Melanie Segala
Managing Editor, Total Health Breakthroughs
Are the President and Congress cooking up a plan to dump helpless seniors and disabled persons into “medical homes” in order to reduce costs to Medicare and HMOs?
That’s the worry of some private citizens and healthcare professionals including the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI).
Buried in the [...]

A Simple Way to Cut Your Heart Attack Risk

Joseph McCaffrey, MD, FACS
Most of us know we should reduce the salt (sodium chloride) in our diet to help control blood pressure and reduce the risk of having a heart attack or stroke.  While the amount of sodium we eat is important, it’s not the whole story. A recent study has confirmed what other studies [...]

Blood Pressure Meds for All?

By Al Sears, MD
I just finished reading the British Medical Journal … there was an article by a group of researchers telling doctors they should put everyone over 40 on blood pressure drugs — even if they don’t have high blood pressure!1
According to the study’s authors, “Guidelines on the use of blood pressure lowering drugs [...]

Restless Legs Syndrome: Forget the Media Hype

By Carolyn Dean, MD, ND
Do you have restless legs syndrome?  Maybe you just think you do thanks to the advertising savvy of pharmaceutical companies who make millions exaggerating this rare condition.  They’ve been so successful, that it’s become an epidemic in a population of restless yet inactive people who may really just be suffering [...]

Why Drug Pushing Doctors Are Wrong About Your Brain

Dharma Singh Khalsa, MD
Attention: Your memory may be fading and the drug pushing conservative medical establishment wants you to wait for them to develop the next “magic bullet drug.”
This in the face of the fact that Alzheimer’s is a terribly complex disease and in my opinion no one drug will ever be [...]