Q I have read a lot about hypertension, but not much about hypotension, which my friend suffers from. Having low blood pressure makes her very tired and occasionally makes her faint. What do you advise? - J.S. McMillan, Bristol A Hypotension, or low...
Medicine throws a cocktail of drugs at migraine, with questionable benefits, when many practitioners have proved that a change of diet can often cure it forever. ...
Headaches are a major source of chronic pain. Although most people get an occasional headache, as many as 45 million Americans get them on a regular basis. Headache related lost work and medical expenses costs $50 billion per year in the U.S. alone...
Provocation of migraine by dietary components has been clearly described in the medical literature for over 100 years. Competing immunologic and metabolic concepts of pathogenesis have been proposed. The metabolic concept inroducted by Alex Russell...
The rate of cancer among American children has been rising for decades according to a story in the New York Times, September 29, 1997. "Although the reasons remain unclear, many experts suspect the increase may be partly the result of growing...
Industrial experts and consultants are finally becoming aware of the fact that headaches, backaches, and other health-related issues are the consequence of not only ongoing pressure in the workplace, but also lack of sense of control. In "Out of...
Do you suffer from throbbing and burning pains in your sinuses? In "Sinusitis" Dana Ullman, M.P.H. describes the various types of symptoms connected with sinusitis in children and adults, and common conditions that trigger these reactions. He...
This nine-year old white, male child was referred to The Center recently because of "chronic migraine headaches". He began having migraines while in kindergarten. They were relatively infrequent until one year ago. At that time, he started to...
Pneumonia ;Despite medical advances, including the use of antibioti
Headaches are so common we tend to dismiss them as an annoyance, rather than a condition that needs serious treatment. However, a headache, like any pain, is the body's way of telling you something's wrong. Another myth is that a headache is a...
What Doctors Don't Tell You
Dr Jacob Teitelbaum MD
Leo Galland MD FACN
Barry Bittman MD
Dana Ullman MPH
Ronald E Hunninghake MD
American Institute for Preventive Medicine