What Doctors Don't Tell YouReader's Corner
* Eat the right foods. Eating foods rich in phytoestrogens can allieviate menopausal symptoms. All pulses, tofu and whole soy products (avoid soy protein isolates), nuts, flaxseed and other seeds, grains (rice, oats, wheat, barley, rye),
Modern medicine has only its singleminded one-size-fits-all treatment for all types of tumours - with very little evidence of success. However, alternative medicine provides a number of other possibilities
Since I last wrote about this in this column 10 years ago, reliable data have emerged from clinical trials validating a number of non-orthodox treatments for this condition.
Two antagonistic camps exist among homeopaths - those who only prescribe a single remedy for a particular case (and find anything else anathema), and those who don't mind resorting to combination homeopathic remedies - usually marketed as 'complex'...
Insomnia is usually strongly linked to depression. However, an array of conditions can prevent you from drifting off to sleep easily, including tension, pain, ambient noise, emotional arousal,
Shingles, an acute infection caused by varicella zoster (chickenpox) virus (VZV), can be an excruciating condition with painful skin blisters, generally down one side of the body,
Q An elderly colleague, aged 82, is experiencing symptoms that he feels may be attributable to his medication for high blood pressure. His daily regime is levothyroxine (150 mcg), aspirin (150 mcg), nifedipine (30 mg), alfuzocin (400 mcg) and...
Four years ago (WDDTY, vol 8, no 6) when I first wrote about rheumatoid arthritis (RA), I reported that wearing copper bracelets, correcting low gastric acid, identifying environmental and food allergies,
Re HRT (WDDTY vol 13 no 2), if the risk of death or disease is increased by a certain percentage, then I feel less than informed if you don’t say what the original percentage of risk was.
