The fast food industry now uses hundreds of modified food compounds as biochemical triggers to increase appetite and food cravings. Fast food chains such as McDonald’s spend vast amounts of money in this new food science of using addictive substances...

Since so many patients are sensitive to herbicide/pesticide residue, wheat, yeast or corn, the following brands are wheat, corn and yeast-free, and organic. If any of these are not on the shelves of your favorite health food market or supermarket,...

Sunlight exposure on the skin is the most important source of vitamin D.  The sun’s ultraviolet rays trigger vitamin D synthesis in the skin. Vitamin D aids in the absorption of calcium from the food we eat, and in the...

Throughout this rejuvenating body cleanse, all food should be fresh and organically grown, if possible.  During this program, we are off caffeine (coffee, tea, cola and chocolate), alcohol, refined sugar and flour products, margarine and other hydrogenated oils, preservatives and...

The goals of this 3 week Spring Detox program: 1) Support the liver – the body’s detoxifier – in its natural cleansing process after the winter season.  The spring season provides baby bitter greens to cleanse and rejuvenate the liver,...

Silver amalgam dental fillings are actually only 35% silver.  50% or more of the amalgam is mercury – which is the 2nd most toxic metal on this planet, and the most toxic non-radioactive metal.  The manifestations of chronic low-grade mercury...

1.  As soon as you start having symptoms of catching something, drop a few drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide into each ear canal, allowing the bubbling to subside (usually 5 – 10 minutes) in one ear and letting it drain...

That depends on what kind of salt we’re talking about. Almost all traditional cultures use salt.  Cultures living far from the sea would burn sodium-rich marsh grasses and add the ash to their food.  Salt is needed for: 1) the...

Based on The Pulse Test: Easy Allergy Detection by Arthur Coca, MD For best results, do the liver and gall bladder flush the night before the start of food re-introduction. Test only 1 type of food each day. Which means: ...

What might migraines, anxiety, depression, backache, stomach or abdominal pain, food cravings and chronic fatigue have in common?  All of these symptoms may be at least in part allergic reactions – often to commonly eaten foods. Infants and children more...

Food and water molecules have a positive and negative end similar to the north and south polarity of a magnet.  The magnetron in a microwave oven generates an alternating current of more than a billion cycles per second.  As this...

Mix or blend the following ingredients: 3 tablespoons of highest quality organic olive oil.  (If you have chronic liver problems, or if your gall bladder has been removed, use only 1 tablespoon.) The juice of 1 organic lemon. 1 to...

Since I first started practicing in 1980, I’ve often had patients with allergies and sinus congestion from supermarket milk and cheese, switch to raw milk products from local cows or goats.  With this one change, the chronic allergies, sinus and...

Enzymes are the “spark plugs” of life.  Enzymes initiate every biochemical reaction in the body.  The enzymes that are naturally abundant in raw, uncooked food cause that food to be digested when we eat it. Cooking, or any processing of...

Gluten, glutenin and gliaden are protein fractions found in high quantities in wheat, and to a lesser extent in oats, barley, rye, spelt, kamut and triticale.  Celiac disease is an extreme allergic reaction to gluten/gliaden that causes abdominal pain, gassiness,...

Excerpt from Erika Schwartz, MD, The 30 Day Natural Hormone Plan “I made a short list of foods with serious potential to throw off your hormone balance and make you feel really crummy. . . . when you start feeling...

The nutritional content of commercially produced fruits, vegetables and grains has decreased severely over the past 70 years, for several reasons.  The synthetic fertilizers used since the early 1900’s have only a few macro-minerals needed for growth.  Thus our food-producing...

During World War II, fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, and the leading chemical health hazard.  The first lawsuits against the U.S. A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage. The adverse health effects from...

For many years, independent researchers (not funded by the vast hydrogenated oil industry) have considered refined carbohydrates (sugar, alcohol, white flour) to be the major dietary cause of degenerative diseases.  With the vast increase in degenerative diseases in the last...

Intentional fasting has been practiced in practically all cultures, with accounts of Christ, Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, and countless others undergoing long water fasts for spiritual as well as physical benefit.  Hippocrates (the father of Western medicine), Socrates and Plato advocated...

Static magnetic fields are used in the alternative health field for healing many conditions.  However, healing with magnets can be tricky.  Magnets used on the body for therapy can help for awhile, then – depending on the strength of the...

The following baths help in the removal of environmental toxins, heavy metals and radiation, all of which can be a low-grade and continuous drain on the immune system and general body functioning.  The baths are best taken before bedtime. For...

Reams of material has been published on the values of castor oil packs for an amazing variety of afflictions, including: uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, headaches, liver disorders, gallbladder inflammation or stones, night-time urinary frequency, inflamed joints, constipation and other intestinal...

Conventional Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for women usually consists of a standard prescription of hormones – most commonly Premarin and Provera.  Premarin is derived from the urine of pregnant mares that are kept enclosed in tight spaces so that urine...

Soybeans were first used as a food by Asians after they had learned to ferment them.  The fermented soy products tempeh, miso and tamari are the only soy products without adverse health effects. Unfermented soy products have potent enzyme inhibitors...

The healthy human body is a balanced system that is self-regulating and self-healing.  Most of us no longer have balanced, self-regulating and self-healing systems due to our exposure to an overwhelming amount of environmental toxicity, and the inability of our...

Is there any food you just can’t seem to get enough of? If you know it’s in the house, you keep getting pulled back into the kitchen for a little bit more – until you’ve polished it off. And even...

When new patients bring in the supplements they are taking, I look them over and test them for the patient using clinical kinesiology. I recommend discontinuing the supplements that weaken them. Sometimes that is the only thing we do until...

I take new patients completely off of all products with white flour, puffed grains or refined sugars – including corn syrup and fructose, and off all artificial sweeteners — including Splenda. I then check for any reactions to various unrefined...

Naturopathic doctors receive undergraduate training in standard premedical courses, followed by four years at a naturopathic medical school.  The academic training in medical sciences of naturopathic and conventional physicians is similar.  Both study modern physical, clinical and laboratory diagnosis.  Naturopathic...