If you have issues with sensitive skin, and especially if you have recently been diagnosed with allergies or intolerances, you may want to take a long look at your soaps, deodorants, perfumes, and cosmetics bag and perhaps do a little purging this weekend. Many favorite name brand cosmetics and personal products are full of common allergens and known cancer causing toxins. After having had a few strange reactions after using popular drugstore brands over the years I finally switched to high end cosmetics only to find that even those irritated my skin. I soon became an occasional makeup wearer, but now there are better options available for women with sensitive skin and known allergies. Not only will your complexion improve, and your confidence, but you may actually feel healthier too. (more…)

Everyone with a mobile phone has either read or seen news casts about their negative impact on our health. Many independent sources claim that it’s a big and growing danger but those that are usually sponsored by the multi-billion dollar telecommunications industry tell us that the impact is almost harmless. The fact is, many people and businesses nowadays are very dependent on this technology and for some there is simply no way to function in today’s society without them. We have become a culture of communication convenience. Perhaps a recent article on The Daily Telegraph will make you think twice about getting extremely chatty the next time your cell phone rings and you go to pick it up. (more…)

It grieves me to have to write this post. As an NIU grad who has spent 7 years in DeKalb, I was completely leveled by the Valentine’s Day Massacre as I watched it unfold live through my local television stations. Today the report has finally come out: the Prozac Nation can now add another school shooter to the list of SSRI patients turned psychotic. The news reports today say that in addition to Prozac, Stephen Kazmierczak had also been taking Ambien and Xanax. SSRI medications like Prozac have also been linked to several other school shooters.

In 2004 the FDA issued warnings saying that abruptly changing the dose of an anti-depressant (SSRI) drug, whether increasing or decreasing it, can produce hostility, psychosis, and/or suicide. There are over 10 million people on antidepressants in America. After all these years and all these shootings I continually ask myself when will the FDA step in and investigate the possible homicidal implications of improperly prescribing these dangerous drugs? (more…)

Are you easily agitated and a chronic insomniac, often waking up in the morning after what seems like a very short, dreamless night? Perhaps you’re one of those people that never eats breakfast; instead you prefer to race off to work or school. Do you often forget where you just put something or what someone just told you? Maybe you also have a hankering for spicy foods and a huge gut to match. If you have a hard time handling stress, find most of these statements to be true about yourself and you are often unhappy or depressed it may be due to highly under-diagnosed vitamin/mineral imbalance called Pyrrole Disorder. (more…)

Are you suffering from one or more very sore red cyst-like lumps under your arm pit? Well, it may be Lymphadenitis. If you are in a lot of pain right now and can’t get an immediate appointment with your doctor, there is one very simple treatment you can do that may just make that nasty lump go away. Start taking increased doses of vitamin E supplements. Vitamin E is a very powerful antioxidant and a fat soluble vitamin with no known toxicity. It may just make that nasty lump go away within 24 to 48 hours, before you even get into that doctor’s appointment (more…)

“Losing weight would improve your health” - I was telling my patient last week during a consultation. His light-hearted response concerned me: “I am not obese, doctor, you’re too skinny. Everybody in my neighborhood is this size. And I like being big.”

Everyone in his neighborhood is indeed getting bigger. As the average size of the typical American grows each year, so does the tolerance for being big. I am concerned that our mass media “experts” have taken the social stigma out of fatness and made people blissfully ignorant of its health risks. Advertising, television programs, and movies that promote obesity as normal directly ignore its threat to health and well being. (more…)

It is the middle of July, and here that means hot, scorching weather. It is pool season were I live. With small children too young to swim, a local community pool membership is pointless. I wanted something to give them a bit of safe and convenient backyard fun. Well I found it in a Sports rectangular Family Pool. My husband and I set up the 20 x 7 ft pool and we were ecstatic that it was easily inflatable with an Intex electric pump and instantly collapsible. Within 10 minutes we had the pool ready for water. And when the boys were done playing we could deflate the thing in 5 minutes. This meant we could set up and take down the pool daily if we wanted and not have to worry about killing the grass or having one of the boys sneak into the pool unsupervised, and the water would be fresh from the hose and clean for every use. (more…)