In response to, "why do we get annual physicals?", Google reported 1.34 TRILLION results. When asking everyday people that question most reply, "because we should", then they pause - and you can almost hear the wheels turning - until their "life training" takes over and they relax knowing their answer was good. In a January [...]
The United States spends nearly 50% more on health care than any other nation -- 14.9% of its economic output in 2002 vs. 10.9% in Germany, 9.6% in Canada, 9.7% in France and 7.7% in the United Kingdom. U.S. health costs are on a trajectory to consume 18.4% of every dollar spent by 2013. Here are [...]
How often have we heard, “That’s not like Billy Bob - it must be the BOOZE talking”? It’s so common and expected. We all seem to understand that alcohol does things that can change a personality. Gentle people can become belligerent, and folks who are usually polite and spiritual can start “swearing like a trooper”. [...]
Beginning early 2018 Federal regulators have prohibited the preparation of any compounded item without a doctor's prescription. There are no prescription items in the formula listed below. However, it may only be compounded if ordered by a doctor licensed to write prescriptions. The ingredients are important but the new interpretation focuses on the activity of [...]
WHAT IS IT? Generally, humans can detect five basic flavors; sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami (savory, characteristic of broths and cooked meats). Bitter is the most sensitive of all tastes. Bitterness has an excitable quality that some people might describe as disagreeable or harsh. The very word “bitter” has become associated in our language [...]
THE FLU (influenza virus in all it's mutation) has always been here and it will never go away. It is known by various names, yet it remains a common infection – sometimes of the sinuses, the stomach, the joints, and even combinations. This is not to downplay the discomfort or the possibility for disastrous outcomes, [...]
Dear Doctor; Many men are interested in using Triple Mix (sometimes referred to as TriMix) injections as a treatment for Erectile Dysfunction (ED). They are searching for pharmacies close to home that prepare these injections. Some of them are already your patients and some will be new to you. To make the transition and prescribing [...]
A middle-aged man came into our pharmacy. He was the epitome of the phrase, "sick as a dog." He was pale. His skin was moist. He walked gingerly, as if walking hurt. He was coughing. He was a mess. "What do you have for a cold?" he asked me. "Hot tea and a couple of [...]
Who Are We? The cells in our bodies - the ones that we can call your own - number as many as ONE HUNDRED TRILLION. There are probably a like number of other cells; bacteria, viruses, fungi, and so on. While it might seem creepy that we are hosts to so many “bugs”, the little [...]
There is a mystique surrounding laboratory testing. The vast majority of us believe the values we get for any single test sample (blood, urine, saliva, whatever) represent our health status. On the one hand this is truthful, especially when it comes to the most important minerals in our body; sodium , potassium, carbon dioxide, acidity, [...]
OF COURSE! Q: Hello - my 20 year old daughter was diagnosed with genetic high cholesterol. Her total level was 250 with an LDL of 170. She is a healthy weight and very active. We have a family history of heart disease as both her grandfathers passed away from heart attacks one at 58 years [...]
Q: I had gastric ulcers a couple of years ago due to real bad heartburn. The specialist placed me on 40 mg of omeprazole each day and that has taken care of my symptoms. I would like to wean myself off of this medicine since it really doesn't cure my problem and I know liver [...]
QUESTION: "I see that the FDA in it's nanny state has shut down the natural progesterone cream (and all compounds without a script that you made). I understand you are recommending the NOW brand. There appears to be a lot of brands out there. Is this the only one that passes your inspection? What about one [...]
I was once hit in the face by a volleyball. The hitter was a tall powerful person who really knew how to spike the ball – and I was in the way. My contact lens popped out and I had a massive red eye and a shiner as well. I went to my ophthalmologist the [...]
Originally posted in 2012 - Updated June 2018. I've been asked to evaluate a detoxification program. Here's the basic premise of the 21-day program; "Removing sugar from your diet is the fastest way to lose fat and increase your energy. When your blood sugar is out of balance it causes depression, causes you to store [...]
She wasn't alone, though, because many people of her generation (early to mid-20th century) bore a deep understanding of what it really meant to be healthy. Sadly, they also lived during times when medicine was changing from the old fashioned holistic approach to the modern beliefs about drugs, surgery, and radiation – thank you AMA, [...]
We stock and sell a 50,000IU Vitamin D capsule. Seeing as most over the counter Vitamin D supplements are between 1,000IU and 5,000IU per capsule, we get a lot of wide eyed shock. 50,000 IU! WOW! That’s a lot of Vitamin D! Ya think? Take just a few minutes to read this and allow your [...]
Oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly.". The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect January 17, 1920 and was repealed by the Twenty-Third Amendment on December 5, 1933. During those 5,071 days of Prohibition, citizens found innumerable [...]
Updated May, 2018 | L.J. Frieders Ironic isn’t in? A single elevated PSA (prostate specific antigen) value and our current medical system goes into a tailspin of treatment and surgery for prostate problems - even when the traditional prostate approach is “watchful waiting”. However, a tick bite that might cause decades of misery is ignored [...]
CONTENT UPDATED, May, 2018 - L.J. Frieders Right after birth, a person has a heart rate around 159 bpm (beats per minute). By the late teen years that number falls to around 100, and stays in that range for the rest of their life. Stress and exercise and cause this number to climb, but it [...]
