"Alternative" medicine has been around for about 5,000 years. Back then, it was simply called "medicine".
What Changed?
When the pharmaceutical industry exploded in the 1950s
This word really hits to the core for me. How about you? INFOBESITY
It's very similar to eating "empty calories" - being overfed but undernourished
In the early 1900s estrogen was discovered/isolated. Big Pharma found abundant estrogen in the urine of pregnant horses. Premarin (pregnant mare’s urine) was then approved
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Since the year 2002, the General Consensus about Estrogen is:
It drives cancer
Avoid it as much as possible
If absolutely necessary, use the lowest dose for the shortest period of time
It drives dementia
It drives aging
Many women on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) wonder at what age they should stop therapy. They may even be nudged by their doctors to stop around the age
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There term hypothyroidism is based on an elevated TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) blood test.
T4 (also called thyroxine) is a type of thyroid hormone created
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You are probably well aware that the risk of heart disease increases with high cholesterol, yes?
Cholesterol (aka lipids) are commonly tested via doctors in many
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Too many patients and health care providers think estrogen drives cancer for women and testosterone drives cancer in men.
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Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that plays a role in memory, learning, attention, arousal and involuntary muscle movement. It’s an excitatory neurotransmitter. This means it “excites” the nerve cell and causes it to “fire off the message.”
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"Alternative" medicine has been around for about 5,000 years. Back then, it was simply called "medicine".
What Changed?
When the pharmaceutical industry exploded in the 1950s - all of the sudden, anything other than a pill was considered "alternative" and frowned upon by those in white coats.
The emunctories are the body's channels of elimination. They allow the body to excrete unwanted substances and keep us free of toxic stagnation and build up.
We can softly support these naturally existing emunctories of our bodies on a daily basis, allowing the body to do what it does best...stay healthy!