What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

Some 20 million Americans—or one in every 16—and one in 20 British people suffer from some form of thyroid disease. That’s a medical tragedy, no doubt, but the bigger tragedy is that almost two-thirds have no idea they are affected—and in the majorit

Dr. Jean Monro, medical director of the Breakspear Hospital, is an internationally recognized specialist in environmental medicine, including such conditions as chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease and multiple chemical sensitivity. She is Fellow o

I was very interested to read your article concerning “blunder deaths” in UK hospitals, the reason being that I am extremely concerned about the approach to the washing of staff clothing. An acquaintance whose daughter is a nurse at our local Royal U

William Coley was a young surgeon freshly graduated from Harvard when, after failing to save the life of a 17-year-old girl from cancer, he became obsessed with the disease and especially spontaneous remissions, those rare cases when cancer just myst

Ultrasound was developed in the 1920s and 1930s as a therapy to treat a range of conditions from Parkinson’s to cancer. William Fry at the University of Illinois was an early pioneer and used it to destroy part of the brain to alleviate Parkinson’s

I t’s confusing for a lot of people knowing that your doctors have signed up to a medical code of conduct—proposed 2,500 years ago by the Greek doctor and philosopher Hippocrates—that undertakes they must “First, do no harm.” Yet we also know that pr

We’re always told we should be walking 10,000 steps a day. It’s even the default setting on most smartphones and pedometers—but where did the figure come from, and is there any science to support it? Surprisingly, there’s very little. It seems to hav

Below are some of the typical infections associated with the most common autoimmune disorders. If your autoimmune condition is not listed, do your own research by searching online for “[your autoimmune condition] and infections” to learn which specif

If you have already dialed in your diet, healed your gut and addressed infections with the help of an experienced practitioner, and you are still not making progress, you may want to consider these adjunctive therapies: Address oral infections. Many

alance is the ability to maintain B your body’s center of mass over its base of support. When this is all working as designed and fully functioning, your balance system allows you to maintain a clear vision to orient yourself in space, continually g

1 From standing, step one leg back into a high lunge position, feet hip-width apart for stability and just as far as your lower back feels happy. Lean your torso forward and, arms out to the side, press into the ball of the back foot to feel length u

The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped endocrine gland located below the Adam’s apple on either side of the lower neck. Its main role is to produce the hormone thyroxine (T4), which the body converts into triiodothyronine (T3), the functional versio

Poor gut health and imbalances in the microbiota of the intestinal tract have been linked to the development of many autoimmune diseases including inflammatory bowel disease (IBS), rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis and even type 1 diabe

Georgia Lennard, nutritionist and advanced physical rehabilitation trainer at Beyond Balance in London, recommends you seek out a functional medicine clinic and get certain lab tests done, including: Antithyroid antibodies test. The antithyroid anti

EFT uses a specific set of acupuncture meridian points from traditional Chinese medicine, tapping on those points with the fingertips while verbally addressing an emotional issue. This is done in order to “talk” to the emotional center of the brain,

Studies show that EFT works by regulating the expression of genes that contribute to overall health in the body, shutting down stress genes and upregulating stress-reduction genes.1 In one recent study, EFT significantly reduced symptoms of pain (by

There have been hundreds of clinical studies conducted using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for a wide variety of health conditions. EFT has proven effective in reducing intense fears relating to numerous causes,1 and is a particularly powerful tr

The more psychological the issue, the better the results with EFT will be. Think about a problem you want to work on. It can be an anger issue with your partner, a sense of insecurity at work, general anxiety about money—you name it. Contemplate the

We can’t see the world as it really is, only as we perceive it to be. Wise words from the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant—so what about the world we see, or think we see, when we go online? The gateway to the web starts for most of us with Goo