Category: Health Conditions

Cancer: Treating Illness by Generating Health

Readers of my Empowered Patient blog may recall my straightforward explanation for the cause of cancer—carcinogens. Whether the culprits are chemicals such as glyphosate, non-native electromagnetic fields such as radio frequency radiation, or lifestyle behaviors such as smoking, the initiation of the cancer process is an epigenetic damaging of cells creating a “wound that doesn’t…


Study: A New Method for Starving Deadly Brain Tumors to Eradicate Them

A finding from Tel Aviv University has revealed a new remarkable method that can starve a type of devastating brain tumor—glioblastoma—to death. The study explains that glioblastoma grows in the brain because of two mechanisms. These mechanisms play significant roles in accelerating the tumor growth. The first mechanism is the one that protects cancer cells…


Your Blood Type Might Predict Your Risk of Stroke: New Study

Did you know that blood type may predict the risk of early stroke before age 60? A new meta-analysis led by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers has found that human blood type could be associated with early onset ischemic stroke, specifically occurring in young adults before the age of 60. Steven J….


Nearly Every Food in This Diet Can Kill Cancer Cells

“Culture and history plunge directly into things, into stones, into wrinkles on human faces, in the taste of wine and oil, into the color of waves,” wrote Italian scholar Claudio Magris. A centuries-old traditional diet has benefited tens of thousands of people in the place where the scholar lives. Following this diet, people increase their…


What Could a ‘Sound Bath’ Do for You?

Sound baths are an easy-to-do form of therapy that’s been found to offer emotional, spiritual, and physical benefits. Picture a scene of elephants hearing sounds from Himalayan singing bowls played near them and becoming more relaxed during medical procedures and operations such as foot care, eye checks, skin care, and even blood draws. As amazing…


Why It’s so Hard for Doctors to Understand Your Pain

We’re all human beings, but we’re not all alike. Each person experiences pain differently, from an emotional perspective as well as a physical one, and responds to pain differently. That means that physicians like myself need to evaluate patients on an individual basis and find the best way to treat their pain. Today, however, doctors…


Exercise Hormone Stops Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice

A hormone secreted into the blood during endurance, or aerobic, exercise reduces levels of a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease and halts movement problems in mice, researchers report. Parkinson’s disease, a neurologic condition that causes people to lose control over their muscles and movements, affects about 1 million people in the US. If confirmed in additional laboratory…


How ‘The Most Dangerous Opioid’ Works on Your Brain

The United States has been in the midst of an opioid crisis for over two decades with the pandemic only aggravating an already looming problem. With words such as fentanyl, morphine, heroin, and opioids constantly being thrown around in the media, we can become fearful of these drugs that were once made and used to…


The Key to Reversing Autoimmune Diseases

The American College of Rheumatology estimates that more than 54.4 million people in the United States have an autoimmune disease.[1] Some of the major ones would be rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. Since I have massive clinical experience with RA, I am going to use…


4 Natural Remedies to Soothe Dry, Itchy Eyes

Fall can be a nightmare if you have allergies, especially ocular allergies or allergic conjunctivitis. This sounds worse than it is; basically the body launches the immune system against a foreign object seen as a threat and the result is an allergic reaction leading to dry, itchy eyes. Depending on the type of ocular allergy, the symptoms…