Second Opinion helps you take charge of your health – and feel younger, and healthier than ever before.

Editor-in-Chief Robert J. Rowen MD is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at San Francisco. He is board certified in emergency medicine and served on the Alaska State Medical Board. Dr. Rowen is known as "The Father of Medical Freedom" for pioneering the nation’s first statutory protection for alternative medicine in 1990.

Dr. Rowen goes beyond the same old tired health advice. He brings you big breakthroughs that really work, often years before they’re covered anywhere else. His advice doesn’t rely on second-hand information or health-food-industry hype. Everything you read about has been tested in the real world on real patients.

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Make Yourself Heart Attack Proof

Reduce your risk of breast cancer by 26% or more

With all the confusion surrounding the new breast cancer guidelines, I’m trying to give you as much information as possible to help you prevent this killer disease. Today, I’ve got great news about a nutrient once thought to encourage cancer.

That’s right! Several years ago there was a controversy surrounding this nutrient and prostate cancer. There was a study that suggested it might be associated with more cancer. It made big news. Even my alternative-minded peers debated the news.

I was cautious in my analysis. I felt that the study was flawed for not looking at the sources of the nutrient. I maintained that the study used processed and/or synthetic alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) instead of ALA from natural whole foods. I just could not see how an omega-3 fatty acid required for reducing inflammation and healthy cell membranes could raise cancer risk. Well, now there’s a report that suggests I was right.

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Breakthrough Treatment Wipes Out Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Other Chronic Illness, Part 2

Last month, I showed you one of the most amazing breakthroughs in medicine I’ve seen in years. If you suffer from any disease that threatens your life or your ability to live life to the fullest, then you have to read the rest of the story.

The breakthrough is the controversial Stem Cell Therapy. But this Stem Cell Therapy is unlike any you’ve ever heard of. The therapies you’ve heard about on the nightly news get the stem cells from two main sources: fetal cells and umbilical cord blood.

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