Published May 15, 2015

These antibiotics increase your risk of painful peripheral neuropathy by 83%

Antibiotics can cause all kinds of problems in the intestines from killing off the good bacteria. Everyone already knows that. Right now, I am treating a 92 year old woman with a serious case of diarrhea from a Z-Pak she had two months ago. But did you know that there's an entirely new line of antibiotics that contain fluoride and are even more dangerous?

 

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Published May 13, 2015

Stop the severe pain of post herpetic neuralgia in minutes

Do you know what post herpetic neuralgia or PHN is? It is a complication of shingles. And it can be a very serious problem. PHN often causes severe, lifelong pain. And there is no conventional treatment for it other than to drug the patient up to the point that they don't notice the pain as much. But as usual, even though my conventional colleagues don't have a treatment for it does not mean that a treatment doesn't exist. Last week my partner, naturopathic doctor Jeff Hanson, successfully treated a severe long-term case of PHN in less than five minutes.

 

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Published May 11, 2015

How to digest more protein and build your muscles faster

One of the biggest problems we have as we get older is digesting protein. That's the bad news. The good news is there's a way to increase your body's ability to digest protein. A new study shows how.

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