Can a sugar pill cure your illness?

What if I told you the secret to solving your health problem was a sugar pill? You might think I was crazy. But evidence now shows that taking a placebo solves more health challenges than many drugs.

New research confirms this is true even if you KNOW that the doctor is giving you a placebo. In this new study, researchers followed 80 patients with irritable bowel disease. They found that up to 59% of a group of IBS patients got adequate relief simply by taking a known placebo. Amazingly, knowing they were taking a placebo worked better than not knowing. Only 30-40% of those who didn’t know they were taking a placebo saw adequate relief.

How women can reduce their wrinkles by 50%

Nobody wants wrinkles, especially women. But leaving aside the appearance issue, wrinkles also tell a lot about the overall health of the connective tissue in a person. Not long ago, I told you about a Yale study that showed that wrinkles are often an indicator of poor bone strength. The fewer wrinkles you have, the better the likelihood that your bones are stronger than your more wrinkly friends.

Now I want to tell you about another study. This one indicates that women who replace their sagging hormone levels as they age actually have about one half as many wrinkles as those who choose not to. 

The researchers in this study looked at 20 post menopausal women. The important characteristics of the women such as age, race, sun exposure, sunscreen use, tobacco use, and skin type were all similar. 

Don’t get cancer in California

As you may know, I work very hard to push for medical freedom around the country. It started in Alaska, where I helped get the country’s first medical freedom law passed. Many states have followed what we did in Alaska. Then I moved to California. About 7 years ago, I participated in a similar bill in California. California is the largest state in the Union and, as California goes, so goes the nation. So we’re working hard to press for medical freedom here.

Prior to us passing the medical freedom bill, the California assembly passed a billed directed at alternative medicine. Allegedly to protect the public, this law made it a criminal act for any doctor to treat cancer outside of slash, burn, and poison (aka surgery, radiation, and chemo). They did this with absolutely no evidence that these horrible treatments did anyone any good. If they took the time to do a little research, they would have found that chemo gives at best a few weeks of extra life. And it does so at an extraordinary cost to quality of life and pocketbook. Your oncologist can kill you. But they can imprison your integrative medical doctor or naturopath for curing you.