Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’
| Newer Entries »NFU Angered As New Evidence Reveals Link Between Red Meat And Cancer Was Flawed
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Tags: Cancer, foods and cancer, Nutrition, red meat
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Plant derivative could help refine cancer treatment
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
A plant derived from trees and shrubs called celastracaea, which has long been used for ailments such as fever, chills, joint pain and an anti-inflammatory in Chinese Medicine has been shown to inhibit a protein that is necessary for cancer growth.
Tags: alternative cancer treatment, anti-inflammatory, botanical, Cancer, celastrol, naturopathic cancer treatment
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Stress Triggers Tumor Formation
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Tags: Cancer, oncology, stress, tumor
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Cancer Cells Co-Opt Fat Metabolism Pathway To Become More Malignant
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
According to new findings from The Scripps Research Institute, an enzyme that helps break down stored fats goes into overdrive in some cancer cells, making them more malignant. This may explain the relationship between obesity and cancer.
Tags: Cancer, cancer prevention, Obesity, Weight loss
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Prolonged TV Viewing Linked To Higher Risk Of Death Even In Regular Exercisers
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Tags: Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, Exercise, television
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Survival of cancer patients treated with mistletoe extract (Iscador): a systematic literature review
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
A review of studies done on using mistletoe extract Iscador as an adjuvant cancer therapy shows that it’s use improves survival.
Tags: Cancer, Iscado, mistletoe
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Vitamin C Reverses Abnormalities Caused By Werner Syndrome Gene, Including Cancer, Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Failure And High Cholesterol
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Tags: Cancer, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Heart disease, Obesity, vitamin C, Werner syndrome
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Common Pain Medication Accelerates Growth of Cancer Tumors
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Recent studies have shown that morphine and other opiate-based pain medications contribute to the growth and spread of cancer cells.
Tags: Cancer, Morphine, Opiates
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Vitamin D – We Can’t Say It Enough
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
We’ve told you before how sufficient levels of Vitamin D can help reduce your risk of many chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, depression and diabetes.
While these are all very serious conditions that deserve your attention, there’s another ailment that’s dominating the headlines right now. You’ve heard it blasted in big letters — the FLU. And guess what? Study after study is showing that Vitamin D can help you battle that cold-weather illness too. (more…)
Tags: Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, depression, Diabetes, Flu, vitamin D
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Kids, Health, and Vitamin D
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
If there were any easy way for tens of millions of people to reduce their risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, osteoporosis and many other chronic diseases, shouldn’t that be in the headlines?
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine discovered exactly that. In a large survey of the vitamin D status of children aged 1 to 21, they found that 7 out of 10 were deficient.
Did you know that if women maintain optimal vitamin D levels, their risk of breast cancer is cut in half? Did you know that maintaining optimal vitamin D levels also cuts the risk of colon cancer in half? In fact, getting this one single nutrient up to optimal levels would save untold lives and tens of billions of dollars annually in health care costs.
At Nature Cures Clinic we take this seriously. It’s why we test vitamin D levels on virtually every patient we see, and we make sure people get enough to get these protective effects. (more…)
Tags: Cancer, Chronic disease, depression, Diabetes, Heart disease, vitamin D
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Nature Cures Clinic On TV!
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Our clinic was recently featured in three segments on Portland Channel 12 KPTV. If you didn’t catch us on TV, you can check it out at these links:
Part One: IV Therapy and the Treatment of Fatigue
Part Two: Naturopathic Therapies for Cancer Patients
Part Three: Treating Migraines with Naturopathic Therapies
Tags: alternative cancer treatment, alternative migraine treatment, Cancer, Fatigue, Greg Nigh, IV therapy, KPTV, media, Migraines, natural cancer treatment, natural migraine treatment, Naturopathic medicine, tv
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The Most Important Vitamin?
Monday, October 15th, 2007
We’ve written before about the increasing amount of research on vitamin D. There are few nutrients that can claim the health benefits of this single vitamin.A study recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine adds even more weight to the importance of this vitamin. Low blood levels of vitamin D have been correlated with everything from depression and diabetes to osteoporosis and allergies.
When 18 studies involving over 57,000 people were analyzed, those individuals who took vitamin D supplements had a significantly lower mortality rate than those who did not take vitamin D. (more…)
Tags: Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, vitamin D
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The Naturopathic Approach to Cancer
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Listen to The Naturopathic Approach to Cancer
In this podcast, Portland naturopathic doctors, Dr. Greg Eckel and Dr. Andy Swanson will give you a general overview of what exactly cancer is, and the politics that surround it. They’ll explain to you the differences between how conventional medicine would approach cancer compared to the naturopathic approach. Most importantly, they’ll arm you with ways to prevent cancer.
Tags: alternative cancer treatment, Cancer, cancer prevention, Dr. Andy Swanson, Dr. Greg Eckel, medical politics, natural cancer treatment, naturopathic cancer treatment, Naturopathic medicine
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Hormone Replacement Therapy and Strokes
Saturday, January 8th, 2005
Millions and millions of women who had been on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for years got some unfortunate news a few years ago: HRT leads to an increase risk of some serious health problems. While the vast majority of menopausal woman had been put on HRT to prevent everything from osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease and even dementia, a few bombshell studies came out which refuted the claim that HRT protects against these at all.
The hormones used in hormone replacement therapy are derived from animal sources, most commonly horses. Premarin, the most common replacement estrogen prescribed, is derived from PREgnant MARe urINe. This is the type of estrogen that has been studied and now found to be unsafe. In fact, a review of 28 clinical trials involving nearly 40,000 women on HRT confirmed the finding: HRT use raises risk of strokes by almost 30%, and the severity of stoke is increased as well.
It is unknown why HRT leads to this increase in strokes. But consider the following: women naturally produce three kinds of estrogen, each in different amounts. Each type of estrogen that is produced has a very different level of activity in the body, so the ratio of these types is very important for overall hormone balance. (more…)
Tags: Cancer, Heart disease, hormone replacement therapy, Osteoporosis, strokes
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