Articles (What Doctors Don't Tell You)

The most under diagnosed health problem in the West, parasites may be responsible for a multitude of conditions from joint pain and chronic fatigue to many general disorders of the gut and immune system Few of our doctors in civilised Western nations are trained to recognise the signs of parasitic infestation. Yet parasites do live […]

How often do you think about your kidneys? Probably never. For most of us, the kidneys are yet another set of organs which quietly do their job day after day without incidence. Yet if the kidneys malfunction or fail for any reason, our health is profoundly affected. Kidneys are involved with several vital bodily functions. […]

We, like many of our readers, support the many issues surrounding a vegetarian lifestyle. There are many important health and moral issues here, and there is no doubt that an increasing number of studies being performed prove the extraordinary health supporting nature of plant foods. However, what never gets asked is the simple question: is […]

Laser eye surgery, the so called miracle solution to myopia, has many hidden dangers, including the possibility that it may make your eyesight worse. The advertisements are persuasive. “Do away with glasses forever”; “revolutionary treatment permanently corrects short sightedness”; “experience the life enhancing effect”. To the casual observer, laser surgery has all the hallmarks of […]

Pre-eclampsia is, according to the medical profession, an enigma. It has been known by many different names around the world. It has been called toxaemia, pre-eclamptic toxaemia (PET), pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH), hypertensive disease of pregnancy (HDP), metabolic toxaemia of late pregnancy (MTLP) and even gestosis. The overabundance of names should be enough to indicate […]

Given perfect conditions, human beings are thought to be capable of living a healthy 125 years. Indeed, the oldest recorded human being was a French woman who lived to be 122 years of age (JAMA, 1997; 278: 1345-48). The vast majority of us, however, don’t live that long, and why? is a question which vexes […]

Animal testing doesn’t work. Its results are often inconclusive and cannot be accurately extrapolated to humans. As a result, relying on the results of animal testing can be dangerous to human health. It is a system which is long overdue for a critical review, and yet no such review is on the horizon. In his […]

Eating disorders, whether they be the starvation regimes of anorexia and bulimia or the compulsive eating which leads to overweight and in some cases morbid obesity, are on the rise. Medical research has, frustratingly, not kept pace with the increase. For years the theory that people who suffer from these problems are mentally unstable, slothful […]

Inflammatory bowel disease affects hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year. It is, according to conventional medicine, incurable and its cause is unknown (BMJ, August 6, 1994). The number of reported cases is increasing worldwide each year (Canada Health Rep, 1990; 71: 343-59), especially among children. Generally speaking, IBD is thought to […]

Most of us think of hearing -loss as a normal and inevitable part of growing old. But in less developed societies where the problem of environmental noise is less acute, the elderly often experience little or no reduction in hearing. In our society, increasing numbers of teenagers, young adults and those in the prime of […]