Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 And I was trying to be provocative for a reason -- if you look at conventional medicine, conventional medicine has now come up with about 7,000 disease labels, and while this has worked well for medicine -- I think one of the reasons conventional medicine has advanced as well as it has is because they came up with these standardized diagnoses, came up with standardized diseases, and then standardized therapies for those diseases.
The problem is, it assumes that everybody's the same, and they're not. We're all biochemically unique. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |
 What a customer wants to look for is a standardized kava extract with at least 70 milligrams of kava lactones per dose.
"The ultimate test is, do you feel it? I've walked into stores and seen ground up kava root capsule and I've thought, 'People are going to swallow them, nothing's going to happen,' and they'll say, 'Oh, this stuff really doesn't work.' What will work is the right quantity of a standardized extract, and if you feel it, you know you've got a good kava product on your hands."
I would add a caveat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| And I was trying to be provocative for a reason -- if you look at conventional medicine, conventional medicine has now come up with about 7,000 disease labels, and while this has worked well for medicine -- I think one of the reasons conventional medicine has advanced as well as it has is because they came up with these standardized diagnoses, came up with standardized diseases, and then standardized therapies for those diseases.
The problem is, it assumes that everybody's the same, and they're not. We're all biochemically unique. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 When shopping for herbs, look for a version that is standardized. This means that it contains a specific amount of one main ingredient—the one determined by science to be the "active" ingredient. When an herb is standardized, you know that each time you take rt, it has the same effect with the same strength on your body. Why not just take a pill containing only the active ingredient? Because the other aspects of the herb are valuable, too. They all work together, and they are all beneficial. |
Stacy Malkan
See book keywords and concepts |
 A note about standardized labeling: some * ResponsiblePurchasing.org companies, particularly European ones, use * LessToxicGuide.ca standardized labeling (called INCI) that * BigGreenPurse.com requires chemical rather than natural • TheNakedTruthProject.org names of ingredients. The INCI standards • CreenLivingNow.com are good labeling practice, and ingredients * Safer-Products.org are often explained in further detail on _ product labels or company websites.
It's fun to think about spending my money on the kind of world I want to create. |
Hyla Cass
See book keywords and concepts |
| When shopping for herbs, look for a version that is standardized. This means that it contains a specific amount of one main ingredient—the one determined by science to be the "active" ingredient. When an herb is standardized, you know that each time you take it, it has the same effect with the same strength on your body. Why not just take a pill containing only the active ingredient? Because the other aspects of the herb are valuable, too. They all work together, and they are all beneficial.
? |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts |
| MORE RESEARCH NEEDED
"Our findings highlight the need for further research into the mechanism of increased mortality in patients hospitalized in December, while ensuring continued emphasis on standardized care during holiday seasons for patients with acute MI," the researchers conclude.
"This paper is at least reassuring that standards of care do not diminish during the month of December," says Dr. Robert A. |
| Best: Carefully prescribed, standardized exercises tailored for your individual back problem.
Norman Marcus, MD, medical director, Norman Marcus Pain Institute, 30 E. 40 St., New York City 10016.
Spot and Treat Shingles Quickly to Avoid Years of Pain
Leon Kircik, MD, medical director of Physicians Skin Care and Dermatologic Research, PLLC, Louisville, KY, and consulting physician at Jewish Hospital, Louisville, KY, and Staten Island University Hospital, New York City.
Shingles is a painful nerve ailment caused by the reactivation of the chicken pox virus in adulthood. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
See book keywords and concepts |
 None of these terms are required to be backed up by any proof that they are better for your skin than products without these claims, because there are no standardized guidelines (Source: www.fda.gov). You will also be surprised at the number of products in this edition that get rated with an unhappy face because the product is labeled for sensitive skin, but contains a preponderance of irritating or sensitizing ingredients. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
See book keywords and concepts |
 Meanwhile, supplements of green-tea extracts in tablet and capsule form that are standardized for high levels of EGCG would seem to achieve this increase indirectly.2
"Due to the many biological activities of tea polyphenols, more than one mechanism could be important in the inhibition of carcinogenesis by tea," Theresa J. Smith from Rutgers University reminds us. Dr. |
| The skin changes can be remembered conveniently as the ABCDs:
A Asymmetry or irregular growth
B Borders irregular
C Color variations within the growth
D Diameter exceeding 6 millimeters
Laboratory experiments using cells grown in petri dishes and experiments performed under standardized conditions with laboratory animals indicate that green tea extract taken orally or applied directly to the skin offers significant protection against skin cancer caused by UV radiation or external exposure to cancer-causing chemicals. |
| Scientific studies of green tea generally indicate that the dose of polyphenols needed for effective health protection is 300 to 400 milligrams of polyphenols or more daily, usually taken in the form of a green tea extract that may be standardized up to 97 percent polyphenols (with up to 67 percent being EGCG). Lesser dosages are required for green tea extracts with higher EGCG contents. These dosages are equivalent to four to ten cups of green tea daily. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
 Rooted in the complex interactions between soil, water, plants, animals, and microbes, agroecology depends more on understanding local conditions and context than on using standardized products or techniques. It requires farming guided by locally adapted knowledge—farming with brains rather than by habit or convenience.
Agroecology doesn't mean simply going organic. Even forgoing pesticides, California's newly industrialized organic factory farms are not necessarily conserving soil. |
Ray D. Strand
See book keywords and concepts |
 Hopefully, as the test becomes more standardized between labs it will become more affordable. Presently, a serum homocysteine level test costs between $45 and $150.
Heart Calcification Scores
Most medical centers have now made modifications to their CT scanners so they can determine the amount of calcification, or plaque buildup, present in coronary arteries. This is a simple, noninvasive procedure, but its cost usually ranges between $250 and $600. I recommend this test for all patients with significant risk factors for or a strong family history of heart disease. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
| Over decades of study, agronomists have developed ways to estimate soil loss for different environmental conditions and under different agricultural practices relative to standardized plots. Despite half a century of first-rate research, rates of soil erosion remain difficult to predict; they vary substantially both from year to year and across a landscape. Decades of hard-to-collect measurements are needed to get representative estimates that sample the effect of rare large storms and integrate the effects of common showers. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts |
| However, those who took the yoga class experienced the greatest gains—78% of the group improved by at least two points on the Roland Disability Scale, a standardized measure that assesses the limitation on physical function due to back pain.
Of the people who participated in the exercise class, 63% reported at least a two-point improvement, while 47% of those who read the book reported a similar benefit.
The yoga participants also reduced their use of pain medicine more than those in the other two groups. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |
 Capsules containing standardized amounts of flax lignans, phytic acid and omega-3 fatty acids provide a more assured source of these nutritional factors.
Summary
It is obvious that commercial interests reign supreme over women's health concerns. Profiteering off of women's monthly hormonal swings and the cessation of their menstrual cycle in mid-life is widespread. It is a chilling fact that, after decades of research, that there still is no effective preventive measure for breast cancer. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |
 We talked about creating master mammography readers who would provide standardized second opinions on all films, which has long been done in Scandinavia. Blumenthal came up with an innovative scheme to use technologies of the space and intelligence agencies that can read a license plate from outer space to enhance the ability to find early signs of cancer within the breast. Despite these efforts and major technical progress on several fronts, no major change in how mammograms should be read and reviewed ever happened. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
See book keywords and concepts |
| After they have been identified in foods, these chemopreventive agents are generally extracted so that they can be adrninistered more conveniently and at a standardized dosage.
An advantage of green tea extract and other nutrients over pharmaceutical drugs in cancer therapy is that the nutrients are generally less potent and can be used safely over a much wider range of dosages, so they are safer to use. Pharmaceutical drugs are safe and effective only within a narrow range of dosage. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
See book keywords and concepts |
 Apart from the musk (an exotic flavoring probably introduced by the Italians), this method—which was apparently standardized in late 16th-century Mexico—became universal throughout Spain and Europe, and stayed that way until Van Houten's revolutionary discoveries in the early 19th century.
However, Veryard's recipe for the "cacao mass" seems minimalist compared to the way many Spaniards of the time preferred their chocolate. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts |
| Typical dose: One clove of fresh, minced garlic daily or 200 to 300 mg of standardized garlic powder, taken in pill or tablet form, three times daily.
GINKGO
What it does: Improves memory and concentration in people who have early-stage senile dementia or Alzheimer's disease, as well as in healthy adults, by increasing blood flow to the brain. May also relieve tinnitus (ringing in the ears), vertigo and altitude sickness, as well as vascular problems, such as intermittent claudication, a painful condition in the calf that is caused by decreased circulation to the legs. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 To do this, you should use the standardized questionnaire released by the Center for Epidemiological Studies on Depression (CES-D), which I have reproduced on the next page. It is also available on the Internet with automatic scoring at www.chcr.brown.edu/pcoc/ cesdscale.pdf.
The minimum score at which depression becomes likely in an otherwise well person is 16, but it is 26 for people with medical illness. Scores in the teens are very common in medically unexplained illness and really don't mean clinical depression. |
Roberta Bivins
See book keywords and concepts |
 If a practitioner believed in specific diseases, he (and in orthodox practice, it was all but inevitably a he) would strive to identify and treat that disease in increasingly standardized ways. However, practitioners dubious of specific disease identifications and standard treatments would tailor their treatments to individual patients and sets of symptoms. Men and women, adults and children, rich and poor, city-dwellers and country folk, sickly and hale, gluttonous and abstemious, pillars of virtue and slaves of the flesh—each would need slightly or radically different therapies. |
| In support of his new form of standardized pulse diagnosis, he argued: 'I suppose my readers will be pleas'd to practice according to the Chinese mode, as well as to adorn their houses with their curious manufactures, and to use their diet of Thea.'23
Moxabustion was a foreign—and, as Busschof's hesitations illustrate, not immediately appealing—medical technique. Assimilating it necessitated changing existing (if contested) medical understandings of a prominent disease. So why were consumers like Temple willing to shelve their own culture's medicine and sample moxa instead? |
| Instead, in the 'Golden Age' of western biomedicine, patients were increasingly depersonalized, their treatment standardized, and their management moved from the home to
2i. 'At the Gates: Our Safety Depends on Official Vigilance', Harper's Weekly, New York, 5 September 1885. Cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox, all diseases associated with immigrants and the urban slums in which they were forced by poverty to live, are blocked from entering the Port of New York by a barrier labelled 'Quarantine', and an angel bearing a shield marked 'cleanliness'. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
| Some look to the Cuban example as a model for employing locally adapted ecological insight and knowledge instead of standardized mechanization and agtochemistry to feed the wotld. They see the solution not simply as producing cheap food, but keeping small farms—and thetefore farmers—on the land, and even in cities. Thousands of commercial urban gardens grew up throughout the island, hundreds in Havana alone. Land slated for development was converted to actes of vegetable gardens that supplied markets where local people bought tomatoes, lettuce, potatoes and othet crops. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |
 What may be normal for one person may not be normal for another, which makes the "standardized vitamin requirements for all" questionable, if not potentially harmful.
The argument that our foods today are so depleted of vitamins that we need to take additional helpings of synthetically derived vitamins is only partially correct. Most of the foods consumed by most people in modern countries are highly acid-forming, which means that they damage blood vessels and deplete the body's vitamins and minerals. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |
 Nettle leaf: Take either 10 g of the dried herb, 3-6 ml of a 1:2 liquid extract, or a freeze-dried standardized extract of nettle leaf. Although there is limited scientific evidence for the effectiveness of stinging nettles on allergies or hay fever, many experts have found it very useful for their patients.
W
Gumweed: Taking 30-60 drops of tincture of this plant three times daily can help settle the symptoms of hay fever, especially the cough that results from overactive sinuses, leading to phlegm and a runny nose.
265
HEARING LOSS
DIAGNOSIS
Hearing loss is a very distressing condition. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts |
| Most practitioners utilize a sort of standardized meridian system known as the Twelve Primary Pathways comprised of the bladder, gallbladder, heart, kidney, large intestine, liver, lungs, pericardium, San jiao (or abdominal cavity), small intestine, spleen, and the stomach.
How Can Acupuncture Help Me Detoxify Internally?
Acupuncture has been practiced for nearly 5,000 years and is receiving attention even in Western hospitals and clinics. |
Email this page to a friend
