Anne Harrington
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 Placebos, whether handed out in a clinic to pacify annoying patients or used in trials to test new drugs, were identified by critics with the most patronizing and ethically fraught face of mainstream medicine.57 A lot would have to change before something that was once seen as disempowering patients could be perceived as the key to treatments that might actually empower them.
In the meantime, the medicalization of positive-thinking ideas proceeded on other fronts. |
Hyla Cass
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 In the Resources section, you'll find listings of different organizations that maintain databases of doctors who support the integration of natural therapies with mainstream medicine. These organizations have Web pages and phone numbers that will make your search easier.
Take your time seeking out a doctor that you relate to and can trust. Ask friends and family to make recommendations. Your relationship with your physician is of primary importance in your life, so it's worth making a well-researched choice. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 The current trend in mainstream medicine is genetics. Modern research findings about the genetic components of disease have been incredibly enlightening and certainly have improved health care over the last few decades. However, there appears to be a fundamental limit to how much science and, by extension, medicine can achieve by treating the body only as a chemical factory or as being dependent solely, or mostly, on its genetic "blueprint." Eric Landers, who was at the forefront of the Human Genome Project, has called the genome a parts list. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 According to one physician, it is "any diagnosis, treatment or prevention that
143 complements mainstream medicine by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy, or by diversifying the conceptual framework of medicine."3 Perhaps the most straightforward definition is that they are "interventions neither taught widely in medical schools nor generally available in U.S. hospitals."4 Note that both these definitions define alternatives for what they are not, a problematic reminiscent of the divide between the concepts of sickness and health. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Human Guinea-pigs
Despite the fact that respected medical journals like the Lancet, The Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the New England Journal of Medicine have all written about the hazardous effects of ultrasound use, mainstream medicine has all but ignored the negative evidence. Even the FDA has commented on the dangers of ultrasound. |
| Of course, substances that heal common ailments naturally are unattractive to big drug companies and, therefore, stand no chance of making it into the field of mainstream medicine, at least not in countries where health care is dominated by the pharmaceutical giants.
Dozens of herbs and common foods have similar effects to guggul. Green tea alone has shown to have great benefits for cholesterol health. Most fruits and vegetables, including apples, citrus fruit, berries, carrots, apricots, cabbage, and sweet potatoes have also shown to be helpful in naturally balancing cholesterol. |
| You may wonder why in mainstream medicine there is no medical knowledge or reference that deals with gallstones in the liver. The reason for this extremely important missing link is that the theories of modern medicine tell you that gallstones can only be formed in the gallbladder, and not in the liver. The "experimental evidence" supporting this theory is mainly based on taking x-rays or ultrasound scans, which can detect only the few stones in the gallbladder that may have grown to a certain size and are calcified (mineral stones). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 As of this writing, mainstream medicine still sees the cholesterol story this way: Excess amounts of LDL, or "bad cholesterol," cling to the walls of arteries. Over time, a buildup of these deposits, called plaque, will narrow the arteries and restrict blood flow to the heart. Heart disease and heart attacks are often a result of the restricted blood flow caused by the plaque. HDL is considered "good cholesterol" because it reverses the action of LDL by removing the plaque. Enter niacin. What niacin does that medications can't do is both lower the LDL cholesterol and raise the HDL cholesterol. |
Anne Harrington
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| This is because in the 1970s, mainstream medicine felt itself under greater pressure from the general public than at any time since the late nineteenth century. There was a general sense that the medical profession now cared more about serving its own voracious professional ambitions than it did about serving the legitimate health needs of patients; and there was much discussion of the idea that in many cases medicine actually did more harm than good.51 As discontent intensified, the appeal of alternatives outside the mainstream also grew. |
Hyla Cass
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| In this book, I deal primarily with drugs intended for long-term use that cause slow depletion over time with serious effects—ones that mainstream medicine rarely traces back to the medication. In fact, the allopathic game plan usually entails adding more drugs to counter what is really attributable to drug-induced nutrient depletion.
A DEEPER LOOK AT HOW DRUGS CAN DEPLETE NUTRIENTS
When drugs deplete your body's nutrient levels, they are likely to do so in one or more of five ways. They can:
1. Decrease appetite or increase your appetite for unhealthy foods.
2. |
Anne Harrington
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| The movement's leaders appealed to a larger popular culture of alternative therapies that collectively aimed to challenge the authority and competence of mainstream medicine.17 At the same time, they appealed to a larger popular culture of alternative religiosity that was rebelling against the perceived spiritual inadequacies of older forms of Protestantism such as Congregationalism and Episcopalianism.
One striking feature of the mind-cure movement was that both its leadership and its hard-core following included a disproportionate number of women. |
| What can they teach us too about discontents and countercurrents within the profession of mainstream medicine itself, the ways that doctors and scientists also feel and respond to the shortcomings of the phys-icalist story of illness? This book takes an historical approach to tackling these kinds of questions. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS
Historically, conventional mainstream medicine has not been able to offer women a known cause for PMS, nor has it been able to offer a management approach short of pharmaceuticals with as many side effects as relief. Fortunately, new research has led to a better understanding of PMS and to new and more successful conventional and natural treatments. Self-care with natural therapies is the dominant method women use to manage PMS. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| In this book, I deal primarily with drugs intended for long-term use that cause slow depletion over time with serious effects—ones that mainstream medicine rarely traces back to the medication. In fact, the allopathic game plan usually entails adding more drugs to counter what is really attributable to drug-induced nutrient depletion.
A DEEPER LOOK AT HOW DRUGS CAN DEPLETE NUTRIENTS
When drugs deplete your body's nutrient levels, they are likely to do so in one or more of five ways. They can:
1. Decrease appetite or increase your appetite for unhealthy foods.
2. |
| In the Resources section, you'll find listings of different organizations that maintain databases of doctors who support the integration of natural therapies with mainstream medicine. These organizations have Web pages and phone numbers that will make your search easier.
Take your time seeking out a doctor that you relate to and can trust. Ask friends and family to make recommendations. Your relationship with your physician is of primary importance in your life, so it's worth making a well-researched choice. |
| Supplementing isoniazid with this vitamin is recommended even by mainstream medicine. See pages 48-52 for more on the B vitamins).
• Vitamin D: 1,000 mg daily.
LEVODOPA (L-DOPA)
This medication is used to treat Parkinson's disease (PD). It contains two synthetic forms of the neurotransmitter dopamine (levodopa plus carbidopa), which declines dramatically in Parkinson's sufferers. Without dopamine, muscles become progressively "frozen," and without the drug, he or she may not be able to move at all.
Action: In Parkinson's, there is a loss of dopamine-producing cells in the brain. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Practically unknown in the United States a few years ago, the juice of this fruit has been the subject of more research than you can shake a stick at, and the results have been significant enough to make even mainstream medicine sit up and take notice.
First things first. The pomegranate didn't get its own entry in this book not because it doesn't deserve it, but because it's kind of hard and time-consuming to eat. |
Devra Davis
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 Despite his run-ins with DuPont, Hueper found some receptive colleagues in mainstream medicine for a while. During the 1940s, he wrote editorials for the Journal of the American Medical Association on the cancer risks of solar radiation, aromatic amines, estrogens, coal tar products, arsenic, asbestos and other environmental hazards. In 1948 he began work with the fledgling National Cancer Institute, heading its first environmental cancer section. At first this must have seemed kismet. |
| An exuberant and erudite man, Kalnicki had interests in topics well outside of mainstream medicine. He knew firsthand that no matter how good care had become for cancer patients, a fundamentally new look had to be taken at keeping the disease at bay. Treatments were becoming more sophisticated, more expensive, and sometimes more successful, for those who could afford them.
"You know, Devra, I really think you should talk with Herberman," Dr. Kalnicki told me one day, when we were both waiting with my mother to finish her infusion. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 We're talking about the realm of genes and molecules, where mainstream medicine is just beginning to put to good use the hard-earned knowledge gained from other scientific disciplines like molecular biology and nutritional science. We know that if you think about and act on the small stuff, you can get huge results: the vast majority of cases of type 2 diabetes can be prevented altogether or treated much more effectively if you use all the tools at your disposal. |
Jack Challem
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 Hoffer's work has never been accepted by mainstream medicine, partly because much of medicine has a bias for pharmaceuticals over inexpensive vitamins.
Vitamin B3 is a powerful mood-enhancing nutrient, and it is involved in the chemical reactions that make the calming neurotransmitter serotonin. There are two common forms of vitamin B3: niacin and niacinamide.
The niacin form, which also lowers cholesterol, causes an intense tingling and a flush that lasts for about one hour. It feels like an allergic reaction, although it seems to bother some people less than others. |
Anne Harrington
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| By and large, American mainstream medicine proved cautiously open
Schematic representation of specificity in the etiology of peptic ulcer
PRIDE AND GUILT
Franz Alexander's 1950 textbook representation of the ways in which specific repressed emotions with roots in life history factors may interact with physiological systems in the body to produce a peptic ulcer. From Psychosomatic Medicine by Franz Alexander. Copyright 1950, 1987 byW.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission ofW. W. Norton & Company, Inc. to Alexander's approach to psychosomatics. |
Dawson Church
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 It also often works better than mainstream medicine for many of the predominant disease of post-industrial cultures, such as autoimmune conditions and cancer.43 Epigenetics gives us tools to understand why our health can be affected by so many different healing modalities.
We are comfortable with incremental exploration. Yet many changes are not incremental, but very sudden. The expansion of a balloon as air is injected is smooth and incremental. A balloon popping is sudden and discontinuous. Water heated in a kettle shows little change. |
Steven V. Joyal
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| One reason for meditation's elevation in the eyes of mainstream medicine is that there's scientific research pointing to its effectiveness. In a study of more than ninety women with fibromyalgia, for example, those who underwent eight weekly sessions of mindfulness meditation (which we explain below) had a significant improvement in depressive symptoms when compared with women who did not meditate. Among older depressed adults, mindfulness meditation has been successful in alleviating depression. |
Mark Sircus
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 The numbers continue to grow for reasons that have to do with increasing distrust of mainstream medicine and how it is maintaining a blind eye to medical logic and sound scientific principles. Alternative practitioners can provide a profound benefit to their patients by integrating magnesium into the foundations of their medical and healthcare practices.
Eventually more mainstream doctors, and the schools that train them, will get the idea, or like the dinosaurs they will pass into oblivion ?relics of an age of medical ignorance and arrogance. |
| How and why this happens is a relative mystery to mainstream medicine but we can easily see how certain conditions will hasten and deepen the decline of the key hormones involved.
It is clear though that living without the protective effects of estrogen increases a woman's risk for developing serious medical conditions, including osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. Women have every reason in the world to start supplementing their diets with large amounts of magnesium early in life, especially with magnesium chloride when applied transdermally. |
| Instead, infertility treatments, including the use of super-ovulation drugs and multiple embryos are more frequently used by mainstream medicine today, not magnesium. Magnesium plays a crucial role in fertility, pregnancy,5,67 and in early newborn life8 and many of the problems could be easily and simply resolved by magnesium supplementation.
In 1991 Dr. Jean Durlach said, "Primary magnesium deficiency may occur in fertile women. Gestational magnesium deficiency is able to induce maternal, fetal, and pediatric consequences which might last throughout life. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 It took a very long time, but mainstream medicine now embraces Dr. McCully's revolutionary findings.
BACKGROUND AND STUDIES OF COENZYME Q10
Anyone can purchase any number of brands of coenzyme Qi0 in health food stores today. Unfortunately, without massive physician education supported by pharmaceutical representation, coenzyme Qi0 will likely remain controversial. Coenzyme Qi0 will finally receive the respect it deserves when the weight of the evidence is so overwhelming that the broad medical community can no longer disregard it. |
Andreas Moritz
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 It is obvious, yet hardly recognized in mainstream medicine, that congestion in the thoracic duct affects the organs of the reproductive system. These organs, like most others in the body, need to release their turned-over cells and metabolic waste matter into the thoracic duct. |
Anne Harrington
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| Perhaps most important of all, he had clearly signaled that he was not interested in colonizing all of medicine on behalf of Freud but simply wanted to claim a cluster of chronic disorders that mainstream medicine had long been notoriously unsuccessful in treating anyway. Why should anyone mind letting the Freudians take a crack at them? |
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