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Why We Are Really in the Mess We Are In

May 20th, 2009 · Comments Off

The problem with the American society today is that we forgot that hard work and compassion and not over consumption is what made us a great country. We think that we have to have a bigger house, a better car, fancier clothes and more money than our neighbor that twisted our minds away from what truly [...]

Tags: Compassion · Economy · Opinion · Politics · Rants · The World We Live In · Thoughts

Nice Definition of Open Mindedness

April 16th, 2009 · Comments Off

While Stumbling around the internet, I came across this video clip about what open-mindedness really is. Most people know that I am pretty open-minded about a lot of things but I have been accused of being very close-minded about products that just don’t have sufficient evidence to be anything except a scam. The video here [...]

Tags: Opinion · The World We Live In · Thoughts

Zeolite Criticisms – The Truth Hurts Sales?

April 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Of all the issues I blog about, my criticism of zeolite, a much hyped, poorly researched, money maker, is one I get the most comments about. Usually, it is in the form of threats (I refuse to allow those to see the light of day), angry diatribes, accusations which border on the ridiculous and downright [...]

Tags: Controversial Issues · Health · Heavy Metals · Medical Research · Opinion · Rants

Another Series of Pharmaceutical Studies in Question

March 11th, 2009 · No Comments

I know I sometimes harp on the pharmaceutical industry and how so many studies that show negative effects or less than positive ones, but a report out of Massachusetts has me very concerned about the validity of many studies out there. If you read this report from MSNBC.com, you can see why I am so [...]

Tags: Controversial Issues · Drugs · Health · Medical Research · Opinion

How to Improve Our World With Four Ideals

February 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

According to Forbes magazine, the average pay of a senior executive in 1980 was 40 times the average workers salary. In 2007 is was 433 times. Want to guess why things got so screwed up? Yeah, I didn’t think it was so difficult to figure out. Greed. Instead of capping the salaries of the fat [...]

Tags: Controversial Issues · Economy · Opinion · Politics · Rants · The World We Live In

Today’s Tough Economic Times

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Aside from former Senator Lindsey Graham’s opinion that we should stop whining and that things are OK, today’s economic environment is tough, no doubt about it. There are a lot of good things that hopefully will come out of it though. The first is that we, as a society get away from the greed driven [...]

Tags: Compassion · Economy · Environment · Opinion · The World We Live In

Tara Parker-Pope: A Reporter Who Needs a Different Job

December 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The New York Times, a newspaper you either love or hate, typically has a fine line-up of reporters and writers but one in particular needs resign from her position and find another line of work that does not require the ability to do careful research and intelligence. Tara Parker-Pope, needs to switch from reporting to [...]

Tags: Controversial Issues · Disease · Health · Medical Research · Nutritional Supplements · Opinion · Podcast · Rants · Thoughts

LEAP MRT – A Tech Sheet on What the Test Does

November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

LEAP MRT Lab Interpretation LLC Tech Sheet As anyone who has read my book or been to my other blog site – toxicworldbook.com, knows, the LEAP MRT test by Signet Diagnostics helped save my daughter Tasya’s life. It was such an important tool in helping her not only control her seizures but in also helping [...]

Tags: brain nutrition · Children · Epilepsy · Health · Lab testing · Medical Research · Nutritional Supplements · Opinion

Cutler Interview – Transcript Now Available

October 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Laboratory Medical Update – Dr. Andrew Cutler Interview Earlier this year, I did an interview with Andrew Cutler, PhD talking about his thoughts on autism, mercury, and porphyrin testing. You can listen to it on my Let’s Talk Real Health podcast site.  Just recently, Michael Ross, did a transcript of the interview that you can [...]

Tags: autism · Children · Controversial Issues · Disease · Drugs · Environment · Health · Heavy Metals · Lab testing · Medical Research · Opinion · Podcast · Science

Another Reason Not To Take Antidepressant Drugs

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments

In an article from Discover Magazine, Ben Harder reports on an important study published in PLoS Medicine by Irving Kirsch, et al that basically says that antidepressant drugs pretty much don’t work any better than placebo. This is just another in a series of papers that suggest that you try other alternative methods like Omega [...]

Tags: Drugs · Health · Medical Research · Opinion