The stimulant known as Ritalin has pluses and minuses in preschoolers receiving the drug for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the first large, long-term study of the drug’s effect in such youngsters. In many cases, low doses of the medication did quell ADHD symptoms in 3-to-5-year-olds. However, preschoolers more often developed stimulant-related side effects, …
The history of nutrition science dates back 1000’s of years. Wherever there was a an advanced society the physicians practiced nutrition. Hippocrates famously said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” The early practitioners of Egyptian, Ayuredic, and Chinese medicines clearly used food to promote health and treat disease. The 5,0000-year-old use …
This entry applies to men only so if you are a woman you might want to skip to the next day’s entry. In the previous day’s entry, I talked about the benefits that men derive from intercourse. So the big question on most men’s mind is how can I get enough sex to be healthy. …
Because of my holistic practice I tend to attract patients that have healthy life style. However, from time to time I will get a patient that comes in for help who is oblivious to what a healthy life style is. Last week I had just such a patient come in. Jack who was in his …
So often patients complaining of TMJ do not associate it to stress going on in their life. Sometimes it will be caused by a pure structural imbalance either with the cranial bones or cervical bones. But I have found stress to be the biggest initiating factor. The life events that seem to affect it the …