Articles & Research

Dr. Dean and Dr. Fleisher Weigh in on How to Protect Ourselves from a Potential Pandemic

The H5N1 strain of the avian flu has been steadily in the news since 1997, as scientists become more concerned about this potentially deadly disease. Scientists and physicians are becoming increasingly more alarmed that what started as a type A strain of the influenza virus in birds will work its way more easily into humans, ushering in a deadly pandemic...Read more

Silver Protein Review:
By Kimberly Pryor

A recent article appearing in the Clinical Practice of Alternative Medicine lends further merit to the use of silver as an anti-viral agent. The article titled “Reduction of... Read more

As a nutritionist my work involves helping clients understand the rationale behind the recommendations made by their physician. I am not a doctor and almost always support the physicians recommendations. Recently, however, I was tempted to break this rule after consulting with a client. This case highlights an increasingly common problem in medicine and brings into focus the controversy over cholesterol-lowering statin prescription medications...

Ask almost any physician to name the gold standard in antimicrobial therapy—the treatment against which all others are measured—and it’s likely he’ll cite one antibiotic drug or another. It’s true that for the last half of the 20th century, scores of high-tech drugs, from ampicillin to Zythromax, have worked wonders on an enormous scale, killing a wide variety of bacterial pathogens and saving countless lives in the process. But are they really the safest and most effective antimicrobial treatments available today?...Read More