The Goal of Chiropractic Health Care

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R. C. Schafer The essential element of chiropractic health care is enabling the patient to affect his internal homeostatic mechanisms and thereby achieve or maintain health. In order for this to be done, the inherent recuperative powers of the body must be influenced. Inherent growth, maintenance, and recuperative powers are collectively called innate intelligence. There […]

Intestinal Individuality and Probiotic Supplements

David Osborn The whole of Greek Medicine is based upon the constitutional precepts of humor and temperament, and constitutional bodymind types, as embodied in the Four Temperaments, which are Choleric, Sanguine, Melancholic and Phlegmatic. Each of these four basic constitutional types is characterized by a predominance of a certain pairing of the Four Basic Qualities, […]

Know Your Metabolic Type/The Oxidation Types: Introduction to Metabolic Typing

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naturalhealthprotocol.com Metabolic typing is a very central concept in nutritional balancing science. However, metabolic typing is not familiar to most people because modern allopathic medicine does not focus on it. Many ancient healing systems embraced it, however. The idea behind of metabolic typing is that o en people display symptoms, illnesses, and hundreds of body […]

Vilhjalmur Stefansson and His All-Meat Diet Experiment

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Sophia Le Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 – 1962) was an Arctic explorer, anthropologist, lecturer, and proli c writer. Stefansson was rst forced to live on the all-meat diet of the Inuit to survive when a ship carrying his supplies failed to arrive on one of the expeditions. After eleven years living with the Eskimos, Stefansson’s health […]

Redox Biology in Neurological Function, Dysfunction and Aging

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Rodrigo Franco and Marcelo R. Vargas Reduction oxidation (redox) reactions are central to life and when altered, they can promote disease progression. In the brain, redox homeostasis is recognized to be involved in all aspects of central nervous system (CNS) development, function, aging, and disease. Recent studies have uncovered the diverse nature by which redox […]

What Causes Heart Attacks

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Tom Cowan In this article, I lay out the case that the spectrum of heart disease that includes angina, unstable angina, and myocardial infarction (heart attack) is better understood from the perspective of events happening in the myocardium (heart) as opposed to events in the coronary arteries (the arteries that supply the heart). As we […]

The Redox Rx: How to Improve Your Redox Potential

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Jack Kruse Water is life’s battery, collagen is the wire that connects the negative and positive charge within the battery, and the sun’s light is the constant energy source for the water battery to recharge. … An environment with a “low redox potential” means electrons have a weak-charged environment.  Non-native EMF is an example of […]