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The Joy of Hay Fever

RethinkingCancer — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:29:45 +0000

According to conventional (allopathic) thinking, hay fever happens when the body is under attack by harmful foreign substances or allergens (e.g. pollens, dust mites, molds, animal dander, etc.), causing distressing reactions like hives, rash, sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes, sinus pressure. “Experts” recommend taking preparations to block the annoying symptoms — usually antihistamines in the […]

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Fasting: Pros and Cons

RethinkingCancer — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:18:52 +0000

Is fasting the new big thing? This practice, the deliberate abstention from food for a specified period of time, has been around for millennia, but it’s been gaining significant popularity in recent years for its potential health benefits. However, not so fast: there are important things to consider — positive and negative — before you […]

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Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) – A Game Changer

RethinkingCancer — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:29:27 +0000

The LDN story begins with Naltrexone (not low dose), a drug first developed in the 1960s as a strategy for reducing addiction to narcotics and alcohol. It is an opiate receptor blocking agent so that, when taken orally in 50 mg. doses a day, drugs like heroin cannot be absorbed into the body and, because […]

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Being Smart With Your Smart Phone

RethinkingCancer — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 19:35:31 +0000

Fifty years ago it was perfectly respectable to light up a cigarette in a doctor’s office or most any place else — a behavior that today would be considered outrageous, the height of impropriety! But mores change as we acquire more information, which begs the question: are there current behaviors that demand a rethinking of […]

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Bentonite Clay — The Gentle Cleanse

RethinkingCancer — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 19:31:28 +0000

What’s old is new again. In ancient times cultures around the world benefitted from the internal and external healing properties of a type of a highly absorbent, mineral-rich clay, derived from volcanic ash deposited in seawater 150 million years ago. In the early 20th Century the clay was used by the British Army in India […]

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Stop the Celery Powder Con!

RethinkingCancer — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:20:55 +0000

Stop the Celery Powder Con! Newsflash: everything found in health food stores is not necessarily good for your health. Case in point: celery powder. Perhaps you’ve noted it on the ingredients list of foods like organic “uncured” or “no nitrate” bacon, hot dogs, salami and such. Perhaps you’ve even thrilled at the idea that these […]

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Niksen — The Dutch Art of Doing Nothing

RethinkingCancer — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:03:27 +0000

We live in a fast-paced, hi-stress world where people are too often working long hours, suffering from exhaustion, anxiety and burnout. To counter this, medical professionals in the Netherlands have been prescribing a strategy called niksen — a word that literally means “to do nothing, to be idle or doing something without any use.” In […]

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Be Kind to Your Liver — The Body’s Real Workhorse By Ruth Sackman, Founder and Former president of F.A.C.T.

RethinkingCancer — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:42:20 +0000

The heart is considered by medical standards the most important organ of the body because if it stops beating, we die. But the liver is the real workhorse. It has about 300 tasks to take care of and, when it’s working properly, our overall health is enhanced most efficiently. Nearly every human ailment relates directly […]

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The Nitric Oxide Dump!

RethinkingCancer — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:11:25 +0000

Most of us think of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) or Peak Fitness as something reserved for extremely motivated (i.e., virtually crazed) high powered athletes. The Nitric Oxide Dump, however, is an amazing new version of HIIT that can be done by people of all body types and ages, in short, your “average Joe.” Consisting of […]

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De-Stress: Take a Bath

RethinkingCancer — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:19:25 +0000

Oxford English Dictionary defines a bath as “an act or process of immersing and washing one’s body in a large container of water.” While technically correct, this hardly captures the essence of this age-old ritual. A bath is something quite profound — a respite from the world with serious restorative benefits, a vehicle for renewal […]

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