Just like any herbal supplement, exercise must be initiated with the proper dosage to have a therapeutic effect without causing undue stress on the body. Too little exercise…well…we all know the consequences of this. Too much exercise can be just as bad however. Due to the action of oxidative stress, your body can age prematurely […]
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Osteoarthritis Part 3: Treating the Root Cause
In the last two posts we viewed osteoarthritis through the lens of inflammation, poor circulation, and calcification as dominant and overlapping disease processes. A genetic predisposition (family history) or arthritis can accentuate these causes, but like most all chronic disease, it takes lifestyle and environmental factors to express arthritis in its most painful and debilitating […]
The Tale of the Broken Treadmill
If you’ve been following the Cheap Medicine Blog, you know it’s all about inexpensive methods of self-care that can pay off big. Keeping to this effort, I have discovered what I think to be a very frugal means to exercise in your home that may cost you next to nothing. In visiting family over the […]
The Art of Medicine
In consulting with a new patient, the seasoned practitioner of holistic medicine will often have a clear sense of the course of treatment needed to help the patient. Time and experience are our best teachers in this regard. The real challenge in medicine is not simply the conveyance of information but in empowering a patient […]
A Detox a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Given the ubiquitous presence of toxins within our environment, detoxification must accompany any long-term effort towards obtaining optimum health. Once acknowledging this, it then becomes a question of what manner of detoxification to use and with what frequency. It is helpful to divide different strategies of detoxification into two categories: daily and targeted. Daily detoxification […]
From Exercise to Play
There’s a common saying: enjoy what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life. In a similar way we can state: have fun being active and you’ll never have to exercise again. My journey through fitness ideologies has evolved more dramatically than any other area of self-improvement. Aside from some walking […]
Inflammation
Anyone who has given even a cursory look at headlines in natural medicine will emerge with the concept that inflammation is a key component in most all chronic degenerative diseases. Indeed, there are a myriad of causes of inflammation affecting many body systems. Inflammation can generally be divided into two categories; acute and chronic. Acute […]
Healing Asthma: Breathing Pattern Disorders
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