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- A Spring in Your Step: Bone Health for LongevityIn this article, we review the composition of bone, factors that negatively affect bone health, and strategies to optimize healthy bones and maximize longevity.
- The Silent Threat: High Blood Sugar’s Impact on Heart and Nerve HealthIn this article, we explore the regulation of blood sugar, common causes of high blood sugar, and how this impacts the health and function of your heart and nerves. Finally, nutraceutical strategies will be outlined to prevent or manage the negative health effects of sugar-induced damage on these critical systems.
- FIVE Causes of Thyroid DysfunctionDo you have cold hands and cold feet? Do you have difficulty losing weight? Do you experience constipation? Do you have dry skin or brittle nails? If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, your thyroid may be out of balance. The thyroid is a butterfly shaped gland on the neck which is the master… Read More »FIVE Causes of Thyroid Dysfunction
- The Optimal Function of the Stomach in the Treatment of Chronic ConditionsThe gut is our “second brain”, as coined by neurogastroenterologist, Dr. Michael Gerson MD1. According to current scientific research and clinical experience, the gut contains up to 90% of our immune system as gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT)2 and is no longer considered to merely have digestive functions. Inflammation, degeneratiohydrochloric acid being produced, and atrophy of… Read More »The Optimal Function of the Stomach in the Treatment of Chronic Conditions
- The Art of AlkalizingWhy Alkalize? Each system of the body has its own physiological pH value and when the tissue or organ varies too far from that pH range, it becomes susceptible to disease. Humans live in an acidic environment eating poor quality, highly processed foods as well as consuming acidifying prescription medications. They are being exposed to… Read More »The Art of Alkalizing
- Healing from Brain InjuryBrain injury can be devastating, whether from concussion, stroke or TIA. There is hope – tocotrienols are now proven to improve recovery and increase protection against brain injury. Tocotrienols are a natural form of vitamin E. While found in our daily diet, generally in cereal grains (oat, barley, rye and rice bran), the more effective… Read More »Healing from Brain Injury
- Your Best Defense Against Inflammation: Proteolytic EnzymesEnzymes are essential for life and are required for normal functioning of all organs systems. The human body has a finite number of enzymes for production with half of them used up by the age of 25. Supplementing with systemic enzymes will promote longevity, digestion better overall health and indirectly support digestion before being excreted… Read More »Your Best Defense Against Inflammation: Proteolytic Enzymes
- Allergies – What Lies Beneath the Surface?Allergies are an over-reaction of the immune system to harmless substances. While blocking histamines and avoiding the substances are common practice, they are not addressing the root cause. Just as the majority of an iceberg is submerged underwater, the most important contributing factors for allergies are hidden from sight. Addressing allergies begins with recognizing that… Read More »Allergies – What Lies Beneath the Surface?
- Discover SalvTonic: Multi-Target Protection for the Heart and VesselsCardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Canada, accounting for 41% of all deaths in women and 37% of all deaths in men. Every 7 minutes in Canada, someone dies from heart disease or stroke. Advances in modernized TCM are at the forefront of cardiovascular health, with the key to success being the… Read More »Discover SalvTonic: Multi-Target Protection for the Heart and Vessels
- Candida albicans and Our Body’s Endogenic DefensesThe following elaborations form a background to the development of the SANUM preparations ALBI- CANSAN and EXMYKEHL, which hold the promise of a successful biological therapy for widely spread mycoses in their diverse appearance forms. The decisive factor for the manifesta- tion of a Candida infection, where there is a contact between a mam- malian… Read More »Candida albicans and Our Body’s Endogenic Defenses
- Melatonin: Extraordinary Antioxidant Benefits Beyond SleepMelatonin is best known for its effectiveness as a sleep aid and regulating the sleep-wake cycle. Generally, melatonin is used for difficulty falling asleep, waking in the night, and improving overall sleep quality. Melatonin is particularly beneficial to help to overcome jetlag (especially when travelling eastbound over more that 2 time zones) and for shift… Read More »Melatonin: Extraordinary Antioxidant Benefits Beyond Sleep
- Practical Uses of Drainage RemediesWritten by Heather Schofield, BSc, DHMHS
- What Are Drainage Remedies?In many respects, Germany is regarded as the birthplace of botanical and homeopathic medicine. Throughout the centuries, empirical evidence has proven that using specific medicinal herbs will increase circulation in targeted organs or organ systems and stimulate elimination of waste products. Single or combinations of these herbs will determine the organ of affinity that each… Read More »What Are Drainage Remedies?
- Allergies: Natural, fast-acting relief with AllernestAllergies are an over-reaction of the immune system to harmless substances. Blocking histamines and avoiding the substances are common practice and are often the first line of defense while addressing the deeper root of the cause of allergies. Relief from an allergy begins with recognizing the allergen is a triggering factor to an over-reaction of… Read More »Allergies: Natural, fast-acting relief with Allernest
- Drainage – clears the traffic jamSo often we hear the experience of patients presenting in a sluggish and congestive condition. At the examination you get the immediate sense that things are blocked up, that physiological processes are failing as a consequence of metabolic stall or sluggishness. At Biomed, we have sought out the most effective organ-specific drainage remedy catalogue that… Read More »Drainage – clears the traffic jam
- Balancing Body Acidity: A Comprehensive Guide to Disease Prevention and Immune HealthThus everybody should strive to avoid long-term over-acidity of the tissues in their bodies. That is an important precaution that we can take against many diseases. In this way the human immune system will also remain considerably less stressed. There are a few good behaviours in our everyday life that will constitute one such positive… Read More »Balancing Body Acidity: A Comprehensive Guide to Disease Prevention and Immune Health
- Our bodies’ internal milieu is of critical importanceIf this significant living community is to be preserved intact, it is vitally necessary to maintain our internal milieu in a state of biological balance in its bodily juices and tissues, and to look after it. Not until the milieu has become altered over a longish period of time and lost this balance, as a… Read More »Our bodies’ internal milieu is of critical importance
- Acid-base regulationA fundamental process in the organism: nutritional and lifestyle errors are decisive factors The acid-base regulation in the human body is at the basis of the most essential metabolic processes in the human body. Acid Level Affects Enzyme Reactions For metabolic processes to function properly, a stable cellular acid concentration is required. This concentration may… Read More »Acid-base regulation
- FOR BETTER EYESIGHT – Therapy for Ophthalmopathic DisordersThe components of the eye are developed from different embryological germ layers. The retina and the optic nerve develop together from an eversion of the interbrain, and the lens from the ectoblast. The vascular and external tunic of the eyeball develops from the surrounding mesenchymal tissue. The supporting organs of the eye develop from specific… Read More »FOR BETTER EYESIGHT – Therapy for Ophthalmopathic Disorders
- Everything depends on the acid-alkaline ratioThe internal milieu of the body may be biologically balanced in favour of good health, or it may be distorted to such an extent that it stimulates the micro-organisms that are present to change their form, developing from symbionts into harmful microbes. The acid-alkaline status in the juices and tissues of the body plays a… Read More »Everything depends on the acid-alkaline ratio
- Over-acidity is a significant factor in diseaseThis acidic milieu provides the highly structured micro-organisms in our body with ideal conditions for intensive development towards their harmful fungal form. However, this acidic milieu also favours the emergence of a dangerous deficiency in the supply of fluids to the tissues, so that the blood supply to the finest capillaries (micro-circulation) is severely reduced… Read More »Over-acidity is a significant factor in disease
- About our Relationship with MicrobesMaybe, like many other people, you think that microbes are fundamentally harmful, microbes that are also known as micro-organisms or microscopic living beings, and which we encounter all over the world in the shape of viruses, bacteria and fungi. It would be useful for you, and to your advantage, to thoroughly review this opinion. Of… Read More »About our Relationship with Microbes