This fact begs the question, did Scott die from the cancer or the cancer treatment?

Just about a week ago Cher asked me if I had any suggestions for treating "the blues" that didn't involve drugs. Cher's daughter, Victoria, recently gave birth to a beautiful baby. She did not take any drugs during the pregnancy and also reported that she didn't think she needed them. Even after delivering, it seemed her depression episodes were in the past. In time, though, the moods began to creep back. Victoria hadn't said much but Cher saw the old signs. That's when she asked me for a suggestion that didn't require going back to the prescription drugs.

Consider the differences between "Alternative" and "Traditional" forms of health care. The alternative fields of health include nutrition, chiropractors, acupuncture, supplements, exercise, meditation, homeopathy, naturopathy, and so on. The traditional (allopathic) medical fields are comprised of drugs, radiation, and surgery, all of which are relatively NEW inventions in the fields of health and healing.

Why do we refer to the tried and true approaches to health as alternative
and the new stuff as traditional?

A few weeks ago, one of our customers called. At a recent appointment her doctor expressed shocked concern that her Bone Mineral Density (BMD) value was -3.0. This suggested to the doctor that the customer was "suffering" from severe osteoporosis. The doctor immediately wanted to prescribe some drugs to halt or reverse the progression of this "disease."

Before downing dose after dose of a potent drug there are some important things to take into consideration. First, BMD is NOT the only risk factor associated with fractures. There are other factors and some of them are more important than BMD. One study actually suggests that BMD is the least of 6 risk factors.