Blog

Exercise is a prevention strategy as well as a treatment. According to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) statistics, more than 64 percent of the U.S. adult population is overweight, and roughly 31 percent of American adults are obese. That translates to approximately 59 million American adults that are obese. Incidence of adult obesity has increased sharply since the 1970s. In 2001, the CDC estimated that more than 300,000 deaths per year wer...

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME  Although newly defined and currently popular, CFS is not a new disease at all. References to a similar condition in the medical literature go back as far as the 1860s. In the past, chronic fatigue syndrome has been known by a variety of names including, among many others: •   chronic mononucleosis-like syndrome or chronic EBV syndrome •   Yuppie flu •   postviral fatigue syndrome •   post-infecti...

Stephen W. Parcell, N.D. NatureMed Integrative Medicine Boulder, CO   Lumbrokinase: Acute conditions 2 capsules three times day 30 minutes before meals for 3-4 weeks. For maintenance and prevention: 1 capsule 1-3 times per day 30 minutes before meals. Lumbrokinase is a fibrinolytic enzyme purified from the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus. The effect of lumbrokinase is related to the inhibition of the intrinsic coagulation pathway and the activ...

Endothelial Function Testing Steve Parcell, ND Endothelial function testing is an exciting new non­invasive approach to assessing the health of blood vessels. This test was primarily used at research centres untill now. The endothelium is the layer of cells on the artery wall that come into contact with the blood. There are several ways to assess endothelial function; most involve testing the endothelium’s ability to relax the vessel wall or t...

Coconut oil is a highly saturated vegetable fat that has a very good smoke point profile. This means that coconut oil can handle much higher heat than other oils. This is important because it is the oxidative changes from high heat that makes many oils bad for us. As a rule of thumb, if an oil is smoking in the pan the heat is too high. Recent studies on olive oil indicate that the beneficial poly-phenols in olive oil begin to get destroyed even ...