wts - Wilson's Syndrome

Medicine is practiced differently in different states

Amazing but true! You see, different bodies regulate different things in our health care system. For example, manufacturing companies that make and sell prescription drugs are regulated by the FDA, a federal (national) agency. On the other hand, pharmacists that mix and sell prescription drugs (compounding pharmacists) are regulated by their individual state boards of pharmacy. Likewise, health care practitioners are licensed to practice medicine by the states they live in.

The interesting part is that the state agencies that license health care practitioners are made up of people (usually doctors) often appointed by the governors of the states, or by

“Tested and Proven” doesn’t necessarily mean better

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Let’s say a college professor who had been teaching calculus for many years wrote a calculus test for his class to take. And let’s say a 10 year old boy was given the test and managed to pass it. Would that “prove” that the 10 year old has more knowledge and ability in calculus than the professor because he passed the test and the professor hasn’t? Just because the professor hasn’t taken the test doesn’t mean he can’t get a better grade than his students. The professor hasn’t taken the test because he has no incentive to do so.

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What can’t be said about herbs

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Do you think poor diet can contribute to disease and poor health?

Sugar provides calories, but how do you think a person’s health would be after a year of eating nothing but sugar?

Do you think changing a person’s diet might have any chance of reversing illness and disease (especially if poor diet is contributing to the poor health)?

If you do believe that what people eat can have some impact on disease then you may be surprised to know what can’t be said about dietary herbal supplements in marketing. Dietary Supplements are regulated as food and not drugs, and that determines what

What Thyroid Blood Tests Mean

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A lot of really smart people have done a great deal of scientific research on thyroid blood tests. And there are lots of scientific things that can be said about thyroid tests and how the values can change in various situations. Unfortunately, despite all that science and knowledge people can still feel really poorly even when the thyroid tests provide no clear direction on how to help them recover.

Emotional Stress can cause the metabolism to slow down

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Sometimes men want to "encourage" their wives to lose weight and end up doing the one thing that is making it hard for them to lose. They threaten their wives, saying, "If you don't lose weight I'm leaving you." It pains me to write those words, but they are words that patients have actually quoted to me.

Send your body signals to speed up your metabolism

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Today we're going to discuss ways to send your body signals to speed up through exercise. The premise behind Wilson's Temperature Syndrome is that under conditions of stress and starvation the metabolism will slow down as a coping mechanism. This helps people survive famine and other stressful circumstances of deprivation. But it also prevents them from being as productive as they could be. On the other hand, in times of plenty, the body needs to speed up to normal in order to be able to work, protect, and provide successfully for itself.

Time to lose some weight

Tags: dieting, hunger, metabolism, weightloss|

When people are losing weight they often have a sense of discomfort known as hunger. Hunger isn't always a pleasant feeling but it can be more pleasant when we consider what it means. It means we are losing weight. Let it serve as a constant reminder that you are cheerfully accomplishing your goal. We can almost be sure that if we aren't hungry we aren't losing weight. We can embrace hunger as a welcome sign that we are losing weight.

Losing weight

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Has it ever seemed that your body is fighting your efforts to lose weight? Well, it is. In addition, when the body temperature drops during dieting, it can often remain lower even after the dieting is over.