Dr. Robert Rowen tells Mercola that patients are leaving orthodox medicine because it is both expensive and failing to heal them. He calls for states to adopt laws like the 1990 Alaska statute he wrote, which bars boards from calling a doctor incompetent solely for unconventional practice.
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What Will Cause You to Lose More Fat -- Exercising Fasted or Non-Fasted?
Dr. Mercola summarises research finding that fasting before aerobic training cut both body weight and body fat, while eating beforehand cut weight only. He credits the sympathetic nervous system and urges a fast-absorbing protein meal within 30 minutes of the workout.
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Circumcision cuts prostate cancer risk?
Men with prostate cancer were less likely to have been circumcised, according to a study in the journal Cancer. The researchers suggest circumcision may reduce sexually transmitted infections that contribute to tumors, but say the work has not confirmed that it lowers risk.
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Improve Blood Sugar Within 24 Hours, After Just 1 Session
Dr. Mercola reports on Canadian work in which unfit adults and cardiac patients improved fitness through high-intensity interval cycling with no exercise-induced heart problems, and in which people with type 2 diabetes improved blood sugar control over 24 hours after one session.
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A Simple Non Supplement Way to Recharge Your Antioxidant System and Fight Disease
In an interview with Dr. Mercola, cardiologist Stephen Sinatra describes grounding, walking barefoot on sand, grass, dirt or untreated concrete, as transferring free electrons from the earth, which he says thins the blood and eases inflammation. He warns against it for people taking Coumadin.
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Warning: Why You Should Avoid Using Your Laptop as Recommended
Mercola cites research finding electromagnetic fields from five common laptops exceed guideline values for computer monitors, and separate work in which sperm exposed to a Wi-Fi-connected laptop lost motility and gained DNA fragmentation. Researchers called the lap an improper site.
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How Can Sunscreen Cause Alzheimer's?
Mercola argues that sunscreen blocks the skin from making both vitamin D and cholesterol sulfate, which he says may protect cells from glucose and oxygen damage. He presents this as a possible and little-discussed contributor to Alzheimer's risk.
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Could post menopausal women have babies? Study says yes!
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers say they isolated stem cells from human ovaries and got them to generate immature egg cells, which formed follicles when injected into mice. Scientists caution it is too early to tell whether the Nature Medicine method could treat infertility.
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I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen's Race is for Money, Not the Cure
The Susan G. Komen Foundation spends less than a dime of each dollar on the search for a cure, Mercola writes, holds stock in drugmakers including AstraZeneca, and lets its pink ribbon appear on fried chicken buckets and cosmetics containing cancer-causing ingredients.
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Toothbrush Can Chip Teeth and Cause Choking _FDA
FDA warns that parts of the battery-powered Arm & Hammer Spinbrush can break off during use, causing chipped or broken teeth, cuts to the mouth, eye injuries and choking. The agency advises inspecting the brush before each use and supervising children who use it.
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The Latest Risky Fad to Hit Your Child's Pediatrician's Office
Mercola criticizes the American Academy of Pediatrics for endorsing “cocooning” — vaccinating parents and close family of infants. He argues no study shows family flu shots cut flu in children, and that pediatricians cannot check adults’ records for contraindications.
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Boosts Your Youth Hormone by 771% in Just 20 Minutes
Mercola interviews trainer Phil Campbell on Peak Fitness, arguing that three 20-minute high-intensity burst workouts a week engage fast muscle fibers that steady cardio misses and, he says, raise human growth hormone by up to 771 percent during a session.
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Will You Get Big and Bulky if You Lift Weights?
Women rarely bulk up from lifting weights because their natural testosterone is too low for that much muscle gain, the author writes. Muscle is five times denser than fat, so building it can shrink your size, and resistance training burns calories all day and lowers inflammation.
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The Komen controversy: Jeanne Rizzo reflects on values, trust and power
A letter from Breast Cancer Fund president Jeanne Rizzo reflecting on Komen's decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood's breast-health services, and on the values, trust and power she says the fund's supporters expect in return.
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The Limits of Ebay Buyer Protection: Is Ebay buyers' protection real? A Personal Story
An editor recounts buying from a 99.6 percent positive eBay seller, only for eBay to auto-fill an outdated shipping address. The seller refused to correct it, citing seller protection, shipped anyway, and the refund dragged on — which the writer offers as proof Buyer Protection fails buyers.
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Use sunscreens to prevent sunburns
Researchers followed 360 children from about age 10 between 2004 and 2007. More than half reported a sunburn the previous summer, a figure barely changed three years later, while reported sunscreen use fell significantly. An editor's note warns sunscreen can worsen vitamin D status.
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Smoking prenatally not linked to autism in children
Comparing about 4,000 Swedish children with autism to 39,000 without, researchers found 19.8% versus 18.4% had mothers who smoked in pregnancy, a difference that was not statistically significant. Lead author Brian Lee still stresses that smoking in pregnancy carries known risks.
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Dangers of Feminine Hygiene Products that Every Woman Needs to Know (Opinion)
Mercola argues tampons themselves do not cause toxic shock syndrome; rather, synthetic and highly absorbent ones create conditions in which S. aureus thrives. Some women carry the bacteria permanently in their vaginal flora and so may be at risk each time they use a tampon.
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