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Soybean Heads: Deception and Dark Side of Soybean Miracle
I believe there are millions of people who have been deceived. Unknowingly they have been converted into “Soy Bean Heads” who believe in the “Soybean Miracle.” The soybean miracle implies that soy can save humankind from protein starvations, help women with menopausal...
Accidental Cure
If you are taking any prescription medicine, it may relieve your symptoms but is it really addressing the underlying cause of your problems? It most likely is not. All the medicine is doing is controlling the symptoms but never addressing the underlying cause of the...
Lyme Disease Under the Limelight: Are the Diagnoses Misleading?
Lyme disease and Lyme arthritis were first recognized in 1975 in the region of Lyme, Connecticut. Its discovery resulted from an unusual cluster of children experiencing arthritic pain after developing skin lesions with a bull’s eye red rash called erythema chronicum...
Combat Medical Care and Holistic Medicine
Our nation is at war on terrorism. If you are an American soldier in the middle of a combat zone, the last thing you need is a holistic medical doctor taking care of you. You need a highly trained combat medic and trauma surgeon to control the hemorrhage and secure...
Lupus: Autoimmune Disease and Hidden Pathogens
Lupus is a classic case of an autoimmune disease of unknown cause for which modern medicine doesn’t offer any effective treatment to correct the underlying problems. Because the cause(s) of the disease is unknown, the disease is elusive and baffles medical doctors and...
Raw Food – More Powerful Than Most Medicines
Proper diet and nutrition are far more powerful than any medicine a medical doctor can prescribe for a specific medical condition. If you are suffering from diabetes, heart disease, acid reflux, chronic fatigue, hypercholesterolemia, or cancer, before trying out new...
Ten Golden Rules for Wellness
Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, height, and your cholesterol level. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can...
Holistic Exercise Program and the “Five Rites”
If you want to look younger and feel relief from chronic pain and other physical ailments, consider these five simple daily exercises. You may see a remarkable transformation of physical appearance with an improved sense of wellness. Physical exercise, next to proper...
Incurable Disease and Spontaneous Healing
Have you been to one doctor after another, one hospital after another, trying to figure out why you’re feeling so sick and nobody seems to know what’s wrong with you? So many times I’ve heard my patients bitterly complaining, “My doctor said everything is fine. Then,...
Hypoglycemia – The Great Masquerader
If you are suffering from frequent headaches, irritability, mood swings, poor concentration, sugar cravings, weakness, or anxiety, you might be suffering from unsuspected hypoglycemia. Other symptoms include sweating, tremors, visual disturbance, extreme hunger,...
Dr. Simon Yu, MD is a Board Certified Internist. He practices Internal Medicine with an emphasis on Integrative Medicine to use the best each has to offer. For more articles and information about integrative medicine, patient success stories, and Dr. Yu’s new book, AcciDental Blow Up in Medicine: Battle Plan for Your Life, visit his website at www.preventionandhealing.com or call Prevention and Healing, Inc., 314-432-7802. You can also attend a free monthly presentation and discussion on Integrative Medicine at his office on the second Tuesday each month at 6:30 pm. Call to verify the date. Seating is limited, arrive early.