February, 2008

Showing 23 results for the month of February, 2008.

  • Are you profiting from the supplements you sell? Are you profiting from the supplements you sell?
    Dear Dr. T, Are you paid by the vitamin supplement companies you promote?
  • Impending retirement Impending retirement
    Dear Dr. Rea, I want to come see you but won’t be able to afford it for a while. I am concerned about whether you are going to retire…who will we be able to go to then? When do you plan to retire - are you training doctors to replace you?
  • Healing after a Cesarean section surgery Healing after a Cesarean section surgery
    Dear Susun, A friend of mine just had an unplanned Cesarean section and would like to use herbs to help her heal. Do you have any topical salves and infusions/tinctures to recommend?
  • Gaining weight too fast Gaining weight too fast
    Dear Dr. T, My daughter has CFS. She eats very healthy but gains weight if she eats like a normal teen. She watches everything that she puts in her mouth. And once the weight is on it never comes off.
  • Sun sensitivity Sun sensitivity
    Dear Dr. Rea, I recently became sun sensitive after coming to Florida for the winter. Now when I am in the sun for an hour I get severe migraines that night. Could it have anything to do with vitamin D metabolism?
  • Short List of Common Pesticides Short List of Common Pesticides
    1. Lindane | When someone found white dwarfs behind my ears | I was deloused with mustard gas | I had a daily headache that was like a single eye
  • Corkscrewed! Me and My Lyme Corkscrewed! Me and My Lyme
    Just when I thought there were no other ways to be pathogenically screwed, I have been corkscrewed.
  • TSH levels / Mayo clinic TSH levels / Mayo clinic
    Dear Dr. T, HELP! I am finding how behind and rigid Mayo Clinic is here in Scottsdale. I'm there because of 5 sclerotic lesions that have been found in my right shoulder, 2 in my right knee and in both hands.
  • Autumn Equinox Autumn Equinox
    I feel my body letting go of light | drawn to the wisdom of a harvest moon. | I feel it welcome the lengthening night | like a lover in early afternoon.
  • Channel Channel
    In time the fork my life took | as illness changed its course | will wander to the main stream | and there below the long waterfalls | and cataracts I will begin to rush | to the place I was going from the start.
  • Wild in the Woods: Wild in the Woods:
    I am demented. I have been clinically demented for a decade, ever since contracting a virus that attacked my brain in December of 1988. I display dementia's classic "multiple cognitive deficits that include memory impairment but not impairment of consciousness" and am totally disabled.
  • Other places to get help Other places to get help
    Dear Dr. Rea, What other facilities do you recommend, worldwide, for those wishing to enroll in an environmental health care unit?
  • Listening to Einstein in the Dark Listening to Einstein in the Dark
    In the evening as we lie in bed, Bill sweeps his palms over the contours of my head and down my spine, along my arms and legs, grazing my skin as if moving over a Ouija board. This has a soothing effect on the muscle pain that clenches my body.
  • Nerve Gas in the Living Room Nerve Gas in the Living Room
    Imagine if a company offered to sell you nerve gas to spray in your living room, or if leftover Agent Orange, watered down, was slathered on the grounds where your children go to school.
  • The Cells of My Identity The Cells of My Identity
    In a setup that was far too Oedipal, I was sleeping in a small room with my mother while visiting my sister in D.C., when I finally blurted out the news that I had a girlfriend, that I was bisexual and maybe gay.
  • The Invisible Panelist The Invisible Panelist
    Long before I became disabled at age 23, I had encounters with the unseen. Being queer gave me an innate sense of when to come out, how to hide, and how to recognize evangelistic rage.
  • Self: Ornithology: The Immune System Self: Ornithology: The Immune System
    Everywhere I go now there are crows, following | me like innuendo, their feathers fanning out ominous | as police fingerprints. | With evolutionary anthropology, | they are condemning me.
  • The Mystery and Tragedy of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome The Mystery and Tragedy of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
    These are plague years. Governments, insurance companies, even scientists—we, the people, too—are scared. Who'll fall ill next, who'll have to pay?
  • Women's bladder issues Women’s bladder issues
    Dear Susun, Throughout my adult life I have had waxing and waning bladder problems. Do you have any recommended herbs for bladder health?
  • Oregano and rosemary Oregano and rosemary
    Dear Stephen, I'm wondering about the use of other antimicrobial herbs not included in your protocol, like oregano and rosemary. Are they contraindicated for long-term use, or just not effective in treating Lyme?
  • Positive IgG Positive IgG
    Dear Dr. T, I read on your site that you said to ignore IgG readings in blood tests - does this mean these are not significant?
  • Yeast/Candida Infections Yeast/Candida Infections
    Dear Donna, I am struggling to manage a systemic candida condition. Have any dietary advice?
  • Teas/tinctures darkening my teeth Teas/tinctures darkening my teeth
    Dear Stephen, I've had trouble with some herbal teas/tinctures darkening my teeth since my enamel is thinning/gums are receding somewhat.