Your Health Detective

A Doctor’s Recent Experience with Ocular Migraines (Eye Migraines)

As par for the course my life takes, I’ve often had to be the recipient of a symptom or condition to truly understand its causes, effects and solutions – providing me with a deeper understanding of what my patient’s experience. Unfortunately, this investigative report came about because I recently experienced a very troubling visual disturbance and dull headache over one eye and immediately panicked thinking it was a detached retina again – one of the most debilitating conditions I’ve been through!

I was consulting with a patient when suddenly I began to see light flashes as if looking through shattered glass. I had a dull headache over my right eye that morning but discounted it as having been on the computer too many hours the day before. As the symptoms worsened, I called my eye doctor and rushed to her office, fearing the worse. Upon examination, she assured me I had all the symptoms of an ocular migraine; to which I responded, “What in the heck is that?” That said, most any other diagnosis was welcome other than the dreaded detached retina with its harrowing recovery...click to continue reading...

Cognitive & Eye Disorders on the Rise – Could Chemical Cuisine be the Cause?

 

“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t buy it – it’s probably NOT food, it’s Chemical Cuisine.” – Gloria Gilbère, author of 11 books including, Chemical Cuisine, Pain / Inflammaton Matters and I was Poisoned by my body

The Eyes Have It 

    According to global reports, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) blindness and visual impairment project, age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the primary cause of visual impairment in industrialized countries, accounting for 19% to 30% of the total cases of low vision in developed regions. Projected data estimates a 50% increase of ARMD prevalence between 2000 and 2020.  Evidence now shows there is a definite connection related to chemical components of our foods, lifestyle and eye disorders...click to continue reading...

Be ProActive about Spring Allergies

  It's almost spring and many of you  already called the Health Matters Store to order your homeopathic remedy for pollen and weeds...if you haven't, you'll soon wish you had. Everytime the U.S. goes through a winter that is unusually wet, either by rain or heavy snow, pollen counts are extremely high and cause serious symptoms. 

Before you run out and buy an over-the-counter antihistamine or get a prescription from your doctor for a steroid, consider homeopathics. Homepathic remedies are prescribed by symptoms rather than conditions;  each allergic response is indivdualized and one medication or remedy doesn't fit everyone in every part of the world. For instance, the allergens in north Idaho, where I'm based, are very different than those in Arizona, South Carolina or upper state New York...click to continue reading...

Our Feathered Friends Cause MORE Dangers than Attacking Aircraft - They're Causing REAL Health Threats for Lyme's Disease

We’ve heard reports in recent times about flocks of birds disrupting air travel and the potentially fatal danger they can cause to the aircraft. Now, there’s another threat recently investigated that we must concern ourselves about; that of spreading Lyme’s Disease.

Living and practicing natural health in north Idaho for the past 20 years, I know the dangers of ticks, mostly from wild life like elk, moose, deer, etc. What was never a concern previously was the tick being carried by flocks of birds...click to continue reading...

Female Hormone Therapy and Cataracts....What's Next?

 

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was pushed for decades by the conventional medicine establishment as being nothing sort of an insurance against aging along with its long list of remarkable "claimed" health benefits. I know, I fell into their spell and subjected my body to HRT after a complete hysterectomy at the young age of 30.

 

Somehow, even back then when we didn't know better, the thought of taking concoctions made from pregnant horses' urine combined with a toxic soup of chemicals, just didn't sound healthy. Soon I found out, as have millions of woman, that the side effects were devasting; weight gain, blood clots, mood swings, hair loss, vision changes, cravings for sugar and simple carbohydrates...wait a minute...weren't these the symptoms HRT was suppose to protect us woman from? Yup, it was all a huge lie and millions of us fell victims...Click to continue reading