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Green Tea & Sjogren's

SweetOrganics
  • By SweetOrganics · New reply yesterday at 12:19 pm
  • 3 replies
  • My mother gave me her copy of Dr Robert Jay Rowen's Second Opinion Newsletter & it had an article about Sjogren's and the bioflavonoid ECGC in green tea. Apparently they help the immune & inflammation ...

Water or Coke? (or rather any carbonated drink)

meriterry
  • By meriterry · New reply November 21, 2009
  • 13 replies
  • This was sent to me by a friend: Focus on the hydration thing....... Water or Coke? I could not believe this..... Very interesting WATER #1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies ...

Kidney Cancer Support Groups in NC & SC - USA

Mickeral
  • By Mickeral · New reply November 21, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • For those affected by Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell Carcinoma) -- there are many great developments that have occurred this year. As a 12-year survivor, I will be glad to pass along information to those who ...

Myoclonic Jerks

SweetOrganics
  • By SweetOrganics · New reply November 19, 2009
  • 21 replies
  • I have myoclonic jerks & the docs don't know what's causing them, so all they can do is give me muscle relaxers to stop them. I'd rather not be on muscle relaxers my whole life. Does anyone have any suggestions ...

Squamous NSCLC patients taking CP 751,871 (Figitumumab

berlin2
  • By berlin2 · New reply November 18, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • After the next scan (if things are not stable), we will be searching for a different treatment. There is so little out there indicated for squamous cell patients, but I have read that this new drug which ...

swine flu

meriterry
  • By meriterry · Posted November 18, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • My daughter let us know that the doctor told her husband not to come into the doctor's office, and to assume he has swine flu due to symptoms he reported. He has headache, achy, fever, coughing, but unless ...

Dr. Hastings

meriterry
  • By meriterry · New reply November 17, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • Dr. Carl Named to CRN Board of Directors. Reliv Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Carl Hastings has been elected to the board of directors of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN ...

New here...

razz51
  • By razz51 · New reply November 15, 2009
  • 33 replies
  • I'm 58 and looking for answers to solve my suite of problems. Some are worse than others but taken together they are really limiting. I have osteoporosis with a loss of height and one really weak hip ...

Good News from Stage 4 patient

HalfRaven
  • By HalfRaven · New reply November 5, 2009
  • 20 replies
  • I haven't posted in months...but it's time: After 11 months of treatment, including surgery, chemo, radiation and alternative treatments (including botanical supplements and prayer), I was pleased to ...

Stiff Person Syndrome

Anisah-Flower
  • By Anisah-Flower · New reply November 5, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • I would like to know from all that have a diagnosis of Stiff Person Syndrome, how long have you been diagnosed? I would also like to know if it was your first diagnoses. Anisah Flower ...

How long does Billy have with an ef of 29??

sophianbilly
  • By sophianbilly · New reply November 3, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • his defib/pacemaker was implanted in June 2009 when he was still at UCH after a chronic heart happened on April 2009......He had anoxia to his brain and heart which is why they waited soooo long....He ...

Update on nausea

Zacolton
  • By Zacolton · New reply November 2, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Just an update on my previous post. My nausea is almost gone now, no idea why, just gone, but anyways I'm working slowly and carefully on reintroducing food and regaining strength. I hope now that I'm ...

Can Disciplines Like Yoga, Tai Chi, and Feldenkrais be Integrated with Conv

billgpt
  • By billgpt · New reply October 31, 2009
  • 9 replies
  • Over the past decade, health professionals and their patients have been redefining rehabilitation to include unconventional therapeutic techniques drawn from disciplines such as Tai Chi Chuan, Yoga and ...

Colon Prolapse

dutchess
  • By dutchess · New reply October 26, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • I was recently told by a medical intuitive that I have a major prolapse of the colon. Does anyone know about this type of condition. I'm trying to solve a motilty problem which was diagnosed 3 yrs. ago ...

www.powercatcharters.com/Billy

sophianbilly
  • By sophianbilly · New reply October 23, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • I look for information all the time.....My Billy had a chronic heart attack with anoxia to the brain and to the heart on April 10, 2009....I was alone in the morning with him when he complained of chest ...

When do you externally shunt the brain????

Bill48
  • By Bill48 · New reply September 25, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • My 18 year old had an automobile accident only minutes from a hospital; she was transport by ambulance to that hospital. Upon arriving at the hospital I was confronted by a doctor in charge of the emergency ...

The world has lost the most wonderful man

KathleenO
  • By KathleenO · New reply August 19, 2009
  • 72 replies
  • My heart was taken from me yesterday, & I helplessly have no way of getting it back. Mike's life, as we knew it, was taken from him yesterday. Mike went into cardiac arrest yesterday morning, & although ...

Guestbooks are now live!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply August 15, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...

Scheduled maintenance this evening

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply August 12, 2009
  • 13 replies
  • All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...

Prayers Needed

curejamilia
  • By curejamilia · New reply August 5, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • Well, I haven't been on and written in a while. There's been so much going on. My daughter was supposed to get a PET scan yesterday but the facility called and had to reschedule because the tech was taking ...

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