Tag: alternative medicine

Colon Blow: Are These Cleanses Healthy?

It’s like Roto-Rooter for your colon. And you can “get a visual” (eww) to see why that might make common sense. However, doctors are only now looking into whether or not colon blowing actually does anything besides support the spa industry. Colon Cleansing: What does it do … actually? There’s a tube...

Radio Show Notes3: Alternative Medicine? Eat Worms.

This is an amazing story that gets to the heart of our warped and skewed Culture of Health. (please share this story with anyone who is weirded out by worms!!) Join in the conversation today on the show:  AUDIO location: http://www.wmnyradio.com/business_of_health.aspx  VIDEO location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-will-clower-show My show notes are below, but...

Today? You have to be your own doctor

“Buyer beware” is a phrase that we’re used to hearing when you need a gadget or car or some other chintzy consumer goods. You have to protect yourself against people who sell you things that are not in your best interest. Unfortunately, the same can be true with your own doctor. Welcome to our...

Halloween Horrors For Health

You are not going to believe this article … it’s weird and gross and fascinating all at the same time. I blather on about it here on my iTunes podcast, but medical science is basically looking at various aspects of Halloween disgusting things … maggots, vampire bats, parasites, leeches...

Conventional medicine loses?

Americans spend $34B annually for alternative medicine treatments. http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16052/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=kTTQk3ri This amazing number tells you that people are moving away fromconventional medicine. They trust the alternative approaches more. Conventional medicine is responding to this shift in market share by trying to incorporate chiropractic, acupuncture, etc., into their treatments. That’s a...

RadioWill Alternative Medicine

I want to talk for just a second about the distinction between “conventional medicine” and “alternitive medicine”. More importantly for you … what does it mean, and how do you know what to do? Here is the link to the audio … Looking forward to your thoughts,Will...

Alternative Medicine Infiltrates Conventional Medicine

The more important question is … why? What is it that conventional medicine is lacking, such that alternative medicine can step in and offer a solution? We can talk all day about the merits of acupunction versus crystals versus chiropractic versus aromatherapy or homeopathy … but conventional medicine is...