Cancer, Autoimmune Disease and Vitamin D Vitamin D is not a true vitamin. Vitamin D is actually a steroid hormone. Vitamin D hormone deficiency is a worldwide problem. The most well known vitamin D deficiencies are rickets and osteomalacia from defective bone development. We need vitamin D to absorb calcium and build strong bones. Over the last ten years, the latest medical science indicates Vitamin D deficiency has also been associated with an increased incidence of cancer, autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, [...]
Selye’s triad of intoxication explains why medical doctors, why all of us make mistakes. Why? Because we are looking in the wrong places for the CAUSE of the disease. Most allopathic treatments and many complementary treatments focus on the end result of illnesses. This is easy. It doesn’t need much brain power. It’s easy to explain to patients. Not complicated. Good for business. However, it doesn’t get our patients cured. I define HEALTH as being ORGANISED CHAOS. Healthy systems LOOK totally organized. BUT you cannot predict the outcome. Having [...]
OIRF Invited to Participate in Medicine Week, 2009 Recently Occidental Institute has been invited to organize and sponsor one full day of English language lectures during the 2009 Medicine Week Congress in Baden-Baden, Germany. This program would be integrated into the full Med-Week program and listed in the catalog. All who have followed (or participated in) the activities of our many Biological Medicine group tours to Germany will be familiar with the Medicine Week Congress. We have received a very positive response from most of the speakers we contacted [...]
Stand by for Designer Pain Pills From NewsMax/October 2008 In the not-too-distant future, the pain reliever you take may be fine-tuned to your body. Dr. Dennis Patin, an associate professor of clinical anesthesiology at the University of Miami Medical School, says future pain medications will be tailored to work within the genetic roadmap of each person. “We’ll use samples of blood or body tissue to identify how a person metabolizes a drug, and what medication . . . is precisely best for an individual,” he asserts. This approach, known [...]
Its Meaning and Measurement By Dr. med. Univ. Ivan Engler 1. The Vegetative Nervous System (VNS) or the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) The VNS [15] is a connected control circuit mainly independent of the will which you can divide as follows: Sympathetic Nervous System or sympathicus (S-) Parasympathetic, also Vagotonic Nervous System or vagus (V-) The VNS consists of nerve cells embedded in the matrix of the Extracellular Regulative Ground System (= ERGS, [see in 3]), which form ganglions and ganglion strands, continue into the nerves and fibers, however [...]

