Q: In the mid 1960s I was in a severe auto accident and was given a painkiller that caused me to become allergic to legumes. For 40 years I had to be extremely careful with what I ate, particularly with processed foods or restaurant foods, since soy oil and soy flour is used extensively in those foods. I would discover the hidden soy additives about an hour later-with an extreme case of diarrhea

Most of you know that back in 2004 rofecoxib (Vioxx)- one of the main COX-2 inhibitors -was taken off the market because it was causing an increase in deaths from heart attacks. The news has been all downhill since then.

In the past two issues, I told you about an attack on holistic MDs by the Washington State Medical “Quality” Assurance Commission (M”Q”AC). A shocking report by the Seattle Times revealed the commission’s curious inability to appropriately investigate and punish sex-offending physicians while at the same time aggressively pursuing a holistic MD for demonstrating (but not using) an electrodermal testing machine, charging him with moral turpitude (a charge later dropped), and finally suspending his license for five years.

For more than 60 years, conventional medicine has preached about the supposed connection between high testosterone levels and an increased risk of prostate cancer. My question has always been: What’s the basis for that theory?

You’d be amazed at how many different symptoms can be related to a single underlying cause. And I think you’d be even more amazed at how ineffective conventional medicine is in treating something that alternative medicine can nip in the bud in as little as two weeks. Although this applies to a host of conditions, one of the most fitting examples that comes to mind is bursitis.

IN THIS ISSUE: Two weeks to bursitis relief-minus the aspirin, NSAIDs, and cortisone shots; Cutting through the testosterone/prostate cancer myth; 3 herbal pain-relieving alternatives that are better and safer-than NSAIDs; Reduce or eliminate your back pain; An unexpected cure for food allergies;