healthbasics

A Critical Look at: Why Dr Suzanne Humphries, an anti-vaccine activist, is lying to you about measles

A friend of mine, who just had a baby, recently sent me a link to an article titled: Why Dr Suzanne Humphries, an anti-vaccine activist, is lying to you about m...

My Solution to Fight Spam and Increase Quality Content on Steemit: Just one cultural change to residual Steemit income..

The quest to squash spam and abuse here on Steemit is a never-ending one. Without fail once we as a community have decided on the latest method of equalizing th...

The Art of Diagnosing: Understanding the Difference Between a Symptom and a Sign.

Determining What is Wrong When coming to making a proper diagnosis Western Medicine depends on a number of variables depending on the condition. Case history, p...

NAC and Vitmain D for Influenza Treatment and Prevention.

In my last post I wrote about understanding risk statistics with regards to the flu shot. In it I promised that my next post would be about a natural treatment ...

Understanding Attributable Risk vs Relative Risk vs Absolute Risk with the Flu Shot.

I was recently researching for a cold and flu talk and decided to include what the real numbers say for how effective the flu shot is and wanted to share some o...

100 Followers and My Thoughts on Bid-Bots.

Hi everyone I just wanted to write a quick post to say thank-you to the 100+ people who thought that I have something interesting enough to say to want to follo...

Stats on this years flu shot from Australia

The results are in for the preliminary results for the 2017-2018 flu shot. https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/11/03/20/11/nurse-29155431280.jpg According to the...

$5 SBD Secret Agent Contest

EDIT: This mission is officially over. Congratulations to agent @healthbasics. He found out that our suspect is none other than Bruce Banner aka the incredibul ...

Understanding PPI's and the Increased Cancer Risk with Hearburn.

Recently proton pump inhibitors (PPI's) have come under fire for possibly increasing the risk of gastric cancer. I wanted to dive deeper into the research and p...

FYI: Sleep Scientists Discourages Going To Sleep With Anger

Hi Steemit friends! It is discourage to sleep while you're angry. Even though we commonly intend to talk about it after the anger subside, it is advisable not t...

When Facts Aren't Accepted As Facts - How Worldview Determines Interpretation of Science

When it comes to research facts are facts right? They are objective, measurable, cut and dry... well then why are there so many scientific controversies? Of cou...

Book Review of Plague: One scientist's intrepid search for the truth about human retroviruses and CFS, Autism, and other diseases

https://i.imgsafe.org/4b/4bf7e6099d.jpeg Unfortunately science is not immune to politics. Plague is written by Kent Heckenlively and is Dr. Judy Mikovits's tell...

Homemade No-Bake Protein Bars Visual Recipe

Protein bars are actually really easy to make on a budget. You just need four basic ingredients: oatmeal, nut butter, cream and protein powder. That’s it - you ...

GERD / Heartburn: Can your stomach be too acidic?

We hear it from people all the time. [Source] “I have too much acid and its giving me heartburn.” As they start popping a TUMS back or, if it is a big enough pr...

Free viewing of Documentary: Prosperity

Hi fellow Steemians, I just wanted to make you aware of this new documentary about socially conscious businesses. Not all of what Millennials are doing is a bad...

A Principled Approach to Health: The Five Principles of Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopathic medicine is a rational system of healing that is governed by five basic principles.  1) First, Do No Harm This should be fairly self-explanato...

Food as Medicine: Vinegar can reduce blood sugar and serum triglycerides

Vinegar Helps Control Blood Sugar and High Triglycerides. Type 2 Diabetes is largely a disease of over consumption. Cutting back on your diet or improving the n...

Why You, Hippocrates?

Why You, Hippocrates? I know that most people wouldn’t even ask the question, but did you ever wonder why Hippocrates is considered to be the “Father of Medicin...

Exercise: Do what you enjoy while staying healthy.

My last day of summer. Before getting into more technical info I thought I would post quick reflection how much we take health for granted. Last Sunday was a da...

Introducing @healthbasics: A naturopathic viewpoint on health, philosophy of healing, and chronic disease.

Hi Steemians! I just wanted to introduce myself. I am a naturopathic doctor in Ontario, Canada and health is my passion. Being that I am not sure if I want to e...