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What Do You Need For Healthy Bones?
Written by Wellness Club on November 18, 2011 – 4:56 pm -Bone Health Or Bone Death? By Nurse Mark We get a lot of questions about osteoporosis – it is a very confusing and rightfully frightening subject for older people. Big Pharma takes advantage of that confusion and fear to offer a variety of drugs that are so dangerous that if they were subjected […]
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Sparks Fly! Spanked By A Subscriber Over Microwave Ovens…
Written by Wellness Club on October 27, 2011 – 5:19 pm -Our Reader Says “Duhhhh, Get A Clue!” By Nurse Mark We get lots of letters at The Wellness Club, and sometimes folks take us to task since many of our positions are, shall we say, controversial in the “Natural Medicine” world – that is, we are not automatically against drugs, surgery, or modern […]
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We Get Questions! How To Become Female?
Written by Wellness Club on October 11, 2011 – 6:53 pm -We Get Questions – Wow, Do We Get Questions! A writer asks us by email: please advise on initial hormones i can buy to become female Whoo-ee! What a question! Not because it is an unusual request – after all, “gender re-assignment” therapies and treatments are not all that uncommon these days, thanks to […]
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Folic Acid Or Folate – What’s The Difference?
Written by Wellness Club on October 11, 2011 – 12:13 pm -Folic Acid Or Folate – What’s The Difference? All these supplements and substances with similar and sometimes scary-sounding names sure can be confusing! How is a person to keep them all straight? Easy! Just ask us! Our article in the last issue of HealthBeat News, The Vitamin Deficiency That Can Cause Dementia showed just […]
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Can I Get Too Much Of These Supplements?
Written by Wellness Club on September 12, 2011 – 3:08 pm -When it comes to vitamins and herbs and dietary supplements, can there be “too much of a good thing”? By Nurse Mark We often get questions from people who don’t really understand the difference between the drugs that Big Pharma synthesized in it’s labs and that your conventional doctor so willingly prescribes, and […]
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