Audio Lectures, Carolyn DeMarco MD, demarcomd.com

Lectures Available: 1- The Edmonton World Congress, 2- Menopause and Anti-Aging, 3- Endometriosis And Fibroids, 4- Natural Alternatives To Prozac, Valium and Ritalin

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...and when women have adequate health care, basic health care for their children, naturally they limit the size of their families and naturally they can learn simple ways to preserve and take care of the children...
...I have always been an advocate of complimentary medicine which is combining the best of both worlds as Dr Polmerine said...
...how much alternative medicine has impacted the mainstream because there is a major threat going on, so this is good news. We should look on it as a good sign...
...with a vitamin or drug, "try this maybe it will work, maybe it won't, it probably has lots of side effects...
...Doctors are targeted and controlled through aggressive advertising most of the journals are supported by drug companies, and much of the research...
...they are being prescribe two to three times as much prozac as men. They are the prime targets for tranquilizers and anti-depressants. They are prime target for the birth control pill, for hormone replacement therapy, and for the new GNRH analogs which...
...There has been a Canadian doctor who did a controlled study showing that episiotomy was an unnecessary surgery, well provided no better outcome, but more pain, postpartum, more suffering, more sexual disfunction following the birth...
...Menopause is an amazing opportunity to get in touch with your body, to nurish yourself, and to get healthier. And to achieve a much higher level of health and wellness...
...They will use a combination of female herbs and female tonics. And the same when we are using estrogenic like herbs, we have to balance with progesterone type herbs...
...And she says it's an industry, because its managed, marketed and it makes profits. And how it does this, is it creates an illusion of choice...
...Which is one of the two very important female hormones. This is what you get if you subscribe to premerin...
...And that progesterone is linked to the adrenal hormones as well. There is a lot of confusion about natural progesterone...
...same with DHEA, it also works with all the other adrenal hormones. So we just don't want to isolate one hormone and give it. We want to balance all the hormones...
...And we have a couple herbs on the market, one is remifemin. Remifemin is a black colash extract and it will take care of most of the symptoms of menopause...
...In the old literature the hormonal aspect was never discussed...
...there is tonics that can be taken for menopause. And in the general tonic department I include the natural progesterone cream or orally or however you take it...
...There's a whole bunch of herbs that are wonderful for supporting liver functions and helping us break down the estrogen...
...that includes fibrocystic breast disease or cystic breast disease...
...why there is a relative progesterone deficiency because in our atmosphere there is an excess, we're swimming in a sea of estrogen mimickers, which are the pesticides, the dioxins, pcb's etc. Which concentrate in the meat and diary...
...And even food in plastic containers can leach these estrogen mimickers into our food. So we have to be cautious..

...I'm first going to talk about something that's very easily to cure and that is fibrocystic breast disease. The definition of it simple. It's painful, cyclical lumpy breasts...
...borderline deficient in iodine. And throughout the world, there's widespread iodine deficiency in babies which results in mental retardation...
...It interferes with your normal functioning. Otherwise it's really not pre-menstrual syndrome. And here's a definition...
...Positive PMS. Some people think there is no positive side of PMS...
...It is a very painful disabling chronic illness. And its under diagnosed. Most people who have these terrible symptoms are told its all in their head...
...dioxin possibly triggering endometriosis, nutritional deficiency especially essential fatty acids and iodine, and poor diet, emotional factors and stress...
...there is always some kind of conflict involved in any illness. One of the, some common surgical mistakes in endometriosis are a failure to clarify the purpose of surgery. It really doesn't improve infertility...
...hair growth on the face which is irreversible. And a new group of drugs, which are very powerful. And have very big side effects. And these are drugs that inhibit the hormonal action way high up in the brain...
...The new view in psychiatry, well, maybe in psychiatry, not necessarily so, is that the depression is a mind-body disorder...
...But however, for natural medicine they seem to have higher requirements than they have for themselves. There were 37 studies reviewed; only 23 studies were accepted. They surveyed 1,757 patients. And they found that Saint John's Wort was significantly superior to placebo or a 'dummy' pill...
...Oh, by the way, I want to mention one very important thing. Saint John's Wort can be very, very helpful for ADD children. It is very safe to use for ADD and ADHD children. It helps calm them down it is also an antidepressant...
...nothing wrong with negative thoughts; it is just a pervasion of negative thoughts. You can't be positive all the time; but you don't want to dwell in this negativity and live there...
...kava kava is a wonderful herb and it is from the South Seas and it is harvested when it is six to eight feet in height. It has a wonderful quality; it induces tranquility, sociability and a deep restful sleep, with no side effects...
...got kava kava and 29 got a placebo (a dummy pill). By four weeks the kava kava had improved sense of well being, marked reduction in anxiety and no side effects. Now isn't that a good profile...
...9,772 patients were studied and side effects, all those patients, 21 had some stomach upset, seven had headache, and 6 had dizziness. So that is ... you will never see a drug with a profile like that, ever...
...Aromatherapy is based on a lot of science and peppermint, for instance, increases cognitive function. It increases your mental processes...
...many common foods, but in the case of ADD they have actually studied what foods they are allergic to. Sugar number one...
...young kids about one year old with a severe reaction to chocolate ice cream, just arch their head back and scream. I mean you can see these allergic reactions; they are sometimes almost immediate...
...I feel really bad when I eat this." If you can teach them the difference. Let them overdose one day and then don't let them eat it the next...