The Integrated Pharmacist

***Disclaimer: This blog is not meant to be used as legal or medical advice.  It is written as my person perspective on how medical professionals could blend western medicine with other modalities*** Welcome to this week's episode of The Integrated Pharmacist Podcast.  In episode 2, I discussed the benefits of acupuncture.  Many studies have demonstrated its effects on pain.  In more recent years, therapists have added mild currents of electricity to acupuncture to enhance the healing effects.  Even though acupuncture has a lot of clincal evidence by itself, some patients and therapists are still hesitant to use this therapy.  Because the acupuncture needles penetrate the skin, there are some complications with blood exposure, sanitation, and potentially breaking needle tips in the skin.  For these people, a new form of acupuncture was created.  Dr. Clyde Shealy an American neurosurgeon was credited with inventing a machine in 1974 that could extend the electrical stimulatio

***Disclaimer: This blog is not meant to be used as legal or medical advice.  It is written as my person perspective on how medical professionals could blend western medicine with other modalities*** Greetings, and welcome to another episode of the Integrated Pharmacist Podcast.  Fad diets come and go.  So often, they're built on extreme limitations with the goal of dropping weight quickly or offering longer, more vibrant life.  These fad diets came into being during the 19th century when people drifted culturally away from ethnic and locally grown foods to diets based more on comfort and pleasure.  This new style of eating obviously had a negative effect on health and wellness, so new diet trends continue to spring up.  Extreme diets have included low-fat, low-carb, high fiber, and high protein.  There have been diets based on specific foods or food-groups like cabbage and grapefruit, restrictive diets, liquid diets, and much more. Of course, fad diets don't last long, bec

***Disclaimer: This blog is not meant to be used as legal or medical advice.  It is written as my person perspective on how medical professionals could blend western medicine with other modalities*** Greetings, listeners.  Welcome to another episode of the Integrated Pharmacist Podcast.  Today I'm talking about detoxification.  This is a topic that involves subjects I've covered in previous episodes including #10 chelation therapy and #12 colonic therapy.  This therapy revolves around the idea that toxic chemicals surround us.  It's in our food, in the air, on the grass, and in our beds.  Literally the paper receipt you're given at the store has harmful chemicals on it.  Some people think these environmental toxins build up in our bodies and we need help getting rid of them. Detoxification therapy can include fasting and special diets, chelation, colonics, hydrotherapy, and hyperthermia.  The idea of needing to detoxify arose in the 1800's, but by the 1900's