HONEST MEDICINE: My Dream for the Future

The Power of Honest Medicine, My New Book on LDN

My newest book, The Power of Honest Medicine,  is available in paperback and Kindle eBook editions from Amazon.com 

The book, written with Don Schwartz, introduces readers to Low Dose Naltrexone—or LDN—an effective, inexpensive alternative to the costly, toxic treatments doctors routinely prescribe for autoimmune and other diseases.

The Power of Honest Medicine contains contributions from eighteen people from around the world—from the US, the UK, and Europe—all of whom are eager to spread the word about this innovative treatment that has helped them, and has become a “people’s movement.”

Learn more about The Power of Honest Medicine, and read the book's Table of Contents.

FREE EXCERPT: Read a free excerpt from The Power of Honest Medicine now.

 

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The Power of Honest Medicine is now available in paperback and Kindle eBook editions from Amazon.com 

 

 

Many Diseases Benefit from LDN

 

PAPERBACK AND EBOOK NOW AVAILABLE!

The Power of Honest Medicine is now available in paperback and Kindle eBook editions from Amazon.com 

 

 

HONEST MEDICINE Is Now Available for the KINDLE!

By popular demand, my book, HONEST MEDICINE: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases, is now available for the KINDLE. It took a long time—and about 100 hours of work by my dear friend Mark—but it is finally ready. And it looks great!! (Why it took so long to prepare is another story—for another posting. But please trust me, it did!)

So, please tell all your ebook-savvy friends, sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and other relatives: You can download HONEST MEDICINE for Kindle for $8.99.

MOBI files (the kind of file the KINDLE uses) can be viewed on Kindles (both handheld and computer-based), as well as on smartphones and ipads.

Thanks so much for telling everyone you know who owns a KINDLE or other device about HONEST MEDICINE's arrival as an ebook. I can’t wait to hear how you enjoy reading it!

Go here to download HONEST MEDICINE for Kindle.

Julia Schopick Interviewed by Dr. Ronald Hoffman about HONEST MEDICINE: The HOFFMAN EFFECT

On February 8th, I was interviewed by the wonderful integrative physician and author, Ronald Hoffman, MD, on his New York radio show, “Health Talk.”

Frankly, I knew that Dr. Hoffman would do a great interview:

I had read his books and loved them. And as a matter of fact, I myself had interviewed Dr. Hoffman for HonestMedicine.com, after his book, How to Talk with Your Doctor came out. I was introduced to him by his co-author, Sidney Stevens, a friend of mine, who thought that Dr. Hoffman would provide me with a great interview. He did. (Click here to listen to that interview.)

After that interview, Dr. Hoffman and I became friends, and I asked him to write a testimonial for my book, which he graciously did.

When HONEST MEDICINE was published, I knew that I wanted to be interviewed by Dr. Hoffman for his WOR-AM radio show in New York. I knew he’d do a great job, and that his large listenership would provide me with a unique opportunity to spread the word about the amazing treatments I feature in my book.

The interview aired on February 8th, 2011. I urge you to listen to it.

But nothing prepared me for what I now refer to as “The Hoffman Effect”:

Before the show was even over in New York, I began getting emails from Dr. Hoffman's listeners, telling me how much they were enjoying the interview, and asking for information about the treatments featured in mybook. I was happy to oblige.

Then the next day, it happened:

HONEST MEDICINE was an AMAZON.COM BEST SELLER!

I call it “The Hoffman Effect.”

Here is an Amazon.com screen shot two days after Dr. Hoffman’s interview. As you can see, HONEST MEDICINE was in the top 4137 books, and #1 in Immune System books, and #2 in the Holistic category!!

I can’t thank Dr. Hoffman enough for giving me this opportunity to get the word out about HONEST MEDICINE, so that thousands of people will be able to learn about it. As most of you who are reading this know, this book is a mission and a passion for me.

NOTE: If you know of a radio host who is really good--like Dr. Hoffman--and who (like Dr. Hoffman) is knowledgeable about health topics, please write to me. I'd love to be a guest on many more shows like Dr. Hoffman's!!

Integrative Physicians Praise Julia Schopick's Just-Published Book, "HONEST MEDICINE"!

Drs. Julian Whitaker, Ronald Hoffman, Jeffrey Dach—and others—praise HONEST MEDICINE.

Those of you who have read my just-published book, HONEST MEDICINE: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases, know that several well-known integrative doctors have written testimonials for it. I have included them in the book.

I am very grateful to these doctors for their support, and would like to thank them here by sharing their kind words with you.

In another post, I will share the testimonials of several others. But for now. . .

Julian Whitaker, MD, Founder of the Whitaker Wellness Institute, Editor of Health & Healing newsletter, and author of many best-selling books, including Dr. Whitaker’s Guide to Natural Healing, Reversing Diabetes and Reversing Heart Disease:

“I commend Julia Schopick for spreading the word about these remarkable, yet overlooked therapies that can improve the lives of so many.”

 

  Ronald Hoffman, MD, Founder and Medical Director of the Hoffman Center in New York, Host of “Health Talk,” nationally syndicated radio talk show, and best-selling author of several books, including Intelligent Medicine and Alternative Cures that Really Work:

“Any patient who is interested in learning about nontoxic, inexpensive alternatives to costly, side-effect-laden pharmaceuticals should read Julia’s book. I predict that Honest Medicine will become an instant classic.”

 

  Jeffrey Dach, MD, author of Natural Medicine 101 and founder of the Bio-Identical Hormone Blog:

“Join with Julia Schopick and thousands of other health activists demanding these effective treatments ignored by mainstream medicine. A revolution is at hand, and Julia’s new book, Honest Medicine, is leading the charge with banner held high.”

 

David Brownstein, MD, Medical Director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield, MI, and author of nine books on integrative medical topics:

“I recommend Honest Medicine to all who are open-minded and looking for safe, effective therapies that have a sound biochemical basis behind them. This book should be required reading for all physicians and patients searching for safe and effective therapies." 

 
Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, author of the best-selling book, From Fatigued to Fantastic!

"When doctors tell you they can’t help you, thank them for their honesty. And then read Julia Schopick’s book!"

 

Thanks to these integrative doctors for their testimonials. I hope that more doctors will become like them--and start prescribing treatments like those featured in HONEST MEDICINE.

 

HONEST MEDICINE Now on Amazon.com

For over a year, I have been busy writing my book, HONEST MEDICINE: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases. It has been wonderful, terrible, exhausting—and ultimately, life-changing time.

And now it is published--and on Amazon.com!

The idea for HONEST MEDICINE started germinating in 2002, when my husband Tim was in the hospital with a non-healing post-surgical head wound caused when his suture line wouldn't heal. His doctors performed 8 surgeries to try to get his skin to heal. Nothing worked.
 

Then, through a friend and colleague, Dr. Carlos Reynes, I found Silverlon, a different kind of wound-healing system. Just hours after placing Silverlon on Tim’s head, his skin started to heal.

I was elated. (You may read about our experience here.)
 

But then, the strangest thing happened: Tim's doctors thought his healing was “anecdotal.” Some even thought it was THEIR treatments that worked, rather than Silverlon!

Read about our experiences here:

That was the beginning of HONEST MEDICINE.

I figured that mine couldn't be the only instance of a treatment that was way more successful than the treatments doctors routinely used—only to be shunned by them.

I was right.

I found three other treatments—all of which are:

--Effective
--Non-toxic
--Inexpensive
--Lifesaving

And although all of them SHOULD be considered standard of care, they aren’t—yet. (I hope HONEST MEDICINE will help to change this.)

These treatments are:

--The Ketogenic Diet for pediatric epilepsy
--Low Dose Naltrexone for MS, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Crohn’s Disease and other autoimmune diseases
--Intravenous Alpha Lipoic Acid for end-stage liver disease and (when combined with LDN) for some very serious cancers, including pancreatic.

To learn more about HONEST MEDICINE, please become a FAN of the book's Facebook Page.

And please visit AMAZON.com to buy HONEST MEDICINE.

David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD's Excellent New Book Panned By the New York Times for Citing “Anecdotal” Evidence

When I began reading Dr. Abigail Zuger’s New York Times review of Dr. David Servan-Schreiber’s latest book, Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life,  I was at first amused when she compared it to “the finest in nighttime infomercials” that hawk (I’m really quoting her here!) kitchen gadgets and acne preparations. But my amusement soon wore off.

I was familiar with Dr. Zuger’s writings, and with Dr. Servan-Schreiber’s, so I immediately knew where she was going with this. This was, to quote Margo Channing ("All About Eve"), “going to be a bumpy ride.” If a bumpy ride was what I really wanted, I was not to be disappointed by Dr. Zuger’s stinging assessment of this very important book. But, truthfully, I would have preferred a fair and balanced review.

You see, Dr. Zuger has a well-documented bias against all treatments that don't have randomized double-blind clinical trials to back them up. In other words, all “anecdotal” treatments are, to her way of thinking, suspect. She publicly chided her own mother in the New York Times in February 2006 (“Impressive Science Meets Unimpressed Patient (Hi, Mom!)”) for not believing wholeheartedly in medical studies. And in her December 25, 2007 review of R. Barker Bausell’s book, Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine, she confidently proclaimed that those who use alternative treatments “share a single mantra: ‘I don’t care what the studies say; it works for me.’” And then she went on to say (incorrectly, I might add): “The studies — at least the good ones — say that none of these treatments work the miracles often claimed for them.” She called this book –- probably because she agrees with Bausell’s very dismissive point of view -- a “tour de force.”

So, I was not surprised that Dr. Zuger would be inclined to criticize Dr. Servan-Schreiber’s approach to treating cancer, which includes a blend of conventional and alternative treatments, including diet. Nor was I surprised that she would be suspicious of the validity of the studies he quotes in the book. (Though not double-blind randomized clinical trials, all were performed by extremely reputable researchers at respectable institutions.) But I had hoped that she would at least be open to the very measured and convincing way he presented his ideas. She wasn’t.

I find it especially surprising that Dr. Zuger wasn’t at all impressed by the fact that Dr. Servan-Schreiber is a respected medical researcher and writer. Both an MD and a PhD, as well as a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, he has authored several books, including The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy, and is also a regular contributor to Ode Magazine. But perhaps even more relevant here, Dr. Servan-Schreiber is also long-term brain tumor survivor -– approximately 14 years out, by my calculation -- who followed the standard route (surgery, chemo and radiation), only to have his cancer return. It was at this point that he began to study and use an integrative approach. And he credits his long-term survival in good part to the dietary changes he describes in his book.

April, 2008: Some of Honest Medicine’s Most Popular Articles and Audios

1) NEW: Honest Medicine on the Blogs – This posting features several comments left on blogs, such as the New York Times’ Well Blog and the Salon.com blog, in response to postings relevant to HonestMedicine’s mission. Among the subjects these blogs and comments addressed are: patients who research their symptoms online (“Googling”); mammograms; Dr. Christiane Northrup’s appearance, discussing thyroid disease, on the Oprah Winfrey Show; doctors who “steal hope”; and the overuse of diagnostic scans.

2) Rave Review: “An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family”
This collection, beautifully edited by author Nell Casey is, by far, one of the most touching anthologies on the topic of caregiving -- filled with real-life accounts by writers, some famous and some not-so-famous. Some of the best writing on this topic that I have read in many years. The book contains fascinating personal essays by such writers as: Stan Mack, Dr. Jerome Groopman, Eleanor Cooley, Ann Hood, Abigail Thomas and Susan Lehman. There is also a wonderful introduction by Frank McCourt.

3) HonestMedicine’s "SiCKO Files":

♣ Honest Medicine's Review of Michael Moore's SiCKO, was noticed by several websites, including one that hailed it as "a superb review from someone who knows." Michael Moore also linked to it from his website!

♣ Audio Interview with SiCKO “hitman” Lee Einer. In this interview Lee shares insurance industry "secrets" not included in the film.

♣ Article #1 Written By Lee Einer: "Faux Health Insurance for the Self-Employed: The Sham, The Scam, The Shame of It." This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of articles written by Lee Einer, the man Michael Moore called the Insurance Industry "Hitman" in SiCKO. It was Lee's job to make sure the insurance companies he worked for were saved from paying just about ANY large bill -- no matter what he had to do. This article is truly enlightening -- and frightening!

♣ Article #2 Written By Lee Einer: “The Truth About Self-Funded Plans.” The second in our series of articles written by Lee Einer, SiCKO’s "Hitman." In this article, Lee tells about a second kind of “insurance” that can be deceptive.

4) Honest Medicine’s Inspiration: Timothy Mark Fisher
      March 13, 1949 – November 8, 2005
My husband Tim Fisher was first diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in September, 1990. For fifteen years, until he died in November, 2005, we navigated our flawed medical system together. My tribute to him was written on the second anniversary of his death, and contains several wonderful true stories about Tim. He was, and continues to be, an inspiration.

5) Honest Medicine’s Audios

♣ Ronald Hoffman, MD, Integrative Physician/Author -- In this interview, Dr. Hoffman discusses his integrative approach to the treatment of many diseases, including cancer. Also included: a discussion of the ways in which so-called "trials" or "studies" of natural treatments are often intentionally set so that they will "fail."

♣ Nutritionist Liz Lipski -- This interview contains discussions of local/organic foods, hospital food and her books, Digestive Wellness and Digestive Wellness for Children.

♣ Integrative Cancer Specialist Dr. James Belanger -- This innovative naturopathic physician discusses his use of blood tests and natural supplements for keeping his patients' cancers in remission.

♣ Lee Einer, SiCKO "Hitman" -- see above

An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family – A Very Special Book About Family Caregiving

I am very grateful to my friend Mary Shomon for telling me about “An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family.” “I laughed; I cried: I couldn't put it down,” is how Mary described the book. She asked if I’d like to review it for HonestMedicine. When I said yes, she contacted Sharyn Rosenblum, the book’s wonderful PR person at Harper Collins. In a few days, I had a copy.

“An Uncertain Inheritance” is one of those truly memorable reads. It is, as its press materials state, “an eloquent collection of essays,” in which some famous (and some not-so-famous) writers “reveal their experiences in caring for family members through illness and death.”

But this description just scratches the surface. It is much more.

This book is like those wonderful short story anthologies I once loved so much that introduced me to great literature and magnificent writers, and led me to explore their longer works more fully. It was these anthologies that gave me my love of literature.

“An Uncertain Inheritance” contains some of the most wonderful and powerfully written short essays about love, and about taking care of family members at their most vulnerable -- whether they be parents, children, dear friends or siblings.

I’d like to tell you about a few of my favorite selections, in hopes that they will entice you to buy and read this very important book.

FIVE ESSAYS FROM THE BOOK:

• Abigail Thomas’s “The Day the World Split Open,” starts out with her husband being hit by a car, and goes on to provide just about the most touchingly accurate portrayal of what a brain injury is like, and how it affects both the injured person himself, and the entire family -- especially his wife. (I related to this one very personally.)

• I also loved Ann Hood’s selection, “In the Land of Little Girls,” in which she describes, in a tightly written 13 pages, the illness and quick death of her beautiful 5-year-old daughter Gracie. Ms. Hood’s horror at what happened to her daughter, as well as at the harsh treatment she and her family endured in the hospital, and her total devastation at Gracie’s death -- all within the space of 36 hours -- are riveting.

• Eleanor Cooney’s “Death in Slow Motion,” about her mother (writer Mary Draper’s) decline into the netherworld of Alzheimer’s Disease, is so beautifully written and so touching that I couldn't keep myself from going online to learn more about Mary Draper.

(At the end of this review, I’ll include my own “Reading List,” which I developed from my research about these authors’ works.)

And my two favorites:

• In “Don’t Worry. It’s Not an Emergency,” Susan Lehman, who is a lawyer in real life, manages to paint an absolutely dark and charmingly arresting portrait of her mother, who must have been quite something in her day: She was once Eleanor Roosevelt’s assistant. But now, in her dotage, she weighs nearly 300 pounds, and is an absolutely maddening person -- at least to her daughter. She smokes, eats copious amounts of candy and has a voice that is like a “blast.” But, Lehman’s children absolutely adore their grandmother, calling her -- of all names! -- “Doodles.” Doodles ends up living in the same building, on the 8th floor. The children can’t wait to enjoy their daily visits with Doodles. This story, with its huge Saturnalian anti-heroine, reminds us that caregiving, indeed, can have many absurd and fun aspects to it.

• But perhaps, because it reminded me of my own experiences as caregiver to my husband Tim, for me, the most touching story of all was cartoonist Stan Mack’s (“Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies”) “The Elephant in the Room,” abridged from his very tender book “Janet and Me.” I loved this selection so much that, immediately after reading it, I bought the book and devoured it, as well. What makes this story so beautiful is that it combines all the complex and conflicting elements that I remember so vividly that are such an important part of being the caregiver to the person who is the love of your life: the tenderness, the fear, the rage, and the anger at a heartless medical system that turns a deaf ear when people are at their most vulnerable.

Sadly, I know that, despite the excellent reviews “An Uncertain Inheritance” has received in publications like “People Magazine” and “US News and World Report,” it most probably won’t be a best seller, because caregiving isn’t a “sexy” topic. But it should be. As former First Lady Roselynn Carter has been quoted as saying, “You either are a caregiver, have been a caregiver or will be a caregiver.” That’s each and every one of us.

And what better introduction to the topic of caregiving than this wonderful book?

SUGGESTED CAREGIVER BOOKS, ARTICLES AND WEBSITES RELATING TO THE AUTHORS MENTIONED IN MY REVIEW OF “AN UNCERTAIN INHERITANCE”:

ABIGAIL THOMAS, (“The Day the World Split Open”). A Three Dog Life is a book about Ms. Thomas’ husband Richard’s accident and subsequent brain injury, and how they both dealt with it. One of my favorite reviewers, Donna Chavez, called the book “exemplary,” and writes, “Thomas has elevated what could be, at best, an overemotional sermon or, at worst, a grim romp in self-pity to a high plain of true inspiration.”

ANN HOOD (“In the Land of Little Girls”). Ms Hood has written a novel, The Knitting Circle, which grew out of the experience of losing her daughter Gracie. And in her essay, Now I Need a Place to Hide Away, published in the "NY Times," Ms. Hood writes about Gracie’s love for the Beatles’ songs, and how they comforted her when she was in the hospital, dying. Thankfully, this very touching essay is available online.

ELEANOR COONEY (“Death in Slow Motion”), also wrote a book with the same title: "Death in Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's." The essay grew out of a Harper’s Magazine article of the same name; and she expanded the article and essay into this book -- also with the same title. The book’s website contains a great deal of information about the author’s mother, writer Mary Draper, on whom all three (article, essay and book) are based. Of special interest: the wonderful photos.

STAN MACK – “The Elephant in the Room.” As I noted in my review of “An Uncertain Inheritance,” this essay was excerpted from the wonderful book, “Janet and Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss.” For me, this is, without a doubt, THE most touching book about love, loss, caregiving, friendship, etc., etc., etc. I have ever read. I can’t recommend it more highly. In addition, I hope you'll also want to read this interview with Stan Mack, about his and Janet's experience with cancer and caregiving.

Finally, there are two other books about caregiving that contain some wonderful true stories and lots of information about how little support (both financial and emotional) is given to family caregivers. I’d like to recommend them here:

"A Family Caregiver Speaks Up: It Doesn't Have to Be This Hard," by Suzanne Mintz, founder of the National Family Caregiver Association (NFCA). Ms. Mintz is a driving force in the movement to get legislation passed that will aid family caregivers. The NFCA website contains lots of great information.

"Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers" is edited by Carol Levine, a family caregiver herself, and also Director of the Families and Health Care Project of the United Hospital Fund in New York. Ms. Levine is another important person in this arena; there is more information about her on the United Hospital Fund's website.

Obituary: Richard Neubauer, MD., the Father of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Brain

Sent to me by Dr. Neubauer's daughter, Ginger, who is also my good friend. This obituary will be followed by links to Dr. Neubauer's sites, his books, a few of the many books and articles featuring him, and the guest book from the Sun Sentinel, Dr. Neubauer's local Florida newspaper.

Richard A. Neubauer, M.D., Pioneer in the Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Neurologic Conditions, Dies at 83

Richard Allen Neubauer, M.D., internationally recognized pioneer in the application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for a variety of neurologic and related disorders, died on June 11, 2007. He remained active with research and clinical work until the last few weeks of his life and died at his home in Pompano Beach, FL.

Dr. Neubauer became interested in potential applications of HBOT during the early 1970s, at which time he acquired a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. He went on to establish and direct the Ocean Hyperbaric Neurologic Center in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL, where he treated people coming to the Center from throughout the world. His research and clinical practice led to the conclusion that with a hyperbaric chamber, pressurized oxygen could be provided to damaged central nervous system neurons and help restore their function. Among the conditions researched and treated at the Center have been multiple sclerosis, near drowning, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, anoxic encephalopathy, coma, and stroke. A recent focus has been the treatment of severely afflicted children with mitochondrial diseases.

His international reputation led to invitations to speak at numerous scientific meetings throughout the world. His travels as a lecturer on hyperbaric medicine included Europe, Asia, Africa, South American, and Australia. He also hosted six international hyperbaric oxygen symposia in South Florida. He was the author of Hyperbaric Oxygenation for Cerebral Palsy and the Brain Injured Child: A Promising Treatment and was coauthor of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. He has appeared on The Today Show, The Discovery Channel and countless national and international news broadcasts.  He also wrote numerous book chapters and scientific articles on the treatment of neurologic conditions with hyperbaric oxygen. His letters and articles appeared in many scientific journals, including JAMA, Lancet, Stroke, The New England Journal of Medicine, The British Medical Journal and American Family Physician. Dr. Neubauer was dedicated to advancing knowledge about the potential of HBOT and he personally trained many physicians from around the US and multiple other countries. As a result, many patients even in the far corners of the world have benefited from this safe and effective type of therapy.

He was a native of Wilmington, DE. He attended the College of William and Mary, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. He completed his medical training at the University of Virginia in 1947 and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (honorary medical). He was involved in research and clinical medical practice in Wilmington and Philadelphia before relocating with his family to South Florida in 1962.  There he developed a thriving practice in internal medicine and was instrumental in the establishment of Beach Hospital (later Cleveland Clinic) in Fort Lauderdale where he served as Chief of Staff and Director of Medical Development.

Among his many honors was his election to the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a founder of the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine and a member of the World Federation of Neurology Executive Committee on Underwater Medicine.

He is survived by the love of his life, his inspiration and his soul mate; his wife of 61 years, Winnie “Winkie” Isabelle Neubauer; four children, Richard Allen Neubauer, Jr. of Marysville, CA, David N. Neubauer of Baltimore, MD, Virginia Isabelle Neubauer Reilly of Margate, FL, and Marion Elizabeth Neubauer of Fort Lauderdale, FL; as well as two grandchildren, Rebecca Lynne Neubauer and Robert Martin Neubauer, living in Maryland.

Guest Book for Richard A. Neubauer -- in the Sun Sentinel, Dr. Neubauer's local Florida newspaper. People who want to send wishes of condolence to Dr. Neubauer's family are invited to do so here.

Dr. Neubauer's Websites: Ocean Hyperbaric, Personal Website

Books by Dr. Neubauer: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (with Morton Walker), Hyperbaric Oxygenation for Cerebral Palsy and the Brain Injured Child and Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine (with several co-authors, including K. K. Jain and Paul Harch)

Other Information About Dr. Neubauer:

NEW BOOK: The Oxygen Revolution, by Paul Harch, MD, and Virginia McCullough

ARTICLE: Could Alternative Medicine Have Saved Terri Schiavo, published by Alternative and Complementary Therapies Magazine, June, 2005.

Pre-Interview Research Uncovers Audio Bonanza

In addition to being a medical advocate, I am also a public relations consultant and former college English teacher. I think it is this combination of past and present lives that causes me to try to do such a thorough job of research before posting articles and audio interviews on this website.

Often, my pre-article and pre-interview research gleans some wonderful discoveries. For instance, in preparing for my upcoming interview with Dr. Ronald Hoffman, author of several wonderful books, including (with my friend Sidney Stevens,) the recent How to Talk With Your Doctor: The Guide for Patients And Their Physicians Who Want to Reconcile And Use the Best of Conventional And Alternative Medicine, I came across a veritable treasure trove: Dr. Hoffman’s incredible, information-packed radio interviews on New York’s WOR-AM Radio website. The fact that these interviews (going back to July of 2006) are online and available for download, is a gift to anyone who cares about integrative medicine.

Dr. Hoffman himself is an inspiration: He conducts 10 hours worth of interviews every week with some of the most important experts in the area of integrative (or, to use Dr. Hoffman’s word, “intelligent”) medicine.

I urge visitors to this WOR-Radio site to listen to these interviews. You’ll find that Dr. Hoffman, who calls himself a proponent of “intelligent medicine,” and has, in fact, written a book with that title, maintains an extremely high standard in his choice of topics and guests.

Among my favorite of Dr. Hoffman's recent guests:

1) Dr. Michael Holick (MD, PhD), author of the very important book, The UV Advantage: The Medical Breakthrough That Shows How to Harness the Power of the Sun for Your Health. Because of this controversial book, Dr. Holick was asked to resign from his position in Boston University’s Department of Dermatology. (You may read about him on Dr. Ralph Moss's website, and listen to Dr. Hoffman’s interview with him, as well.)

2) Integrative physician, Dr. Fred Pescatore (MD), on the topic of Children’s Health. (Dr. Pescatore, who served as a consultant for me when my husband was so ill, is the author of several wonderful books, including: Feed Your Kids Well: How to Help Your Child Lose Weight and Get Healthy and The Allergy and Asthma Cure: A Complete Eight-Step Nutritonal Program.)

3) Medical Writer Bill Sardi and Tufts University Professor of Nutrition, Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg, in two separate interviews on the controversy surrounding the recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), on the highly flawed study linking anti-oxidants with all sorts of unlikely complications, including death! (For those of you who are surprised when JAMA publishes articles about studies that seem skewed, please read my 3-part article, “The JAMA Controversy.”)

4) Dr. David Brownstein's discussion of his book, "Drugs That Don't Work and Natural Therapies That Do."

But please, don’t listen ONLY to these interviews. Go to the WOR-Radio site, and scroll down to find the interviews that pique your interest. Trust me, there will be several! Then you will see why I can’t wait to interview Dr. Hoffman for HonestMedicine.com!