HONEST MEDICINE: My Dream for the Future

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.

Important Message for all LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone) Users

To: Everyone who has benefited from taking LDN or who knows someone who has Benefited from it

There are now TWO WAYS to take the LDN POLL: Online and by Email.

The LDN Research Trust and LDN Aware need your help TO GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT LDN during International LDN Awareness Week in October!!

We’ve only got 10 days—till the end of September—to get over 2000 people to TAKE PART IN THE POLL at this link:

http://forum.ldnresearchtrust.org/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F1759-ldn-media-poll-pleas

Several people have had difficulty with signing on at the above link to take the poll. IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE, you can take the poll OFFLINE and send the results to [email protected].

Please HERE to see the POLL QUESTIONS:

SOS -- Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Poll

LDN USERS

LDN Research Trust/LDN Aware POLL -- Please answer these questions. Send answers to [email protected].

(THERE ARE 10 QUESTIONS. By answering them, you are helping to make International LDN Awareness Week a SUCCESS. Thank you!)

A:  Where did you hear about LDN?
1    From a fellow sufferer
2    In the media
3    Research on the internet
4    My doctor
5    Other

B: How much time passed between you hearing about LDN and starting to use it?

1    I started immediately 
2    Less than a month 
3    1– 6 months 
4    6 – 12 months 
5    More than a year

C: After you heard about LDN what prompted you to use it?

1    I waited until I had researched it for myself
2    I found out more about other sufferers
3    I felt there was no other alternative
4    My family persuaded/friends me to use it
5    My doctor recommended it

SiCKO "Hitman" Lee Einer on the new Health Care Act--Guest Column

Exposing the Myths of “Health Reform”

(Editor's Note: For other SiCKO-related postings, please go here. Thanks!)

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The Democratic Party has recently launched a PR push to assure voters of the wonders of the newly enacted “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” It seems to me that the Democratic Party is at least a little concerned that this controversial legislation might be an albatross around their necks come midterm elections. They should be.

I recently attended a public presentation on the Act, a presentation delivered by an aide to Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a Democrat, who sat on the HELP committee which produced this bill in the senate. Bingaman's aide made some glowing claims for the legislation, and while some were true, others were not just inaccurate but outrageously, incredibly false.

Bold-faced lies about matters of public welfare tend to get under my skin, and in this case, they motivated me to take keyboard in hand and address some of the myths and misunderstandings surrounding the Affordable Care Act.

Bernard Bihari, MD: 11-11-31 to 5-16-10

 Share your thoughts and memories

of Dr. Bihari.

 

Last Sunday, the world lost a truly wonderful man: Dr. Bernard Bihari, a medical hero, and one of my personal heroes, as well.

Dr. Bihari was the genius who discovered that a very low dose of naltrexone, a drug that had been approved at a higher dose by the FDA for another purpose entirely, could help people with some of the most difficult-to-treat diseases.

Thanks to Dr. Bihari, tens of thousands (some say hundreds of thousands) of people with multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, HIV/AIDS and even cancer are now living better lives. Many are symptom-free.

Dr. Bihari had the highest of credentials: a Bachelors degree from Cornell, and his MD degree from Harvard. But he never lost sight of his true mission: to lessen the suffering of real people.

Free Ebook Now Available for International LDN Awareness Week: "The Faces of Low Dose Naltrexone"

Honest Medicine is proud to announce that The Faces of Low Dose Naltrexone, a free 116-page EBOOK, is now available for download. The Faces of LDN is a special resource book, created in honor of International LDN Awareness Week (ILDNAW) (October 19-25), to give the media and the public a more comprehensive, in-depth picture of the LDN Story than we could possibly give in our ILDNAW Press Release.

The Story of Low Dose Naltrexone is, indeed, impressive.

Approved in the 1980s by the FDA in a much higher dose for the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction, naltrexone has been used for many years at 1/10 the dosage to treat a wide array of illnesses, all with impaired immune systems: e.g., Multiple Sclerosis, HIV, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Crohn’s Disease, Lupus and Fibromyalgia. LDN is also used as an adjunctive treatment for many cancers.

It is estimated that 100,000 patients worldwide have been helped by LDN.

Please feel free to download this ebook. We hope you will enjoy reading it and that you will share it with your friends and colleagues.

Please DOWNLOAD The Faces of Low Dose Naltrexone HERE.

And please feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues – and with anyone who has an autoimmune disease, or who knows someone with an autoimmune disease.

International Low Dose Naltrexone Awareness Week: October 19-25th, 2009

an old drug
a controversial treatment
successful across a range of diseases linked
by immune system dysfunction
BUT
 YOU won't hear of it, and YOU won't be offered it

 

On October 19th, patients, physicians and researchers alike will convene at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, for the Fifth Annual Conference on Low Dose Naltrexone.

  October 19th will also kick off the First International LDN Awareness Week – a concerted push to get the word out through the media, about thousands of patients with autoimmune diseases who are benefitting from the off-label use of one inexpensive generic drug protocol, low dose naltrexone (commonly referred to as LDN).
 
  It is estimated that thousands of patients worldwide are now enjoying improved health due to LDN. Most learn about it through a combination of word of mouth, success stories, internet research, online forums, and an ever-growing number of doctors who are prescribing it for their patients with autoimmune diseases.

The LDN protocol employs approximately 1/10 the dose of naltrexone, a drug that was approved in 1984 by the FDA to treat alcoholism and drug addiction. Today, thanks to the work of patient advocates, dedicated physicians and researchers, thousands of patients are taking LDN to successfully halt the progression of diseases that are compromised by an impaired immune system, such as Multiple Sclerosis, HIV, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Crohn’s Disease, Lupus and Fibromyalgia.
 
Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) is literally changing their lives.

“Before I started taking LDN in 2003, I was an invalid,” says Linda Elsegood, one of the founders of the LDN Research Trust, a non-profit charity in England, which was formed in 2004 to raise both awareness of and research for LDN. “I had just about every symptom of Multiple Sclerosis that a person

Low Dose Naltrexone on Wellness Talk Radio & Blog Talk Radio

Low dose naltrexone (LDN), one of the treatments I’ve showcased several times on HonestMedicine (here, here, here and here), has been in the online media quite a bit lately. It even has an online radio show devoted entirely to it! So, the word is getting out to more and more patients with autoimmune diseases (like MS, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease) that this low-cost, extremely safe, FDA-approved (at much higher doses), off-label medication is a very effective treatment, and that -- in many cases -- it has proved to be more effective than the medications doctors most often prescribe.

NOTE: LDN is one of the lifesaving, but so-called “anecdotal,” treatments I will be featuring in my upcoming book, Against All Medical Advice: Lifesaving Treatments that Work when the “Standard of Care” Fails You.

One program, Mary Boyle Bradley’s Internet radio show on Blog Talk Radio, is devoted entirely to low dose naltrexone. On her show, Mary, whose husband’s MS was helped immeasurably by LDN, interviews medical experts and patient advocates alike. In a future posting, I will tell more about this show. In the meantime, you may listen to it live on Tuesdays at Noon, and past episodes are available online.

LDN on Wellness Talk Radio with Kris Costello

Kris Costello will interview LDN advocate SammyJo Wilkinson and Elaine Moore, co-authors of The Promise of Low Dose Naltrexone, on Wellness Talk Radio on Wednesday, July 22nd, and Saturday, July 25th.

Guest Columns by Daphne White About Comparative Effectiveness Research -- Reprinted from TheIntegratorBlog.com

When I first learned of the Obama Administration’s commitment to implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) as a way of determining which treatments are effective and which ones are not, I was very hopeful. I thought that, done right, CER would assure that the best of conventional and the best of alternative medicine would finally be used together to give American patients the best results. In my enthusiasm, I decided to write articles for HonestMedicine.com on the topic of combining both medical worlds to assure the best patient care, and how CER could help to make this happen.

While doing my research, I discovered that another health writer, Daphne White, CHTP, was addressing the same topic. Her slant, very similar to mine, was the importance of including CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) protocols in the New Medicine. She, too, had both hopes and doubts that this would happen.

The first article by Daphne that I found, “Sen. Harkin: Time to End Discrimination against Alternative Health Care Practices,” had been reprinted on Izabella Tabarovsky’s ProjectCreativeVision blog. I was so impressed with this posting that I

(a)  left my own comment

(b)  researched further and discovered that Daphne had originally written this, and other articles, for John Weeks’ excellent Integrator Blog. (Her articles may be found here.

and finally

(c) as originally planned, I wrote my own postings on the topic, here and here.

I am so impressed with the level of Daphne’s commitment to Integrative Healthcare – a combination of conventional and alternative medicine – that I am reprinting two of her articles here. I believe that together, our four combined postings – hers and mine – give a very accurate representation of how the alternative/complementary/integrative medicine communities must work proactively so that Integrative Healthcare will, indeed, come to pass.

Daphne White’s Postings on CER:

CAM and Comparative Effectiveness Research - Are We Going to Play?

and

The "Kabuki Play" of Monied Interests Around the $1.1-Billion Comparative Effectiveness Research Initiative

I want to thank both Daphne and John for allowing me to publish these two excellent postings, thereby giving me this opportunity to get an important message out to the public.