“Why does he have this fetish for doing it doggy-style? He wants to get on me from behind. It’s all he ever wants to do. Why is it such a thing with him?” ANSWER: A rule of super marital sex is no problem is just with him or with her. It will help if we [...]

Ionising radiation is harmful to all human cells — both normal and cancerous. You will remember that, because cancer cells are simply a ‘disobedient’ form of our own body cells, there is no type of treatment that can kill them without harming some of our normal cells. Radiation treatment is no exception to this rule. [...]

The doctor may combine drugs which act on different areas, increasing the dose of each of one until side affects appear, then adding another drug and increasing that the same way. Some patients may respond to the first drug used and be hardy enough not to suffer ill-effects, and others may seem to suffer every [...]

Most of the substances are salicylates or their derivatives. Dr Feingold listed 13 groups of additives which contain more than 2500 different chemicals. One of the most common is called tartrazine and is a yellow dye. It is a salicylate and related to aspirin and is also known by a variety of other names or [...]

Endometriosis begins with a retrograde flushing of endometrial tissue that backs up into the fallopian tubes and then sprays into the abdominal cavity. The endometrial cells can then implant themselves on any organ—ovaries, fallopian tubes, bladder, bowel—and grow with each monthly cycle. One would guess that the endometrial tissue somehow gravitates toward its source, the [...]

Before using a corticosteroid preparation, two important factors must be considered. The first and foremost is the diagnosis. It is most important that the diagnosis be correct, as while cortisone may suit one skin condition, it may have an adverse reaction on some very similar condition. Any confusion in this regard could have drastic consequences. [...]

Polyunsaturated fats are also categorised according to where the double bonds occur along the carbon chain. If the first double bond occurs on the third carbon from the methyl end of the carbon chain, the fatty acid is called an Omega-3 fatty acid (also written as n-3). These polyunsaturated fatty acids occur in high concentrations [...]

Naturopaths believe that natural therapies are able to help many aspects of endometriosis including pain, infertility and irregularity of the menstrual cycle which can accompany the problem. We asked a naturopath the following questions. What causes endometriosis Many naturopaths see endometriosis as a complex condition and causes include inherited predispositions, possible congestion of the lymphatic [...]

In the majority of women with endometriosis, pregnancy leads to an improvement in the condition or a temporary disappearance of the disease, particularly during the latter months of the pregnancy. It is generally believed that the beneficial effects of pregnancy on endometriosis are due to the high levels of the hormones oestrogen and progesterone that [...]

Vegetarianism has attracted increasing interest in recent years for health, economic, environmental and ethical reasons. There are three types of vegetarians — vegans, who don’t eat meat, eggs, or dairy products; lacto-vegetarians who eat dairy products and ovo-lacto-vegetarians who eat both eggs and dairy products. Some of the health advantages of vegetarianism are impressive. There [...]