ISSN 1538-1080
DOI:10.58717/ijhc.01

Category: Editorial Musings

Editorial Musings – Discouraged About Giving Advice?

Dr. Kendra Gaines, Editor-in-Chief, IJHC It wouldn’t surprise me at all if occasionally alternative practitioners get a bit discouraged about giving advice, even when it is eagerly sought. I am not such a practitioner, but as I have long followed their advice, to the benefit of my own health, I occasionally offer suggestions. I did

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Editorial Musings

Dr. Daniel Sipple, MD Long Covid represents a $3.7 trillion global economic and humanistic disease burden. At present, there are no known FDA cleared treatments for this condition. Use of Photobiomodulation (PBM) for the use of Long Covid Brain Fog is known to be non-hazardous and has demonstrated strong efficacy in eradicating Long Covid Brain

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Editorial Musings

Editorial MusingsDr. Kendra Gaines, Editor-in-Chief, IJHC Some time ago I watched with great interest a program about the latest developments regarding DNA. The scientific information itself was fascinating, but I took away from the program some wonderful wisdom regarding living life. That wisdom is what I’d like to share with you here. None of this

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Editorial Musings 

 Dr. Kendra Gaines, Editor-in-Chief, IJHC  It isn’t too often that we read an article, in this case, Dr. Christina Ross’s article on energy medicine, and then have the astounding privilege of watching a theory under discussion turn into practice. But that is exactly what has happened to my Significant Other (SO). He has a lower back

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Editorial Musings

Dr. Kendra Gaines, Editor-in-Chief, IJHC A couple of years ago, my Significant Other discovered he had a leaky mitral valve in his heart. Without treatment, he could easily die of congestive heart failure. We sought the advice of a physician who offered to enter my 86-year-old SO in a study, saying “You’ll have a 50/50

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Editorial Musings

Dr. Kendra Gaines, Editor-in-Chief, IJHC A short time ago I had never heard of something called ChatGPT. Since then, however, it seems to have taken the academic world by storm. Conversations about it are occurring frequently, and I see articles on the topic almost everywhere. Reactions range from despair (“Plagiarism will become the norm!”) to

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Editorial Musings

GUEST EDITOR Dr. Brian Dailey, MD, FACEP, FACFEChair, National Certification Center of Energy PractitionersChanging Shape of the Energy Practitioner CommunityDr. Brian Dailey, MD, FACEP, FACFE Cudos to the energy practitioner community! So much progress has been made over the last five years in establishing energy practices with a new level of professionalism. As chair of

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Editorial Musings

It takes real courage these days to go to an airport and attempt to board a plane. I say “attempt” because, as those of us who have tried to fly recently have discovered, there is no guarantee that you will be able to board that plane or that the plane will actually leave the airport. All too often, as I found, that dreaded “cancelled” message appears just an hour or so before the plane is due to depart. And there you sit, stranded and abandoned.

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On the abortion issue

 My first thought when news broke about the Supreme Court’s possible decision to eliminate the protections for women of Roe v. Wade was—Oh no! Not again! The late 1960s were filled with seemingly endless discussions and arguments about the abortion issue. By the time Roe v. Wade was passed, I was almost more relieved to

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Some Thoughts On Alternative Medicine

I have been a data driven scientist for the process of decision making for some forty years as a member of the Physiology department in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. While on a hiking excursion in Sweden I slipped and fell. In an attempt to break my fall, I grabbed a

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