Holistic Health Topics

The home of holistic medicine, orthomolecular
nutrition, and natural therapies

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Australian Doctor Lists

ACNEM Australian Practitioner List

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WHAS Clinics


Australian Compounding Chemists

New South Wales
Richard Stenlake
West Lindfield Pharmacy
Fresh Therapeutics

Ballina NSW
Complementary Compounding Services
Now supplying methylcobalamin!!

Victoria
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South Australia
The Green Dispensary

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The Global Threat to Alternative Medicines

1. The Pan Crisis & Moves to Introduce Dramatic Regulatory Reform of the Alternative Medicine Industry in Australia

 2. The Therapeutic Products Bill 2007

 3. Regulatory Changes in the 'Land of the Free'

4. Dietary Supplements Added to Functional Junk Foods

5. The Codex in Australia: Natural Health Products on Trial

6. Australian Alternative Doctor Deregistered & Drug Treatment Legally Enforced


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Holistic Health Topics pays tribute to researchers such as Roger Williams and Hans Selye, pioneers in medicine, biochemistry and nutrition whose commitment to truth continues to set the standard today.

About this Web Site

Adrenal Type

Asthma
Adrenal gland and,
B vitamins and,
Megavitamin B6,
Nutrition and,

Australian Genetically Modified Foods

Biochemical Individuality
Body Types
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Ciguatera Fish Poisoning

Clinical Trials

Evidence Based Medicine

Five Elements

Glyconutrients

Health News and Links

Hypothyroidism

Medical Bias

Megavitamin B
Asthma and,
Mental Disorders,
Side Effects

Orthomolecular Nutrition

Life Expectancy

Reductionism

Thyroid Type

Tridoshas

VitaminB12
Cyanide and,
Nerve regeneration,

Yin, Yang, and Qi

 

 

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Vitamins & Alternative Medicines: scientific research into dietary supplements & holistic medicine.

  

Widespread Industry Agreement in NZ Following Rejection of Therapeutic Products Bill & Trans Tasman Harmonisation.
Following the failure of the exceedingly divisive and unpopular attempts to force the complementary medicine industry in NZ to be controlled by the Australian based Therapeutic Products Authority, the industry in NZ has agreed to move forward by accepting a solution which would exempt complementary medicines. Although the government has yet to agree, the prevailing community feelings make this solution the only sensible choice from a democratic perspective. Click here for more.

New Study Shows Safety of Vitamins and Ability of Vitamins to Reduce Strokes & Cardiovascular Events Although Headlines Conceal True Results of Study & Claim Vitamins are Useless - Campaign to correct biased reporting of study.
A recent study not only contradicted other studies by confirming the safety of vitamins but it also revealed significant positive benefits upon stroke and heart disease although these positive aspects were not highlighted by the study authors or by the ensuing negative media headlines. Click here for more.

Misinformation About Pan, & Increased Regulatory Control of Alternative Medicines in Australia & New Zealand.
The current push to introduce tighter regulatory controls over vitamins and supplements in Australia and New Zealand has been justified by the drug toxicity demonstrated during the Pan drug debacle. This legislative campaign has been based upon scaremongering and misinformation as those promoting the legislative changes resort to false, exaggerated or misleading claims about the safety of vitamins and supplements. Concrete scientific evidence seems top secret or difficult to obtain as authorities refuse to provide conclusive evidence to support their claims of the dangers of vitamins. Why did New Zealand authorities refuse to supply an important report to me which allegedly confirms the dangerous nature of vitamins and supplements? Click here for more.

The Australia - New Zealand Therapeutic Products Bill Update
Although the Bill was recently defeated in the New Zealand Parliament the New Zealand government is refusing to permanently bury the Bill, hoping that they will get sufficient numbers to pass the divisive Bill, in flagrant disregard of the concerns of the New Zealand people. But according to the Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products Authority, in spite of widespread opposition, the establishment of the Authority to control drugs and dietary supplements is proceeding according to plan. It is expected legislation will be passed this year thereby enabling the Authority to commence dictating control of therapeutic substances in New Zealand next year. Click here for more.
Adverse Drug Reactions Hotline to Close as Government Withdraws Funding from Hotline to Spend More Money Controlling Alternative Medicines.
Apparently there is no rush to provide funds to assist those Australians who suffer adverse drug reactions. The aim it seems, is to apply the current failed and dangerous drug regulatory system to vitamins and herbal teas. Click here for more.

When There is Evidence for Nutrition but Little Evidence for Evidence Based Medicine.
Advocates of evidence based medicine (EBM) believe there is no other source of knowledge but yet EBM cannot meet the challenge of alternative medicine and nutrition. Click here for more.

Dietary Supplements or Functional Foods?
From Health Foods, Faddism, & Freedom of Choice, to Nutraceuticals, Functional Junk Foods, & No Choice.
As politicians and health authorities seek to convince the public of the dangers of dietary supplements and restrict their retail availability, the food industry and nutrition experts are expecting to find the gold at the end of the rainbow when they are permitted to make health claims for the foods to which they have added these same dangerous supplements. Click here for more.

Dispelling the Vitamin E Myths: the truth about antioxidants, tocopherols, and tocotrienols.
Recent media reports warn of the alleged dangers of antioxidants and vitamins but what is the truth? Click here to see why scientific research into vitamins and antioxidants is so inconsistent and see if media reports accurately reflect the truth about vitamins.

The FDA in America, like the TGA in Australia, moves to tighten control over alternative medicines - ACT NOW!!
Governments around the world are continuing their efforts to enable Big Pharma to takeover the alternative medicine industry. And governments seek to outlaw free speech by preventing true statements about alternative medicines. All this as doctors report the increasing prevalence of malnutrition and scientists predict enormous potential for nutritional therapies. Click here for more.

Medical discoveries result from good luck, not structured research!
According to Professor Meyer, so many medical discoveries result from good luck that medical research and training should be restructured to emphasise individuality, open-mindedness, and freedom from bias so that unexpected results will be more readily embraced. Click here for more.

Experts say daily vitamin supplements could save $billions in health care costs.
While the cost of pharmaceutical drugs continues to escalate doctors still generally prefer to avoid the cheapest options. Click here for more about the alarming and disgraceful cost of malnutrition.

Doctors discover yet again the prevalence of malnutrition in the elderly.
For many years doctors have known malnutrition is widespread, even in hospitals or aged care homes. It has even been termed "iatrogenic malnutrition". Click here to discover that the doctors have discovered again that the elderly are starving.

Putting the lid on recurrent shingles.
Many doctors think shingles infection cannot return and this ignorance can cause many problems for patients. Read about my experiences and my treatment journey involving drugs and natural therapies. This may be of vital importance for those with immune problems. Click here for more.

Increasing scientific evidence reveals incidents of violence and school shootings may be related to use of antidepressants.
Evidence of a link between violence and use of antidepressants is continuing to accumulate with reports students involved in recent school shootings were taking these drugs. Click here for more.

Obesity in the genes.
Although most people have long recognised the tendency for obesity to run in families, experts are continuing to discover the connection between genetics and obesity. Click here for more.

Experts predict another name change for medicine with 'evidence based medicine' being replaced by 'genomic medicine'.

It seems the once popular so called evidence based medicine is now becoming unpopular, apparently because of its ineffectiveness and the continued increase in the incidence of chronic diseases. Click here for more.

Stilnox and sleepwalking.
Although Australian authorities withdrew vitamins which had made no one ill during the Pan witch hunt, so far, reports of people walking off their balconies in their sleep have not been considered of sufficient importance to withdraw the sleeping drug Stilnox. Click here for more.

School science tests more reliable than government authorities and drug company.
In an amazing demonstration of the ineptitude of our public health and food watchdogs, two school students have demonstrated how large companies can get away with inaccurate advertising. Click here for more.

Medical revolution in vitamin therapy predicted but some still say vitamins are dangerous.
Learn why scientists are contradicting Darwinism and endorsing the potential of megavitamin therapy, in spite of media reports of the dangerous nature of these health promoting substances. Click here for more.

Increasing evidence of the damaging effects of excess cortisol and metabolic syndrome
Modern research is increasingly linking elevated cortisol levels to obesity, ageing, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Find out why.

Do Not Resuscitate - patient starves to death in hospital as doctors refuse to give vitamins. Read this tragic story of the final six weeks of my father's life.
Are medical treatments determined by doctors or bureaucrats? Is modern health care based upon compassion and caring or dollars? Does age discrimination exist in health care? Does modern medicine ever regard death as the cheapest and best option? This article is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the direction in which modern health care is progressing. Read this first hand account of the lengths to which health authorities will go to get their own way. It is a frightening glimpse into the future of health care. Click here for more.

Commonwealth government talks of new health system and a "better health initiative" as modern medicine fails.
As chronic diseases spiral out of control and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare claim we are becoming healthier and living longer, the Australian government is looking for ways to incorporate more traditional teachings of alternative or natural medicine within the framework of modern medicine. Click here for more.

The role of Codex and alternative medicine in global health care as modern medicine reaches a state of diminishing returns.
As the failings of medicine are increasingly recognized, how will it adapt? How will it maintain relevance as prevention and naturopathic principles such as diet and nutrition become increasingly important while the importance of dependency upon prescription drugs decreases? Click here for more.

URGENT!! Report all suspected drug reactions to the TGA - the TGA needs your help!!
The TGA is unaware of the full extent of drug reactions in Australia because most people do not report them. Find out about by my recent experiences with the TGA's drug monitoring system and the TGA's refusal to communicate about a life threatening drug reaction. Find out how to do your bit and report drug reactions. Click here for more.


Highlights of Holistic Health Topics

 

 

Do Not Resuscitate & Medical Rationing

  

Holistic or Reductionist?

 
 

Read this very sad story of the final 6 weeks of my father's life and the steps taken by the hospital to try and enforce the cheapest option against the will of dad and his family. Observe the disgraceful tactics of doctors and the attempts by hospital administrators to cover up the truth and refuse to accept responsibility. Learn about do not resuscitate orders, age discrimination and anti-nutrition bias. See also Medical Rationing.
 

   What is meant by holistic or reductionist? What are the advantages of holistic medicine? Find out also about the dangers of reductionism and interventionism, which form the scientific and philosophical basis of orthodox Western medicine. Learn why orthodox medicine is incapable of seeing the whole truth. Also find out about the evidence favouring a paradigm shift to alternative medicine.  Following the initial Holistic or Reductionist discussion, this article is continued with a discussion about Orthodox Medicine and Science Today, Quackery Tomorrow.

The Orthodox Medicine page  considers the reasons why orthodox medicine has failed to conquer the major Western diseases, including disinterest in vital energy and nutrition and the use of toxic symptomatic treatments.  Science Today, Quackery Tomorrow considers the constantly changing nature of scientific evidence and medical science.

Integrated Medicine is the concluding part of this article. Integrated Medicine draws upon the extensive evidence of the previous articles to outline positive new directions for our health care system. These new directions are intended to eliminate the faults and weaknesses in our current health care system which have been described in detail in the 3 previous articles, Holistic or Reductionist?, Orthodox Medicine, & Science Today, Quackery Tomorrow.

Unlike many ad hoc proposals to rectify the problems of our current health care system, the recommendations made here are based upon extensive scientific evidence as documented in the previous articles.

  

Body Types & Traditional Medicine
What is the relevance of body typing today and how does it effect susceptibility to certain illnesses ? For more than 2000 years it has been the fundamental aim of holistic medicine to restore balance to the different types of constitutions. Check the various Western & Chinese body types on the Traditional Medicine page.

Thyroid Gland 
Check out this page to learn more about the less publicised aspects of hypothyroidism including difficult diagnosis and poor response to thyroxine supplements.
 

Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
Do you suffer from chronic numbness, pins and needles, burning sensations, nausea, depression, and diarrhea?  Find out about ciguatera poisoning, often described as the most common form of sea food poisoning in the world. This serious disease, which may last 12 months or more, frequently remains undiagnosed.
 

B Vitamins
Discover the extemsive scientific evidence concerning B vitamins, megavitamin therapy, and disorders such as heart disease and asthma.
 

Asthma & B Vitamins

Nutrition, Megavitamins & Nutrigenomics
Learn some startling facts about the history of asthma and discover scientific evidence concerning vitamins and asthma. Read my detailed 2 part article on orthomolecular nutrition and megavitamin therapy. This classic article draws upon extensive scientific evidence to outline the history and development of megavitamin therapy, including shameful evidence of the anti-nutrition bias of orthodox medicine.

See also Nutrition Breakthroughs for recent developments in nutrition and nutrigenomics.

Dietary Supplements
Discover the safety of dietary supplements as compared to pharmaceutical drugs and observe the anti-nutrition bias which often occurs in medical research.
 

Pan Crisis, Codex, and Moves to Restrict Alternative Medicines.

Health Trends, Life Expectancy & Global Trends in Health Care
Witness the extraordinary tactics employed by politicians, bureaucrats and health authorities in their attempts to discredit and take control of alternative medicines. Learn about the Pan Crisis, the TGA & Pan, Codex in Australia, Pan Crisis & Future of Alternative Medicines, Alternative Medicine Takeover, Response to Government Inquiry, & Global Trends in Health Care. For recent developments, see The Australian Therapeutic Products Bill 2007, the FDA in America., Dietary Supplements or Functional Foods?, Misinformation About Pan, & Increased Regulatory Control of Alternative Medicines in Australia & New Zealand, & Widespread Industry Agreement in NZ Following Rejection of Therapeutic Products Bill.
 		 Find out the truth about health trends and life expectancy. See how medical experts deliberately misuse statistics to convey the false impression we are becoming healthier and living longer. Learn of the alarming health trends in modern society as chronic diseases spiral out of control in spite of the ever increasing community dependence upon toxic pharmaceutical drugs. Find out why, according to the experts, the best way of increasing statistical lifespan is to practice complete birth control! See also Global Trends in Health Care.

Darwinian Medicine, Stress & Adaptation & Adrenal Capacity.

Hypophobia or Insufficient Anxiety & Antidepressants.
The first section of this article examines the scientific evidence regarding Darwinian medicine while the second section explores in some detail, stress diseases and individual responses to stress and adaptation. Learn about the little known disorder of hypophobia or too little anxiety, and its possible connection to drugs like antidepressants. People afflicted with this disorder cannot accurately perceive risks and consequences and go from one disaster to the next.
 

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Stress Tolerance & Adrenal Capacity.

Nutrition Breakthroughs, Increasing Malnutrition, & Vitamin Health Cost Savings.

Refer to this page to discover evidence of the connection between infections, stress, the adrenal glands, and CFS. Examine evidence from scientific literature regarding stress tolerance and evidence that CFS is a constitutional illness. There is so much anti-nutrition propaganda in the popular media what is the truth about nutrition research? Find out about scientific breakthroughs in nutrition and learn about the billions of dollars in health care costs that could be saved if everyone took vitamins. While many doctors oppose the use of vitamins malnutrition continues to increase and the food industry wishes to add dietary supplements to foods.

Medical Bias & Anti-nutrition Bias.

Adverse Drug Reactions & the TGA.
Observe the amazing tactics employed by drug companies, medical researchers, and even some medical journals, in their efforts to convey a false or exaggerated impression of the safety or effectiveness of drugs. Realising apparently that drugs would not be so successful if the public was told the truth, they resort to different kinds of bias, including anti-nutrition bias, in their efforts to conceal the truth. Drug regulators such as the TGA often display a hostile attitude to the alternative medicine industry but yet appear lenient when disciplining drug companies for producing dangerous drugs. This article shows the dismissive attitude of the TGA when I reported a life threatening drug reaction to them.
   
  About This Web Site  
 

Hi there!! My name is Graham Williamson and I am a 57 year old resident of Sydney, Australia. 

Holistic Health Topics is my personal web site and it is the end result of a lifetime of personal health problems. These problems include various illnesses including asthma, Hashimoto's disease and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It has been the inability of modern medicine to effectively treat these illnesses which has motivated my quest for answers which has ultimately led to the construction of this web site.

I have written this web site primarily for two reasons..

First and foremost, it is my hope that the information contained herein may make some contribution, however small, towards a reduction in human suffering from disease and illness. It is this primary purpose, and not my allegiance to one or more specific forms of health care, which has determined the stance I have taken on various health related issues. Since I accept the dictum that health care practitioners should do no harm, I do promote the use of safe natural holistic treatments as a first choice for the treatment of non acute forms of disease. Although toxic and invasive therapies may have their place for the treatment of life threatening disease, in my opinion they have no place as a first choice for the treatment of non acute or chronic disease.

My second purpose is to contribute towards a process of positive change within the health care industry by utilising my own experiences, supported by additional scientific evidence, to rectify weaknesses in our current system. This process of change is slow and difficult, and I have no illusions about that. However the first step in any process of deliberate and organized change is obviously an awareness of the need for such change. This is probably where web sites like Holistic Health Topics can be most useful. My task therefore, is to identify and increase awareness of specific problems within the health care industry and stimulate interest in possible alternatives. We cannot move forward if we remain in a state of denial. If we focus upon the issues rather than the people who are involved, then this task will be greatly facilitated. As has been noted by Selye (Selye, H., The Stress of Life, McGraw Hill, 1978), it is not "who is right" that is important, but rather, "what is right". 

As a patient and a consumer of alternative products, I seek throughout this site to adopt a perspective which is in keeping with the interests of consumers, who of course, are often poorly represented. 

Visitors to this site should note that, unlike many other sites devoted to alternative medicine, Holistic Health Topics is not a commercial site which merely seeks to promote specific natural health products or services. Having no vested interest in such products, the focus of this site is purely to provide free information.

Visitors should also note that although some who are opposed to alternative therapies have traditionally found it necessary to resort to vulgarity and personal insults and found this to be the best (and perhaps the only) means of supporting their views, I have happily left such tactics to those who are more experienced in this area. My purpose is not to insult, but rather to promote positive change in health care by identifying current problems, encouraging the natural learning process that comes from accepting responsibility rather than living in denial, and promoting directions for positive change based upon identified faults and weaknesses.

Since I am not a health care practitioner, information on this site is intended for educational and research purposes only.

I wish you happiness and health.

Graham Williamson
info@holistichealthtopics.com

Please note: Since it is impossible for me to constantly check the large number of external links employed throughout this site, I would appreciate hearing from visitors who have difficulties in this area. While I will endeavor to maintain external links there will always be some articles that have moved or become unavailable.  

 

    

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