UnBreak Your Health

Learn about the world of hope that is complementary and alternative therapies with free, 20-minute podcasts at the UnBreak Your Health Program.  This growing library of shows features some of the most popular forms of CAM.

The award-winning guide to complementary and alternative therapies, UnBreak Your Health, was published in an expanded, hardcover edition in June 2009, available on Amazon.com and through your favorite bookstore.

The 2007 National Health Interview Survey of 23,000 adults suggests overall use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices has remained relatively steady at about 40% but with significant increases in the use of deep breathing, meditation, massage therapy and yoga.

The latest study is consistent with the 2002 research showing CAM use among adults was greater among women than men (42.8 to 33.5 percent), among older people than younger (30-39 years: 39.6 percent, 40-49 years: 40.1 percent, 50-59 years: 44.1 percent), and among people with higher levels of education (55.4 percent).

It's interesting to note that CAM is now being used by 1 in 9 kids but this can include supplements like echinaccea for colds. It would appear their parents' practices played a big role because kids were 5x more likely to use CAM if a parent or other relative did. The top health issues kids used CAM for were head and neck pain, colds, anxiety, body aches and insomnia.

The study was done by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Discover 300+ listings in 138 different categories of complementary and alternative therapies in UnBreak Your Health - The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Loving Healing Press 2007).  With testimonials and some of the most interesting recent scientific discoveries it's the place to begin a journey of healing or to discover new healing pathways.  UnBreak Your Health has been featured in regional and national publications including Well Being Journal and was awarded Finalist in the 2007 Best Books Awards for the Alternative Medicine category. 

For more information visit www.unbreakyourhealth.com.

Interesting article recently in the Wall Street Journal called Submitting To The Science Of Prevention. It's about a paradigm shift in mainstream medicine that's long overdue. It seems they're beginning to realize their focus on treating disease and illness is not the most effective medical system after all. Now they're slowly beginning to shift their priorities to prevention and maintenance of good health.

Of course all of this comes with the heavy financial baggage necessary to keep modern medicine happy, this time in the form of preventative tests. After all, no matter how valid the model for patients we can't have Big Medicine losing any money now, can we?

Did you know years ago in China you used to pay your doctor every month to keep you healthy and stopped paying him when you got sick? Compare that to our system in American where we pay our doctor when we get sick and stop paying him when we're healthy. Which system do you think is most effective at keeping you healthy?

But at least it's a start and a recognition that complementary and alternative medicine has had this right from the beginning. It's one of the reasons that it's lasted for thousands of years.