Dr. Holly Lucille is a nationally recognized and licensed naturopathic doctor, educator, natural products consultant, and television and radio host. She is also the author of several books including Creating and Maintaining Balance: A Women's Guide to Safe, Natural, Hormone Health and The Healing Power of Trauma Comfrey. Dr. Lucille lectures on a variety of natural health topics. Her appearances include national media programs and networks such as "Dr. Oz" and "The Doctors." She is regularly quoted in both consumer and peer journals, and was listed in Time magazine as one of the "Top 100 Most Influential People." In 2012, she launched her own talk show, "Myth-Defying with Dr. Holly," and is now the host of the podcast "Mindful Medicine" on RadioMD. Her private practice, Healing from Within Healthcare, is in Los Angeles.
Structured water (H3O2) can be considered a fourth state of water between liquid and solid. It has the hexagonal structure of ice; however, missing a critical bond, it behaves more like a gel than a solid, but retains some of its crystalline structure.
In the past five years of my clinical practice, I have seen an astonishing upsurge in the chronic use of proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) medications for the gastrointestinal issue diagnosed by allopathic medicine as GERD. It is not uncommon to encounter patients taking these prescriptions for five-plus years.
Working with chronically ill patients entails acknowledging the reality that not all patients will survive their diagnosis. Chinese medicine and acupuncture play a crucial role in palliative and end-of-life care, addressing medication and disease side effects, alleviating pain associated with death, reducing anxiety and stress, and helping patients find peace during the dying process.
