It's no secret that there is an epidemic of chronic illness in this country, and more and more Americans are turning to complementary medicine for relief. Patients deserve a therapeutic environment they can trust. I am uncomfortable with the number of patients I see who have been given false or unproven information from a variety of well meaning sources. We need to apply the same standards to complementary medicine that we do to conventional medicine. |
Research shows that a woman who has a history of depression is twice as likely to subsequently experience infertility as a woman with no history of depression. |
There's also no evidence that simply worrying about a disease can make it worse. |
Women who came into the program were very depressed and very anxious, and very angry and their marriages were in trouble - and all sorts of turmoil. Within 10 weeks, they were feeling better, a lot better. |
Wouldn't it be great if you could meditate a tumor away? ... But there's no data to support this. |