“I want people using safe medicine.
And that means plant medicine.”

Welcome Suzy Cohen, RPh to Total Health Magazine Online.

TWIP: Suzy please share with our readers, who is the woman known as “America’s Most Trusted Pharmacist”?

SC: I’ve been a licensed pharmacist for over 22 years and I am able to share the pros and cons of medication use as well as offer natural substitutions for most any of your health concerns. I graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in 1989. While I pride...

Total Health Online is based in St. George, Utah.

The mission of Total Health Online magazine is to advocate self-managed natural health, emphasize the importance of becoming the co-captain of your own health care team and to address the imperatives to wellness. To achieve this, we provide you, the reader, with the information and resources needed to establish and maintain optimum health as well as to potentiate your immune system in times of crises.

Total Health Online continues to share with readers the precepts of “self-managed natural health.” From the basics to the cutting-edge, we present nutrition through diet and supplementation, coupled with a regular exercise program, a positive mental attitude and an active philosophical commitment as the keys to achieving optimum health, natural healing and a productive lifestyle. While each ingredient in the proactive prescription for natural health is integral, nutritional...

Readers it is a great pleasure to introduce you to long-time friend Doug Kaufmann. A man ahead of his time with a great deal to offer us all. Many people are plagued by health problems of which the causes elude their healthcare providers. Doug has authored books on health, hosts a daily TV show “Know the Cause” and website to help people get to the bottom of their elusive aliments. Doug Kaufmann knows the cause and wants to help you.

Research reveals Pycnogenol® and CoQ10 taken as an adjunct to medication improves heart health: blood volume output, physical fitness, blood pressure, as well as heart and respiratory rate

A study published in Panminerva Medica reveals that a Pycnogenol and Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) combination (PycnoQ10 ®) taken by stable heart failure patients as an adjunct to medical treatment naturally strengthens the heart, increasing the blood volume ejected with each beat....

Dr. Elson M. Haas has been a practicing physician of Integrated Medicine for nearly 40 years, he is the founder and medical director of the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in San Rafael. Dr. Haas is also the author of the classic preventive medicine text Staying Healthy With the Seasons and Staying Healthy With Nutrition, The New Detox Diet, plus a 2009 diet and recipe book, More Vegetables, Please! Other books are Vitamins for Dummies and...

Two American researchers, Louise Patrick, SLP, and Ronald M. Salik, M.D., have recently reported the results of a clinical trial of the effects of a fish-oil supplement on language development and learning skills in children with autism or Asperger’s syndrome. Fish oil provides essential fatty acids (EFAS), which are critical for brain health. Children with attention deficit, autistic, and related disorders have been shown to have significantly lower levels of EFAS in their red blood...

A Frank Comparison of Ubiquinol to a New, High-Bioavailability Form of Ubiquinone

Coenzyme Q10 is a vitamin-like substance that has two main physiological roles: energy production and antioxidant protection. As part of the electron transport chain, it participates in aerobic cellular respiration and generates 90-95 percent of the energy in the body. As an antioxidant, it scavenges free radicals, thus protecting proteins, LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, and mitochondrial DNA from...

Cory Everson exemplifies the editorial goals of totalhealth magazine. She is an advocate of self-managed natural health, on a mission to share the precepts of productive longevity and definitely captain of her own healthcare team.

An outstanding high school and college athlete, Cory gained national prominence as one of America’s premiere female body builders. More recently she has been recognized for her career as a fitness expert on her “Gotta Sweat” show on Fox...

Denise Austin is comfortable using the term anti-aging as she continues strategies for health and fitness that she began at age 25. She told totalhealth that from the research she has done, “Aging is 30 percent hereditary and 70 percent life style. Isn’t it wonderful that we have some control over our aging process?”

“You can turn back the clock,” she says, through exercise and healthy eating, agreeing that “exercise is the ultimate anti-aging...

Total Health first met Ann Louise Gittleman in the fall of 1995.

Ann Louise began contributing a column, “Eye on Women’s Health,” in the January 1996 issue. Since then, as an associate editor, marketing consultant, sounding board and friend she has been an invaluable asset to the growth of the publication over the past six years. Ann Louise was also a catalyst for the totalhealth Resource Guide to Health and Sustainability in Time of Crisis which appeared in...

Numerous studies have confirmed YTE delivers a myriad of potential health benefits, including increased sexual health and desire, a remarkable increase in energy and stamina, a boost in muscle strength for athletes, and enhanced sense of well-being.

YTE used as an energy and stamina supplement is ideal for people who face both physical and mental challenges everyday. YTE will help you get more effect out of physical activities including a quicker recovery after a hard work out...

Preface

As I finished the final edits to this book, the New York Times featured an in-depth article about the failure of conventional medicine to cure more cancers.

According to the New York Times, adjusting for the size and age of the population, cancer death rates dropped only five percent from 1950 to 2005.

What other technology has performed so miserably over this 55-year period? Would you accept a medical therapy that has not improved...

Total Health Online was pleased to catch up with inside-out transformation expert, award-winning author and syndicated radio host Kat James who graces this month’s cover.

Twip: Kat, first let me congratulate you on your recent Silver Nautilus Award for the re-release of your classic bestseller, The Truth About Beauty, and for your nationally syndicated radio show, The Kat James Show, now in your second year and just expanded to satellite XM. and on the recent published...

Oxygen is the only nutrient that is more important to sustaining life than water. Your dog could live for weeks without food, but would only last a few days without water. Approximately 60 percent of your dog’s total weight is water. That means if she weights 50 ponds, then 30 pounds of that weight is water. The entire body is highly dependent on water, including the blood, brain, and muscles, which are each over 70 percent water. The most important nutrient you give your dog...

A few months ago our good friend and associate Takashi Shioya, innovator of the Tsunami T-Wave laundry capsules, suggested Linda Gray would be an ideal consideration as the cover personality for an upcoming issue of totalhealth. He stated the multi-faceted Ms. Gray has been a highly visible wellrespected member of the entertainment community for over 30 years. And that from her introduction to the American public as Sue Ellen in the popular TV series “Dallas” has...

The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M; www.worldhealth.net) is among the fastest growing medical societies in the world today. The goal of antiaging medicine is not to merely prolong the total years of an individual’s life, but to ensure those years are enjoyed in a productive and vital fashion.

The A4M is a non-profit medical society dedicated to the advancement of technology to detect, prevent, and...

The issue of bioavailability has become a major topic for researchers of antioxidants. According to Dr. Robert Hackman, a researcher at UC Davis who has extensively studied polyphenols, notes that “it’s not a matter of what gets in your mouth but what gets in your blood.” But of the different types of antioxidants, even the most potent ones only show in the range of 10 percent to 30 percent bioavailability.

So what is it that keeps these nutrients from being...

When summer comes and people across America get ready to start slathering on the sunscreen, a note of caution is in order—a little sunshine is good for you.

Studies increasingly are suggesting the value of vitamin D—often known as the sunshine vitamin, because that’s one way you can obtain it—in everything from bone metabolism to maintaining muscle strength, immune function, reducing hypertension and possibly even playing a role in prevention of cancer and...