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About The Alternatives Newsletter

In the summer of 1985 a handful of dedicated souls, fellow doctors, researchers, and my patients, joined me in a new venture-The Alternatives Newsletter-launched on this one simple premise: The natural therapies already conquering disease in other countries should be shared with people here in the US.

We knew that if these little-known cures could be investigated, evaluated, and published, thousands of people could be healed, much more than any work I could do in my own clinic.

For my patients, I proved that natural therapies could cure many diseases or prevent them completely. But while I saw this happening every day, this knowledge remained unavailable to most doctors and patients in this country.

It was then that I decided to give up my successful alternative medical practice in Texas and begin a new life of medical research and reporting, travel and exploration, even some rather dangerous adventures. All leading to this result: knocking out terrifying diseases and common ailments one by one, so everyone reading Alternatives could live completely free from the nightmare of poor health. (Click here to read more about my guiding principles.)

For over 18 years, Alternatives has come a long way. (Read some of our top health breakthroughs) I started my own publishing company, and the news of Alternatives kept spreading. From that small group back in 1995, we've grown to over 300,000 subscribers requiring a considerable support team. We've added to the monthly newsletter too. When you join Alternatives today you're welcomed with free reports (click to find out more) to heal you and get you caught up on the latest breakthroughs. We now have email services for subscribers, an extensive web site, special access to products, and access to hundreds of reports and back issues on every ailment and condition imaginable.

And, we continue knocking out those ailments and diseases in every monthly issue. You have my commitment and full guarantee that Alternatives will heal you and even change your life. And I continue to criss-cross the globe, finding out why the Japanese are winning the fight against cancer and how the Israelis are whipping the flu (all part of your Free Reports).

If you're an independent thinker, ready to find out how you can take control of your health, curious to know how Aborigines avoid getting arthritis or how India has defeated diabetes, then give Alternatives a risk-free trial.

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• Depression is Not a Drug Deficiency (April 08)
• Cooling the Flames of Disease (January 09)
• Stop a Cold, Heal Your Heart (June 07)

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These are the Values You'll Find in Alternatives
& Where I Come From:

1. Improving Your Health
   
   For over 25 years as a doctor, my commitment has been to improve your health.
   
   I had to reconsider this commitment only once: in a Cuban detention center, during my second day of interrogation by the military, I wondered if my work researching medical discoveries was worth losing my life. A Russian thug even showed up and gave a detailed description of my home in Texas to emphasize his threats. I survived the ordeal, and yes, the cancer treatment I wanted to take out of Cuba was more than worth it.
   
   Sometimes doing background medical research is boring and sometimes it's not. As editor, my life's work is doing whatever it takes to make your life healthier, longer, and more enjoyable. Using Alternatives, you will feel better, I've staked my life on it.
   
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2. Trust 
   
   You fly the plane, I'll help you tune and repair the engine. Texas has more than a few small aircrafts, and as an ultra-lite aircraft pilot myself, I know what it feels like to be up there all alone. I trust in your intelligence to decide the quality of your own health and to use my information as you see fit, to feel better.
   
   It's essential to me that you trust what you read in Alternatives completely. Everything I write is carefully tested and verified so you can trust it's safe and will make you feel better.
   
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3. Simplicity 
   
   Texas is notorious for droughts and flooding, so whether it's cows or corn or you, I'll talk about the importance of irrigation and good drainage. Your body needs plenty of clean water and a digestive system that works right. (For example, you shouldn't be getting up all night long to go to the bathroom.) If that sounds simplistic, well, it is.
   
   Every solution you'll get reading Alternatives abides by the principle that natural systems take simple, natural solutions. And often, the simplest approach works the best.
   
   Things like fresh, clean water, deep, restful sleep, and regular activity that will build, not batter your body. I make sure all the solutions you get in Alternatives are simple too: you can find them easily, you can afford them, you can understand exactly how to put these solutions to work and feel better.
   
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4. Natural Therapies 
   
   When Sam Houston was battling Santa Anna in the 1830's and retreating daily, legend has it that he said, "It's time to draw a line in the sand." To which a cowhand serving under him said, "Well Cap., you've got plenty of sand to choose from." With so many remedies available these days, choosing where to draw the line is harder than ever. Alternatives covers the whole range of choices and will give you just the natural therapies that work best.
   
   Alternatives goes far beyond the whole foods, organic fruits and vegetables we all know so much about. When your body confronts disease, the basic nutrients found in foods are just the beginning. Sometimes food-based therapies are enough, but I also draw on research of hundreds of other natural therapies, many of them proven overseas, but unknown in this country.
   
   This commitment takes me all over the world, to primitive and traditional cultures that have been defeating specific diseases for centuries by using natural methods. I report them to you years, in some cases more than a decade, before others find out about them. We set the trends in natural therapies that all other health sources and publications follow.
   
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5. Community 
   
   Where I come from isn't a big city, or even a big town. In Kerrville, Texas we stick together and we take care of each other. We borrow from each other, we share work and tools. And yes, there's a fair amount of gossip too. So everybody knows what's going on!
   
   Alternatives is more than just a newsletter, it's an active network of health-conscious individuals, many of them medical professionals and researchers, who share their work directly with me. In addition, my subscribers share their tips and remedies with each other in Alternatives. By way of this worldwide network, you get the latest cures and medical discoveries.
   
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Don't Send Flowers,
A jar of sludge will be fine.

A foul-smelling, leaky jar covered with duct tape arrived in my mail one day from Peru. A "cancer cure" said the note…

Thousands of leaky jars, boxes, notes, letters, and recipes have crossed my desk. That foul-smelling jar went in the trash. But when a new lead does look promising, I jump on a plane and the true hunt begins, sometimes taking months or years to determine a therapy's potency, safety, and effectiveness. Sadly, most leads don't hold up after careful research and evaluation.

The list below describes just a few of the real cures I've uncovered in the last 18 years.

A Sampling of Alternatives'
18 Plus Years of Breakthroughs:

• Reports of deadly Aluminum and Alzheimer's, 1987
• Melatonin, jet-lag and sleep-years before the mainstream press, 1993
• Ginkgo Biloba for a range of ills, memory, potency, colitis, December 1988
• Feverfew for migraines and other pains, March 1989
• Saw Palmetto and prostate health, 1989
• Chondroitin Sulfate and arthritis healing, several years ahead of the rest
• The Truth about Eggs, covered in 1987, and the press still doesn't get it.
• Dangers of Estrogens, almost 10 years ago, and still the word needs to get out
• Soy Isoflavones, 1995—fights 2 types of cancer
• Miracle Mushrooms, another one that's still unreported
• St. John's Wort and depression, 1989
• Echinacea and the common cold, 1992
• Magnesium, 1987 and Potassium, 1985-still commonly overlooked today
• Shark Cartilage and curing cancer, Alternatives' stories in 1991, before the 60 Minutes story.
• DMSO, widely used today, but not in 1987 when Alternatives covered it
• Coenzyme Q10 and heart disease, 1988-now it's all the rage
• Garlic, around for centuries, but I reported new uses in 1986
• Dangerous NSAIDS-no one spoke out fourteen years ago, except Alternatives
• Indian Triphala-this is one of my latest discoveries, you'll probably hear about it in the news years from now.
• And many more...