Medical Teamwork in America

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About the book: Bottom Line's Complete Book of Integrated Health Solutions by Michael Castleman

THE BIGGEST REVOLUTION IN MEDICINE IN 150 YEARS

A Special Report on Medical Teamwork in America, Giving Patients the Freedom to Combine Treatments From All Healing Traditions

When you were young, a health nut was someone who sprinkled wheat germ on his cornflakes.

In those days, your choice of medical care was pretty limited: You could pick Dr. Smith or Dr. Jones. And neither of them suspected that vitamin C was good for anything but curing scurvy.

Everywhere you went, there was the constant cigarette smoke - yours or someone else's. Pro athletes, movie stars, and doctors endorsed various brands, assuring you that there's "Not a cough in a carload."

And when you went to a shoe store, you could check your fit by putting your feet into an X-ray box, which bombarded your body - and the entire store - with enough X rays to kill half an army.

It's a wonder any of us survived to tell about it.

Alternative Medicine Blooms, and the Medical Wars Heat Up

But starting in the early 1950s, a huge wave of biomedical research crashed onto the American scene, swamping and washing away much of the medical ignorance and sleepy complacency of that time.

Spurred on by new research money and blooming discoveries in basic biology (such as DNA), medical science exploded into hundreds of specialties.

Also at this time, other healing fields (widely regarded then as "fringe" disciplines) began to blossom. The seeds of conflict sprouted.

All this new knowledge saved millions of lives, helped people live better and longer - and greatly increased the wrangling and sniping in medical circles!

Our Dilemma Today: Too Many Cures

Until the 1950s, we just didn't know much about the major health problems. Perhaps 90% of our scientific studies have come since that time.

Now we have the opposite problem. Thanks to vast worldwide research, we now have...

• too many ways to cure cancer
• too many ways to cure heart disease
• too many ways to cure chronic fatigue syndrome
• too many ways to reverse atherosclerosis
• too many ways to stop strokes
• too many ways to slow down aging, and
• far too many ways to lose weight!

As the French would say, we have an embarras du choix, an embarrassment of choices.

Fifty years of research has given us mountains of studies, thousands of proven cures, and a wealth of new options. We have proudly replaced our scientific ignorance with scientific confusion.

The end result: After years of reading, you're still not sure what to do about your fibroids or hypoglycemia!

This is called progress. It's also called INFORMATION OVERLOAD. It's great to have a choice - but which remedy do you choose?

An End to Ignorance, an End to Confusion

Finally, sanity and peace have come. Hallelujah.

The medical wars are coming to an end, and the competing factions in the health care community have started to shake hands and get to know each other.

Already, 86% of family physicians say they're willing to refer patients to alternative practitioners. (If this were a speech, we'd pause here for applause.)

And 70% of MDs in a recent survey said they'd actually like to get trained in one or more alternative therapies themselves! This amazes even us at the Institute for Blended Medicine.

The Most Obvious Evidence of Change: Integrated medicine clinics are appearing everywhere - often associated with a leading university teaching hospital. Medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy are inviting chiropractors, nutritionists, naturopaths, and dozens of other kinds of therapists to share their offices and combine their treatments of shared patients. This is the most remarkable medical advance of the last 150 years. It is going to save countless lives.

Just imagine: You'll no longer have to wonder if you're doing the wisest thing by going to an MD instead of a doctor of herbal medicine (or acupuncturist or homeopath or whatever). You'll get the best of all possible worlds in integrated medicine clinics that strive to meet your needs the best way - and with little bias.

But suppose your area has no clinic yet. Then what?

That's the primary reason for this Special Report - to tell you...

How to Use Today's New Medicine - on Your Own - To Protect Your Family From Every Major Illness

This is our first official act.

We of the Institute for Blended Medicine have just released this huge handbook as a foundation for the entire field - Bottom Line's Complete Book of Integrated Health Solutions: 2,354 Faster, Easier, Better Cutting-Edge Cures, a pivotal work by blended medicine pioneer Michael Castleman.

We would be pleased to send you a preview copy at no charge for 30 days. We're fairly certain you will choose to keep it.

What will Integrated Health Solutions do for you? Eleven things:

1. You'll be the first on your block - or perhaps in the whole town - to learn all the treatments that work for your problems.

The book uses 21 major approaches to health. In rough order of importance, they are:

• Conventional Medicine
• Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation
• Chinese Herbal Medicine
• Homeopathy
• Ayurvedic (Indian) Medicine
• Biofeedback
• Qigong
• Bodywork
• Tai Chi
• Aromatherapy
• Nutritional Therapies
• Naturopathy
• Acupuncture
• Western Herbal Medicine
• Chiropractic
• Meditation and Prayer
• Yoga
• Massage
• Hypnotherapy
• Visualization
• Music Therapy

Now you know why Integrated Health Solutions is over 700 pages: It's a condensation of what could have been 21 books!

(To put your mind at ease: The book ignores the religious dimension of fields associated with religion, such as yoga. It uses only the physical aspects, such as stretching or deep breathing. You won't need to light incense or turn into a Buddhist or Hindu!)

2. You'll discover which remedies are really the best for each condition.

For the past umpteen years, you've endured reading endless claims of superiority for this or that therapy. Homeopathic medicine, for instance, has several treatments for everything under the sun. To a good homeopath, his little bottles and vials contain the top remedy for any malady ever discovered - plus some that haven't been. In Integrated Health Solutions, you'll see that homeopathy has numerous formulas for each condition - depending on your specific case.

That's why the book proudly recommends homeopathy for many things. But it also shows you that NO field has the #1 answer for every illness.

You at last have an unbiased source of information, a truly independent authority to analyze and sort out for you the hundreds of conflicting claims you've heard. Pardon our pride, but we feel this is a monumental gift to every person in the English-speaking world.

Before Integrated Health Solutions was published, you often wound up making important health decisions based on the last enthusiastic testimonial you heard. Or the word of whatever practitioner you talked to last.

That's not a great way to make life-and-death decisions! With Integrated Health Solutions on your shelf, you'll be in a better position to decide your treatment than just about any health practitioner you can name. You won't know more about Dr. X's specialty than he does, but you'll know a lot about options he's never heard of.

You can bid good-bye to deadly guesswork.

3. You'll learn enough to know what's wrong with you.

Most health books don't go into enough depth on each illness. You aren't always able to figure out what your symptoms mean.

Of course, if you go to a health practitioner, you'll get a professional diagnosis. But if you treat yourself, a wrong self-diagnosis can be a bucket of trouble.

That's why Integrated Health Solutions starts off many of its 69 "illness" chapters with a vivid verbal sketch of what it feels like when you come down with the disease or condition. And in most cases, it also tells you enough about the illness itself to enable you to understand it clearly and easily - and then either treat yourself or go to a professional - armed with the advantage of already knowing exactly what your problem is!

4. You'll get a custom solution, not a generic one.

We agree with the cute bumper sticker, "Always remember: You're unique!... just like everyone else." Many health books and doctors tend to make blanket recommendations for any given condition.

Integrated Health Solutions realizes that you're different. So for maladies that often require more than one possible type of remedy, the book gives you enough facts to enable you to pick and choose the best one for your particular needs.

5. You'll need less surgery and drugs.

Despite what you read in some alternative health publications, surgery and drugs are not evil. They're simply overused modalities that often have more side effects than you can live with. That's why Integrated Health Solutions leans toward less invasive, more natural methods. But frankly, anyone with a severe attack of appendicitis should head straight for the nearest mainstream surgeon!

6. Your expenses will shrink as your health blooms.

Here's a generalization, but a good one: Mainstream medical treatments are expensive; alternatives are cheap. Just compare a $45,000 heart bypass with a few hundred dollars worth of vitamin B3 and garlic!

With Integrated Health Solutions in hand, you'll broaden your repertoire of methods - and start paying far, far less than your neighbors and friends - while the quality of your health care will go through the roof.

7. You'll be able to stop worrying about deadly combinations.

Again, we think drugs are often a great blessing. But when your medicine cabinet starts to look like you bought out the Wal-Mart® pharmacy, you're in danger of buying the farm along with it.

Integrated Health Solutions will warn you about most of the common hazards.

8. You'll find out exactly what steps to take.

Almost every remedy in Integrated Health Solutions includes detailed instructions on how to use it and why. This is in stark contrast to many health manuals that make the Sphinx look like a motormouth.

9. You'll get a balanced picture of side effects.

A few home remedies and alternative methods do have side effects. The book notes them.

A bigger worry is surgery. When a surgeon describes for you a possible operation, his explanation is often shrouded in a gray, semantic fog. What surprises you can get afterward!

But the worst is drugs. At one extreme, you may get a casual comment along with your doctor's prescription: "Call me if you have any problem with these." At the other extreme, your medicine package inserts often list one or two dozen gruesome side effects, enough to make any sane person avoid it like a flask of anthrax!

Integrated Health Solutions will be your umpire and interpreter, providing you with a sane, balanced assessment of your risk of side effects.

10. Better than all the above: You'll avoid many maladies altogether.

You won't read Integrated Health Solutions just when you're sick.

It's so interesting to read that you'll find yourself curling up with it, and reading the whole thing.

As a result, you'll know how to avoid falling prey to some illnesses that could throw a wet blanket over the rest of your life.

This is not your standard, dry-as-dust medical manual. It's a great read! That's why Bottom Line Books would like to send it to you on approval for 30 days.

11. You'll get control of your own health again.

You'll no longer be at the mercy of one doctor's opinion... or one alarmist magazine article... or a biased TV report... or one newsletter's advice... or one friend's overblown rumor.

You'll have perspective. You'll have scope. You'll have a balanced outlook that will never be shaken by a brush with any illness.

You'll never lose your self-confidence or yield to the temptation to meekly accept anything a doctor suggests. Remember, no one on this green earth will ever take care of you like you.

And right now, Integrated Health Solutions is one of the best books in print to guide your self-care. We encourage you to click here.

Hundreds Of Health Solutions You Never Heard Of

Through the years, you've been told many horror stories about people being crippled or killed by an illness because "the doctors couldn't do anything about it."

Even right now, you yourself may have a health problem that won't go away.

All that is about to change. With the release of Integrated Health Solutions, you, your doctors, and other health professionals can be a "mission impossible" team.

And even without the help of medical practitioners, you'll often find a remedy you can handle on your own.

In either case, you'll now know what's best to do. No guessing. No worrying. No blind obeisance to authority.

It's a whole new world of hope. The following pages give you just a small fraction of the over 1,500 healing remedies you'll find in your FREE-Preview copy of Integrated Health Solutions...

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: How to Kill Hypertension Before It Kills You

They call it The Silent Killer. Often, the first symptom is a fatal stroke.

While this does help to reduce your final hospital bills somewhat, most of us would prefer to have a little more advance warning - or better yet, stay alive.

It's hard to convince yourself that you're in peril simply because your youthful 120/80 somehow crept up to 150/100. But that's the gospel truth. Hypertension has been the dirty factor behind the illnesses of many, many people who felt "just fine" right up until the end.

But as one of the healthy elite, you know more than your friends. You read. You want quality answers. That's why we sent you this Special Report. And perhaps the most important message in this entire report is this: You don't have to have high blood pressure. It is not a normal part of growing older.

Think about some of the people in remote areas of China, Africa, or Brazil. They never have hypertension - at any age. And they never heard of a low-salt diet, either!

Yes, you can lower your blood pressure nicely by restricting your sodium (salt) intake. Sodium causes your body to absorb more water, and extra water in your arteries means more water pressure, plain and simple. And yes, most Americans eat twice the salt they need. So we heartily endorse salt restriction as one way to drop your blood pressure quickly (along with cutting your weight, and your tobacco and alcohol use).

But natives in those remote areas eat all the salt they want - without any hypertension. So are other factors at work?

Yes! And Integrated Health Solutions will introduce you to them. For example:

• Your problem may not be too much sodium per se, but too little of a must-have vitamin that works together with sodium. Several lab experiments have proven that low levels of this vitamin mimic precisely the effects of too much salt! Hmmm. (page 366)
• Compared to sodium, you've got to eat 5 times as much of one supercritical mineral. If diet were religion, this 5-to-1 ratio would be sacred, engraved on stone! And yet, the American diet has got it backward: Instead of 5:1, it's 1:2 today. But see some easy, lifesaving, quick fixes on page 366.
• Calcium is almost as crucial. More than 80 studies have demonstrated that the more you eat, the lower your blood pressure goes. (page 367)
• A certain noisy-to-eat green vegetable lowered a Chicago man's blood pressure of 158/96 to a nice 118/82 - in just one week. And all he did was munch about 4 average stalks a day! You knew the stuff was good for losing weight, but you didn't know it contains 3-n-butyl-phthalide, which makes your blood pressure drop like a rock. Try it! (But not stuffed with Cheez Whiz®.) (page 367)
• The State University of New York studied 45 women who owned dogs. Researchers gave them a tough math test (the women, not the dogs). Half of them had their pets at their feet, half didn't. Without their cherished pooches, the stressful exam made their blood pressure shoot up. With them, it hardly budged - suggesting that a dog may also be a woman's best friend.
• Garlic has been proven so effective at lowering blood pressure that it reduces your stroke risk by 30%.

You'll find a lot more options in Integrated Health Solutions, including the many drugs that physicians so often prescribe (despite their side effects).

You'll also find some great ideas for a low-sodium diet, a low-fat diet, and a vegetarian diet. They're all terrific long-term solutions. And they do one other thing for you that the supplements won't: They develop your character.

Click here for your FREE-Preview copy today.

ARTHRITIS: Cure It, Don't Mask It

One out of 5 US adults has osteoarthritis... and is fighting the pain, not the condition itself.

That's because very few doctors use the methods that will stop the cause of the pain. And why don't they? Because when a typical American patient visits a doctor for a painful condition, he or she simply wants relief. Now. This is precisely why the American College of Rheumatology has been recommending Tylenol® as the main treatment for arthritis since 1991, even though it fights only pain, not inflammation.

Patients who consult blended medicine clinics and alternative therapists, however, are wiser and more patient. They are more willing to take long-term measures that will bring healing, not just relief. Also, they are much less apt to have serious arthritis in the first place!

Integrated Health Solutions, in its unceasing fairness to both ends of the medical community, does offer you the usual mainstream medicines, though it subsumes them under the heading "Medical Measures." They are mostly NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). But frankly, osteoarthritis is the illness that most strongly divides conventional and alternative medicine. To its credit, the book mentions that "NSAIDs are effective, but their gastrointestinal side effects can be serious. When people are admitted to hospitals with life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding, more than half have been taking NSAIDs." See page 508.

Integrated Health Solutions takes you right into the heart of your healing options.

It introduces you to things that are preventing, stopping, or reversing arthritis right now, such as high doses of vitamins C, D, E, beta-carotene (A), pantothenic acid, plus a selection of other antioxidants and minerals, glucosamine sulfate, chondroitin sulfate - plus extras like blackberries and capsaicin... all discussed and explained for effectiveness, dosage, supply, etc.

• For example, one vitamin taken at 40 times the normal dosage brought help to 52% of sufferers. (page 499)
• Hefty doses of the essential trace mineral boron improved 50% of patients. (page 500)
• Glucosamine sulfate in quantities of 500 mg 3 times a day has shown, under electron microscopy, a healthy rebuilding of cartilage - but not in everyone. (pages 499-500)

We won't take the space here to tell you about other studies that have rebuilt lost cartilage or restored full motion, but if you're one of the 20 million Americans now suffering from osteoarthritis, we think you'll find them exciting.

STROKE: Our National Blind Spot

Why do they call them strokes? Because they come out of the blue, like a "stroke of bad luck."

But three-fourths of them aren't a matter of luck. They're an event where a chunk of cholesterol breaks loose from an artery wall and floats into a smaller artery, which is already too narrow because of cholesterol plaque.

There it gets stuck and plugs up the artery. If this happens in your heart, it's a heart attack. If it happens in your brain, it's a stroke - an ischemic stroke.

That nomadic piece of cholesterol-based goo is not composed of bad luck; it's composed of 984 steak dinners and 4 gallons of alfredo sauce. In other words, it's your own doing.

(The other one-fourth of strokes are less your fault. They're hemorrhagic strokes, which occur when a blood vessel bursts and bleeds within your brain.)

At 700,000 strokes a year, it's America's #3 cause of death. With numbers like that, you'd think most people would be able to recite the warning signs of a stroke as fast as their ZIP code. But no, only 57% in a recent survey knew even one warning sign. And two-thirds of those at highest risk of a stroke (like diabetics) didn't even know that! Stroke is truly our national blind spot.

But with your copy of Integrated Health Solutions in hand, you can now lower yourself from "high risk" to "low risk." Some ways:

• One group of foods is just fine for most people (in moderation), but not good for high-risk stroke candidates. In fact, it doubles your risk, so avoid it when you can. (page 597)
• Two other food groups are like salvation in a spoon. For every daily serving you eat, your chance of a stroke drops by 7%! (page 597)
• Pounce on potassium! Women with low levels of this mineral in their blood have 5 times the stroke risk of women with high levels. (page 598)
• Exercise! A Columbia University study of 1,000 older people showed that 5 hours a week of almost any activity lowers stroke risk by a whopping 70% (walking, gardening, bowling, anything). Likewise, a huge study at Yale found that inactive men over 50 have 6 times the risk of stroke. (page 598)

CANCER: Relax. It's Not a Death Sentence Anymore

Most people panic when they hear the word "cancer."

But that's mostly because they don't know about the dozens of recent advances in cancer treatment that can slow down, stop, or reverse it.

Integrated Health Solutions will show you how an intelligent mix of classical and alternative treatments can heal a very wide range of cancers. For instance:

• One of the best-known nondrug alternative therapies was evaluated by a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, Cancer Prevention and Control Program. The standard 5-year survival rate for patients using conventional medicine is 6% if a melanoma has metastacized widely. The alternative therapy boosted this to an incredible 39%! For moderately metastacized melanoma, the boost was from 40% to 75%. And for early stage melanoma, the boost was from 79% to 100%! (In medical research, cure rates of 100% are as rare as a plaid guinea pig.) (page 174)
• Antioxidants can keep bladder cancer from coming back. In a West Virginia University experiment, just a few common vitamins (in generous quantities) cut the recurrence rate in half. (page 172)
• A noted herbal therapy was concocted in the 1930s by an ex-coal miner with no medical training. Reports of dramatic remissions were so persistent for decades that the National Cancer Institute finally got around to evaluating his "herb cocktail." Their rigorous testing found that 9 out of the 10 ingredients did indeed work on tumors. (page 170)
• Adding one social activity will probably double a cancer patient's future years. (page 168)
• On page 170 you'll find the one question you should always ask your doctor! Read it and live a longer, happier, healthier life.
• Want to assure yourself of state-of-the-art treatment? And have a good chance of getting better than state-of-the-art? Just volunteer for the kind of new technique trial run you'll find on page 172.
• Finally, an exhaustive survey of research found 156 studies that correlated cancer with the food you eat. All 156 concluded that your risk of ever getting cancer can be cut significantly just by eating 2 types of food. You'll find them on page 173.

You'll find lots more encouragement in Integrated Health Solutions.

HIGH CHOLESTEROL: It's the Good Guys vs. the Bad Guys - And the Good Guys Are Winning

You need cholesterol to live. But you don't need much, and your liver makes plenty of it.

When you eat too much meat, eggs, and whole milk, the vast surplus of cholesterol gets kicked out through your liver and into your bloodstream attached to LDLs, the bad guys. Once in your blood, they stick to your artery walls, causing high blood pressure, angina, congestive heart failure, stroke, heart attack, sudden death, and impotence, not necessarily in that order - although dying does tend to curtail one's sex life.

But HDLs, the good guys, work in reverse. They snatch cholesterol out of your bloodstream like frogs plucking skeeters out of the air. Then they return it to your liver for elimination.

The good news is that the good guys are winning. When the news about cholesterol came out in 1952, America's cholesterol was way high. But within a few years, the word spread, and the averages began falling, from a high of 220 to today's 205.

Now, 205 is pretty close to the normal "OK" level of 200. But we guarantee that 150 would make you feel even better. And because you're one of the elite who wants to be healthier than the folks next door, we offer you these 7 great new ways to cast your LDLs into the abyss:

• Go back to butter. (Just don't drown yourself in it.) Much research has shown that margarine is definitely worse than butter, because the hydrogen that keeps it hard on your dinner table in August also keeps it hard when it clamps onto your aorta like a barnacle. If you have any margarine in the house, don't waste it - mix it with your dinner scraps and toss it over the fence to your neighbor's dog who barks all night.
• Savor salmon. Did you ever wonder how Eskimos could gorge themselves on whale blubber - pure saturated fat - and still have low cholesterol? The answer is omega-3 fatty acids, which cut cholesterol beautifully. Cold-water fish have lots of that. Four massive studies have shown you can reduce your chances of death by 40%-50% with as little as 2 fish meals a week! (page 376)
• Save a buck. If you're broke or tired of salmon, see page 377 of Integrated Health Solutions for an easy substitute. It's a brilliant replacement for butter!
• Join the Quakers. Many studies have shown that oat bran, such as that found in Quaker® Oats, cuts cholesterol. If you're trying to lower your cholesterol level from 230 to 200, a good bowl of hot oats for breakfast will get you more than halfway there.
• Take one little vitamin. Noted New York clinical nutritionist Dr. Shari Lieberman was able to cut her cholesterol 45 points just by greatly increasing her intake of a certain vitamin. Oregon researchers tested it against Lovastatin®, the most popular cholesterol drug of our day. The vitamin did better overall - at a fraction of Lovastatin's cost and with far less risk of dangerous side effects. (page 377)
• Get the best of both worlds. Another vitamin destroys LDLs and multiplies HDLs. It's so effective that several large studies have said it gives more protection against heart attacks than having low cholesterol! (page 378)
• Have a drink on us. To celebrate the cleanup of your arteries, you can likely profit from one drink a day, which will raise your HDLs by another 7%-10%. But please see the alcohol caution note on page 382.

ASTHMA: No, That Was Not Your Last Gasp

When you feel like you're breathing through a tiny straw that keeps getting tinier, and you know that every breath could be your last, you're having an asthma attack.

Don't put up with that! Contrary to popular myth, asthma can now be reversed. We can't promise a total cure in every case, but we definitely know how to turn this burgeoning disease into a minor nuisance or less.

Don't allow your friends to suffer, either. If your asthmatic friend is a typical victim, her doctor has her on a spray inhaler, a symptom-soothing gizmo fondly known as a puffer. In an emergency, it's a lifesaver, but if that's all the help she's getting, it's not enough.

In high contrast, Integrated Health Solutions gives you the top 14 ways to blast away the problem at its root - ways that have a sparkling track record in the lab and in practice. Four examples:

• The missing substances: Asthmatics are chronically low on vitamin C and magnesium. In fact, you can accurately measure a person's asthma severity simply by measuring the level of these 2 things in the blood! It's that simple. (page 139)
• The no-brainer breathing system that quickly breaks the cycle of wheezing and panic - which often leads to worse wheezing and acute panic. (page 143)
• The painless doctor's-office treatment which has proven so highly effective that even the foot-dragging, moss-laden UN World Health Organization now recommends it. (page 141)
• And in case you have an attack while on a trek in Outer Mongolia, you can usually get by in a pinch by sipping one of 3 beverages. One is a tea that has a strong, 5,000-year history as a healthful bronchial remedy. Another is so notoriously unhealthful that we blush to mention it in print. (Hint: "It's the Real Thing!") We're embarrassed to recommend it, but it sure beats conking out in the middle of the Gobi Desert! (page 144)

How Many Cures For Arthritis And Cancer Do You Know?

There are lots of ways to reverse these two diseases. We see them work every day.

But that's not what you've been told. For instance, according to most doctors, all that modern medicine can do for arthritis is ease the pain and restore some motion.

The Big Question: If you started to notice symptoms of arthritis, where would you go? To someone who can point to dozens or hundreds of cured patients... or to someone who says it can't be done?

Most diseases now have more than one cure.

No matter the malady, someone, somewhere probably has help for you today. Laboratory research and studies have flooded medical journals and Web sites with thousands of breakthroughs. It's a new era.

But here's the challenge: The only one in town who knows what will lick your osteoporosis, or whatever you have, may happen to be some herbalist you never heard of. Or perhaps your own family doctor may be the only one. Or a naturopath 100 miles away.

However, you can't just tape your Yellow Pages to your dartboard and throw darts! You might toss a lot of darts before you found that one health practitioner who could help you.

So what do you do? Bounce from one doctor to another? From one type of therapy to another? That wastes a lot of time and money. A better strategy is...

Don't guess. Look up your problem in Integrated Health Solutions.

No matter how serious your illness, you'll probably find more remedies than you actually need! You may see as many as 20 or 30 - from 10 or 12 types of therapy.

And you'll usually find them divided into two sections: Best Choices and Other Good Choices.

That will put you ahead of 99.9% of even the best-read health-minded people in town. Nobody knows this information except you - and others who have a copy of Integrated Health Solutions.

While ordinary people spend precious time and money ricocheting from one health practitioner to the next, you'll know where to go and what to do without guessing about the best method of getting well!

A Comprehensive, A-to-Z Reference Work

• Best possible cures for more than 100 diseases and health conditions
• Step-by-step instructions for hundreds of remedies
• Over 1,000 authoritative sources:
• • Includes the advice of 100+ experts
  • Based on 1,136 medical journal articles
  • Condenses 116 books and 502 other sources
• Takes out the doubt! Removes the uncertainty from your health care decisions
• Doubles, triples, quadruples your chances of getting well quickly
• Realistic: Uses occasional "quick fixes" for some problems
• Often refers you to your family doctor or an alternative practitioner when they're the best bet for a fast solution
• No fluff: Tightly edited and reviewed by the entire board of advisers of the Institute for Blended Medicine
• Innovative where needed:
• • To clear up bronchitis, make your own medicine - from onions!
  • To end diarrhea, take a laxative!... but the right one
  • To slim down, find out which herbal weight-loss aids work - and which don't!
• Very reasonably priced! Big hardcover book with over 700 pages - encyclopedic in scope - drawing from the millions of dollars spent in massive research studies
• Pay nothing now! Send for your FREE-Preview copy of Integrated Health Solutions today. If you like it, you'll be billed in easy monthly installments. If not, return it.
• Get a FREE book. Our offer also includes a super-helpful report you won't find anywhere else. Yours to keep, even if you return Integrated Health Solutions!

The Pivotal Figure of Millennial Medicine

Blended medicine is not a fad. It is a revolutionary movement in the history of medicine, healing the wounds of more than 150 years of conflict among the several dozen healing arts.

It has begun to weave together all the strands of medicine into a single, harmonious tapestry that puts the patient's health above the interests of the profession.

Michael Castleman has become the lodestar, the central persona of the movement. Until his pioneering work, the many branches of medicine had only managed to achieve, at best, a peaceful coexistence, commonly known as complementary medicine.

He was the first to fully grasp how healing power could be greatly multiplied by simultaneous treatment in various alternative modes, plus conventional therapy.

Heavy-Duty Best-Sellers

Bottom Line's Complete Book of Integrated Health Solutions: 2,354 Faster, Easier, Better Cutting-Edge Cures is the crowning achievement in Mr. Castleman's highly productive career. His 9 other health books have more than 2,000,000 copies in print. The best known are:

• Before You Call the Doctor: Safe, Effective Self-Care for More Than 300 Common Medical Problems
• Nature's Cures: 33 Natural Therapies to Improve Your Health and Well-Being
• The Healing Herbs: The Complete Guide to Nature's Medicines
• An Aspirin a Day: What You Can Do to Prevent Heart Attack, Stroke, and Cancer
• Cold Cures: The Complete Guide to Prevention and Treatment of the Common Cold and Flu

A Recognized Name in Every Circle

Since 1972, Mr. Castleman has won numerous journalism awards by creating articles on health, medicine, fitness, nutrition, and sexuality. He has contributed to such publications as:

• Reader's Digest
• PREVENTION
• The New York Times
• Family Circle
• New Woman
• Redbook
• Self
• Glamour
• Psychology Today
• Utne
• Parenting
• Mademoiselle
• Men's Health
• Men's Fitness
• Men's Journal
• Modern Maturity
• Natural Health
• Your Health
• Healthy Living
• Walking
• Herb Quarterly
• Herb Companion
• Sierra
• Herbs for Health
• Mother Jones
• The Nation
• American Health for Women

He also contributes to several consumer health Web sites, such as www.diabetes.com.

Personal

Mr. Castleman was adjunct professor of medical writing at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also received an MA in the Graduate School of Journalism.

He now lives in San Francisco, where he is the husband of an MD and devoted father of 2 children.

He is an avid skier and scuba diver. In his quieter moments, he reads fiction, watches NBA basketball, and enjoys organic gardening.

Never Lose a Friend to Cancer Again

Would you pay $29.97 for a cure for cancer?

How about diabetes? Heart disease?

The pages of Integrated Health Solutions are jammed with well-researched ways to control, stop, reverse, or outright cure over 100 such diseases. And it will cost you less than $30 (plus postage and handling, and sales tax where applicable), easily payable in 3 monthly installments. In fact, it won't cost you anything for the 30-day trial period.

Yet this powerhouse manual will put you in control of the most common illnesses of our day. Integrated Health Solutions is far more powerful than establishment medicine alone - or any combination of 2 or 3 alternative therapies you could find by yourself.

We sincerely hope that you and your family are above average in health. But if you're not, then your household will spend $18,410 on health care in the next decade. After age 65, that jumps to $28,530 per decade.

This $29.97 handbook can cut that down for you - substantially - and quite possibly save you years of fruitless hunting for a way to solve some stubborn malady.

But wrong choices can cost you a lot more than time and money:

• There's the problem of pain - often chronic pain.
• There's being bedridden, unable to work or function.
• Worse: Failing in career or lifetime goals.
• And worst of all - for many of us - being helpless and dependent on others for care.

Over the course of years, you can lose a lot of friends, too. You likely know more about health than they do. (The list we found your name on testifies to that.) But even your very best friends will often ignore your helpful health advice if you can't document it or show that it's rooted in good research.

With Integrated Health Solutions in your hands, you'll be able to save lives, no question. Between your family and your friends, we think you'll use this book constantly - until the pages turn to dust! In fact, we feel that this one-stop information resource could save hundreds of thousands of lives nationwide in the next 10 years.

A Special Report on Medical Teamwork in America, Giving Patients the Freedom to Combine Treatments From All Healing Traditions

Alan P. Brauer MD and Anne Simons MD

Fellows of the Institute for Blended Medicine