The Dr. Annie Thiel Radio show is a new and interesting talk show covering various subject matter. Dr. Thiel is a highly esteemed therapist having spent her life-time dedicated to adults and children and their families.

She has featured Boaz as a guest speaker on her show so that he could share his experience with children and illness from the Chinese medicine point of view-how children physically manifest their emotional pain.

His appearances are on Monday nights, and if you want to catch last week, here is the link:

with Dr. Jay Gordon. We too have seen many cases of confirmed swine flu and many we think are swine flu and treated them all very effectively! Please read his response to a recent Peachhead2 post on the subject:

Featured Boaz Brizman as a guest speaker last night. The subject was the somatization of the emotional effects in children of divorce. This is a very tender and important subject. So many little ones suffer emotionally and consequently-physically due to divorce or parental discord.

We are not taking a stand pro or anti vaccine, simply reporting some challenges with them. There are many ways in which to keep the body healthy-vaccines are only one of them-presumably.

Yes, there are risks with any kind of medical procedure-but how would you feel if this was your child?

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/09/new_vaccine_scare_fo...

This is a great article on flu and the politics of medicine.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200911/brownlee-h1n1 

For those of you who come here you know how often we recommend olive oil (not for high heat cooking though, except in certain circumstances)

Olive oil tastes great and is very healthy. This article is a great one to illustrate its healthful benefits: http://www.naturalnews.com/025290_olive_oil_cancer_polyphenols.html 

Don't forget to have your cold and flu remedies on hand or to come in if you get sick. Herbal remedies are very effective in treating you when you get colds and flus!

See the story below that we posted on one of recent flu patients who was also pregnant!

As always, I love to share the wealth of knowledge and experience that comes from the desk of our Western medicine pediatrician, Dr. Jay Gordon. Here is his latest letter:

This is a great article-a good read. Don't miss it. 

As most of you know, our feelings here about illness is all about prevention despite our swift and effective ways to treat a person when they become ill. The most important goal is to prevent becoming ill in the first place.

Having a strong immune system is number one, and there are numerous ways to address that. Probiotics is one of those many ways and something we practice the use of in both our practice and our family life.

In case any of you missed it, tylenol was recently recalled for kids:  http://tylenol.com/

We typically do not recommend the use of tylenol-restated actually, we never recommend it. We always recommend trying to use herbal therapy to ease any symptoms that parents would use for tylenol for in their children.

You can’t get very far these days without hearing the hype, or hysteria about swine flu. Even Dr. Mehmet Oz covered the topic in his inaugural Dr. Oz talk show program this week. The probability of a ‘worldwide pandemic’ is enough to scare even the bravest people—and you can count me among that group. I even wrote last week on the icama.org forum asking for opinions about the swine flu vaccine.