Steffan Santoro, L.Ac.

11/11/2015

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” — Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The rose Juliet refers to is the Montague name, which Romeo symbolically rejects in defiance of his father. Setting poetic…

11/11/2015

Finally. Been harping on this for decades. "Fat" (lipids) are one of the 3 ESSENTIAL nutrients of the human diet. "Fat" does not make one fat. Sugar does that.

2014 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year the dietary belief that saturated fats are bad and lead to heart disease began to crumble in the mainstream media. This

05/11/2015

17/06/2015

Wow. This is actually kind of big news:
http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ConstituentUpdates/ucm449145.htm

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today finalized its determination that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the primary dietary source of artificial trans fat in processed foods, are not

21/10/2014

Pure poison. This stuff (and "juice"... high-fructose-corn-syrup in general) is THE major contributor to disease in our culture. If this is something you are accustomed to drinking... NOT consuming it is one of the best things you can do to turn your health around. There are plenty of healthy beverages to replace it with. Feel free to ask me. :)

A new study finds that the cells of pop guzzlers are old beyond their years.

03/10/2014

THIS is why you should always receive acupuncture from a licensed acupuncturist. This so-called "dry needling" is the medical profession's way of practicing "acupuncture" (which is much more than sticking needles into people) without any real training. This MD was "teaching" a class specifically about how to avoid exactly the event he caused!

Pneumothorax is a well-recognised but rare adverse event related to acupuncture or deep dry needling (DDN) over the thorax.1 ,2 This report of a pneumothorax resulting from DDN is unusual for a number of reasons: both the practitioner and the subject were doctors and both have contributed to this re…

30/08/2014

Peer reviewed study shows that cancer not only feeds on sugar but is actually caused by it's consumption.

There is a considerable resurgence of interest in the role of aerobic glycolysis in cancer; however, increased glycolysis is frequently viewed as a consequence of oncogenic events that drive malignant cell growth and survival. Here we provide evidence that increased glycolytic activation itself can…

29/08/2014

Junk food isn't just addictive - it actually kills your appetite for healthy food.

Rats are very useful for studying human eating behavior. Both rats and humans are omnivores, and both use flavor conditioning – learning through taste and experience which foods are good to eat and which to avoid. So if a particular flavor is associated with a desirable outcome like feeling full, th…

23/05/2014

According to the FDA's legal definition, a drug is anything that “diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease.” The problem with this definition is that there are numerous substances, as readily available and benign as found on our spice racks, which have been proven by countless mill…

23/05/2014

Stress is baaad... M'kay? It's a natural byproduct of our unnatural lifestyle. It behooves us to engage in some activity that relieves/releases it and sets us back to zero. Daily.

We all know the feeling whether it's your hands trembling as you flip through a blank exam or trouble sleeping while you worry about approaching deadlines. Stress is an inevitable aspect of life th...

21/04/2014

I might just print this out and have each of my patients read it at the outset of our work together. This right here is the primary source and/or contributing factor to disease processes in our culture. And babies are born addicted to it because their mothers are addicts.

As Americans, we’re becoming more health conscious, a change reflected in the creation of a $60 billion weight-loss industry. Generally, we seek to become healthier by changing our exercise

27/03/2014

I've been bashing my head against this bad science for decades. Here it is all in one place. Nutrition myths for you to throw away...

Nutrition history is riddled with nonsense. People have been advised to do all sorts of strange things that challenge common sense. Some of these things are not only useless, but potentially harmful.

24/03/2014

Yet another reason to avoid added sugar. I am not kidding when i say, "Sugar is the 'gateway drug'."Here's a scientific explanation of exactly that.

When you eat something loaded with sugar, your taste buds, your gut and your brain all take notice. This activation of your reward system is not unlike how bodies process addictive substances such as alcohol or ni****ne -- an overload of sugar spikes dopamine levels and leaves you craving more. Nico...

23/03/2014

Succinctly put. Easy to read and understand. i've been saying this for at least 20 years.

Three decades ago, the food available was mostly fresh and grown locally. Thanks to our new modern diet, obesity rates, hypertension, heart disease, liver disease, cancer, dementia, and depression, are all on the rise. Good news is that we can easily reverse this if we pay attention...

20/03/2014

A very simple explanation of the beneficial effects of Turmeric; a commonly used Chinese Medicinal Herb. LOVE this stuff.

The spice turmeric appears to be able to switch back on the self-destruct mechanism within cancer cells.

08/02/2014

Very interesting. I've seen many of these cases and treated them with surprising ease and success. My approach has always been to nourish and stimulate these tissues rather than disperse them (which would be the approach in an inflammatory situation). So this really makes sense to me.

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25/06/2012

If you can't eat all organic you can at least make informed choices. : )

EWG's 2012 Shoppers Guide helps you make informed choices about pesticides in your produce. Check our 'Dirty Dozen' and the 'Clean 15' to shop smarter.

16/05/2012

When not the root cause, diet is at least a contributor to nearly every disease process in the human body/mind. Hippocrates said, "Let food be your medicine." And he is credited as the "father" of current biomedicine.