| Vitamins Can Harm You -- REALLY ? | | Special Guest :
Dr. Steve Hickey
Natural health expert
trained in biology, pharmacoilogy
and orthomolecular medicine |
Examining the facts
surorunding
the recent media flurry
on the claim that " vitamins
are harmful"
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Dr Steve Hickey trained in biology and pharmacology (Member of the Institute of Biology) before undertaking a PhD in Biophysics at Manchester Medical School, England. He was awarded international scientific prizes, including the Volvo Award
for Biomechanics (1979), the Annual Award and Medal of the Back Pain Association (1985), and was highly commended in the Volvo Award for Basic Science (1981). Following his PhD, Dr Hickey worked in the Department of Geriatric Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, where he carried out experimental and mathematical modelling of the human urethra, leading to the design of a new conformable catheter (patented, and licenced by Bard Inc.). He was appointed as head of physics on the first clinical whole body MR scanner in Europe. He carried out quantitative imaging of the spine, researched super
resolution X-ray CT scanning, and also published in the field of medical statistics.
He then took his imaging experience into the industrial arena, developing the first commercially available genetic and neural imaging libraries. Since starting his
scientific training, Dr Hickey was interested in the work of Linus Pauling, including
the work on Vitamin C and orthomolecular medicine. Together with his co-author
(Dr Hilary Roberts), he decided to follow up the evidence on
Vitamin C, resulting in the publication of two books "Ascorbate: The Science of
Vitamin C" and "Ridiculous Dietary Allowance". This led to an interest in the
therapeutic use of vitamin C and other redox active substances, which
they published in two books "Cancer, Nutrition and Survival" and "The Cancer Breakthrough". In 2005, he was given the Knowledge of Health Annual Award - International Health Contribution of the Year, for his work on cancer. Dr Hickey has a strong interest in the scientific method and the use and abuse of statistics. He is currently examining the basis of evidence-based medicine, with particular
reference to the use of meta-analysis techniques. | | Stefan Chmelik Stefan is a specialist healthcare physician dedicated to offering expertcare and choice to patients through Integrated Healthcare | Speaking on the regulation of botanicals and natural health products in the EU, where there are fears of the model being used as a template for international standards and guidelines | 
| | Stefan Chmelik is a specialist healthcare physician dedicated to offering expert care and choice to patients through Integrated Healthcare: combining the patient-centred approach of alternative and complementary medicine alongside an appreciation of mainstream medical diagnosis and support. Stefan is able to send you for appropriate tests and can refer to specialists that may be required if your case demands it .He is past-President of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, lectures at Masters level, a bestselling author and founder of the New Medicine Group, a team of specialists working together in Harley Street. |
| Dr. Robert Verkerk Meleni Aldridge | Body, Mind and Spirit 2008 | 
| | Roger Coghill | Cellphones and BioSensitivity to Electromagnetic Field | 
| | Roger Coghill owns Medcross Ltd, which he founded in 1981. There are five divisons/ subsidiaries. Coghill Research Laboratories, the research division . This laboratory specialises in bioelectromagnetics, the science investigating the interaction of electricity and magnetism with organic life, effects whichcan beboth good and bad. The beneficial aspects are seen in magnetotherapy and thebad side is commonly
called electropollution. We not only have an extensive library of researchtexts, used by visiting students, but are also developing Britain's only Bioelectromagnetics Museum, with exhibits stretching back to the days of Albert Abrams. In addition there are now four other divisions within the Medcross Group: the Electro Magnetic Products Ltd. subsidiary produces markets and sells the products of our own research and othersin the field of bioelectromagnetics, including a number of books CDs and DVDs. BIMT is theface of magnet therapy to Government, the media, and the consumer.. Galonjaweb provides website design services for the group and outside clients. Finally ViewDVD, an Internet based operation designed entirely within the group, is Britain’s largestonline DVD rental club, and its revenue provides a steady flow of funds for our research. | | Paul Anthony Taylor Ian R. Crane | CODEX Alimentarius Critical new insights and perspectives from those who are within the conversation of and are familair with the inner workings of CODEX | 
| | Paul Anthony Taylor's background is in the music industry, working as a musician, arranger and producer, and with artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry and Bill Withers. In recent years however he has become increasingly concerned with the growing threats to health and freedom of choice posed by bodies such as the Codex Alimentarius Commission (the highest international body on food standards) and the European Union, to the extent that he now devotes himself fulltime to campaigning, researching and raising awareness on these issues. He has been working with the Dr. Rath Health Foundation for the past four years - who are active in America , Europe, Africa and Asia - and his role as its External Relations Director allows him to look at these problems with a truly global perspective. Paul is also the Chairman of the US-based National Health Federation (NHF) - the only consumer health-freedom organization in the world to enjoy official observer status (able to speak out for health freedom) at meetings of the Codex Alimentarius Commission - and regularly attends Codex meetings as an NHF delegate. | | Ian R. Crane is An ex-oilfield executive, Ian R. Crane now lectures and writes on the geo-political webs that are being spun; with particular focus on US Hegemony and the US/UN agenda for the absolute control of global resources. Prior to his retirement from the corporate arena, Ian enjoyed a career of 25 years in telecommunications and international oilfield services, a career that provided the opportunity to live & work in the U.K. , Continental Europe, the Middle East & Houston, Texas. | | Michael Ash Dr. Damien Downing | Michael Ash talks about the association of the gastrointestinal tract with psychological outcomes. Is depression a gut reaction? Is it instinct or intellect? Dr. Damien Downing delivers a dissertation on Vitamin D; why we are deficient most of the time. Which begs the question: Are we then also sunlight deficient? |  | | Michael Ash BSc, DO, ND, DipION has been in full time private practice since 1982 and currently directs and owns an integrated medicine practice in Devon, where orthodox medicine and complementary medicine practitioners work together to achieve the best for their patients. Originally trained as an Osteopath and Naturopath he has spent the last 10 years pursuing post graduate education in clinical nutrition in the United States and now lectures to practitioners from all disciplines in the UK on how to use nutrition and nutraceuticals to change people’s health for the better. In addition to maintaining a large patient base he regularly writes and broadcasts on health and natural medicine. His philosophy of mixing the best of both styles of medicine with the focus on the patient as an individual keeps him at the forefront of natural medicine in the UK | | Dr Damien Downing is a specialist in Ecological Medicine, which has 3 components; Allergy, Environment and Nutrition. After qualifying from Guy's Hospital in 1972, he worked in psychiatry, neuropsychiatry and general practice in the UK, while also studying acupuncture, homeopathy and manipulative therapy. He then spent several years in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, where his roles included running the Village Health Aid Project and the Mental Health Unit. In 1980 he returned to the UK and established a clinic which developed into Nutrition Associates. He currently sees patients in London, Windsor and York, and a colleague does so in Edinburgh. Since 1980 his work has established him as a leading figure in nutritional medicine in the UK. He has undertaken pioneering work in the treatment of allergy, the linking of behavioural disorders with nutrition, light therapy and the treatment of M.E./C.F.S, Autism and ADHD. He is currently President of the British Society for Ecological Medicine. He co-founded and is Editor of the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. He has been an active member of the Expert Commmittee of ANH since its inception. | To support the Alliance for Natural Health : Click here |
