Perspectives
Perspectives
Editorial pieces on integrative health, naturopathic approaches, conventional medicine and alternative claims — each with named authorship, an evidence level, verbatim-checked references and a reviewer status. Opinion informed by sources; not medical advice.
Authorship and review: ProperHealth editorial desk, prepared at the request of Arshad Tariq, RPh (Clarkson Pharmacy). Reviewer: pending. Each piece shows its evidence level; none has been reviewed yet.
Method
How ProperHealth weighs evidence
Four labels, one rule: a statement is shown only with the passage it rests on, and every uncertainty is named.
Integrative health
Complementary, alternative, integrative: what the words mean
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health draws the lines clearly. ProperHealth uses them.
Conventional medicine
Conventional medicines: benefits, limits and adverse effects
Approval means the benefits were judged greater than the known risks. It never means there are no risks — and the topic pages say which ones.
Alternative claims
Chlorine dioxide, MMS and CDS: what regulators and courts found
A disinfectant sold as a cure. The record is unusually complete, and none of it is in the product's favour.
Alternative claims
DMSO: the approved use, and the open claims
One approved indication, delivered one way. Everything else attributed to it is unproven.
A dedicated reading
Andreas Kalcker and Forbidden Health: an evidence-graded reading
Who the author is as far as independent sources go, what the book claims, and what the evidence says — with the research inventory behind it.
Treatment modalities
Ozone therapy: what the regulator says, and what the claims rest on
Ozone has a federal regulation of its own. It is short, and it is the whole of the official medical position.
Treatment modalities
Oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen: approved uses, and the rest
Medical oxygen and hyperbaric chambers have real, cleared uses. The list is specific, and everything outside it is a claim.
Treatment modalities
Chelation therapy: the approved use, the two heart trials, and the risks
Chelation removes metals. Two large NIH trials asked whether it also protects the heart; the second did not confirm the first.
Treatment modalities
High-dose intravenous vitamin C: what the trials found
Promising in the laboratory, mixed in people, not approved for cancer — and not harmless for everyone.
Treatment modalities
Hydrogen peroxide as a 'therapy': what Poison Control sees
A disinfectant sold as an oxygen cure. The poison centres know it by its injuries.