Alternative medicine

So from that perspective, the claim that placental hormones are going to support breastfeeding, it just doesn't really stack up.

So I think it's not so much a case of needing to be more open-minded about alternative medicine it's kind of about breaking down what are the claims here and is there any way that this could work and the studies that we have seen so far really just don't align with what we know about physiology of um birth and and breastfeeding and like i mentioned before the only thing that really seems to maybe have a seems to have some pain-relieving potential.

But how relevant that is in humans, particularly if you're eating these capsules over many days in a very, very low dose, it's questionable whether that's going to be offering any benefit.

okay i was gonna i was gonna ask this and like this is all this is kind of like a personal observation of mine that i've always worried before this topic is when i was growing up in in in africa and nigeria my understanding is once you have a child once a woman has a child they use the hospitals usually just hand over them whatever the placenta to to the mom and the family then you know there's always that stuff oh if you don't you need to hand it to the mom and then if they bury it and stuff like that but me having my kids here and i've been involved i've been in the hospital when two of my kids were gone i never see the hospital so i guess the question how do hospitals in the west like in australia how do they handle uh placenta umbilical cord all the distance after giving them

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Then my question really is, and a concern, is, uh, is that, is there data or evidence to suggest otherwise about alternative medicine like herbs and all those kind of things? Like for example, the research that we continue doing, we hear that B17, uh, can help for us with prostate cancer, but, uh, it gets dismissed when you go further to find that-

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the, the other side say it's not clinically proven.

Now, my question is that, have we done or is there data available or research that points to the other side that alternative medicine can be considered? I'll listen on the radio.

So Nolo, uh, thanks very much, uh, for that question.

Andrew, uh, alternative medicines both here and abroad, um, have been a big conversation as far as, uh, prostate cancer is concerned.

Mooney's son Preston was too sick, and if she tried to take him home, there would be a few phone calls that are going to be made.

including to the police and the oklahoma department of human services which oversees child protective services you'd be taking a kid into what we deem to be a dangerous situation the doctors continued two weeks earlier a judge had issued a court order for preston who was seventeen to be taken into emergency custody and a case worker drove him to oklahoma children's o u health Preston had chronic myeloid leukemia, but he had not been seen by the hospital's oncology team in more than a year.

Mooney had been caring for him at home, using alternative treatments guided by an unlicensed practitioner.

She didn't trust the hospital to help her son after having tried conventional treatment there the previous year.

The solutions she had found could, she thought, give Preston the life she wanted for him.