James Geiger MD – Physician, Author and Wellness Specialist

James Geiger M.D.–

Get Healthier using your Mobile Smart Phone

Smart phones are evolving rapidly. One day there may well be an specialized application (APS) for everything. Some of the health care oriented APS, include Mobile Phone Click Diagnostics offering a wide variety of consultations services and Airstrip OB which can monitor fetal heart rate and maternal contractions. Major medical concerns can be facilitated, like medication compliance of infectious disease patients with programs like Stop TB. Patients can be given a cell … Continue Reading

Dying to Get High on Household Cleaners or Dust-Off.

It seems that nowadays, people will do anything to get high to ease the stresses of everyday modern life and some even die trying.

Soldiers are getting high on DUST-OFF, the massively available deadly cure for war zone stress.

Kids are also huffing to escape stress and just want to get high.

Incredibly, huffers are literally dying to get high and it’s not clear whether they know or even care about the deadly consequences of huffing.

Tragically, it’s now happening all over the world, including your own neighbourhood and, … Continue Reading

Neuroprotection is very elusive. No definitive medical treatments exist except cold. Prescription steroids have been tried but they do not work emphatically well to prevent further brain injury and definitely are not natural.

So here is an alternative. Oil of BERGAMOT.
Of course this an intrapertoneal rat study not a human clinical trial but it did reduce the amount of dead brain tissue damaged by artificially induced ischemia. Who would have guessed, BERGAMOT?

Int Rev Neurobiol. 2009;85:389-405.
Prevention of Glutamate Accumulation and Upregulation of Phospho-Akt may Account for Neuroprotection Afforded by Bergamot Essential Oil against Brain In… Induced by Focal Cerebral Ischemia … Continue Reading

Happy  Hungry and Horny : Some benefits of Propofol.

Anesthesiologists know that propofol has many benefits including the fact that it is practically an ideal anesthetic agent. If Micheal Jackson had been given propofol he would have realized how wonderful an anesthetic agent propofol is as a sleep aide in spite of the fact that is not an FDA approved usage of the drug. Propofol does not induce proper restful REM sleep. The three H’s are very unique benefits that an anesthesia patient can identify and enjoy. Propofol is a white emulsion (1 … Continue Reading

What’s wrong with Tylenol? Take too much and you could end up with a liver transplant, if  your “plan” will pay for it.

The FDA has issued Tylenol aka acetaminophen a black penalty box warning.  That means take this warning seriously.

How can such a commonly taken, over the counter medication be just now labeled as unsafe? It has been known for years now that  taking 4 grams daily without alcohol can cause a rise in liver transaminases. That  danger is increased causing more damage to the liver when used in daily dosages higher than 7 grams … Continue Reading

Are you in pain?

That is one of the first questions recovery room nurses ask their patients as they awaken after surgery. Those nurses can give narcotics intravenously to stop surgical pain. How do you treat your pain?

You have options to make good choices. Consider controlling  your pain with the help of  specialists.

We are all seeking relief from the physically disturbing symptom,  pain. Pain can be mild, moderate or severe. Severe, improperly managed chronic pain can lead to drug abuse. Self-administered poly-pharmacy can become the cause of a life destroying addiction or deadly  overdose.

This is a tragedy and  does not … Continue Reading

Candy as Medicine

Father’s need chocolate. Dark Chocolate  is a healthy food that works like a medicine on the cardiovascular and immune systems. Dark chocolate is rich in plant molecules called flavanoids (flavan-3-ol) and procyanoidins. Dark chocolate decrease C- reactive protein, modifies the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, the synthesis of eicosanoids, the activation of platlets (prevents blood clots),and nitric-oxide mediated mechanisms (lower bllod pressure).  All great “candy … Continue Reading

Leptin: The antiobesity hormone.

The effects of the fat hormone leptin are numerous and start early in life with breast feeding. Were you breastfeed? Ask your mother for how long. It makes a difference. Research in 2009 has shown that leptin impacts many cultures and many disease states besides obesity including breast and prostate cancer, coronary arteries disease, asthma, and diabetes.

Leptin is a genetically based hormone made by fat cells which influences monumental controlling aspects of human physiology. Just a few things researchers are learning about leptin are that it controls desire for food … Continue Reading

Essential oils have numerous effects on cancer dells and the drugs that are employed as therapy. This is another isolated reference that suggests the need for more research to promote wellness using essential oils from nature’s plants .  Linalool is found in various percentages in the essential oils derived from numerous common plants……. lavender sp. and lemon sp. are two common examples.

Linalool, a plant-derived monoterpene alcohol, reverses doxorubicin resistance in human breast adenocarcinoma cells.
Ravizza R, Gariboldi MB, Molteni R, Monti E.
Department of … Continue Reading

Smell technology enhances the taste of your drink

What if you could put a scent in your bottle cap which tricked your brain into thinking you are tasting a specific flavor? ScentSational is a company that has arranged to do just that. This ScentSational product is the first of it’s kind……AromaWater embeds a particular scent in the bottle cap. Pop open the cap, bring it to your lips and as you do, there is a fruit scent released that once smelled  provokes a fruit taste. Sense of smell and the technology that … Continue Reading