August-September 2006 Newsletter from Ecopolitan

August-September Features: The Truth about Essential Amino Acids, PDD Tests and Treatment, High Protein Raw Food Recipes, and Saving on your next Thai-Nepal Eco-Thour until Sep-1.

Today's FIRST quotation:

'We have to do it by ourselves, but we can't do it alone. '

Daniel Mark

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ECOPOLITAN
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Newsletter Contents

1. Today's Ask Doctor T - The Truth about Essential Amino Acids, PDD Tests and Treatment, High Protein Raw Food Recipes.
2. Articles - Holistic Science - Effective or Placebo Effect?
3. Free Tuesday Meetings and Lectures
4. Upcoming Events - Humanitarian Trek in Nepal and Healing Retreat in Thailand (Register before Sep.1 and save money); New Weekly YogaBrunch and YogaDinner; River Haven Potluck; Uncooking Class; Minneapolis Living Foods Potluck & Support Group; Radiation Free Breast Screening; Monthly Get-together at the River Haven.
5. Restaurant Happenings - Best of the Twin Cities Award, Melted Nacho Cheese - A New Amazing Recipe, New Menu.
6. Eco-Business of the Month - Biologique Foods.
7. What is Doctor T Up To?
8. About this Newsletter

Today's ASK Doctor T

Read Dr. T's Answers:

The Truth about Essential Amino Acids

Question: Ask Dr. T What is it I tell someone when they claim you need to get the essential amino acids from this or that source? I wish I could be logical with them and talk about all the countless other animals who are healthier and bigger than we are living entirely on plant life. It is not that simple...

Read Dr. T's Short Answer: The Truth about Essential Amino Acids

PDD Tests and Treatment

Question: A parent to a PDD (pervasive developmental disorder) child is interested in doing functional laboratory tests in order to get more information and suggest healing alternatives. I offered her the OAT test and the toxic elements test but she wanted to know if there is a test which can give more information both on the PDD problem and on vaccination. Is the Detoxi-Genomic test suitable for this purpose? Would it give her also info regarding the vaccination? She was also asking if you know of a neurologist who treats these children in both ways allopathic (orthodox) and functional?

Read Dr. T's Short Answer: PDD Tests and Treatment

High Protein Raw Food Recipes?

Health Food Recipe Pictures

Question: Could you guide me on the menu (I see it online) as to dishes or specific ingredients with higher protein?

Read Dr. T's Short Answer: High Protein Raw Food Recipes on the Ecopolitan Menu

Previous Answers

Read Doctor T's previous answers in the new Ecopolitan's answers archive.

If you have a nutritional or brief medical question you would like Doctor T to answer, please email us and it may be answered in a future newsletter.

Articles

Our articles reveal the optimal path to a healthy long life of productivity, pleasure, and sustainability, emphasizing holistic, science-based prevention of chronic, degenerative diseases and ecological activism!

Holistic Science - Effective or Placebo Effect?

Some of my patients occasionally speak with their friends who happen to be allopathic doctors (orthodox medical-industrial doctors) about their medical care for chronic medical conditions (with which they had no good results until using functional medicine). These medical friends often claim in response that there is "no science" in the practice of non-allopathic health practitioners and attribute any improvement to "placebo."

Is that so? How to differentiate placebo from real results? And how placebo is manipulated by pharmaceutical-companies sponsored researchers to make their drugs appear "better than placebo"?

Read the Full Article: Holistic Science - Effective or Placebo Effect?

Read previous newsletter articles in the Ecopolitan's articles archive,
or search through the ecopolitan website:

Ecopolitan   The Web

Free Information Meetings

(Every Tuesday 6-8+ PM, Upstairs).

Join us for free lectures, discussions, or socializing. The information meetings begin sharply at 6:30 PM- please come at 6 PM to meet others, wind down, and have a drink (organic NSA wine, smoothie, or fresh juice...) or a snack (optional). If you wish, you can order from the restaurant before the meeting and we will bring your order upstairs to you. Or, you can just sit and relax, since no purchase is
necessary.

Upcoming Meeting Topics...

Society can not become sustainable or eco-logical or environmentally sound until social justice issues are addressed at core levels. Ecopolitan's social justice lecture series touch deep solutions to these topics.

August 22: Domestic Violence and Community Wellbeing, by Elizabeth Henderson Shreve.

Nearly one third of women in the United States will be assaulted by a partner during their lifetimes. The injuries sustained by women are felt not just by individuals, but also by their families, friends and loved ones - by our society as a whole. Please join us as we discuss how violence against women and children affects community wellbeing, and how communities can support survivors in a healing process.

Zeb Henderson Shreve is the Community Education Coordinator at Alexandra House, a community-based organization serving battered women and their families in Anoka County. She views domestic violence as part of a larger pattern of violence and oppression, and as a community educator seeks break the cycle of violence through changing social attitudes towards women and violence. Ms. Henderson Shreve has volunteered and worked as a shelter advocate, medical advocate, and legal advocate for battered women in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and California. She is also involved in the arts, particularly modern dance, and she is learning the Argentine tango.

The mission of Alexandra House is to end domestic violence. Founded in 1977 as the Anoka County Task Force for Battered Women, our first shelter opened its doors in 1980. "We are the only domestic violence shelter for women and families in Anoka County, and our services are free to all. As a leader and a partner, Alexandra House seeks to contribute to the good of the community by providing education and training programs as well as fostering the collaborative relationships we have with other organizations. To achieve our mission, we ensure equal access to services that are responsive to both survivors and community needs, and we provide and maintain programs and services that are of the highest quality".

Following July's well-attended lecture on Organic Agriculture, we are now getting into the details, starting a 5-lecture series about the methods of organic agriculture. On the next Tusedays (August 29th and September 5, 6-8+ PM), we will will meet at Ecopolitan, upstairs - and continue to explore the science behind organic foods, regulations, and how our daily decisions on what we consume will impact the future health of our animals, environment, and human race. We look forward to seeing you there! Lectures are presented by Thomas Harrington, from Biologique Foods (Featured Eco-Business of the month - See below). Next topics:

August 29: Standards and Regulations for Organic Agriculture, by Thomas Harrington..

September 5: Toxins & Organic Agriculture, by Thomas Harrington..

In the next Tusedays, Ecopolitan's exiting Eco-Health lecture series continues:

September 12: Fats: What’s good and what’s not, and why!

September 19: The miracles of Functional Medicine: What is it? What are the lab tests it offers? How can it save (or enhance) your life?

September 26: Assessing Cardiovascular Risk – cutting edge methods! Hint: It’s not about cholesterol!!!

All lectures are presented by Ecopolitan Founder Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren ["Dr. T"] , except where noted.

Upcoming Events

Humanitarian Trek in Nepal and Healing Retreat in Thailand:

Thai Pictures Album

It's the prefect time to reserve your place in the seasonal Tropical Thailand Healing Retreat Followed by the seasonal Nepal Trekking, a community-based humanitarian eco-trek, both guided by Doctor T. Register early! Payment before Sep.1 will save you money. And more money can be save by combining the two tours together.

Next Date:

Thailand Trip: Oct 30-Nov 7, 2006
Followed by the optional Nepal Trek: Nov 7-19, 2006.

Ecopolitan's Weekly YogaBrunch and YogaDinner

Weekly YogaBrunch and YogaDinner, at Ecopolitan's Meeting Room, are starting next week.

YogaBrunch - every Sunday AM at 9 and at 10:30 (followed by special EcoRaw brunch).

YogaDinner - every Thursday at 5 PM. (followed by optional EcoRaw dinner).

The instructor is Jessica Dawn Flannigan. Jessica has been studying hatha yoga and meditation for 7 years. She is passionate about global and personal health and believes that cultivating these should be a truly joyful experience. She trained at the Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja California, Mexico and is a certified yoga instructor by the Yoga Alliance. Jessica has studied with teachers of Kripalu, Kali Ray, Iyengar, and Ashtanga yoga, among others.

Our yoga classes are nurturing yet challenging, down-to-earth, energizing, calming and grounding. You will strengthen your body, stretch your spirit, and harmonize your mind. The classes are open to all people, regardless of physical ability, flexibility, or level of yoga experience. We will challenge the seasoned practitioner and welcome the beginner!

For additional information contact Jessica Flannigan directly. Send an email to
jessflan@hotmail.com .

Ecopolitan's Monthly Un-Cooking Class

Taught by our our new professionally-trained chef Jane, this monthly class (at Ecopolitan's Lecture/Meeting room upstairs) is focused on healthful food preparation "a la Ecopolitan".

Our monthly un-cooking classes, take place the last Sunday every month, upstairs, at 2:30 PM.

Next meeting dates -

Sunday, August 27, 2:30 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2:30 PM

Subject: Summer Delights

Our Chef Jane will demonstrate her professional kitchen skills and knife-wielding techniques when preparing snacks Hors'deuvres and other favorites!

For the more serious culinary students, we offer private (one-on-one) un-cooking lessons with one of our chefs. Participants are taught by an Ecopolitan chef the essential skills, methods and recipes for getting started in raw-food preparation. Call or speak to our staff for registration.

Find more on the vegeterian un-cooking classes and private instructions.

Minneapolis Living Foods Potluck & Support Group

Do you sometime feel that you are alone in your quest for a healthy, sustainable lifestyle that can heal both your body and your Planet? Joining our monthly Minneapolis Eco-Raw Potluck will definitely improve this feeling, as you find other people with whom you can share your friendship, compassion, stories and knowledge! Our potluck meetings, which welcome everybody regardless of race, religion, status, personal preferences, political affiliation, and eating habits, take place the last Sunday every month, upstairs, immediately after the monthly uncooking class .....

Next meeting dates:

Sunday, August 27, 5:30 PM
Sunday, September 24, 5:30 PM

Go to the potluck page for more information on the exciting Minneapolis Living Foods Potluck & Support Group, what to bring and how to prepare.

Breast Thermography at Ecopolitan Building

Breast Thermography, Also Known As Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI)- is available at the Ecopolitan Building on the first Monday of each month between 9:00-10:00 AM and 2 PM.

Next Dates:

Monday, Semptember 11th, 2006
Monday, October 9th, 2006

To schedule your DITI appointment please call Joe’s direct line- 612-870-2974.

DITI is a radiation free, contact free, non invasive (symptom-free), state of the art clinical screening test recommended for women of all ages. This test is part of an early breast disease detection program that provides women an opportunity to greatly increase their chances of addressing early stages of cancer and other breast disease. Unlike conventional mammography, DITI is completely safe for pregnant women, women with breast implants, and dense or sensitive breasts, since there is no contact with or compression of the breast. DITI has been recognized as a viable diagnostic tool since 1987 by the AMA Council on Scientific affairs and the ACA Council on Diagnostic Imaging, since 1988 by the Congress of Neuro-Surgeons, and since 1990 by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

The screening at Ecopolitan (the ONLY MODERN DITI currently available in the Twin Cities that is interpreted by a Board-Certified Radiologist) includes a full thermographic imaging examination and color images, interpretation of the non-breast tissue findings by a Certified Thermographer, and medical interpretation by a board-certified medical radiologist.

Our certified thermographer is Valerie Zumbusch. Her number for technical questions is (612) 741-3954 and her email address is vzumbusc at amfam.com.

To schedule, call Joe (of Ecopolitan and of the FDH Foundation) at 612-870-2974. More information on radiation free breast screening.

Restaurant Happenings

ECOPOLITAN - providing for the ECOlogy of our metroPOLITAN area
100% Organic, Vegan, Raw Food Restaurant & Bar Natural Home & Body Goods-
'For Your Health, the Earth, & the Taste!'

Open 9am-10pm Seven Days A Week (11pm Fri & Sat).
2409 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55405
(612) 87-GREEN.

Best of the Twin Cities Award

Ecopolitan is proud to announce that it has won the City Pages' Best Vegetarian Restaurant award last month (2nd year in a row) - with a very nice article about our minneapolis restaurant .

Melted Nacho Cheese - A New Amazing Recipe

Our chefs have just created a new amazing "melted nacho cheese" - which will be used in some of our specials. Be careful- it's addictive (but good for you)!

About Our Menu

New Restaurant pictures

The Minneapolis Ecopolitan EcoRaw Restaurant, Eco-Shop, and Organic Wine Bar, is excited to have its expansive menu available online in its entirety. You can print it if you wish, or order take-outs while browsing the Ecopolitan website: Be sure to check out our enhanced bulk section (nuts, seeds, dried fruits, grains and legumes for sprouting) and our Eco-Shop (Safecoat products and other goods for a healthy, non-toxic home and body; Kitchen appliances; Organic Cotton & Hemp clothes and accessories; organic coconut and olive oils; books & magazines; Rebounding Excercisers,air filters, and shower filters; all these and other products are sold here as well as online or by phone. Everything is discounted, since we are a non-profit!). Remember to ask for a prescription when necessary (for special-order 100% organic cotton mattresses, and for tax deductions on health products and services, including the Infrared Therapy Sauna and the Oxygen Bar, for medical need).

Read above about our special Uncooking Classes, and the potluck meetings.

Eco-Business of the Month

Occasionally we promote businesses that are eco-friendly (using biodegradable, non-toxic cleaning materials, laundry detergents, recycled goods and other safe supplies, or moving in that direction by implementing environmentally-conscious policies). We hope that many businesses will follow suit and we will gladly promote them in future newsletters, encouraging our readers to support their efforts and helping them make these often-costly activities a worthwhile investment in their business and in our planet's future. If you feel that your business qualifies, please let us know.

Biologique Foods is proud to be featured as Ecopolitan’s Eco-Business of The Month. As an organization committed to educating and promoting living organically with sustainable values, we feel our vision aligns very well with that of Ecopolitan’s. We are an innovative, web-based business that specializes in organic food delivery to our customers’ homes, thus bridging the gap between quality and availability. Our mission is to provide organic foods and education about the ever-changing organic principles to the health-aware and eco-minded public. We currently service the Upper Midwest, but are in the process of expanding!

On the next Tusedays (August 29th and September 5, 6-8+ PM), we will will meet at Ecopolitan, upstairs - and continue to explore the science behind organic foods, regulations, and how our daily decisions on what we consume will impact the future health of our animals, environment, and human race. We look forward to seeing you there!

We are located at 10740 Lyndale Avenue South, Suite CW-NO, Bloomington, MN 55431. Please call 952.346.0044 / 866.450.0044, or email tharrington@biologiquefoods.com for additional info, and check out our web site: www.biologiquefoods.com.

To sign up for our delivery service and receive your first shipment free of charge, please mention Ecopolitan as your referral source, or enter Practitioner Code 021MN at the “practitioner code” box within our site.

What's Doctor T up to?

(in addition to Tuesday Meetings lectures, consulting to nutrition companies, founding international health-related projects, organizing treks, retreats & festivals, seeing patients, writing books and producing CD's, overseeing the clinic, the EcoHostel (now being integrated into the Eco-Stay, to accommodate people wishing for full immersion healing EcoRaw Living experience at a fraction of the cost incurred in raw diet institutes elsewhere) and EcoSpa at the Ecopolitan Building, directing Ecopolitan restaurant's operations, and other activities summarized here).

October 29-November 21, 2006:

Thai Pictures Album

Humanitarian Trek in Nepal and Healing retreat in Thailand- please join!

The seasonal Tropical Thailand Healing Retreat (you are welcome to join Doctor T for the next tour)! Followed by (for those interested in both) the seasonal Nepal Trekking, a community-based humanitarian eco-trek. Please Join!

August 21-September 4, 2006:

Business and Medical trip to Israel

May 31, 2006:

3 Hour Lecture, Comprehensive Cellular Nutrition & Health at Core Power Yoga for their Yoga Instructors Certification Class - with a digital video made (available soon)!

April 14-17, 2006:

Clinical and Medical Business Trip to Sarasota, Florida.

April 1-13, 2006:

Clinical and Business Medical trip to Israel.

March 10-30, 2006:

Tropical Thailand Healing Retreat (you are welcome to join Doctor T)! Followed by (for those interested in both) Trekking in Nepal, a challenging Himalayan trek!

March 7, 2006:

Jerusalem Lecture about Functional and Nutritional Medicine, to a Symposium of Academicians.

February 23, 2006:

Lectured to Twin Cities doctors about Electro-Magnetic Pollution and Solid Solutions - a continuing-education credit seminar (more details on the EMF seminar). The seminar was well-attended and well-received!

February 15, 2006:

Lecture on EMF Pollution to produce a Double-CD titled "EMF Pollution and Remediation" - NOW AVAILABLE AT ECOPOLITAN!

February 1, 2006: Nutrition Lecture

Doctor T presented a 3-hour General Nutrition Lecture to Yoga Instructors Course Participants at CorePower Yoga Downtown Minneapolis.

Late December, 2005, to mid-January, 2006:

Continuing the promotion of functional laboratory tests in Israel, plus other projects.

November 2005:

The seasonal Tropical Thailand Healing Retreat (you are welcome to join Doctor T for the next tour)! Followed by (for those interested in both) the seasonal Nepal Trekking , a community-based humanitarian eco-trek. Contact us for further details.

Mole removal in Atlanta.

September 2005:

Mole removal in Oregon

Late June- Early July 2005:

Continuing Public Health Projects in Israel (including the Israeli Association of Biological Dentistry), meeting regional HMO doctors, Hospital directors, and the ministry of health officials to promote functional medicine there.

Previous Activities

For previous activities - click here.

About This Newsletter

Today's SECOND quotation:

'When our knowledge is not in order, the more which we have of it, the greater will be our confusion.'

Dr Rae HBF Man, Inspired by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

This Newsletter has been authored by Doctor T (with some assistance of others), who apologizes profusely for any grammatical or spelling errors that may have occurred, and promises to correct any error promptly upon being notified...

Adiel (“Doctor T”) Tel-Oren, MD (Europe), DC, LN, DACBN, DABOM, CCN, FABDA, DABCT(c), the founder and President of Ecopolitan and its Eco-Health Network, specializes in disease prevention, non-invasive clinical medicine, nutritional and environmental medicine, and functional medicine (science-based holistic approaches to diagnosis and therapy). Trained as an MD in Europe and the USA, Doctor T is board-certified with the American Board of Oxidative Medicine, American Clinical Board of Nutrition, and the American Board of Chelation Therapy (candidate). He is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist and a professor with the Clinical Nutrition Certification Board of the International & American Association of Clinical Nutritionists; a doctor of chiropractic (trained & licensed in the USA); a Licensed Nutritionist (Minnesota); a Fellow of the American Board of Disability Analysts; a member of the ACA Nutrition Council; and President Emeritus of the University of Natural Medicine (Santa Fe, NM), where he serves as Dean of Medical Sciences and Professor of functional, nutritional, & clinical medicine.

Doctor T is founder and president of: The Functional and Dental Health (FDH) Foundation (2001), with local and international chapters; the innovative Integrated Healthcare Clinics (1994-2000); America’s first urban Eco-Spa & Eco-Hostel (2005); and Ecopolitan, America's most ecological & environmentally friendly urban complex, which includes an EcoSpa, an Eco-Healing Clinic, an Eco-Hostel, and Ecopolitan, America’s first sustainable restaurant offering 100% Organic EcoRaw Living Cuisine , an Eco-Shop, & an educational resource center (2001). Besides seeing patients and lecturing internationally & on radio/ TV shows to doctors, nurses, & the public, Doctor T consults for nutritional, military, government, and community organizations and is currently writing books and producing CD’s of his popular ‘Ask Doctor T’™ lectures. He also practices wilderness and humanitarian medicine in remote areas; organizes and guides humanitarian Eco-Treks in Nepal; and leads ecological health and education retreats in Wisconsin, Tropical Thailand, and in Nepal, where he also directs CCODER’s Community Health Plan (www.ccoder.org), managing the health of nearly 200,000 people.

He is seeing patients just one or two days each month, plus does laboratory tests when indicated for his patients and for other doctors' referred patients. More information about Doctor Tel-Oren.

To reach Doctor T (for medical concerns, or to join the FDH Foundation or
any of the Treks or Retreats) please call his assistant, Ecopolitan Director Joe
Noreen, using our secondary phone line (612) 870-2974, or email Joe.