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Introduction
Whether it's ginseng for stamina and virility, arnica for sports injuries, kava kava for stress, gotu kola for improved memory, saw palmetto for the prostate, tea tree oil for athlete's foot or cayenne pepper for the heart, certain herbs have a special affinity for the male system.
What few Americans realize is that many herbs work as well as or better than prescription drugs or surgery, claims repeatedly proven by medical researchers in the U.S. and around the world. However, that's changing as more physicians treat medical problems with diet, herbs and nutritional supplements, a strategy that corrects the underlying cause of illness and avoids the adverse side effects of more orthodox therapies.
One of the most common medical procedures today is bypass surgery. Typically, a middle-aged man is told, "You are a walking time bomb. Unless we operate immediately, you're going to die."
Is that true? According to Julian Whitaker, M.D., the answer is almost always no. His advice: Never agree to immediate surgery. Instead, get a second opinion, and before doing that, consider the evidence.
In 1977, results of an ambitious Veterans Administration Cooperative Study that tested bypass surgery were published. The scientifically controlled trial of 596 patients, all with the same degree of blocked arteries, concluded that sur-

 
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