Following over 25 years of experience as a registered nurse, combined with a life-long interest in health-related issues and natural approaches to regaining health, I decided it was time begin writing and sharing. I established Impact Health Publishing in 2010 in order to self-promote my health and wellness books—available on Amazon and world-wide from Book Depository. Currently, I have an interest in establishing a relationship with an established publishing house and transition from being self-published to being published and promoted by other entities. My website allows access to selected chapters from my books and to articles I have written, as well as provides links to Amazon and Book Depository for book purchasing.

Cancer and the Tumor Microenvironment

  By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Although macrophages can target transformed [premalignant] cells, cancer cells evade this defense by reprogramming macrophages so that they support tumor progression.”  ~ Geeraerts et al., 2017, emphasis added It has been said that cancer is “a wound that will not heal.”  (Dehne et al., 2017).  But perhaps a better…

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Targeting Pancreatic Cancer With Intravenous Vitamin C

By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “If one patient can do it, there’s no reason others can’t. I realized that medicine has been studying its failures when it should have been learning from its successes. We should be paying more attention to the exceptional patients, those who get well unexpectedly, instead of staring bleakly at all…

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The Power of Expectations

Last revision: 07-04-23 By Eugene L., Heyden, RN   “Rather than dismiss it, we should try to understand the placebo effect and harness it when we can.”  ~Harvard Health Publishing, 2012 Much is said of the placebo response and its power to take something useless and turn it into something of value.  People actually get well…

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The Jordan Rubin Story

Last update: 06-14-23 By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “When I released The Maker’s Diet in 2004, two things happened that I never expected. One, I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams that The Maker’s Diet would become one of those word-of-mouth publishing phenomena that would propel the book to the New York Times…

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War Stories: Pamela

Last revision: 07-11-23 By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Progesterone is crucial for reproductive organ development and maintenance of pregnancy, and more recent studies have clearly shown its role as an important immune regulator. “Progesterone is also secreted during the nonpregnant state and has been shown to have a direct effect on immune cells.”  ~Tait et…

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Migraine Prophylaxis

  By Eugene L., Heyden, RN “Migraine is a condition that significantly impairs patients’ quality of daily life. The Global Burden of Disease Study ranked migraine as the seventh most common disabling pathology among 289 diseases, referred to as the 7th disabler.”   ~Koyuncu Irmak et al., 2019  “Verapamil has been used quite successfully in a…

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War Stories: Thomas

  By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Isolated reports of remission during bupropion treatment of TNF mediated illnesses, such as recurrent oral aphthous ulceration and Crohn’s disease have appeared and bupropions use has been suggested in these and some cancers, such as multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, where TNF is believed to play prominent pathogenic…

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War Stories: Brenda

Last revision: 01-21-23 By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Immunoglobins are protein molecules that function as antibodies against many pathogenic as well as potential pathogenic microorganisms.”  ~Rountree, 2002 “SBI is uniquely composed of immunoglobulins which remain biologically active throughout the GI tract and have affinity for common intestinal antigens associated with GI inflammation.”  ~Detzel et al.,…

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Psychological Problems After COVID-19: A Case Report

By Eugene L. Heyden, RN “Neuroinflammation plays an increasingly appreciated role in psychiatric disorders. SARS-CoV-2 is neuroinvasive and neuroinflammatory.  ~Alper, 2020, emphasis added “We report that both viral RNA and/or Spike protein remain in circulation long after acute infection (more than one-year post-infection in some cases) and this persistent circulation of viral components is associated…

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