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The opinions
of the experts are constantly changing. The correct treatment this
year is often the wrong treatment next year. When choosing an approach,
treatment, or therapy, try to pick the one that poses the smallest
risk of harm. When your done mulling it over in your mind, listen
to your heart before making your decision, because “woman’s
intuition” is invaluable. Always remember, doctors cause more
deaths every year than traffic accidents, so choose carefully.
Mid November 2005 |
| Article #1 -Bad
news for Asthma drugs, and the kids taking them Article #1 |
Well, you would think that the Asthma drugs, Advair, Serevent, and Foradil were saving the world from the danger and misery of Asthma if you listen to the TV advertising. Not so says the latest research. The FDA now wants a stronger warning label for these drugs because the research now shows that although they reduce the frequency of Asthma attacks, they increase the risk of severe Asthma attacks and even death. The study showed that patients taking the drugs accounted for more deaths than the people taking the placebos. That means that taking the drugs increases your chance of a fatal Asthma attack. Advair had sales of $4.7 billion in 2004. Obviously Advair is being prescribed for our children because IT’S GOOD BUSINESS. It reminds me of Dr. Marcia Angell’s book, The Truth About Drug Companies. Dr. Angell, by the way, is the former editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine and a highly respected and established medical insider. The entire pharmaceutical industry, says Dr. Angell, is “primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit.” “Big pharma,” she says, “is taking us for a ride.” Drug industry sales are approaching $500 billion a year, half of which is in North America. Consider this, she says, “The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together.” NAET eliminates the underlying allergies that cause Asthma. It’s the only thing that does, and it’s painless, inexpensive and free of long term side effects. Who do you know that has a child who uses an inhaler? |
Article #2 Diet Drink Disaster — Lied To Again Thanksgiving is upon us, and many of us are carefully watching our scales as the winter holiday season approaches. By now, we all know that fat is the result of too much simple sugar intake, and we have vowed to get through the season without getting “holiday hips.” Many less informed citizens will resort to using foods and beverages sweetened with the di-peptide sweetener Aspartame, and they’ll pay the price in spite of their effort. Aspartame was going to be the savior of sugar lovers and diabetics. Some of us warned of its dangerous side effects (a web search under Aspartame side effects reveals frightening data too lengthy to elaborate on here), and suggested it would be no better than simple sugar. We were wrong. It has turned out to be worse. A review of 26 years of patient data found that people who drink diet soft drinks are more likely to become overweight. The research, done at The University of Texas Health Science Center on over 1,100 patients showed that diet soft drink consumption was actually worse when it comes to producing weight gain than regular sugar laced soft drinks. Aspartame was supposed to allow us to drink junk beverages and get away with it. So much for that. Pity the poor diabetics who have been diligently following the dietitians advice and have been unable to figure out why, when doing what they were told, they continued to gain more weight, need more insulin, need mor e anti-hypertensive meds, need more cardio-vascular meds, etc., while doing everything “right.” The research shows that sugar is definitely better than Aspartame, but remember, sugar is now universally supported as the number one risk factor for heart attacks in women, and number two for men. Cheraskin and associates at the University of Alabama found that just one teaspoon of sugar reduces the number of germs destroyed by white blood cells by 50% immediately, and normal germ destroying capability doesn’t return for five hours. Millions of Americans consume an average of two or more teaspoons of sugar of all kinds, every hour of the day, and thus keep their immune system constantly low. Given this information, the equation of lots of holiday sugar resulting in lots of holiday colds makes sense. It’s worth noting that an eight ounce glass of orange juice contains about eight teaspoons of sugar as fructose, which is just as harmful as sucrose. The alternative is Stevia, available at most Health Food Stores. It can be a little tricky to use, but at least it’s natural with no apparent side effects, even for the diabetic. |
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| Article #3 Fixing Osteoarthriris |
| Last week a patient called me with a testimonial and a question.
She said she had been suffering from painful knees, hips and fingers
since she was in her fifties, or about ten years. She was very pleased
how NAET eliminated her troublesome food allergies, especially with
the holidays approaching, but never considered her arthritis a subject
for discussion. In fact she said she didn’t even mention her
anti-inflammatory medication during her NAET consultation because
she didn’t think it was relevant. She said her pain was better,
but that she was not nearly pain free, and was limited in her activities
even on her medication… until the last few weeks. Now, she said,
she was pain free, and wanted to know why I didn’t write a newsletter
article describing the treatment that healed her joints, so here it
is.
Treating the painful joint: Osteoarthritis isn’t the result of allergy/sensitivity (Rheumatoid arthritis is), but it is a condition that normally responds well to natural treatment if caught in time. The symptom, joint pain, is the result of damage to connective tissue, cartilage and bone. If the disease can be caught before there is significant boney damage, the connective tissue and cartilaginous damage can be reversed. Vitamin C is the most important chemical building block for the repair of connective tissue that is usually in short supply. I recommend a daily dose of one of Preventics Vitamin C-1000’s for every 50 lbs of weight to correct that problem. To repair the damaged cartilage I recommend two Preventics Glucosamine Sulfate tablets, 500mg each, three times a day for two bottles (20 days worth). If no positive response is noticed in that 20 day period it suggests that the cartilage is completely gone and the joint is bone on bone, and the chances become very slim that a positive outcome will be reached with natural treatment. Most osteoarthritis sufferers notice a significant improvement in the first 20 days and thereafter are able to begin reducing the Glucosamine Sulfate dose over a period of months until it is no longer required, or a very low dose is required, to maintain a pain free state. Treating the underlying cause: Arthritis can be caused by any kind of joint trauma (hammer missing nail and hitting joint comes to mind). Osteoarthritis is a complicated physiological phenomenon that requires one to look beyond the joint for a cause. As we age and consume the Standard American Diet (SAD), which is woefully deficient in both macro and micro minerals, the natural body warehouses for these minerals become depleted. The body needs mineral for virtually all bodily functions, and they are much more important than vitamins, so the body warehouses them. Warehousing minerals is one of the functions of your bones. When the body needs minerals it borrows them from bones, and it borrows them in balance. A little bit of everything is removed. If only one mineral that the body might need was removed it wouldn’t be long before the bones would lose their ability to perform their other functions that are so important to our health like support and the manufacture of blood cells. The remainder of the un-needed minerals are unable to get back into the bones unless the same balanced ratios are met that were present when they were removed. Minerals are so important, however, that the body stored them, even in imbalanced ratios, in a secondary tissue. It’s called lining tissue, and makes up the skin, and the lining of the digestive tract, respiratory system, vascular system, urogenital system, and joints. There isn’t a woman over 40 that hasn’t noticed that her skin isn’t as soft as it was when she was 20. As the skin takes on these additional mineral deposits it mineralizes, it hardens. These out-of-balance minerals are preferentially deposited in the lining tissues that replace themselves the most slowly, which helps conserve these critical minerals. Blood vessels and joints are among those tissues, and as they mineralize we have the resulting conditions known as arteriosclerosis (mineralization of the arteries), and osteoarthritis (mineralization of the joints). Of course, as the lining tissues are accumulating minerals the bones are losing them. This is called osteoporosis. The solution for osteoporosis is supplementing with a balanced mineral. A calcium and magnesium tablet is not a balanced mineral, and causes even greater tissue mineralization. Preventics Bone 350 Plus is the balanced product of choice, and there is an audio tape that goes out to each new customer with 30 minutes of explanation about this unique product on side A. The second item needed is Vitamin D. Preventics is presently formulating a Vitamin D of adequate dosage to conform to the latest research findings. Unfortunately, for now it will have to be purchased at a Health Food Store at retail prices until the Preventics product is ready. I am happy to discuss dosage, which is an individual thing, during Preventics Health Help Hotline, Tues., Wed., and Thurs. from 10 to 1, Central Time. The number is 800-888-4866 or 816-753-4866. When treating both the symptomatic joint(s) as well as the underlying
cause, good to excellent results are usually rapidly forthcoming.
My patient was surprised that I preferred working with her over
the phone. She had previously had spent thousands with her doctor
and pharmacy for inadequate treatment of her symptoms, and without
having the underlying cause addressed at all. She was on other drugs
for her osteoporosis. At the time of the phone call she had been
able to discontinue the anti-inflammatory drugs for her arthritis,
and was eagerly anticipating an improved bone density test that
would suggest that her drugs for osteoporosis could soon be terminated.
I instructed her to be patient, because that usually took at least
18 to 24 months. |
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