| But it also illustrates the persistent hostility with which western medical observers and commentators have received medical experts from other cultures. Arabic doctors are shown bleeding the Italian poor dry, as gold jets out of their veins with their blood. active fluids orchestrating multiple organ systems, and designed to maintain stability in the face of drastic environmental shifts. Indeed, westerners may glimpse a resemblance between this healing system and those conventionally associated with the non-western world. |
| Their hostility was only strengthened by continued attacks on homoeopathy from the allopathic camp. Naming prominent 'regular' names with abandon, one homeopath wrote, 'Black, Thorowgood and many others recommend bits of homeopathic practice without mentioning the hated word. Wilks filches from us while he abuses us.'25
In Britain and Germany, as in the US, medical professionals at the mid-century fought hard to re-establish a single orthodoxy and to imbue it with social, legal, and moral standing. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 By the way, there's a difference between anger, which is frustration at a poor driver, and hostility, which is hoping he runs into the concrete divider.) While you may think that lashing out or hitting a pillow or punching bag helps you release tension, the opposite is true. It teaches you to develop a behavior pattern: Get mad, punch. Get mad, get even. Get mad, harbor stress until it eats away at you like ants on crumbs. Instead, use behavior and mental techniques that have been shown to reduce anger and anxiety, as well as the chronic heart problems associated with them. |
Roberta Bivins
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 At first glance, this hostility seems to have had little effect on perceptions of acupuncture—after all, it was in the first flush of its British glory in the 1820s and 1830s—but of course, it does explain the urgency with which Churchill and other acupuncture supporters worked to cut acupuncture's ties with China, and to define their practice of acupuncture as anatomically based. Moreover, particularly in medical forums, they presented France, rather than China, as the immediate origin of European acupuncture, both in terms of its intellectual and its empirical antecedents. |
Anne Harrington
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 New analyses now began to suggest that just two traits associated with the original Type A behavior pattern—but originally not given much emphasis—did indeed conduce to heart attack: hostility and cynicism.67 With this new twist, however, no longer are we unambiguously in a world in which people are broken by the stress, self-imposed or otherwise, of modern life. Instead, we are in a new narrative world about the effects of poor interpersonal relationships and social isolation on health (this is the subject of the next chapter, "Healing Ties"). |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Patients on antidepressants and their families or caregivers should watch for worsening depression symptoms, unusual changes in behavior and thoughts of suicide, as well as for anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, difficulty sleeping, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, restlessness, or extreme hyperactivity. Call the doctor if you have thoughts of suicide or if any of these symptoms are severe or occur suddenly. Be especially observant at the beginning of treatment or whenever there is a change in dose. You should not stop taking PROZAC abruptly. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 One of the researchers noted that anger, hostility, and depression tend to cluster in the same individual, which increases the risk even further. People who tend to be hostile often react to events with anger, and the resulting emotional storm leads to symptoms of depression.2
Anger, hostility, and depression are not the only emotions linked with inflammation. Guilt and loneliness play a role, too, along with fear, burnout, and shame. Think of the expression, "I felt like it was eating me alive." Shame and other emotions may literally "eat us alive" as they nurture inflammation. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In the letter, Wyeth warned health care professionals that clinical studies had found a heightened risk of hostility and suicidal thoughts in children and teenagers taking its drug. The company wrote, "You should be alert to signs of suicidal ideation in children and adolescent patients prescribed Effexor." Extreme agitation was one of those signs. In October 2004, a little more than three years after Justin died, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to health professionals and the public. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Musante, Linda, Frank Treiber, Harry Davis, et al. "Hostility: Relationship to Lifestyle Behaviors and
Physical Risk Factors." Behavioral Medicine 18, no. 1 (Spring 1992). National Institute of Mental Health. National Institutes of Health. "An Overview That Summarizes
Research into the Causes, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Depression." 1999. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depresfact.cfm?textSize=L. -. National Institutes of Health. "Depression in Children and Adolescents." http://www
.nimh.nih.gov/HealthInformation/depchildmenu.cfm. -. |
Hyla Cass
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 Withdrawal symptoms include agitation, anxiety, hostility, impulsivi-ty, and even suicidal tendencies. I have found that cushioning the withdrawal with specific supplements can ease and shorten the process.
BIPOLAR ILLNESS AND MOOD STABILIZERS
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder affecting two million Americans. It's not nearly as common as other types of depression. Formerly called "manic-depressive illness," it involves alternating states of depression and mania that follow each other in a cycle, repeatedly. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Siegler, et al. "Hostility, Race, and Glucose Metabolism in Non-diabetic Individuals." Diabetes Care 25, no. 5 (2002): 835-39.
Timonen, Markku, et al. "Insulin Resistance and Depression: Cross Sectional Study." BMJ 330 (January 2005): 17-18. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7481/17.
Tintera, John. " What You Should Know about Your Glands." Weston A. Price Foundation. http://www .westonaprice.org/archive/archive_tintera.html.
Turkington, C, and Joseph Harris. The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders. 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
Turkington, C, and E. F. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 It should be noted that hostility, aggression, and rage are not synonymous. hostility and aggression are observable and are the consequences of unconscious rage. They are not built in. Another misconception is that rage is always conscious and suppressed. Rage may be overt, it may be conscious and suppressed, or it may be unconscious and repressed, completely outside of the person's awareness. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 Resorting to anthropic arguments was viewed as a capitulation and evoked reactions ranging from annoyance to outright hostility. Some well-known physicists went so far as to say that anthropic ideas were "dangerous"8 and that they were "corrupting science."9 Only in extreme cases, when all other possibilities have been exhausted, might one be excused for mentioning the "A-word," and sometimes not even then. The Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg once said that a physicist talking about the anthropic principle "runs the same kind of risk as a cleric talking about pornography. |
Jack Challem
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 Omega-3 Fish Oils
Principal use: To relieve depression, bipolar disorder, poor memory, impulsiveness, hostility, and physical aggressiveness, and improve thinking processes.
What else you should know: The omega-3s are among the most healthful of all dietary fats. They are needed for normal brain development in infants and children and for normal brain function in adults. Omega-3s are found in salad greens, flaxseed, grass-fed meats, and coldwater fish, such as salmon. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Even in healthy people, low BDNF levels have been correlated with personality traits that make them more vulnerable to depression, such as neuroticsm and hostility.
Exercise boosts BDNF at least as much as antidepressants, and sometimes more, in the rat hippocampus. One study showed that combining exercise with antidepressants spiked BDNF by 250 percent. And in humans, we know that exercise raises BDNF, at least in the bloodstream, much like antidepressants do.
As with norepinephrine in the 1960s, BDNF may be the tip of the iceberg. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Case after case of spontaneous remission describes people up against a major roadblock in their lives: unremitting stress, unresolved trauma, prolonged hostility, marked isolation, profound dissatisfaction, or quiet despair.70 Such cases often describe people who have lost their role as the protagonist in their own life drama.71
Many cases of spontaneous remission seem to occur after someone makes a massive psychological shift, and re-creates a life that is engaging and purposeful. |
| Who can say what emotions—resentment? hostility?—were generated in these three groups of patients as a result of how prayer was offered?"17
The fact that the people who knew they were being prayed for not only had no placebo response but also evidenced more postsurgical complications than any other group, he says, "suggests that very strange internal dynamics were operating within the Harvard prayer study. |
Jack Challem
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| Because Syndrome X is a form of prediabetes, it frequently includes mood changes, such as impatience, irritability, anger, hostility, and fuzzy thinking.
The ideal solution is not to self-medicate with foods that promote mood swings or heart disease, but rather to reduce or eliminate the source of stress, a topic that I'll address later in this book.
In the next chapter, I will explain more about neurotransmitters and will describe some of the nutrients needed to make them. |
Mark Sircus
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 He was very excited and tried to divulge the therapy, but he ran into a wall of hostility and obstructionism from "Official Medicine". Neither Neveu or Delbet (who was a member of the Academy of Medicine) was able to diffuse Neveu's extraordinary results. The opposition was total: Professors of Medicine, Medical Peer-Reviews, the Academy itself, all were against the two doctors.
It is little known, for instance, that magnesium increases the efficiency of white blood cells.
J. I. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 A 2006 study published in Psychosomaf/c Medicine reports that people with high levels of hostility typically have worse insulin resistance when they are experiencing stress, especially high levels of chronic stress. It is possible that stress-reduction methods may help in this context (see chapter 9).
How to Prevent or Reverse Insulin Resistance
The good news is that there are effective, easy-to-adopt ways to change the course of insulin resistance at the cellular level. |
| Zhang J et al. hostility and urine norepinephrine interact to predict insulin resistance: The VA Normative Aging Study. Psychosom Med2006; 68:718-26.
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American Heart Association: www.americanheart.org/presenter. jhtml?identifier=3039230
Audebert Heinrich J. Predictors of progression in lacunar stroke. Abstracts of the International Stroke Conference 2000 32:347-c.
Bjornholt JV et al. Fasting blood glucose: An underestimated risk factor for cardiovascular death. Results from a 22-year follow-up of healthy nondiabedc men. Diabetes Care 1999 Jan; 22(l):45-49.
Boney CM et al. |
Jack Challem
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| It's noteworthy that hostility and physical aggressiveness are strongly associated with an increased risk of heart disease, and the omega-3s are also well documented for reducing this risk.
Dosage: Take 3 to 10 grams daily, either in capsule form (3 to 10 capsules) or by the tablespoon. Some brands of liquid fish oils, such as those from Carlson Laboratories (800-323-4141), have a lemon taste that makes them more palatable than other brands.
Phosphatidylserine
Principal use: For memory, especially age-related memory decline. |
Michael Pollan
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 Kellogg himself was outspoken in his hostility to the pleasures of eating: "The decline of a nation commences when gourmandizing begins."
If that is so, America had little reason to worry.
America's early attraction to various forms of scientific eating may also have reflected discomfort about the way other people eat: the weird, messy, smelly, and mixed-up eating habits of immigrants. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The ACS has a longstanding track record of indifference and even hostility to cancer prevention. This is particularly disturbing in view of the escalating incidence of cancer now striking one in two men and one in three women in their lifetimes. Recent examples include issuing a joint statement with the Chlorine Institute justifying the continued global use of persistent organochlorine pesticides, and also supporting the industry in trivializing dietary pesticide residues as avoidable risks of childhood cancer. ACS policies are further exemplified by allocating under 0. |
Bottom Line Health
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| When the children were asked to rate the hostility of a neutral facial expression, the area of the brain that registers fear showed more activity in the bipolar children than in the healthy children.
When the children considered a face to be hostile, other areas of the brain that are related to emotions also showed higher activity levels in the bipolar patients than in the healthy children. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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| It should be noted that hostility, aggression, and rage are not synonymous. hostility and aggression are observable and are the consequences of unconscious rage. They are not built in. Another misconception is that rage is always conscious and suppressed. Rage may be overt, it may be conscious and suppressed, or it may be unconscious and repressed, completely outside of the person's awareness. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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 Stress Reliever n: Learn to Manage hostility and Anger
Hostility and anger are two particularly dangerous emotions from the viewpoint of healthy longevity. People with hostile personalities have up to five times the death rate before the age of fifty than people who are less prone to these negative emotions. An analysis of fifty or so studies on the effect of hostility on physical health showed that hostility is equal to or greater than the usual risk factors for heart disease such as high cholesterol levels and high blood pressure. |
Michael Pollan
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| Omega-3s weren't recognized as essential to the human diet until the 1980s—some time after nutrition-ism's blanket hostility to fat had already taken hold.) For years plant breeders have been unwittingly selecting for plants that produce fewer omega-3s, because such crops don't spoil as quickly. (Wild greens like purslane have substantially higher levels of omega-3s than most domesticated plants.) Also, when food makers partially hydrogenate oils to render them more stable, it is the omega-3 s that are eliminated. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Results from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Family Heart Study showed that hostility was significantly associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack (in women) and increased odds of having heart surgery (in men), when a family history of heart disease was also present. |
| While anger, hostility, high homocysteine, and heart disease all appear to be tied together, which of these is cause and which is effect remains somewhat unclear. |
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