Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Physicians would recognize the consequences of suddenly withdrawing ascorbate under these circumstances and be prepared to meet these increased metabolic needs for ascorbate in even an unconscious patient. These consequences of ascorbate depletion which may include shock, heart attack, phlebitis, pneumonia, allergic reactions, increased susceptibility to infection, etc., may be averted only by ascorbate. Patients unable to take large oral doses should be given intravenous ascorbate. All hospitals should have supplies of large amounts of ascorbate for intravenous use to meet this need. |
Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH
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 Table 1 summarizes the lifetime consequences of anxiety.
Anxiety disorders are real medical problems with significant consequences. Adequate treatments should be provided to mitigate the suffering of these patients. Orthomolecular treatments, including vitamins, minerals, and food allergy avoidance, can be effective in most cases of anxiety.
Table 1: Lifetime consequences Of Anxiety
•*¦ Poor health as reported by patients
Increased chance of developing chronic medical illnesses (e.g. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Addiction occurs when there is a loss of control over the drug use, continued use of the drug despite negative consequences and a mental focus on getting and using more than the prescribed amount.
•Topical analgesics. Some types of pain, especially pain on the surface of the skin—such as from shingles or osteoarthritis joint pain—respond well to drugs that are absorbed through the skin.
Examples: The lidocaine (Lidoderm) patch and capsaicin (Zostrix) cream.
•Antidepressants. |
Stacy Malkan
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 As the ones who bear children, breast feed, live in greater numbers in low-income polluted communities and deal more directly with sick kids and relatives, women have more first-hand experience with the health consequences of toxic pollution. As the primary buyers of household goods and the largest voting block in the US, women also have the power to change the situation by demanding better laws and safer products. "There is so much untapped potential in women. We haven't been engaged in high-level decision making and we need to be. Our health is not protected," said Bryony. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 More often than not, your circadian rhythms are affected in ways that can carry serious health consequences. When your nervous system is on perpetual overdrive, you may experience a range of effects, including insomnia, personality disorders such as anxiety and attention deficit disorder, and a general immune suppression that decreases your ability to fight off colds, flu, or more serious pathogens, microbes, and toxins.
The Nerve Driver Infoceutical bioenergetically addresses these nervous system issues, helping to restore system integrity. |
| NES research suggests that if this heart-brain flow is blocked in either direction (heart to brain or vice versa), there are consequences for the body. For example, if information sent from the heart to the brain is not being processed properly by the brain, then the flow in the feedback loop slows and energy levels within the brain rise, which correlates to an increase in migraine headaches. |
| One of the most important consequences of this upheaval could be a new way of thinking about the body, for it seems only reasonable to assert that if quantum physics underlies everything, and certainly chemistry, then it is also primary in the human body. Thankfully, the paradigm is shifting, and we are finding such evidence, especially in the human body. Bioenergetics and biophysics are growing disciplines that will eventually make inroads into the staid terrain of conventional medicine. |
| In the many worlds theory, every possibility is being played out; however, these individual realities split off into parallel worlds, or dimensions, that are inaccessible, so you will never run into the uncountable other yous who are living out the consequences of every possible outcome of evety possible choice. Then there is string theory, which sees the world as made up of tiny, vibrating packets of energy called strings. |
| Some of us may not experience negative consequences from the mutations we carry, either because we do not live long enough for it to happen or because we may not be exposed to the relevant environmental triggers."21
An intriguing study on twins also revealed a strong correlation between cancer and environmental factors. Identical twins are a unique population for studying the correlation between genes and disease risk because these twins share the same DNA. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Who has the time or patience to sequence or plan or think things through and evaluate consequences? Why bother, when we can click to the next? It's no wonder exercise gets pushed to the bottom of the priority list—it requires planning and work.
Experts estimate that just over 4 percent of American adults— that's thirteen million people—have ADHD, which is not to say that the remaining 96 percent of the population is completely free of attention problems. To a certain degree, everyone suffers from fleeting attention. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The relation is considerable and means that as one's burden of symptoms goes up, so do the psychological consequences. did the risk for major depressive disorder. As to which comes first, that seems to vary from person to person.
The knot between physical symptoms and depression is not limited to the United States, as the graph on page 106 shows. Patients around the world commonly report medical symptoms to their doctors while either ignoring or failing to report symptoms of depression. When asked, most of these people acknowledged that their problems extended to their mood also. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| On balance, the side effects are certainly outweighed by the most serious consequences of depression, but they get in the way for a lot of people. Now SSRIs carry a warning that they may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and actions in children and adolescents, a finding that is still in question. And stories are coming out about the difficulty of withdrawing from this class of drugs, especially from venlafaxine (Effexor).
Recently, I started treating a successful entrepreneur whose life was a mess. |
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| The prevalence and severity of obesity will continue to increase, and people in ever-younger age groups will experience the consequences of being overweight—heart disease, stroke, cancer, kidney failure, diabetes, etc. An estimated 30% of American children are overweight.
S. Jay Olshansky, PhD, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Researcher Astounded as Yoga Melts Off Pounds
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John J. Ratey, MD
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| After all, the purpose of the fight-or-flight response is to mobilize us to act, so physical activity is the natural way to prevent the negative consequences of stress. When we exercise in response to stress, we're doing what human beings have evolved to do over the past several million years. On one level, it's that simple. Of course, there are many levels to explore.
FOCUS
The overarching principle of the fight-or-flight response is marshaling resources for immediate needs in lieu of building for the future — act now, ask questions later. |
| Exercise is particularly important for women because it tones down the negative consequences of hormonal changes that some experience, and for others, it enhances the positive. Overall, exercise balances the system, on a monthly basis as well as during each stage of life, including pregnancy and menopause.
The average woman has four hundred to five hundred menstrual cycles in her lifetime, each one lasting four to seven days. If you add them all up, it comes out to more than nine years — a long time for women who suffer premenstrual syndrome (PMS). |
| The technical movements inherent in any of these sports activate a vast array of brain areas that control balance, timing, sequencing, evaluating consequences, switching, error correction, fine motor adjustments, inhibition, and, of course, intense focus and concentration. In the extreme, playing these kinds of sports is a matter of survival — avoiding getting karate chopped, or breaking your neck on the balance beam, or drowning in a swirling pool of whitewater—and thus taps into the focusing power of the fight-or-flight response. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 What if I could demonstrate that you and they have all unwittingly set into motion what I call "killer genes," which caused these and other unforeseen consequences? Preposterous? Until six years ago, I certainly would have thought so, but now I am convinced that these seemingly chance events are, for a great many of us, predictable outcomes. And, to a large extent, it's our Western diet and lifestyle that are making us sick and ultimately killing us-although paradoxically, as you'll soon learn, they suit our genes just fine. |
| Its introduction fired the first warning shot that manipulating our food supply could have disastrous consequences on our genes and our destiny. Unfortunately, the shot wasn't heard until the 1920s, when diseases caused by vitamin deficiencies, notably of B vitamins, began killing millions of Americans whose diet contained a lot of white flour. I repeat, millions! Remember the old rule of twenty years? Its ugly head rears again. Within one generation during which white flour became the standard, disease and death were rampant. |
| So associated is pain with injury, and so severe the consequences of injury on the chances of survival, that we avoid pain at almost all costs.
Find Pleasure All animals are programmed to seek out pleasurable experiences, but copulation itself is not the only source of pleasure. The entire mating ritual stimulates feel-good receptors in the brain, which give rise to feelings of pleasure.3 Nor is it a coincidence that these receptors live right next door to those for sex hormones. Behaviors or compounds that stimulate these pleasure centers always override the other directives. |
| Plants that make particularly lethal compounds usually formulate them in bitter-tasting vehicles to warn animals of the consequences of consuming them. The plant would rather you take a nibble and stop eating than have you eat it and kill you both. Studies have shown that your autopilot is activated the minute a bitter taste hits your tongue, causing an immediate rejection much like that when you touch a hot stove. But as Nietzsche famously said, "that which does not kill us makes us stronger." Numerous societies notable for their longevity have a fondness of bitter greens and other foods. |
John A. McDougall
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 The health consequences from an imbalance of our sex hormones can lead to precocious puberty, fibrocystic breast disease, PMS, uterine fibroids, prostate enlargement, and breast, uterine, and prostate cancer. When our bowel bacteria really get out of control, severe forms of colitis and colon cancer can be the consequences.
The Microbial Factory
Bacteria are not distributed randomly throughout the intestinal tract but are found in different numbers and kinds in different regions of the gut. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It has to do with the seductive idea that we as Americans can pursue whatever lifestyles we want and yet have never have to face the consequences for making such decisions.
The mythology says that we can eat all the junk foods we want, avoid physical exercise, avoid having to quit the cigarette habit, continue binge drinking, and yet somehow this magic pill will release us from the natural consequences of all those actions.
The seduction of Acomplia is that it takes over our responsibilities. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Teenage girls who are overweight disturb leptin function as it relates to their female system, an issue with lifelong consequences. Reproductive function is significantly disturbed if obesity starts early, compared to later life onset of leptin problems.
Anorexia is a low-leptin starvation state. The adverse consequences of this eating disorder on reproductive health and fertility are well documented. Women who eat so little or exercise so much that their menstrual cycles are disturbed are also altering leptin function as it relates to their reproductive system. |
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| William von Hippel, PhD
"The normal aging process leads to changes in the brain that have social consequences. These brain changes often do not affect intelligence, but they can affect other aspects of mental functioning, like inhibition. Thus, even older adults who are as sharp as a tack may say things that embarrass or upset us, without intending to do so," explains von Hippel.
"We all think inappropriate things, and we can't be faulted for that. Perhaps aging just leads us to say more of them, and so perhaps we shouldn't be faulted for that, either," he adds. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Bewitched, Bewildered, Beleaguered
For more than a decade—before I learned about the dire consequences of my over-the-top sugar habit—I and a steady stream of medical specialists had been consistently stumped by the swarm of seemingly unconnected physical and emotional ailments that besieged and waylaid me. (You'll soon learn that there were medical reasons for my emotional ups and downs and for my plethora of perplexing ailments.)
To this day, I marvel in disbelief when reminiscing about my many strange, seemingly unconnected, disparate symptoms. |
Roberta Bivins
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 In this chapter, I will scrutinize the nineteenth-century consequences of this perfect social and ideological storm in the culture of medicine. Two medical innovations—each in their different ways characteristic of the period—will provide lenses through which to focus on specific aspects of nineteenth-century medicine: the hybrid practice of acupuncture in the West, and the fiercely heterodox (but firmly European) practice of homeopathy. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| Instead, they were thought to be functional, the psychological consequences of emotion-laden or highly stressful situations. In contrast to organic causes in which actual disease of the brain could be seen upon gross and microscopic examination, here the idea was that the problem was psychogenic, reflecting a more personal and individualistic reaction to stress.
What happened over time, however, was what I call definition drift. |
| The popular medical press is full of stories of men attributing their crushing chest pain to indigestion, often with fatal consequences. Women, statistics show, are more health conscious, more attuned to their bodies, and more willing to ask professional opinions about why they feel the way they do.
The question of who seeks medical attention, and when, gets murkier when an individual just feels lousy. Symptoms are the sensations that make a person feel unwell; they may bother, annoy, or hurt you. |
| Although they may differ from the consequences of severe apnea, that does not make them insignificant. People with UARS tend to have lower blood pressure and report more problems with feeling faint than people with other sleep disorders.
This correlation and a study that shows the same relationship in reverse may actually end up helping a great many patients with chronic fatigue. People with low blood pressure, it turns out, complain of persistent fatigue more often than those with higher blood pressure, and this relation is strongest in women under fifty. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Because so many women use oral contraceptives, it is especially important to consider the side effects and consequences. What on the surface looks like an easy choice (to take "the pill") may not be for all women.
How They Work
The female reproductive cycle is a complex monthly choreography of hormonal and physical changes whose purpose is to maximize a woman's capacity to conceive a child during the years when she is most likely to successfully bear that child and raise it to adulthood. If no conception takes place, the cycle repeats itself about every twenty-eight days. |
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