Mike Adams
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 If you have a sprain and you can handle the pain, let the swelling happen. Let it heal and it will heal to be a much stronger joint, ligament or muscle. Remember, swelling following sprains, strains or muscle tears is natural. Don't try to block it unless, of course, you're talking about swelling of the brain (which is a completely different medical emergency). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Lie #2: You should actively treat the swelling of sprains, strains and other injuries.
Truth #2: swelling is your body's natural strategy for enhancing the flow of blood and nutrients to the injured area. If drugs or hormones are used to prevent swelling, the injured tissues won't heal correctly, greatly increasing the likelihood of repeat injuries to the same area.
Lie #3: Mammograms prevent cancer.
Truth #3: Mammograms actually cause cancer. They dose the breast tissues with harmful radiation. |
Richard Bartlett
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 They didn't want to do surgery right away because of the swelling. I did the Two-Point technique, a couple of the frequencies, and a module, as well as Time Travel. I watched the wave and could see the bones move back in place. The swelling had gone down when he left. He had a doctor's appointment two days later. They did an MRI on the ankle and it had already started healing. The doctor told him he didn't need to have the surgery after all.
—Michelle
The Theory of Relatives
Since the seminar, I've worked on a number of people using what I learned. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Crohn's Disease: Crohn's disease causes severe inflammation and swelling deep within the lining of the digestive tract. The swelling can be so painful that it forces the intestines to expel waste prematurely in the form of loose stool or diarrhea.
While Crohn's most commonly affects the intestines, it can also affect other portions of the digestive tract such as the mouth and stomach. In some cases, multiple sections of the digestive tract can be inflamed while the areas between them remain perfectly healthy.
What are the symptoms of Crohn's disease? |
Mike Adams
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| Sprains
The important thing to note about sprains is that the swelling that follows sprains is your body's natural attempt to initiate a healing process. If you take anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce the swelling, you are directly interfering with the healing process of your sprain. This is another case where promoters of conventional medicine are completely wrong. They try to interfere with the body's natural healing process rather than allowing the body to do what it does best, which is repair itself. If you have a sprain and you can handle the pain, let the swelling happen. |
Mark Sircus
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 When I got up the next morning, I decided to spray a little more on the glands, but when I began to rub the oil in, I noticed there was NO swelling. The swelling wasn't reduced after 20 years ?it was suddenly gone!
That was the beginning of my love affair with magnesium oil. After two weeks of spraying it on my body 3-5 times a day, I now have periods each day where I am pain free, and I am discovering more strength each day! It is incredible! This is the first product I have found that has given me such immediate and powerful results. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Crohn's Disease: Crohn's disease causes severe inflammation and swelling deep within the lining of the digestive tract. The swelling can be so painful that it forces the intestines to expel waste prematurely in the form of loose stool or diarrhea.
While Crohn's most commonly affects the intestines, it can also affect other portions of the digestive tract such as the mouth and stomach. In some cases, multiple sections of the digestive tract can be inflamed while the areas between them remain perfectly healthy.
What are the symptoms of Crohn's disease? |
Mike Adams
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| If you take anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce the swelling, you are directly interfering with the healing process of your sprain. This is another case where promoters of conventional medicine are completely wrong. They try to interfere with the body's natural healing process rather than allowing the body to do what it does best, which is repair itself. If you have a sprain and you can handle the pain, let the swelling happen. Let it heal and it will heal to be a much stronger joint, ligament or muscle. Remember, swelling following sprains, strains or muscle tears is natural. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Arnica has been used as a topical medicine for more than four centuries to heal a variety of ailments, including bruises, sprains, muscle aches, wounds, inflammation from insect bites, and swelling because of fractures. It's available as a topical application, in a gel or cream, or as an oral homeopathic remedy (more on that in a moment).
What the Studies Show
Clinical trials have focused on the use of arnica for different conditions, ranging from pain management (women undergoing a total abdominal hysterectomy) to diabetic retinopathy to trauma. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Over the next several months, Joy's joint pain and swelling became so intense that it was hard for her to get out of bed and lift her newborn daughter from her crib. Her white blood cell count fell very low. Then she developed a rash across her back that looked like a raging case of teen acne. She put some acne cream on it but it didn't go away. She went to her dermatologist, who decided to biopsy the eruptions. The biopsy revealed that Joy did, indeed, have systemic lupus. At that point Joy England was finally given the lupus label. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Some experience unusual reactions such as itchiness, numbness and even swelling in the mouth and on the lips, which may be a result of an allergic reaction. It's not enough to focus on the calories, carbohydrates, fats, protein and sugar content. Manufacturers are using a variety of ingredients to concoct their own version of what they think will be marketable. The result is not always healthy for the consumer. Both Slimfast® and Nutrilite® have products that contain trans fats, which is about as far away from being healthy as you can get. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Bromelain also stimulates the production of plasmin, an enzyme that helps to break down clots, which in turn prevents swelling. Plasmin also blocks the formation of pro-inflammatory compounds.
Phenylalanine is an amino acid that is a primary building block for pain control. (The DL form of the amino acid, known also as DLPA, is especially potent in this respect.) Research supports the use of DLPA in relief of back pain, arthritis, aches, pains, and menstrual cramps. Phenylalanine slows the body's breakdown of endorphins, the body's internal painkillers. |
| Systemic enzymes help to reduce local pain and regional swelling and gradually improve joint function," Ahmed says. "They empower the body to heal itself."
The claims for Wobenzym N go way beyond its ability to help relieve pain and prevent further deterioration in arthritis. Because proteolytic enzymes have such power to modulate both inflammation and the activity of the immune system, they've been used for everything from heart disease to autoimmune disease.
And, although it's way beyond the scope of this book, it's worth noting that the brilliant maverick researcher Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D. |
| In one randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study published in the journal Clinical Drug Investigation, the addition of only 500 mg of MSM to 500 mg of glucosamine resulted in greater reduction of pain and swelling, improvement of functional ability of joints, and better and more rapid improvement, all without major adverse effects. (And in my opinion, the results are way better with higher doses—as happened with my hiking buddy. |
| While it can't bring cartilage back, it can prevent further loss as well as reduce symptoms of pain, swelling, and stiffness or noise in the joints.
This is important, especially for postmenopausal women, who have a greater propensity toward osteoarthritis than men. In two independent, three-year, randomized, placebo-controlled studies, glucosamine sulfate was shown to slow the progression of osteoarthritis symptoms. After three years, postmenopausal participants in the groups given the glucosamine sulfate showed no joint space narrowing whatsoever, while those given a placebo did. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 As their name suggests, they can cause goiter, which is a pronounced swelling in the neck caused by an enlarged thyroid gland.
Unfortunately, the problems caused by goitrogens aren't always as plain as a swelling on the neck. People without goiters can have malfunctioning thyroids while people with goiters sometimes show normal levels of thyroid hormones. While this paradox has made it difficult to predict exactly what kind of damage soy goitrogens might cause, endocrine disruption is certain. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Overexposure to swimming in the sea or in a lake can lead to extensive skin swelling, shivering, and circulatory problems. Our body will let us know when it is time to get out of the water. Getting too close to a fire will heat us up and encourage us to move away from it. Rainwater is natural, but standing in the rain for too long can drain our immune system and make us susceptible to catching a cold. Eating sustains our lives, but overeating can lead to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. |
| It increases the production of both urine and sweat, potentially making it useful in treating swelling and fever. Burdock Root might play a role in preventing liver damage caused by alcohol, chemicals, or medications. The exact reason for this protective effect is not known, but it is thought to involve opposition of a chemical process called oxidation, which occurs in the body as a natural function of metabolism. Although oxidation is a natural process, that doesn't mean it isn't harmful to the body! |
| He says that perhaps "the honey helped prevent swelling and sealed off the wound to keep air and infection out."
Recent Research shows that honey is far superior to antiseptics and antibiotics. Israeli researchers took honey to the test. They applied the sweet, sticky food twice a day to wounds of nine infants after two weeks of intravenous antibiotic treatment and daily antiseptic cleansing failed to heal them. Following just five days of honey treatment, the babies' wounds improved significantly. After 16 more days, they were closed, clean, and sterile. |
| Lymph nodes may start swelling up and the thyroid becomes enlarged. This brings about hyposecretion (lack) of hormones.
Diseases related to imbalances of the thyroid gland include toxic goiter, Graves' disease, cretinism, myxoedema, tumors of the thyroid and hypo-parathyroidism, which reduces calcium absorption and causes cataracts. Behavioral disorders and dementia may also have their origin in thyroid imbalances. The failing detoxification of the thyroid gland results in thyrotoxicosis. |
| Apparently, the warm salt water helps to draw excessive toxic fluid out of the gum tissue, thereby reducing swelling, alleviating pain, and killing harmful bacteria. This allows the gums to heal and keep the teeth healthy, too. If used in an irrigating device, the warm salt water reaches all gum line crevices and periodontal pockets, which is important for complete reversal of gum disease and tooth decay. Dr. Nara says brushing and flossing are not sufficient to stop gum disease...that's why so many people who followed their dentists' standard advice still wound up with gum disease (infection). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| MSM also increases the effectiveness, but not the amount, of Cortisol, the body's anti-inflammatory hormone, and inhibits the production of fibroblasts, compounds which cause swelling. And finally, MSM also binds to fluid in swollen tissue and helps to remove it.
In animal and human studies, MSM has been shown to help arthritis, either alone or in combination with another popular nutrient, glucosamine sulfate. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Symptoms such as swelling in the hands and feet, abdominal bloating, and breast engorgement and tenderness result. Complex carbohydrates are preferred over simple sugars (white sugar, white flour, white rice, etc.) because they stimulate insulin release much more slowly and in a more sustained manner, thereby preventing many of these water-retention symptoms. In fact, one study found that consumption of a low-fat, high complex carbohydrate diet alleviated premenstrual breast tenderness.18 Many other symptoms of PMS may be exacerbated by the intake of sugary foods and beverages. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Truth #2: swelling is your body's natural strategy for enhancing the flow of blood and nutrients to the injured area. If drugs or hormones are used to prevent swelling, the injured tissues won't heal correctly, greatly increasing the likelihood of repeat injuries to the same area.
Lie #3: Mammograms prevent cancer.
Truth #3: Mammograms actually cause cancer. They dose the breast tissues with harmful radiation. Even when they spot breast cancer tumors, they aren't "preventing" breast cancer; they're merely detecting breast cancer. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 This is why people with diabetes must check their feet for scrapes, cuts, swelling, bleeding, and signs of infection every day if they have peripheral neuropathy. I recall a middle-aged patient several years ago who developed a very serious foot infection after she stepped on a nail. She had long-standing diabetic peripheral neuropathy in her feet due to poor blood sugar control and runaway glycation, and she did not feel the nail go into her foot. Poor circulation, which is also common among people with diabetes, increases the risk of developing nonhealing foot ulcers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Bromelain: An enzyme found in the stems of pineapples, bromelain is useful for reducing post-op swelling. It acts as an anti-inflammatory and boosts the immune system to reduce pain, bruising, tenderness, frostbite, and burns. It is a natural supplement that works the same way as Ibuprofen, the well-known over-the-counter drug. The only difference: bromelain will not harm your liver.
If you decide to take anti-inflammatory supplements following surgery, however, remember that inflammation is not always a bad thing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Helps to reduce signs of swelling and muscle inflammation.
Assists in the reduction of stiffness in the joints.
Helps to stimulate peripheral blood circulation
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of the most frequently cited reasons for having to send a cow to slaughter, however, is mastitis -- an excruciating swelling and irritation of the mammary glands caused by bacteria.
It's not only the adult animals that are treated cruelly: taken away from their mothers shortly after birth, male calves are most often raised for veal from the day after they are born. For anywhere from three to 18 weeks, they are kept chained by the neck in dark, cramped stalls, unable to move in any direction. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 But for those who are wearing lots of eye makeup, a water-soluble cleanser won't be adequate because it will leave makeup behind, which can cause swelling, puffiness, irritation, redness, and exaggerated wrinkling. The problem with wiping off makeup is simply that you have to wipe and pull at your skin to get the stuff off. That repetitive pulling and wiping is not good for skin, particularly in the eye area, so be as gentle as possible. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Preeclampsia is a potentially dangerous condition characterized by high blood pressure, swelling, and/or protein spilling into the urine.
To avoid complications, supplementation with no more than 6,000 units of vitamin A is optimal and recommended.54 Beta-carotene, which has the same positive effects as vitamin A, has not been associated with toxicity or teratogenicity in humans or animals. |
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