Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 I know there is something wrong with me, but my doctors tell me that there isn't." I wrote this book to try to answer those questions. I can't promise that reading this book will absolutely relieve all of your concerns and symptoms at once. But I can promise you that if you read this book and try to employ the strategies I suggest, you will feel better than you do at this moment, quite possibly very much better. This book will help you to better understand why you feel the way you do, and it will help you to get your doctor to help you, as well as help you to help yourself. |
| Like many others with your problem, you have probably gone to the doctor and received the diagnosis of "nothing wrong." If you are sick enough and if your doctor is aware enough, you may have gotten the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. But chances are, despite the diagnosis, your doctor told you, "There really isn't any treatment for these problems; just try harder." If anything, that kind of "treatment" may make you feel worse, not better. So your next step is to seek advice or treatment from another doctor. |
| Beyond all that, if you face crushing fatigue or stabbing pain each and every day, you don't need to know much more to be sure that something is truly wrong with your body.
Unfortunately, this story is not unusual. Up to 20 percent of all patients who seek medical care, primarily women, have no easily diagnosed cause for their problems. That means literally millions of patients. |
| Your doctor becomes frustrated because he or she can't come up with an explanation for your complaints, and you become frustrated because you leave the doctor's office with no answers except perhaps a hearty, "Don't worry about it, there's nothing wrong," or, much worse and all too common, the dreaded words "It's all in your head." If you do get an answer, you may find it to be contradictory, complicated, or based on out-of-date information. People aren't stupid, and the Internet has allowed access to a great deal of medical information that was once very hard to come by. |
| Symptoms, Illness, and Disease
When you don't feel well, it's normal to worry about what might be wrong. When the connection is clear and the problem not so bad, you may cope with the problem by yourself. For example, if your ankle becomes swollen and painful after you take a misstep and twist it, you might try to treat it yourself by putting on an elastic bandage and taking some ibuprofen. But if it hurts to stand on the ankle and you fear that the problem is worse than a minor twist, you may decide that you need medical care and go to see a doctor. |
| Does your doctor tell you there is "nothing wrong" with you?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then it's time to seek a second opinion. The mechanics of getting a second opinion depend on either the type of medical insurance you have or your willingness to pay out of pocket. If you belong to an HMO, your primary care provider acts as a "gatekeeper," the only person who can grant you access to medical services beyond those he or she provides (including specialists). So the actual referral has to come from your doctor, even though you asked him or her to provide it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 If it did mean that, then, of course, we'd have an era of thought crimes -- an era where it could be criminal to think the wrong thoughts or have the wrong memories, or just to have the wrong imagination. If you happen to have the wrong images pop up into your head, and it gets downloaded onto the computer, all of a sudden, you're a criminal. You're an enemy of the state. Why? Because you don't fit the norm. Because you have ideas that they consider to be a threat to their stranglehold on power. You've got to think about these things. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 And there are different ways you can cleanse: the right way or the wrong way. A lot of times people cleanse the wrong way.
Mike: So what's the wrong way, and then how do your products approach it from the right way?
Dr. Duncan:Well, the wrong way to cleanse is to cleanse in a harsh way, by overstimulating the bowel, by fasting or depleting the body and not doing it properly. Fasting is good, but if you don't do it properly, and if you don't put the nutrients back in the body, then the body will become depleted. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| If it did mean that, then, of course, we'd have an era of thought crimes -- an era where it could be criminal to think the wrong thoughts or have the wrong memories, or just to have the wrong imagination. If you happen to have the wrong images pop up into your head, and it gets downloaded onto the computer, all of a sudden, you're a criminal. You're an enemy of the state. Why? Because you don't fit the norm. Because you have ideas that they consider to be a threat to their stranglehold on power. You've got to think about these things. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 It's really just things going wrong with the nervous system or the neuromuscular system, i.e. nutritional deficiencies and exposure to environmental toxins which conventional medicine prefers to sit back name rather than try to prevent.
If something similar were to go wrong with your car, you wouldn't call it "squeaky brakes disease" -- you would say the brakes need to be repaired. If the engine started knocking because of a lack of oil, you wouldn't diagnose your car with "engine knocking disease" - you would change the oil. The same thing is true in the human body. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
See book keywords and concepts |
 The supplements were on the shelves in the store to purchase so I thought they would be safe for me. wrong, wrong, wrong! There ought to be a warning label on this stuff!
P.R. Columbus, OH that the longer menstrual cycles experienced by the soy-fed women could result in lower lifetime levels of estrogen. This, in turn, was harnessed to the unproven theory that reduction in lifetime estrogen levels is the key to reducing breast cancer risk. They also suggested that soy isoflavones could be used prophylactically to prevent breast cancer in a manner similar to the liver-damaging drug Tamoxifen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 There's nothing wrong with selling a safe, Earth-friendly product at an honest profit, but there's a whole lot wrong with selling foods, drugs or personal care products that harm people... or stifling innovation in order to protect an outmoded technology like the combustion engine. (Big Oil, anyone?)
But what if corporations suddenly started acting with greater responsibility towards the environment, the people and our collective future? Imagine the good we could accomplish... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 All this doesn't mean something can't go wrong, because we are of course talking about Western medicine and surgical procedures. Things can go wrong, but they can go wrong anywhere. Something like one percent of all people undergoing gastric bypass surgery die on the operating table. That's going to happen in any country, anywhere you are. And whether or not there's medical insurance and malpractice insurance in effect at the time of your surgery doesn't affect your outcome. All it does is it gives people a chance to sue when they don't get the outcome they want. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| A lot of times people cleanse the wrong way.
Mike: So what's the wrong way, and then how do your products approach it from the right way?
Dr. Duncan:Well, the wrong way to cleanse is to cleanse in a harsh way, by overstimulating the bowel, by fasting or depleting the body and not doing it properly. Fasting is good, but if you don't do it properly, and if you don't put the nutrients back in the body, then the body will become depleted. Many people who cleanse become deficient in chi or in heat, and they don't realize what's happening. They overcleanse. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
See book keywords and concepts |
| Wrong, wrong, wrong! There ought to be a warning label on this stuff!
P.R. Columbus, OH that the longer menstrual cycles experienced by the soy-fed women could result in lower lifetime levels of estrogen. This, in turn, was harnessed to the unproven theory that reduction in lifetime estrogen levels is the key to reducing breast cancer risk. They also suggested that soy isoflavones could be used prophylactically to prevent breast cancer in a manner similar to the liver-damaging drug Tamoxifen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| There's nothing wrong with selling a safe, Earth-friendly product at an honest profit, but there's a whole lot wrong with selling foods, drugs or personal care products that harm people... or stifling innovation in order to protect an outmoded technology like the combustion engine. (Big Oil, anyone?)
But what if corporations suddenly started acting with greater responsibility towards the environment, the people and our collective future? Imagine the good we could accomplish... |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
See book keywords and concepts |
 Nevertheless, an RCT is favored by EBM, because it allows us to quantify our chances of being wrong when we impute causality to the intervention. It is sobering to bear in mind that we can never truly prove causality; all we can do is state our chances of being wrong when we make that imputation. There is always the possibility that we will have been unlucky, that we had gotten that 1 time in 100 when pure random chance "put" an excess of the improvers in the treatment group and an excess of the worseners in the control group.11
3. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 If it's just for personal use, I see absolutely nothing wrong with ripping the same movie to multiple devices.
I also think the same should be true with books. If you bought a book at a bookstore and you want to read it on your laptop computer, I see nothing wrong with scanning the book, digitizing the pages and loading them on your computer so you can read it on the road. In fact, I've done this many times. Of course I've never shared these files with anyone, and I would never think of selling them, so I am actually protecting the intellectual property by keeping it to myself. |
| In my opinion you are doing nothing wrong if you own a movie on DVD and rip it to other player formats such as PlayStation portable, iPod video, cell phone video, or any other video format. Of course, if you go out and rent movies, and then rip them, then you are in fact doing something wrong, because you don't own that movie, you're just renting it. When you return the movie for rental, you should delete the files. In other words, you should only have those alternate files for as long as you have paid for the right to be in possession of the DVD. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 They're all focused on the wrong things, and they've managed to get the public frenzied up about all the wrong things, too. They've got people scared silly about antioxidants, believing that vitamins will kill them (but that pharmaceuticals will save them!).
They've also managed to get people to believe that infectious diseases are caused SOLELY by the presence of the virus or bacterium -- an idea that's utter nonsense. An infectious agent is only a threat when the body is suppressed enough to be susceptible to infection. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
See book keywords and concepts |
 Obviously, this is a possible treatment for nicotine addiction that requires much more attention.
1 wrong Diagnosis? Prevalence and Incidence of Drug Abuse. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/d/drug°abuse/prevalence.htm
2 American Cancer Society. Cigarette Smoking, http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ PED/content/PED0io02X0Cigarette°Smoking.asp
3 Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. The Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada 2002. http://www.ccsa.ca/CCSA/EN/Research/Research0 Activities/TheCost
4 Hoffer A. Adventures in Psychiatry. The Scientific Memoirs of Dr. Abram Hoffer. |
Lynne McTaggart
See book keywords and concepts |
 The large prayer studies may have failed because the researchers were looking in the wrong places for demonstration of an effect. A study of AIDS about to be published at the time of writing has also failed to find an effect. Nevertheless, a highly significant number of people in the treatment group correctly guessed which group they were in, while the control group did not. As Schlitz concluded, "The treatment group seemed to feel something; it just did not correlate with the clinical outcomes that were measured."32 The study may just have been asking the wrong questions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 He was completely lifeless, like a shell. He can't even move his eyelids. This machine is pumping out his lungs and his face is puffed out like The Elephant Man. A day ago he was fine and now they are saying he could die at any moment. The doctors say they are in the dark because they don't know the drug or what it can do. They don't know what they are dealing with."
The Independent reported, "One victim was named as trainee plumber Ryan Flanagan, 21, of Highbury, north London. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |
 There are a lot of people that have been injured by synthetic chemicals during their production, use, disposal and/or by just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Protect our future generations by making it your business to be one of the well-informed people.
References for Further Reading
1. Kaufman, RH, Adam E, Hatch EE, Noller K, Herbst A, Palmer JR, Hoover RN. Continued follow-up of pregnancy outcomes in diethylstilbestrol-exposed offspring. Obstetrics & Gynecology 2000;96(4):483-89.
2. Walsh LP, et al. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |
 Beta is just one of a whole slew of carotenes found in common vegetables; maybe we focused on the wrong one. Or maybe beta-carotene works as an antioxidant only in concert with some other plant chemical or process; under other circumstances it may behave as a pro-oxidant.
Indeed, to look at the chemical composition of any common food plant is to realize just how much complexity lurks within it. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
See book keywords and concepts |
 I would estimate that most combination skin problems are caused by using products that are poorly formulated or wrong for the individual's skin type.
Essential Point: Allergic, sensitizing, or irritating skin reactions are often caused by skin-care products that contain problematic ingredients such as irritating plant extracts. Some of the ones to watch out for are camphor, menthol, lemon, lime, eucalyptus, peppermint, fragrant oils, and grain alcohol. |
| Decleor Paris's more intriguing moisturizer formulas, but quickly heads in the wrong direction due to the inclusion of irritating (not calming, as claimed) lavendet, thyme, bitter orange, rose, and marjoram oils. This is one to steer clear of if you have sensitized, reddened skin—unless you want to make matters worse.
© Harmonie Essentielle Ultra Soothing Cream ($65-50for 1.69 ounces) contains the same potent cocktail of irritating essential oils as the Harmonie Delicate Soothing Emulsion above, and the same review applies.
© Harmonie Gentle Soothing Cream ($65.50for 1. |
Email this page to a friend
