Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| When these nerves become overactive or underactive (from a herniated or bulging disc, a pinched nerve, or even a slight misalignment), all three of these important functions can suffer.
The Lumbar nerves control intestinal peristalsis, the wave-like contractions which help move waste through the body. Sometimes, pressure on these nerves can limit peristalsis and thus allow an onset of bowel dysfunction. When these nerves are affected, you may feel pain that spreads across your abdomen, nausea, or you may even lose control of your bowels. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Vagal nerve Stimulation
Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS), a new technique that involves the surgical placement of a stimulating device on the vagal nerve in the neck, sends rhythmic pulses of electricity that stimulate the vagal nerve, by which means it is thought to influence brain function and treat depression. VNS is a new treatment, although there is some evidence that it can help people who don't respond to medication. Like ECT it is a treatment of last resort.
Alternative Medicines
There are some natural remedies that have been recommended for depression.
ST.-JOHN'S-WORT
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The reason it attaches to the nerve roots is so that it can hold the cerebral spinal fluid in. The fluid that bathes your brain and your spinal cord is held in by the meninges, like a balloon, but the nerves have to go through those meninges to get out. There's an attachment where they go through, and when you pull on the meninges it makes those nerves fire.
So what ends up happening is that all of the nerves are firing at one time into the patient's brain, and now these poor people have symptoms of everything that comes from these nerves. |
Bill Sardi
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 The chronic use of dichloroacetate (DCA) for diabetes has been compromised by nerve and other forms of toxicity. DCA is metabolized to glyoxylate, which is converted to oxalate and, in the presence of adequate thiamine levels, to other metabolites. nerve toxicity from DCA administration appears to result from depletion of body thiamine stores and abnormal metabolism of oxalate, a known nerve toxin. The co-administration of vitamin Bl with DCA reduces urinary oxalate levels from 86% above normal to only 28% above normal. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 That sensory nerve immediately passes on that information to a motor nerve that causes the leg to kick. The membrane's receptors are the equivalent of sensory nerves, and the effector proteins are the equivalent of action-generating motor nerves. Together, the receptor-effector complex acts as a switch, translating environmental signals into cellular behavior.
It is only in recent years that scientists have realized the importance of the membrane's IMPs. They are in fact so important that studying the way IMPs work has become a field of its own called "signal transduction. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 This particular autonomic nerve carries information from the brain to the heart and stomach and intestines and from those organs back up to brain. It is the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic system that is involved in turning off the fight-or-flight response, moving the body back and forth from a state of alert to one of calm. Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) is FDA-approved to treat epilepsy when that condition continues, despite good medical treatment. No drug is specific enough to activate only one nerve, so VNS is done by a device. |
Devra Davis
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 We know that cell phone signals can warm the side of the head, where the auditory nerve is located. An earlier Swedish study, used in Dr. Newman's case, compared more than 1,400 people with brain tumors to a similar number without the disease between 1997 and 2000. Tumors of the auditory nerve were three times more frequent in persons who had used cell phones for more than a decade.7 In 2004, other Swedish researchers found that long-term cell phone users had significantly more tumors on the auditory nerves than nonusers. |
Bill Sardi
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| For example, the anti-cancer drug cisplatin is very toxic to nerve tissues. When patients are pre-treated with vitamin E supplements prior to cisplatin treatment, the incidence of nerve damage is reduced from 85 to 31 percent without inhibiting the effect of the drug. [Journal Clinical Oncology 21: 927-31, 2003] In another study, vitamin E (600 mg/ day) reduced nerve damage caused by chemotherapy from 73% to 25% of patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| When that takes place, it pulls on the meninges, which are not that flexible and which are attached to all the nerve roots all the way down the spine. The reason it attaches to the nerve roots is so that it can hold the cerebral spinal fluid in. The fluid that bathes your brain and your spinal cord is held in by the meninges, like a balloon, but the nerves have to go through those meninges to get out. There's an attachment where they go through, and when you pull on the meninges it makes those nerves fire. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 High blood glucose also causes nerve damage that can not only trigger numbness in the feet and hands but can also affect the penis, interfering with the nerve signals that help orchestrate male sexual arousal.
For a healthy male, some stimulation—by sight, touch, sound, or something else—activates the nerves and causes muscles to relax and blood to flow into the penis, which then becomes erect. But a man with diabetes who isn't properly managing his disease can't have an erection or maintain it long enough for satisfactory sex. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The pituitary gland gets its information from the optic nerve—when the optic nerve senses sunlight, it signals the pituitary gland to kick-start the melanocytes. Guess what happens when you're wearing sunglasses? Much less sunlight reaches the optic nerve, much less warning is sent to the pituitary gland, much less melanocyte-stimulating hormone is released, much less melanin is produced—and much more sunburn results. If you're reading this on the beach with your Ray-Bans on, do your skin a favor—take them off. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| High blood glucose also causes nerve damage that can not only trigger numbness in the feet and hands but can also affect the penis, interfering with the nerve signals that help orchestrate male sexual arousal.
For a healthy male, some stimulation—by sight, touch, sound, or something else—activates the nerves and causes muscles to relax and blood to flow into the penis, which then becomes erect. But a man with diabetes who isn't properly managing his disease can't have an erection or maintain it long enough for satisfactory sex. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 The theory is that if GABA can stop nerves from firing in the brain, it should be able to control the nerve impulses that affect facial muscles—the kind that lead to expression lines. There is no research proving GABA is a revolutionary (let alone effective) antiwrinkle ingredient, but we do know that in the body GABA does not work alone. Keeping nerves from being triggered requires a lot of other components. Even Botox doesn't affect muscle movement when rubbed on skin. Don't fall for the hype, and don't use this product, primarily because it promises to be "intensely cooling. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Yang and coworkers, for example, found that nicotinamide could rescue viable but injured nerve cells within the ischemic area after experimental strokes in animals.15 Early injection of nicotinamide reduced the number of necrotic and apoptotic neurons. Later injections were not as effective. Yang and Adams concluded that "early administration of nicotinamide may be of therapeutic interest in preventing the development of stroke, by rescuing the still viable but injured nerve cells and partially preventing infarction. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Any of several chemical substances that transmit impulses from one nerve cell to another or from a nerve cell to a muscle or gland.
Obesity. A condition in which the body stores excessive amounts of fat. Body weight in excess of 20 percent above ideal body weight is considered obese.
Oral. Pertaining to the mouth.
Osteogenesis imperfecta. A rare inherited disease in which the bones are abnormally brittle and fragile.
Osteoporosis. A condition characterized by porous, brittle bones that are prone to fractures.
Oxidation. |
Pam Montgomery
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 There are four ways the heart communicates with the brain: neuro-logically (the transmission of nerve impulses), biochemically (hormones and neurotransmitters), biophysically (pressure waves), and energetically (electromagnetic field interactions).
There are 40,000 nerve cells in the heart as well as neurotransmitters such as noradrenaline and dopamine (known emotional mediators), that the heart synthesizes and releases. "With every beat of the heart, a burst of neural activity is relayed to the brain," Martin explains. |
Gina Kolata
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 The Centers also turned up people with a variety of other neurological disorders that commenced after the flu shots: facial paralysis, nerve inflammation, encephalitis injuries to nerves of the hands or feet, brachial nerve inflammation, inflammations of the optic nerve, people whose nerves were losing their insulating layer, called myelin.
The Guillain-Barre cases, however, stood out, triggering the law requiring that the federal government compensate vaccine victims. The decision was to compensate anyone who got the disease within ten weeks of a swine flu shot. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 At the same time, electrical energy is running from your brain into this nerve cell. The two currents of energy meet and an electrical signal goes to the brain. Then, the mind has to perceive or interpret the signal that's been received by the brain. That's where your thoughts, beliefs, and general level of awareness come in.
At any step along this process, there is room for substantial error. If you have too little energy in your nerves, as would be the case if you have a neurological problem, you won't actually "see" correctly because insufficient electrical current is going to the brain. |
Richard Bartlett
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 The doctors had sliced the top of her right foot and cut all the nerve endings. The toes went off to the side and curled under the foot and the big toe went off in the other direction. I did Matrix Energetics and reconnected the nerve endings and brought the toes back into alignment.
I went back in time and found out that when she was a little girl during several lifetimes, she had suffered all types of hurts and traumas. The foot problem was the physical manifestation of those hurts. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Any of several chemical substances that transmit impulses from one nerve cell to another or from a nerve cell to a muscle or gland.
Obesity. A condition in which the body stores excessive amounts of fat. Body weight in excess of 20 percent above ideal body weight is considered obese.
Oral. Pertaining to the mouth.
Osteogenesis imperfecta. A rare inherited disease in which the bones are abnormally brittle and fragile.
Osteoporosis. A condition characterized by porous, brittle bones that are prone to fractures.
Oxidation. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The interrupted nerve cell pathways lead to disruption: some signals don't go out at all, and others, which would normally be damped down through elaborate internal control mechanisms, are let loose when they shouldn't be.
All of these signals, in the final analysis, are electrical in nature, but many are mediated by chemical agents. These agents, or neurotransmitters, traffic back and forth among the nerve cells. Modern medicine has taken advantage of this trafficking to supply the body with synthetic neuro-ttansmitters. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 In fact, habits actually reflect changes in the structure of the brain that is modified with thousands of new nerve cell branches and connections as the habit becomes stronger. In essence, learned behaviors, whether they are a new skill or an addiction, become an easily repeated pattern of brain activity that is literally hard-wired into the brain. The appetite centers located in the hypothalamus of the brain are particularly "plastic," meaning that nerve pathways into and out of this region can be significantly rewired by repetitive eating behaviors. |
Devra Davis
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| Tumors of the auditory nerve were three times more frequent in persons who had used cell phones for more than a decade.7 In 2004, other Swedish researchers found that long-term cell phone users had significantly more tumors on the auditory nerves than nonusers.8
The study of chronic health problems is hardly as simple as we often presume.9 We notice that most people with lung cancer have been smokers, or that many women over sixty who get breast cancer have used hormone replacement therapy. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 If you are in pain, imagine the nerve endings in your entire body and "see" healing energy being taken in with every breath, flowing through your muscles and blood cells, through your arteries to the nerves, where they are soothed and healed.
?Send out the visualization often, both during meditation and throughout the day.
BELIEF
The copious evidence of the placebo effect demonstrates the extraordinary power of belief. Belief in the power of intention is also vital. Keep firmly fixed in your mind the desired outcome and do not allow yourself to think of failure. |
Melody Petersen
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 Besides its limited use in epilepsy, the government had agreed in 2002 that Neurontin could also treat patients suffering from nerve pain caused by shingles. Regulators approved the wider use of the drug after Pfizer provided studies showing it could help some patients with this kind of pain. Dr. Mack noted that there was some limited evidence that Neurontin worked for migraines and nerve pain suffered by diabetics. |
Bill Sardi
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| With diminished food intake, less vitamin Bl is consumed, which can result in heart failure and nerve irritation in feet and hands. Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency often results in cracked skin around the lips. Shortages of niacin (vitamin B3) are often manifested by skin changes (dermatitis) in the extremities, face and neck. Folic acid (vitamin B9) shortage impairs the ability to repair broken strands of DNA. Vitamin K deficiency may lead to pronounced bleeding and often results from overuse of antibiotics, or malnutrition. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Radical hysterectomy (including the ovaries) may result in nerve destruction, leading to the inability to control bladder function. In premenopausal women, it also necessitates hormone replacement therapy.
One researcher has shown that a hysterectomy in an otherwise healthy forty-year-old woman increases her life expectancy by some four months, a gain is entirely explained by the 1.3% women who are destined to die of endometrial cancer. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Unproven Uses: The drug has many indications in folk medicine, such as amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, nausea, fever, headache, diarrhea and dysentery; as an oxytoxic, to expel the afterbirth, for urethritis, nerve inflammation, poor lactation, metrorrhagia, hemorrhage, menorrhagia and atonic amenorrhea, painful menstruation, and climacteric complaints.
Chinese Medicine: Cotton is used in China as a male contraceptive.
Homeopathic Uses: The drug is used chiefly in gynecology to treat menstrual disturbances, menstrual bleeding, morning sickness, and uterine bleeding. |
| BENNET'S ROOT HERB
Unproven Uses: Although rarely used today, folk medicine indications have included use of the drug for digestive complaints and diarrhea, febrile illnesses, and for muscle and nerve pain. Use as a bath additive for hemorrhoids seems plausible due the astringent content.
BENNET'S ROOT (ROOT)
Unproven Uses: Internal folk medicine applications include use for digestive problems such as loss of appetite and diarrhea. |
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