Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And it wasn't just women having a very difficult time transitioning into a natural phase, menopause -- a very natural, once honored, once sacred, once celebrated time -- but it was younger women, not even close to menopause, having menopausal symptoms -- the basic motor symptoms of hot flashes and night sweats, the irritability, the weight gain -- and then women struggling with infertility.
Mike: Oh, yes.
Lucille: I couldn't believe it. And uterine fibroids, endometriosis and ovarian cysts. I needed to understand what was happening. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 While a number of early studies showed a positive effect of this nutraceutical in reducing symptoms of depression, a carefully controlled study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) came up negative. So whether this food supplement is helpful in relieving depression is still up in the air. Nevertheless, consumers often buy it in an effort to try to help themselves.
These results lead to several immediate questions. Are nutraceuticals safe? Do they do what they say they'll do? |
| Subsequently, these same patients reported more problems with pain but fewer symptoms of brain fog and fatigue. Using drugs is a double-edged sword: they can be beneficial both in the short and the long term, but they can sometimes complicate cases, or render treatment results unclear. Whenever it's necessary, as a physician, I am prepared to remove my patients from drugs, slowly of course, so I can try to sort out the helpful and the hindering components of their use.
All of this should help you realize that drugs are not the whole answer, at least not today. |
| They reduce symptoms to a greater or lesser degree, but they only rarely get a disabled person back to work. While drugs may and probably will be part of the process of getting you well, they are only one part of the path to wellness.
Wellness is a process, and not necessarily an easy one when you're feeling lousy; but the good news is that you really can take control of your body. Certain techniques from rehabilitation medicine act as a major supplement to drugs and other parts of your course of treatment. |
| Their symptoms are very real, and certain kinds of activity may, indeed, have made them even worse for a time. But what varies from patient to patient is what each does next. Some say to themselves, "I am going to cut way back on all my physical activity," while others say, "I am not going to do the type of activity that made me sick."
These are two very different responses. In the first, the person has become so frightened by the effects of exertion that he or she has decided to do much, much less. |
| Furthermore, focusing on symptoms while believing that you can do nothing about them leads to delays in recovery.
We're not talking about microbiological studies that show how a germ can cause disease in a single person. Studies like the ones I've just cited instead describe tendencies over large numbers of people. This means that "person factors" are more important in influencing how some individuals feel and less important in influencing how others feel. |
| But prolonged resting can also have adverse health effects well beyond producing more uncomfortable symptoms.
When I was an intern, the standard of care for someone with a heart attack was three weeks of bedrest. This prescription had two negative effects: it actually increased the rate of subsequent heart problems, and it made the heart attack survivor afraid of activity. Of course, nowadays we know that a carefully monitored program of aerobic activity protects against heart attacks.
If you're sick with fatigue and pain, your situation is surprisingly similar. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today, it's all about identifying and treating the symptoms, then waiting for the patient to return with more symptoms caused by the treatments used on the first round of symptoms.
Someday, this whole system of modern medicine will be looked upon as quite foolish. Because it doesn't take a genius to figure out that fixing the leaky roof is the best way to prevent water from dripping into your home. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 If you swap your Western diet for one composed exclusively of raw vegetables and juices for even a short period of time, you're likely to experience what natural health practitioners call detox symptoms: headaches, skin rashes, fevers, chills, and lethargy, to name a few. But the real reason you experience these symptoms is not the result of purging your body of built-up toxins. Rather, the symptoms result from a sudden massive exposure to plant toxins, which your liver enzymes can't process fast enough. The detox diet is actually a toxin diet. How do I know this? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Fighting infectious disease: This is the most common use of the product -- fighting symptoms of colds or flus. As I described earlier, any time I begin to feel such symptoms, I take several droppers full of Power Immune (along with other nutrients) to quickly overcome the cold symptoms.
Defense against pandemics: This is perhaps the most important reason why every household should have at least 3 bottles of Power Immune right now -- the threat of a coming pandemic. The bird flu, for example, hasn't disappeared or been conquered. It just hasn't mutated into a human form yet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Today, it's all about identifying and treating the symptoms, then waiting for the patient to return with more symptoms caused by the treatments used on the first round of symptoms.
Someday, this whole system of modern medicine will be looked upon as quite foolish. Because it doesn't take a genius to figure out that fixing the leaky roof is the best way to prevent water from dripping into your home. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We're going to take a little time to talk about what symptoms they're experiencing, what they've done, who they are, me establishing a relationship with them, but ultimately it's empowering them to take responsibility for their health.
Mike: I love it, Holly.
Lucille: Yeah. That's what we do.
Mike: That's true medical practice right there.
Lucille: I think so as well. It's about the patient.
Mike: Okay, so they get on these supplements or they change their lifestyle, what kind of results then do you see?
Lucille: I see phenomenal results. And mostly it is in the empowering. |
| Lucille: So, I talk about pretty much every aspect of a woman's life, but really focusing in on hormonal health, identifying and treating the cause, and then also understanding that there are safe, non-hormonal, natural, effective ways to relieve those symptoms while we're identifying and treating the cause. |
| First of all, all of these women were being treated with one form or another of hormone replacement therapy, whether it be just standard HRT moving into menopause -- the number one treatment option -- or the birth control pill if they had an increase in PMS symptoms or ovarian cysts. And they weren't getting any better, and we were starting to understand the literature that not only said the risk factors were increasing, but these medications were doing more harm than good.
So, number one: We live in an incredibly toxic environment and an increasingly toxic environment. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Moving on to some of the contrasts between conventional medicine and naturopathic medicine, in conventional medicine a set of symptoms is frequently labeled a disease -- high cholesterol is a disease or pain is a disease, or a brain chemistry imbalance is called a disease. It seems to me, from your explanations here, that naturopaths will always go at least one step further and say, what is the cause of this symptom? Does that mean that they have different names for diseases, or a different philosophy in naming them?
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As I described earlier, any time I begin to feel such symptoms, I take several droppers full of Power Immune (along with other nutrients) to quickly overcome the cold symptoms.
Defense against pandemics: This is perhaps the most important reason why every household should have at least 3 bottles of Power Immune right now -- the threat of a coming pandemic. The bird flu, for example, hasn't disappeared or been conquered. It just hasn't mutated into a human form yet. It's only a matter of time, however, before some pandemic comes along and threatens humans with a deadly disease. |
Gregg Braden
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 It began with administering drugs that mimic dopamine and relieve patients' symptoms. It's important to note here that the drugs have a short life span in the body and their effects last only about 60 minutes. As they wear off, the symptoms return. Twenty-four hours later, the patients underwent a medical procedure where they believed that they would receive a substance to restore their brain chemistry to normal levels. In reality, however, they were given a simple saline solution that should have had no effect on their condition. |
Mark Lynas
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 The first symptoms of heat stress may be minor. An affected individual will feel slightly nauseous and dizzy, and perhaps get irritable with those around. This needn't yet be an emergency: an hour or so lying down in a cooler area, sipping water, will cure early heat exhaustion with no longer-lasting symptoms. But in Paris, August 2003 there were no cooler areas, especially for elderly people cooped up in their airless apartments. It wasn't so much the high temperatures of the day, but the fact that things didn't cool down enough at night to give the body time to recover. |
E. Richard Brown
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 Homeopathy, as formulated by its founder Samuel Hahnemann (a German physician), was based on the widely accepted medical view that the symptoms of a disease constitute the disease itself and, a corollary, that eliminating the symptoms constitutes a cure. Hahnemann found that some drugs produced the same symptoms in a healthy person (that is, caused the "illness") that they eliminated in a sick person (whom they "cured"). For example, he found that cinchona bark, at the time used to relieve the symptoms of malaria, produced malarial symptoms in a healthy person. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 If a rogue frequency in the body could produce certain symptoms, it followed that the high dilution of a substance which would produce the same symptoms would still carry those oscillations. Like a tuning fork in resonance, a suitable homeopathic solution might attract and then absorb the wrong oscillations, allowing the body to return to normal.
Popp thought that electromagnetic molecular signalling might even explain acupuncture. |
Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD
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 For nineteen of the twenty-three symptoms, the group with the active ingredients reported several times (i.e., hundreds of percent) more improvement than those in the placebo test group. The symptoms most improved were appetite control, mood, anger, fatigue, muscle pain, and sleep.
These studies show the importance of supplementing amino acid precursors to raise serotonin and dopamine levels. The sublingual delivery system is easier to follow and more efficient with fewer side effects. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Some people who quit coffee cold turkey can notice some symptoms, including headaches and irritability, that actually signal caffeine withdrawal. These symptoms will disappear in a few days. If you've been a coffee "addict," try substituting tea—green or black.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When your whole body is healthy, and your blood chemistry is healthy, and your immune system is operating at peak efficiency, you simply will not express any symptoms of disease.
Helping people with symptoms
None of this talk, by the way, means I don't think we should be helping people with the symptoms of these fictitious diseases. When a person has been diagnosed with cancer, their experience of that cancer is very real, even if the labeling of their disease isn't. I'm a strong proponent of helping patients heal and, more importantly, giving them back the power to heal themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Since the condition is defined by measurable symptoms, once a person restores normal sugar metabolism and the symptoms disappear, that person is by definition no longer diabetic. Diabetes is not genetic in origin, nor is it an inevitable condition for individuals whose parents expressed symptoms of diabetes. It can be reversed by eliminating the causes of poor blood sugar metabolism and insulin insensitivity – namely, poor nutritional choices and a lack of regular physical exercise. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The drug companies just call it that to convince everyone that they need to take medications to ease the symptoms. But in reality, all you probably need is aloe vera. Drink aloe vera gel on a regular basis, and your heartburn symptoms will usually vanish within a few days. Of course, it would also help if you'd stop eating fried foods and processed foods. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| But the real reason you experience these symptoms is not the result of purging your body of built-up toxins. Rather, the symptoms result from a sudden massive exposure to plant toxins, which your liver enzymes can't process fast enough. The detox diet is actually a toxin diet. How do I know this? I treat numerous individuals who are about to undergo or have had stomach bypass/stapling surgery. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In other words, these three causes can combine in ten thousand different ways, creating ten thousand different symptoms, and conventional medicine has invented a name for each one.
But treating disease is wasted effort if it remains focused on the symptoms. Preventing disease is sort of like doing basic maintenance on your home; it's something you have to do routinely, something you do preemptively to prevent disease from occurring. |
Gregg Braden
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| As they wear off, the symptoms return. Twenty-four hours later, the patients underwent a medical procedure where they believed that they would receive a substance to restore their brain chemistry to normal levels. In reality, however, they were given a simple saline solution that should have had no effect on their condition.
Following the procedure, electronic scans of the patients' brains showed something that's nothing short of a miracle. Their brain cells had responded to the procedure as if they'd been given the drug that originally eased their symptoms. |
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