Charles Barber
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 Corrected a chemical imbalance, or something, as the Zoloft commercial had said. "Zoloft, a prescription medicine, can help. It works to correct chemical imbalances in the brain," the voiceover on the ad had intoned. Julie didn't know she had a chemical imbalance and doesn't actually know what one is, and it had never really occurred to her that she could have a mental illness (could she?), but she does hope, fervendy, that her life will become a little easier, a little less stressed, and more smoothed out—soon. |
Ray D. Strand
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 The imbalance in the consumption of these essential fatty acids is the main reason for the imbalance in our body's production of these hormones. That is why many individuals in the industrialized world need to take flaxseed oil and fish oil in supplementation in an attempt to bring these back into balance.
Here is another unknown fact: essential fats also have the ability to actually decrease our total cholesterol levels and our LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. This means that not all fats are created equal. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Poor diet and lifestyle choices put stress on the adrenals, creating an imbalance in body chemistry and contributing to the uncomfortable symptoms that we associate with menopause.
If you are a woman who has menopausal symptoms, adopting healthier habits can help to even out these imbalances.
If you are a man and the woman you love is going through menopause, you can help by understanding that she is experiencing a profound physiological change. Your kindness and patience can ease her transition through a time that is confusing—for her as well as for you. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Used when lack of motivation, doubt and discouragement causes an imbalance in the body to the point of depression. yarrow For those oj have become drained by city life and its stresses.
Australian bush flower essences
The Australian Aborigines have always used flowers to heal emotional imbalances and physical injuries, and so it is no surprise that Australian native flowers have proved to be suitable for making remedies in the tradition of Bach flowers. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 While PVCs are often benign, they can be a sign of heart disease or an electrolyte imbalance-—an imbalance of minerals in the blood that can cause serious heart and kidney problems if untreated. Unfortunately, some PVCs are potensuffers from occasional hiccups. abnormal or irregular heartbeats. Indeed, the terms palpitation and arrhythmia are often used interchangeably. When the heart beats called bradycardia. tially life-threatening, especially when accompanied by a racing heart, dizziness, or fainting, or in a person with heart disease. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| The principle behind their use is that every disorder—physical or psychological—arises because of an inner imbalance for which nature has provided a cure, in the form of healing plants, sunlight, spring water and fresh air.
It is certainly true that asthma can be the result of mental disharmony and imbalance: stress is known to cause asthma, and fear is a potent trigger. Additionally the body's vitality may be lowered as a result of asthma, which in turn can result in unhap-piness, depression, feelings of inadequacy, and so on. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 My doctor said that this could be caused by an imbalance in my brain related to epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine. Of all things, my doctor decided that he should give me a free sample of Effexor, a drug that affects serotonin and norepinephrine, which are two chemicals in the brain linked to depression. Correcting the imbalance of these two chemicals is said to relieve symptoms of depression.
During my visit with the doctor, I didn't mention anything about being depressed. How did he come up with this drug as the solution? |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 One imbalance creates another imbalance.
• Eating too many man-made carbohydrates is the number one reason for hormonal imbalances.
• Poor eating and lifestyle habits—not genetics—cause diseases of aging.
The actual eating plan depends on where you fit in a matrix of four metabolic types. What type you are depends on the operating health of two of the major hormonal systems in your body: your insulin metabolism and your adrenal metabolism. Most people reading Living the Low-Carb Life understand by now the concept of insulin resistance and the role elevated insulin levels play in weight gain. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The concept behind the use of probiotics is that due to modern-day diets, industrialization of the food-production process, and overuse of antibiotics, many of us have developed an imbalance of the bacterial flora in our colon and intestines. It follows that this imbalance causes constipation, diarrhea, dyspepsia, and disturbances in digestion. The addition of probiotics is designed to reduce pathological bacteria like Clostridium difficile and Escherichia coli (E. coli).
Studies of probiotics for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders have not shown consistent results. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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| One imbalance creates another imbalance.
• Eating too many man-made carbohydrates is the number one reason for hormonal imbalances.
• Poor eating and lifestyle habits—not genetics—cause diseases of aging.
The actual eating plan depends on where you fit in a matrix of four metabolic types. What type you are depends on the operating health of two of the major hormonal systems in your body: your insulin metabolism and your adrenal metabolism. Most people reading Living the Low-Carb Life understand by now the concept of insulin resistance and the role elevated insulin levels play in weight gain. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Our bodies are simply too inflamed. The imbalance in the consumption of these essential fatty acids is the main reason for the imbalance in our body's production of these hormones. That is why many individuals in the industrialized world need to take flaxseed oil and fish oil in supplementation in an attempt to bring these back into balance.
Here is another unknown fact: essential fats also have the ability to actually decrease our total cholesterol levels and our LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. This means that not all fats are created equal. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Gallstone formation is thought to be due to an imbalance of bile salts and minerals, dehydration, toxins, and excess cholesterol in the bile. In addition, a high-fat, low-fiber diet and pregnancy have been associated with gallstone production. When the delicate ratio that keeps bile in liquid form is imbalanced, crystals ("stones") form from some of those bile components. They can be a real medical problem, blocking the flow of bile from the liver and gallbladder, and sometimes obstructing the pancreas and intestines as well. These situations often constitute a surgical emergency. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is a symptom of an underlying imbalance in the patient. Unless you treat and reverse the underlying imbalances, you will never eliminate the underlying cause of the cancer. You will continue to see more tumors and complications, even if you are able to treat the first tumors.
Think of it like this: suppose you have a dam holding up a body of water such as a lake. One day, due to poor maintenance, the dam begins to crack and water starts leaking through. In the world of conventional cancer treatment, they would say the problem is the water, and they would begin treating the water. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Stools with a really foul odor may result from an imbalance of intestinal bacteria or from consuming too much animal protein. A rancid foul-smelling odor lurking for more than 3 to 5 minutes in the bathroom after evacuation is a definite sign you need to cleanse your colon. Your body is trying to get your attention with that odor—something is wrong inside of you! The longer you ignore this, the more damage you will have. Your colon is practically screaming at you to change your dietary habits! Most people are not taught these critical signs and therefore do not listen to their bodies. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Hormone Solution: Naturally Alleviate Symptoms of Hormone imbalance from Adolescence through Menopause by Erika Schwartz, M.D.
The 30-Day Natural Hormone Plan: Look and Feel Young Again—Without Synthetic HRT by Erika Schwartz, M.D. Schwartz is a really smart endocrinologist and one of my favorite hormone specialists on the East Coast. This is her program.
Get Off the Menopause Roller Coaster: Natural Solutions by Shari Lieberman, Ph.D.
Out of print, but if you can find it, grab it!
Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause by Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D. |
| Since that dose of zinc can conceivably lead to an imbalance in copper, Gaby and others also add 2-4 mg of copper. "After several months, the dose is typically reduced to 30 mg once or twice a day, depending on the patient's response," says Gaby. The best-absorbed forms of zinc are zinc picolinate and zinc citrate.
Tea Tree Oil for Wound Healing
SUPPOSE YOU'RE AN Australian aborigine, and you've never seen a drugstore. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| The chemicals, sugars and fats found in most junk foods disrupt the chemical balance in the brain and cause a lack of energy, depression, stress and cravings for the very foods that create the imbalance in the first place. When the brain is out of balance it will crave the wrong things as a survival mechanism. Feed the brain right and the cravings will dissolve.
When dealing with addictions in this way, Dr. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| So how does this imbalance happen in the first place? Let's start with Candida's favorite food: sugar. Yeast thrives on sugar. Loves the stuff. Processed carbohydrates like breads and cereal are like "Miracle-Gro" for yeasty bugs.
Next, there are antibiotics, also known as Candida's best friend. Why? Because, like a powerful weed killer that also kills your roses, antibiotics kill everything, making it even easier for Candida to pop back up and overtake the farm. (Just like in your garden, it's easier for the weeds to come back than the roses. |
| Many things in the environment that we're exposed to daily—such as substances in our food or breakdown products from plastics—can act as "hormone mimics," behaving like estrogens in the body and aggravating the imbalance further. (For an excellent discussion of this phenomenon, see the book Hormone Deception: How Everyday Foods and Products Are Disturbing Your Health by D. Lindsey Berkson.)
Then there's the little matter of the fat cells, tiny hormone factories that can make matters even worse when you've got too many of them. |
| People who are given antibiotics a lot tend to have a much greater tendency to have an imbalance in their gut ecology—it's easier to grow more weeds than it is roses. Probiotics will help offset that unhealthy balance.
Probiotic supplementation is especially critical if a lot of yeast is present, and will help restore a healthy balance of microbes in the digestive tract. |
| Hot flashes, including night sweats, occur because of an imbalance in the ratios of two primary female hormones, estrogen and progesterone.
Black Cohosh
Off-Balance Hormones and Their Effects
Winding your way through the maze of information related to hormones and their physical effects is simply mind-numbing: Too much estrogen can cause weight gain, headaches, insomnia, bloating, and heavy periods, while too little progesterone can cause anxiety, depression, insomnia, pain, inflammation, osteoporosis, decreased HDL (or "good") cholesterol, and breakthrough bleeding. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Vata-PranaYama
A person of Vata constitution or Vata imbalance benefits most from alternative nostril breathing, which brings balance on all levels of mind and body. For this exercise:
=> Close your right nostril with the thumb of your right hand, and inhale through the left nostril.
=> Then close the left nostril with the middle or ring finger of the same hand, and exhale through your right nostril. => Hold your finger there and inhale. Release, and once again close the right nostril with your thumb, and exhale through your left nostril. => Remain there and breathe in again. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Correcting the imbalance of these two chemicals is said to relieve symptoms of depression.
During my visit with the doctor, I didn't mention anything about being depressed. How did he come up with this drug as the solution? As discussed, physicians frequently prescribe "off label use" following their own judgment and prescribe drugs made for one condition to treat another. Since this was long before I was critical of prescription drugs, I assumed my doctor knew what he was recommending. I took one pill and immediately realized how incredibly wrong Effexor was for me. |
| Conversely, we are constantly introducing external chemicals, often through our food choices, into our bodies that trick our nervous systems and brains, creating imbalance. According to Dr. Cass:
Our brains operate optimally when they are fueled properly and often. We need to feed our bodies with high-quality complex carbohydrates for a consistent supply of blood sugar — its fuel. We need "good" fats (as in fish or flax oils) to make brain cells, and provide a healthy milieu in which to produce neurotransmitters, which are made from good quality protein (fish, fowl, meat or soy). |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 An evaluation of significant cognitive impairment may be necessary to assess for a thyroid imbalance, medication problems, overuse of sedatives or alcohol, and dementia. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and affects 1.5 to 3 times more women than men.19 For women on hormone therapy, adjustments in the dose may improve mental function.
Vaginal Dryness and Thinning. Vaginal dryness, vaginal thinning, and what is called atrophy are very common problems for menopausal women but usually do not become troublesome until several years after menopause. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 EPA and DHA are essential fatty acids that the body cannot make so we must obtain them in our diet, which is very hard to do, or by supplements," said Locke. "An imbalance of omega-6 and omega-3 can result in an overall inflammatory response and related disorders such as depression, cardiac disease, cancer, dementia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."
Locke concluded, "Over the next five years, we will see Omega-3 fatty acids become a foundation of health."
ADHD is a fictitious disease invented by the pharmaceutical industry to sell amphetamine drugs to children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These drugs, we now know, cause suicidal thoughts and violent behavior, especially in young boys. They imbalance brain chemistry and even alter the body's metabolism of sugar, promoting diabetes and leading to rapid weight gain. These drugs are so dangerous that feeding them to children should be considered a crime. Every single school shooting involving a child in the United States in the last 15 years has been linked to antidepressant drug use. Need I say more?
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And find a way to get off antidepressant drugs. They imbalance blood sugar metabolism and lead to weight gain (20 pounds in the first year, on average). This is all stuff the FTC, FDA and USDA probably haven't bothered to mention because they're too busy chasing down outspoken book authors and discrediting nutritional supplements to actually do anything useful for America.
That's Big Government watching out for ya, as usual! I'll bet you feel really, really safe now that Trudeau is being investigated for promoting a weight loss book. |
David Wolfe
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 For any type of thyroid imbalance, I recommend removing canola oil, safflower oil, corn oil, soybean oil and margarine, along with inorganic salt (table salt), as well as all conventionally-grown pesticide-sprayed food from the diet. Seed oils slow thyroid function. Excess inorganic sodium is positively charged, and is attracted to the negatively-charged thyroid gland and leads to dysfunctions. Pesticides and heavy metals are also attracted to the thyroid and cause endocrine imbalances. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 The right proportion and mixture of these results in health, while disease is caused by an imbalance. This theory was taken up by Galen, a Greek born about AD 130, who expanded it by adding the notion that humors, diseases, and the drugs to cure disease could also be hot or cold, and moist or dry. Blood, for instance, is hot and moist, while phlegm is cold and moist.
Galen achieved great fame as a physician, and even doctored Roman emperors, including Marcus Aurelius and his dreadful son Commodus. His main principle was curing by contraries, so that a "hot" fever called for a "cold" drug. |
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