James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Endurance requires optimal muscle metabolism, a healthy heart, and healthy lungs. Your muscle must be able to burn a variety of fuels efficiently, and the heart and lungs have to deliver enough oxygen to the muscle so it can burn that fuel.
Vitamin D Helps You Get the Job Done
Muscle mass is directly related to vitamin D as well as other variables, such as adequate protein. The severe vitamin D deficiency of osteomalacia and rickets results in muscle atrophy and weakness. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 At that time my grandson's x-ray showed two frightening spots on his lungs.
We spoke to Gary. He suggested the boy take specific supplements, and emulsified cod liver oil. A month and a half later a new x-ray revealed clear lungs, no spots. Today my grandson is seven years old. He is home schooled. His health continues to be good. This experience changed many of our concepts. People have tools for health and healing. There is much to learn. The information is there. Appropriate resources are available.
I no longer serve the children in my day care center canned foods. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 If significantly preterm, efforts are made to confirm fetal maturity or mature fetal lungs medically before delivery. Usually the earlier in the pregnancy that pregnancy-induced hypertension occurs, the more severe it becomes. The majority of cases at term are usually benign and easily managed. Catastrophic outcomes of toxemia include seizures, strokes, and failure of the heart, liver, lungs, or kidneys. |
Melody Petersen
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 The children had developed empyema, a condition in which the lungs become surrounded by cupfuls of fluid, after their infections spread. The three appeared to get better after three to five days of Rocephin, Dr. Grose said, only to relapse a week or two later, developing fevers and suffering as their lungs were choked again by the infected pus.
The deaths and serious illnesses that holiday season were alarming evidence of another consequence of the drug companies' potent marketing campaigns. |
| Doctors gave her an antibiotic, but the infection spread through her bloodstream to her lungs. She soon developed pneumonia and empyema. She died after five weeks in the hospital.
The other two children were a twelve-month-old white boy from rural North Dakota and a thirteen-year-old white girl from Minnesota. Both had suddenly developed ferocious lung infections. Doctors gave them vancomycin, an extremely powerful antibiotic that is considered a medicine of last resort. But the infection had continued to eat away their lungs. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Because of possible damage to the lungs, you should have your lung function checked six months after starting to use inhalable insulin, and then every year thereafter. Furthermore, if you currently need injectable insulin, inhaled insulin can be used at mealtime, but not as a replacement for your longer-acting injections.
Although we are enthusiastic about the mealtime convenience of inhaled insulin, there remain residual, open-ended questions about the possible long-term effects this type of insulin delivery system may have on the lungs. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Under AAFCO guidelines, acceptable meat by-product can include animal lungs, spleens, kidneys, brains, livers, blood, bones, low-temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. Livers can be infested with worms (liver flukes) or diseased with cirrhosis. lungs can be filled with pneumonia. If an animal is diseased and declared unfit for human consumption, the carcass is acceptable for pet food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Actual human lungs were on display, all charcoal-colored and covered in tumors. It's not difficult to understand what smoking does to a set of human lungs when you're staring at them right in front of your nose.
Some of the bodies were surgically implanted with artificial joints (post-mortem, of course) then propped up as some sort of celebration of the genius of modern joint replacement surgery. I thought this was odd. Yes, I know, in a roomful of dead bodies, stripped of their skin and propped up into artificial poses, I noticed something that struck me as bizarre. |
Ron Garner
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 Iron is needed in red blood cells to form hemoglobin, whose primary role is to collect oxygen from the lungs and carry it to every cell in the body.
The main sources of iron are red meat, liver, dried fruit, egg yolks, sardines, spinach, broccoli, wheat germ, and brown barley. Vegetarians especially can become iron deficient due to an insufficient intake of foods that contain iron. Attention should be given to ensure sufficient iron is being obtained from several different food sources or from whole food mineral supplements. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 There was a 10% increase in mortality with HRT, which was related in part to a doubling of the risk of blood clots that can lead to deadly pulmonary emboli (blood clots that travel to the lungs and have up to a 50% mortality rate)5 and a 48% increased risk of gallbladder disease requiring surgery.6 HERS also showed a pattern of increased cancer risk that was not statistically significant.
Other studies of estrogen replacement have shown increased rates of uterine and ovarian cancer. |
Ron Garner
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| And although the human lungs, liver, and kidneys are able to filter out toxins within reason, they were never meant to do so to the extent they are being required by our present-day changing environment.
NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL DEGENERATION
After completing his research on root canal and dental infections, Dr. Weston Price decided to study individuals and animals that did not have tooth or gum disease, and then determine what caused such diseases to evolve. During a nine-year period he and his wife traveled around the world seeking out primitive cultures that were living on native foods. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| However, the FDA has issued a warning about an increased risk of blood clots that can lead to potentially fatal clots in the lungs. The risk of blood clot is double that of OCPs. The FDA has registered twelve deaths to date in young women on Ortho-Evra. Given these facts, I do not recommend the Ortho-Evra patch for birth control.
The Morning-After Pill
Mifepristone (Mifeprex, RU-486), one of the newest and most revolutionary contraceptives, is used to terminate early pregnancies, which are defined as 49 days or less since the start of the last menstrual period. |
Ron Garner
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| In this process, stomach temperature is raised, stomach acid increases, enzyme production is decreased, digestion becomes more difficult, heart rate is increased, blood vessels in the brain become narrower, lungs work harder, the nervous system is irritated, the adrenal glands, liver, and pancreas are stressed, and overall metabolism is increased 15 to 25%. Caffeine stresses the body and causes it to overwork and wear out sooner.
Nicotine contains highly toxic irritants and poisons, which are extremely acidifying and harmful to the body. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Our sedentary lifestyle has also led to a surge in obesity (see Chapter 6); there is evidence of an association between obesity and asthma based on the fact that obese people have less room for the lungs to expand, higher levels of the hormone leptin (which is released from fat and is also higher in asthmatics), and higher levels of inflammatory markers (which may contribute to airway reactivity). In fact, as many as 75% of emergency-room asthma admissions are for obese people. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 It knows how to keep your heart beating and your lungs breathing—without which, not much else matters. If I have a condition that needs that kind of attention, I'm going straight to Cedars-Sinai, thank you very much, and that's that.
But good as it is with acute conditions, Western medicine is very bad at what are called chronic conditions. And it is woefully, pathetically incompetent when it comes to prevention. Chronic conditions are what might be called ongoing states of unwellness that are not emergencies, but last for months, years, or lifetimes. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Another worrisome consequence of diet pills is primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH), a disorder typically of unknown cause that is associated with an increase in the pressure of the arteries in the lungs. The primary manifestation of PPH is breathing problems with exercise. The end result of PPH in the absence of a lung transplant is usually death. Heidi Connolly, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, assessed the risk of getting PPH following treatment with diet pills. She found that there is a sixfold increase in the risk of PPH with diet pills. |
| Tamiflu is taken as a pill twice a day for five days; Zanamivir is inhaled through a device, called a diskhaler, that delivers the medicine to the lungs. These medications are neuraminidase inhibitors that prevent replication of influenza A and B viruses by interfering with the production and release of the virus from cells that line the respiratory tract. To be useful, they both need to be taken within 48 hours of the onset of flu symptoms.
Tamiflu has been approved for treatment of the flu in children over the age of one and for prevention of the flu in patients over age thirteen. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Reliving includes how the lungs reacted, how much mucous was secreted during birth—because during a reliving of birth it is again secreted. Recounting has nothing to do with it.
In reliving there can be bruises from birth that reappear (the doctor's finger marks on the skin), or one begins to gag and choke as one relives oxygen deprivation at birth.
When I discuss right-brain control, it is the orbitofrontal right cortex that has direct connections to the amygdala of the limbic system. With a well-functioning right brain there will be the ability to modulate emotional output. |
Mark Lynas
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 Fish gills are extremely sensitive to ocean chemistry (just as our lungs are to the air), and as their bodies become increasingly acidic, fish and other marine animals may struggle to survive.
Meanwhile, tropical corals will be gradually weakening due to the dissolution of their calcium carbonate skeletons. Across the world, from the coasts of Australia to the Red Sea, reefs will be becoming less and less resilient due to the double whammy of bleaching and ocean acidification. Walk out to sea on a reef in 2090, and it may crumble beneath your feet. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| They tell the lungs to breathe, the liver to detox, and the heart to beat.
"If the signal is altered because of the subluxation," Mannino told me, "the tissues have no other choice than to respond. If it's asthma, they overrespond. If it's a nerve going to the stomach, the digestive process is slowed. If cells aren't instructed to break down food, you're going to have a toxic buildup. In other words, every organ in the body is susceptible to the effects of subluxation. |
| The Three A's: Asthma, Arthritis, and Allergy
Because vitamin C is the major antioxidant in the lungs, it plays a critical role in protecting against oxidative damage. Low intakes of vitamin C from food or supplementation can lead to increased risks for asthma.
A 2005 study done by researchers from the Asthma and Allergy Research Institute in Australia found that the blood concentrations of vitamin C were markedly lower in patients with severe asthma compared to those who had mild asthma or were asthma-free. |
| After warming up, spend one minute working hard enough to break a sweat and give your heart and lungs a challenge. Then slow down and let your heart rate recover for another minute. Repeat. Alternate one minute of exertion with one minute of recovery five times, for a total of 10 minutes. It's a great way to start interval training and really begin to lose the fat.
And your heart will thank you for it at the same time.
Reflexology for PMS
IF YOU SQUINT and don't look very carefully, you might mistake a reflexology treatment for a plain old garden-variety foot massage. But it's not. |
Ron Garner
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| When it is clean and normal we are well and happy; let it stagnate, and it will distill the poisons of decay, fermentation and putrefaction into the blood, poisoning the brain and nervous system so that we become mentally depressed and irritable; it will poison the heart so that we are weak and listless; poisons the lungs so that the breath is foul; poisons the digestive organs so that we are distressed and bloated; and poisons the blood so that the skin is sallow and unhealthy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Your lungs take up a tremendous amount of space in your chest cavity, and when you inhale and really expand your lungs, you are moving the other organs in your cavity and giving them a massage at the same time. Breathing is an excellent way to oxygenate your internal organs and get some movement.
And by the way, your average conventional medicine physician isn’t going to recommend any of this -- nor will he or she even believe any of it. They've never been taught that massage is important for internal organs. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 In contrast to people with chronic fatigue, these patients are usually extremely sick, with evidence of disease in the liver, lungs, or eyes. It's important to know that people with chronic fatigue rarely have very elevated levels of antibodies against early antigen—results that would, indeed, suggest chronic EBV infection. And, in my experience, even if that test is inconclusive, a more sensitive test that looks for the virus itself (known as the polymerase chain reaction, or PGR), rather than for antibodies reacting to its presence, has never been positive. |
| The carbon dioxide goes from the blood into the lungs, where it is excreted with each breath, and levels fall to very low values when a person hyperventilates.
Each of these measures has a range that is considered normal: heart rate from about 60 to about 85; blood pressure from about 100 over 60 to just under 140 over 90; breathing rate per minute from about 10 to 18; and exhaled carbon dioxide from 36 to 44. Then I continued doing these measurements every minute for eight minutes with the person standing while leaning against a wall and not moving. |
| If your breathing is rapid and irregular, and if you don't completely expand and empty your lungs, variability between beats disappears, and your heart beats like a metronome. In general, breathing from your abdomen or belly is healthier than breathing from high in your chest. Chest breathing consumes energy and is inefficient. Abdominal, belly, or diaphragmatic breathing is efficient and will help you stop overbreathing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The body wants to constrict the capillaries in your lungs because it is trying to save your brain.
What is conventional medicine's answer to this production of histamines by the body? Well, of course, it is the prescription of antihistamines, or drugs that are designed to counteract the histamines produced on purpose by the body in order to conserve water. These antihistamines then open up the capillaries in the lungs, making breathing seem easier. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Iron carries oxygen from our lungs through the bloodstream and releases it in the body where it's needed. Iron is built into the enzymes that do most of the chemical heavy lifting in our bodies, where it helps us to detoxify poisons and to convert sugars into energy. Iron-poor diets and other iron deficiencies are the most common cause of anemia, a lack of red blood cells that can cause fatigue, shortness of breath, and even heart failure. (As many as 20 percent of menstruating women may have iron-related anemia because their monthly blood loss produces an iron deficiency. |
| When doctors expect a pregnant woman to give birth prematurely, she is often injected with a drug, usually betamethasone, to help speed up the development of her fetus's lungs, dramatically improving its chance of survival. Now, there are signs that children whose mothers received multiple doses of betamethasone have increased levels of hyperactivity and slower than normal overall growth. A recent University of Toronto study demonstrated that these effects may continue for multiple generations. |
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