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Shattering the false philosophy and junk science of conventional medicine Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These are not solutions to health; these are short-term methods for masking symptoms of disease. The real answers to health are found in nature. In nature, you will discover healing plants all around you. You may have a plant in your back yard that protects the liver and helps detoxify the blood. I bet you think it is a weed, but it's actually the dandelion plant. You might say, "I hear you, Mike, but how do we know that everything you are saying here is true? Where is your science and where is your proof that nature is a better healer than drugs and surgery?

The collapse of health and the downfall of the U.S. economy (preview) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The continued suppression of natural medicine, nutrition, and other forms of alternative care that actually helps patients heal rather than simply masking symptoms. The harmful nature of most prescription drugs: They cause massive nutritional deficiencies and create secondary symptoms or diseases which are almost always treated with more high-cost prescription drugs. The near-zero investment in prevention. While most first-world nations invest substantial sums in health education and disease prevention, the United States doesn't believe in prevention. In the U.S.

Organized medicine remains ignorant of causes, treatments for prostate cancer Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

All they really understand is the allopathic, combative approach to treating or masking symptoms with synthetic chemicals, radiation, chemotherapy or other destructive modalities. The bottom line is that if you're diagnosed with prostate cancer, it is very likely that you are suffering from a sunlight deficiency (among other nutritional deficiencies), and it is simultaneously unlikely that your doctor will have any clue at all about this link. Should you be diagnosed with prostate cancer or breast cancer, it's a great idea to also be checked out for symptoms of osteoporosis.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

While merely masking symptoms short term, most of the prescription drugs taken by millions of patients today cause a multitude of new diseases as a result of their known long-term side effects. For example, all cholesterol-lowering drugs currently on the market are known to increase the risk of developing cancer—but only after the patient has been taking the drug for several years. 8.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

They work with the body's natural functions to shut off the allergic response instead of masking symptoms. Combination remedies are often the easiest way to use homeopathy for allergies. BioAllers has a line of homeopathic combination remedies designed for specific allergies, including Animal Hair / Dander, Grain/Dairy, Grass Pollen, Mold/Yeast/Dust, Pollen/ Hayfever, Sinus & Allergy Nasal Spray, and Tree Pollen Allergy Relief formulas. Q Research is being conducted on the ability of coenzyme Qio to counter histamine for asthma and allergy sufferers.

The Inflammation Syndrome: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, and Asthma Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

Because prednisone and other corticosteroids dampen the immune response, they increase susceptibility to infection, often masking symptoms of active infections, and they interfere with the normal healing of wounds. As a consequence, people taking corticosteroids for many weeks or months are more susceptible to infections; and cuts, scrapes, and more serious injuries are slow to heal. Corticosteroids also interfere with the metabolism of key nutrients, including folic acid, vitamins B6 and B12, potassium, and zinc.

Disease Prevention and Treatment The Life Extension Editorial Staff See book keywords and concepts

Rather than masking symptoms, this herbal preparation attacks the underlying cause of many forms of digestive disorder. Considering the magnitude of the digestive disorders caused by the poor health behaviors of the Eastern Europeans, the fact that this herbal remedy has such a strong track record makes it a fascinating potential solution for Americans. A Popular Digestive Aid in Europe Digest RC was introduced in Europe more than 45 years ago. Today, more than 100 million doses of the product are sold annually in Europe.

Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains May Be Hazardous To Your Health James Braly M.D. and Ron Hoggan M.A. See book keywords and concepts

Symptom Chasing or Treating the Cause Another factor in this mix is that advances in drug research continue to provide increasingly sophisticated chemical tools for masking symptoms and manipulating body chemistry rather than pursuing underlying causes of symptoms. Considerable expenditure of talent, time, and money for symptom chasing invariably reduces available resources for the search for underlying causes. NEW PERSPECTIVES AND PARADIGM SHIFTS Many encouraging perspectives and exciting areas of research have moved to the forefront among prominent researchers.

The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing: A Comprehensive A-Z Listing of Common and Chronic Illnesses and Their Proven Natural Treatments Gary Null, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Natural Treatments Natural medicine reports much success in reversing arthritis because it addresses the cause of the problem, as opposed to just masking symptoms. The consumer should be aware that not all claims for natural arthritis treatments are valid, but that others do work, and can be scientifically validated. Some methods that can produce favorable results are described below: •The Antiarthritis Diet...To prevent and combat arthritis, the types of foods that should be eaten most often are complex carbohydrates with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Drugs designed to block stomach acid, such as Zantac and Tagamet, are standard treatment. By masking symptoms, these appear to alleviate ulcers, at first. But since they do nothing to address the real cause of the problem, ultimately, they may cause more harm than good. The Oriental medical approach has proven helpful to some ulcer patients. In Oriental medicine, not all ulcers are similarly treated. Practitioners carefully diagnose patients, looking for imbalanced systems (meridians), and base their recommendations on these findings.

A Dose of Sanity: Mind, Medicine, and Misdiagnosis Sydney Walker III, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

But Ritalin won't treat these disorders; all it will do is help conceal the fact that they haven't been treated, by masking symptoms crying out for a diagnosis. For patients labeled as "psychotic," the risks of improper diagnosis (or rather, nondiagnosis) are higher still. Thousands of patients suffer serious side effects from potent psychiatric medications, many become addicted, and more than a few die of aplastic anemia and other drug-induced disorders. Some commit suicide, driven to despair by their failure to find relief.

What Drugs Can—and Can't—Do John's story illustrates one of the most dangerous false beliefs of modern psychiatry—the belief that masking symptoms with drugs is equivalent to treating disease. More than twenty million Americans take Prozac, Ritalin, Xanax, Valium, or other potent psychotropic (brain-altering) drugs prescribed on the basis of DSM labels. Most of these patients—and their physicians—honestly believe that these drugs constitute "treatment." But many of these patients would be better off receiving no treatment at all than taking drugs.

These drugs—in addition to masking symptoms of a worsening disorder—can severely compromise a patient's already abnormal brain function. In Who Says You're Neurotic? psychiatrist Abraham Twerski offers the example of a 42-year-old woman, "Claire," admitted to a hospital psychiatric unit after being labeled as severely depressed. Claire's behavior had become bizarre and uncharacteristic—for instance, she suddenly began using foul language, and ordered her mother and father out of her room when they came to visit.

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