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 I suspect it's because 11 of the authors on the study -- 11 -- were on the payroll of drug companies that make pain medications. Now, you know it's one thing to do spin for business -- and people do it all the time -- but not when you're killing tens of thousands of people unnecessarily a year with that. That's just not acceptable.
Mike: Those reading this right now are somewhat used to hearing this from critics of conventional medicine -- these are the people who focus on alternative medicine. But you are an M.D.?
Teitelbaum: Right.
Mike: Yet, you are saying this. |
| Teitelbaum: Well, you want to remember SHIN -- that's your checklist for getting well from pain; sleep, hormones, infection, nutrition. For sleep, you want to start with natural remedies. There's one called the Revitalizing Sleep Formula. It's a mix of valerian, Jamaican dogwood, Sun Theanine and wild lettuce -- and a number of other excellent herbs that work very well for sleep. Anybody with insomnia can take one to four of these at bedtime and it's excellent. I do want to note one thing about theanine, which comes from green tea. |
| It can make all the difference in the world in pain and how you feel overall.
Mike: So, when you say watch out for the blood tests, you're saying they can be inaccurate.
Teitelbaum: Yes.
Mike: A lot of people are misdiagnosed with thyroid malfunctions just from blood tests, correct?
Teitelbaum: No. They're told they don't have thyroid problems.
Mike: Oh, I see.
Teitelbaum: We need to understand what the normal range means for blood tests. |
| The book is "Pain Free 1-2-3" by Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum. Again, thank you for joining me today.
Teitelbaum: You're very welcome. |
| Mike: That's astounding to learn, especially with all the advertising and marketing money going into prescription pain medications. Now, you said you call it "media spin." Can you elaborate on that a little more?
Teitelbaum: Well, let's take a look at the numbers. You have $3 billion being spent on just NSAIDs like Motrin and billions more on Vioxx. You have $4 billion being spent on treating the side effects of Motrin-family medications when people get put in the hospital -- because, as I mentioned, there are over 16,500 deaths a year. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today, I can sit on a stool chair and do hours and hours of work without experiencing any pain at all. Now I can sit on an airplane and relax into the seat without experiencing excruciating pain. I can sit through a movie, or a long trip. All my back pain disappeared as I began to strengthen my abdominal and back muscles.
What does all this have to do with the Swopper product and what I call this miraculous chair? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you think your periods are painful today, just imagine the emotional pain of being diagnosed with breast cancer, undergoing chemotherapy that nearly kills you and having a mastectomy. Once you start down the path of chemical suppression of symptoms of pain, you begin a journey into the world of harmful medicine that will only leave you diseased and bankrupt, addicted to a dozen pharmaceuticals and suffering from liver failure, kidney disease, brain fog and chronic pain. Think carefully about what you're doing to your body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You really want to get your eight to nine hours of sleep a night because, again, your body heals during sleep and makes growth hormones during sleep -- that's what heals the tissues and gets rid of the pain.
Mike: Very good. What else do you have?
Teitelbaum: Well, for hormonal support, the two key hormones would be adrenal and thyroid. If you get irritable when you're hungry, which is hypoglycemia, you need adrenal support. Our Adrenal Stress End is outstanding for that. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If they have pain, they want a pill that will eliminate the pain, and the only difference in this example between patients who turn to conventional medicine and patients who turn to natural medicine is that the natural patient wants a pain pill from a plant. The problem with both patients is that they fail to recognize the internal cause of their pain, or they fail to take ownership of their role in creating the disease they are currently expressing. |
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| REPPED: Back pain is a widespread problem in modern society, and a lot of that pain comes from, believe it or not, lack of exercise of skeletal muscles, lower back muscles, abdominal muscles and so on. So many of us have desk jobs today, and we spend a huge amount of time sitting in a chair that trains our musculoskeletal system to be lazy.
Today I've got some exciting news about a product called Swopper. The Swopper chair is something I purchased several months ago, and have been using ever since. I've found it to be flat out the most impressive active sitting chair I've ever used. |
| That meant I couldn't go to a movie and sit through it without experiencing excruciating pain. I couldn't fly to go on vacation anywhere, because sitting on an airplane was one of the most painful experiences I could imagine. I couldn't drive in a car very far either, because I'd have to stop every hour or so and get out to walk around and stretch. In fact, the situation was so bad that I created a computer workstation so that I could lie down on my back and do my computer work with a keyboard and monitor that were suspended in the air over my body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gerry: The other clinical trial, actually two other clinicals, one is using Bioastin to relieve the pain associated with carpal tunnel syndrome, and finally the pain associated with joints after strenuous exercise.
Mike: So muscle soreness, fatigue, osteoarthritis, all of these seem to respond.
Gerry: Yes. And it seems like it's directed at a large number of health effects, but if you look at the underlying cause of these health problems, it's all free radicals, and so it's really the antioxidant capability of Bioastin to get in and quench free radicals. |
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| In my case, I was dedicated to doing whatever it took to eliminate the pain other than going through surgery, because I knew that spinal surgery was a very dangerous procedure that was also rarely effective. The idea of a doctor cutting into my lower back and poking around with sharp instruments during "exploratory surgery" is not my idea of a good health strategy. I decided to take care of my back pain from the inside out, by fundamentally changing my approach to healthy living.
One of the things that I now do is regular stretching and physical exercise. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 There'd even been some evidence that people can empathetically feel another's pain. A psychologist named Charles Tart in Berkeley had designed a particularly brutal study, administering electric shocks to himself to see if he could 'send' his pain and have it register with a receiver, who was hooked up to machines which would measure heart rate, blood volume and other physiological changes.J What Tart found was that his receivers were aware of his pain, but not on a conscious level. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Now I can sit on an airplane and relax into the seat without experiencing excruciating pain. I can sit through a movie, or a long trip. All my back pain disappeared as I began to strengthen my abdominal and back muscles.
What does all this have to do with the Swopper product and what I call this miraculous chair? Well, even though I trained myself to sit up straight and hold my own back up, if I'd had the Swopper, I could have trained myself much faster and been much more effective in regaining both flexibility and strength.
You see the Swopper encourages something called "active sitting. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you have inflammation, you have pain. The turmeric and quercetin chalcone will knock it down so fast that suddenly -- and I know this because sometimes when I overdo it in yoga or during exercise, and I have pain and I take this stuff -- the pain goes away. If I forget to take it, pow! Within half a day, it is back again.
The Bioperine is in there because there has been research that says Bioperine -- which is a black pepper extract -- will enhance absorption by maybe 25 to 50 percent. I want to get those nutrients in. You can actually taste it. It tastes a little spicy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If they have pain, they want a pill that will eliminate the pain, and the only difference in this example between patients who turn to conventional medicine and patients who turn to natural medicine is that the natural patient wants a pain pill from a plant. The problem with both patients is that they fail to recognize the internal cause of their pain, or they fail to take ownership of their role in creating the disease they are currently expressing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And we're talking about children ages 10+ and adults up to the age of 65, presenting at a Minnesota hospital in the wintertime, complaining of muscle aches and pains and bone pain. Many of these, especially young women in their 20s, were given Motrin or some type of over the counter drug, or even a prescription strength anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs) because the doctors couldn't figure out what was going on. 93% of that entire group of children and adults complaining of bone pain or muscle pain were vitamin D deficient.
Adams: Wow.
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Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Harvard Medical School
The practice teaches that disease is caused by a loss of homeostasis in the body and that correcting one's flow of energy can restore wellness and relieve pain. There are legitimate training programs and considerable empirical evidence that acupuncture appears to have effects beyond placebo, particularly for the treatment of pain. Whether the therapy can directly increase a patient's verbal and motor skills, improve mood, memory, and cognitive function, or increase endogenous levels of neurotransmitters as has been claimed is another story. |
David Steinman
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 For the last ten years or so, I'd tried to go about living blissfully, not really wanting to feel their pain anymore. But now everything had changed in my life and even with my children home with me I felt the pain of aloneness, and I had to find refuge. I had to join the environmental movement again. I needed my soul to touch somebody else's who shared a vision of what could be but who wasn't afraid or unwilling to see what is. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Well, it was so bad that I couldn't sit for more than a few minutes without experiencing excruciating pain. And yet, I was a writer. I used to work for a software company writing documentation. And the pain got so bad that I just couldn't sit anymore. That was a big impairment to my career. I think a lot of people would have just said, "Okay! I'm going to collect workers compensation. I'm injured, I can't work. I'm gonna live out the rest of my life on OxyContin pain killers and be a victim. |
| And meanwhile, I was in such excruciating pain that I had to start standing up while I worked. So I created a desk where I could stand up and write. And that worked quite well. Other times, when the pain got too great, I would have to lie down and use a mouse and computer keyboard across my torso. And I would have a monitor propped up in front of me, hanging suspended from a large desk.
My next thought about the back pain was that maybe this was a flexibility issue, or maybe there was some muscle weakness. So I started getting into stretching and physical rehabilitation. |
David De Angelis
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 Such visual stress may create a different phenomena: the most usual and the ordinary ones are a light headache and some pain in the ocular muscles. This is completely normal, since any bodily muscle (while being trained) is subjected to stress
(therefore the pain) before changing its physiology, strength, and flexibility. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| Some analgesics, known colloquially as "painkillers," work by binding to nicotinic receptors, relieving us from the experience of pain. riety of pharmaceutical companies, trying to understand, develop, and assess various other compounds that would safely stimulate nicotinic receptors without encouraging addiction. While I was at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s, one of the first drug studies I ever conducted in Alzheimer's disease was with Nicorette chewing gum, an early smoking-cessation product that includes nicotine as its active ingredient. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are dozens of other natural health strategies that ease pain as well.
To pull off this public charade of a serious meeting about COX-2 inhibitors, meeting organizers paraded a line of pain victims in front of FDA panelists and got them to beg for the availability of COX-2 inhibitors. The implied message was, "If we can't have Vioxx, we'll suffer!" What this faulty argument fails to mention is the whole universe of alternative treatments, healing foods and natural health therapies that end arthritis pain at least as well as prescription drugs. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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| A psychologist named Charles Tart in Berkeley had designed a particularly brutal study, administering electric shocks to himself to see if he could 'send' his pain and have it register with a receiver, who was hooked up to machines which would measure heart rate, blood volume and other physiological changes.J What Tart found was that his receivers were aware of his pain, but not on a conscious level. Any empathy they might have had was registering physiologically through decreased blood volume or faster beating of the heart ?but not consciously. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, has introduced Tylenol Cool Caplets, a candy-like medicine that offers adult-strength pain medication with a strong, minty taste. This is described as “instant cooling” in advertisements and free samples are being handed out like candy, by skimpy girls wearing revealing outfits who are called the Tylenol Cool Caps Girls. It’s all part of a marketing campaign effort by Tylenol to make the Tylenol brand more hip and cool.
How bizarre is this? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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