Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even when medical staff follow procedures by the book, something as simple as your doctor's necktie - which an Israeli study found to be an unknown source of contamination in hospitals - can derail your recovery.
Even if you decide to undergo surgery (and there are many surgical procedures that have been proven to be largely unjustified, such as coronary bypass surgery, so make your decision carefully), you can take steps to speed your recovery even before you go under the knife. Good nutrition and supplementation helps ensure that small wounds heal quickly. |
| If you undergo surgery in a zinc deficient state, your recovery time will be lengthened, so be sure to test and supplement your zinc levels, if necessary, well before any planned surgical procedures.
A good resource for getting a comprehensive blood test that may help highlight nutritional deficiencies is the Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org)
Vitamin C: Another important component for full post-operative recovery is vitamin C. |
| Even if you decide to undergo surgery (and there are many surgical procedures that have been proven to be largely unjustified, such as coronary bypass surgery, so make your decision carefully), you can take steps to speed your recovery even before you go under the knife. Good nutrition and supplementation helps ensure that small wounds heal quickly. Healthy immune systems also protect you from infection. In addition, the following herbs and supplements are well known for helping the body heal more quickly following surgery or trauma. |
| Acupuncture can help speed wound recovery. Needling the tissues near the wound can boost local circulation and help eliminate scar tissue. |
| Vitamin C: Another important component for full post-operative recovery is vitamin C. According to the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, levels of this vital compound actually drop in burn victims, post-op patients, and other victims of physical trauma. The minimum required intake of vitamin C to maintain healthy bodily function is about 300mg to 1g per day following surgery or other procedures.
Vitamin C is required to make collagen, the connective tissue in the skin that helps healing and prevents blistering. |
| It eases inflammation and speeds injury recovery. I've personally used it to heal from sprains and bruises earned during gymnastics and martial arts.
Chlorella: Japanese studies have found Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF) to be especially effective in speeding up cell growth, a major factor in the natural repair of wounds. Various other studies reveal CGF helps heal ulcers and promote bone and muscle growth. When taken internally, it also acts as an immune-booster. Topically, it functions as a protective cleansing compound for skin. |
David Wolfe
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 Prevention to recovery = 1:5(1 day of prevention is worth 5 days of recovery).
The more you plan, the more effective your plans will become, and the more you can get done in less time. The more you prevent, the healthier you become, and the less time you need to ever spend on recovery.
Within his book, Maximum Achievement, Brian Tracy has outlined twelve steps to achieve goals:
1. Develop an intense desire to achieve your goals.
2. Develop a strong belief in your goals.
3. Write down your goals.
4. Determine how you will benefit from achieving your goals.
5. Analyze your starting point. |
Mark Lynas
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 Indeed, the long-term drying trend which caused such misery and devastation during the second half of the twentieth century goes into full reversal after about 2020 (with one-degree global warming or less), when the Sahel sees a long-term recovery in its rainfall. By 2050 the recovery is in full swing, with 10 per cent more rainfall right across the sub-Saharan zone.
This conclusion is supported by a second study, which projects heavier rains on both the West African coast and into the Sahel as a warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean supplies huge amounts of water vapour to form rain-bearing clouds. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 A government official who was in danger of dying from the ill effects of gluttony asked Eisai to pray for his recovery. Rather than trusting this man's fate solely to the power of prayer, Eisai directed the official to drink tea that Eisai himself had cultivated and prepared. After the official recovered, Eisai gave him a copy of his book, and the official became a strong tea supporter. As the amazing story of tea's contribution to this man's recovery from deathly illness spread, demand for and cultivation of tea increased throughout the island country of Japan. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The exercise simulates your body, but it is the adaptation and recovery period after exercise that ultimately makes you healthier. You do not improve your health during the exercise experience, nor do you burn significant amounts of fat during exercise. Virtually all the health benefits associated with exercise are created during the recovery and adaptation period after exercise, which can take anywhere from 24 hours to several weeks, depending on the intensity of your exercise.
It is during that time your body is using nutrients to adapt and rebuild. |
David Wolfe
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| Prevention to recovery = 1:5(1 day of prevention is worth 5 days of recovery).
The more you plan, the more effective your plans will become, and the more you can get done in less time. The more you prevent, the healthier you become, and the less time you need to ever spend on recovery.
Within his book, Maximum Achievement, Brian Tracy has outlined twelve steps to achieve goals:
1. Develop an intense desire to achieve your goals.
2. Develop a strong belief in your goals.
3. Write down your goals.
4. Determine how you will benefit from achieving your goals.
5. Analyze your starting point. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Virtually all the health benefits associated with exercise are created during the recovery and adaptation period after exercise, which can take anywhere from 24 hours to several weeks, depending on the intensity of your exercise.
It is during that time your body is using nutrients to adapt and rebuild. If you do not have the proper nutrients available during that recovery period, then you are not going to recover fully, and you won't get the full benefits of all the effort you put into exercise! |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 The great thing about exercise is that it fires up the recovery process in our muscles and our neurons. It leaves our bodies and minds stronger and more resilient, better able to handle future challenges, to think on our feet and adapt more easily.
Regular aerobic activity calms the body, so that it can handle more stress before the serious response involving heart rate and stress hormones kicks in. It raises the trigger point of the physical reaction. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 By the time of the interviews, we knew what these workers had not known when they worked at Film recovery Systems. The white powder, which they took from metal barrels with blacked-out labels and mixed into the tanks many times each day, was cyanide. Cyanide salt was the critical ingtedient in the electroplating process that allowed the silver extraction to take place. Cyanide is widely used in the plating industry, but with the mandate of strict precautions. |
| It sought an indictment of murder against the owners of Film recovery Systems. The shutdown of this factory and the prosecution of its owners for murder represented the strongest possible regulatory and legal response. Although no similar prosecution of industrial murder by poisoning had occurred in the United States, indictments were brought and the case did go to trial. Yet even this set of seemingly definitive actions was eroded over time. Despite an initial conviction, the verdict was later overturned on appeal. |
| Plant operations at Film recovery Systems. The image was provided as a photographic transparency slide (2.4 cm x 3.4 cm) to the author in 1985 by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. See also P. D. Blanc et al., "Cyanide Intoxication among Silver-Reclaiming Workers," Journal of the American Medical Association 253 (18 January 1985): 367—371.
Clara Carelittle, full-page illustration (15 cm x 11.5 cm) in Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service, Clara Gives Benzol the Run Around, Workers' Health Series no. 4 (Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941). |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Building muscle protects your joints from injury and facilitates recovery from falls. It also helps you maintain flexibility and balance as you age.
Boost your stamina. As you grow stronger, you won't fatigue as easily. This will be especially noticeable with your general daily activities like carrying groceries or walking up stairs.
The great news about strength training is that research shows you : don't have to put in as much time as we • used to believe. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| His doctor wrote up his case for the medical literature, deeming his recovery a miracle cure. But when he suggested it might have something to do with the running, his doctor "just pooh-poohed it completely," Pyles says.
Pyles never intended for running to become such a central part of his life. He gave up smoking a pipe and quit eating meat, because it made him feel heavy. He merged his growing personal interests with his profession, going into practice as a sports psychiatrist for injured athletes who fall into depression because they can't exercise. |
| If we never get a break, the recovery process never gets started, the amygdala keeps firing, and the production of Cortisol spills over healthy levels. Sometimes the fight-or-flight switch gets stuck in the on position. It can be a function of genetics, according to epidemiological surveys: if you put a random group of people in a stressful public speaking situation, those whose parents suffered from hypertension still show elevated levels of Cortisol twenty-four hours after the speech. |
Stacy Malkan
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 But after a year of grueling treatment, Andrea was in recovery. She took a job as deputy finance director for Diane Feinstein's 1992 campaign for the US Senate. Two months into the campaign, Andrea found the lump in her remaining breast. The first cancer caused her to feel afraid; the second cancer sparked the outrage that created the Breast Cancer Fund. From her living room, Andrea wrote letters to everyone she knew — college friends, former colleagues, doctors, fellow cancer survivors, political connections — asking for money to fund research and patient support programs for breast cancer. |
Ray D. Strand
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 After a brief surgery and recovery, Mark was released from the hospital.
He wasn't home for long. He returned to the hospital within twenty-four hours due to increasing abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting. Mark was now much sicker than he was before the operation.
The young boy was readmitted to the hospital; however, the local doctors were puzzled. They referred Mark to the pediatric gastroenterology department at Loma Linda University Medical Center; there doctors placed him immediately in the pediatric intensive care unit. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| In addition to raising the fight-or-flight threshold, it kick-starts the cellular recovery process I have described. Exercise increases the efficiency of intercellular energy production, allowing neurons to meet fuel demands without increasing toxic oxidative stress. We do get waste buildup, but we also get the enzymes that chew it up, not to mention a janitorial service that disposes of broken bits of DNA and other by-products of normal cellular use and aging—both of which are thought to help prevent the onset of cancer and neu-rodegeneration. |
| Stress and recovery. It's a fundamental paradigm of biology that has powerful and sometimes surprising results.
In the 1980s, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) commissioned a study on the health impacts of sustained radiation exposure. They compared two groups of nuclear shipyard workers from Baltimore who had similar jobs except for a single key difference: one group was exposed to very low levels of radiation from the materials they handled, and the other was not. The DOE tracked the workers between 1980 and 1988, and what they found shocked everyone involved. |
Alex Steffen
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 What tends to dampen such spending most is the introduction of foreign military troops to keep the peace If such troops can be offered for approximately five years on average, then the country in question typically hits a growth-recovery spurt in years 4 and 7 following the end of the conflict, and when the bulk of the country's post-conflict economic recovery is achieved, the odds of slipping back into civil war decrease dramatically."
Opposite, left. The first witness is sworn in before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 5outh Africa, 1395. Opposite, right:' The head of U.N. |
Ray D. Strand
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| About this time a friend of the family shared with Liz that her husband had also had pneumonia and had experienced significant fatigue during the recovery. He took some nutritional supplements, and they had helped him regain his strength. Liz and her friend were aware of my negative attitude toward vitamin supplements, so Liz knew she would need my blessing before trying them. When she asked, even I was surprised at my response: "Honey, you can try anything you want. We doctors certainly are not doing you any good. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Infrared radiation has been proven to speed recovery of wounds and injuries, and infrared LED devices are being tested by NASA to speed the growth of plants in space.
Electromagnetic energy affects every living system, and light is only one narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum. In the last hundred years or so, many open-minded medical pioneers have looked for other healing applications of vibrational energy. This includes people like John Sarno, an expert in mind-body health, and Richard Gerber, the author of "Vibrational Medicine. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| From what we've since learned about the biology of stress and recovery, stress seems to have an effect on the brain similar to that of vaccines on the immune system. In limited doses, it causes brain cells to overcompensate and thus gird themselves against future demands. Neuroscientists call this phenomenon stress inoculation.
What's gotten lost amid all the advice about how to reduce the stress of modern life is that challenges are what allow us to strive and grow and learn. The parallel on the cellular level is that stress sparks brain growth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If they're eating the rump of a cow, or hot dogs made from parts of the cow carcass squeezed through an AMR (advanced meat recovery) machine, it seems like they're way beyond the gross factor. In response, one person asked me, "Why do you think we should eat the brains, anyway?"
The nutritional profile of cow brains
Good question. I don't think people should eat animals at all, but if you're going to eat them, the brain is actually one of the most nutritionally-dense organs found in any animal. From a nutritional standpoint, the brain is the best source of healthy oils in all land animals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you're addicted to meth, or heroin, or nicotine, please seek professional help from a local detox center specializing in addictive substance recovery. What I'm talking about here is a nutritional detox designed to get all the toxic synthetic chemicals out of your liver, blood, kidneys and colon. It's a detox that literally everyone needs to go through. We all have way too many chemicals in our bodies right now, and it takes regular cleansing through programs like this to keep our organs and tissues free of contaminants and functioning at their very best. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In my opinion, there is no such thing as a cancer recovery without a healthy, functioning liver. So start with supporting the liver. Isn't it interesting to note that chemotherapy -- which is still somehow accepted as the mainstream treatment for cancer -- is extremely toxic to the liver? In fact, chemotherapy compromises the body's ability to cure itself of cancer in the future, thereby ensuring continued entrapment in the pharmacological medical system. |
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