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Your Life-Your Choice Issue 08a
Your Life-Your Choice May, 1998
issue 8A
Question & Answer Supplement
So here we are... together again for another series of
informative questions and answers. I know that some very hot
topics are covered in this segment. Feel free to forward this
on to friends that would benefit from the information here.
We have many testimonials sent to us regularly. Most of
them discuss positive results from the use of herbs. These are
really terrific, and Your Life-Your Choice is happy to publish
these. However, as we see, there are many other forms of alternative
treatments as well. As the editor of Your Life-Your Choice, I need
your help to find testimonials relaying positive experiences with
treatments like Reiki, Chiropractic, Dowsing, Iridology, etc. I
know there are many people out there who have a story to tell. Your
story could offer support to someone else and could possibly help
them solve their problem. Send your testimony to
mailto:testimony@life-choices.com with "Testimony Your Life-Your Choice"
in the subject heading.
Size limitations prevent us from publishing all the questions &
answers. If your question is time sensitive, Dr. Abrams is extending
an offer for you to call him on his 800 number to ensure a timely
response. This is a toll free call from anywhere in the U.S.A and
Canada; 1-800-777-1328.
Brigitte Synesael
Your Life-Your Choice Editor
Traditional Medicine Needs Our Help!
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Life-Your Choice, I encourage you to consult with a
reliable professional in your area in regards to any specific
health issue.
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Your Life-Your Choice's Questions & Answers
Hosted by Dr. Norman R. Abrams
(Read his portfolio at http://www.Life-Choice.com/DrAbrams.html)
1. Why Is The Excessive Use Of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory
Drugs Harmful?
Numerous studies have shown that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs (NSAIDs) disrupt the intestinal barrier function and cause
increased permeability. This is of special importance in arthritic
patients treating with NSAIDs because the increased permeability
most likely contributes to the progression of the disease process.
This is an example of relieving the symptoms at the cost of
aggravating the disease. Examples of the most common Non-Steroidal
Anti-Inflammatory Drugs include: Acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol),
Aspirin, Fenoprofen (e.g., Nalfon), Ibuprofen ( e.g., Advil,
Motrin, Nuprin ), Indomethacin (e.g., Indocin, Indometh ),
Meclofenamate (e.g. Baprosyn), Phenylbutazone, Piroxicam (e.g.
Feldene), Sulindac (e.g. Clinoril), Tolmetin (e.g. Tolectin).
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2. What Is The Problem With Exposure To Heavy Metals?
All metals in our environment are toxic at some level of exposure.
Even metals that are required nutrients, such as iron, are toxic
at high levels, while some such as lead, aluminum, and mercury are
toxic at any level of exposure.
Aluminum for example is showing in more and research that it poses
a serious health problem for humans. We now know that aluminum
catalyzes free radical damage to the nervous tissue in the brain.
This is a major problem for those with Alzheimer's disease, because
the ability to transport and detoxify aluminum appears to be impaired.
But a high exposure to aluminum is probably a problem for everyone.
Those individuals on dialysis for kidney failure have to be especially
careful, because a side effect of the chemical used for the procedure
is the leakage of aluminum salts into the body tissues. When the
aluminum builds to a toxic level, these people develop a condition
known as dialysis encephalopathy. This manifests as dementia, speech
disorders, jerking muscles, seizures, and psychotic episodes. Before
symptoms occur, their EEGs ( a measure of electrical activity in the
brain) become abnormal as the aluminum starts to disrupt brain
neurochemistry.
Mercury is also highly toxic, especially to the nervous system. The
tendency of mercury to concentrate in the nervous tissue is well
documented and the role of mercury-containing tooth fillings as a
chronic source is cause for concern. Autopsy samples of the central
nervous system (especially the olfactory [smelling] region and the
pituitary gland) and kidney cortex have revealed a high concentration
of mercury in those having amalgam fillings when compared to
amalgam-free individuals.
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3. What Is The Best Way To Recognize Heavy Metal Overload?
While acute poisoning or high levels of heavy metal toxicity are easy
to recognize, chronic low level exposure can be difficult since the
symptoms can be subtle. A simple and inexpensive test, hair analysis,
can easily warn of exposure. Unfortunately, hair analysis has developed
a controversial reputation because some practioners have inappropiately
used this procedure to try to evaluate nutritional status. The research
is clear, with a few exceptions, hair analysis is not reliable for
measuring mineral status and absolutely worthless for assessing vitamin
status. It is, however, very useful and reliable for detecting heavy
metal exposure and is sensitive enough to detect exposure before it is
bad enough to cause significant clinical symptoms. Hair analysis is
useful for recognizing exposure to mercury, lead, iron, and arsenic.
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4. Which Antioxidant Do I Use To Get The Maximum Free Radical
Destruction Effect?
The extreme diversity of free radicals and the mechanisms and sites for
oxidant damage means that no single antioxidant could possibly provide
all the protection we need. Also, antioxidants and antioxidant enzyme
systems appear to work best synergistically. As might be expected,
studies indicate that a diversity of antioxidants provide more
antioxidant
protection than a single nutrient.
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5. What's The Story On The Drug Ritalin and ADD or ADHD?
I call Ritalin "pediatric cocaine." The drug Ritalin, or its generic
equivalent, methyphenidate HCL, is very similar to cocaine. Both drugs
use the same receptor site in the brain, give the same "high," and in
medical research are used interchangeably. The only difference appears
to be that cocaine leaves the receptor site more quickly, possibly
making it more addictive. All drugs have side effects. Ritalin has been
used for many years, so we are very familiar with the short-term
side-effects of the drug. The known short-term side-effects of Ritalin
include: loss of appetite, decreased growth, tics, visual disturbances,
nervousness, insomnia, depression, social withdrawal, irritability,
abdominal pain, increased heart rate, psychoticlike symptoms. Again
these
are side-effects which occur from short-term use. Since long-term use is
a relatively new phenomenon, the long-term side-effects have yet to be
discovered. The long-term studies are being conducted right now, on our
children, without you or them even being aware of it. The drug companies
make it clear in their drug insert that the safety and efficacy of
long-term use of Ritalin in children is NOT available. The drug insert
that comes with the medication reveals that the medication is not to be
given unless environmental causes of the problem have been ruled out.
And the drug insert advises that Ritalin should not be given without
other concurrent treatments such as academic and behavioral
modification.
Sometimes this insert is removed from the medication package. You can
ask
your pharmacist to include it whenever you get any prescription filled.
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6. What Is Functional Medicine?
This term was coined by internationally recognized nutritional
biochemist
Jeffrey Bland, Ph. D., who defines it as: "The field of health care
which
employs assessment and early intervention to improve physiological,
emotional/cognitive and physical function of the human body." According
to
Dr. Bland: In functional medicine, the presence or absence of a disease
is
of secondary consideration to an understanding of the function or
dysfunction which prevents or allows a disease to occur.....Functional
medicine does not focus on the isolated entity called disease, but
rather
on the specifics of structural and functional mechanisms which comprise
the
whole person at any particular point in his or her life.
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If I didn't answer you question in this months issue of
Your Life-Your Choice and you need an immediate answer
contact me on my Health Hotline At:
1-800-777-1328
This is a free call in both the U.S.A. AND Canada.
Yours for better HEALTH
Dr. Norman R. Abrams
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