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century a young Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis advocated that doctors
wash their hands in between patients. Dr. Semmelweis found that by doing so the
incidence of infectious disease was drastically reduced. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">His peers
called him a “quack, they ostracized him and continued to perform vaginal
exams, surgeries and other medical therapies without washing between patients.
It was believed at the time that bad air was the cause of childbed fever
(puerperal sepsis). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">In spite
of the fact that Semmelweis was able to consistently demonstrate that mortality
rates from childbed fever immediately declined from 18 percent to 1.3 percent,
his peers clung to their beliefs. Not because they had ever been proven but
because this is the way it had always been done. Because of their reluctance to
change, even in the face of what we would all agree to an obvious and common
sense approach to reducing the spread of disease, thousands of people
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Semmelweis
was eventually committed to an insane asylum where he died at age 42. It would
take another 132 years before doctors would realize that sanitary precautions
should be incorporated into daily practice procedures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">In 1928
Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. His discovery was discussed the
very next year in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Dr. Fleming
was ignored by the medical community and it was not until some 15 years later
that penicillin began to be used to treat bacterial infections. Why did it take
so long? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Maurice
Maeterlinck expressed it ever so well with his comment “Each progressive spirit
is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Doctors
are usually down on what they what they aren’t up on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Could
this be the main reason traditional doctors don’t acknowledge the potential
health restoring abilities of nutritional therapy? Most likely it is. Of course
it could be that they are brainwashed into believing that drug therapy is the
only real philosophy with hard based science reviews. Either way, ignorance is
ignorance!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Please
know that doctors and drugs are the third leading cause of death in the United States.
As reported in the Journal of American Medical Association, over 250,000
Americans die each year from medical therapies including at least 113,000 from
the negative effects of prescription medications. Death from medical errors is
now the third cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease and
cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Although
some what dated the study that appeared in two articles in the June 19, 2002
issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Fletcher and
Fairfield reviewed studies published between 1966 and 2002 that investigated
the links between vitamin intake and diseases such as cancer and coronary heart
disease. This article alone should have made traditional doctors take notice of
the healing and preventative powers of supplements.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Folic
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Other
vitamins, such as vitamin E, have been found to reduce cancer risk when
consumed at recommended levels, and vitamin D plus calcium supplements have
been shown to decrease the risks of bone loss and fracture in the elderly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Fletcher
pointed out that most Americans–except those who follow what he described as a
“super-perfect” diet–likely do not get enough of certain vitamins in their
diets and would benefit from multivitamins, as well. </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
recent survey showed that only 20% to 30% of Americans consume at least five
servings of fruits and vegetables per day, the recommended amount.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
evidence promoting the benefits of various vitamins is relatively new, Fletcher
explained, so doctors may not yet be aware of it. Furthermore, vitamins are
considered to be somewhat of an alternative therapy and some doctors have “this
prejudice against anything that’s not very orthodox,” Fletcher stated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">As people
age, they also become less able to absorb some vitamins from their diets, and
research has suggested that people who drink alcohol may need extra folic
acid. In addition, Fletcher said, some physicians may not understand the
importance of vitamin deficiency and may fail to recommend multivitamins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Many
so-called experts will tell you not to worry about taking vitamins if you are
eating a balanced diet. Unfortunately, dieting alone can’t provide enough
essential vitamins and minerals to promote optimal health. For instance, you
would need to consume 5,000 calories per day (mostly fat) in order to get the
recommend minimum (400 IU) of vitamin E, and 12,000 calories per day to get the
minimum amount of chromium. Most of our foods are processed and, therefore, the
nutrients have been leeched out of them. Could this be one of the reasons
pre-senile dementia and Alzheimer’s disease have increased so dramatically over
the last few decades?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thousands
of studies validate the benefits of taking a multivitamin/mineral formula on a
daily basis. These studies have been reported in medical journals, popular
newspapers and magazines. A good multivitamin/mineral formula offers a broad
range of health benefits. Taking a daily multivitamin/mineral formula reduces
the incidence of heart disease, heart attack, stroke, glaucoma, depression,
macular degeneration, diabetes, senile dementia, and various cancers. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">1. Multivitamin Use Is Associated
With Lowering A Risk Factor For Cardiovascular Disease</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">. A study published in the
American Journal of Medicine states that an independent risk factor for
cardiovascular disease, C-reactive protein (CRP), could be reduced by the
intake of a multivitamin. An elevated CRP level found in one’s blood serum is
associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Source: American
Journal of Medicine, Volume 115, and Issue 9</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">2. Daily Multivitamin Use May
Bring Significant Savings To Older Americans.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> According to this study, the daily use of a
multivitamin by older adults could bring about more than $1.6 billion in
Medicare savings over the next five years.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">3. Slash Cancer Odds.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Taking 200 micrograms of selenium
daily for four and a half years cut cancer rate 42 percent and cancer deaths in
half in a group of 1300 individuals. The incidence of colorectal cancer dropped
64 percent and prostate cancer an amazing 69 percent! University of Arizona
Study.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">4. Prevent Alzheimer’s.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Not a single elderly person who
took separate doses of vitamin E (200-800 IU) or vitamin C (500-1000 mg)
developed Alzheimer’s disease during a four-year double blind study. Chicago’s Rush Institute
for Healthy Aging. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">5. Boost Immune System.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Taking 200 IU of natural vitamin
E daily boosted immune functioning in older people. A supplement with only 60
mg of vitamin E daily did not improve immune functioning. Obviously, superior
immune functioning lessens infections, possibly cancer and heart disease. Tufts University
Study </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">6. Stop Heart Attacks.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> A daily dose of 400-800 IU of
natural vitamin E cut subsequent heart attacks in men with heart problems by an
astonishing 77 percent. Cambridge
University, England. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">7. Stop Strokes.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> High doses of B vitamins
decreased the amount of plaque in carotid (neck) arteries by 10 percent during
a four-year study. Blocked carotid arteries can cause strokes. Plaque increased
by 50 percent in non-vitamin B takers. University of Toronto. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">8. Prevent Fractures.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Taking 500 mg of calcium and 700
IU of vitamin D daily for three years significantly cut the rate of bone loss
and non-vertebral fractures in men and women older than age 65. Tufts University
Study. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">9. Save Vision.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Women taking vitamin C
supplements cut their risk of cataracts by 77 per cent. Tufts University
and the National Institutes of Health. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">10. Prolongs Life.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Taking vitamin E and vitamin C
(in higher doses than in a multivitamin) cut chances of death from all causes
by 42 percent. Vitamin E users were 47 percent less apt to die of heart disease
and 59 percent less likely to die of cancer. National Institute on Aging.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">11. Help Decrease The Risk Of
Stroke.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> According
to researchers from Harvard, the long-term dietary intake of folate and vitamin
B12 may help decrease the risk of ischemic stroke. Source: Stroke, Volume 35,
2004</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">12. Vitamin C Deficiency May Be
Linked To Respiratory Disorders.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> In a two-year study, researchers found that vitamin C may
prevent symptoms linked to airway diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Source: Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, Volume 101, Number 10, 2004</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Almost as
unacceptable as not recommending vitamin and mineral supplements is the
recommendation of them based on the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). The RDA
is the measured amount or dosage of nutrient per vitamin and minerals
recommend. The RDA or as I call it the Recommended Disease Allowance, may
keep you from getting Scurvy, but it certainly won’t stand- up to the many
chronic diseases that continue to plague modern man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The U.S. federal
government sets these levels based on the “average adult.” The “average
person plan” assumes that you are an adult under 60 years old who is in good
health, has normal digestion, isn’t overweight, leads a relatively stress-free
life, has no medical problems, doesn’t take any medication, eats a balanced
diet, and consumes 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day. Needless to
say, most of us don’t fit into the definition of the average person defined by
RDA. In fact, most adult women don’t meet the RDA for zinc, Vitamin B, calcium,
magnesium, and Vitamin E. Likewise, most adult men don’t meet the RDA for
zinc and magnesium. Fewer than 29% of people eat 5 fresh fruits and vegetables
a day. Furthermore, 20% of the U.S.
population doesn’t eat ANY fruits or vegetables at all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>The
recommended daily allowance is some fifty years out of date.</b> It was never
intended to advance health, only to prevent malnutrition diseases like scurvy
or rickets. Taking the minimum amount of a nutrient to prevent gross deficiency
diseases doesn’t help those people who want to be truly healthy and not just be
free of symptoms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The RDA
is inadequate if your goal is for prevention and or treatment of heart disease,
cancer, cataracts, depression, senility, diabetes, arthritis and other age
related disorders. For optimal health and well being, many health practitioners
are recommending many times higher than the RDA on certain nutrients. It’s no
secret, for the majority of the U.S.
population the diet is poorly lacking in essential nutrients. Additionally,
nearly all Americans are deficient even in the minimal RDA requirements, and
are therefore exposed to premature death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Taking an
optimal daily allowance multivitamin/mineral formula is the best way to ensure
you obtain and maintain optimal health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
average medical doctor has less than 3 hours of nutrition while attending
medical college. Our health as a nation would be better served if medical
students received more hours in nutrition and prevention than in “drugs are the
only thing to mention” mentality.</span></div>
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My staff loves to answer questions and help others help themselves get and stay
healthy. Give us a <b>call 205-879-2383.</b></span><b> <a href="http://www.drrodgermurphree.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">www.DrRodgerMurphree.com</span></a></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The term
“fibro” was used to designate soft (or fibrous) tissue involvement and
“myalgia” is Latin for “pain”.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Fibromyalgia
was originally thought to be a rheumatologic condition because - like a disease
such as rheumatoid arthritis - it is characterized by musculoskeletal pain. But
research has since shown that there are no abnormalities in the musculoskeletal
system in people with fibromyalgia. Instead, the problem appears to lie in the
pain processing pathways of our central nervous system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The term
Fibromyalgia was created by rheumatologist Dr. Frederick Wolfe in 1984 to
describe a condition affecting primarily women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Of course
if you’re subscribed to my free Health Matters newsletter, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://drmurphreesnewsletters.com/">http://drmurphreesnewsletters.com</a></b>,
you read my article about how Dr. Wolfe now denies that fibromyalgia is a real
disease-Sad but true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Before
1990, no guidelines for evaluating and diagnosing fibromyalgia existed. To
reduce misdiagnosis and confusion, the American College
of Rheumatology (ACR) sponsored a multicenter study to develop these criteria;
the results were published in 1990. In 1992, at the Second World Congress on
Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia, the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia were
expanded and refined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Since
rheumatologists were the first health specialty to promote and ratify the
diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, they became the doctors of choice for
seeing fibro patients. It didn’t matter that may at least early on had no idea
what fibromyalgia was or how to treat it-unfortunately this is often the case
today. Many rheumatologists won’t take any new fibro patients or are openly
skeptical about the condition. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">I believe
rheumatologists are the worst possible doctors to manage a fibromyalgia patient’s
case. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Why? There are several reasons -</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Because
they deal in hard to treat autoimmune diseases, and see patients other doctors
don’t want to see, Rheumatologists have a lengthy waiting list-may take 3 months
to be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">A waiting
list of patients can create a lack of empathy for the longwinded, hard to treat
fibro patient who needs more than a five-minute office visit every 3 months.
“Who cares if you come back I have plenty of other patients waiting in line to
be seen.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rheumatologist
are trained to use drugs, usually incredibly toxic drugs, Methotrexate, gold
salts, Plaquenil, Enbrel, etc.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Here is the warning box info for
Enbrel:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">WARNING</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">SERIOUS
INFECTIONS AND MALIGNANCIES</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">SERIOUS
INFECTIONS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Patients
treated with Enbrel are at increased risk for developing serious infections
that may lead to hospitalization or death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Most
patients who developed these infections were taking concomitant immunosuppressant’s
such as methotrexate or corticosteroids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Enbrel
should be discontinued if a patient develops a serious infection or sepsis.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reported infections include:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Active
tuberculosis, including reactivation of latent tuberculosis. Patients with
tuberculosis have frequently presented with disseminated or extrapulmonary
disease. Patients should be tested for latent tuberculosis before Enbrel use
and during therapy. Treatment for latent infection should be initiated prior to
Enbrel use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Invasive
fungal infections, including histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, candidiasis,
aspergillosis, blastomycosis, and pneumocystosis. Patients with histoplasmosis
or other invasive fungal infections may present with disseminated, rather than
localized, disease. Antigen and antibody testing for histoplasmosis may be
negative in some patients with active infection. Empiric anti-fungal therapy
should be considered in patients at risk for invasive fungal infections who
develop severe systemic illness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bacterial,
viral, and other infections due to opportunistic pathogens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The risks
and benefits of treatment with Enbrel should be carefully considered prior to
initiating therapy in patients with chronic or recurrent infection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Patients
should be closely monitored for the development of signs and symptoms of
infection during and after treatment with Enbrel, including the possible
development of tuberculosis in patients who tested negative for latent
tuberculosis infection prior to initiating therapy.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">MALIGNANCIES</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lymphoma
and other malignancies, some fatal, have been reported in children and adolescent
patients treated with TNF blockers, including Enbrel.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Scary huh? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The black
box warning for Plaquenil is just as scary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Immunosuppressive
medications used by rheumatologists for autoimmune diseases are fraught with
danger. That is the reason these drugs are used only by rheumatologists and not
by internists, family physicians, or other medical specialists. Rheumatology is
a medical specialty developed to prescribe and monitor the side effects of
these high-risk medications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
rheumatologists mentality has been conditioned over the years to continue
prescribe more and stronger symptom suppressing drugs. This is a disastrous
approach for fibromyalgia patients. Most fibro patients can’t tolerate drugs - they
only make them worse. Drugs don’t make you healthy, they can be helpful but
they don’t make you healthy. The only way to reverse fibromyalgia is to get
healthy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Using an
atomic bomb like Enbrel or Plaquenil to treat fibromyalgia symptoms is not only
stupid, it is incredibly dangerous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Traditional
medicine and drug therapy is a dead end for fibro patients. You can
read my past blog Traditional Medicine Fails Fibro below or even better:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">You can
listen to my past First Tuesday of the Month Fibromyalgia Teleconference
recordings here:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://drrodgermurphree.com/fibro-conference-recordings/">http://drrodgermurphree.com/fibro-conference-recordings/</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">My fibro
blog- Traditional Medicine Fails Fibromyalgia</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://treatingandbeatingfibroblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/traditional-medicine-offers-little-for.html">http://treatingandbeatingfibroblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/traditional-medicine-offers-little-for.html</a></span></b></div>
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Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-37633077177848072472012-09-28T11:00:00.000-05:002012-09-28T11:00:05.549-05:00One of The Stupidest Things Ever -<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Absurd New Study Claims Eating Egg
Yolks Is “Nearly as Dangerous as Smoking Cigarettes”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Did you
read the sensational media headlines reporting that eating egg yolks increased
carotid plaque and thus increases the risk of heart attack and stroke?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
authors of the “study” (really a simple questionnaire) found that “carotid
plaque area increased linearly with age after age 40, but increased
exponentially with pack-years of smoking and with egg-yolk years.” This led
them to form a hypothesis—that egg yolks may cause plaque in much the way
cigarette smoking does—and that regular consumption of egg yolks should be
avoided by persons at risk of cardiovascular disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">This is
how medical myths start to take hold. This is like other medical myths full of
junk science, biased views and promoted by those with monetary interests. This
“study” may do to eggs what statin drugs (Lipitor) did to cholesterol. Eggs
aren’t dangerous, unless they are spoiled. Eggs are in fact a health food and
cholesterol is in fact a potent antioxidant needed for maintain healthy cells.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">In fact: low cholesterol is more
dangerous than high cholesterol. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Don’t
believe me? It is all documented in the leading scientific medical journals-you
can read more on my past blog: </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://drmurphree.blogspot.com/2010/08/medical-myths-of-cholesterol-what-you.html">http://drmurphree.blogspot.com/2010/08/medical-myths-of-cholesterol-what-you.html</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Or in my
book, <a href="http://drrodgermurphree.com/heart-disease-what-your-doctor-wont-tell-you/" target="_blank"><i><b>Heart Disease What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You.</b></i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">This study
and the media love fest is nothing more than yellow journalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Don’t
lump the tasty egg, the all purpose omelette, the Sunday morning quish, and the
staple of many gourmet cooking sauces in with a known health robbing, cancer
causing, inflammation generating, habit-smoking cigarettes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">This is
as stupid as saying you shouldn’t eat any fat-remember the low fat, high carb
diet days when we spent a decade gaining more weight than ever and drove our
type II diabetes cases to record highs?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Medical
misinformation creates medical myths. Please don’t be fooled by this “study”
eat all the eggs you want.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Type II
diabetes continues to climb in the United States. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
number of Americans with diabetes continues to increase, according to CDC's
most recent National Diabetes Fact Sheet. So does the number of Americans with
pre-diabetes, a condition that increases their risk of type 2 diabetes, heart
disease and stroke. The National Diabetes Fact Sheet, provides data on how many
Americans have diabetes, as well as information on age, racial and ethnic
differences in diabetes, and on complications of the disease. Below are some
highlights from the fact sheet.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Diabetes
affects 8.3% of all Americans and 11.3% of adults age 20 and older. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Some 27%
of people with diabetes – 7 million Americans – do not know they have the disease.
In 2010, 1.9 million Americans were first diagnosed with diabetes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pre-diabetes
affects 35% of adults age 20 and older, and half of Americans age 65 and older.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pre-diabetes
is a condition in which blood glucose (sugar) levels are higher than normal,
but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The CDC
estimates that as many as <b>1 in 3 U.S. adults could have diabetes</b> by
2050 if current trends continue. Type 2 diabetes, in which the body gradually
loses its ability to use and produce insulin, accounts for 90% to 95% of cases.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Risk
factors for type 2 diabetes include older age, obesity, family history, having
diabetes while pregnant, a sedentary lifestyle and race/ethnicity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">In The
New England Journal of Medicine, Robert Steinbrook, M.D. stated:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The
diabetes epidemic in the United
States continues unabated, with a staggering
toll in acute and chronic complications, disability, and death.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He continues…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The
primary culprits are poor glycemic control over the long term and other major
risk factors, such as hypertension, cigarette smoking, obesity, and elevated
levels of cholesterol or blood lipids.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Children With Type 2 Diabetes Now
Common</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">To make
matters worse, type 2 diabetes is no longer a disease of older adults, but
children and young adults as well.</span></div>
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article published in July, 2008 in an issue of the Archives of Pediatric &
Adolescent Medicine, pediatric endocrinologist Joyce Lee, M.D. stated:</span></div>
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studies suggest that there have been dramatic increases in type 2 diabetes among
individuals in their 20s and 30s, whereas it used to be that individuals
developed type 2 diabetes in their late 50s or 60s…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">215,000,
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so different in today’s society that seems to be causing this disease to be on
an increase?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Research
has shown, those with type 2 diabetes often have low levels of the vitamin, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://store.drmurphreestore.com/diabetic-support-formula.html">biotin</a></b>.
This is a significant finding because biotin appears to be involved in the
synthesis and release of insulin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">In other
words, when there is a biotin deficiency, glucose (blood sugar) utilization is
impaired. It appears that biotin helps improve blood sugar control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">An
article based on a study related to the pharmacological effects of biotin from
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry found that patients with type 2
diabetes had high blood glucose levels that corresponded to lower biotin
levels, whereas, the non-diabetic control subjects had lower fasting blood
glucose levels that corresponded to higher blood biotin levels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">In order
to see if an association existed, the patients with type 2 diabetes where given
a supplementation of 9,000 mcg/day of biotin for one month.</span></div>
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results were significant.</span></b></div>
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month, their fasting blood glucose levels decreased by an average of 45%!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">A study
done in 2006, found that biotin also seems to have an effect on lowering
triglyceride levels; in both the diabetes group as well as the control group.</span></div>
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conclude that pharmacological doses of biotin decrease hypertriglyceridemia.
The triglyceride-lowering effect of biotin suggests that biotin could be used in
the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia.”</span></div>
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another study, involved patients who took biotin in combination with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://store.drmurphreestore.com/diabetic-support-formula.html">chromium</a></b>
(a vital trace mineral used in the body for carbohydrate metabolism and insulin
regulation.)</span></div>
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result showed improvement in blood sugar levels, decrease in LDL cholesterol
and triglyceride levels, and an increase in HDL cholesterol levels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Studies
like these prove the gross nutritional deficiencies that are so apparent in
today’s society. Poor diet, living on an over abundance of carbohydrate
processed foods, cereals, bagels, chips, sweets, sodas, is the bedrock of
faulty metabolism and leads to type 2 diabetes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">I’ve
found that the best way to eliminate type 2 diabetes is to lose weight and take
the right nutritional supplements. My patients with type 2 diabetes are placed
on my Jump Start Weight Loss Program and are usually able to eliminate all
their diabetes meds within 2-4 weeks of starting my program. It is not unusual
for my patients to lose 15-30 pounds in the first month of care. And with this
program not only are patients able to discontinue most if not all of their meds
for diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure, they also keep the weight
off that they’ve lost. I’ve got patients who’ve lost 40, 50, even 100 pounds
and have kept the weight off one year later! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">You can
read more about the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://metabolicresetnow.com/">Jump Start Weight Loss Program Here</a></b>,
or by calling the clinic 205-879-2383.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Here’s an
entertaining and very informative past article about diabetes and the potential
dangers of the common drugs used to treat it- </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://drrodgermurphree.com/diabetes/">http://drrodgermurphree.com/diabetes/</a></span></b></div>
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fatigue is common among those battling fibromyalgia.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
adrenal glands are located atop each kidney. These glands and the hormones they
release allow us to be resilient to day-to-day stress. They allow us to build-up
stamina to stressful situations-to rebound from daily stress or stressors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Individuals
with fibromyalgia will find that their adrenal glands have been stressed to the
max. They will experience symptoms associated with adrenal fatigue including low
energy, brain fog, poor immune function, anxiety, depression, poor sleep, and
other stress depleting symptoms. In short they don’t handle stress very well.
Because of this they will try to avoid stressful situations as much as
possible. Those with severe cases will be become totally withdrawn from social
situations, hibernating in their homes and avoiding stress at all costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Of course
stress also increases their anxiety, makes their symptoms worse and causes them
to have flare-ups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Because
they’ve lost their ability to handle stress if they have a day when they feel
good and over do it (clean the house, paint the playroom, grocery shopping,
etc.). Then they usually crash the next day. These flares are repeated over and
over when a person suffers with adrenal fatigue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Once
adrenal exhaustion sets in, it’s not long before the body begins to break down.
Getting “stressed out” and staying “stressed out” is the beginning of chronic
illness for most, if not all, of the fibromyalgia patients I work with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">One way
to repair adrenal fatigue and boost stress coping abilities is to supplement
with the over the counter hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
adrenal cortex, when healthy, produces adequate levels of
dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">DHEA boosts:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Energy,
both mental and physical</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Sex
drive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Resistance
to stress, builds tolerance and stamina to stress and stressors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Self-defense
mechanisms (immune system)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• General
well being </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And helps to raise:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Cortisol
levels-our major stress coping hormone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Overall
adrenal function</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Mood </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Cellular
energy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Mental
acuity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Muscle
strength</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• Over
all stamina</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">DHEA is
notoriously low in my fibromyalgia patients. Chronic stress initially causes
the adrenals to release extra amounts of stress hormone cortisol. Continuous
stress raises cortisol to abnormally high levels. Then the adrenal glands get
to where they can’t keep up with the demand for more cortisol. As the cortisol
levels continue to become depleted from on going stress the body attempts to counter
this by releasing more DHEA. Eventually they can’t produce enough cortisol or
DHEA. This is where most of my patients find themselves in-low DHEA levels from
years of stress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Aging
makes holding on to DHEA even tougher. Even in healthy individuals, DHEA levels
begin to drop after the age of 30. By age 70, they are at about 20% of their
peak levels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">DHEA
helps prevent the destruction of tryptophan (5HTP), which increases the
production of serotonin. This helps provide added protection from chronic
stress. Serotonin is one of the most important stress coping chemicals. This
happy hormone increases or moods, reduces pain (increases pain threshold), and
is responsible for stimulating the production of the sleep hormone melatonin.
If you’ve read my book, <a href="http://drrodgermurphree.com/treating-and-beating-fibromyalgia-and-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/" target="_blank"><i>Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</i></a>, you know the importance of 5HTP and serotonin. And I spend quite a bit
of time discussing the merits of DHEA for reversing anxiety and depression in
my book, <a href="http://drrodgermurphree.com/treating-beating-anxiety-and-depression/" target="_blank"><i>Treating and Beating Anxiety and Depression With OrthomolecularMedicine. </i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">DHEA is
one the most effective antianxiety therapies available and much safer than
benzodiazepine drugs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Studies
continue to show low DHEA to be a biological indicator of stress, aging, and
age-related diseases including neurosis, depression, peptic ulcer, IBS, and
others.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">DHEA and Immune Function</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
decrease in DHEA levels correlates with the general decline of cell-mediated
immunity and increased incidence of cancer. DHEA protects the thymus gland, a
major player in immune function. DHEA is a potent immune booster. It is one of
my go to supplements when treating patients with poor immune function including
those with chronic fatigue syndrome and shingles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">To know
if you need to start taking over the counter DHEA, have your blood tested. The
normal range is quite large and so most doctors will tell you if you have
DHEA show up above 20 you are good. Don’t listen to this nonsense. Numerous
studies and 17 years of clinical experience show that optimal levels of DHEA
are needed for optimal health. For women optimal DHEA levels should be above
250 and for men closer to 350.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Chronic
poor sleep is the beginning of fibromyalgia. Sure chronic pain and even fatigue
get all the press, but poor sleep is the real nail in the coffin for
fibromyalgia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Poor
sleep leads to more pain, inflammation, brain fog, depression, fatigue,
headaches, IBS, RLS, weight gain, and other health robbing symptoms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Melatonin
is the primary hormone of the pineal gland and acts to regulate the body’s
circadian rhythm, especially the sleep/wake cycle. When administered in
pharmacological doses (1-3mgs), melatonin acts as a powerful sleep-regulating
agent that controls the circadian rhythm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The same
area of the brain that releases melatonin also regulates the happy hormone
serotonin. Serotonin helps to produce melatonin. If you are deficient in
serotonin, you’ll also be deficient in melatonin (can’t sleep). If you’re low
in serotonin, I recommend you start taking 300mg 5HTP before beginning
melatonin therapy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Melatonin
is affected by a person’s exposure to light. Melatonin levels start to rise as
the sun goes down and drop off as the sun comes up. The retina (eyes) are
extremely sensitive to changes in light. An increase in light that strikes the
retina triggers a decrease in melatonin production. Conversely, limited
exposure to light increases melatonin production. This explains why some
individuals suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Chronic
stress and depletion of stress coping chemicals including serotonin, 5-hydroxytryptophan
(5HTP)• exposure to bright lights at night</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">•
exposure to electromagnetic fields</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">•
NSAIDs (Celebrex, Vioxx, Mobic, Alleve, Bextra,etc.)</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• SSRIs, yes the very same antidepressants that many take
for FMS, including Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Paxil, and Lexapro.</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• anxiety meds (benzodiazepines) like Klonopin, Ativan,
Xanax, Restoril, etc.</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• anti-hypertensive meds
(beta-blockers, adrenergics, and calcium channel blockers) including, Inderal,
Toprol, Tenormin, Lorpressor, etc.</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">•
steroids</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• over 3 mg. of vitamin B12 in a
day.</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• caffeine</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• alcohol</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• tobacco</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• evening exercise (for up to
three hours afterwards)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-hansi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">• depression</span></div>
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of addressing the cause, countless pharmaceuticals have been created to treat
the symptoms of these conditions (many based on serotonin, the
very hormone that is dependent upon producing your natural sleep
hormone melatonin). Most patients are taking sleep drugs that don’t promote
deep restorative sleep (benzodiazepines-Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, Seroquel,
etc.) and don’t ever feel rested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Popular
prescriptions for insomnia have recently made headlines due to “Risk of Death”.
The following are only some that have been named:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">“People who took more than 132 pills
a year were not only five times more likely to die, but were also at greater
risk of developing several types of cancer, and 35 percent more likely to be
diagnosed with any type of cancer, overall”</span></i></div>
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eye opening article;</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> ”Experts have warned
that sleeping pills prescribed in the UK could increase the risk of death
more than four-fold.”</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The benefits of hypnotics, as
critically reviewed by groups without financial interest, would not justify
substantial risks.“ <a href="http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16178483">Sleeping Pills
‘Quadruple Risk Of Death’</a></span></i></div>
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treating anxiety is almost endless, however some of the more popular include:</span></b></div>
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Bongiorno, naturopath, wrote an interesting article in Psychology Today. He
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">“These anti-anxiety and
antidepressant medications are among the most prescribed in the United States –
and possibly the most dangerous. According to a report in the 2010 Canadian
Journal of Psychiatry, people who use anti-anxiety medication have a 36%
increased mortality risk. That means persons using these drugs are almost 40%
more likely to die than people who do not use them…”</span></i></div>
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sleep can and must be corrected preferably with natural supplements which
correct the cause, low serotonin and or melatonin. Sleep drugs potentially
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">You May Have A Stupid Doctor If-</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
tells you fibromyalgia doesn’t exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
dismisses your fibromyalgia symptoms as nothing more than you being a
hypochondriac-someone wanting attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
tells you that more exercise, sleep or losing weight is all you need to do to
for your fibromyalgia symptoms-you know the doctor who says “you just need to
improve your sex life, take a vacation, lose some weight, your just depressed,
it is just PMS…”Give me a break, this doctor doesn’t have a clue!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">You May Have A Stupid Doctor If</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
tells you that all your blood work looks normal so you must be a “drug seeker.”
It may not occur to this stupid doctor that you never mentioned you wanted pain
medication, that in fact you have repeatedly declined to take pain meds in the
past. What you are really seeking is to have a doctor listen, understand and
help you feel better.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">You May Have A Stupid Doctor If-</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
fails to order the proper tests, especially but not limited to thyroid tests. Simply
following the herd and only ordering routine tests, including “the normal” thyroid
tests, stimulating hormone (TSH) and a T4 (Thyroxine) is similar to trying to
critique <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sound of Music</i> after
only watching the first 20 minutes of the movie/play. Your synopsis is-Julie
Andrews was a quirky nun. Ok, what about the Captain, his children, the Nazi
party, the wedding, and the escape? My point is stupid doctors are happy to
stay stupid. They don’t care to practice the art of doctoring, being a
detective, investigating anything outside the routine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">They’re
happy to follow the herd, not make any waves and dispatch the drugs the pharmaceutical
rep asks them to based on “this is how we’ve always done it.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sorry but it burns me up that patients go to
their doctor with all the symptoms of low thyroid-fatigue, depression, anxiety,
elevated cholesterol, brain fog, weight gain, cold hands, cold feet, swelling,
tingling pains, constipation, hair loss-only to be told their blood work looks
fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">They
totally miss the diagnosis because they don’t go the extra mile (“this is how
we’ve always done it”). They are then only too happy to promote life draining
drugs to cover up the hypothyroid symptoms-Ritalin for low energy, Lipitor for
elevated cholesterol, Zoloft for depression, Lyrica for tingling pain…it just
goes on and on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
patient’s symptoms and poor health continue to grow year after year when all
the stupid doctor needed to do was run the right tests, or think outside the box
and recommend prescription or over the counter thyroid hormone therapy. Correct
the cause, low thyroid and all the symptoms go away!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">You May Have A Stupid Doctor If-</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
dismisses the very real condition known as adrenal fatigue. Adrenal fatigue
occurs when your stress coping glands, the adrenals become to stressed to
perform properly. Stress is definitely the catalyst for disease! They will tell
you your symptoms associated with adrenal fatigue, low energy, brain fog, low
immune function, depression, poor sleep, weight gain, etc. are from getting
older or all in your head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Why? Because
doctors are evaluating blood work for disease not function. They don’t care
that your adrenals aren’t functioning at optimal levels (to allow you to deal
with and rebound from stress). They only care if you have TOTAL adrenal failure,
Addison’s disease. Blood tests won’t show adrenal fatigue but a four-sample, 16-hour
saliva test will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Guess
what else stupid doctors don’t believe in, saliva tests. This despite they’ve
been proven valid and are recognized by insurance companies, accredited labs, Harvard Medical School,
and other leading organizations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
has you taking two different SSRI or SSNRI antidepressant medications. These
drugs, including Savella, Cymbalta, Effexor, Celexa, Zoloft, Paxil, Pristiq,
and Prozac are supposed to help your brain re-uptake the happy hormones
serotonin and or norepinephrine. It makes no sense to be on more than one of
these drugs at the same time-you only increase the risk of more side effects
(including poor sleep, depression, anxiety, muscle pain, etc.). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">If you
stop to get gas why would you mix 89% with 91% unleaded fuel? You wouldn’t. If
you need more fuel you simply increase the cars intake, you don’t mix them.
Mixing these drugs is a sign of a lazy and stupid doctor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
has you taking a stimulant drug or drugs and a relaxant or tranquilizing drug.
Examples include-taking Ritalin, Adderall, Strattera, Intuniv, Vyvanse,
Wellbutren, Effexor, Cymbalta, Savella, or Pristiq and a benzodiazepine drug
for anxiety including Ativan, Xanax, Seroquel, Klonpin, Valium or Busbar. One
drug is revving you up the other is making you a zombie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lazy or
stupid doctors are happy to over medicate you. They don’t take time to study
how to naturally reduce your anxiety, which after the fact, you can and should
use natural amino acids (which make the happy, calming and or stimulating brain
hormones, serotonin and norepinephrine)-no one has a drug deficiency!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">He or she
has you taking a potentially stimulating drug while you are complaining of
insomnia. It used to surprise me to see doctors recommending their patients
take a SSRI or SSNRI at bedtime. Why? Because these drugs can, not only
re-uptake the calming hormone serotonin, they can also re-uptake the stimulating
hormone adrenaline. Now I may not be “a real doctor,” I’m only a little
chiropractor nutritionist, but I know enough about biochemistry and physiology
and after 17 years experience of treating fibro I know you don’t do anything to
potentially sabotage deep restorative sleep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Timed-release
stimulant drugs including some antidepressants and Ritalin are notorious for
causing sleep disorders. AND you should know that these drugs deplete your
natural sleep hormone melatonin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">But I’m
sure the stupid doctor simply increased your sleep medication or added another
potentially dangerous drug to knock you out at night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Well I
could go on and on about stupid doctors but I’ve got to finish up now so I can
pack my clothes for my weekend seminar on Functional Medicine. I’ll be learning
about more tests that stupid doctors don’t use or even know about. I’m happy
not to follow the herd, and strive to be a smart doctor, even though I’m still
learning how to work the new TV remote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
majority of my fibro and CFS patient's complain of low thyroid symptoms. They
relate that they, and sometimes even their doctors, suspected a thyroid problem
only to have their blood work come back "normal". Most physician's
won't recommend thyroid replacement therapy if the blood tests come back
"normal". Most don't know or choose not to accept the well-documented
studies that show a low body temperature is indicative of low thyroid function
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">And most
doctors don’t realize that blood tests for low or hypothyroidism is notoriously
inaccurate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Do you
have a number of these symptoms, associated with hypothyroidism- fatigue,
headaches, dry skin, swelling, weight gain, cold hands and feet, poor memory, brain
fog, hair loss, hoarseness, nervousness, low sex drive, brittle nails,
constipation, poor immune function, chronic sinus infections, high cholesterol,
high or low blood pressure, anxiety, depression, joint and or muscle pain, and
burning or tingling sensations in the hands or feet? Reads like the symptoms of
fibromyalgia and or CFS doesn’t it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ok, how
many symptoms did you have? Several I imagine. So if you have most of the
symptoms associated with hypothyroidism, why doesn’t your blood test show that
you in fact do have hypothyroidism? Good question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">One major
reason is that most doctors don’t do the complete tests to uncover
hypothyroidism, especially when it comes to those with fibromyalgia and or CFS.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">You
may have a common autoimmune disease known as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">It may be the most common thyroid
disease, especially with women with fibromyalgia. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">What
is Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis - </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is an autoimmune thyroid disease
where the immune system immune system aggressively attacks your thyroid gland-attempting
to destroy your gland as if it’s some dangerous enemy. It can cause nodules or
lumps in the thyroid. However most of the time there is no physical change in
the appearance of your thyroid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">It
typically starts out silently, slowly, but soon enough inflammation, low
thyroid function and gradual destruction of your thyroid gland begins-symptoms
like fatigue, weight gain, or other symptoms associated with low thyroid
function, become common. Unfortunately typical blood tests (TSH, T4 blood levels)
won’t uncover this disease! Symptoms from thyroiditis can go on for years and
years. Doctors may continue to suspect from all your symptoms you have
hypothyroidism but since your blood work always comes back “normal,” you must
just be depressed or lazy or….here take an antidepressant. </span></div>
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after year your doctor treats the symptoms of the uncovered Hashimoto’s disease
with drug after drug-antidepressants for your depression, cholesterol medicine,
high blood pressure medicine, stimulant drugs for your fatigue…it goes on and
on. Why not treat the CAUSE of this symptoms-the Hashimoto’s?</span></div>
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are the symptoms of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Again for most, the symptoms are silent–at least
in the early stages. But eventually, you start to notice the same symptoms of
hypothyroid, including poor stamina, easy fatigue, feeling cold, gaining
weight, dry hair and skin, constipation, etc.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">There
are special blood tests to uncover Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, which I routinely
perform on ALL my patients-why would you want to miss such a valuable piece of
information? </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If your fortunate enough to get a doctor who isn’t
blindly following the herd, and does actually have some “smarts” and runs special
thyroid tests to uncover Hashimoto’s, they’ll typically take a wait and see
approach to a positive test. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This ridiculous! “Miss Jones you have the beginnings
of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis but since we can’t treat it affectively with
prescription drugs, or at least not until your thyroid has been destroyed from
the Hashimoto’s disease.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Doctor, how will you know when my thyroid has been
destroyed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Your thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level will
finally be elevated and we will then be able to prescribe a synthetic thyroid
hormone like Synthroid or Levothyroxine, which you’ll need to stay on for the
rest of your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Allowing
the attack to continue on your thyroid until your TSH is elevated is crazy-not
only last for years, but cause all sorts of problems along the way of its
destruction, including years and years of poor health. Instead, why not just
stop the attack and all the consequences?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Why
because traditional medicine doesn’t have a drug to stop the attack.
Fortunately there natural over the counter remedies and protocols that will in
fact stop the destruction and correct the altered thyroid function.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Listen if
you have symptoms similar to the ones discussed above do yourself a favor find
a doctor who’ll do more than order the typical run of the mill tests. You know
what I’m talking about, the same tests your doctors runs every year and then
reports your labs look great it is just your fibromyalgia that is the problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The real
problem is you’ve got a doctor or doctors who are content to do the same tests,
ask the same questions, and prescribe the same recommendations, and you get
worse every year. WHAT YOU NEED is a detective, a health professional who based
on his or her experience knows that the only way to reverse a complicated
illness like fibromyalgia is to order the uncommon tests (no one with
fibromyalgia is common), ask the questions not asked, and pursue every health
clue until you are know the TRUE cause of the symptoms-then start treating the
CAUSE not the symptoms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">If you
suspect you have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or a low thyroid function and can’t
get your doctor to help you then please consider taking the time to find a
doctor who will listen to you and order the right tests. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">I’ve been
fortunate enough to have uncovered hundreds of missed Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
cases and have helped spare these patients of years of misery. There are ways
to correct Hashimoto’s thyroiditis short of letting your thyroid burn out and
health become shattered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">I’ve
helped thousands reverse their fibromyalgia and get their life back. Are you
next?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Magnesium is one of the most
important minerals in the body-especially for those with fibromyalgia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is responsible for proper
enzyme activity and transmission of muscle and nerve impulses, and it aids in
maintaining a proper pH balance. It helps metabolize carbohydrates, proteins,
and fats into energy. Magnesium also helps synthesize the genetic material in cells
and helps to remove toxic substances, such as aluminum and ammonia, from the
body. Magnesium and calcium help keep the heart beating; magnesium relaxes the
heart, and calcium activates it. A deficiency of magnesium, then, may increase
the risk of heart disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Magnesium also plays a significant
role in regulating the neurotransmitters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">A deficiency can cause muscle
pain, joint pain, headache, fatigue, depression, leg cramps, high blood
pressure, heart disease and arrhythmia, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome,
insomnia, hair loss, confusion, personality disorders, swollen gums, and loss
of appetite. High intake of calcium may reduce magnesium absorption. Simple
sugars and/or stress can deplete magnesium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Magnesium is a natural sedative
and can be used to treat muscle spasm, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and
constipation. It is also a potent antidepressant. It helps with intermittent
claudication, a condition caused by a restriction of blood flow to the legs.
It’s effective in relieving some of the symptoms associated with PMS, and women
suffering from PMS are usually deficient in it. New studies are validating what
many nutrition-oriented physicians have known for years: a magnesium deficiency
can trigger <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>migraine headaches.
Magnesium also helps relax constricted bronchial</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">tubes associated with asthma. In
fact, a combination of vitamin B6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">and magnesium, along with
avoidance of wheat and dairy products,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">has cured many of my young
asthmatic patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Unfortunately, dietary magnesium
intake in this country is steadily declining. It has been consistently depleted
in our soils and further depleted in plants by the use of potassium- and
phosphorus containing fertilizers, which reduce a plant’s ability to uptake magnesium.
Food processing also removes magnesium, while high-carbohydrate and high-fat
diets increase the body’s need for it. Diuretic medications further deplete
total body magnesium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is estimated that up to 80% of
those with FMS/CFS are deficient in magnesium.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">1)</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">
Excessive stress in your life whether from physical, emotional, or
psychological stressors. Stressful conditions cause the body to use more
magnesium and a lack of magnesium tends to make stress responses more severe.
The hormones associated with stress, adrenaline and cortisol, were also
associated with magnesium deficiency.</span></div>
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or drinking highly sugary products including those with artificial sugar.
Refined sugar has no magnesium and actually causes your body to excrete
magnesium through the kidneys. In addition, these products also strip your body
of many other highly essential nutrients and can leave you at risk for many
health problems.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">3)</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Drinking
alcoholic beverages. Alcohol also increases kidney excretion of magnesium.
Alcohol also tends to lower the efficiency of your digestive tract and lower
Vitamin D levels, which can further lower magnesium levels. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">4)</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Drinking
caffeinated beverages. Caffeine works similarly to refined sugar in that it
causes the kidneys to excrete magnesium.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">5)</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Taking
diuretics, heart medications, asthma medication, birth control pills, or
estrogen replacement therapy. These medications increase magnesium excretion
through the kidneys and can lead to deficiency.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">6)</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Drinking
dark colored carbonated beverages. The phosphates contained in dark beverages
bind with magnesium in the body to reduce your magnesium levels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">In the “old days,” when I used to
own and oversee my medical practice we would have patients come into the clinic
for high dose vitamin and mineral IV therapy. These IVs had large doses of
magnesium, as well as other vitamins and minerals and patients usually felt
tremendously better after receiving them each week. The IVs weren’t without
fault-they were expensive, $75-$90 a treatment, required one and half hours to
be administered and their results were short lived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Realizing the shortcomings of
these IVs, I set out to create a “pack” of easy to take high dose supplements
that could be taken in a pill and capsule form. This is where my <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://store.drmurphreestore.com/cfsfibro-pack.html">CFS/Fibromyalgia
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://store.drmurphreestore.com/cfsfibro-pack.html">The
CFS/Fibro Formula</a></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">
is loaded with the high doses of the essential nutrients including all the
vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids, malic acid, and extra
magnesium (680mg).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Amino acids are what make our
brain chemicals. They help restore normal brain function, increase mental
clarity, reduce depression, anxiety, and fatigue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Essential Fatty Acids reduce pain,
inflammation, depression, anxiety, allow brain cells to communicate with one
another, increase mental clarity, and boosts energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Formula contains all the high dose
vitamins and minerals based on The Optimal Daily Allowance according to
Orthomolecular Medicine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In any given 1-year
period, 9.5 percent of the population, or about 18.8 million American adults,
suffer from depression. 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The indirect and direct
costs of mood disorder illnesses totals over 43 billion dollars a year.
Depression and related mood disorders rank behind high blood pressure as the
most common reason people visit their doctors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Most individuals who
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And in fact as many as 10%
of the U.S.
population has taken one of these medications. Prescription antidepressants
sales reached a total of 37 billion in sales in 2003, which came out to $9
million more than was spent on treatments for the heart, arteries and blood
pressure. 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In 2003 over one million
American children were taking an antidepressant medication. 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">However, several studies
show that between 19-70% of those taking antidepressant medications do just as
well by taking a placebo or sugar pill. 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And while patients are
attempting to correct their mood disorders with prescription dugs that may or
may not be more effective than a sugar pill, all of these drugs have potential,
sometimes serious, side effects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Prozac has been associated
with over 1,734 suicide deaths and over 28,000 adverse reactions.6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Prescription
antidepressants can cause depression, anxiety, addiction, suicidal tendencies,
tremors or involuntary muscle spasms, and senility. Yes, prescription
antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs can and do cause depression and
anxiety.7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The most popular
antidepressant drugs are known as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors
(SSRI’s). SSRI’s including the drugs Lexapro, Prozac, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft
are supposed to help the brain re-uptake the brain chemical or neurotransmitter
known as serotonin. Effexor and Cymbalta, are designed to re-uptake the
neurotransmitters, serotonin and norepinephrine. Using these drugs is analogous
to using a gasoline additive to help your car get more mileage out of the
gasoline in the tank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Unfortunately, many of the
individuals who suffer from mood disorders, don’t have any serotonin in their
brains to re-uptake. A gasoline additive poured into an empty gasoline tank
doesn’t help much, if at all. They may explain why patients often switch from
one antidpressant drug to another in hopes of feeling better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Those suffering from
anxiety are commonly prescribed one of the benzodiazepine (tranquilizer)
medications including Ativan, Xanax or Klonopin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">National surveys show that
5.6 million adults over the age of 65 are now taking tranquilizers. 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These medications are
associated with numerous unwanted side effects including poor sleep, seizures,
mania, depression, suicide, ringing in the ears, amnesia, dizziness, anxiety,
disorientation, low blood pressure, nausea, fluid retention, tremors, sexual
dysfunction (decreased desire and performance), weakness, somnolence (prolonged
drowsiness or a trance-like condition that may continue for a number of days),
and headaches.9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Over 73,000 older adults
experience drug-induced tardive dyskinesia (tremors or uncontrollable shakes).
For many, these tremors are permanent. 10</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Orthomolecular Medicine</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Fortunately for those
looking for a safer, often times more effective way to beat mood disorders, a
group of progressive minded physicians helped pioneer a new way of treating
mental disorders, known as orthomolecular medicine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In 1968, two-time Nobel
Prize-winner Linus Pauling, Ph.D., originated the term
"orthomolecular" to describe an approach to medicine that uses
naturally occurring substances normally present in the body. "Ortho"
means correct or normal, and orthomolecular physicians recognize that in many
cases of physiological and psychological disorders health can be reestablished
by properly correcting, or normalizing, the balance of vitamins, minerals,
amino acids, and other similar substances within the body. And unlike drug
therapy, which attempts to cover-up the symptoms associated with a mood
disorder, orthomolecular medicine seeks to find and correct the cause of the
illness.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Amino Acid Therapy</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Medical science has now
determined that how we feel is largely controlled by the foods we eat and how
well these building blocks are converted into brain transmitting chemicals
called neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are brain chemicals that control
our moods. You may remember that chains of essential and non-essential amino
acids make up proteins. Many of these amino acids are converted into
neurotransmitters. The brain needs adequate amounts of protein and their amino
acids for the production of neurotransmitters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Neurotransmitters are
produced from the amino acids in the foods we eat. Certain amino acids along
with B vitamins, and minerals, produce the neurotransmitters. The
neurotransmitters that cause excitatory reactions are known as catecholamines.
Catecholamines, epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenaline) are derived from
the amino acid phenylalanine and tyrosine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Inhibitory or relaxing
neurotransmitters including serotonin, is produced from the amino acid
tryptophan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Supplementing with
5-hydroxytrryptophan (5HTP), a form of tryptophan helps raise serotonin levels.
5HTP is available over-the-counter and works extremely well for most patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Studies show that 5HTP can
be as effective as antidepressant drug therapy including SSRI medications.11-12</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">S –adenosylmethionine
(SAMe) is a potent fast-acting natural antidepressant that is synthesized in
the body from the amino acid methionine. SAMe has been proven through over one
hundred-plus studies to be an effective over the counter supplement for
reversing depression.13-14 Meta-analysis studies showed that 92 percent of
those on SAMe improved compared to 85 percent on Elavil or other tricyclic
antidepressant drug.15-16</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Amino acid replacement
therapy offers far less risk and far more long-term benefit than prescription
antidepressant drugs alone. With the ever-growing list of mind-altering drugs
growing each year, isn’t it time to consider whether the patient has a
nutritional insufficiency instead of SSRI deficiency?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1. Robins LN</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">, Regier DA (Eds). Psychiatric
Disorders in America, The
Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study, 1990; New York: The Free Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">2. Beth
Hawkins, A Pill is not Enough, City Pages.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Vol 25
issue 1225 Minneapolis MN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">3. JAMA
February 23, 2000;283:1025-1030,1059-1060</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">4. Drug
report barred by FDA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Scientist
links antidepressants to suicide in kids</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Rob
Waters, Special to The Chronicle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Sunday,
February 1, 2004</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">5.
Joan-Ramone Laporte and Albert Figueras,“Placebo Effects in Psychiatry,”Lancet
334 (1993):1206-8.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">6. Death
and near death attributed to Prozac, Citizens Commission on Human Rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">7. Whittle
TJ, Wiland Richard, The story behind Prozac the killer drug, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Freedom
Magazine, 6331 Hollywood BLVD.,
suite 1200 Los Angeles, CA 90028.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">7.
Monthly Prescribing Reference Haymarket Media Publication Nov 2005, New York NY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">8. Sidney
Wolfe, Larry Sasich, and Rose-Ellen
Hope, Worst Pills Best Pills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Pocket
Books New York, NY 1999 pg179.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">9. Sidney
Wolfe, Larry Sasich, and Rose-Ellen
Hope, Worst Pills Best Pills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Pocket
Books New York, NY 1999 pg11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">10.
Sidney Wolfe, Larry Sasich, and
Rose-Ellen Hope, Worst Pills Best Pills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">11.
Birdsall T., “5-Hydroxytryptophan: A Clinically Effective Serotonin Precursor”
Alt Med Rev</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1998;3(4):271-280.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">12. W.
Poldinger, B. Calancini, W. Schwartz, “A functional-dimensional approach to
depression: Serotonin deficiency as a target syndrome in comparison of 5HTP and
fluvoxamine,” Psychopathology 24 (1991):53-81.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">13.
Mischoulon D, Fva M. “Role of S-adenosyl-L-methionine in treatment of
depression: a review of the evidence.” Am J Clin Nutr 2002 Nov;76(5):11585-615.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">14.
Bressa, GM. “S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (SAMe) as an antidepressant: meta-analysis
of clinical studies.” Acta Neurol. Scand. Suppl. 1994; 154:7-14.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">15.
Berlanga, C., Ortega-Soto, H.A., Ontiveros M., Senties, H. “Efficacy of
S-adenosyl-L-methionine in speeding the onset of action of imipramine.
Psychiatry Res. 1992 Dec;44(3):257-62.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">16.
Meyers, S. “Use of neurotransmitter precursors for treatment of depression.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Altern.
Med. Rev. 2000 Feb; 5(1): 64-71</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">About Dr.
Murphree</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Dr.
Murphree is a board certified nutritional specialist and chiropractic physician
who has been in private practice since 1990. He is the founder and past clinic
director for a large integrated medical practice located on the campus of Brookwood Hospital
in Birmingham Alabama. The clinic was staffed with medical
doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, nutritionists, and massage therapists.
The clinic combined prescription and natural medicines for acute and chronic
illnesses. He is the author of 5 books, "Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia
and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," "The Patient's Self-Help Manual for
Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,"
"Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue The Manual for
Non-Allopathic Doctors," "Heart Disease What Your Doctor Won’t Tell
You," and "Treating and Beating Anxiety and Depression with
Orthomolecular Medicine."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">In 2003,
Dr. Murphree sold his integrative medical practice. He now maintains a busy
solo private practice and conducts one and two day doctor continuing education
seminars<b>. He can be reached at his
clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, by phone 205-879-2383. His website
is www.treatingandbeating.com</b></span></div>
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</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-27555065409990317362012-06-25T08:30:00.000-05:002012-06-25T08:30:04.181-05:00Why Is My Serotonin Level So Low?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Emotionally stressful
situations cause the body to release adrenaline, cortisol, and insulin. These
stress hormones stimulate the brain to secrete serotonin. The more stress, the
more serotonin needed to deal with the stress. Long-term stress, along with poor
dietary habits, can deplete the body’s serotonin stores. Stress can also
deplete the body of magnesium (a common occurrence in FMS and CFS patients),
B6, dopamine, norepinephrine, and GABA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Stimulants like caffeine,
diet pills, sugar, and nicotine cause a rapid rise in blood-insulin levels.
This is followed by the brain’s release of serotonin. Serotonin helps a person
feel better and think clearer, but only temporarily. A stimulant high is always
followed by a low. This then leads to further use of stimulants to keep
serotonin levels high, and an addiction is created. People become dependent on
stimulates to help raise serotonin levels, and this addictive process causes
further depletion of serotonin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Low thyroid function is
associated with stress, depression, anxiety, and fatigue, because thyroid
hormones help regulate concentration, mental clarity, moods, and proper brain
chemistry. The thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (T3) regulates the levels and
actions of serotonin, norepinephrine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
Serotonin is decreased when T3 levels are deficient, which is more common than
might be suspected. So if you suffer from depression, be sure to investigate
your thyroid as a possible cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Stress is the catalyst for
fibromyalgia, I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again and again. Stress depletes
the happy hormone serotonin which then brings on the poor sleep, pain, low
moods, and IBS associated with fibromyalgia. Obviously restoring optimal
serotonin levels is crucial for reversing these fibromyalgia symptoms.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">See my previous blog on Fibromyalgia and Brain
Function Questionnaire</span></b></div>
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</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-79195695131212175782012-06-22T08:30:00.000-05:002012-06-22T08:30:02.359-05:00Fibromyagia-Less Stress With a Healthy Diet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The way to reverse
fibromyalgia is to get healthy! Traditional medicine and drug therapy doesn't
work. Drugs don't make healthy. Changing your diet, moving away from overly
processed nutrient depleted foods will help restore your optimal health. Will
eating healthy reverse your fibro symptoms in a week or two? No it won't. This
is why I recommend nutraceuticals or high doses of certain vitamins, minerals,
amino acids, and other natural supplements to restore the damage stress, fibro,
drugs, and poor health has caused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">However eating a healthy
diet will begin to take the stress off of your already stressed out fibromyalgia
assaulted body. Stress is the catalyst for fibromyalgia and anything you can do
to lower your intake of stress and build up both your stress coping chemicals
and resistance,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
A healthy diet is based on fresh, unprocessed plants (fruits, vegetables, nuts
and seeds) which can be made into a variety of delicious recipes (raw food
chefs are especially good at this craft).</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Minimizes consumption of meat or animal products (including dairy)-a little
goes a long way, moderation is the key.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Avoid virtually all processed, manufactured foods and beverages, or only uses
them sparingly. Soda pop isn’t a food-it’s a liquid health hazard. Less is
best. Eat real food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Consists of a wide variety of different foods so that phytonutrient diversity
is high, providing consumers with a steady supply of plant-based medicine that
prevents disease.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Phytonutrients
are the active<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>health enhancing
chemicals found in fruits and vegetables.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Includes substantial time outdoors, in nature, where vitamin D can be created
and stored in the body.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Minimizes or eliminates all refined sugars and carbohydrates (like white
flour). Avoid white foods-sugar, white bread, and white potatoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Eliminates GMOs from the food supply in order to avoid the health damage caused
by GM foods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Minimizes consumption of foods sprayed with chemical pesticides or fungicides.
This not only helps prevent disease caused by such chemicals; it also protects
the environment from chemical contamination. Try to eat as much organic food as
possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Stay hydrated drink plenty of clean water (while avoiding dubious liquids such
as sodas and sports drinks). Our bodies are 75% water. I recommend drinking
half your weight in water each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">•
Take nutritional supplements to correct nutritional imbalances or deficiencies.
Everyone should be taking a good optimal daily allowance multivitamin on a
daily basis-this includes your children.</span></div>
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</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-38719579980207205472012-06-21T08:30:00.000-05:002012-06-21T08:30:04.236-05:00Fibromyalgia and Low Moods<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">See which brain chemicals
(neurotransmitters) you may be low in by taking the quiz below…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “S” Group – Serotonin</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Please mark the items which apply to your present
feelings:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__ It’s hard for you to go to sleep.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You can’t stay asleep.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You often find yourself irritable.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__Your emotions often lack rationality.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You occasionally experience unexplained tears.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__Noise bothers you more than it used to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems louder than normal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You “flare up” at others more easily than you used to.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You experience unprovoked anger.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You feel depressed much of the time.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You find you are more susceptible to pain.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You prefer to be left alone.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If three or more of the
above apply, then read below.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “S” group – Serotonin
is a hypothalamus neurotransmitter which is necessary for sleep to occur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lack of serotonin causes difficulty in
getting to sleep, as well as staying asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is often this lack of sleep that causes the symptoms mentioned above.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Serotonin levels can
easily be raised by supplementing with the essential amino acid, L- 5
Hydroxytryptophan (5HTP), a form of Tryptophan, which is available over-the-counter
and works extremely well for most patients.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The higher your serotonin
the less pain you have.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The higher your serotonin
the deeper your sleep-5htp raises your natural sleep hormone by 200 percent.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The higher your serotonin
the happier, less anxious you are.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The higher your serotonin
the less likely you are to have IBS.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Supplementing with 5HTP –
Start with taking 50 mg. 30 minutes before bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Take on an empty stomach, along with 4 oz. of juice (apple or
grape).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may need to increase this dose,
up to 200 mg. per night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You should fall
asleep fairly quickly and sleep through the night, possibly waking only once to
use the bathroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do wake for the
bathroom, you should be able to fall asleep quickly afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you feel hung over the next day, decrease
your dose of 5HTP, it should not cause ANY “hang over” effects.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Warning – a few
individuals who attempt to take 5HTP at night will have an adverse
reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(These are the same people
that usually have adverse reactions to NyQuil and other over the counter
medications that usually cause drowsiness.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Individuals with a sluggish liver may have trouble breaking down 5HTP
fast enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of making them
sleepy, it revs them up and they become mentally alert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this happens, simply take 1 or 2 5HTP
tablets with food 1 or 2 times a day instead of at night time on an empty
stomach. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Natural weight loss and
increased energy are side benefits of 5HTP!!!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “O” Group – Opioids</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Please mark the items which apply to your present
feelings:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__Your life seems incomplete.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You feel shy with all but your close friends.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You have feelings of insecurity.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You often feel unequal to others.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__When things go right, you sometimes feel undeserving.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You feel something is missing in your life.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You occasionally feel a low self-worth or esteem.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You feel inadequate as a person.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">__You frequently feel fearful when there is nothing to
fear.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If three or more of the
above apply, then read below.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “O” Group is named for
the opioid neurotransmitters contained in the hypothalamus gland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opioids are released in small bursts when we
feel a sense of urgency (stress).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
individuals thrive on this sense of urgency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They love just meeting deadlines, racing around to get things done. They
seem to feed off of this adrenaline rush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A sense of urgency can help us get out of bed in the morning or get the
kids off to school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, if you can
never turn this sense of urgency off, you’ll eventually deplete the opioids
along with other vital hormones including cortisol and DHEA.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As a way to turn off the
constant mind chatter,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those in the “O
Group” use stimulants and mind numbing chemicals (alcohol, marijuana, food,
etc.) to escape the constant pressure they place on themselves to be more, do
more, and have more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Type A’s are often
overcome by opioid burn out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cannot
sit still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until one day the bottom
falls out and they “just can’t do it anymore”.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Alcohol and other
chemicals can temporarily relieve the anxious feelings associated with opioid
overload.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do so by providing
artificial opioids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, these
artificial opioids also cause the opioid manufacturing cells in your brain to
reduce their output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the long run
these cells lose their ability to produce the needed opioid
neurotransmitters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You then crave the
artificial opioids and an addiction has been born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Opioid comes from the word opium.)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When you exercise, your
body causes extra quantities of the opioids to be released,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">takes away the pain of
sore muscles and may provide a feeling of euphoria. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">distance runners and other
avid exercise enthusiasts are well aware of the “the high” that comes from
pushing the body past its normal limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The opioids play an important role in pain modulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A deficiency of opioids can lower our pain
threshold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lowered pain threshold
means being more sensitive to painful stimuli.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">DL-Phenylalanine (a
special form of the amino acid phenylalanine) can be extremely helpful in
restoring proper opioid levels. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Supplementing with
DL-Phenylalanine – Start with 1000 mg, 1 to 2 times daily, on an empty
stomach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t seem to notice any
benefits, keep increasing the dose up to 4000 mg., twice daily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you experience a rapid heartbeat,
agitation or hyperactivity, reduce or stop taking DL- Phenylalanine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>L-Glutamine increases the effectiveness of
both DL and L-Phenylalanine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take 500 mg
of L-Glutamine 1 to 2 times a day on an empty stomach along with the
Phenylalanine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both DL and
L-Phenylalanine can increase blood pressure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you already have high blood pressure, consult your doctor before
taking either form of Phenylalanine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
can also be stimulating and should not be taken after 3PM.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This vicious cycle can
also affect your adrenal glands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Extended periods of stress, caffeine and not enough sleep burn out our
adrenals, which some people call our “life force”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An adrenal glandular or herbs for gland
support will help to support and rebuild the adrenals.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “G” Group – (Anti-anxiety Amino Acids)</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Please
mark the items which apply to your present feelings:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
often feel anxious for no reason.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
sometimes feel “free floating” anxiety.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
frequently feel “edgy” and it’s difficult to relax.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
often feel a “knot” in your stomach.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__Falling
asleep is sometimes difficult.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__It’s
hard to turn your mind off when you want to relax.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
occasionally experience feelings of panic for no reason.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
often use alcohol or other sedatives to calm down.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If three or more of the
above apply, then read below.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “G” group symptoms are
from the absence of the neurotransmitter, Gamma Amine Butyric Acid (GABA).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GABA is an important neurotransmitter
involved in regulating moods and mental clarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tranquilizers used to treat anxiety and panic
disorders work by increasing the GABA. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GABA is made from the amino acid,
glutamine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glutamine passes across the
blood brain barrier and helps provide the necessary fuel needed for proper
brain function.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A shortage of
L-Glutamine can reduce IQ levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>L-Glutamine supplementation has been shown to increase IQ levels in some
mentally deficient children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>L-Glutamine
is brain fuel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feeds the brain cells,
allowing them to fire on all cylinders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A deficiency in L-Glutamine can result in “foggy thinking” and fatigue.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Individuals with “fibro fog”
may benefit tremendously from this essential amino acid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The QXCI shows GABA helpful for “the
electrical storms in the brain”, sometimes confused with ADD and ADHD, when it
may simply be a amino acid deficiency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even a small shortage of L-Glutamine will produce unwarranted feelings
of insecurity and anxiousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other
symptoms include continual fatigue, depression, and occasionally impotence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Supplementing with GABA –
Usually only a small dose of GABA is needed, 500 or 1000 mg, twice daily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some individuals may need to take GABA 3 or 4
times a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most amino acids ,
GABA needs to be taken on an empty stomach.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Don’t mistake glutamine
for monosodium glutamate (MSG).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MSG can
also pass by the blood brain barrier and can cause many health problems,
including headaches, short term memory loss, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s,
Alzheimer’s, and dementia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MSG is a fake
amino acid, with the same chemical structure as glutamine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your brain cells don’t know the difference
and will uptake MSG, especially when it is prevalent in the body (because of
our foods) and glutamine is lacking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
the “G” group applies to you, be sure to avoid all MSG products while
supplementing with GABA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See attached
page for additional MSG information.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “D” Group – Dopamine</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Please
mark the items which apply to your present feelings:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
lack pleasure in your life.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
feel there are no real rewards in life.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
have unexplained lack of concern for others, even loved ones.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
experience decreased parental feelings.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__Life
seems less “colorful”or “flavorful”.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__Things
that used to be “fun”, aren’t any longer enjoyable.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
have become a less spiritual or socially concerned person.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If three or more of the
above apply, then read below.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “D” Group – Dopamine
is a neurotransmitter associated with the enjoyment of life, food, arts,
nature, your family, friends, hobbies, and other pleasures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dopamine is considered the “happy amino
acid”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The popularity of cocaine (or
chocolate) stems from the fact that it causes very high levels of dopamine to
be released in a sudden rush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
creates a euphoric state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A dopamine
deficiency can lead to a condition known as anhedonia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Anhedonia is the lack of
ability to feel any pleasure or remorse in life (lifeless).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also reduces the person’s attention
span.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, a person who has
taken cocaine for some time will have used up most of his or her dopamine
supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their attention span is often
reduced to 2 or 3 minutes instead of the usual 50 to 60 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning, for such a person, is nearly
impossible.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Brain fatigue, confusion,
and lethargy are all byproducts of low dopamine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brain cells which “manufacture” dopamine
use the amino acid L-Phenylalanine as the raw material.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most cells in the hypothalamus, they
have the ability to produce 4 or 5 times their usual output if larger
quantities of the raw materials (amino acids and their co-factors) are made
available through nutritional supplementation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Supplementing with
L-Phenylalanine – same as with “O” group</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “N” Group – Noriepinephrine</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Please
note the items which apply to your present feelings:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
suffer from a lack of energy.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
often find it difficult to “get going”.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
suffer from decreased drive.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
often start projects and then don’t finish them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
frequently feel a need to sleep or “hibernate”.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
feel depressed a good deal of the time.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
occasionally feel paranoid.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__Your
survival seems threatened.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">__You
are bored a great deal of the time.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If three or more of the
above apply, then read below.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The “N” Group – The
neurotransmitter Norepinephrine, when released in the brain, causes feelings of
arousal, energy, and drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other
hand, a short supply of it will cause feelings of a lack of ambition, drive and
energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can even cause depression,
paranoia, and feelings of apathy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Norepinephrine is also used to initiate the “flow” of adrenaline when
you are under psychological stress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People under a great load of stress, or a continual stress loading of
almost any size, often find their Norepinephrine levels too be too low.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">An alternative to
L-phenylalanine is S-adenosyl-methionine (SAMe). It works rather quickly and
seems to provide the needed pep that many of my patients are looking for.
Several well-designed studies have shown SAMe to be one of the best natural
antidepressants available? More than 100 peer-reviewed studies reveal SAMe as
an effective natural medication for depression. And it’s faster acting with
fewer side effects than prescription antidepressants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As you can see, amino
acids are a very important part of our emotional and mental health and brain
function.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amino acids are also the
building blocks of the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our bodies
are constantly renewing and rebuilding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amino acids and fatty acids are essential as tools for the body to
regenerate healthy cells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recommend
that you take a combination amino acid complex also, when taking individual
amino acids for better results, and to keep the body in balance.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">If need help interpreting this questionnaire feel
free to call the clinic 205-879-2383.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yes we do carry these
amino acids including 5HTP, SAMe, and GABA in my clinic. They are also
available at most health food stores.</span></div>
</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-60607906207018884082012-06-20T12:00:00.000-05:002012-06-20T14:35:01.511-05:00Fibromyalgia-Vitamin Supplements Won't Help. Really?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">It can be hard to believe
that fibromyalgia, an extremely
complicated illness, one that continues to baffle most physicians, could ever
respond to natural over the counter vitamin supplements. While doctors and
medical researchers continue to look for the holy grail drug combination to “cure"
fibro, the only result is the increase in the drug companies bottom line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">SEE my past blog on
"Neurontin for Everything" or "Swimming in a Sea of Green"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">Drugs don't make you
healthier. They can save your life. They can dampen symptoms and make them
manageable, but drugs don't make you healthy. And since the only way to reverse
a complicated illness like fibromyalgia is to get healthy -- drugs, at least
long term, aren’t the answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Why Vitamin Supplements Are So Important For Good
Health</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">Many so-called experts
will tell you not to worry about taking vitamins if you are eating a balanced
diet. Unfortunately, dieting alone can’t provide enough essential vitamins and
minerals to promote optimal health. For instance, you would need to consume 5,000
calories per day (mostly fat) in order to get the recommend minimum (400 IU) of
vitamin E, and 12,000 calories per day to get the minimum amount of chromium.
Most of our foods are processed and, therefore, the nutrients have been leeched
out of them. Could this be one of the reasons pre-senile dementia and
Alzheimer’s disease have increased so dramatically over the last few decades?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">Thousands of studies
validate the benefits of taking a multivitamin/mineral formula on a daily
basis. These studies have been reported in medical journals, popular newspapers
and magazines. A good multivitamin/mineral formula offers a broad range of
health benefits. Taking a daily multivitamin/mineral formula reduces the
incidence of heart disease, heart attack, stroke, glaucoma, depression, macular
degeneration, diabetes, senile dementia, and various cancers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A Few Vitamin Facts</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Multivitamin Use Is Associated With Lowering A Risk Factor For Cardiovascular
Disease. A study published in the American Journal of Medicine states that an
independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, C-reactive protein (CRP),
can be reduced by the intake of a multivitamin. An elevated CRP level found in
one’s blood serum is associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease and
diabetes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">Source: American Journal
of Medicine, Volume 115, Issue 9</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Daily Multivitamin Use May Bring Significant Savings To Older Americans.
According to a this study, the daily use of a multivitamin by older adults
could bring about more than $1.6 billion in Medicare savings over the next five
years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">3.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Slash Cancer Odds. Taking 200 micrograms of selenium daily for four and a half
years cut cancer rate 42 percent and cancer deaths in half in a group of 1300
individuals. The incidence of colorectal cancer dropped 64 percent and prostate
cancer an amazing 69 percent! University of Arizona Study.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">4.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Prevent Alzheimer’s. Not a single elderly person who took separate doses of
vitamin E (200-800 IU) or vitamin C (500-1000 mg) developed Alzheimer’s disease
during a four-year double blind study. Chicago’s
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Boost Immune System. Taking 200 IU of natural vitamin E daily boosted immune
functioning in older people. A supplement with only 60 mg of vitamin E daily
did not improve immune functioning. Obviously, superior immune functioning
lessens infections, possibly cancer and heart disease. Tufts University
Study </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">6.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Stop Heart Attacks. A daily dose of 400-800 IU of natural vitamin E cut
subsequent heart attacks in men with heart problems by an astonishing 77
percent. Cambridge University,
England. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">7.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Stop Strokes. High doses of B vitamins decreased the amount of plaque in
carotid (neck) arteries by 10 percent during a four-year study. Blocked carotid
arteries can cause strokes. Plaque increased by 50 percent in non-vitamin B
takers. University
of Toronto. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">8.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Prevent Fractures. Taking 500 mg of calcium and 700 IU of vitamin D daily for
three years significantly cut the rate of bone loss and non-vertebral fractures
in men and women older than age 65. Tufts
University Study. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">9.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Save Vision. Women taking vitamin C supplements cut their risk of cataracts by
77 per cent. Tufts
University and the
National Institutes of Health. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">10.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Prolong Life. Taking vitamin E and vitamin C (in higher doses than in a
multivitamin) cut chances of death from all causes by 42 percent. Vitamin E
users were 47 percent less apt to die of heart disease and 59 percent less
likely to die of cancer. National Institute on Aging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">11.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Help Decrease The Risk Of Stroke. According to researchers from Harvard, the
long-term dietary intake of folate and vitamin B12 may help decrease the risk
of ischemic stroke. Source: Stroke, Volume 35, 2004</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">12.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">
Vitamin C Deficiency May Be Linked To Respiratory Disorders. In a two-year
study, researchers found that vitamin C may prevent symptoms linked to airway
diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume
101, Number 10, 2004</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">Almost as unacceptable as
not recommending vitamin and mineral supplements is the recommendation of them
based on the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). The RDA is the measured amount
or dosage of nutrient per vitamin and minerals recommend. The RDA or as I call
it the Recommended DiseaseAallowance,
may keep you from getting Scurvy, but it certainly won’t stand- up to
the many chronic diseases that continue to plague modern man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">The U.S. federal government
sets these levels based on the “average adult.”
The “average person plan” assumes that you are an adult under 60 years
old who is in good health, has normal digestion, isn’t overweight, leads a
relatively stress-free life, has no medical problems, doesn’t take any
medication, eats a balanced diet, and consumes 5 servings of fruits and
vegetables each day. Needless to say, most of us don’t fit into the definition
of the average person defined by RDA. In fact, most adult women don’t meet the
RDA for zinc, Vitamin B, calcium, magnesium, and Vitamin E. Likewise, most adult men don’t meet the RDA
for zinc and magnesium. Fewer than 29% of people eat 5 fresh fruits and
vegetables a day. Furthermore, 20% of the U.S. population doesn’t eat ANY
fruits or vegetables at all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">The recommended daily
allowance is some fifty years out of date. It was never intended to advance
health, only to prevent malnutrition diseases like scurvy or rickets. Taking
the minimum amount of a nutrient to prevent gross deficiency diseases doesn’t
help those people who want to be truly healthy and not just be free of
symptoms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">The RDA is inadequate if
your goal is for prevention and or treatment of heart disease, cancer,
cataracts, depression, senility, diabetes, arthritis and other age related
disorders. For optimal health and well-being, many health practitioners are
recommending many times higher than the RDA on certain nutrients. It’s no
secret, for the majority of the U.S.
population the diet is poorly lacking in essential nutrients. Additionally,
nearly all Americans are deficient even in the minimal RDA requirements, and
are therefore exposed to premature death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">Taking an optimal daily
allowance multivitamin/mineral formula is the best way to ensure you obtain and
maintain optimal health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">No you most likely won't
cure yourself of fibromyalgia by taking a handful of vitamins but you will help
yourself become healthier. Combine the right supplements, diet, health habits,
and when needed drugs and you stand the best chance of getting healthy and
reversing your fibro symptoms.</span></div>
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</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-10038841754984170382012-06-19T08:30:00.000-05:002012-06-19T08:30:00.796-05:00Fibromyalgia Can Be Reversed-Don’t Give Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the
world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you
fell apart, that's true strength. -- Author Unknown <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Battling fibromyalgia, the pain, fatigue, low
moods, weight gain, insomnia, can be a real test of one’s willpower</b>. It’s hard
to be positive, even when we feel our best, but it’s almost impossible to be
upbeat when we feel bad. And unfortunately with fibro more days are bad than
good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">It’s easy to understand why someone with fibro could become discouraged,
bitter, and hopeless. The chronic symptoms of fibro could test the strongest optimist.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">However, the old adage about “if you want to feel
better, find someone less well off than you,” still rings true. I know, I KNOW,
I’ve been working with fibro patients for 17 years, and yes it is one of the
worst illnesses ever-no doubt about it. But, there are always
others who are less fortunate than we are. CANCER, especially terminal cancer-hard
to imagine anything worse… I’ve watched a parent die to lung cancer-terrible,
terrible death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">If you’re battling fibro and discouraged please
don’t give up. You can reverse fibro-I didn’t say cure it, but reverse it. You
can feel better. There are doctors who are having success treating and
reversing fibro. You can get better, I know because I’ve been fortunate enough
to have worked with some of the toughest fibro cases over the last 17 years. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don’t give up.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">Don’t
Give Up</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in
Target. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle
faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes
over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth it has no
time to flow down the spout. We all stood there under the awning and just
inside the door of the Target.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">We waited, some patiently, others irritated
because nature messed up their hurried day. I am always mesmerized by rainfall.
I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust
of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child came
pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">The little voice was so sweet as it broke the
hypnotic trance we were all caught in, "Mom, let's run through the
rain," she said. "What?" Mom asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">"Let's run through the rain!" She
repeated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">"No, honey. We'll wait until it slows down a
bit," Mom replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">This young child waited about another minute and
repeated, "Mom, let's run through the rain."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">"We'll get soaked if we do," Mom said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">"No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said
this morning," the young girl said as she tugged at her Mom's arm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">"This morning? When did I say we could run
through the rain and not get wet?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">"Don't
you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, 'If
God can get us through this, he can get us through anything!'"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you
couldn't hear anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left
in the next few minutes. Mom paused and thought for a moment about what she
would say. Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some
might even ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a
young child's life. A time when innocent trust can be nurtured so that it will
bloom into faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">"Honey, you are absolutely right. Let's run
through the rain. If God let's us get wet, well maybe we just needed
washing," Mom said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">Then off they ran. We all stood watching, smiling
and laughing as they darted past the cars and yes, through the puddles. They
held their shopping bags over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But
they were followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the way
to their cars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">And yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed
washing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">Circumstances or people can take away your
material possessions, they can take away your money, and they can take away
your health. But no one can ever take away your precious memories... So, don't
forget to make time and take opportunities to make memories everyday. To
everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">I hope you still take the time to run through the
rain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt;">I'd add that while fibro can take away so many things, good health, your social life, your ability to work, your marriage, and more, it can't take away your greatest asset-your ability to mentally decide to keep going, to keep living, to keep fighting to do whatever it takes to get better, to be healthier.</span></div>
</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-74544690864477680272012-06-18T20:31:00.002-05:002012-06-18T20:31:41.486-05:00Fibromyalgia Isn't An Anti-Depressant Deficiency<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Fibromyalgia
patients are often bombarded with recommendations for mind altering, health
robbing drugs. Antidepressants and tranquilizing benzodiazepine anxiety pills
are common.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">But these
drugs often cause more problems than good. I'm not anti drug but no one has an
antidepressant deficiency. Learning where the happy hormones or
neurotransmitters come from allows you to use the raw ingredients (the
gasoline) that make these hormones rather than a gasoline additive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Using
amino acids is certainly safer than drug therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It works just as well most of the time, and
costs pennies compared to their drug counter parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Benzodiazepines
have numerous side effects, including poor sleep, seizures, mania, depression,
suicide, ringing in the ears, amnesia, dizziness, anxiety, disorientation, low
blood pressure, nausea, fluid retention, sexual dysfunction (decreased desire
and performance), weakness, somnolence (prolonged drowsiness or a trance-like
condition that may continue for a number of days), headaches and tardive
dyskinesia. A mind boggling 40% of adults, 60 or older experience drug-induced
tics or tardive dyskinesia (tremors or uncontrollable shakes) from taking a
benzodiazepine drug. Sadly, for many, these tremors are permanent. Over 61,000
older adults have developed Parkinson’s disease from using antipsychotic drugs
(benzodiazepines and antidepressants).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The crippling side effects and addictive nature of these drugs has been
known for at least 40 years, yet doctors continue prescribe them at an
ever-increasing rate. Surveys show that over 5.6 million adults over the age of
65 are now taking benzodiazepines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">A mouth
dropping 50% of all women 60 and older will be prescribed a benzodiazepine
drug. And since addiction often occurs within 2 to 4 weeks of starting these
drugs, the majority of folks are now dependant on these drugs. Tolerance to the
hypnotic (sleep) effects of these drugs may occur within one week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Symptoms
of tolerance are identical to drug withdrawal symptoms and may include anxiety,
panic, severe insomnia, muscle pain and stiffness, depression, suicidal
thoughts, rage, heart and lung problems, and agoraphobia (extreme fear of
public or crowded spaces). Tragically, only 10 to 30% are able to successfully
stop taking these drugs, most are addicted for life.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Nutrient Deficiencies Cause
Anxiety and Depression</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
deficiency in any of these nutrients can cause an assortment of health related
illnesses, especially mood and sleep disorders-5HTP, tryptophan, GABA, SAMe, B
vitamins, magnesium...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Inhibitory
or relaxing neurotransmitters include serotonin and gamma-amino butyric acid
(GABA). The neurotransmitter serotonin is produced from the amino acid
5-hydroxytryptophan (5HTP). GABA is mainly produced from the amino acid
glutamine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GABA, 5HTP, and L-Theanine
Both GABA and 5HTP, have a calming effect on the brain. Benzodiazepines work by
increasing the effectiveness of GABA. But, as we’ve learned these drugs have
potentially lethal side effects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Instead
of using a GABA additive loaded with potentially dangerous side effects, why
not use an over-the-counter GABA or 5HTP supplement to reduce anxiety, stress,
or help with sleep? Both work rather quickly, have few side effects, and can be
found at the local health food store. Usually only a small dose of GABA is
needed, 500–1,000 mg. taken twice daily on an empty stomach. The brain doesn’t
readily absorb GABA, but another amino acid known as L-theanine, can boost GABA
levels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">I often
recommend L-theanine, an amino acid found in green tea. It has a calming effect
on the brain. For anxiety related disorders the usual dose is 50-100mg taken on
an empty stomach, two to three times daily. Research with human volunteers has
demonstrated that L-theanine creates its relaxing effect in approximately 30 to
40 minutes after ingestion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Supplementing
with the supplement 5-hydroxytrryptophan (5HTP), a form of the amino acid
tryptophan, helps raise serotonin levels. Studies show that 5HTP is as
effective in normalizing moods as antidepressant drugs. 5HTP also boosts
melatonin levels by 200 percent. The recommended dose is 100mg three times a
day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">Amino
acid therapy offers a safe and effective way to reduce anxiety-without the
numerous side effects associated with benzodiazepines.</span></div>
</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-57088431512820759582012-05-11T15:00:00.003-05:002012-05-11T15:02:16.797-05:00May 12th is National Fibromyalgia Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Should we celebrate National
Fibromyalgia Day? Well yes and no. I don’t believe it is appropriate to
celebrate a disease or even a day that recognizes a disease. Wouldn’t it be great if there wasn’t an
awareness day because fibromyalgia doesn’t exist anymore?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Wishful thinking I know, but
celebrating fibromyalgia doesn’t feel right.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">True, those in the
fibromyalgia community don’t have anything to celebrate but we can appreciate
just how far we have come. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">When I first started treating
fibromyalgia, some seventeen years ago, the public didn’t know what the illness
was or even how to pronounce it. Heck, most doctors didn’t know much of about
fibromyalgia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Fortunately healthcare
professionals and the public at large have over the years continued to learn
more and more about fibromyalgia-at least at this point most everyone has heard
of fibromyalgia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">So while we aren’t celebrating
anything on May 12<sup>th</sup> we can be appreciative that the skepticism from
family, doctors, and the public is thankfully being put to rest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Unfortunately we still have
some STUPID doctors who think that fibromyalgia doesn’t exist-“it’s all in your
head.” Clearly ignorance and arrogance is still alive and well as some stupid
doctors choose to write fibromyalgia off as another hypochondriac disease.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Wish they could be in your
shoes for a few days. I bet they’d change their minds. Let them go 4-5 nights
without sleep and battle diffuse achy all over pain day in and day out and I
bet they’d be demanding federal dollars for a cure for fibro.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Clearly there is much work to be done so that those with
fibromyalgia aren’t made to feel like they are lazy, crazy, or simply
depressed. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">National Fibromyalgia
Awareness Day is a great way to educate others about a very real disease. We
need more research and we need more understanding-the more the better.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">We also need to proactive and not wait on “the cure.”
Please realize that traditional medicine alone isn’t going to cure
fibromyalgia. There will not be a magic pill or combination of magic drugs that
will prevent or cure fibro-sorry but it just isn’t possible. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">You can read my blog about this topic here-</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://treatingandbeatingfibroblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/traditional-medicine-offers-little-for.html">http://treatingandbeatingfibroblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/traditional-medicine-offers-little-for.html</a></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">I’m not anti-drug-they can be helpful. But drugs don’t
make you healthy-they cover up your symptoms and do not correct the problem.
Now this can be life saving but covering up symptoms while ignoring the cause
can also be dangerous. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">You can read more about this topic </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Unlike type II diabetes in which the symptoms, elevated
blood sugar, can be treated and managed with one drug like Metformin,
fibromyalgia has several problems, sometimes dozens of symptoms that must be
treated in order for the patient to feel dramatically better. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Of course covering up the symptom, elevated blood sugar
instead of correcting the cause, being overweight (95% of time) really doesn’t
make sense either….</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">But in fibro patients using one drug after another to
treat the various symptoms, insomnia, chronic pain, fatigue, depression, headaches,
etc., is a recipe for disaster-one drugs side effects lead to another drug.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">The drugs being used for fibromyalgia don’t work, at
least long term, and potentially have numerous life draining side effects.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">You can read more about these drugs at the links below</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">The only way to beat fibromyalgia, and you can beat
fibromyalgia, is to get healthy. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Drugs don’t make you healthy. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Using the essential, natural vitamins,
minerals, amino acids, and supplements the body needs to repair itself,
replenish serotonin, norepinephrine, cortisol, melatonin, thyroid, etc. is the
best long term approach for treating and reversing fibromyalgia. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Using the right supplements
along with losing inflammation storing fat, slowly building up to exercising on
a daily basis, reducing or eliminating potentially dangerous drugs, and
managing stress, allows your body to repair itself.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">If you are tired of being sick and tired, tired of
seeing doctor after doctor who continue offer more and more mind numbing drugs,
going year after year stuck in a medical paradigm that treats symptoms, not
causes, then I challenge you to be proactive and take a different course of
action-get healthy.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Are you willing to be
proactive and get healthy? Change your diet? Start the RIGHT (go easy) exercise
program for you? Are you ready to start eliminate those bad health habits you
know aren’t good for you-smoking, excessive sugar, etc?</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">I’m committed to helping any many folks as I can beat
fibromyalgia. I’ve helped thousands get their life back. Are you next?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">The History of Fibromyalgia Awareness Day</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">In <b>1993, Tom Hennessy, the founder of RESCIND,
INC. </b> (Repeal Existing Stereotypes about Chronic Immunological and
Neurological Diseases) <b>designated May 12 as International Awareness Day
for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND).</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">The date was chosen to
memorialize the birth date of Florence Nightingale, the English army nurse who
inspired the founding of the International Red Cross. Nightingale
contracted a paralyzing, CIND-like illness in her mid-thirties and spent the
last 50 years of her life virtually bedridden. Despite her illness, she
managed to found the first ever School of Nursing.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Today, <b>National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day activities
take place worldwide</b> in an effort to increase awareness of this chronic
pain illness. Awareness Day seeks to help patients and organizations educate
the general public, healthcare professionals, government officials, and
legislative bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">National fibromyalgia and chronic pain organizations, as
well as local support groups around the country, host events in or around May
12 to create awareness and generate media interest in their cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The fear of fat and its derivative, cholesterol, has spawned a multibillion dollar industry of low-fat foods, but it's not turning the tide. We trust medical intervention, but drugs that lower fats and cholesterol have been shown to increase the risk of certain cancers. Dieters dutifully avoid fat, but hidden sugars in our processed foods are being turned into fat right under our noses (and our belts!).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cholesterol and fats make up each and every cell. Cholesterol helps keep cell membranes permeable, and this permeability allows good nutrients in and toxic waste products out. Over 8% of the brain's solid matter is made up of cholesterol, and cholesterol is essential for proper brain function and normalized neurotransmitters such as serotonin. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cholesterol is so important that the body manufactures 800-1500 mg. each day. This is about twice as much as you take in through diet!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"></span></span><span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cholesterol and other fats are the very building blocks that make up each and every cell. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"></span></span><span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cholesterol is an important fat that helps keep cell membranes permeable, allowing good nutrients to get in and toxic waste products to get out.</span></span><span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: wp_bogus_font;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cholesterol makes the bile salts required for the digestion of fat. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brain fog or diminished mental clarity is a common complaint from patients with fibromyalgia. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The traditional drugs of choice for fibromyalgia include NSAIDS, antidepressants, anticonvulsant medications, muscle relaxants, tranquilizers, and pain medications. These drugs may provide short-term relief but their results are often fleeting and their side-effects are detrimental. It’s not unusual for FMS patients to be taking twelve or more prescription drugs, many of which contribute to erratic behavior. </span></div>
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for fibromyalgia patients is linked to the level of pain that they experience.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The study was led by Dr. Gustavo Reyes Del Paso of the
University of Jaén, and presented at the Sixth World Congress of the World
Institute of Pain. His team wanted to examine the connection between
fibromyalgia and cognitive impairment, which has not been closely studied.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fibromyalgia is often associated with depression, and
anxiety. But a few studies have found that cognitive function – or how well the
brain works – is not related to emotional disorders.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The researchers compared 35 fibromyalgia patients with 29
healthy people. Both groups were tested on a series of tests that measured how
they performed on an arithmetic task. At the same time, their mental and
cardiovascular states were assessed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The fibromyalgia patients did worse across the board on the
task. However, patients who were taking opiates to treat pain did significantly
more calculations than those who weren't on medication.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Depression, anxiety, and other
emotional disorders common in people with fibromyalgia play a secondary role
when it comes to the brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Recurrent UTI
symptoms may point at a problem known as interstitial cystitis (IC). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Interstitial cystitis
is a chronic inflammatory condition of the bladder that causes frequent,
urgent, and painful urination and pelvic discomfort. The lining of the bladder
breaks down, allowing toxins to irritate the bladder wall, and the bladder
becomes inflamed and tender and does not store urine well. The condition does
not respond to antibiotics, since it is not associated with a bacterial
infection like is UTI. Like UTI, IC is much more common among women than among
men. Although the disease previously was believed to be a condition of
menopausal women, growing numbers of men and women are being diagnosed in their
20s and younger. Data released just this year suggests that up to 12% of women
may have early symptoms of IC. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Symptoms:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
The symptoms of IC are basically the symptoms of UTI, only more stubborn. IC is
often misdiagnosed as UTI, until it refuses to respond to antibiotics. IC
symptoms may also initially be attributed to prostatitis or epididymitis (in
men) and endometriosis or uterine fibroids (in women). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Causes: </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The
cause of interstitial cystitis is unknown, though several theories are being
investigated, including autoimmune, neurological, allergic, and genetic.
Regardless of the disease’s origin, IC patients clearly struggle with a damaged
bladder lining. When this protective coating is compromised, urinary chemicals
can leak into surrounding tissues, causing pain, inflammation, and urinary
symptoms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Diagnosis:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
IC diagnosis has been greatly simplified in recent years with the development
of two new methodologies. The “Pelvic Pain Urgency/Frequency (PUF) Patient
Survey,” created by C. Lowell Parsons, is a short questionnaire that helps
doctors identify if pelvic pain could be coming from the bladder. The KCL test,
also called the potassium sensitivity test, uses a mild potassium solution to
test the integrity of the bladder wall. Though the latter is not specific for
IC, it has been determined helpful in predicting the use of compounds designed
to help repair the bladder lining. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Previously, IC was
diagnosed by visual examination of the bladder wall after stretching it. This
test, however, can contribute to the development of small hemorrhages, making
IC worse. Thus, a diagnosis of IC is made by excluding other illnesses and
reviewing a patient’s clinical symptoms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Treatment of the bladder lining: </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Traditional medications work to repair
and hopefully rebuild the wounded bladder lining, allowing for a reduction in
symptoms. But FDA-approved therapies for IC have had recent setbacks in various
research studies. </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Elmiron</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> (pentosan polysulfate) is supposed to
provide a protective coating in the bladder. But data released in late 2005 by
Alza Pharmaceuticals suggests that 84% of Elmiron is eliminated—intact—in the
feces. Another 6% is excreted in the urine. </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">DMSO,</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> a wood-pulp extract, can be instilled
directly into the bladder via a catheter, yet it is much less frequently used
in urology clinics. Research studies presented at recent conferences of the
American Urological Association have demonstrated that at the FDA-approved
dosage of a 50% solution of DMSO, irreversible muscle contractions and damage
may occur. DMSO therapy has yielded mixed results, and long-term benefits
appear fleeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Recently, the use of
a new therapeutic instillation—implemented like DMSO—has generated considerable
excitement in the IC community. And rightly so. Published studies report a 90%
effectiveness in reducing symptoms. This treatment is called a “rescue
instillation” and can be conducted with any number of “cocktails” to treat
specific symptoms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Another
bladder-coating treatment, Cystistat, is believed to replace the deficient
layer on the bladder wall. The primary component of Cystistat is sodium
hyaluronate, a derivative of hyaluronic acid, which occurs naturally in the
fluids of the eye, in the joints, and in the bladder-lining layer that is
deficient in many patients with interstitial cystitis. This layer is believed
to provide the bladder wall with a protective coating. Cystistat, however, is
still in the process of approval and not yet available to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Treatment of the pelvic floor:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Pelvic-floor dysfunction may also be a
contributing factor to IC symptoms. Thus most major IC clinics now evaluate the
pelvic floor and/or refer patients directly to a </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">physical
therapist</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> for a prompt
treatment of pelvic floor muscle tension or weakness. The tension is often
described as a burning sensation, particularly in the vagina. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Muscle tension is the
primary cause of pain and discomfort in IC patients who experience pain during
intercourse. Tender trigger points (small tight bundles of muscle) may also be
found in the pelvic floor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Exercises such as
Kegels can be helpful as they strengthen the muscles, but they can provoke pain
and additional muscle tension. A specially trained physical therapist can
provide direct, specific evaluation of the muscles, both externally and
internally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Bladder distention</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
(a procedure done under general anesthesia that stretches the bladder capacity)
has shown some success in reducing urinary frequency and giving pain relief to
patients. Unfortunately, the relief achieved by bladder distentions is only
temporary (weeks or months) and consequently is not really viable as a
long-term treatment for IC. It is generally only used in extreme cases. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pain control</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
is important in the treatment of IC, as the pain of this condition has been
rated equivalent to cancer pain. A variety of traditional pain medications,
including opiates, can be used to treat the varying degrees of pain. Electronic
pain-killing options include TENS (a machine that sends electrical impulses to
the skin through sticky pads) and PTNS (similar to a TENS treatment, except a
needle is used). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Alkalinizing the urine through diet</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> seems to help reduce the burning pain
and urinary urgency of IC in some patients. See the facing page for a list of
common foods that seem to make IC worse. I know that the list can be
intimidating, but I encourage my cystitis patients to conduct a modified </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">elimination diet for 2–3 weeks, avoiding
all the foods above. Then they challenge one of these foods at a time. If you
do this, be sure to keep a food diary to keep up with what you learn about your
body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">For more information
about IC and your diet, visit www.ic-network.com/handbook and click under “Living
with IC—Diet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Prelief </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">by AkPharma, Inc.
is calcium glycerophosphate, a food-grade mineral classified as a dietary
supplement. It’s a natural <br />
treatment for IC and also a good source of calcium. In a retrospective study
conducted by AkPharma, over 200 patients consumed acidic foods and beverages
with and without Prelief. Seventy percent of the patients had a reduction in IC
pain and discomfort with the use of Prelief when consuming acidic foods.
Sixty-one percent of them reported a reduction in urinary urgency after using
Prelief. For more information or to order Prelief, visit www.prelief.com or
call 1-800-994-4711. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Bioflavonoids </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">are
naturally occurring substances that act as mast-cell inhibitors (similar to an
antihistamine), anti-inflammatories, and antioxidants. Since IC is associated
with an increased number and activation of mast cells and inflammation in some
patients, it has been suggested that bioflavonoids—quercetin in particular—have
potential in the treatment of IC. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Cysta-Q,</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
distributed by Farr Labs, is a quercetin-based dietary supplement that was
specifically developed to target the symptoms of IC. Cysta-Q also contains
bromelain, papain, nonacidic cranberry powder, nonacidic black cohosh, skull
cap, wood betony, passionflower, and valerian in order to enhance the
effectiveness of the quercetin. The quercetin used in Cysta-Q is derived from
grape skin, onion skin, grapefruit rind and green algae. Initial studies have
shown promise, but additional research is needed to access the long-term
benefits of this natural formula. To find out more about Cysta-Q, visit
www.CystaQ.com or call 1-877-284-3976. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Polysaccharides</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
are long chains of sugar molecules. These naturally occurring substances may
work by replacing the defective lining in the bladder, and they are thought to
have a protective effect on the bladder. Elmiron is a synthetic polysaccharide.
Examples of natural polysaccharides include glucosamine, chondroitin,
marshmallow root, spirulina, and aloe vera. Desert Harvest, Inc., manufacturers
a special IC-specific formula of aloe vera available in capsule form. It contains
freeze-dried, whole-leaf aloe vera with no additives or fillers. Desert Harvest
designed a double-blind, placebo-controlled study in which patients ingested
three capsules twice a day with eight oz. of liquid for three months. Of the
eight patients who completed the study, seven received relief from at least
some of their symptoms. Of those seven, four experienced significant relief
from all or most of their symptoms. Only one patient had no response after
completing all six months of the study. For more information about Desert
Harvest Aloe Vera products, visit www.desertharvest.com or call 1-800-222-3901.
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Algonot-Plus</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
combines polysaccharides (glucosamine and chondroitin) with quercetin and also
adds an organic, unrefined olive seed oil from the island of Crete which
increases absorption and adds its own antioxidants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">No formal research on
this combined type of treatment for IC has yet been published, but several
studies indicate that these supplements may be helpful, on their own, in the
treatment of IC. <br />
Glucosamine and chondroitin have previously been given to many IC patients in
an open-label study with very good results when taken for a few months. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">TC
Theoharides, MD, and Grannum Sant, MD, have been involved in IC research and
patient care for over 10 years. Their recent studies are encouraging for the
benefits of combined therapies such as Algonot-Plus. For more information on
Algonot-Plus, visit www.algonot.com, or call 1-800-254-6668. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> This information is taken from my book Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Urinary tract
disorders are another “layer of the onion” that might need to be peeled away to
make you better. Of my FMS patients, 25% have chronic UTIs or interstitial
cystitis. Individuals with fibromyalgia and CFS often have problems with their
urinary system. They may experience chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs),
interstitial cystitis, incontinence (involuntary loss of urine), and urinary
retention (inability to pass urine). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">UTIs are more common
in women who are sexually active, people with diabetes, and people with sickle-cell
disease or anatomical malformations of the urinary tract. Also, women are more
prone to UTIs than males, since a women’s urethra is much shorter and closer to
the anus than a man’s. This is why proper hygiene is so important in females.
UTI can be especially dangerous for infants and can cause permanent renal
damage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Bold;">Symptoms and signs</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
include painful, hesitant, frequent urination and high temperature lasting for
more than three days. Nausea and vomiting along with pain and temperature may
indicate a more complicated UTI, in which a kidney is infected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some urinary tract
infections are asymptomatic. Others may have quite dramatic symptoms including
confusion and associated falls, which are common for elderly patients with UTI
who show up at the emergency room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The diagnosis of UTI
is confirmed by a urine culture. A negative urine culture suggests the presence
of other illness, such as chlamydia or gonorrhea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Common organisms that
cause UTIs include </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic;">E. coli </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic;">S. saprophyticus. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Less common organisms include </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic;">P.
mirabilis, K. pneumoniae, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic;">Enterococcus
spp. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over 90% of UTIs are
caused by </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic;">E. coli.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
This bacteria is normally found in everyone’s gut and, with the exception of a
few rare dangerous forms, it is a healthy part of our normal bowel bacteria.
The problems begins when </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic;">E. coli</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> escapes the bowel and enters the
bladder. The bladder is able to remove most infections through the process of
urination, but </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Italic;">E. coli</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
are quite resilient and able to use projections to help them stick to the
bladder wall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prevention of UTIs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• Drink 70 ounces
of water a day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• Avoid excess
alcohol and caffeinated beverages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• Don’t resist
the urge to urinate; visit the bathroom as soon as you feel compelled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• If you have
frequent UTIs, avoid taking baths; take showers instead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• Practice good
hygiene by wiping from the front to the back to avoid contamination of the
urinary tract. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• Sexually active
women—and to a lesser extent, men—should urinate within 15 minutes after sexual
intercourse to allow the flow of urine to expel the bacteria before specialized
extensions anchor the bacteria to the walls of the urethra. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• Clean the
urethral meatus (the opening of the urethra) after intercourse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• Clean genital areas
prior to and after sexual intercourse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most uncomplicated
UTIs can be easily treated with oral antibiotics such as trimethoprim,
cephalosporins, Macrodantin, or a fluoroquinolone (such as ciprofloxacin or
levofloxacin).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Symptoms consistent
with pyelonephritis, a serious kidney infection, may call for intravenous
antibiotics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Patients with
recurrent UTIs may need further investigation such as ultrasound scans of the
kidneys and bladder or intravenous urography (X-rays of the urinary system
following injection of contrast material).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Often, long courses
of low-dose antibiotics are prescribed to help prevent otherwise unexplained cases
of recurring UTI. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Natural Treatment<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taking antibiotics
will usually kill the bacteria that is causing a bladder infection, but will
also kill the healthy “good bacteria” in your body. Always combat this side
effect of antibiotics by taking probiotics along with them, 12 hours apart from
each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another option, which
I prefer, is to try natural remedies before resorting to antibiotic therapy. If
the symptoms don’t clear up within a couple days, then you can always start
antibiotic therapy then. Natural therapies can also be used while you’re
waiting for your tests results to confirm a UTI. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Bold;">Cranberry
juice </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">can end a UTI. In
addition to acidifying urine, cranberries contain substances that inhibit
bacteria from attaching to the bladder lining and, as such, promote the
flushing out of bacteria with the urine stream. Dosage is one to two cups of
pure cranberry juice (no sugar added) or 2–4 cranberry capsules (standardized
to 11%–12% quinic acid) a day for 1–2 weeks. This may well be all you need to
eliminate a UTI. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">• </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: AGaramondPro-Bold;">D-mannose
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">is a naturally occurring
sugar similar in structure to glucose but metabolized differently. (Because the
body metabolizes only small amounts of D-mannose and excretes the rest in the
urine, it doesn’t interfere with blood-sugar regulation, even in diabetics.)
Though D-mannose doesn’t kill bacteria, it prevents bacteria from attaching to
the bladder wall. D-mannose is safe, even for long-term use, although most
people will only need it for a few days. Those who have frequent recurrent
bladder infections may choose to take it on a daily basis. I’ve found it to be
the best option for stubborn, chronic UTIs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-31063262888827853352012-03-02T08:30:00.000-06:002012-03-02T08:30:00.251-06:00More About NutraSweet and Other Sweeteners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>NutraSweet (Aspartame)</b></div>
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Aspartame has been associated with a multitude of health
risks and has largely lost favor around the world. Consider that the FDA had
its concerns and denied approval of aspartame for 16 years before it finally
gave in to political/economic pressure. This controversial artificial sweetener
was approved through an interesting chain of events. When then-president Ronald
Reagan brought Don Rumsfeld, former CEO of the aspartame manufacturer,
Monsanto, to Washington, a new FDA commissioner was also hastily appointed. The
new commissioner approved the artificial sweetener and then went on to become a
consultant for NutraSweet’s public-relations
firm, receiving $1,000 a day for the next 10 years! </div>
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Aspartame, commonly known as NutraSweet or Equal, is an
artificial sweetener. The body breaks it down into methanol and formaldehyde to
metabolize it. Methanol toxicity causes depression, brain fog, mood
changes, insomnia, seizures, and similar symptoms associated with multiple
sclerosis. Formaldehyde is grouped into the same class of drugs as cyanide
and arsenic. When the temperature of aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood
alcohol in it is turned into formaldehyde and then into formic acid. Formic
acid is the poison contained in the sting of a fire ant. </div>
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There are over 92 symptoms documented from using aspartame.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brown or Raw Sugar<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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It is often said that brown sugar is a healthier option than
white sugar. But you can chalk that claim up to clever marketing. In reality,
brown sugar is most often just ordinary table sugar that is turned brown by the
reintroduction of molasses. (Normally, molasses is separated and removed when
sugar is created from sugarcane plants.) In some cases, brown
sugar—particularly when it is referred to as “raw sugar”—is merely sugar that
has not been fully refined. But more often than not, manufacturers prefer to
reintroduce molasses to fine white sugar, creating a mixture with 5%–10%
molasses. This process allows them to better control the color and size of the crystals
in the final product.</div>
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Because of its molasses content, brown sugar or raw sugar
does contain certain minerals not present in white sugar: calcium, potassium,
iron, and magnesium. But since these minerals are present in only minuscule
amounts, there is no real health benefit to using brown sugar. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">An Unexpected Immune
Zapper: </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Splenda<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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A study done at Duke University and published recently in
the <i>Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health</i> has some interesting
news about the sugar substitute known as Splenda (sucralose). Splenda is an artificial
sweetener derived from raffinose, a starch derived from sugar beets. The
chemical sucralose, which contains chlorine, is marketed this way: “It comes
from sugar, so it tastes like sugar.” But it isn’t natural at all. According to
the study, the use of Splenda has several effects on the body:</div>
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• It reduces the amount of good bacteria in the intestines
by 50%. The bacteria in your bowels, some 100 trillion of them—about three
pounds worth—outnumber the cells in your body by a factor of 10 to one. These
bacteria, also called gut flora, line your intestinal tract and serve as your
first line of defense against potential pathogens (viruses, bad bacteria, and
yeast). They play a crucial role in establishing an overall healthy immune
system. When bad bacteria and or yeast become overgrown in your intestinal
tract, you have a condition called dysbiosis. Dysbiosis has been linked with
disorders like yeast infections, irritable bowel syndrome, and
autoimmune disorders—including rheumatoid arthritis.</div>
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• It increases the pH level in the intestines. The stomach
needs an acidic environment in order to digest food and destroy potentially
harmful pathogens, including unwanted bacteria and yeast. Low stomach acid
triggers a chain reaction of digestive disorders, including malabsorption.
Foods may be incompletely digested and subsequently absorbed into the bloodstream,
where they can lead to food allergies, triggering pain and inflammation
throughout the body. </div>
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• It contributes to increases in body weight.</div>
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The study researched male rats over a period of 12 weeks.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Natural
Alternative: </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stevia<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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For a healthy alternative to sugar, my first choice is the
natural sweetener Stevia. It is a South American herb that has been
used as a sweetener by the Guarani Indians of Paraguay for hundreds of years.
The leaves of the small, green <i>Stevia rebaudiana</i> plant
have a delicious and refreshing taste that can be 30 times sweeter than sugar,
so a little goes a long way. For more info, visit www.stevia.com. You can find Stevia at any health-food
store. While it may take time to get used to its taste, it won’t deplete your
good bacteria (like Splenda), increase your risk of cancer (like Sweet’N
Low), or cause neurotoxicity (like NutraSweet).</div>
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OK so push comes to shove and you can’t find Stevia when out
on the town-use Sweet'N Low. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yes, Sweet'N Low</b>.
I know it is supposed to cause cancer and kill you in a single teaspoon, but
this a myth not the truth. The truth is that the cancers where only seen in
mice who were fed tons, truck loads of this stuff over a short period of time. I don’t
think you’d ingest this much in a life span. But again my first choice is
Stevia.</div>
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</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-85969305485065620002012-03-01T17:30:00.000-06:002012-03-01T17:30:00.222-06:00Fibromyalgia, GI Stress and Low Thyroid Function<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For 90 percent of Americans, hypothyroidism is caused by
Hashimoto’s, an autoimmune thyroid disease. Considering most of the immune
system is situated in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, poor gut health may play
a significant role in triggering and exacerbating autoimmune diseases including
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. </div>
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<b>GI or Gut Flora and Thyroid Hormones<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Our digestive tracts contain an array of good bacteria that
contribute to our overall health in a number of ways. One way is in the
production of active thyroid hormones. A staggering 20 percent of thyroid
function depends on a sufficient supply of healthy gut bacteria to convert inactive
T4 to active T3 hormone. </div>
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Poor diet, antibiotics, non steroidal anti inflammatory
drugs (NSAIDs), antacids, and other drugs can initiate dysbiosis, an
overabundance of bad bacteria. This bad bacteria will crowd out the beneficial or
“good” bacteria, hampering the production of active thyroid hormone. </div>
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Studies show that bacterial gut infections reduce thyroid
hormone levels, dull thyroid hormone receptor sites, increase the amount of
inactive T3 hormone, decrease thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), and promote
autoimmune thyroid disorders. Maintaining healthy gut flora and addressing
bacterial overgrowth is an important component of good thyroid function.</div>
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Being tested for gluten intolerance and or avoiding gluten
can be helpful (see past blog), so can taking probiotics on a daily basis.</div>
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Or bodies and systems really are connected and this is why
you can’t treat one part of the body (system) and ignore the rest of the body.
A holistic approach is always best.</div>
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</div>Dr. Murphreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751258869770739557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555707950596169034.post-85355944149255399342012-02-29T07:00:00.000-06:002012-02-29T07:00:15.599-06:00If You Have Fibromyalgia or CFS-Avoid NutraSweet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Health Dangers of NutraSweet-Fibromyalgia and Aspartame</div>
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Aspartame can be found in most diet sodas and in other
artificially sweetened food products. Commonly known as NutraSweet or Equal, it
is broken down by the body into<b> methanol and formaldehyde.</b> </div>
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Toxic levels of methanol are linked to systemic lupus and
now Alzheimer’s disease. </div>
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<b>Methanol toxicity can cause depression, brain fog, mood
changes, insomnia, seizures, and similar symptoms associated with multiple
sclerosis. </b><br />
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<b></b>As for formaldehyde, it is grouped into the same class of drugs as
cyanide and arsenic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An EPA assessment of methanol states that methanol "is
considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is
absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and formic acid;
both of these metabolites are toxic." They recommend a limit of
consumption of 7.8 mg/day. A one-liter (approx. 1 quart) aspartame-sweetened
beverage contains about 56 mg of methanol. Heavy users of aspartame-containing
products consume as much as 250 mg of methanol daily or 32 times the EPA limit.</div>
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When the temperature of aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the
wood alcohol in the product is turned into formaldehyde and then into formic
acid. F<b>ormic acid is the poison contained in the sting of a fire ant.</b></div>
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There are over 92 documented symptoms from the use of
aspartame.</div>
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Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse
reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactions are
very serious including seizures and death. A few of the 90 different documented
symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines,
dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes,
depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems,
hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks,
slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Could Aspartame be
contributing to your fibromyalgia or CFS symptoms?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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One common complaint of persons suffering from the effect of
aspartame is memory loss. Ironically, in 1987, G.D. Searle, the manufacturer of
aspartame, undertook a search for a drug to combat memory loss caused by
excitatory amino acid damage. </div>
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One expert, Dr. Olney, a professor in the department of
psychiatry, School of Medicine, Washington University, a neuroscientist and
researcher, and one of the world's foremost authorities on excitotoxins. (He
informed Searle in 1971 that aspartic acid caused holes in the brains of mice.)</div>
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For more information about the dangers ofAspartame see Aspartame<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span>Sweetpoison, written by author Dr. Janet Starr Hull.</div>
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