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Disease Basics 101: A World Of Misdiagnosis

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NaturalNews  January 14 2015

cartoon_doctorPatientSo, what did the doctor say? Is it a disease, a disorder or a syndrome? Is it a neurochemical or neurobiological imbalance? Could you have a cognitive dysfunction or impairment? Are your problems genetic or can you not inherit bad eating habits? Do you have central sensitization syndrome? Maybe what you have is “comorbidity,” meaning it’s a host of disorders on top of other disorders on top of a syndrome, which could be muscular, psychiatric or stress-related. Maybe it’s all just an anomaly and your doctor has no clue about the causes.

Finally, does you doctor use broad terms and a vague yet somehow complicated and confusing diagnosis just before scribbling out that prescription that seems to have worse side effects than your root problems? Still, you’ll do almost anything, right, at this point, to get rid of the pain, the depression and the anxiety. Well, almost anything.

Let’s begin this “diagnosis” and “analysis” of terms by discussing the top disorders, dysfunctions, diseases, maladies, or whatever you want to call them, in laymen’s terms, that describe conditions as ongoing “end results” of bad eating habits, some of which people are never even made aware. If Western Medicine has you confused and solving NOTHING, then they’ve done their job. If you are a client for life (regular patient) and your “medicines” only dull the pain and make you feel like a zombie, then “Big Pharma” has done its job. It’s time to “do a job” on Big Pharma and end the madness that’s polluting your body, mind and soul, day in and day out.

Top Issues – All of which barely even existed in America 80 years ago!

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4 Tips For Minimizing Detox Side Effects And A Healing Crisis

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NaturalSociety  July 24 2013

Many people have this wonderful idea of how a detox will feel—they imagine they will feel light, energetic, and generally amazing. After all, the detox is all about getting rid of the bad stuff, right? While it’s true that a detox is designed to rid your body of harmful toxins and “bad stuff”, it isn’t always fun for everyone – at least during the detox process. Although the end result can feel amazing, the process of detoxing can come with some rough side effects due to the exiting of toxic waste. We call this a “healing crisis.” But there are measures to take to reduce detox side effects and lessen the healing crisis.

When you detox, your body is purging itself of impurities. You’ve been walking around with toxins from the air, your food, medications, and more, for who-knows how long. Your body is used to it—this is it’s “normal”. When you disrupt the normal, toxic state, you are bound to feel some not-so-great effects, many of which are due to the toxins being released into the bloodstream and digestive system, before they are expelled from the body.

There are several things you can do to reduce the negative feelings associated with detoxing.

Reducing Detox Side Effects and Lessening a Healing Crisis

1. Stay Hydrated

Staying hydrated is perhaps the most important tip for minimizing detox side effects during any detoxification protocol or fast. Fresh juices, green tea, or plain, filtered water should be your best friends. Flushing out the toxins is priority number one when detoxing and you can only do this when you are sufficiently hydrated. Because you may be taking something to help rid yourself of these toxins (ie. expelling more waste than usual), rehydration is particularly important.

2. Shift into the Detox, Altering Your Diet Before Beginning

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How To Prevent Gallstones Naturally Through Diet

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NaturalSociety May 18 2013

Gallstones are painful pebble-like objects that form in the gallbladder, which occur when bile stored in the gallbladder hardens. This happens for a variety of reasons, but mainly when the bile contains too much cholesterol, bilirubin, or salts. While an estimated 20 million people in the U.S. suffer from gallstones, they are more common in women, overweight people, and those who lose weight too quickly. Gallstones also run in the family. If you want to know how to prevent gallstones, the good news is that there are simple, natural solutions.

How to Prevent Gallstones Through Diet

Traditional medicine usually resorts to surgery to remove gallstones or medications designed to dissolve them. The latter method can take days or even months to dissolve the stones. Preventing them first is quite obviously the best option.

A healthy gallbladder depends on a healthy body, and keeping the gallbladder healthy begins with a proper diet. Juicing on a daily basis can help drastically, delivering high impact nutrients in a concentrated and quick form. Several online sources say beets are especially useful in the prevention and even treatment of gallstones or a gallbladder attack. They are even recommended for the pain associated with gallstones.

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Vitamin K Deficiency Symptoms – 5 Signs Of Low Vitamin K Levels

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Natural Society April 15 2013

Leaf vegetableKnown primarily for helping blood to clot and the promotion of strong bones, vitamin K is a fat soluble vitamin that is often ignored — at least compared to some other essential vitamins and minerals. But like all other vitamins, vitamin K is essential for optimal health for numerous reasons. So why is the vitamin so important, and what are some vitamin K deficiency symptoms?

Why You Should Consume more Foods Rich in Vitamin K

As mentioned, the most well known benefit of vitamin K revolves around its role in healthy blood clotting. In the case of a skin wound, for example, blood clotting (and vitamin K) helps the wound to close and prevents excessive bleeding. Additionally, vitamin K helps keep the body’s blood clotting ability at a perfect level. This is useful even if we are not wounded, so that our cardiovascular system doesn’t block a functioning blood vessel by mistake.

But that is not all vitamin K has to offer.

Like calcium, vitamin K has been established as a bone-enhancing nutrient. Multiple studies have found that those ingesting large amounts of vitamin K are at a decreased risk of bone fractures, while individuals deficient in vitamin K are clearly at a greater risk.

There is also evidence that vitamin K helps prevent arterial calcification.

5 Vitamin K Deficiency Symptoms

Vitamin K deficiency is quite rare for two different reasons. First, the vitamin is absolutely abundant in leafy green vegetables and some green spices. Secondly, bacteria in your intestine actually make vitamin K on their own. That being said, it’s important to steer clear of antibiotics whenever possible. If you know anything about antibiotics, you know that these medicines destroy all bacteria in your gut (good and bad). In addition to leading to other issues like antibiotic resistance, a sluggish mental state, obesity, and much more, the use of antibiotics also puts you at risk of being deficient in vitamin K (due to bacteria destruction).

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Leafy Greens Influence Gene Expression, Boosting Native Immune Response To Fight Disease

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NaturalNews March 11 2013

HealthOur native immune system is truly amazing in its complexity and ability to continually adapt to an ever changing environment of potential pathogens that could easily colonize and highjack our health if not detected and eradicated quickly. Many people, especially as they age, have a compromised immune response due to negative lifestyle factors including smoking, exposure to environmental and household toxins, stress and especially diet. Up to 80 percent of our initial immune response takes place in our digestive system, and the body uses cues from what we eat to activate essential actions to potential invaders.

Consuming a largely processed food diet that is void of nutrients and flavonoids dulls our immune system and dramatically increases the risk of infection, inflammation and chronic disease. A research team from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute’s Molecular Immunology Division in Australia have published the result of their work in the journal Nature Immunology that demonstrates how eating your greens may be even more important than previously thought, with the discovery that an immune cell population essential for intestinal health could be controlled by leafy greens in your diet.

Leafy greens and crucifers help express digestive genes that boost our innate immune response

A special type of immune cell known as an innate lymphoid cell (ILC) is found throughout the digestive tract and can help protect the body from invading pathogens and also provides a balance between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria in the intestine. Additionally ILC’s play an important role in controlling food allergies, inflammatory diseases and obesity, and may even prevent the development of bowel cancers. The team discovered that a gene (T-bet) is responsible for producing these critical immune cells and is expressed by signals fed from the foods we eat.

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