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Colon Cleansing - What Are The Benefits Of A Colon Cleanse?
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine on August 05th, 2009
There are many other benefits of a colon cleanse apart from just providing you with a fit and healthy body. If you are facing loss of appetite and shun away even from your favorite foods, it means that there are problems with your liver. Though there are many reasons for having a damaged liver, a toxic colon also plays a large role.
There are many persons who relieve themselves just once daily and then there are many who do not have regular bowel movements for two days and more. Ask your doctor and he will mention about problems in your intestine and problems with your digestive function that are likely to be causing your constipation.
This too can be due to your colon. But most such problems can be easily resolved by going in for a colon cleanse. Your liver and your digestive system plays a large part in the proper functioning of your body and an improperly functioning digestive system can even lead to skin ailments. We should know that our body depends on pure blood to remain fit and healthy and if the digestive system is not able to extract the beneficial stuff from the foods we eat, our body and skin remain under nourished. This is why we start to feel tired and out of sorts all the time.
Ever wondered how you have turned so fat? This is again due to improper food habits and due to a faulty digestive system. But what can you do? There are some people who do not feel hungry when they should and then there are others who go out on an eating spree when their body does not require it.
In a nutshell, our overall health is mostly dependent on our lifestyle, our eating habits, and a toxin free colon. Adhering to a strict dietary routing might help for our future health, but what about the toxic wastes that is already present in our colon? These toxic wastes are the breeding grounds for germs and bacteria which causes illness.
The best way to resolve these health related problems is to opt for a colon cleanse. There are several grandmothers’ folk recipes that you can concoct using ingredients available in your kitchen or you can opt in for herbal remedies that are available on the net. They are definitely easy to find.
Once you detoxify your body and get rid of the parasites using these herbal remedies you will find that your energy level has increased. You will also find that the glow in your skin has returned.
Once you get rid of the toxins, you will also observe that your bowel movements are functioning properly. Those constipation problems should clear up. You can now also eat and enjoy that same food that you could not bear to look at till a few days back.
Do not be surprised if you observe that your bloating and acid reflux symptoms have vanished. Colon cleanse banishes all such problems and if conducted on a regular basis, also prevents the harmful toxins from entering your body via your bowels. Why not opt in for a colon cleanse and find out its varied benefits?
Cause of Tinnitus: A Brief Overview of the Reasons For Tinnitus
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine on August 05th, 2009
Ex tinnitus sufferer and medical researcher reveals the real causes of tinnitus in this article.
When sound waves from outside hit the pint-sized, sensitive hairs located in the inner ear, these hairs react to the pressures of these waves. As a result, electrical signals are emanated, and they are transferred to the brain. The signals are then recognized by the brain as sound. However, in case these hairs suffer any significant damage or mutilation, faulty signals are transmitted to the brain and it generates weird whistling, ringing or whooshing sounds. Since these sounds reach the ears of the affected person, even in the absence of any source of noise, (s)he gets to hear these unusual sounds. Tinnitus is the medical term given to these situations afflicting a person.
We would here be delving into some factors that are not, in themselves, basic causes of tinnitus. Rather, they are the triggers that can initiate the causes of the ailment. Doctors need to have the proper mindset while dealing with tinnitus cases, since the disease is caused by a combination of factors. As an example, problems related to sinus are not among the direct reasons for tinnitus, but are among the triggers. However, if a person leads a wasteful lifestyle, is exposed to too much strain or anxiety, or has a high blood pressure, these factors can directly bring about tinnitus problems in him/her. Since these are causes of the ailment, holistic methods of treatment should be opted for to ensure a quick relief.
Cause of Tinnitus – Do You Know The Reasons?
• Acute depression and excessive stress: If hearing tests do not show any abnormality, and the ear appears to be properly functioning otherwise, stress-related anxiety may be the problem affecting an individual. A healthy way of life, coupled with holistic approaches to treatment, can do away with these problems.
• Benign Tumor: Also known as Acoustic Neuroma, these tumors often result in tinnitus as well. The cranial nerve that connects the inner ear with the brain, and helps people hear as well as maintain a perfect balance, usually bears these tumors. They cause tinnitus in one of the ears of patients, and the condition is also known as Vestibular Schwannoma.
• Maniere’s Disease in the inner ear: When this ailment affects the ear, tinnitus can be caused. This medical condition is generally brought about by the pressures of a fluid that is present in the inner ear.
• Accidents affecting the head and/or neck: If these accidents affect the nerves, patients can experience severe neurological problems. The proper way of working of the brain is also affected, and tinnitus problems can result.
• Advancement in age : As a person goes beyond 60 years of age, (s)he usually becomes progressively more and more senile. This phenomenon is also known as Presbycusis, and can rob the affected person partially, or even totally, of his/her hearing abilities.
• Listening to shattering sounds: Tinnitus is extremely likely to affect people who are exposed to deafening noises continuously. A case in point is the workers of forging mills and stamping factories, who often hear ringing noises, even when they are not at work. Guns having bores of heavy weights, which are shot from the shoulder, can also bring about tinnitus. Tinnitus is also a likely medical condition affecting those employed in night clubs, since they are exposed to loud music too often.
• Amount of ear wax : There is a maximum limit till which ear wax can accumulate within the ears. When the deposits of ear wax go beyond this limit, tinnitus is a likely outcome.
• Narrower blood vessels : Also termed clinically as Atherosclerosis, this change in the shape of the blood vessels in the middle or the inner parts of the ear can be brought about by excess accumulation of cholesterol. This can, in many cases, result in tinnitus. When affected in this manner, blood vessels cannot account for the sounds. As a result, noise impulses like hissing and whooshing can be heard, along with other pulsating sounds.
• Blood pressure related issues : The level of blood pressure can go up considerably due to the presence of excessive amounts of cholesterol in the arteries. In a logic similar to the one discussed above, these deposits bring down the supply of blood to the neck and the head, thereby causing tinnitus. However, holistic treatments can solve these problems at an early stage.
• Tumor formation in the neck and/or head : The blood vessels of the human neck and head (i.e., the vascular neoplasm) experience an increased pressure due to these tumors. As a result, tinnitus problems may come up.
• Malformation of the Arteriovenous system : If the connecting channels of the arteries and veins are not right, the problem is called AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation). Tinnitus caused due to this factor generally affects one of the ears of individuals.
Cause of Tinnitus – A Look at Some Medicines With Adverse Effects
Medicines of a certain variety can, in fact, give birth to tinnitus problems. The situation can be considerably worsened by consuming some types of drugs as well.
Let is now look into some of the types of drugs that can probably be blamed for tinnitus problems:
• Antibiotic medicines (e.g. Vancomycin, Erythromycin, Tetracycline, Bleomycin and Chloramphenicol).
• Cancer-treating drugs (e.g. Vincristine and Mechlorethamine).
• Diuretic medications (e.g., Furosemide, Bumetanide and Ethacrynic acid).
• Formulations for treatment of malaria and certain similar ailments (e.g. Quinine drugs).
If a person consumes large quantities of Aspirin, over a long time, (s)he is also likely to hear ringing noises in his/her ear.
The term ‘multilateral disorder’ is associated with tinnitus precisely due to the fact that, it can be caused by many factors. All the underlying reasons of the problems have to be properly detected so that a cure from the disease can be obtained. However, conventional modes of medications seldom reach deep enough to detect the chief problem-creating factors. Only the symptoms of the disease are treated, accounting for the extremely low rate of success. Unlike these methods, the holistic mode of treatment considers the entire body to be a single unit, and suggest medicines accordingly. Wholesale lifestyle changes as well as the application of products derived from herbs are recommended. Since the holistic way of treating tinnitus tries to locate the major causes of the problem, and then treat them accordingly, it has met with widespread success.
The Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel and the FDA
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine on August 05th, 2009
According to the Los Angeles Times, the California Association of Physicians and Surgeons, and even the Center for Diseases Control’s own admission, well over 100,000 people in this country die each year from “properly” administered prescription drugs. This is absolutely shocking!
One study has shown that more than two million American hospitalized patients suffered a serious adverse drug reaction (ADR) within a 12-month period and of these, over 100,000 died as a result. Likewise, roughly 36,000,000 adverse drug reactions are reported annually, resulting in more than 33.6-million admissions or hospitalizations all from drugs that the FDA has pronounced “safe effective.“
The media is not doing a very good job of reporting this ADR crisis. Instead, we hear the constant media drumbeat about the dangers of firearms, which are currently politically incorrect yet represent a miniscule fraction of the deaths in this country. Doctors who want to politicize gun deaths should clean up their own glass houses first. The real crisis is the failing health care or more accurately described as the sick care system. There are numerous reasons for this crisis.
One reason is that conflicts of interest represent a very real problem for public servants and those entities which have relationships with various government agencies. Numerous researchers have reported that the FDA receives money from the very entities it is suppose to be regulating and one consequence of this is the suppression rather than advancement of disease cures. Consider the following:
“According to a USA Today study, more than half of the experts hired to advise the government on the safety and effectiveness of medicine have financial relationships with the pharmaceutical companies that will be helped or hurt by their decisions. These experts are hired to advise the Food and Drug Administration on which medicines should be approved for sale, what the warning labels should say and how studies of drugs should be designed. The experts are supposed to be independent, but USA TODAY found that 54% of the time, they have a direct financial interest in the drug or topic they are asked to evaluate. These conflicts include helping a pharmaceutical company develop a medicine, then serving on an FDA advisory committee that judges the drug.
The conflicts typically include stock ownership, consulting fees or research grants.
Federal law generally prohibits the FDA from using experts with financial conflicts of interest, but according to the article, the FDA has waived the restriction more than 800 times since 1998.” (1)
The corruption of undisclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies by supposedly unbiased researchers along with the staggering cost involved in bringing new drugs to market, which conveniently eliminates competition from all but the cartel heavyweights has been sparingly reported in the mainstream press. Consider one exception to this silence:
In the book a “World Without Cancer” by G. Edward Griffin. Griffin describes the politics of cancer therapy, in which he blows the lid off the all powerful international chemical and drug cartel that has dominated the direction of health care since early in the Twentieth Century in the United States. Griffin argues that not only has the Rockefeller-Farben cartel (2) been instrumental in fostering chemical based drug treatment as the basis for health care and they have been the dominant adversary against safer non-drug treatments. If Griffin is correct, who is the FDA protecting and serving? Clearly, not the consumer!
It should be noted that pharmaceutical drugs have absolutely no nutritional value, and at best offer temporary relief of symptoms while doing nothing to address the root causes of disease. Additionally, pharmaceutical drugs should be used very carefully because of the toxicity factor also known as the LD50 rating. LD stands for “Lethal Dose” and LD50 is the amount of a drug, given, which causes the death of 50% of a group of laboratory test animals. Also, it is well known that drugs can damage the liver and kidneys.
Do not forget, as sited above, adverse drug reactions are responsible for over 100,000 deaths each year plus the pain and suffering for those lucky enough to survive an ADR. The way to good health does not necessarily include the ingestion of toxic chemicals. Likewise, the reason for disease is not that we are deficient or lacking in deadly debilitating pharmaceutical drugs. In many cases, disease is the result of nutritional deficiencies and the resulting weakening of the immune system.
The recent ongoing attempt to abolish and subvert the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, which brought a measure of freedom back to consumers, in regards to their personal choices in the area of nutritional supplementation, should raise the ire of everyone who is concerned about their own health. This is an example of the pharmaceutical cartel and their political cronies within and along side of the FDA at work. Never forget, America is about freedom, especially freedom to make informed decisions concerning our own health care information, services we choose, our choice of treatments and products that we believe to be beneficial for our own health and wellbeing. See the National Health Freedom coalition web site (3)
36,000,000 adverse drug reactions and 100,000 deaths annually is a crisis!
Notes:
1. An article by Dennis Cauchon, the USA TODAY Newspaper, Sept. 25, 2000
2. G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer, Westlake Village, CA, American Media, 1997.
3. National Health Freedom Coalition at: nationalhealthfreedom.org/
Statistics can be found at: cancure.org/medical_errors.htm.
? 2004 By Jack Kettler