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Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine but is not based on evidence gathered using the scientific method. It consists of a wide range of health carepractices, products and therapies, using alternative medical diagnoses and treatments which typically have not been included in the degree courses of established medical schools or used in conventional medicine. Examples of alternative medicine include homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, energy medicine and acupuncture.
• Complementary medicine is alternative medicine used together with conventional medical treatment in a belief, not proven by using scientific methods, that it "complements" the treatment.
• Integrative medicine (or integrative health) is the combination of the practices and methods of alternative medicine with conventional medicine.
• Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline) defines CAM as Complementary and Alternative Medicine which is the term for medical products and practices that are not part of standard care. Standard care is what medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, and allied health professionals, such as nurses and physical therapists, practice.
Alternative Medicine
• Complementary medicine is used together with standard medical care. An example is using acupuncture to help with side effects of cancer treatment.
• Alternative medicine is used in place of standard medical care. An example is treating heart disease with chelation therapy (which seeks to remove excess metals from the blood) instead of using a standard approach.
• The claims that CAM treatment providers make can sound promising. However, researchers do not know how safe many CAM treatments are or how well they work. Studies are underway to determine the safety and usefulness of many CAM practices.
Alternative Medicine
• The term alternative medicine is used in information issued by public bodies in the Commonwealth of Australia the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Regulation and licensing of alternative medicine and health care providers varies from country to country, and state to state.
• Numerous skeptics and critics have disputed the term alternative medicine, citing variations of:
"there is really no such thing as alternative medicine, just medicine that works and medicine that doesn't”.
Alternative Medicine
Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on the relationship between the body's structure—mainly the spine—and its functioning. Although practitioners may use a variety of treatment approaches, they primarily perform adjustments (manipulations) to the spine or other parts of the body with the goal of correcting alignment problems, alleviating pain, improving function, and supporting the body's natural ability to heal itself.
• Most research on chiropractic has focused on spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation appears to benefit some people with low-back pain and may also be helpful for headaches, neck pain, upper- and lower-extremity joint conditions, and whiplash-associated disorders.
• Side effects from spinal manipulation can include temporary headaches, tiredness, or discomfort in the parts of the body that were treated. There have been rare reports of serious complications such as stroke, but whether spinal manipulation actually causes these complications is unclear. Safety remains an important focus of ongoing research.
Chiropractic
• Many people who seek chiropractic care have low-back pain. People also commonly seek chiropractic care for other kinds of musculoskeletal pain (e.g., neck, shoulder), headaches, and extremity (e.g., hand or foot) problems.
• An analysis of the use of complementary health practices for back pain, based on data from the 2002 NHIS (NationalHealth Interview Survey), found that chiropractic was by far the most commonly used therapy. Among survey respondents who had used any of these therapies for their back pain, 74 percent (approximately 4 million Americans) had used chiropractic. Among those who had used chiropractic for back pain, 66 percent perceived “great benefit” from their treatments.
Chiropractic
A 2010 review of scientific evidence on manual therapies for a range of conditions concluded that spinal manipulation/mobilization may be helpful for several conditions in addition to back pain, including migraine and cervicogenic (neck-related) headaches, neck pain, upper- and lower-extremity joint conditions, and whiplash-associated disorders. The review also identified a number of conditions for which spinal manipulation/mobilization appears not to be helpful (including asthma, hypertension, and menstrual pain) or the evidence is inconclusive (e.g., fibromyalgia, mid-back pain, premenstrual syndrome, sciatica, and tempomandibular joint disorders).
Chiropractic
A 2010 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report noted that complementary health therapies, including spinal manipulation, offer additional options to conventional treatments, which often have limited benefit in managing back and neck pain. The AHRQ analysis also found that spinal manipulation was more effective than placebo and as effective as medication in reducing low-back pain intensity.
Chiropractic
• Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world.
• In the United States, practitioners incorporate healing traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and other countries, acupuncture is considered part of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
• Acupuncture became better known in the United States in 1971, when New York Times reporter James Reston wrote about how doctors in China used needles to ease his pain after surgery.
Acupuncture
• Acupuncture has been practiced in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years. Acupuncture involves stimulating specific points on the body. This is most often done by inserting thin needles through the skin, to cause a change in the physical functions of the body.
• Research has shown that acupuncture reduces nausea and vomiting after surgery and chemotherapy. It can also relieve pain. Researchers don't fully understand how acupuncture works. It might aid the activity of your body's pain-killing chemicals. It also might affect how you release chemicals that regulate blood pressure and flow.
NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Acupuncture
• Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as qi or chi (CHEE) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance.
• In contrast, many Western practitioners view the acupuncture points as places to stimulate nerves, muscles and connective tissue. This stimulation appears to boost the activity of your body's natural painkillers and increase blood flow.
Acupuncture
• An herb is a plant or plant part used for its scent, flavor, or therapeutic properties. Herbal medicines according to the NIH are one type of dietary supplement. They are sold as tablets, capsules, powders, teas, extracts, and fresh or dried plants. People use herbal medicines to try to maintain or improve their health.
• Many people believe that products labeled "natural" are always safe and good for them. This is not necessarily true. Herbal medicines do not have to go through the testing that drugs do. Some herbs, such as comfrey and ephedra, can cause serious harm. Some herbs can interact with prescription or over-the-counter medicines.
Herbs
Common Preparations• A tea, also known as an infusion, is made by adding
boiling water to fresh or dried botanicals and steeping them. The tea may be drunk either hot or cold.
• Some roots, bark, and berries require more forceful treatment to extract their desired ingredients. They are simmered in boiling water for longer periods than teas, making a decoction, which also may be drunk hot or cold.
Herbs
• A tincture is made by soaking a botanical in a solution of alcohol and water. Tinctures are sold as liquids and are used for concentrating and preserving a botanical. They are made in different strengths that are expressed as botanical-to-extract ratios (i.e., ratios of the weight of the dried botanical to the volume or weight of the finished product).
• An extract is made by soaking the botanical in a liquid that removes specific types of chemicals. The liquid can be used as is or evaporated to make a dry extract for use in capsules or tablets.
Herbs
• The action of botanicals range from mild to powerful (potent). A botanical with mild action may have subtle effects.
• Chamomile and peppermint, both mild botanicals, are usually taken as teas to aid digestion and are generally considered safe for self-administration.
• Some mild botanicals may have to be taken for weeks or months before their full effects are achieved. For example, valerian may be effective as a sleep aid after 14 days of use but it is rarely effective after just one dose. In contrast a powerful botanical produces a fast result. Kava, as one example, is reported to have an immediate and powerful action affecting anxiety and muscle relaxation.
Herbs
• The dose and form of a botanical preparation also play important roles in its safety. Teas, tinctures, and extracts have different strengths. The same amount of a botanical may be contained in a cup of tea, a few teaspoons of tincture, or an even smaller quantity of an extract. Also, different preparations vary in the relative amounts and concentrations of chemical removed from the whole botanical.
• For example, peppermint tea is generally considered safe to drink but peppermint oil is much more concentrated and can be toxic if used incorrectly. It is important to follow the manufacturer's suggested directions for using a botanical and not exceed the recommended dose without the advice of a health care provider.
Herbs
Orthomolecular medicine, as conceptualized by double-Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, aims to restore the optimum environment of the body by correcting imbalances or deficiencies based on individual biochemistry, using substances natural to the body such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements and fatty acids. The term "orthomolecular" was first used by Linus Pauling in a paper he wrote in the Journal Science in 1968.
Orthomolecular Medicine
The key idea in orthomolecular medicine is that genetic factors affect not only the physical characteristics of individuals, but also to their biochemical milieu. Biochemical pathways of the body have significant genetic variability and diseases such as atherosclerosis, cancer, schizophrenia or depression are associated with specific biochemical abnormalities which are causal or contributing factors of the illness.
Orthomolecular Medicine
Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body.
"Orthomolecular treatment does not lend itself to rapid drug-like control of symptoms, but patients get well to a degree not seen by tranquilizer therapists
who believe orthomolecular therapists are prone to exaggeration. Those who've seen the results are astonished."
---Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D
Orthomolecular Medicine
• Every cell in your body requires nutrients to maintain health and function. This is why many illnesses can be linked to molecular imbalances caused by nutritional deficiencies.
• Orthomolecular medicine attempts to identify natural imbalances in individual biochemistry that may lead to illness and correct them using vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients.
Orthomolecular Medicine
A TALE OF TWO BREAKFASTS
A breakfast of two eggs, sausage and cheese has the same amount of calories as the USDA approved breakfast of oatmeal, fruit juice and soy yogurt, but contains no sugar and almost four times as much protein and costs half as much. Such a breakfast is demonized by government officials as containing too much cholesterol and saturated fat.
Nutrition
UNHEALTHY BREAKFAST: USDA APPROVED
Instant oatmeal
(1 package)160 4 7 0.37 17
Veg/Fruit Juice
(1 8oz can)100 0 23 0.93 11+
Soy yogurt
(6 oz)150 4 21 0.74 15
Total 410 8 44 $2.04 43+
SIDEBAR HEALTHY BREAKFAST: NOT USDA APPROVED
A TALE OF TWO
BREAKFASTSA
breakfast of two
eggs, sausage and
cheese
CaloriesProtein
(grams)
Sugar
(grams)
Price/
Serving
Number of
Ingredients
Sausage
(one 1.5 oz patty)170 12 0 0.50 5
Eggs (2) 140 12 0 0.22 1
Cheese (1/4 cup) 100 6 0 0.21 4
Total 410 30 0 $0.93 10
Nutrition
Most Americans are following a diet they have been told by their government and the advertising industry is good for them, while the shocking truth is that this diet is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. That’s because it is rooted in hundreds of lies, distortions and deceptions built up over many decades by the food industry. – Weston A. Price Foundation
Nutrition
• Did you know that heart disease and cancer were rare in 1900? And yet today, one of every two Americans will suffer from some form of heart disease and one of every three Americans will die of cancer.
• Did you know that learning disabilities were extremely rare only a century ago? But today dyslexia and hyperactivity afflict 7,000,000 young people.
Nutrition
It started -Weston A. Price was a dentist and a researcher. During
the 1930s and 1940s he traveled to the remote corners of the earth to study the dietary habits of isolated, non-industrialized peoples. His goal was to determine what we need to eat to be in robust health.
Nutrition
Dr. Price was disturbed that so many patients he was seeing in his dental practice in Cleveland had serious health problems. He observed that they suffered not only from a lot of tooth decay but also had crowded teeth and poor bone structure. And these same patients were afflicted with infectious diseases like TB and chronic illnesses like cancer, arthritis and heart disease.
Nutrition
He suspected that many of the problems he was seeing were due to poor nutrition. So, he went on a quest and traveled to more than a dozen isolated communities around the world where people did not have access to modern foods–sugar, white flour and commercial vegetable oils–to see whether or not they were healthy.
Nutrition
• He was completely amazed by what he found. In communities where the inhabitants were consuming only their own indigenous traditional foods, they were superbly healthy. Even though they had never used a toothbrush, they had beautiful straight teeth–and no tooth decay! Most remarkably, these peoples did not suffer from obesity, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, infertility or birth defects.
• He studied their diets and found that the foods they ate were very rich in vitamins and minerals. In fact, their foods had four times the minerals that were available in the typical American diet of his day.
Nutrition
• That’s partly because these people didn’t eat any empty foods, like sugar, white flour and vegetable oils. But it’s also because they ate foods that were naturally rich in minerals–either seafood from mineral-rich waters or meats, dairy foods and vegetables from animals and plants that were nourished by mineral-rich soil.
• The other thing that Price discovered was that the healthy isolated peoples put a very high value on certain nutrient-dense foods like butter and cream, eggs, organ meats, insects, fish, fish eggs, fish oils and shell fish.
• They went to great lengths to obtain these foods and considered them very important for having healthy babies!
Nutrition
• The importance of diet in relationship to optimal health has been understood throughout recorded history. Hippocrates regarded food as a primary form of medicine more than 2,500 years ago. Records from ancient Egypt as far back as 5000 BC show the use of specific foods to treat various conditions.
• The first person to show a direct link between disease and a lack of a specific nutrient was James Lind, a physician in the British navy, who discovered that sailors on long voyages without rations containing citrus fruits developed bleeding gums, rough skin, poor muscle tension, and slow-healing wounds, all symptoms characteristic of scurvy.
Nutrition
In 1757, in one of the first controlled medical experiments, Lind demonstrated that when sailors were supplied with lemons, limes, and oranges, scurvy could be prevented. As a result of his findings, Captain James Cook made it mandatory that every English sailor be supplied with rations of lemons and limes, enabling to sail around the world scurvy-free, as well as supplying them with the nickname "limeys." Today, it is well known that scurvy is due to vitamin C deficiency.
Nutrition
Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician, is famous for his nutritional research.
• In 1893 he discovered that a diet of polished (overkvernet) rice causes beriberi, and was able to produce the disease experimentally in birds. He discovered vitamin B.
• In 1897, he proved that an element in unpolished rice was essential to proper functioning of the nervous system and carbohydrate metabolism, and that a deficiency in that ingredient could cause beriberi and other diseases. In 1929, his research resulted in him sharing the Nobel Prize with British biochemist Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for physiology and medicine.
Nutrition
• In the late 1920s, Max Gerson, M.D., began observing that cancer could be cured with nutrition in tandem with systemic detoxification.
• Charlotte Gerson writes: "Dr. Gerson found that the underlying problems of all cancer patients are toxicity and deficiency. One of the important features of his therapy was the hourly administration of fresh vegetable juices. These supply ample nutrients, as well as fluids to help flush out the kidneys. When the high levels of nutrients re-enter tissues, toxins accumulated over many years are forced into the blood stream.
Nutrition
The toxins are then filtered out by the liver. The liver is easily overburdened by the continuous release of toxins and is unable to release the load. Dr. Gersonfound that he could provide help to the liver by the caffeine in coffee, absorbed from the colon via the hemorrhoidal vein, which carries the caffeine to the portal system and then to the liver. The caffeine stimulates the liver/bile ducts to open, releasing the poisons into the intestinal tract for excretion.
Nutrition
Roger Williams, Professor of Chemistry, was a pioneer in the concept of orthomolecular nutrition. He discovered pantothenic acid (vitamin B5 ), and was a founder and director of the Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas which, under the directorship of Dr. Williams, was responsible for more vitamin related discoveries than any other laboratory in the world. He also developed the concept of Genetotrophic disease.
Nutrition
• According to Williams, the following thesis formed the basis of this new approach to nutrition: "the nutritional microenvironment of our body cells is crucially important to our health, and deficiencies in this environment constitute a major cause of disease."
• The contributions of Dr. Williams have opened the door for personally tailored nutritional and medical interventions that take biochemical individuality into account.
• Natural health solutions are based on scientific and objective testing including blood, urine, salvia and hair.
Nutrition
• We offer a Science Based Nutrition™ report that provides individual, drug-free recommendations to promote optimum health based on imbalances and dysfunction identified from the test results.
• It allows the healthcare provider to establish a baseline of biomarkers to track your health and nutritional needs. Getting a blood test is essential to understanding your current health.
• Nutritional therapy is then recommended based on the test results. Therapy consists of vitamin recommendations and diet modifications.
Nutrition
To educate us of the importance of eating nutrient dense foods in the way they were meant to eat and to be more self-sustainable relying on food as it was designed by God versus man-made processed foods that are filled with chemicals and other un-natural things that ultimately are destroying people’s health.
The Art of Eating Healthy
The information stresses food in its natural form versus using ready made products to create a meal. It also gives informative information of how to buy or produce the food needed, plus information of how the nutrient content of food feeds our bodies and information of vitamins and herbs to utilize for healthful purposes. It also helps the reader’s ability to see how they can still prepare wholesome meals and work and save money.
The Art of Eating Healthy
• Nutrition – food recipes, meals, preparation, buying, storing, safety and preserving
• Herbs – usage, dosages and ways to incorporate into meals and medicinal usage
• Vitamins – discussion of usage, dosage• News – debunk some myths of untruths regarding
disease and processed foods
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