Treatment of Asthma

Once again I'm writing about a disease that touched my life. I had asthma since I was very little. I actually don't even remember when it first began, it seems as if I always had it. In my case it never grew into anything serious though there were times I had to take bronchodilators, I was never dependent on them the was most people with asthma are. The main reason for that is because I simply wouldn't use them unless I absolutely had to. Asthma medications are very addictive, your body simply can't function without it if you had taken it for too long. Respiratory system doesn't know how to work itself because medication was doing it for so long. It's like muscle that becomes weak and can't do it's work because it wasn't used. To Take care of this problem you first have to take care of asthma.
One fact many people don't know is that asthma is not chronic. It used to be under the umbrella of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) but it has been excluded from it leaving only chronic bronchitis and emphysema under this umbrella term. The reason Asthma is no longer COPD is because it is no longer considered to be chronic. When I was learning about asthma in college we were told that some patients simply got better and got cured for no apparent reason. Well, things don't just happen. Just because doctors don't know why or don't want to know why doesn't mean there is no logical explanation. Allergy is the most common cause of asthma and if allergy can be stopped, then so can asthma. Basically it all comes down to poorly functioning immune system which is the cause of allergy as well as all other auto immune disorders. Once immune system is back in balance, all the troubles are gone. When I first thought about using alternative medicine to help my asthma I did some research and found out that vegetarian diet showed to help in more then 90% of cases. Reason for that is because animals are treated with antibiotics and hormones. These chemicals end up staying in the muscles of the animals and when we eat meat, they get into our bodies too. Constantly having them introduced into our bodies disrupts normal flora and our own hormones. All of this ends up causing immune system imbalance. After thinking about it for a while and doing some more research I decided to become vegan as these same hormones and antibiotics are very likely to be present in milk and eggs. Milk also increases mucous production and it is one of the major problems for asthma patients, so excluding it is more of a must if you really want to get rid of your asthma. Although I decided to make the step towards vegan life style I understand that many people would find it very difficult, although Dr. Bernard says "yes, people might think eating a vegan diet sounds hard - but ending up on dialysis and going blind is what is hard" when he argued for vegan diet in treatment of people with type 2 diabetes. If you think you absolutely can not go vegan, instead of not doing anything at all try at least switching to animal products from animals that were not given antibiotics and hormones and were fed their natural diet (grass fed). Remember, we were created to live in nature, we adopted to nature, nature knows what is best for us and the closer we stay to her, the better our health will be. Try staying closer to nature in what you eat, think what can happen in nature and what can not. Belive me, animals dons just eat antibiotics and growth hormones in the fields and you definitely will not see cows chopping up their fallen brothers and eating them, they are herbivorous, they eat grass, not other cows.
After I switched to vegan diet my asthma slowly diminished to the point of non existence. Until a few days ago that is. I spent a few hours in the apartment that was flooded and has black mold all over because of the flood. Mold brought my asthma back. You must watch what you inhale, even if you don't have asthma, there are things that can hinder your breathing. I learned my lesson. My breathing is better now, but I can feel it even after a few days passed. If you are constantly in the environment that can trigger your asthma, whether it's mold, dust, pollution or any other cause you need to find a way to minimize it's effect on you and to get it out of the system faster. I personally have tried a supplement called "clear lung" and it worked really well, it's basically a lung cleanser that helps remove things that are not supposed to be in your lungs.
I hope this will help many of you.
Yours Armada Volya

Cancer

Cancer is getting more and more dangerous as it becomes more common and cure is nowhere to be seen. Billions of dollars are being spent on cancer research, decades spent doing this research, and yet all we have is "knock em out, cut em up," irradiating human flesh (which is also a cause of cancer) and giving cancer patients poison that in too many cases kills (chemo therapy). Why is it that the cure can not be found? The answer is, it can be found, and it has been found, many times. The real questions is why this cures are not known to us and not used by our doctors. The answer lies in the root of all evil, money. Research on cancer is usually ran by one of the leading pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical companies make most of their money (as they themselves admit) by selling to cancer patients. Think how much cancer treatment costs, and how much it costs to treat all the side effects of this treatment. Long story short, as soon as the cure is found, it's patented and never sees the light of day again.

This is not the only reason the cure isn't known to us, another reason is scientific dogmas. Sometime, oh about 100 years ago some scientist said that RNA and DNA can't go back and forth changing around. This dogma proved to be wrong many times over, actually most organisms on earth can change their RNA and DNA back and forth from one to another, but every time this is found in yet another organism scientists simply say "it's an exception." How many exceptions can there be before we realize the rule is not really a rule? Well, this dogma made scientists think that embryonic cell after it matures and differentiates into a cell of specific body part it can no longer go back to embryonic cell. There are more and more scientists around now that scream that it is not true, but they are just scorned and looked down upon, how dare they think they are smarter then some dude that lived 100 years ago, how dare they think they know more about science?

To show you exactly what I am talking about with all this embryonic cells, let's compare the action of cancer cell, embryonic cell and normal cell. Cancer cell doesn't not use oxygen to make ATP which requires more glucose to make the same amount of energy, this is why people with cancer loose weight. Cancer cells reproduce as fast as it is possible. Embryonic cells don't use oxygen ether and grow very rapidly to let the whole baby grow out of a tiny cell within only 9 month. Normal cell uses oxygen and it's reproduction is limited by the amount of cells needed. Most importantly as was discovered by P. G. Seeger cancer cells can actually be turned into normal sells by the use of silica gel. Silica gel btw helps aid oxygenation of the tissues. When I first read of this transformation of cancer sells back to normal cells I was finally sure that those scientists saying that cells can go back and forth are in fact correct. Common believe that cancer is a mutation can not possibly be so because mutated sell can not just unmutate it self, you can't change DNA of the cell, DNA stays the same, it's only the genes of the cell that are activated that can change. I later found out another fact, cancer cells do not have any markers on them that would make them appear as foreign body. All this information got me thinking, and questions I asked were "If caner is a random mutation, then how can the same exact mutation effect millions and millions of people worldwide?" This is technically possible, but very improbable. There are too many genes and too many variations or mutation that can happen, it is very unlikely that this would happen so many times and with each and every type of cancer. Another question is "If there are no markers that would tell the immune system that the body is foreign on the cell than 1. why is week immune system blamed for cancer when even if it was healthy it couldn't find it. and 2. why our immune system that is capable of finding every foreign body in this world (including those from outer space) is unable to recognize cancer cells?" The answer is immune system can't be blamed for cancer and the only cells it can not recognize as foreign are those that are not foreign, those who belong in our body. In fact when scientists doing cancer research during Regan's presidency said that immune week immune system is the cause they already knew it wasn't, but they had to say something, after all, they have to prove they deserve their money. My conclusion as to what cancer really is was the same as many other scientists came to, it's cells ability to turn back into this younger form. The reason for this transformation is the desire to save the tissue at all cost. When oxygen supply to the tissue is low, cells can die because of lack of energy, but if they can produce energy without oxygen, they can buy themselves more time. Once oxygen supply is back to normal they turn back into their normal state as was caused by silica gel.

Known causes for cancer all support this theory. Physical trauma can break capillaries, thus decreasing oxygen, infection causes white blood cells to release chemical that in small amounts isn't harmful to human cells but can kill the foe, but when infection persists, the damage to the vessels near which the fight takes place increases. Pollution, carcinogens in the food, radiation, all are able to damage fragile capillaries. Treatments for cancer used by alternative medicine however all lead to more oxygen being able to get to the tissue. They ether help rebuild damaged tissue or increase oxygen content in the blood. With this in mind, when you venture forth to treat this dreadful disease, think about oxygen and what you can do to saturate your body with it. I will list a few things here: hot water mushroom extract, raw food, fresh air, and avoiding further damage. I'll go into more details of each treatment in the future posts.

Diabetes

Diabetes is a devastating disease, it cripples, it kills and many think it's incurable. The truth is, it's curable if you really want to get better. I have read a lot about different treatments for diabetes over last few years, after all, my family has suffered enough from it. 2 family members are dead due to diabetes and the third one is almost blind.
Let's start by looking into causes, because causes give the best understanding on how to cure it. There are two main causes of diabetes, one if inability to produce enough insulin and another is inability to use insulin. First one is a characteristic of type 1 diabetes where the second is type 2. more often then not inability to produce insulin ends up effecting people with type 2 diabetes as well. Now let's look at these two causes even closer and see what causes the cause. Insulin production can be low due to weakened pancreas that was overworked because it needed to produce more and more insulin to make up for inability of the body to use all of it which is often seen in people with type 2 diabetes. It can also be due to distraction of cells in the pancreas by our own immune system which is the cause of type 1 diabetes. To simply say that autoimmune disease is the cause of type 1 diabetes is to say nothing, immune system got to this point somehow, so how? First immune system was most likely already compromised due to toxins, overuse of antibiotics, lack of healthy normal flora and so on. Plus whey protein. Here is the fact few know about, cow's milk has proteins that are hard for humans to digest, one of these proteins is whey protein. If we consume too much whey protein it ends up sitting in our system unable to be absorbed. Immune system figures it's a foreign body and builds antibodies that will attack and destroy this invader. Whey protein is similar in structure to insulin producing cells in the pancreas, so immune system gets confused and attacks pancreas, hence autoimmune disease.
Treatments for this problem are many, first of all, take care of pancreas, don't overwork it but instead eat foods that will help it. Flex seeds for example will actually help rebuild the pancreas cells. Second, fix immune system. Cut out animal products treated with antibiotics as this is one of the causes of immune system problems (actually in one article I read a few month ago it suggested low fat, low salt, low sugar, vegan diet and showed that results of this diet compared to regular diabetic diet is twice as effective in treatment of type 2 diabetes). Eat probiotics and prebiotics (foods that help normal flora already present grow). And cut down on whey protein including products made of cow's milk. As far as I know goat's milk is safe as it's closer to human milk then cow's milk is.
Inability of the body to use the insulin we should is usually caused to extra pounds to be more specific, fat cells. So, this one is easy and is part of treatment of type 2 diabetes in both traditional and alternative medicine. Loose the extra weight and you will be better.
Well, this is all for today, I will keep on adding more and more articles about different treatments of both types of diabetes as I go.

Schizophrenia

After thinking about how I start this blog, what disease I should write about, I decided to started from the very disease that started my interest in the subject of medicine, schizophrenia. A devastating disease that effects too many people to be ignored. It ruins not only lives of those who have it, but those close the the people effected by it.

For many years I wanted to become a psychiatrist so I could better understand it and perhaps be able to help those facing this dreadful disease. One day I realized that traditional medicine doesn't have an answer, so I quit it. This is how I started studying alternative medicine and this was perhaps my main goal in studying it, I wanted to find a cure for schizophrenia.

Now, in order to understand what schizophrenia is, let's look at what research has shown. Research has shown that it's not this and not that, but is some of this and a little of that. Basically scientists don't know what it is other then it physically effects the brain. From my experience in the medical field I can conclude only one thing from it all, schizophrenia is not a disease itself, it's a symptom of many disorders. It's basically like headache, just much more harmful. There are many reasons why people get headaches, same way as there are many reasons as to why people get schizophrenia. In many cases it's caused by a combination of factors. Today I will tell you about one of them, one very simple reason that causes problems not only in the brain, but in the whole body, vitamin deficiency.

It has long been known that lack of certain B vitamins can cause similar symptoms as are present in people with schizophrenia. These include: difficulty in concentration, hallucination, agitation, manic and paranoid behavior, poor memory, depression, lassitude, panic, confusion, and insomnia. In fact these symptoms so closely resemble schizophrenia that in 1966 Dr. Abram Hoffer suggested that deficiency of these vitamins is in fact the very cause of the disease. It was found that patients suffering from schizophrenia were excreting a high toxic pyrrole known as kryptopyrrole (KP) which reacts with vitamin B6 forming a complex that binds with zinc. This causes deficiency in both, vitamin B6 and in zinc. Supplementing B6 and zinc in these patients showed good results.

Hoffer was not the only one who noticed importance of nutrition in patients with schizophrenia. Dr. Carl Pfeiffer was another one. He recognized two subgroups depending on blood histamine level.

Low histamine group included symptoms like thought disorder, grandiosity, paranoia, over-arousal, hallucinations, hypomania, and mania. This group is associated with low zinc, and folate levels and high serum copper. Treatment for this group included supplementing folic acid, vitamin B12, niacin(B3), vitamin C, with zinc and manganese taken to reduce copper levels.

High histamine group is less frequent and is characterized by little fat, long fingers and toes, severe depression, compulsion and phobias. It was found that folic acid aggravated these symptoms causing more severe depression.

Treatment of schizophrenia using vitamins has started even before these studies were done. In 1939 nineteen schizophrenic patients were successfully treated with vitamin B3 (niacin). In 1949 a study showed 29 patients cured with niacin. A double blind study of niacin in 1962 sowed a 75% success rate in people with scizophrenia with no rehospitalization compared to 31% of the control group not receiving niacin therapy. And these are just few studies, there were more. There are other nutrients too that showed to be helpful.

I must say, when I first read the overwhelming amount of studies showing successful treatment of schizophrenia with something as simple as vitamins I was angry, angry because it's not commonly used in the medical field. Angry because this information is not a common knowledge as it should be. Angry because I didn't know about it before. I am happy to share it with you in hopes that it might help some of you. This information should be out there, it should be known. I found it by accident looking through yet another book on alternative medicine (which I have tons of). I couldn't find it in any other book and was very happy I finally found such important information. If you wish to read the book, it's BETTER HEALTH THROUGH NATURAL HEALING How to Get Well Without Drugs or Surgery by Dr Ross Trattler N.D., D.O. With assistance of Dr Adrian Jones N.D.