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So that they can cut the wrong breast. Yes, this is sickening | |
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I think eating properly is the best medicine of all. Sadly, given the way Americans eat now, eating whole, unprocessed foods is considered "alternative."
There's a reason I look a good ten years younger than my chronological age (and younger than my three younger sisters) - I eat well. I take cod liver oil. I consume mostly good fats (and limit my exposure to bad fats). I eat animal-based foods in appropriate measure. (There are certain nutrients that can only be gotten from animal foods - despite what the anti-meat faction tells you.)
And I actively work to get adequate rest. People who follow an, "I'll sleep when I'm dead" philosophy typically start looking dead around my age. No, thank you. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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My doctor just told me I should try this for my headaches Rhythm floods my heart♥The melody it feeds my soul | |
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(Are you properly hydrated?) By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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ONLY ALTERNATIVELY! | |
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I believe in preventative medicine more than anything--ie not doing the things that are bad for you. I believe that the negative things we do have more impact on our health than the positive things.
For example, I think it's much more important to not smoke heavily than it is to jog. I think it's more important to not eat fatty, sodium filled food than it is to take cholesterol or blood pressure medication, or to eat garlic. Acupuncture is fine, but I don't think it's enough to fix a person who spends all day on the computer. My Legacy
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Agreed.
I always laugh at the Prilosec commercials. They promote the idea of keep consuming the food and drink that causes acid reflux and take our pill. Mind you the long term side effect can be damaging to your hips. Meaning you might need a hip replacement. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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But I neeeeeeeed my pizza! We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Rhythm floods my heart♥The melody it feeds my soul | |
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Yeah, neeeeeed is the operative word. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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pizza is like medicine for the soul! | |
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Ok confession time.
I have one uncle recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and another uncle diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. My diabetic uncle is going the conventional route and he takes pills I believe. I've not seen him doing injections of any kind.
My other uncle is forgoing conventional medicine (other than an oxygen tank and blood thinners) and looking to herbs and detox methods.
Someone advised him of a coffee enema as a form of detoxing and he is using crystals for something...i don't know what.
They both are weak and tired all of the time but I honestly don't know if either are doing the right thing. They both juice as well but my uncle with cancer can't keep his food down so he takes herbal extracts under the tongue.
All this shit is confusing and saddening to me but I pray for them and hope that they know what they are doing.
Oh and they both swear by wheat grass juice. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
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i drink tea i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE... | |
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absolute mega doses of vitamin C IV dripped into a person has been shown in some caes to be more effective than chemotherapy
from http://www.canceractive.c...eoplastons re stanislaw burzynski's work:
"His work - which is non-toxic - with brain tumour patients and those with other cancers produced results that beat the statistics seen for standard radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment. | |
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OMG! Ok this is very interesting and I think they both should try it as it couldn't hurt right?
Now here is the potential problem: how can our family get the doctors to administer Vit C via iv drip and how much of a dose should be requested? Should I recommend liquid Vitamin C if I can find it? I don't trust doctors much and the poor nurses can't act on their own and have to get a doctor's order before they do anything.
I know Vitamin C is a great property for healing wounds so it makes sense to me that it would aid in helping every cell in the body. Its an antioxidant and immune system builder right? Seems to me our immune systems are designed to combat any potential celluar damage if our system is healthy enough.
I don't know if I'm making sense. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE UGLY. YOU JUST HAVE BAD LUCK WHEN IT COMES TO MIRRORS AND SUNLIGHT!
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I would be very careful in considering Burzinski's treatment. He is regarded as a crank if not a con artist by many, and is still conducting 'preliminary' trials thirty years after developing his treatment, allegedly so he can avoid stricter regulation and charge people tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for his experimental treatment. At minimum, his treatment is unproven, and his practise of charging thousands of dollars to participate in trials is highly suspect and should cause great suspicion of his motivations.
Some criticisms of Burzinksi:
Saul Green posted an anal...Quackwatch that gives the whole biochemical story of “antineoplastons”. He wrote:
I recommend you read the whole article – it puts Burzynski’s claims into a nice perspective. He has simply isolated proteins excreted in urine, messed around with them a little, and renamed them “antineoplastons.” In essence these are drugs that he is administering as chemotherapy. They have toxicity. There is no basic science reason to suspect they will have anti-cancer properties, and more than 30 years after Burzynski first started making claims for these peptides there is still no credible evidence that they are of any therapeutic value against cancer. What about the treatment itself? Burzynski claims that he has discovered “antineoplastons,” which can be extracted from a patient’s own urine. These molecules then target cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. There is, however, no credible science behind these claims. Burzynski has published studies of his therapy, but they are small uncontrolled case series. He has been promoting his therapy for more than three decades – why is he still doing preliminary research (the last of which was published in 2006)?
Well, that is how he skirts regulation. He offers his antineoplaston therapy as an experimental protocol. However, he still charges huge sums of money for the privilege of being a subject in his “research.” Lewis tells the story of young Billie Bainbridge, who has brain cancer, and whose family is trying to raise £200,000 to send Billie to the Burzynski clinic for “experimental” treatment. I honestly don’t know how he gets away with such flagrantly unethical behavior.
Burzynski’s results have not been replicated by other researchers, and the cancer research community does not seem interested in his work. This is not because of any conspiracy – they just recognize crap when they see it. It is also extremely unusual (for legitimate research) that three decades on he is still fooling around with preliminary studies. It’s almost as if he is just going through the motions of research so that he can continue to charge large amounts of money to desperate patients so that they can get his “experimental” treatment.
http://scienceblog.cancer...alse-hope/
At the moment, there is very little solid scientific evidence to show that antineoplastons are effective at treating cancer, and virtually all the research in this area has been carried out by Burzynski and his team – a red flag to the scientific world (as we’ve discussed before).
To explain, scientists are not stupid – whether they work for independent organisations like a research charity or a pharmaceutical company – and they can spot a bandwagon rolling towards them from a great distance. Once the evidence starts to fall into place about the potential effectiveness of a discovery, it’s guaranteed that the scientific community will start to pay attention and jump on.
As a case in point, based on Burzynski’s claims about antineoplastons, the US government-funded National Cancer Institute (NCI) spent nearly a million dollars on an early-phase clinical trial of the treatment in the early 1990s. But the early results were not promising and the trial ended in disarray – a saga documented in this fascinating social science paper.
Although neither Burzynski nor the NCI is entirely blameless in the collapse of the trials, it is perplexing that since then thousands of patients have allegedly been treated with antineoplastons, yet there is not enough data to make a solid case for their effectiveness. And – more importantly – based on the evidence presented by Burzynski, the vast majority of the scientific and medical community remains unconvinced.
As well as the doubts around the effectiveness of antineoplaston treatment, the whole manner in which the clinic is offering treatment is unusual. Antineoplaston therapy is not licensed as a cancer treatment by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), so the Burzynski Clinic is offering the treatment only as part of a clinical trial. However, patients are being asked to pay many tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of being on the trial – a highly unusual situation in clinical research, and certainly not the norm for UK trials.
Furthermore, the scientific community expects the results of clinical trials to be published in the medical literature. As far as we can tell, Burzynski’s team have not published any results since 2006, which raises questions about exactly what kind of clinical trials they are running, and when we might expect to see the detailed analysis of their results.
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Mass doses of vit c can and most likely cause organ failures. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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That's why it needs to be administered by a health professional and not some fly-by-night practitioner or by someone at home.
There's also a way to clear your arteries from high cholesterol buildup and plaque via intravenous solution. It's called chelation therapy, and it's the same thing they use to treat people with lead and other toxic metals poisoning. The main ingredient in the intravenous solutiuon is EDTA, but they use vitamin C and other mineral agents so that the cholesterol and calcium deposits in the arteries bind to them and get naturally flushed out of the bloodstream. There are only a few doctors who do this, however, and it usually takes about three to six visits to clear the arteries. Unfortunately, no insurance plans cover this in the USA, but it's still a lot cheaper and safer than getting an angioplasty and/or heart bypass surgery.
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It has not been established that chelation therapy is effective. Most of the studies have shown that it provides no benefit above placebo, and the few studies that did show effect were either not replicated or were poorly designed.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g...t=Abstract
CONCLUSION:Based on exercise time to ischemia, exercise capacity, and quality of life measurements, there is no evidence to support a beneficial effect of chelation therapy in patients with ischemic heart disease, stable angina, and a positive treadmill test for ischemia.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g...t=Abstract RESULTS:The most striking finding is the almost total lack of convincing evidence for efficacy. Numerous case reports and case series were found. The majority of these publications seem to indicate that chelation therapy is effective. Only 2 controlled clinical trials were located. They provide no evidence that chelation therapy is efficacious beyond a powerful placebo effect. CONCLUSION:Given the potential of chelation therapy to cause severe adverse effects, this treatment should now be considered obsolete.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g...t=Abstract
During the 3-month (n = 149) and 6-month (n = 123) follow-up period, no long-term therapeutic effect of EDTA could be demonstrated. The ankle-brachial blood pressure index remained unchanged throughout the study period. This study failed to demonstrate any effect of EDTA chelation treatment in intermittent claudication.
http://www.thebody.com/Fo...91076.html
If chelation therapists practiced in a scientific manner, their publications would show an interest in obtaining objective proof that chelation could alter the progress of the atherosclerosis, that occluded blood vessels could be cleared, that plaque deposits could be reduced, and that hardened arteries could be "softened." Their data would include carefully documented case reports with long-term follow-up, comparisons of angiograms or ultrasound tests before and after chelation, and data from autopsies of former patients. But chelationists have published no such data. The few well-designed studies that have addressed the efficacy of chelation for atherosclerotic diseases have been carried out by "establishment " medical scientists. Without exception, these found no evidence that chelation worked.
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pizza is like medicine for the soul! I was joking. I eat pizza only rarely. It's not exactly compatible with a low-carb diet. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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You need a good New York style thin-crust pizza then.
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like a little cracker topped with asiago cheese and fresh mushrooms, artichokes, red peppers | |
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Yes, I believe in alternative medicine. Many doctors do also. Dr. Oz talks about that topic on his shows. | |
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Any medicine is alternative until through medical/scientific research it's found to be effective treatment.
Some of the new alternative medicines might lead to the discovery of real chemicals or procedures that will be refined or synthesized to treat stuff, other alt medicines are bullshit or pacebo or coincidence. My art book: http://www.lulu.com/spotl...ecomicskid
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When you eat low carb, all bread is just sugar in disguise. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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doesn't matter to me, i eat carbs | |
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