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Standard Medical Treatment

Standard medical treatment for Crohn’s disease includes drug therapy such as anti-inflammation drugs. Most patients are given drugs that contain mesalamine, to control inflammation. The possible side effects can be nausea, vomiting, heart burn, diarrhea, and headache.

Then there are Cortisone drugs and steroids know as corticosteiods. Prednisone is the common name of one of these drugs. When the disease is at its worst, Prednisone is often prescribed in a large dose. This is a drug with very serious side effects.

Next we move on to immune system suppressors. Wow, just what a person with a debilitating condition needs. The side effects are nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, while it lowers immunity.

Also, antibiotics are used to treat bacterial over in the small intestines. One or more of these can be prescribed: ampicillin, sulfonamide, cephalosporin, and tetracycline.

Medication for diarrhea and abdominal pain may be necessary.

After all the medication two-thirds to three-quarters of patients with Crohn’s disease will require surgery at some point. Surgery removes part of the intestine to help people with the symptoms. It is not a cure. Many times people have more than one operation, as inflammation tends to return to another area.

Some people need to have their entire colon removed. The operation is called a colostomy. This means that all wastes that exits the body will be collected in a pouch worn over the opening, near the beltline. The majority (not all) of patients can live a normal life.

Another Story

Study

A new study found that Vitamin D, which is found in supplements such as cod liver oil, counters the effect of Crohn’s disease. John White, an endocrinologist at the Research Institute of the McGill University and the Universite de Montreal who presented their findings about the inflammatory bowel disease in the latest Journal of Biological Chemistry.

“Our data suggests, for the first time, that D deficiency can contribute of Crohn’s disease,” states Dr. White a professor in McGill’s Department of Physiology, noting that people who live in northern countries, and receive less sunlight then is necessary for the formation of Vitamin D in the body, are more vulnerable to Crohn’s disease.

What is important to note is that Dr. White’s interest in vitamin D is that it mitigates cancer. All of his results point to vitamin D’s effect on the immune system. The body’s innate immune system is the body’s first line of defense against microbial invaders. In Crohn’s disease Dr. White stated “It’s a defect in innate immune handling of intestinal bacteria that leads to an inflammatory response that may lead to an autoimmune condition.”

Connecting the dots will tell you that if one natural nutrient helps it means that there are multiple benefits from a healthy diet. Most of these nutrients will exceed your expectations, offering you a compete array of what you need for sustainable good health.

Find out more about the other story, and the people who healed themselves, by using natural methods. We will continue this article with the websites and information that you need in our newsletter “The Healing zone.”

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Healthcare in America consists of finding the pharmaceutical formula to save us from self destruction. We have never seen anything like it. This is being played out in research labs of pharmaceutical companies. Its real name is “Go for the gold,”

Pirates

Yes, amigo you’ve created a monster called a drug for everything. They hold your health hostage and you pay the fee. Their business model is sheer genius. Megalomaniac is the word that should comes to mind as you watch the pharmaceutical industry advertisements.

Spin Doctor

The pharmaceutical companys are the masters of spin. They have to be to survive with their track record.

A Glimpse at American Health

Americans are not doing as well as you would think. Considering all the pharmaceutical fixes we should be a healthy nation. Another way to look at it is with all the pharmaceuticals we need we are an unhealthy nation. The arsenal of drugs grows by the year, yet health is declining. Pharmaceutical overload is what this nation is facing.

According to the numbers released by the National Center for Health Statistics on the health of Americans in the first half of 2009, a third of us are not feeling well. The percentage of people who reported having excellent or very good health has been declining.

Most American’s don’t know what well feels like. Well is not the absence of symptoms, or being able to get through the day without collapsing. Well is being able to feel amazing, and be able to joyously get through the day. Now the numbers look different.

Normal

It is open season in allopathic medicine. The hunting for disease is going to bring good yields. The supply of pre-diseases will bring a fury of pharmaceutical activity. We have gone beyond the judicious use of medication. Now we are in the assault phase. Trying to win a war by attacking something that you think may occur will produce a deadlier outcome. We are in the dawn of a new age. We have shifted our thinking to consider this normal.

Rise and Fall

The pharmaceutical industry is getting a boast from newly minted doctors, who are not resisting. These are the health care soldiers of tomorrow, who are going to lead the assault on killer diseases with one drug after another. The advances in treating have had a direct action on both a resurrection of older diseases in a new and more dangerous form, and the emergence of new and baffling conditions.

The rise of the pharmaceutical industry with the complicit help of the F.D.A. and other government entities are not creating a better world. We are in high gear at the demolition derby.

The blame for this extends to the public. We are in most part the creator of our health and have control over it, it is a hands-on task. Part of the solution is obscure by our dependence on the healthcare system. The over hyped industry that under delivers. We risk our lives by looking to an outside source to take care of an inside job.

 Partial Protection

Getting physical, not getting a physical, is what will keep you healthy. If you are pondering the healthcare overhaul you are at the wrong place in your head. The best way to equip yourself is to shoulder your own health care.

At the very most healthcare is after care. The kind you get when you eat, and drink too much, and forget to get 40 winks

In  studies it has been shown that women who underwent hysterectomies for a benign uterine disease showed that taking the ovaries along for the ride wasn’t a good idea. Did it occur to these brilliant minds that things like ovaries, tonsils, gallbladders, and appendix are there for a reason.

The high cost of medical procedures is not only in dollar and cents. The findings are showing that ovary removal protects against ovarian, uterine and breast cancer, but increased mortality from all other causes. Longevity was cut short in women who had this procedure before the age of fifty. That’s a hefty price considering that protecting yourself from ovarian cancer means loosing a very vital organ. They say it protects against uterine cancer, but the uterine usually goes with the ovaries.

Upside Down Logic

Doctors have peddled this approach for the last four decades. Now they believe that such automatic recommendations are not warranted. The operative word is automatic, no thinking involved.

Now they are first considering the long-term health consequences of this procedure. Saying it pays to keep your ovaries, because there are processes that regulate longevity that are under ovarian control. Lobotomies are not a thing of the past, everyone that had one is now practicing medicine. This profession seems to have lost their ability to think logically.

Pay Now Pay Later

Talk about transparency in the medical and pharmaceutical industries, and you will see why you pay now and pay later. The challenge for the patients is addressing the freaky logic that is routinely used to persuade you to use the standard treatment. If you are looking for data to back up any of the statements made by today’s health care professionals do the research yourself. Clinical trials, research studies, unpleasant side effects, long term outcomes are bathed in deceptive language. This is one of the reasons you pay now and pay later. Your are in fact a human guinea pig for many of the pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical procedures.

Stable, Potent, and Safer

There are new easy-to-tolerated ways to ease symptoms, and reverse what the medical profession calls disease. The standard practice of medicine is outmoded. The most significant developments are going to translate into a broad spectrum of ways to activate the body’s own healing.

A close look will reveal that health is correlated to the substances that we put into our bodies, and the amounts. The actions of gene expression is tied to our lifestyle. Everything occurs on a cellular level, so unless you go there you will not achieve real healing.

What has been recently discovered is how potent these interventions are. Thanks to modern technology there is sufficient comprehensive data that verify’s Let Food be Your Medicine, and Medicine Your Food.

Summary

You are trying a replacement therapy, for pharmaceuticals. You are enhancing your health not just treating a symptom. Just about every chronic condition is a symptom of an out-of-balanced lifestyle. We do not need randomized studies to tell us fortified food is the same as whole foods.

Biochemical reactions are facilitated throughout the body in response to the bioavailability of the components of the food we eat. Fortified processed food is not going to supply or produce what we need. The challenge is to protect the integrity and maintain a strong immune system using today’s foods.