Posts Tagged ‘medical treatment’

The real help for MS may be outside the medical model. Medical advances to deal with the condition hasn’t dramatically improved. The medical way is to focus is on high potency drugs. However, just like any of the other so called chronic conditions get ready for one drug after another. So the treatments of choice will be pharmaceuticals. For Multiple Scleroses this means profits for the pharmaceutical industry, and a suffering patient.

Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and often disabling condition, which attacks the central nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. Symptoms may be mild or severe, and come or go. The current thinking is that MS is a chronic condition and the only thing a patient can do is find relief.

According to most sources multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases are when the body’s immune systems which normally attacks substances foreign to the body such as bacteria mistakenly attacks normal tissue. In MS, the immune system is attacking components of the central nervous system such as the brain and spinal cord along with the optic nerves

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a medical mystery with a few theories on how it develops. It isn’t always easy to diagnose since symptoms can be very mild and transient.  To the medical community this condition like many others is in need of pharmaceuticals.

Medical Solutions

Treating MS follows the trend in managing chronic conditions by using a wide variety of medications to reduce the frequency and severity of symptoms. When one medication stops working they look for another drug.

The strategy is to modify the course of the disease (slow it down) treat exacerbations (flare-ups) manage symptoms, improve function. These treatments are symptom control and this is what drives the advances in modern medicine.

The drugs such as Avonex®, Betaseron®, Copaxone®, Extavia®, Gilenya®, Rebif®, and Novatron® come with the hopes that they can reduce disease activity and progression.

The list of possible side effects: depression, anemia, liver abnormalities, allergic reaction, flu like symptoms, anxiety, palpitations, and even chest pains. Some are short lived side effects, and some aren’t common ones. The real problem is the longer you are on them and the more combinations you take the bigger the danger. The documented effectiveness of these drugs isn’t very strong.

Real Answers!

Studies shows that living closer to the equator reduces MS risk. This fits in with research that suggests vitamin D from sun exposure may be protective against MS.  Vitamin deficiencies  play a part in this condition. Just about every chronic condition, which develops comes from inside. The promise of science hasn’t been realized unless you think high dosage medicine is the answer to all health problems.

The one treatment in the medical and pharmaceutical models not used is diet. This has the most implications to both relieve and reverse most of the symptoms. There has been a lack of monitoring diet by the medical community, not just because of ignorance and arrogance, but because this condition can abate and relapse on its own. Most people have to see for themselves what the active ingredients in plant foods can do to. A healthy way of eating is the prototype for any treatment options.

Diet Control

Multiple sclerosis responds to both diet and an exercise programs. The relief from diet and different exercise programs has been chronicled. The appropriate testing comes from the patients who have not just slowed the disease, but reversed much of the condition. In 1948 a Dr. Roy Swank created the first known MS diet. This diet is high in vegetables, fruits and nuts while eliminating saturated fats. To understand this you need a bigger view of this condition. Just about all condition are an inside out occurrence. Specific needs aren’t being met for your body to function properly.

There are thousands of patients that went into remission, and had lesions that decreased in size. The type of exercise is usually light: incorporating yoga and stretching exercises. This helps muscles flexibility and will lessen the chance of becoming stiff or developing atrophy.

There are other diets that include gluten and casein free ones. Flavonoids seem to offer some help and so does food allergy testing.  The notion that dug safety is a safe bet is fading. The future outlook is going to show that one stop answers that come from pharmaceuticals will raise more concerns than answer any questions.

Breast-giving them a healthy boost means preserving them not changing them. Automatically most people assume that a boost in their appearance comes from either surgery, or some uplifting undergarment. Smarter is to try to keep them and not turn them over to special-interest groups, which see them as a cash cow. Most medical professionals can’t do squat about really making them healthy.

They can remove them, radiate, and chemo you, but that doesn’t give you breast health. They are part of a whole system, and depend on a healthy environment to keep them in shape. There are better ideas, and solutions that seem to elude the medical establishment.

Breast Health Initiatives

Breast health initiatives have to be more than a whirlwind of doctors, digital pictures, cat scans, and operations. We have to changeover from a rigged robotic assembly line approach to a more humane and productive way of handling breasts.

When one realizes the significant mismanagement of their care, we realize we are fitting a round object into a square cube. It doesn’t fit; it is trimming parts off of real people without examining the toll that takes. First choice is to leave the packaging as intact as possible.

How do you do that?  Yes, it is a tough choice for people not to run to what they see as a solid supplier of FDA accepted approaches. What the crucial question should be: is this all there is. The war on cancer has been going on for over 50 years. It looks more like a war on your breasts; in that case the real winner is the pharmaceutical companies.  The first response for most people is an emotional one and that gives you insufficient data.

Off with the breast should be out of an Alice in Wonderland story, not a real life drama. We are not saying this approach is beyond redemption. But, the speed it is done without understanding how seamlessly the breast is integrated with the rest of the body’s functions. Lymph glands are there for a reason. They are a reliable defense agent, which has a specific job. Remove them and you lose the controllers at the helm.

Breast Support

Breast support comes from nutrition, physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight, and an overall healthy lifestyle. The best boost for your breast is staying healthy. The real question is what you do when the cow left the barn. The human body can fight for you and win the battle. You have to take responsibility for the materials you supply it with. You got the power, but usually not the strategy.

It is time to embrace a new kind of thinking, and not let things go too fast. Whatever, you do you need to put nature to work; she is on your side. You need to know that every step of the way you are in charge. So even if you decide you want a medical solution, you better have an understanding of what suits your needs.

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Healthcare takes many forms; the one thing it is not, is free.

Healthcare

The federal government is starting to build an effective way to deliver more healthcare to everyone. Now, that sounds good on the surface. However, if you look at what the healthcare industry has been delivering it may look different.

Americans seem to believe more care is better. This is such a pervasive believe. Aggressive treatment is the order of the day. From treating normal cholesterol, pre-diabetes, borderline hypertension, and every possible classroom behavior, we have become a nation of prescription pill addicts.

Medical

Medical treatment is not healthcare. The dependency on this type of care shows that we lost our way. Medical care is sick care, not healthcare. Aggressive treatment has a downside, from side effects, to projected future health events.

A recent study found that 15,000 people were projected to die eventually from the CT scans given in just a single year. This also showed that there is significant overuse of this technology.

Now, with more people having coverage the numbers will go up. People have complained of rationing and that may be true. The flip side is rationing what. Testing that is not conclusive, and may subject people to the harmful effects of both the testing and treatment.

The danger is both hospitals and drug makers will have more power to control peoples lives.

Affordable Health Insurance

Affordable health insurance is not bad in itself. No one wants an insurer to deny a claim. However, we do not get the best care by those criteria alone

Many times procedures such as CT scans and Cesarean births provide no benefit. Plus, there is potential harm from many of these procedures. Men who can survive their prostrate cancer without treatment, are treated and left incontinent and/or impotent.

Cardiac stents and bypass operations not only have side effects, but don’t always reduce heart attacks.

Having access to a Ritalin prescription is not a plus for the children involved. Being treated aggressively for type 2 diabetes is a dangerous practice, which also doesn’t change the outcome.

With more people getting this type of care medical errors will rise.

Health

Health isn’t the domain of healthcare in this country. Needless care is many times what medicine is about.

This country doesn’t ration healthcare, the citizens do. The important task of taking care of one’s health has seem to fallen into the governments hands.

The fact that seems to get lost is no one can take care of you better than yourself. The toughest job seems to be to convince people of this fact.

Healthcare will fail and has failed to deliver health, because it is not based on health. What healthcare does is look for disease, and dysfunction, and proceeds to treat the symptoms.

Besides the unnecessary treatments handed out, the necessary ones often make things worst in the long run.

Medical Dependency

Medical dependency is an offshoot of our healthcare policies. The more dependent we become, the less we take responsibility for our life.. What this nation needs is not a government takeover of our healthcare, but an individual takeover of our healthcare.

The overlooked factor that determines your future. is your lifestyle. This video says it all.