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There is no single right way to proceed.  The many choices available in alternative and conventional healing can cause confusion and frustration.  Here are some basic guidelines to help you find your way through the maze of options.

Stay Healthy, Think Healthy. Eliminate the chemicals in your diet as much as you are able.  Cleanse gently, drink lots of filtered and non-chlorinated water.  Find a good green drink.  Many times your pH is to acidic and greens are an excellent way to bring things back into balance.  A day of fasting once a week is like a breath of fresh air to your body.  Always drink lots of filtered water while fasting.  So many toxic chemicals are stored in our body through the years.  Think about it,  would your car run well if you never gave it a tune up or changed the oil.  Your body is the most wonderful machine that was ever made.  We forget that it needs caring for until it starts breaking down and causing us difficulties.  If only we would think healthy before we get sick.  Remember the old saying, an once of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Embrace these four practices: Good nutrition, regular moderate exercise, manage stress, and develop your connectedness to others and to the natural world.  In practicing these four elements your immune system can maintain top condition, so you are able to resist most illnesses and recover quickly from the ones you can’t avoid.  Quoted from Michael Lerner, Ph.D., co-founder of the Commonwealth Cancer Help Program, Bolinas, California.

Proper Home Care: If you get sick, proper home care can speed up recovery time.  Combining rest, over-the-counter medications, using alternative remedies such as herbs, acupressure, meditation or prayer, and relaxing and stretching exercises.  If you don’t improve within a week or if any symptoms worsen, consult a physician.

Professional Care: Call a mainstream M.D. if your problem doesn’t respond to home care within a week - preferably one who is open to blending conventional and alternative treatments.

Find an open-minded Doctor. Start by asking around.  You may find leads from family members and friends or through self-help groups and people you share your faith with.  Also, alternative health organizations offer referrals.

Briefly interview the prospective doctors over the phone.  Relay to them your preference to have a practitioner who combines mainstream approaches with alternative therapies and see how they react.

Dialogue Re: Benefits & side effects: With a less serious health problem or one the seems to defy diagnosis you may want to go outside the medical mainstream and try other avenues of healing.  Before you do, ask your M.D. about the benefits and possible side effects of any mainstream options he suggests.  Also, ask which alternative therapies might be helpful. Then think about how you would like to proceed.  When you have decided how to go forward, explain your plan to your M.D. He/She should be informed of any other therapies you are trying, especially if you’re taking pharmaceuticals.  You don’t gain anything by keeping your doctor in the dark. Many mainstream physicians are curious about the outcomes of alternative therapies.

Keep Asking: If a doctor says “There’s nothing wrong with you.”  Many people find this extremely frustrating: “What do you mean there’s nothing wrong with me?”  Many times the doctor actually means that in mainstream diagnostic testing they were not able to find any  problems that caused a red flag to go up.  Meaning the standard medical tests available may not be showing any life-threatening conditions.  Try not to feel that you are being dismissed or that your sanity is in question.  Instead, use this opportunity to search out Alternative Practitioners.  An alternative practitioner may not make a conclusive diagnosis either.  But they can still offer you options for pain relief, recovery, and healing.

Consult an Alternative Practitioner: Because mainstream medicine is less effective at treating chronic conditions and vague dis-comforts that don’t fit it’s criteria for disease opting for alternative treatment either in combination with mainstream medicine practices or to go completely alternative may be the answer.

Which alternative therapy should you begin with?  Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy, Ayurveda or naturopathy are different healing systems with different philosophies of health and disease.  One of them may be able to provide a satisfactory solution to your health problems when mainstream medicine cannot.

Give a treatment time to work: Depending on how long you have had your condition and how much discomfort it is causing you “If you’re in severe pain and mainstream medicine doesn’t help within a day or two, then by all means try something else.” advises AlanP Brauer, M.D. “But if you have a chronic condition that’s persisted for several years, you can give a therapy a few months to work before moving on to something else.”

Keep everyone informed. When you change practitioners inform the new practitioner about the other practitioners you have consulted in the past. Discuss  how well or how poorly each previous experience and treatments worked.  If everyone has the whole picture and are well informed of what’s going on with you it can only help with their ability to diagnose and treat you.

Be your own Health Manager: You know yourself better than anyone else.   Create your own health-care team.  Check back with health care professionals you used in the past and liked even if they didn’t cure you.  The insight they may have could benefit you in the future when pursue other therapies. If you get better relief from combining of therapies, encourage respective practitioners to discuss your situation with one another.

Persevere: It has been quoted by a M.D. “No single therapeutic approach provides all of the answers for everyone.” “But most therapies have some good answers for some people.”

It is true that changing practitioners can get frustrating, but it’s much better than giving up. By every measure your health suffers when you give up.  Stress increases and your immune system becomes suppressed.  Don’t give up - press on.  Ultimately, the best choice in healing is the approach or combination of approaches that works for you.

Can we have it all?  Maybe we can, at least when it comes to aging.  The 20th century is the first century where aging is something to even consider.  The life expectancy in the 19th century was 30.  Today, people want and expect to live into their 70,s and 80,s.  For those who balance good genes with good care can expect to live well past 100.

The view of the frail elderly person, one who is feeble and ailing may be something of the past as people begin to take charge of their lives and their health.  That’s because it is now realized that there is a significant lifestyle component associated with aging - from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and cataracts, skin wrinkling and osteoporosis.  So, it is not years alone that cause deterioration, but how we choose to live our lives.

There’s a whole lot you can do to hold off the aging process.  Most of the changes the body and mind go through as we age are modifiable by making a few simple changes in diet and exercise. The age related disease linked with aging, such as diabetes, a rise in blood pressure and cholesterol levels, developing heart disease, brittle bones (osteoporosis), as well as increased difficulty in processing new information for short-term memory to name a few.

Our nutritional needs increase with age.  Realizing that old age is not a sudden event it happens over time.   A seniors nutritional needs have their beginnings in the middle years. But you must get aggressive. Requirements for some nutrients are higher than previously thought and many time higher than many people consume.

Vitamin D3, a nutrient essential for the prevention of osteoporosis and possibly colon cancer, is one example of how starting early can skirt problems later on.  The body loses its ability to manufacture vitamin D3 with age.  The means that dietary sources of vitamin D3 become much more important.  Daily intake milk is the only reliable dietary source of vitamin D3 - each cup supplying 100 IU of vitamin D.

What to eat and how much to get what you need:  Folic Acid - two dark green leafy vegetable, such as broccoli, spinach romaine lettuce, collard greens.  Vitamins B6 and B12 - several servings daily of chicken, fish, extra-lean meat, or nonfat dairy products like milk and yogurt.  Vitamin B12 levels should be monitored by a physician as one ages, deficiencies can go undetected, and result in loss of mental function and memory.

Antioxidants to combat free-radicals ( highly reactive oxygen fragments consumed in food, enhaled from air pollution, and generated in the body by metabolic processes).  Vitamin C and E, beta-carotene, selenium and health producing compounds call phytochemicals found in fruits and vegetable, beans, garlic and green tea are the most potent antioxidants.

Much disease is more a matter of accumulating damage over time than a matter of age.  Another way of putting it would be, if you stop the damage, you should stop, or slow, the aging process.  The sooner someone boosts antioxidant intake the better: although, it is never too late to strengthen the antioxidant system and slow the damaging effects of free radicals.  For over 20 years scientists worldwide have consistently found that people who eat fruits, vegetable, whole grains, and legumes have lower rates of cancer, heart disease, and disease in general.  Maintaining a normal weight and living longer than people who don’t eat these healthy foods has also been found.  The recommended intake of five servings a daily is actually a minimum. Eight or more servings a day will provide a more optimal amount of the antioxidant phytochemicals vitamins, and minerals.

For the most part, women also need to be getting more calcium, which also comes from milk and other dairy products.

The B vitamins - three  are essential for prevention of heart disease, folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12.  They keep levels of homosysteine low in the blood.  If levels are allowed to rise, it contributes to risk of heart disease even in the absence of high blood cholesterol levels.  Up to 85% of women do not consume recommended levels of vitamin B6 and up to 93% of women don’t consume one folic acid-rich vegetable (dark green leafy vegetable) out of four days.  Our body also requires more vitamin B12 as we age and many typically consume less vitamin B12 as they age.

to be continued~

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In the 90’s the focus was to eat a low-fat diet to prevent obesity and other diseases.  Fifteen years later evidence now shows a low-fat diet may be ineffective for weight loss or prevention of heart disease and several cancers.

Research following 49,000 women for eight years reported that eating a low-fat diet did not prevent heart disease, breast cancer, or colon cancer, and did little for weight loss ( Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial published in February 8, 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association).  It is becoming clearer is that too much saturated and trans fats increase the risk for certain diseases while more monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, lower the risk.  The key being to eat more of the monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.

The Harvard School of Public Health reports that the largest sources of saturated fats are dairy products and red meats.  Trans fats are mostly found in processed foods such as margarine, vegetable shortening, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, deepfried chips, fast foods and most baked goods.

Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats are found in vegetable oils, like olive oil, nuts, seeds and fish.  Although these foods contain small amounts of satruated fats, they have smaller amounts of saturated fats.  The key is to have larger amounts of the monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats which happens with these foods.

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Bone & Joint Health

The key to strong, healthy bones is an active lifestyle and consistent, adequate intake of bone-building nutrients.  Protein, calcium, magnesium, Vitamin D and trace minerals are all essential to proper bone formation, as are specialized nutrients like ipriflavone and strontium.

Regular supplementation with the right nutritional “building blocks” is also important to maintaining healthy joint function.  As we age, our body’s production of cartilage and joint fluid can diminish, which results in less flexibility and joint mobility.  Research has shown that supplementing with nutrients like glucosamine and chondroitin can help promote joint health by supplying important substances needed for joint repair and maintenance.  Other joint-healthy nutrients include MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), an important source of dietary sulfur, and the anti-inflammatory herb Boswellia serrata.

Testimony:  About four years ago there was so much pain in my hips, it was to painful to lie on my side to sleep.  I started taking Glucosamine & Chondroitin w/MSM and the pain was completely gone in just a few days.  I started out by taking two in the morning with breakfast and two with my evening meal.  I did that for one month and then went to one in the morning and one in the evening.  I have stayed on this amount and am experiencing continued relief.  I am almost sixty years old and am very active, working four days a week, cleaning houses and doing homecare.  I also supplemented with Calcium with Ipriflavone to strengthen my bones along with vitamin D3.  It’s wonderful to be free of pain and able to continue to be active.  I’m not ready to slow down yet.

With more choices in health care now available these days we have the option to try new remedies,  We have home remedies, family doctor, more than two dozen alternative or complementary therapies.  Among theses therapies available now are acupuncture, magnetic therapy, aromatherapy, biofeedback, bodywork, Chinese herbal medicine, Chiropractic, homeopathy,  massage, meditation, music therapy, naturopathy, nutritional therapies, Gigong, Tai chi, visualization, Western herbal medicine, and yoga. There are, of course all the forms of medicine we consider as conventional over-the-counter (OTC) drugs found in any pharmacy, prescription drugs prescribed by physicians, and all the high-tech medical procedures and surgical techniques that are available in clinics and hospitals.  With so many choices many are left wondering what to do next.

Few of us are experts at the way in which to approach so many choices.  Some may choose one approach, or two different approaches at the same time, or switch to a new approach when the first choice or choices don’t work.

Up until the 1970’s most people would immediately call a M.D., get a prescription, or have surgery.  There was little medical freedom. There were few other available or accessible alternatives.  Aside from a few chiropractors, alternative medicine seemed to be a bygone era.  Homeopathic doctors, naturopaths, herbalists, and the few Chinese and oriental medicine practitioners that were hard pressed to find.

The result of this caused most people to rely heavily on conventional Western medicine (allopathic method of healing). We are much less familiar with methods of alternative and natural healing.  These other methods of healing present a opportunity to try something that we haven’t done before. A new opportunity is now available, to try a combination of alternative and conventional medicine’s.  This provides the best opportunity of all for good health and safe, effective cures.

There is a chance that unconventional methods may work better than conventional medicine.  But there is also a good possibility that the best results may come from a combination of conventional, alternative, and natural approaches combined.

In your search for answers my hope is to provide you with help in finding the best resources and prices available form companies that have been established for many years, providing pharmaceutical grade, organic, time-tested, cutting edge technology and products.

This website will not have all the answers, no one does.  If we can network together and share experiences and knowledge we may be able to help some.  If one person is helped then it is worth it.  Life is very precious and valuable.  Each person is a marvelous work of God.  All of creation provides the resources needed, we just need to keep seeking whats already there, until we find the answer.  My hope is to direct you to some of the places I have found that may help you in your quest for better help.

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