Friday, September 5, 2014

Gout Increases Vascular Disease Risk For Both Men And Women

Gout Linked to Increased Vascular Disease Risk Patients with gout, particularly women, have increased risk for vascular disease, according to findings of a study published online August 27 in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.

Gout Increases Vascular Disease Risk For Both Men And Women

Gout Linked to Increased Vascular Disease Risk Patients with gout, particularly women, have increased risk for vascular disease, according to findings of a study published online August 27 in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.

Gout Increases Vascular Disease Risk For Both Men And Women

Gout Linked to Increased Vascular Disease Risk Patients with gout, particularly women, have increased risk for vascular disease, according to findings of a study published online August 27 in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Proton Pump Inhibitor Heartburn Medicine Will Makes You Very Sick

Heartburn Medicine Causing More Harm Than GOOD The first time Jolene Rudell fainted, she assumed that the stress of being in medical school had gotten to her. Then, two weeks later, she lost consciousness again. Blood tests showed Ms. Rudell’s red blood cell count and iron level were dangerously low.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Is It Really Acid Reflux?

Is It Really Acid Reflux?

Whenever it comes to acid reflux and the medical community proton pump inhibitors are often prescribed for acid reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
  
GERD, whose symptoms include chest pain, chronic cough, sleep disturbances, and hoarseness, is characterized by too much stomach acid production, causing it to reflux into the esophagus. 

The treatment of choice for acid reflux or GERD by medicine is proton pump inhibitors, which suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.

But proton pump inhibitors may not be the solution. 

Find out why >>>HERE<<<

Friday, July 4, 2014

Proton Pump Inhibitor Heartburn Medicine Kills

Heartburn Medicine Causing More Harm Than GOOD
Proton pump inhibitors have not been the wonder drugs that experts had hoped for. 
More widespread treatment of GERD has not reduced the incidence of esophageal cancers. Squamous cell carcinoma, which is associated with smoking, has declined, but esophageal adenocarcinomas, which are associated with GERD, have INCREASED 350% since 1970!

“We put people on P.P.I.’s, and we ignore the fact that we were designed to have acid in our stomach,” said Dr. Greg Plotnikoff, a physician who specializes in integrative therapy at the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing in Minneapolis.

Stomach acid is needed to break down food and absorb nutrients, he said, as well as for proper functioning of the gallbladder and pancreas. Long-term of use of P.P.I.’s may interfere with these processes, he noted. And suppression of stomach acid, which kills bacteria and other microbes, may make people more susceptible to infections, like C. difficile.

Taking P.P.I.’s, Dr. Plotnikoff said, “changes the ecology of the gut and actually allows overgrowth of some things that normally would be kept under control.”

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Increased Risk Of Stroke for Thyroid and Diabetes Patients!

Increased Risk Of Stroke for Thyroid and Diabetes Patients!

Attention: If you or someone you know is stricken with diabetes along with low thyroid, known as hypothyroidism, then you MUST read this article.  Your life may already be hanging on by a thread, a thread that your doctor doesn’t even know may be unraveling quickly.
Research has shown that diabetic patients are commonly found to have concurrent thyroid disorders.
In comparison to the normal population, diabetics have over 30% more hypothyroid disease, an 11% increase in postpartum diabetes and studies have shown that diabetics have over 5 times the incidence of sub-clinical hypothyroid disease compared with the normal population!
An autoimmune disease known as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis accounts for between 70%-80% of all hypothyroid disease cases in American adults.  It is the most common cause of hypothyroid in the adult population. In people with hypothyroidism caused by autoimmune disease it has been found that they have, as a group, multiple other conditions along with the hypothyroidism.
It is known that patients with one organ-specific autoimmune disease are at risk of developing other autoimmune disorders, and because thyroid disorders are more common in females, it is not surprising that so many female diabetes patients have thyroid disease.
One problem that arises with having these two conditions together is that, due to the diabetic state of glucose dysregulation, glucose is inefficiently transported to the cells and the metabolism of glucose is diminished. This results in an increase of glucose in the blood stream.
As a result, the body will convert the excess sugar to triglycerides to be stored in adipose tissue for use as energy when it may be needed.
Because hypothyroidism decreases the overall rate at which you burn calories (Think of the thyroid as your body's furnace) and low thyroid also slows down hormone production, your triglycerides are more likely to remain in your fat cells because of the lowered energy needs of the body, this is one reason many people with low thyroid have cold hands and / or feet because the byproduct of energy production is heat, so if the bodies “furnace”, is functioning below what is required, one symptom could be those cold hands and feet.
Hypothyroidism may also increase your LDL levels (low density lipoproteins, which are wrongly called our “bad” cholesterol) by increasing the absorption of cholesterol through your liver, preventing it from effectively eliminating excess cholesterol.
So you see, diabetes causes you to make more...Read The Rest HERE
In Health,
Dr. Walter K. Crooks DM (P), DC, CCCN

Cinnamon Lower Blood Pressure More Than Any Medications

Cinnamon lowers blood pressure best when added to Magnesium.
Valued in ancient times as currency and once considered more precious than gold, cinnamon — one of the world’s oldest known spices — has one of the highest antioxidant values of all foods.

Cinnamon has insulin like properties which may exist to offset the rest of the diet. It has a very high antioxidant rating and is the 3rd most powerful plant antioxidant. 

It has proven to cause high blood pressure to drop by over 25 points!

Whenever it comes to PMS and/or problems during menstruation, cinnamon has been shown to have a positive effect on women during PMS.