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1. Vegetables - go for the Green - by Cindy Clayton, D.C., Nutritionist
2, The Difference Between Drugs and
Nutrition Supplements for the treatment of Neuropathy - or for any
drug and natural treatment.
3. Supreme Court ruling on suing for damages
from pharmaceutical drugs.
4, Fibromyalgia
is a rheumatic disorder characterized by chronic achy
muscular pain that has no obvious physical cause.
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Vegetables
- go for the green
One of the most important foods you can eat is raw
organic vegetables. The leafy green type is the best.
This includes spinach, kale, chard, greens, broccoli,
etc. Raw vegetables are preferred, with slightly steamed or sautéed
as your second choice. Use only olive oil, sesame seed oil or butter
to sauté.. The darker the green, the better. Iceberg lettuce from a
fast food restaurant should be avoided.
You will find your digestion improving if you eat some raw green vegetables before each meal. Far too many people never eat vegetables and if they do, they first cook most of the nutrition out of them. Raw vegetables are very easy on the liver and pancreas and give the body vitamins, minerals, materials for building hormones and other essentials. |
| By Cindy Clayton, D.C. & Nutritionist - Practices in the
Portland, Oregon Area.
Cindy Clayton-Sudalnik, D. C. |
The Difference Between Drugs and Nutrition Supplements for the treatment of Neuropathy
No matter what the cause of your neuropathy, a person has only a few choices about what to do about it..
The Drug Approach
What a drug does is it forces the body to do something that it normally wouldn't do.. When it comes to a medication, the body reacts in certain ways to this medication and it is done in order to achieve a desirable effect. For instance, in order to balance itself and handle the effects of a drug, the body has to lower its blood pressure. If this is what you want to happen because its a blood pressure medication, it's a good thing. However, there are also various other ways the body can react to the drug and sometimes this is not such a good thing - this is called a "side effect". It is the reason someone can wind up on 4 blood pressure medications. Each drug is given in an attempt to balance another drug so as not to create the various side effects of the other drugs. It is a balancing act.
The Natural Approach
What a nutritional supplement does is give the body the actual tools it needs to fix the body.
In the case of neuropathy, it is the nerve cell that is damaged. The body needs certain tools (nutritional factors) to do this repair. Drugs don't repair anything; they treat the symptom, not the cause of the problem.
As with our example of blood pressure, if they don't know what is causing the high blood pressure, the drug just lowers it artificially.
The cause of nerve damage is known - it can be the result of too much sugar in the blood, the chemicals used in cancer treatments, etc. - but one thing is known, the damage is done to the cell and this causes the pain.
You can cover this up with pain killers, or with other drugs that are manufactured to handle this, but the drugs aren't repairing anything. They are trying to forces the body to not give you pain, not give you numbness, etc., And sometimes more damage to the nerve cell might happen due to the drug or other drugs you are taking,
The Nutritional Approach
Nutritional supplements are actually vitamins and minerals that the body needs to repair the cells.
In the case of neuropathy, there are specific ingredients needed by the body to repair the cells. These are the supplements you want to take.
Another difference is that if you are taking a drug and just covering up symptoms, you have to continue to take the drug to get relief and sometimes even have to increase the drug to get the same relief.
If you take natural supplements, the body can fix the problem, and as long as you don't do anything to damage the cells again, there is an end to taking the supplements.
For neuropathy
see: Nerve Support
Formula
Supreme Court Rules Against Drug Companies
The Supreme Court struck a blow to the pharmaceutical industry recently when
they ruled that litigants may sue for damages if they are harmed by unsafe drugs
- even if the drug manufacturers have satisfied federal regulators (i.e. the
FDA). Justice Stevens, writing for the majority, said that allowing such
lawsuits "provides incentives for drug manufacturers to disclose safety
risks promptly."
Fibromyalgia - McVitamins now has an article which includes symptoms, causes and treatments - go to www.mcvitamins.com/fibromyalgia.htm
