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1.Damaged cell receptors and Diabetes
2. What are Statin Drug Side Effects?
3. The Pain Scale
4. Depression Breakthrough: A Proven "Better Than
Drugs" Solution with Positive Side Effects
5. One in Six Patients Report Getting Wrong Diagnosis
Damaged
Cell Receptors and Diabetes
Doctors
prescribe medications because they are merely handling a symptom and not the
cause. Certain medications increases insulin secretion while others
try to get the body to use it's own insulin more effectively and insulin
injections are just that, more insulin. Medical doctors usually try
the oral medications first and when those are no longer effective or maxed
out they then proceed onto insulin injections.
There
can be a lot of insulin in the body, but the body is insulin resistant because
of damaged cell receptors that don’t allow the insulin to do the job it needs
to. The doctor’s medocations introduce more insulin to force the sugar out of
the body into the now damaged cell receptors. Your body just ends up building up
more and more insulin resistance/tolerance so that the level of oral medications
or injections only go up and up.
High sugar
levels are only a symptom of the diabetic condition, they are not the diabetic
condition itself! Using drugs to keep the blood sugar down is like having a fire
burning in the living room and turning on the exhaust fan in the kitchen to pull
the smoke out of the house. The fan pulls out the smoke (a symptom of the fire)
but the fire is still burning, and will consume the house unless it is handled.
In the same way,
the diabetic condition continues to get worse, until it (not just a symptom) is
addressed and handled. You can see the progression in many cases, where the
amount of medication needed to control blood sugar levels continues to increase,
because the condition has not yet been handled.
What needs to happen is the body needs to resensitize the cells to the insulin your body is making and as a result will lower your blood sugar levels. Diet needs to be used to give you body a rest so that it isn’t dealing with a high amounts of sugar coming in. A low carbohydrate diet 20-30 carbohydrates a day is recommended until the cells repair themselves. Carbohydrates are just long chains of sugar molecules.
For more information go to Diabetes http://www.mcvitamins.com/diabetes.htm
What are Statin Drug Side Effects?
Concern about
high cholesterol levels has resulted in millions of people being prescribed one
or more of a group of drugs called "statin" drugs, such as Lipitor,
Zocor, etc., to lower their cholesterol levels.
Statin drugs chemically interfere with the normal operating basis of the body
and this often results in serious side effects! Here are a few:
1)
Statin drugs are known to cause muscle pains and inflammation around the muscle
cells.
2) People using statin drugs experience muscle weakness and fatigue. In
fact, statin drugs have been shown to break down muscle tissue which can be
fatal if not caught soon enough.
3) Studies have also shown that patients placed on statins have experienced a measurable decrease in cognitive function (mental awareness and judgment) after only six months.
4) Statin drugs have also been shown to cause nerve damage (neuropathy).
The FDA requires that the pharmaceutical companies tell you about any possible side effects that a medication may cause. The pharmaceutical companies do this by providing you a booklet which has all this information when you get your prescription.
When referring to neuropathy, or any of the many terms used to refer to the various forms of this condition (see below), the booklet may read something like, "..possible numbing and tingling" or "...pins and needles."
Please review your prescription information and see whether it may be a cause and/or contributing factor to your neuropathy.
NEWLY UPDATED LIST OF CHOLESTEROL LOWERING DRUGS (STATIN DRUGS) KNOWN TO CAUSE NEUROPATHY AS A SIDE EFFECT:
Advicor, Altocor, Atorvastatin, Altoprev, Atorvastatin, Baycol, Caduet, Cerivastatin, Crestor, Fluvastatin, Lescol, Lescol XL, Lipex, Lipitor, Lipobay, Lopid, Lovastatin, Mevacor, Pravachol, Pravastatin, Pravigard Pac, Rosuvastatin, Simvastatin, Vytorin, Zocor.
These are the various terms
for neuropathy that are found in the side effects listed for these statin drugs:
paresthesia: an
unusual or unexplained tingling, pricking, or burning sensation on the skin.
neuritis: inflammation of a nerve, accompanied by pain,
loss of reflexes, and muscle shrinkage.
neuralgia: an intermittent and often severe pain in a part of the body along the path of a nerve, especially when there is no physical change in the nerve itself.
vertigo: a condition in which somebody feels a sensation of whirling or tilting that causes a loss of balance.
dysesthesia: a condition in which light physical contact of the skin causes pain; abnormal sensations on the skin that can include burning, prickling, numbness, or pain.
hypoesthesia: an unusually reduced sensitivity to touch; numbness. Also called hypesthesia.
hypalgesia: reduced sensitivity to pain. Also called hypoalgesia.
hyperalgesia: increased sensitivity to pain or enhanced intensity of pain sensation; excessive sensitiveness to pain.
hyperesthesia: a heightened sensitivity of a part of the body such as the skin, or of any of the senses.
NOTE: If you're taking any of the above medications, you need to speak to your doctor about getting off of them and replacing them with a natural supplement.
Minimally, your doctor should put you on a medication that does not cause neuropathy.
Studies have also shown that patients placed on statins have experienced a measurable decrease in cognitive function (mental awareness and judgment) after only six months.
The trouble with using drugs to lower cholesterol is that they are man-made chemicals that are an unnatural and alien substance in the body.
Now there is a natural and safe way to reduce cholesterol levels without needing additional drugs.
Read more about cholesterol at http://www.mcvitamins.com/cholesterol.htm
For more information about Neuropathy and what you can do about
it www.mcvitamins.com/neuropathy.htm
The Pain Scale - designed by Andrea Mankoski, (c)1995, This is the best pain scale
I've seen to describe severity (though not
necessarily quality) of pain
Remember, whenever a doctor asks you to rate
your pain from 1 - 10, ask for a pain scale so you can
be sure you're speaking the same language.
Depression Breakthrough: A Proven "Better Than Drugs" Solution with Positive Side Effects
Depression used to have a very good outcome. If you came to your physician with symptoms of depression 40 or even 30 years ago, he would tell you that you could and would get better. You’d be assured that most depressive episodes run their course and terminate with virtually complete recovery, without specific interventions such as drug treatment.
But as Whitaker points out in his books, something changed in the field of diagnosing and treating depression in the last few decades, and that something has led to a 600 percent increase in persons on government (Social Security) disability due to mental illness!
One in Six Patients Report Getting Wrong Diagnosis
A new survey found that nearly one in six patients believed their physician had made a wrong diagnosis or a treatment error. Roughly one in seven had changed doctors as a result.