MCVitamins News

1. Is Multiple Sclerosis: A Chronic Mycotoxicosis?
2. Healthy Heart:  What to Avoid; What to Do 
3. Dental Surgery & Nerve Damage
4. The Difference Between Drugs and Nutrition Supplements for the treatment of Neuropathy 

 

Is Multiple Sclerosis: A Chronic Mycotoxicosis?

Mycotoxicosis: Mycotoxicoses is the term used for poisoning associated with exposures to mycotoxins.  Mycotoxins are a toxin produced by a fungus

Mycotoxicosis and MS

 

 

Healthy Heart:  What to Avoid; What to Do 

In my last article, I spoke about avoiding: trans fatty acids, as found in all fried food; most margarine in high doses; shortening, such as Crisco; refined oils, which are practically all the liquid oils on the grocery store shelves and in baked goods labeled partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils.

Trans fats are found naturally in foods in very small amounts and the body will burn these for energy as it does not want them in the cell structure. The above "foods", and I am being kind in labeling them "food", overwhelm the body in trans fats. If you are eating these trans fat foods, you are probably also not getting the fats/oils in an unrefined form that you really need. 

There are many unrefined oils in perle form that you can purchase from Standard Proces. You can get other ones at the health food store.  These bad oils replaced by good oils are essential to cardiovascular health.

There are many things one can do to improve their overall heart health. Here is a look at one key cardiovascular supplement.

Cardio-Plus has been available since 1956. It is a combination of four Standard Process supplements, two of which were introduced in 1934. Cardio-Plus addresses neuromuscular disorders including; paralysis, muscular atrophy, weakness, loss of muscular control, coordination, etc. 

At age 59, I can still run down a mountain trail dodging pitfalls along the way. It is pure exhiliration. If you cannot do this or some similar activity, you are experiencing some degree of muscle apathy and low coordination. By age 50 to 55 this becomes noticeable in everyone.

Cardio-Plus addresses heart disorders including; congestive heart failure, a history of coronary artery disease and cardiac symptoms. 

The nutritional effects of Cardio-Plus include: 1) an enzymatic relaxing effect on the neuro muscular nerves, 2) contributes to muscular tonicity, especially the heart muscles, 3) provides influential factors, generally beneficial to muscle metabolism. Hence, it contributes to potassium and sugar utilization which are needed as "raw materials" in muscular activity. 4) prevents a build up of natural tissue antibodies (autoimmune effect) from past muscle injuries or over use. Athletic or work activities often create obvious or repetitive stress injury. 5) provides defensive metabolic mechanisms in the body such as immunity and adrenal function.

This provides a brief description of this supplement. There are actually twenty-three listed effects it has on your health. There are at least thirty more heart supplements that deal with keeping the the cardiovascular system working well.

Think about these supplements to get on the road to a healthier heart! 

Sincerely,

Dr. Mike Spearman
Spearman Better Health Center
(323) 663-1066 
email: drmikess@yahoo.com  
www.spearmanbetterhealth.com 

 

Dental Surgery & Nerve Damage

Dental work has the possibility of nerve damage.  It will often clear up on its own, but sometimes not.  What can you do?  Read our article on Dental Work, Surgery & Nerve Damage

 

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 and to build healthy cells. 

In the case of neuropathy, there are specific ingredients needed by the body to build health nerves..  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