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1. Nearly Half of American Adults Have Cardiovascular Disease
2. Dental Painkillers, Young Patients and Addiction
3. Cancer and Toxins
4. Are you confused about what you’ve been told about Neuropathy?

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Nearly Half of American Adults Have Cardiovascular Disease

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Dental Painkillers, Young Patients and Addiction

New research indicates that, when a dentist prescribes opioid painkillers to teens and young adults following wisdom teeth surgery, they are also putting those same teens and young adults at risk for addiction.

What is truly upsetting about this is that there is absolutely no need to prescribe opioid painkillers for wisdom teeth operations, especially not when over-the-counter pain relievers are said to be as effective or even more effective in addressing the acutepain that is attendant with a dental operation.

Read entire article Dental Painkillers & Addiction

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New RHP B-Complex Plus is Now Available

Do you experience any one of these things - fatigue, tiredness, nxiety or stress?

B-complex vitamin deficiencies occur far more easily and frequently than has been generally assumed, especially in people on weight loss diets, fasts, high daily intakes of sugar, refined and processed foods, as well as, caffeine, saccharine and alcohol.

People under stress or on a long list of medications can also be at high risk of developing B vitamin deficiencies.
RHP B-Complex Plus is now available and you can get your bottle today!

To get information and order the RHP B-Complex Plus

Or you can call us at (888) 758-5590 or (818) 252-1038

If you need any assistance or have any questions, please call or email me.

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Cancer and Toxins

When you think about the various things that are "linked" to cancer, or are known carcinogens, they are toxins - smoking, asbestos, DDT, etc. etc. Ths article talks about Chemicals, Cancer and You. Very interesting and educational.

Cancer and Toxins

It is a good idea to get as many toxins out of your environment as you can. There are many chemicals in your food, your home, your workplace and in the air. The cumulative assault on your body is unhealthy to say the least and could very well lead up to cancer.

Here is an article on Toxins and Bad Health

And Remove Harmful Toxins from Your Environmen

Are you confused about what you’ve been told about Neuropathy?

Let's clear up the terms.

You might be confused by all the names that are given to “Neuropathy”. I want to clear some of this up.

The main thing to understand is that neuropathy is nerve damage. You can call it by the area affected or by the cause of the nerve damage, but it is still the same thing – nerve damage.  

In the age we live in there are lots of ways to damage the body, and the nerves. The toxic chemicals in the environment, the food we eat with all its additives, preservatives and processing as well as many of the drugs that are so readily given to treat health problems are all causes of nerve damage. There are also many diseases that cause neuropathy as well as trauma that come from not only accidents but surgery.

For a full list of these causes, you can read:

Causes & Risk Factors of Neuropathy.

Neuropathy is also named by the type of damage:

Types of Neuropathy Damage:

There are many names given to the type of neuropathy depending on the nerve involved:

Focal neuropathy – this means that only one (or at most a few) nerves are injured. The pain, numbness and/or weakness are confined to a single limb or a small area of the body or the head. They are usually caused by compression or trauma. Basically, one nerve gets damaged. The best known of these is carpal tunnel syndrome where the median nerve is damaged by compression of that nerve.

Mononeuropathy – Another term for only one nerve being affected.

Generalized neuropathies – these are associated with general medical problems – infections, diabetes, immune, nutritional related, drug induced, etc. Again, the nerves get damaged. In this case it can start with one nerve and spread, or it can affect many nerves depending on the cause of the neuropathy.

Polyneuropathies – another name for generalized neuropathy

Axonal neuropathy – this is a technical term for the microscopic part of the nerve that is damaged. If you think of a wire you have the inner core of the wire and the insulation around it. The core of the “wire” is called axon. 

Demyelinating – again if we think of a wire, the nerve is surrounded by a fatty tissue called myelin. This is similar to the plastic insulation around an electrical wire. When the medical doctor calls your neuropathy demyelinating, it means that the myelin sheath around the nerve is breaking down. The way that medical doctors determine if it is demyelinating or axonal is to do a nerve conduction studies (NCS) which can distinguish between these two types.

Small Fiber Neuropathy - Nerve Endings Damage – this is when the very ends of the nerves are damaged.

Special “types” of Neuropathy:

Hereditary Neuropathy – When it is considered inherited. Charcot Marie Tooth is considered hereditary.

Idiopathic Neuropathy – When they can’t figure out what the cause is.

The following types of Neuropathy are actually the area that is affected. In each type of neuropathy you can have a sensory nerve damaged or a motor nerve damaged. Sensory nerves damage creates pain, numbness, tingling, etc. Motor nerves create the inability of the body to send messages to the muscles and thus you get weakness and sometimes even drop foot. 

Autonomic – affects the autonomic system – glands, internal organs, etc.

Cranial – affects the head

Diabetic amyotrophy – weakness on both sides of the body, blood vessel disease may be the cause.

Femoral Neuropathy develops in the front of one thigh, with muscle weakness and wasting.

Optic – affects the eyes

Thoracic/Lumbar Radiculopathy occurs in the torso. Affects a band of the chest or abdominal wall on one or both sides.

Unilateral Foot Drop – damage to the peroneal nerve – trauma injury.

Hope this clears up any confusion you might have had with all the names being used to describe “neuropathy”.

What can you do about Neuropathy once the nerve damage is there?  Go to Neuropathy for information and the treatments available.  

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