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1. Are you confused about what you’ve been told about Neuropathy? 
2. Neuropathic Symptoms in World Trade Center Disaster Survivors and Responders
3. Top Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies — Are You at Risk?
4. What Happens to Your Body When You Eat a McDonald’s Hamburger?

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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 is also many diseases that cause neuropathy as well as trauma that comes 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. 

Neuropathic Symptoms in World Trade Center Disaster Survivors and Responders.

Doctors on Long Island said  that they have linked yet another illness to World Trade Center dust.

Retired NYPD Detective Kenny Anderson first noticed tingling in his feet more than two years ago. Now, he has agonizing pain.

“There are times my kids want to come up and hug me,” Anderson said. “I got to stop and make sure they don’t crash into my feet, because it would be like getting hit with a hammer in the feet.”

Anderson has neuropathy. A new study at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola links the illness to World Trade Center dust.

Study Findings

What does the Body need for Nerve Health?

Top Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies — Are You at Risk?

Topping the list of the most common nutrient deficiencies are vitamins D, E, A, C, magnesium and calcium. Certain nutrient deficiencies are common even among those taking supplements

Looking at the foods that supply the most often lacking nutrients, it becomes apparent that a majority of problems stem from a lack of oily fish, nuts, seeds and vegetables in the diet

Animal based omega-3 fats, vitamin K2 and potassium are three additional nutrients that many are deficient in — all three of which play important roles in heart health

Read Article:  Top Vitamins & Mineral Deficiencies

For Whole Food Supplements to supply what is needed.

More Whole Food Supplements you might need

What Happens to Your Body When You Eat a McDonald’s Hamburger?

McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers every second, amounting to over 2.36 billion burgers per year – roughly the equivalent of eating a million cows

However, there have been disturbing reports of McDonald’s hamburgers that do not decompose or rot for weeks, months, or even years after they’ve been cooked

In March 2015, McDonald’s announced that they are going to be buying only chicken raised without antibiotics important to human medicine; However, they still do not have plans to make any changes to their meat, which come from factory farms or confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs)

Just like its hamburgers, McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets and McRib pork sandwich also came under fire because of their questionable synthetic ingredients; McDonald’s fries sold in American stores were also found to contain toxic ingredients.

What ingredients are in their food?

See article McDonalds Hamburger's  

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