Alternative medicine and Health

A warning is definitely needed for the Western world, particularly for people eating food out of grocery stores and restaurants. Know anyone like that?

Like the aristocrats of ancient Rome, many Americans are literally eating themselves to an early death. I feel that with a little bit of basic knowledge, supported by statistics and research from the cutting edge of health and science, people can take some simple steps and put the odds of living a longer healthier life back in their favor. There are 8 major diseases that have been sweeping the land since the 1940's. All of them were virtually unheard of at the turn of the 20th century.

I started to do some of my own research, because I am one of those 77 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964, that is quickly aging & I want to preserve my health as long as possible.

There is a lot of contradictory information available, which is why so many people are confused about what to do to maintain their health. I've heard people say things like: "there's so much contradiction out there, who knows what to believe anymore--I'll just eat what I want and take my chances".

Incredibly, some of the so-called studies I read were funded by the very industries that were directly affected by the results! For example, how serious do we take a study on the effects of pesticide use, when it is funded by a pesticide manufacturing company? Or how about a study on the effects of dairy products on asthma and allergy patients that was funded by the Dairy Council of America?

I call this "junk" science. They start out with a proposition to prove, and then they find a way to manipulate the data in order to prove it! I decided to sift through the science and only qualify studies where the funding source was disconnected from an interested party.

In addition, I started studying people who were healthy themselves and maybe had overcome personal illness through holistic healing or natural remedies, people who had experienced definite, verifiable results (like me), using alternative medicine. There has always been something about our "drugs and surgery" approach to health care that never made sense to me. During my research I found a huge number of people that supported the idea that good health resulted from right choices with regard to food, nutrition, water, exercise and rest. Using a combination of carefully filtered scientific studies, stories, and good old common sense, I found that if the body is given those five elements in the proper form and amount, the body can solve almost any problem.

Most of us assume we are living longer, because the longevity stats have gone way up in the last 100 years. But the sad truth is that because these 8 diseases are growing so fast, we are actually living shorter...but taking longer to die. Our technology keeps us alive longer, but we sacrifice the quality of life in the process. Can there really be dignity when our elderly spend months or even years in a vegetative state hooked up to a machine?

What about the economic impact of this trend?

I used to think that normal aging was the same for everybody. You get one of the eight deadly diseases, and then you slowly die. Imagine my surprise when I learned that heart disease, the number one killer of Americans, is a relatively new disease! The first modern cases were reported in 1912, and even then it was extremely rare. Today heart disease kills four times as many American women each year as breast cancer. For 300,000 people each year, the first and only symptom of heart disease is sudden death. How did it go from almost non-existent to the number one spot?

What about cancer? Only 3% of us died of cancer a hundred years ago. Today, almost 30% of us will succumb to it. The 1909 edition of the standard U.S. textbook, Principles and Practice of Medicine, devoted only 15 pages to cancer. Breast and prostate cancers were not even mentioned; colon cancer received 2 lines. In contrast, the 1994 edition of Principles of Internal Medicine devoted 174 pages to this affliction.

Stroke, which killed only a very few people a hundred years ago, is today the number three deadly disease killer of Americans.

Alzheimer's wasn't even diagnosed until 1907. Today, 40% of those over 85 are suffering from it.

Diabetes has increased 600% in just the last generation. Each year, Diabetes kills more than twice as many American women as breast cancer.

Over 40 million Americans suffer with some form of Arthritis or Osteoporosis. Ask any American woman what disease she fears most and she'll probably say breast cancer. Yet hip fractures kill more women than cancers of the breast, cervix and uterus combined.

Finally, there are the auto immune disorders like chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein-Barr virus, lupus, fibromyalgia, and AIDS. I lump them into one big category, and this group is growing like wildfire in the US right now. 20 years ago, they didn't even have names for most of this stuff and many of them were written off by doctors as psycho-sematic. But the harsh symptoms of these auto-immune disorders are currently wreaking havoc on the health of tens of thousands of Americans, and in the case of AIDS, are killing people at an alarming rate.

Obviously, something has gone terribly wrong here, and it's happened in our lifetime. But we're acting as if all of these diseases are just a part of the normal aging process! Not so! There is nothing normal or natural about degenerative disease. We have convinced ourselves it is normal as a way of dealing with the terrible new reality of sickness and disease in the modern world.

Many of these deaths are totally unnecessary.

And that's the tragedy. When a plane crashes and a few hundred people die, it makes the front page news for days. But when a million people die of heart disease or a half a million die of cancer, you would think there would be more of an outcry. It's the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people crashing every single hour of every single day of every single month for an entire year, year after year.

How long do you plan on living? To what age? 70? 80? 90? 100+? What do you think is reasonable? Now, take that figure and add 10 extra healthy years to it. What if you could live to 100 and beyond without the pain and disease that most people think comes with old age?

Today the average person lives to about 76. That's 79 for women and 72 for men. But in certain areas of the world centenarians are common. We have only lately started to uncover why.

Today, the risk of dying of any thing before you are 40 is really very small. But starting at 40, you enter the zone of the 8 deadly diseases. How deadly are they? They kill more than 80% of us, which is sad because the majority of the time they are preventable.

In summary food, nutrition, water, exercise and rest are the keys to enjoying the highest level of optimum health for many years after we thought possible.

See you at my hundredth birthday party, will you be there?

With the colder weather soon upon us there will be plenty of illnesses going around before we know it. Even if you are one that washes your hands often the germs around us that cause colds and the flu can’t always be prevented. As a result the circulate in our homes, offices, schools, and even childcare centers. You can help to boost your immune system against such common illnesses though with alternative medicine.

When your body is affected by such illnesses it can take quite a while to feel your self again. With the busy schedule that most people have it can be virtually impossible to just stop taking care of them and focus on getting yourself better. Preventative care with alternative medicine may mean that you don’t have to .

There are many other types of illnesses a person can suffer from as well. When you have a healthy immune system you will find the effects of them to be less severe than they would otherwise be. Your body can also have the strength it needs to fight such problems as diabetes and forms of cancer. Having a very healthy immune system will help you in many ways so don’t underestimate how boosting it can help you stay as healthy as possible.

Toxins can build up in the body due to what we eat and the environment around us. By drinking plenty of water as well as green tea each day you can naturally remove those toxins from your body. When they are eliminated there are less germs and other elements in your body that can lead to various types of illnesses. Exercising each day is also a great way to boost your immune system. Don’t forget to get enough rest each night as well.

Echinacea, Goldenseal, and Astragalus are natural herbs you can use in order to boost your immune system. Echinacea works to help cells grow that naturally fight off any form of infection found in your body. Each of the cells that you already have to fight will be stronger as well. That means you have an additional line of defense from the onset of any illness.

Goldenseal helps to fight off types of bacteria that can cause illness in your body. When you get such bacteria you may need antibiotics to remove it. By using Goldenseal you won’t become done with such illnesses. It is also known to prevent parasites from being able to survive in your body.

If you suffer from bouts of the common cold or sore throats on a regular basis you will want to take Astragalus. It is known to prevent people from suffering from such problems. It is safe for children to take as well. These three types of herbs can be found at local health food stores or purchased online.

By incorporating such methods of alternative medicine to boost your immune system you can feel your very best. You will be less likely to suffer from common illnesses that due circulate. If you are affected by them you will also have the ability to fight them off quickly and get back to your normal routine. Being able to stay feeling your very best will improve your mental health as well. As a result your mind and body will be able to find a good balance with each other.

For centuries, Chinese Medicine and Western folk medicine have used extracts from red clover as a diuretic, cough expectorant, and remedy for skin conditions like psoriasis. Now modern medicine claims that it can help reduce the symptoms of the menopause and ease prostate problems. And it could even help prevent cancer.

The reason is that red clover contains isoflavones. These are chemicals which act like weak oestrogens. This blocks some of the bad effects of naturally-occurring oestrogen, which can cause breast, prostate and colon cancer.

One of the isoflavones, known as ‘geneistin’ can revert breast and prostate cancer cells back to their pre-cancerous states. It can also delay the growth of new blood vessels in tumours.

This may explain the low rates of prostate cancer in Asia. They eat a lot of isoflavone-rich foods like red clover, soya, lentils, chickpeas and beans.

Red clover can also help reduce the sypmotomns of the menopause, such as night sweats and hot flushes. For instance, in Japan, another Asian country that loves its isoflavones, hot flushes are rarely reported.

Red Clover is available as a dried herb, and in tablets, capsules, and tinctures. To make a cup, pour boiling water over two teaspoonfuls of dried Red Clover flowers. Cover, then steep for another ten minutes.

Another cancer fighting weapon

The are two more natural cancer-fighting compounds you should be aware of. And both are found in the same fruit.

Resveratrol is an antioxidant found in high quantities in dark grapes, such as the muscadine. This fruit is also loaded with pterostilbene, which scientists have found could prevent the kind of cell damage associated with cancer-causing agents. It can also lower blood glucose levels, making it highly effective against diabetes.

So while you’re enjoying your red clover tea, why not munch on some muscadine grapes, or other dark-skinned grapes? Or try this…

Avoid disease… AND vampires

Vampires hate garlic. As do people on first dates. Cancer cells aren’t too keen on it either.

For hundreds of years, people have been using chopped up garlic to fight skin cancer. Make a poultice of garlic and castor oil, paste it onto your skin, and the tumour could shrivel and die in a matter of days.

It’s all because of allicin, the chemical that gives garlic its flavor. Allicin, produced by a biochemical reaction between alliinase and alliin, is toxic to cancer cells.

Usually, when you chew garlic, the allicin is produced, then neutralised before it reaches the parts that need it. But Israeli researchers have found a way to get these two compounds to the site of a tumour seprately. Then, when they reach the cancer cells, the idea is that they’ll combine, release allicin, and start to destroys the cells.

Clever stuff, but we’ll have to wait for a bit of scientific progress first.

That said, many people still swear by garlic as a weapon against cancer. Even if you just eat it. And there’s some evidence to back them up. In 2000, a team of researchers from the University of North Carolina found that people who eat raw or cooked garlic regularly cut their risk of stomach cancer by about a half compared with those who eat none.

Try blending up some raw broccoli, garlic juice, onions and ginger. Some experts say it's one of the most potent anti-cancer concoctions you can drink.

Sounds like it could blow away a hangover from 20 miles, too!

Apricot seeds are, like most nuts and seeds, very nutritious. Apricot seeds were used to treat tumors as early as AD 502. Apricot seeds are taken by many people as a cancer treatment as they contain high doses of Vitamin B17, an immune system enhancer. Apricot seeds are an essential source of cyanogenic glycosides and laetrile that is considered to be a sort of treatment or cancer.

Cancer

Cancer has now surpassed heart disease for the first time as the top killer of Americans under age 85. Cancer is now expected to strike 1 in 2 men and over 1 in 3 women around the world in their lifetimes. Cancer occurs only as a result of a direct deficiency of Laetrile and those so-called carcinogens really just contribute to cancer by placing further stress on the body that precipitates the Cancers that result from Laetrile deficiency. Cancer cells all have the exact same characteristics. Cancer, by definition, is a Chronic Metabolic disease and must be treated as such. Cancer is a systemic failure of the immune system and cellular communication. Cancer patients who have responded favorably to laetrile do not relapse when they are maintained on laetrile therapy.

Seeds

Many of the world's top scientists claim that when consumed, Apricot Seeds would make it 100% impossible to develop cancer. Special ingredients in Raw Apricot Seeds have been proven for decades to kill existing cancer cells in most cases. Fresh apricot seeds are a lovely, cinnamon colour. Blanched apricot seeds are not suitable as a nutritional supplement. If you're a regular user of apricot seeds, you know the difference. When apricot seeds are blanched they are boiled at high temperature, which results in a skinless, pale coloured kernel. Blanched apricot seeds therefore have little value as a nutritional supplement. Raw Apricot Seeds also contain vitamin B15, which get more oxygen to the tissue.

B17

B17 still continues to save his life every day. Apricot kernels are a source of vitamin B17. Dr Ernst Krebs was the first to identify vitamin B17 and to investigate its properties in 1952. Apricot seeds are taken by many people as a cancer treatment as they contain high doses of Vitamin B17, an immune system enhancer. Stores do not sell "raw" apricot seeds because of the raids the FDA made on those stores with vitamin B17 and the apricot seeds years ago. Finding the right provider to buy your Vitamin B17 is very important.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy has never been shown to have curative effects for cancer. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. Chemotherapy and radiation have long been known to damage the fertility of patients, but little is known about more targeted drugs such as Gleevec, known generically as imatinib. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.

Apricot seeds are subject to seasonal availability. Apricot seeds have the highest content of B-17 on earth. Apricot seeds assist your body to cure cancer with protein digesting enzymes supplied by the pancreas. Apricot seeds are the spear and bulls-eye that I deal with and have seen thousands of people get better and live many times longer than they would have than if they went to chemo and/or radiation.