Cost of Medicine: Are High-Tech Medical Devices and Treatments Always Worth It?

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2009/07/10/cost-of-medicine-are-high-tech-medical-devices-and-treatments-always-worth-it.html

And:

Cholesterol drug side effects need watching: study

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64J7B820100520

I subscribe to a few  health journals, and sometimes come across some good articles. I figured I’d post a couple for you.

This first one has to do with Asthma as well as some other potentially fatal diseases. http://www.naturalnews.com/028981_quercetin_lung_disease.html

The second one is more general about exercise and how it affects your brain as you age. http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2010/06/12/growing-evidence-links-exercise-and-mental-acuity.aspx?aid=CD945

Enjoy!

I’ve had a few people ask me about Candida (yeast), and possible ways to get rid of it. You can come to me, and I would recommend you seek a health or wellness professional to check whether or not you are in fact dealing with Candida and not anything else. I have a free clinic every Friday. Come and I’ll be able to tell you what is going on.

In the meantime, this site has some great info as well as links to other sites with info on Candida and how to get rid of it.

http://www.naturalnews.com/028900_Candida_health.html

As always, call or email me with any questions, or feel free to comment.

I always love attacking from all angles. Here’s something for those diabetics who want to do everything possible to manage their health and be in control their bodies, even if just a little bit.

http://www.doctoryourself.com/diabetes.html

This link is quite interesting. It makes me wonder what buffers we have in our brain to help those hyper-creative types from becoming schizophrenic. And where do you draw the line?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm

I got this article sent to me, so I have cut and pasted it here. It’s pretty interesting.

Infraspinatus Respiratory Reflex (IRR)
Monday, August 22nd, 2005

By John L. Wilson, Jr., M.D.

After noting that virtually 100% of his patients with asthma had exquisite tenderness when he palpated (applied pressure to) their infraspinatus muscle [a muscle which attaches to the shoulder blade (scapulae) and is located on the upper back near the shoulder], the curiosity of a physician from Louisiana, Harry Philibert, M.D., resulted in discovering a particularly significant tool in the treatment of asthma and other acute or chronic respiratory ailments. Dr. Philibert has since taught his technique to hundreds of physicians across the nation.

These early observations eventually resulted in determining that the infraspinatus muscle is the location of a special autonomic nerve center which is very significant in respiratory health. The autonomic nervous system regulates body functions that are not under our conscious control or on “auto-pilot”, such as breathing, heart rate, perspiration, dilation or constriction of blood vessels, etc.

Once this nerve center called the Infraspinatus Respiratory Reflex (IRR) becomes irritated, it can become a broadcasting station of sorts, sending distress signals to the paraspinal autonomic ganglia (those autonomic nerves that run down our spine parallel to the spinal cord). When these signals are received, the result is tightness or spasm of the muscles that regulate air flow in our lungs, resulting in chest tightness, wheezing, coughing, difficulty breathing, etc. Many existing pharmaceutical drug therapies for asthma address the resulting constriction of airways, but stop short of addressing this underlying source of irritation of the autonomic nervous system in the IRR.

If a tender or irritated IRR can be associated with respiratory problems then, theoretically, reducing that irritation could ease the resulting respiratory symptoms. Reduction of IRR irritation is accomplished by the safe and simple injection of the IRR with Lidocaine, a local anesthetic commonly used by dentists and physicians. The duration of the local anesthetic is twenty minutes or so, yet the effects on the autonomic nervous system can last for many months, so the benefits are apparently more than just the pharmacological effect of the local anesthetic. The effect is as if the autonomic nervous system had been reset.

Clinical studies on the effects of IRR injections on a series of over 4,000 asthmatic patients over the course of many years, resulted in substantial improvement of symptoms in approximately 85% of asthmatic patients, in addition to improvement of commonly occurring associated shoulder pain. Approximately half of those patients reported themselves “cured” after a series of injections, stating that they didn’t have symptoms of asthma and didn’t require any medicine.

Although initial speculation was that cigarette smoke exposure resulted in irritation of the IRR, we now suspect that some metabolic conditions and other environmental incitants including chlorine and other chemicals, inhalant allergens including mold, food, food additives, etc. can also result in IRR irritation. It only makes sense to reduce exposure to any identified contributing factors.

Although some patients may experience significant benefit from a single IRR injection, a series of four to eight injections given over a period of many months is more typically administered to produce and/or maintain benefits. The injections are repeated while the infraspinatus muscle is sore upon palpation by the physician, and are stopped when tenderness to palpation is no longer present.

IRR injections are an important tool in the treatment of asthma and the other chronic or acute respiratory conditions including pneumonia, bronchitis, emphysema, chronic cough, as well as some cases of shoulder and neck pain. We have found the injections to be helpful to the majority of patients who have received them as part of a comprehensive treatment plan including environmental controls.

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So there you go. If you would like to loosen this muscle up, you can come to my free clinic, or see a massage therapist, or many other alternative therapies. But now you have something to target that may help quite a bit!

I’ve been posting a lot of links on my facebook page, and now realized that some people don’t facebook, and like it that way. I’ll be posting some more links here.

To start, here is a great site that deals with diabetes and self-healing. http://www.doctoryourself.com/diabetes.html

If anyone is interested in learning more about this method and maybe taking some classes, you can go to this website: http://www.guardiansofthepeople.com/ . They provide classes as well as general information about what you can do to take control of your health and well-being.

Remember to follow me on facebook and twitter!

Here’s a great explanation of the voice analysis process that I use for this method.

Using a uni-directional condenser microphone that is linked to a computer equipped with a calibrated sound card, a short (less than a minute) sample of the voice is captured.  A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) converts the recorded vocal sounds into numeric data using the properties of frequency (Hertz/cycles per second) and amplitude (decibel).  This information is used to create a digital graph that represents the vocal frequencies and the corresponding data using a range of  0-1000 cycles per second.

FFT’s are computationally efficient algorithms commonly used to convert analog vocal data to digital numeric data for rapid spectral analysis.  Such transformations from time to frequency domain use mathematical functions to depict the relative magnitudes and phase relationships of frequencies in a time varying signal.

The frequencies and patterns that are generated are evaluated in terms of coherence, architecture and numeric value.  A technician assesses the graph, identifying the dissonant values that will be used to characterize the information.

The resulting frequencies are entered into a database that can be manipulated to create a variety of reports that represent substances in terms of Frequency Equivalents™ (FE); a frequency representation of a person, place or thing..  Categories include…..

These reports may be used for research purposes by wellness practitioner in the hope of providing substantiation and direction in support of optimal form and function.

The software used for BioAcoustic evaluation is not available commercially and is recurrently being modified to fit research requirements.  Databases are upgraded continuously to include research results related to frequency correlates that we hope to associate with the biochemical functions and structural organization of the human body; including environmental threats from toxin and pathogen exposure.  The information contained within the databases as well as the processes to interpret and construct frequency  associations that may be significant, are novel, distinctive and proprietary to the research functions of Sound Health.

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