Your Life-Your Choice April, 1998 issue 7A Question & Answer Supplement Hello again to everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Holiday and survived the March Break with minimum casualties. :) We've got another great set of questions for you today. WOW! I can't believe the participation. This is really terrific! Keep those questions and testimonials coming. Size limitations prevent us from publishing all the questions & answers. If your question is time sensitive, Dr. Abrams is extending an offer for you to call him on his 800 number to ensure a timely response. This is a toll free call from anywhere in the U.S.A and Canada; 1-800-777-1328. Brigitte Synesael Your Life-Your Choice Editor Traditional Medicine Needs Our Help! Your life is your choice-don't make it the doctor's choice! http://www.Life-Choices.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This newsletter is meant to educate and inform. It is not intended to diagnose or prescribe. 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Chelation therapy is a safe and effective method for drawing toxins and metabolic wastes from the bloodstream, Chelating agents are administered intravenously and have been proven to increase blood flow and remove arterial plaque. Chelation therapy has shown to help in cases of atherosclerosis, prevent heart attacks and strokes, and is used as an alternative to bypass surgery and angioplasty. I'm going to let you guess WHY it hasn't been used to a greater degree. But, could it be that it might cut down on the need for open heart surgery or other major medical procedures? Could it be that it might cut the HIGH COST of health care? You can answer that question yourself! The chemical substance that is used for intravenous Chelation is EDTA, according to current drug safety standards, aspirin is about three and a half times more toxic than EDTA. HISTORY OF EDTA: By 1948 the U.S. Navy had begun using EDTA to safely and successfully treat lead poisoning. Norman Clarke, Sr., M.D., Director of Research at Providence Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, hypothesized that because calcium plaque is a prominent component in atherosclerosis, EDTA would be an effective treatment for heart conditions. His experiments with EDTA Chelation treatments for heart patients validated his theory. Patients with angina reported dramatic relief from chest pain. Healing was also reported by patients with gangrene. For many patients, memory, sight, hearing, and sense of smell improved, and most reported increased vigor. ========== 2. Is calcium the only nutrient needed for bone health and prevention of osteoperosis? NO!!! The first thing you must realize is that bone is living tissue. Bone is more than a collection of calcium crystals. It is continually remodeling itself and constantly going through a wide range of biochemical reactions. Bone tissue is made up of not only bone cell, but an intercellular matrix. Because of these factors calcium is just not enough to maintain the health of bone tissue or prevent osteoporosis. Research is showing that numerous nutritional factors are required to keep bones healthy. They include: calcium, magnesium, manganese, boron, zinc, strontium, copper, silicon, Vitamin K, D, C, B6, and there may be more. So, calcium may be important but it's not the whole story. Supplementation is also only part of the answer, diet in general is very important. Too much sugar, caffeine, protein, salt, and alcohol may put you at a higher risk for osteoporosis. Exercise is another factor that must be utilized to maintain healthy bones. ========== 3. Is there a natural approach to Psoriasis? Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition in which the skin cells divide many times faster than normal, the result is discomforting and unsightly pileup of skin cells. The lesions appear red and inflamed and are often covered with silvery scales. There is no real medical "cure" for psoriasis. Medically this condition is treated at the point of lesion, when in fact this condition is usually a body problem and the skin is really a mirror of what is going on inside of the body. With skin conditions it is important to remember the skin is an organ of elimination. It allows waste material that can't escape from other body organs of elimination to come out through the all-encompassing envelope of the body. Natural therapies to consider would include detoxification, colon cleansing, Nutrition therapy with, vitamin A, zinc, vitamin E, and selenium. Researchers in England found that psoriasis patients who took ten fish-oil capsules a day for eight weeks greatly reduced their symptoms of itching, redness, and scaling. My feeling about this whole problem is to first use a detoxification program for the intestinal area and then the liver to clean out the body waste. Especially if you have an arthritic condition with the psoriasis skin condition, then use a comprehensive nutritional support program to maintain and improve your level of internal body health to stop the problem from returning. ========== 4. How do I treat this, that, and the other thing? Does this sound like a foolish question? Well, it isn't. Everyone is looking for an answer to specific diseases; they want a CURE, when in fact they should be looking for the reasons why they have the problem to start with. Everything has a cause. I read in a journal that 60 to 80% of all the health problems that plague our society today are due to poor diet, low levels of fitness, improper stress management, and our lifestyle with its habitual and excessive tendencies. I know these are not solutions we want to look at, BUT maybe we need to start looking at these four basic causes. Hen take the first step and start making small changes, "I said small changes in the category or categories that need changes" - then see what happens. You could be very surprised. You just might look and feel better, not because you found a cure, but because you found the reason why the problem started in the first place. Think of the power you could gain and the control you could have over your health destiny. Remember, a HEALTHY BODY DOESN'T GET SICK - but a SICK BODY DOES USUALLY GET SICKER!!!! Also think about this for a minute. Your body needs fuel, just like your automobile. It can't run without it. The body is a dynamic, powerful, mechanical structure, and if you don't use it you will loose function - that's why you must exercise. Life is full of stress, but a healthy body can withstand the stress and strain of life, a sick, body doesn't do a good job at withstanding stress. That's why you need to develop the body and skills to manage your stresses and strains better. You do the managing, don't be managed. Lifestyle, the last basic cause of disease. It encompasses everything, diet, exercise, stress management, family, work, and much more. This one will take you a little more time to work with, but if you make the changes a little at a time, you can win the battle of 1900's and beyond. You can stay healthy and happy, and have a great quality of life. Do it a little at a time, but never stop, over the period of your life you can accomplish great things, and maintain your health! It's an exciting challenge, take it and see the wonderful things that will happen. Hope to meet you along the road, if I can help you in any way, it will be my pleasure. All the best on your journey. Make sure your healthspan equals your lifespan!!!! ========== 5. "I'm allergic to EVERYTHING", - that's what my DOCTOR SAYS, what can I do? Help!!! Allergies are a major problem for millions of people today. When one person has so many I would look at you digestive processes, intestinal function, and liver. Here's why, if you're not digesting properly food can get to the blood stream in a larger than normal molecular size, it will actually act as a foreign body, causing an antigen antibody reaction to occur - the outcome is an allergic response in your body. If you are not digesting properly, undigested food will stay in the gut too long. Over a period of time, the gut lining will become more porous than normal and allow more waste food to spill through the gut lining. This will overload the liver detoxification processes, causing increased waste to circulate through the body or to be deposited in the body, to cause problems at a later time. The liver is your largest organ of detoxification, but it has certain capacities, if it is challenged with too much work to do it may not be able to perform to the level that is required. This material will not be eliminated and will be carried back to the body as foreign matter, causing mega mini allergic reactions to possibly occur in a wide number of areas throughout the body. This is why with this type of a problem you may have many symptoms, and the symptoms may appear in many parts of your body. ========== 6. What is the connection between Growth Hormone and aging? Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is one of many endocrine hormones, like estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, melatonin and DHEA, which decline in production with age. While many of these hormones can be replaced to slow some of the effects of aging, HGH reaches far beyond the scope of any one of those hormones to not only prevent biological aging, but to significantly reverse a broad range of the signs and symptoms associated with aging. In effect, HGH therapy has been shown to turn back the biological clock by 20 years or more. HGH, also known as somatotrophin, is the most abundant hormone secreted by this pituitary gland. The decline of Growth Hormone with age, sometime referred to as somatopause, is directly associated with many symptoms of aging, including wrinkling, gray hair, decreased energy and sexual function, increased body fat and cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and more. Many of these symptoms have been associated with younger adults who have growth hormone deficiency; in a sense, the biological age of these adults has surpassed the chronological age. The good news is that clinical evidence demonstrates that by releasing growth hormones we can dramatically reverse these symptoms to restore hail colour and growth, regain bone tissue, increase energy and significantly reduce body fat. Until recently, growth hormone therapy has only been available in the form of injections that have been prohibitively expensive and difficult to use. Now there are natural substances that have been well documented to increase growth hormone which may exceed the effectiveness of injections for some and compliment injection therapy for others. This new natural substance is called PRO HGH; it is a Growth Hormone releasing compound in the form of a tablet, which dissolves into an effervescent drink. There are no inactive ingredients. Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that HGH may reverse human biological aging by: 1. Restoring muscle mass 2. Decreasing body fat 3. Thickening the skin, reducing wrinkles 4. Restoring hair loss 5. Restoring hair colour 6. Increasing energy 7. Increasing sexual function 8. Improving cholesterol profile 9. Restoring size of liver, pancreas, heart and other organs that shrink with age 10. Improving vision 11. Improved memory 12. Elevating mood and improving sleep 13. Normalizing blood pressure 14. Increasing cardiac output and stamina 15. 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