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>1. Celiac Disease, aspirin,antidepressants, birth control pills, homeop

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>Continued listing: malaria, Vitamin D, Yogurt, Zinc, Coffee & Diabetes,

>Psoriasis

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>THE MISSED DIAGNOSIS - CELIAC DISEASE, By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.,

>Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that often escapes diagnosis. As

>many as 50 to 60% of patients have no symptoms. Patients with this

>condition are

>allergic to grains (wheat, oats, rye, barley, triticale, spelt). When the

>gluten from wheat or other grains is eaten, antibodies are made that over

>a period

>of years injure the projections on the surface of the small intestine

>(villi). The surface of the small bowel becomes flat and normal absorption

>fails.

>

>Diseases that are often confused with Celiac Disease include irritable bowel

>syndrome, iron deficency anemia from menstrual bleeding, Crohn's Disease,

>diverticulitis, intestinal infections and chronic fatigue syndrome.

>

>Celiac disease is common in countries that eat wheat and rare in China and

>Japan where rice is consumed. A recent JAMA paper reported that the

>incidence of

>CD in children ranges between one in 57 to one in 33, so this appears to be a

>common condition when carefully looked for. Early diagnosis and dietary

>therapy may prevent the development of other related autoimmune illnesses.

>

>A very specific test for the disease is the test for antibodies to an

>individuals own enzyme antiTG(anti-tissue transglutaminase). This test

>will be

>negative if the patient has not eaten gluten (wheat) for a long time, so

>it is

>advisable to postpone this test until the patient has been back eating

>wheat for a

>week or two.

>

>Symptoms of gastrointestinal disease are nonspecific and symptoms in other

>organs are fifteen times more frequent non viral hepatitis, osteoporosis,

>unsteady gait (ataxia), Type 1 diabetes, hair loss, psoriasis, polyneuritis,

>vasculitis, thyroiditis, Sjogren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, adrenal

>insufficiency, infertility, anemia, depression, and lymphoma and cancer of

>the small

>intestine. The best test to establish the diagnosis is small bowel capsule

>biopsy, which is safe and only infrequently fails to prove the diagnosis.

>

>Failure to find this disease with continued wheat intake in children can be

>followed by poor growth and impaired brain development. The death rate in CD

>patients is twice that of normal individuals.

>

>Of 128 men and women with osteoporosis, 12 (9.4%) were found to have celiac

>disease. Patients with celiac disease usually have a many-year history of

>faulty absorption of minerals, which could explain the osteoporosis.

>

>In a review of 185 adults who had liver transplantation, eight persons (4.3%)

>were discovered to have celiac disease. Four more patients being considered

>for liver transplantation were found to have celiac disease. All four had

>improved liver function following implementation of a gluten free diet. All

>patients with severe unexplained liver disease need to be screened for celiac

>disease.

>

>Many children with autism have small intestine damage, but only a few test

>positive for CD antibodies. A strict gluten-free, casein-free diet in these

>children led to improvement that disappeared when the diet was stopped. The

>problem in these children is believed to be food allergies(wheat, dairy)

>causing

>incomplete digestion of proteins, so that peptides are able to enter the

>blood

>stream and produce pain and diarrhea.

>

>Dr. Jonathan Wright and investigators in Australia have learned that many

>patients (30%) with systemic lupus erythematosus have hidden allergies to

>gluten.

>When placed on a gluten free diet, these patients lose their symptoms of

>lupus and their blood tests for lupus revert to normal. The family history of

>these patients is loaded with auto-immune illness(lupus, rheumatoid

>arthritis,

>psoriasis, M.S., myasthenia gravis, asthma).

>

>Dermatitis Herpetiformis is characterized by a skin rash with severe itching

>and blisters often found on the elbows, knees and buttocks. Twenty percent of

>patients with DH have Celiac Disease. Some psoriasis patients have antibodies

>to IGA endomysium and these respond with marked improvement on a gluten free

>diet.

>

>A different investigation disclosed that incidence of CD is only one in every

>133 persons. This helps prove that hundreds of thousands of persons with CD

>are escaping diagnosis. When studied between 5 and 15% of relatives of CD

>patients are also found to have CD. Three to eight percent of Type 1

>diabetics have

>CD.

>

>The dietary therapy of CD is quite complex because minute quantities of

>gluten in the diet impede healing. Many conglomerate produced packaged foods

>contain gluten without any wheat labeling. Wheat products are often used as

>thickeners, stabilizers and texture enhancers in mass produced foods. An

>intelligent

>informed dietician is imperative in counseling. A good gluten free diet leads

>to complete healing in 3 to 6 months. Foods that can safely be eaten by CD

>patients include potatoes, rice, amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat and bean flour.

>

>The Second Edition of Dr. Howenstine's book A Physician's Guide To Natural

>Health Products That Work has completed proof reading and is near to

>printing.

>This book now contains about 900 pages. Soft cover versions of this book will

>cost $29.95 and hard cover versions $39.95. Readers who would like to order a

>copy can phone 1-800-416-2806.

>

>Dr. James A. Howenstine is a board certified specialist in internal medicine

>who cared for office and hospital patients for 34 years. Four years of

>research into natural health convinced him that natural products are

>safer, more

>effective and generally less expensive than pharmaceutical drugs. This

>research

>culminated in writing the book A Physician's Guide To Natural Health Products

>That Work (328 pages) $17.95.

>This book and recommended products can be obtained from

>www.mynaturalhealthteam.com and by phoning 1-800-416-2806. Dr. Howenstine

>can be reached at

>dr.jimhow and by writing Dr. James Howenstine C/O Remarsa USA SB

>37, P.O.

>Box 25292, Miami, Fl. 33102-5292.

>E-Mail: dr.jimhow~~~

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>Aspirin deaths in flu epidemic

>Your report on the recent findings about aspirin ( DDTY vol 18 no 10) sent me

>to look at my copy of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy,

>May 1921. There is an article with brief comments from 50 doctors who treated

>Spanish ’flu patients with homeopathy. Although widely ignored by

>orthodoxy, it

>is well known by homeopaths that the death rate of people treated by

>homeopathy was a fraction of that treated by orthodox medicine.

>Apart from the value of homeopathy, however, it is remarkable that so many of

>the doctors blamed aspirin for the deaths. Here are a few quotes: " “Its

>indirect action came through the fact that aspirin was taken until

>prostration

>resulted and the patient

>developing pneumonia.â€

> " “I attended 100 cases without any fatalities. And never gave aspirin. One

>case that was loaded with aspirin before I saw him, referred to me from an

>old

>school physician, died.â€

> " “The mortality rate in a camp [army] was, for pneumonia, 25.8%. The

>lieutenant in charge was persuaded to discontinue aspirin, digitalis and

>quinine, and

>the mortality dropped speedily to 15% with no medicine whatever. â€

> " “All of the people in my care who died of influenza had, of their own

>accord, taken aspirin before I saw them.â€

>Whilst these reports cannot be taken as ‘proof’, they would seem to be of

>some importance, and should be accorded some respect and revisited. But it is

>particularly urgent to do this with the threat of a new bird-’flu epidemic

>hanging over us, for which aspirin is a common prescription.Eric Spain,

>Hong Kong

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>(London, February 26) -- We take around $13 billion worth of antidepressants,

>such as Prozac, Seroxat and Paxil, every year - and scientists have today

>announced that they don't work.

>By getting hold of studies that the manufacturers had deliberately

>suppressed, researchers at Hull University in the United Kingdom have

>finally discovered

>that they are no more effective than a sugar pill, or placebo. They had to

>use powers granted by freedom of information legislation in the USA to get

>hold

>of 47 trials on SSRI (serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors) drugs, such as

>Prozac, which had not been published.

>Research team leader Professor Irving Kirsch has today told The Times

>newspaper of London: " Our study raises serious issues that need to be

>addressed

>surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported. "

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>Recently this past week, my cousin Nicole Dishuk (age 31...newly graduated

>student with a doctoral degree about to start her new career as a

>Doctor...) was

>flown into a nearby hospital, because she passed out.

>

>They found a blood clot in her neck, and immediately took her by helicopter

>to the ER to operate. By the time they removed the right half of her skull to

>relieve the pressure on her brain; the clot had spread to her brain causing

>severe damage.

>

>Since last Wednesday night, she was battling... they induced her into a coma

>to stop the blood flow, they operated 3 times... Finally, they said there was

>nothing left that they could do... they found multiple clots in the left side

>of her brain... the swelling wouldn't stop, and she was on life support...

>

>She died at 4:30 yesterday. She leaves behind a husband, a 2yr old Brandon

>and a 4yr old Justin... The CAUSE of DEATH - they found was a birth

>control she

>was taking that allows you to only have your period 3 times a year... They

>said it interrupts life's menstrual cycle, and although it is FDA approved...

>shouldn't be - So to the women in my address book - I ask you to boycott this

>product & deal with your period once a month - so you can live the rest of

>the

>months that your life has in store for you.

>

>*Please send this to every woman you know - you may save someone's life...

>Remember, you have a CYCLE for a reason ! The name of this new birth control

>pill is LYBREL . If you go to Lybrel.com http://lybrel.com/, you will find at

>least 26 pages of information regarding this drug.

>

>The second birth control pill is, SEASONIQUE. If you go to the website

>Seasonique.com http://seasonique.com/, you will find 43 pages of information

>regarding this drug.

>

>The warnings and side effects regarding both pills are horrible.

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>R e c e n t l y, homeopathic hospitals across Britain have had their funding

>withdrawn because of the claim that homeopathy lacks the proof of modern ‘

>evidence-based medicine’. I’ve turned my usual column over to master

>homeopath

>and naturopath Dr Harald Gaier for his response.—Lynne McTa g g a r The

>bedrock of modern conventional medicine is the principle of causality,

>the idea that if we fully know the present, we can then predict the

>future. Yet,

>causality has been challenged by Heisenberg’s ‘uncertainty

>principle’, which

>says that, as you can’t truly define all aspects of matter on a subatomic

>level, the law of causality doesn’t hold.

>This is in accord with one of the most basic tenets of naturopathy: that

>disease is

>only possible if a combination of preconditions is present such as impaired

>resistance, diminished vital energy, the presence of toxins, parasites or

>nutritional imbalances, dietary or other abuses and psychogenic stress.

>As Professor Stuart Close, the eminent philosopher of homeopathy,

>explained, “

>The fatal tendency in . . . medical research to focus attention and effort

>upon one cause to the exclusion of all others inevitably leads to error and

>failure . . . Any successful method of treatment must be able to meet all the

>conditions arising from any existing combination of the causes.â€

>So how does Orthodox Medicine arrive at the cause or, more important, its ‘

>evidencebased’ medications? Conventional medicine believes that it is

>possible

>to generalize the responses of more than one patient, as individual

>unpredictabilities will then cancel each other out if a large-enough group

>is analyzed.

>So, the higher the number of patients in the generalization, the more broadly

>established it becomes. That is the rationale behind medicine’s

>‘gold-standard’

>randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

>Nevertheless, such an approach is fundamentally flawed. When testing drugs,

>medicine obliterates the causal elements in patients by submerging them in a

>sea of other people, all of whom are being collectively tested. From these

>data,

>medicine derives a generalized, homogenized result. But this result, by

>definition, is inexact for any given individual.

>When a broadly tested agent is dispensed to an individual patient, laden with

>diverse

>unpredictabilities (as individuals always are), doctors are then surprised by

>the individual response, which can vary to a little or large extent from the

>expected, published and statistically significant, generalized and

>homogenized

>one.

>In short, orthodox evidence-based medicine takes individual patients with

>their

>idiosyncrasies, places them in a crowd of other patients to obliterate these

>differences, and hopes to obtain a ‘lowest-common-denominator’ result.

>When

>it does, it then uses this result to treat each idiosyncratic patient, who is

>far removed from the ‘lowest-commondenominator’ patient—who is, after

>all, a

>fiction created solely by clinical methodology.

>Any naturopath worth his salt would call this inappropriate prescribing.

>Naturopaths

>treat individual patients, not disease categories. This difference in

>approach calls into

>question the very foundations of conventional medicine—the concept

>practice’,

>based as it is on the vagaries of medical science’s flawed experimental

>models.

>So, to put it most simply, the questions that need to be asked are not only

>where’s the evidence in the standard medical model, but where’s the

>evidence

>that so-called evidencebased data offer any genuine proof of effective

>treatment?

>Dr Gaier, also an osteopath and herbalist, practises at The Allergy and

>Nutrition Clinic, 22 Harley Street, London, and the Irish Centre of

>Integrated

>Medicine, Co. Kildare (www. d r g a i e r. c o m ) .

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>MALARIA

>Vitamin A and zinc keep it at bay

>If you’re about to head off for a region of the world where malaria is a

>problem,

>start taking vitamin A and zinc supplements now. Researchers have discovered

>that the supplements are effective at warding off the disease, welcome news

>for

>those who live where malaria is endemic. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example,

>it kills one million children every year.

>Researchers discovered the protective powers of the two supplements while

>researching malaria in young children in Burkina Faso. Half the children were

>given a placebo while the rest were given the supplements. Within six months,

>the rate of malaria among the vitamin-supplemented children had fallen by

>34 per cent. It even helped children who already had the disease: those given

>supplements were more resistant and suffered fewer fever attacks.

>As most of the sick children were malnourished, the researchers believe the

>supplements may have boosted their natural immune systems (Nutr J, 2008; 7:

>7).

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>Good for the heart, too: The vitamin D that is derived from sunshine and oily

>fish can reduce your risk of heart disease, and increase your chances of

>survival if you have cancer.

>These latest benefits from the ‘sunshine vitamin’ follow hard upon the

>heels

>of the discovery that the vitamin also reduces the risk of e p i l e p s y.

>In a study involving 1739 participants, researchers discovered that those who

>had low levels of vitamin

>D are twice as likely to suffer a cardiovascular problem such as a heart

>attack, heart failure or stroke.

>In yet another, separate study, researchers found that sunshine also reduces

>your chances of dying from cancer. The vitamin D produced by solar radiation

>in countries below the equator was, for example, 3.4 and 4.8 times greater

>than

>in the UK and

>Scandinavia, respectively. What’s more, although the incidence of major

>carcinomas—including skin cancers—was higher in the lower l rate was

>dramatically better there compared to the north (Circulation, 2008;

>117:

>5 0 3­11, heart study; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, published online 7 2008,

>10. 1073/pnas.0710615105, cancer study) .

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>Yoghurt really is good for you. Those drinks that contain live ‘friendly’

>bacteria such as lactobacilli can make your gut more efficient, and may help

>to ward off problems such as diabetes and obesity.

>For the first time, researchers have been looking at how probiotics affect

>the usual gastrointestinal microbes—the gut flora—that play role

>in our metabolism. Abnormalities in these microbes have been linked to a

>range of diseases, including type 2 diabetes.

>In this new study, drinking a probiotic containing Lactobacillus paracasei

>or L. rhamnosus changed the metabolic activities of the microbes.

>Although this was a study involving ‘humanized’ mice and so may not

>precisely apply to humans, Nicholson and his research team hope that their

>discoveries may one day lead to the introduction of specially formulated

>probiotics that are designed for individual metabolic types to help manage

>specific health problems (Mol Syst Biol, 2008; 4: 157).

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>Zinc can be a powerful antidote to diarrhoea, and even stop a severe attack

>after it’s already started. Researchers discovered the power of the mineral

>while researching ways to treat cholera in Bangladesh.

>They also found that zinc is as effective as an antibiotic in helping

>children recover. Those given the supplement were better eight hours

>sooner than

>those not given zinc.

>These findings mirror earlier studies from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh,

>showing that zinc reduces the duration of diarrhiea by 15 per cent (BMJ,

>2008;

>336: 266­8).

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>If you have type 2 diabetes, then drinking coffee or tea could be making it

>worse. Drinking four or more cups of either of these a day can raise blood

>sugar by an average of 8 per cent throughout the day, researchers have

>discovered.

>The effect varied according to when the caffeine was consumed. Coffee at

>breakfast time raised blood sugar levels by 9 per cent, at lunchtime, by

>15 per

>cent and, after an evening meal, by 26 per cent.

>This ties in with the findings that coffee increases insulin resistance, and

>can interfere with the removal of glucose from the blood, moving it into the

>muscles and other cells of the diabetic individual. Caffeine may also trigger

>adrenaline, which itself can

>lead to raised blood sugar levels (Diabet Care, 2008; 31:

>221­2).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition that can affect any part of the body.

>Typically, it shows up as thickened red patches covered with silvery scales,

>usually on the scalp,

>elbows, knees, hands and lower back. Patches usually flare up periodically

>and symmetrically on both sides of the body and, as you no doubt already

>know,

>can cause considerable pain. Precisely what causes psoriasis is not known,

>but

>experts believe that it is an immune-system malfunction, causing skin

>cells to

>replace themselves too quickly. This results in an accumulation of dead skin

>cells and the formation of those characteristic thick, silvery scales.

>A genetic predisposition may be the underlying cause of this autoimmune

>condition, but other factors can cause and contribute. In women, the most

>common

>trigger is smoking (BMJ, 1994; 308: 428­9); in men, it’s al triggers include

>incomplete protein digestion, bowel toxaemia, impaired liver function, excess

>consumption of animal fats, nutritional factors and stress.

>Psoriasis can also flare up after bacterial infections such as strep throat,

>skin injuries and vaccinations as well as with medicines such as lithium and

>beta-blockers (Altern Med R e v, 2007; 12: 319­3 0). But flare-ups always

>have a specific cause.

>Treating psoriasis Most conventional treatments for psoriasis only suppress

>symptoms— and come with a host of nasty sideeffects, so you†for

>alternatives. Topical steroids, for instance, can thin the skin, which can

>make symptoms worse. Systemic drugs like methotrexate—generally pre severe

>cases—can cause hypertension, kidney damage, anaemia and imp immunity.

>Happily, there’s a wide variety of alternative treatments available. For

>starters, examine your diet. Psoriasis, essentially an inflammatory

>disorder, may

>benefit from an anti-inflammatory diet. Fasting, and diets that are

>low-calorie, vegetarian and/or rich in omega-3 fats can significantly

>improve psoriasis

>symptoms (Br J

>Dermatol, 2005; 153: 706­14). Basically, an a n t i - i n f l a m m diet

>emphasizes ‘good fats’ (cold-water fish such as trout and salmon, nuts,

>seeds, olive

>oil and other high quality oils), whole grains, beans, vegetables and fruits,

>while avoiding ‘bad fats’ (saturated animal fats, trans fats, fried and p

>rocessed foods, and poor- q u a l i t y oils) and refined carbohydrates.

>It also

>helps to avoid too much omega- 6 (from corn, soy, safflower and sunflower

>oils) in your diet.

>Several herbs used as seasonings, including turmeric, red pepper, cloves,

>ginger, cumin, anise, fennel, basil, rosemary and garlic, can also block

>inflammation in the body (Ann NY Acad Sci, 2004; 1030: 434­41), so these

>to your food every day.

>But before changing your diet, it’s best to see a nutritionist and be

>tested

>for food allergies or intolerances. Many psoriatic patients have an increased

>sensitivity to gluten, and symptoms improve on a gluten-free diet (Altern Med

>Rev, 2007; 12: 319­30). Psoriasis is also associated with vitamin <

>deficiencies, so check this out, too. Indeed, the rapid skin-cell turnover

>rate in

>psoriasis can cause increased folate uptake and its subsequent deficiency,

>leading to

>high homocysteine levels and a

>greater risk of cardiovascular disease (Br J Dermatol, 2006; 155:

>1165–9). So

>,

>taking extra folic acid may help. Other useful supplements include vitamins

>B6, B12 and D, and fish oils (Altern Med Rev, 2007; 12: 319­30). Ps

>patients taking high doses of fish oil (10 g/day) for eight weeks saw

>significant

>improvements in

>symptoms and in the amount of body surface area affected (Lancet, 1988; 1: 378

>­80). Taking 3.6 g/day of purified eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; foun oil)

>reduced the severity of psoriasis after two to three months

>(Dermatologica, 1991; 182: 225­30).

>EPA and fish oils also help when applied topically (Eur J Dermatol, 2007; 17:

>284­91), and an aloe vera extract cream (0.5 per cent) and curcumin per

>cent) both worked in controlled trials. Curcumin, derived from turmeric,

>yielded 90-per-cent

>resolution of skin plaques in half the patients within two to six weeks,

>while the remainder saw 50- to 85- per-cent improvements (Altern Med Rev,

>2007;

>12: 319­30). The herbal topical preparations Reliéva (containi Mahonia

>aquifolium) and QoolSkin were also effective in clinical trials (Am J

>Ther, 2006; 13: 121­6;

>ScientificWorldJournal, 2007; 7: 1063­9).

>Finally, stress management may help. Patients who listened to a g u i d e d -

>i m a g e ry tape while undergoing phototherapy cleared four times faster

>than those who received phototherapy alone (Psychosom Med, 1998; 60:

>625–32).

>Hypnosis has also

>relieved symptoms (Arch Dermatol, 2000; 136: 393­9).

 

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