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Glutathione Killing Acetaminophen Does Not Help Knee Pain? This Study Says So!

Friday, January 8th, 2010

In a study published in the Am J Ther. 2004 Mar-Apr;11(2):85-94. looked at the “Analgesic efficacy and safety of nonprescription doses of naproxen sodium compared with acetaminophen in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee.”

It was a double blind test. This means that neither the nurses nor the patients knew which medication they were getting.

Here is the result…

One third of the patients were given 1000 milligrams of acetaminophen ( a generic form of Tylenol) four times a day. One third received a NSAID twice daily and everyone else took a Placebo.

The NSAID significantly reduced the pain.

The acetaminophen and the placebo had no benefit what so ever.

No wonder since acetaminophen depletes the body of glutathione.

So if it works for you, great. If you want optimal health and want to eliminate the pain, studies say boosting glutathione is a better way.

Good health to you.

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What kind of Pain is Caused by Fibromyalgia?

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Fibromyalgia syndrome is generally accepted as a type of arthritis of the muscles instead of the joints.

Fibromyalgia pain can affect skeletal muscles, ligaments, tendons and the bursa (sacs that surround your joints) Sometimes the pain can be localized however all the fibromyalgia sufferers I have know experience pain in all four quadrants of the body.

Part of the diagnosis is experiencing pain in at least 11 of 18 specific tender spots or tender points. These points tend to be where muscles and tendons join together.

Fibromyalgia pain is described as a deep and persistent ache although many sufferers also get stabbing, throbbing, and shooting pains in their muscles. Additionally, pains caused by the syndrome can leave a tingling or burning feeling just under the skin. Often, pains will increase in severity over the course of the day, and can migrate to other places on the body.

Some studies show that people with fibromyalgia actually have a much lower threshold for pain than those who don’t have the syndrome. This means that even a gentle touch could cause excruciating pain in someone with fibromyalgia. This lower threshold may be a result of the syndrome.

It is possible that the lowered pain threshold is caused by a miscommunication in the brain.

Not all pains are created equal.

Diabetic nerve pain is as it sounds, a pain from the nerves. It is also referred to as neuropathic pain. It can include burning, tingling, numbness, shooting, stabbing, shock-like or lancinating.

Fibromyalgia pain is a nociceptive pain and more specifically a visceral pain.

Some have noted a stabbing, throbbing, and shooting muscle pain. There may also be a tingling or burning feeling just under the skin. But wait, is this last part not the same as diabetic pain.

Not exactly. It is a post secondary pain. It is a secondary pain that results from the original visceral pain. And since something in the bodies nerve conduction is misfiring any way, it is easy to explain this other pain.

There are two separate medical treatment guidelines for each of these pains.

For those who do not get relief from the medical establishment, there is another option.

This option involves three things.

Eliminating foods and additives in foods that are neuro-toxins.

It also involves boost your intercellular glutathione. This can be done with both diet and supplements.

The third it a rather no-brainer. Once you read the studies on how boosting glutathione helps with both the pain and correcting nerve conduction problems you will have a choice. If you try boosting your glutathione and it works for you as it has for many, you will want to avoid the medicines that deplete glutathione from your body. One main one to eliminate is acetaminophen.

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Cinnamon and Cholesterol

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Some studies say cinnamon helps lower cholesterol. Others say it doesn’t.

Many who use it find it dose. There is a potential danger with taking too much as one woman found out.

The health benefits do not stop with just lowering cholesterol. There is a laundry list of things it helps with. One of the studies was done by the USDA.
Click Here to learn more about the many health benefits of cinnamon.

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Tylenol Troubles? You Bet Your Life!

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

There is a warning out about Tylenol. Seems it is associated with some sever health problems.

I have been sounding the warning for over 15 years now. I am no longer alone.

One of my specialties in health care is Bloodless Medicine and Surgery.

For over a decade I have been discouraging the use of acetaminophen  in the hospital and especially when there was a risk of loss of blood. Of my over 600 patients refusing blood, not one died. One had lost well over 75% of his blood.

Most doctors do not know that Acetaminophen, (APAP, Tylenol, Liquiprin, or  Panadol) actually interferes with the production of red blood cells. This interference is quite sever when blood counts are low. Once the doctors exclude the use of Tylenol the patients do quite well. Although this is only part of the whole, studies suggest that bloodless patients get out of the hospital 1/2 to 3 days faster. Additionally there is a lower morbidity and mortality in bloodless medicine.

Then a few years ago, on hearing a lecture, the doctor speaking talked about selenium. We were giving 200 mcg to prostate patients originally.

Note: For those who loathe pills, my patients are taught to take two brazil nuts a day (each has 100 mcg of selenium) and they will most likely die of something other than prostate cancer.

But selenium was only a piece of the puzzle.

It turns out selenium is given to a lot of diseases and conditions now, including the patients in the burn unit of the hospital.

I wondered why. The reason is because of improved outcomes. But why the improved outcomes?

Enter glutathione. Selenium is the precursor of glutathione. You cannot take glutathione, however you can take the supplements to boost your bodies intercellular glutathione.

But wait, this gets better.

Low Cysteine Glutathione Syndrome is associated with almost all disease processes. At least as far as they have studied them for this. In other words, if you looked at any disease you will see lower glutathione levels than are necessary.

Glutathione levels actually are used to tell how far HIV-Aids has progressed.

Acetaminophen depletes glutathione from the body.

Hmmmm, so you take acetaminophen and you end the fever and as a bonus, you deplete the body of everything else it needs to fight diseases and other serious conditions.

So what is done in the hospital if you come in with an overdose of acetaminophen?  We give you NAC or N-AcetylCysteine, a precursor of glutathione. The dose is enough to over compensate for the damage of the acetaminophen. The glutathione sacrifices its self and protects the liver.

Incidentally, more than once in my life I have prevented acetaminophen overdoses in the hospital. Twice with babies less than a year old.

Also in the elderly (again, many nurses and doctors do not know this) the max daily dose is reduced of that of a younger person.

And Tylenol Arthritis, let the buyer beware. In more than one study it was found that a placebo worked better than tylenol on arthritis.

Hmmm, this makes total sense. Acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol) depletes your glutathione, which helps you manage among 68 other things, arthritis pain. So if you do not take it, you will do better.

What if there were acetaminophen options? There are. Go to GlutathioneDiseaseCure.com and learn about the dietary and supplements that can help.

So take heed, live well and prosper.

Good health to you.

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Sudo Gout or Pseudo Gout, Mispelled and Misdiagnosed

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Sudo Gout or Pseudo Gout What ever way you misspell it or spell it, pseudo gout is often misdiagnosed. It may look like gout, feel like gout but is not gout. If not treated, it can be just as bad if not worse.

There is not a lot of research on glutathione and either type of gout. It does appear that it may manage and even be very beneficial. Of course, to find out if glutathione is an underlying essential element to your health, you will need to boost your intercellular glutathione.

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Sickle Cell Anemia Treatment Option

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Sickle cell anemia has a number of standard treatments.

A 1998 study should give pause about both current treatment and treatment options.

The study found in Blood showed that boosting glutathione resulted in a significant conversion of irreversibly sickled cells back into biconcave shape.

This means that boosting glutathione could help. More importantly, drugs that deplete glutathione could actually make the condition worse. This means that acetaminophen should be reconsidered as a means of pain relief.

A side effect of boosting glutathione is also pain relief.

Maybe this should be looked into more deeply.

Would you like to learn more about the Glutathione Sickle Cell Anemia Treatment?

Cysteine may be a viable option for blood transfusion avoidance and management of sickle cell anemia.

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The Many Cures of Water

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

An often underlying or ulterior cause of disease processes is improper hydration. In other words, we do not have enough water in our body to maintain optimal health.

There are a number of theories that suggest that diseases or conditions like peptic ulcers, asthma, back pain, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, and lupus can all be treated with just drinking water.

Memory enhancement, boosting our immunity, stress reduction, even expelling the waste from toxic foods we take ingest are all affected by our water intake.

Additionally, there are a number of studies and papers that demonstrate that water will successfully treat these health problems. Here is a secondary cure. If it cures our health then it could also cure our chronic lack of money. Think, if we have better health, less lost work days and have less medical bills, we will have more money.

Before the conspiracy theorists start going off on this, consider this, there is no money to be made in this. If people cannot make any money, they do not have jobs. If they do not have jobs, they cannot keep roofs over their heads.  If they are pharmaceutical company executives, it could even result in them being second and third homeless (as they would eventually not be able to afford their second and third vacation homes).

So they could care less if you drink water. They are only concerned if you buy their medicine. Perhaps they don’t even care if you take it. Just buy it so they can maintain their second and third home. It is capitalism at its finest.

Now, back to the water thing.

We need at least 2 quarts a day. We pee about 1.5 quarts and lose at least 0.5 from breathing. If we are working hard and sweat, exposed to elevated temperatures or are exposed to dry conditions, then the need increases.

Next, we need to take in about half of our body weight in ounces.

So if you weigh 250 pounds, half would be 125 pounds or 125 ounces which would be about one gallon a day.

Don’t go out and start drinking this much if your not used to it. You could get sick.  Too much of anything, even water, is not a good thing. If you drink to much water you could even die.

Develop this into a good habit.

But when should we drink. How does the alkalinity or acidity of the water affect our health? More to come.

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Increased Cysteine Levels = Decrease Breast Cancer

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

This article is rather interesting because of how large a group it looks at. It lacks the one thing that started me on this quest to understand the ulterior health factors.

The question: What does the cysteine do? The answer: produce the bodies master cancer
fighting warrior, Glutathione. It has natural healing properties.
Cysteine Levels and Breast Cancer Study

Good health to you.

PS. To learn more about GSH go to GlutathioneDiseaseCure.com and learn how you can boost your cysteine with your diet.

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EPO, Sports and the other Blood Controversy

Friday, August 15th, 2008

EPO & Sports: Not the Only Controversy

The news if rife with stories about athletes using EPO to enhance performance.

This is not the only controversy surrounding this cloned version of the human hormone erythropoietin.

A number of doctors are using this drug off label or outside of the pharmaceutical guidelines. Many are doing this to respect the healthcare wishes of their patients wanting alternatives to blood transfusions.

Some are doing this because not only is it good medicine, it is good business.

St Joseph’s Hospital of Cleveland Ohio advertises that it can shorten your hospital stay from 1/2 to three days.

The reason for the growth in the use of this drug is a growing number of patients in the US and the world wanting to eliminate the risk of blood borne diseases. This means if faced with the need for a blood transfusion, they want options or alternative treatments.

The controversy is in the effectiveness of the treatment. A second problem is the black box warning.

Seems some doc’s are giving it too much and too often. The result is too much blood and that causes other problems. Even so, it is advancing the field of alternatives to transfusions.

As a result of advances, two hospitals in the US have virtually eliminated blood transfusions all together.

On the other side of the is the use of blood transfusions when blood counts drop to unsafe levels. The challenge facing health care, what exactly are unsafe levels.

Dr Richard Spence of St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD USA made this comment regarding the practice of blood transfusions.

“…there are no high level studies that show the effecy of blood transfusions.
The studies show the exact opposite.”

But what about when doctors say blood saves lives?

Dr Spence has said in conferences that there is anecdotal evidence but that evidence is not hard science. If an alternative that can have the same or better effect, reduce risk of both infection, complication and even death, why wouldn’t we want to use it.

All of the evidence says it works.

This controversy will not end soon.

The Mindless Middle

There is a mindless middle. A place between the sports controversy and the medical controversy.

In order to prevent the problems some clinicians have found that just giving iron results in the body making enough red blood cells. Many are giving an IV form of iron with remarkable success.

That is not what’s interesting. What is interesting is those who cannot tolerate the IV iron are given black strap molasses and peanut-butter. It works to boost the blood count.

No EPO, just iron, protein, and the building blocks of red blood cells.

There is more…

There is a body of research that says boosting the bodies glutathione levels increases the bodies red cell count.

In my families experience, just a few weeks on one of the glutathione boosting products resulted in a post operation day one blood count higher than the count prior to surgery.
Not only that, there was no infection at the surgery site. As to the healing, well the clinicians said they had never seen anything like it, regarding the heeling being so fast.

So we have gone backwards to advance science.

Wow…

What is Glutathione

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Can Air Freshners Make Your Health Stale?

Monday, August 11th, 2008

The other title:Preserve That Fresh Smelling Room and Your Body Prior to Your Death at a Fraction of the Cost of Embalming with Air Fresheners

One of the most basic underlying or ulterior causes of health problems is foreign substances the human body is exposed to.

This briefly looks at fragrances in air fresheners, the health risks, the chemicals and potential chemical reactions to ambient substances. Links to the original paper and how to find what chemicals are in your fragrances or soaps.

A recent University of Washington Toxic Chemical Paper had some eye opening information. When you click on the link you can down load the paper in PDF form.

An overview…
The first landmark studies were in 1991-2.

The study analyzed 31 fragranced products like perfumes, deodorants, soaps, fabric softeners, and air fresheners found . The most common risk exposure was found in more than one-third of the products. The chemical list was quite long. It included ethanol, limonene, linalool, ?-phenethyl alcohol, ?-myrcene, benzyl acetate, benzyl alcohol, benzaldehyde, ?-terpineol, ?-citronellol, and ?-
pinene.

That was over 20 years ago. In a 2001 study analyzed 59 consumer and occupational products. The list included soap, laundry products, dish washing detergents, and cleaners. The study looked at 19 target fragrance compounds.

Of these, the most common chemicals in more than one third of the products, were limonene, linalool, citronellol, eucalyptol, geraniol, and ?-pinene.

But wait… this is not whats interesting.

What is interesting is what the study founds happens to some of these chemicals.

The chemicals were not bad enough on their own. Some of these chemicals can react with normal every day things that may already be in the air we breathe.
When combined, a secondary pollutant can be created.

Without getting into the geekey stuff, air freshener chemicals can combine with ozone to create aldehyde, also known a formaldehyde.

They have also been associated with asthma and asthmatic exacerbations (although other studies deny this finding) and allergic contact dermatitis.

Note…My personal thoughts…Hmmm, breathing in toxic chemicals does not cause asthma problems so they must be safe for asthmatics.

It gets better…the article indicates that the US manufacturers of these products do not need to disclose all ingredients.

Note…If you would like to find out what chemicals are in your fragrances all you need is a MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) This has the product safety information sheets prepared by manufacturers and marketers of products containing toxic chemicals. You do have to join to access the information. It is free.

So, you have a choice. Go ahead and assume they are safe because the government is taking such good care of us, surely they would tell us if these were dangerous. Who knows, maybe science will find that breathing in formaldhyde will preserve you alive even though you die.

Or, become an educated consumer. Avoid the ulterior health risks.

There is one other protection we can take. Since these are everywhere, boosting our bodies detoxifying mechanism will help remove the toxins we take in. The best way to do this is to boost your glutathione.

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