Archive for the ‘pain’ Category

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.

Fosamax Fractures: Are You an Unfortunate Few?

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Bisphosphonates like Fosamax have been linked to a very bad side effect. An effect that is the exact opposite of what they are supposed to do. Below is a study. Before reading it, consider a little background about bone density, what bisphosphonates do and do not do. Then consider this question. What if there was a better way?

Sally Fields is on an advertisement. The ad speaks about 9 out of 10 women stopped and reversed bone loss. She did it with a group of medications called bisphosphonates (bis FOS fo nayts).

Do you know what can happen to the 10th. Are you and unfortunate few.

Before I tell you, you should know that…

…these drugs are used to treat or even to prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis. They are also prescribed for steroid-induced osteoporosis. There is another bone disease called Pagets that they are used for.

…these drugs have very few problems for very few people. Often times the researchers felt it was because of other medicines (think drug interactions and then thing adverse drug interactions).

…these drugs have a very nasty side effect for a very few. A side effect that seems to be the exact opposite of what the drug is intended to do.

…long term use is associated with increased susceptibility and delayed healing of non-spinal fractures.

…in the Emergency Department or ER as some would call it, we rarely see a broken leg where two bones are broken.

One Study

Another

Yet another

John Abramson MD Says in his book, Overdosed America had some interesting facts on this.

He found that if about 80 women with osteoporosis take Fosamax to prevent one hip fracture.
And if they take it for about 4 years.
It will cost about $300,000 collectively.

So, is it worth it?

Well…in one study of Fosamax published in JAMA in 1998, there were women with
osteopenia. Did Fosamax do what it says?

Mark Twain explains why the the study said what it said, “There are liars, damn liars and statisticians.”

If you read the article it would seem like the risk went down. The study according to John Abramson MD, actually shows that the risk of hip fractures increased 84 percent with Fosamax use.

He also said that writs fractures risk increased by 50 percent.

One more thing…For some, it increased their pain of unknown origin (although it was bone pain).

There is more information on this than can be covered in several posts. If your interested, start doing a search on the web. Start with sites by Medical Doctors. You should not just stop Fosamax. There should also be something you replace it with.

There is a better way.

Glutathione, Carpel Tunnel Syndrome Pain and Your Brain

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

There is a carpel tunnel syndrome pain and your brain connection. There is also a glutathione connection. Put all three together and you can eliminate your pain.

The ultimate ulterior health management resource we possess is our mind. I believe carpel tunnel syndrome pain can be managed with your brain. However, there is the need for clinical evidence.

Many drug trials, especially ones concerned with or related to mental health, factor into their statistical models the possibility of placebo effect.

The placebo effect is in essence, if you think it will work, it will work. This presents a dilemma. If you can get rid of pain in your head, would that not be a good thing? This is really another topic.

Since this placebo effect is especially true of mental health drug trials, then it would stand to reason that there could be a relationship with anything related to the nervous system.

So, some time ago I put this theory to the test and sure enough, for me, it worked.

But, with many placebo effects the results are not always repeatable. So, when the opportunity to repeat the test came, again it worked.

Let me explain. I apologize for this being a bit long.

A few years ago a dear friend from New York City started learning a nerve manipulation technique called Bowen. Armed with just enough information on how it works to take care of my rare carpel tunnel pain, a series of events unfolded.

The very day of learning of Bowen, while sitting in the back of a car waiting on some friends, it seemed like a good time to check my eyelids for pin holes (take a quick nap). A few minutes later on awaking, there was the hand numbness that had not happened since leaving the stone masonry profession.

By numbness, I mean no feeling what so ever. It was still possible to move the hand although other times in the distant past, even movement was not possible. It was like having a dead limb. This experience was part of the reason for a career change into Nursing.

So, trying my new skills resulted in the most wonderful thing. No more numbness. Instantly, it was gone. Better yet, there were no other pains that used to accompany the numbness after it went away. The pins and needles and then the pain that lasted for up to 30 minutes never happened. Instantly relief was felt.

This new found underlying way to manage my wrist health resulted in me being able to return to being an artist. Actually, it was the very next day that I created the fish you see here. Then the next day after that a few more fish were made along with some moons.

Steel Fish Sculpture made from car hood

Next came the painting. I am not talking about house painting.

impressionist painting of sun and field of flowers

This was fantastic. Of course, it did not hurt that I sold over a dozen of my steel sculptures to a gallery in New Hope, PA and one through a dealer in Lambertsville, NJ (one of the top 10 places to buy art in the world). Note that they were not on consignment, they were bought outright from the gallery.

But this way of treating carpel tunnel is not the ulterior truth you need to know. Yes, Bowen can provide an interesting way to treat this wrist pain. But there is more.

The Ulterior Mental Resource for Health

Our mental processes provide a unique way to manage or in some cases even treat many health problems.

Learning Bowen for the wrist was only the first part.

One night, on awaking from sleep, the pain of my stone masonry days had returned to torture me. Only thing, this was from my current love with whom I was having an affair, my art. My wife sometimes feels I am married to my art. In trying to reassure her, it was explained that this makes her my mistress.

Not wanting to get up to do the Bowen thing, the question arose, what if it was possible to do the Bowen mentally and not physically.

So, imagining that each of the steps of the Bowen procedure were preformed in my mind, the process started. This even went so far as imagining the pain that the Bowen sometimes produces. The result….

It worked. As soon as the last procedure was accomplished, the pain was gone.

But wait…there is more.

Yesterday, I just started painting our house to get it ready to sell. This morning, about 4 AM the pain came along with some numbness in my finger tips. Since learning about the ulterior benefits of boosting intercellular glutathione, carpel tunnel pain has been vary rare and vary mild.

As with most people, when I am feeling better I do not do the necessary things to maintain health. So, the glutathione boosting supplements had been omitted from my diet for a few days. To make matters worse, I had a very small dish of ice cream (it was not organic ice-cream). The toxic effect of the prolactin in the milk in the ice cream and no supplemental detoxification resulted in a perfect storm for me to awake in pain this morning. Oh yea, there was a terrific headache too. I never get headaches.

Well, once again doing the mental Bowen, the pain subsided. It kept returning and it continued receding with the mental process. On taking my cysteine to boost my glutathione, within a few hours the headache was gone and my hand was almost at 100%.

At this time the elbow was still sore but there is virtually no hand pain even with a few hours of typing on the computer. By the way, this was being hammered out on my computer at the same time the carpal pain and headache was disappearing.

Yes, learn to use the mind to help your body to heal.

Good Health to you and hopefully an end to your pain. That is, if the glutathione carpel tunnel syndrome and your brain thing works for you.

Do you want to learn how to do the Bowen Procedure your self? Contact me through the GlutathioneDiseaseCure contact page. If enough want it, I will create and post a video.