Posts Tagged ‘pain’

Red Beet Root Makes Glutathione, Stops Pain If….

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

The beet root, beets, table beet, garden beet or red beet can help with pain, boost immunity and help promote your underlying health if you….(What you have to do will be at the end). First, let me tell you some experiences.

Beets do more than bleed into your mash potatoes. Beets have a compound that makes homocysteine (bad for you and your heart) turn into cysteine which your body turns into glutathione or GSH (a underlying good for health and wellness try peptide).

Putting it to the test, one of my patients had shoulder pain related to an old torn rotator injury. He ate 2 per week a few days apart.

The result, no pain. The pain was most likely a neuropathic pain. It was totally gone. A few days later it returned but very mildly.

So, trying it again, this time with a 50′s something man who refuses to go see the doctor but was complaining of gut pain for 2 months. Within several hours of eating the beet the pain was gone and stayed away, for about three weeks at this posting.

Note: It is possible that a simple test by the doctor would have found the reason. This kind of thing should be checked out by a doctor. If it is something like H pylori then the chances of successfully treating it are about 30% compared to over 90% with modern medicine.

Since H pylori causes cancer, seeing the doctor would be the safest route.

However, that being said, after three weeks on 2 beets a week he is doing great as well.

If you….

The key to making this work…You have to eat the beet raw. They have a consistency of carrots with the one distinction, they turn your fingers pink.

Make sure and clean and peel. To avoid risk of bacterial infections, blanch them before eating.

Beets are the anti cancer, pain managing, immunity booster vegetable, if you eat them raw.

Good health to you.

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.

How do Doctors Define Gout?

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

There is the doctor and the dictionary definition. Which is which?

Gout also know as crystal-induced arthritis, is a disease resulting from a buildup of uric acid that causes a build up of crystals in the joints causing an arthritic condition. The offending crystaline buildup could be either from uric acid (called trophi) or calcium based deposits that cause pseudo gout sometimes misspelled as sudo gout.

Gout usually affects the large joint of the big toe and can affect other joints.

This is the dictionary definition of gout. There is doctors definition or the medical view of the nature and scope of the gout.

Does Cancer Have a Sweet Tooth?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

We humans are attracted to pleasure and tend to avoid pain. We also have a need for immediacy. We want instant gratification.

Your instant gratifying pleasure seeking sweet tooth may be causing you more pain than you could imagine.

Check out this study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and Cancer Risk. In non geek terms, it basically means cancer loves sugar.

More importantly, the results from foods that boost our sugar puts us at higher risk of cancer.

The solution, keep the sweets to a minimum.

Eat them with a balanced diet to off set the effect.

Always eat a balanced meal.

Get exercise (even if it is just parking in the farthest spot in the lot)

And most of all, skip the bagel and cream cheese at the morning meeting.

How

Like immediacy, we can tend to quality quantify things. What would it take to make a bagel a 10 on the food scale.

I am talking having a bagel worth dyeing for. A perfect bagel with cream cheese. Perhaps fresh strawberry preserves. And the bagel is just perfect, the New York City kind.

Lets take that bagel and make it a 2 on the 10 scale. Suppose the bagel was not fresh out of the oven. Tastes great but not perfect.

What would it take to make it a 0. You could eat it or leave it? Maybe if it had been setting out for a while before you ate it. Not sure how long but long enough.

What would it take to make it a (and for the sake of time lets jump to) negative 10?

Suppose the person preparing had mistakenly went into the restroom with the tray of bagels. Then he dropped the try on the floor. An exceptionally dirty floor.

No problem he thinks. Since these were flown in from New York City, we cannot waste them. So he gets a clean towel and proceeds to clean them off. Actually he dusts them off to be precise.

Besides, nobody will notice once the cream cheese is spread.

How would you feel about even touching one?

Now….consider the study above. You know your not going to be able to do any exercise all day. You will just be sitting, enjoying the thoughts of having eaten your bagel.

Your bagel has not been dropped on the floor. Rather it is your personal future diagnosis of cancer.

There is a saying about the Devil. His offerings have one thing in common. They are all free. They may cost your life, but they are free.

In this case the future cancer you could get is free. Matter of fact, it is even pleasurable.

The question you need to ask…

Is this pleasure going to be worth the future cancer I may get?

bona-petite.