Be your own doctor

Be your own doctor. What I mean when I say this is that you need to take care of your own body. Much like everything else in life, if you want something done right, you need to do it yourself. I’m not talking about treating your own ailments by guessing which over-the-counter drugs to buy at the pharmacy. I am saying that if anyone knows your body, it’s you. Take preventative care of your body so you do not need to place yourself in the hands of a doctor, at least not on a regular basis. Don’t get me wrong, I do hold a high respect for medical professionals and many doctors have saved the lives of people who would never have survived otherwise. The main goal is to stay healthy and stay away from prescriptions by using all of your natural resources like food, exercise and supplements before you opt to take a prescription. Sometimes the simplest measures are the best way to go.

There was a time when I would have migraine headaches at least twice per month. I could tell when they were coming on because my neck muscles would become very tight and the back of my head would start to ache. I tried to stick out the pain many times by just laying down in a dark room completely motionless, bored and sick. I would vomit when the pain became intolerable or when I tried to apply ice in hopes to reduce the pressure. I moved onto Excedrin Migraine which worked for a while. I eventually must have become immune to its effects after a while because it stopped working. I would sometimes luck out if I took it right when I first noticed the symptoms of the migraine coming on. I noticed after a while that I was starting to take two doses of Excedrin and this was more effective. This is the way it works. You get sick, you take medicine. The medicine eventually does not have the same effect so you take more, then you try something else.

I decided that rather than trying something else or taking a dangerous dose of headache medicine, this might be a good time to visit my doctor. After an hour and a half of flipping through germ-infested magazines, I entered the doctor's office to wait yet another 20 minutes. The doctor came in and gave me a few questionnaires to fill out, left for another five or ten minutes, came back in and read them and asked a few questions. She sent me for an X-Ray like she does for everything (Sprained ankle, chest cough, etc.). She said that it looked as if I have damaged my spine and that there is a slight curvature at the top of the spine leaning toward my head. She said that the my muscles were working over-time to compensate for the curvature and that they were ripping and tugging from behind my shoulders and all the way up my neck. This made sense to me.

She wrote me a prescription to receive physical therapy. I was was given two samples of medication to take until I had my prescription filled for Imitrex and a muscle relaxer. Muscle relaxers did not sound very tempting. I do not like to be out of control of my body and, having a child, I wanted to be able to operate a vehicle at any time. I skipped the relaxers and dumped them in the trash but chose to keep the Imitrex for the next time I had a migraine.

Sure enough, the time came and as always it was a bad timing. We had friends over for dinner and I could feel the pain coming on as I was cooking and was very hesitant about trying a new medication right then but I didn't want to spoil the night. I took the Imitrex. It was just a matter of minutes before I got a charlie horse in either my arm or my ankle. I forget exactly where it happened but it spread from there- charlie horse after charlie horse and I noticed that it was moving from my extremities inward which made me feel like it could eventually get to my heart. We had to ditch the friends and zoom to the hospital. The person checking me in wanted me to wait and fill out paperwork while my body was undergoing multiple wrenching muscle spasms. I told her no and that I needed to see a doctor. She pulled me to the side and took my blood pressure and temperature and told me that I was having an anxiety attack.

I explained to her that I've had anxiety plenty of times and that I knew this is not what I was experiencing. When she looked at me like I had ten heads, I went a little further and became even more frustrated and let her know that I have a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and it may not be much these days but it's enough to know what an anxiety attack is.

Sure enough, I took off to the bathroom and I apologize for the description, but I was projectile vomiting. It was like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. They thought it might be a good time to send me in to lay down and wait for the doctor. The doctor came in less than five minutes and I complained to the to him about the person at the front desk and he apologized. He determined that I had a bad reaction to the medication and that I was very dehydrated. I was given an IV of fluids which I assumed would make no difference after everything I've tried to make the pain go away. Guess what? It worked.

I was given an X-ray, prescribed pain-killers and this horrific medication and was spending around 60.00 a week on physical therapy because I was constantly dehydrating myself. You're probably thinking that I was not being responsible for my health and drinking fluids. The truth is I was drinking coffee all day and some water in between. I should have been drinking more water, but there was also another factor contributing to the dehydration. Every time I ate food that was fried in oil, contained tomato puree, contained dairy, basically anything other than starches, I would have an upset stomach. I would in turn have to take Imodium AD just to get through the work day. The medicine and the bathroom trips were constantly dehydrating me. A combination of having nothing in my stomach, constantly losing water and drinking coffee were all contributing to migraines. At this point I was afraid to take another prescription so I would stick out the pain and get sick every time I had a migraine. I would miss work days here and there and the boss was starting to wonder if I had a somatoform disorder instead!

A few years went by and the stomach issues got a little better with time but the migraines remained. I made the switch to organic food and decided to drink twice as much water than coffee and both the stomach problems and the migraines started to get better. I was still afraid to consume dairy so I went without for some time until I realized that I could drink raw organic milk from our local farm and it would actually soothe my stomach. I started to feel normal again and was medication-free. Even though it was relaxing, I ditched physical therapy because I assumed I could exercise on my own. The therapists were using an ultrasound device on my back to get the toxins out of my muscles. Organic food gets the toxins out of your whole body, so this was the better choice. Besides, in a few years we'll hear that the ultrasound machines they use cause cancer.

My point is, if I knew that eating organic food would allow me to eat without running to the bathroom and that I needed to drink even more water than I already was due to the amount of caffeine I was consuming, I would never have had to waste time, money and frustration between the ER, physical therapy and the dreaded doctor's office. I have been considering a natural homeopathic doctor but there is one major problem with this. There is no insurance for those who choose to become healthy and stay healthy by opting for natural remedies. It would be bad for business. After all, if they get you hooked on pain killers, you'll be a paying customer. Once the “medicine" causes other problems, you'll need some medicine for that. Drug companies love this and doctors are basically salespeople for every new drug that is released on the market. My doctor wanted to prescribe something for my husband's high blood pressure and kept asking him over and over if he was a heavy drinker or if he did cocaine! Are you kidding me, cocaine?! My husband was insulted and the doctor unconvinced. She sent him to the lab for blood tests to measure his liver function which came out normal. She gave him a prescription for his high blood pressure which also ended up making him sick. He made another appointment and she tested his liver function again and the results were not as favorable so she took him off the medication. He was treated like a guinea pig and prepped for unfavorable liver test results because in actuality the medicine probably destroys your liver little by little.

The government needs to change the way the whole health care system works. It's a free for all of salespeople trying to push their products and as if doctors weren't doing enough to get people on drugs, they now offer them straight to the people through TV commercials. If you notice, there seem to be more pills for depression on TV than anything else. Could this be because a depressed person might be more suggestible to such a commercial? Come on guys, wake up. Take care of yourself before someone else has to do it and you end up in a downward spiral of poor health. Eat organic, exercise, drink water, learn more about nutrition and the very simple things that you can do, not only to take preventative care of your body, but also to help cure yourself of many ailments. Kevin Trudeau was the person who got us started on an organic lifestyle then we were completely inspired after reading Jordan Rubin's book Patient Heal Thyself.

Check out Planet Green on Dish Network satellite TV for great shows about going green and eating healthier.

blood groups

Before the twentieth century it was thought that the blood type of one. Therefore, the ends of most attempts to move the blood tragedy. One of the most famous incidents, is the incident disease Ansent Pope Benedict VIII in 1492. This year, the pope was wounded disease hot doctors in the treatment of one of them suggested that the transfer of blood from three healthy young men to the Pope, perhaps cure. The result, as expected, is that the Pope died immediately after the operation.

Tault attempts and were mostly doomed to failure, which led to the prohibition of blood transfusions in Europe for decades as it has caused many deaths. It continued as it is until 1902. This year the world discovered the Austrian Carl Andashteiner that blood is made up of different factions with the code later by Α and Β and ΑΒ and О. This discovery has achieved what many a revolution in modern medical science earned by Carl Andashteiner deserved Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1930.

Not confined to the dimensions of this discovery to the medical field but Tdh to also include other areas of forensic science. Not only this but many now believe that the blood group related to nutrition, too. I will try in the following lines present an overview of a simplified blood groups and medical uses.



Blood groups and medical significance
The first question that comes to mind is what is the difference between the different blood types? The difference is simply the presence or absence, what can be called excess, "boats" Α and Β on the surface of red blood cells. If the blood vessel carrying blood is Vveselp Α Α If the boat was carrying blood is Vveselp Β Β If the authors of both blood is Vveselp ΑΒ. But if he were not with any one of them Vveselp blood is О (О nnhО stands for the word in German, which can be translated to: nil).

If the story of blood groups ended at this point what has been important for this class. But the reason that the blood transfusion mismatch usually leads to death, is that the transfer of red blood cells carrying a boat does not carry the blood cells of the future, lead to reactions dangerous because the body recognizes the cells as foreign bodies and therefore must be combated, as happens for example with the bacteria. But contrary to what usually happens when you attack the bacteria, this war is so strong immune endless alien pushers cells break down and eliminate them only, but also the destruction of the battlefield, the scene here is a person's future blood.

To clarify it more, the person who Α same blood does not contain his body on the boat Β. Thus will when you are typing a blood transfusion to a person Β Α same blood group will be identified on the red blood cells as foreign objects and will therefore be fighting which leads to complications kill the person. This is the basic idea behind the importance of matching blood. If we put this idea in Makhlitna we can simply select the appropriate blood type for each person.



Are there other blood groups?

Yes, red blood cell's surface can have a large number of "vehicle", other than Α and Β but they are less for the fact that non-conformity does not lead to serious complications, as is the case with Α and Β.

The second group in importance is Rh is simply that determine the positive or negative sign which we find to write next to the blood type. As for why a person who is the plus next to the same blood group and another carrying a negative sign is either the presence (+) or absence (-) compound known as Rh on the surface of red blood cells. Usually, it is not a blood transfusion (+) to a person (-) but it can be the opposite. This is because the cells had lost the boat does not lead to any complications (as is the case with blood group О).



Blood groups and Criminology

For many decades ago before the development of DNA tests, the blood groups play an important role in forensics. For example, select a platoon spot of blood on the victim's body may help to convict or acquit the defendant. For example, if we assume that the blood group of the accused was Α were different species to spill blood, then at least they will not help in the acquittal of the accused, will indicate the presence of another person in the crime scene. At present, DNA analysis is more accurate and credible analysis of blood groups, which led to reduce reliance on the analysis of blood groups in the science of forensics.

There are also other uses for the blood groups is not necessarily related to the knowledge of the crime. The most important, and as the blood group of genetically determined, is the use of blood groups in determining paternity. Therefore, we find that the blood groups are sometimes used to determine paternity is disputed or in hospitals when they get confused with the newborn babies. It is worth mentioning is that the analysis of blood groups can not rely on him at all times to determine paternity.



Nutrition and Blood

Theory of the relationship between blood groups and nutrition developed by Dr. Peter de Adamu several decades ago. Theory suggests a relationship between the vehicles to be called the Ictinat (or proteins Resin) in the food react with different blood groups, which may cause health complications. Dr. de Adamu suggests that people should eat foods that contain the Ictinat identical with certain blood types, he believes that there are types of Alketinat might fit or not fit with the person on the basis of blood type. Therefore, Dr. Adamu de simplify this issue than us and came out a long list of foods that are commensurate with each blood group. The fact that Dr. de Adamu wealth and fame through this major theoretical and A dozens of books discuss almost all of the same subject.

But the question is what the opinion of specialists in the science of nutrition in this type of diet? The fact that this theory is based on a scientific basis and that many nutritionists do not advise him for being a diet is not balanced. It is worth noting that many of the global health bodies did not recognize this type of diet, but the Food and Drug Authority Saudi Arabia had warned his followers.

The reason for the success of this diet with some people is simply that, after checking the list of foods that proposed by Dr. de Adamu, we find that foods that are recommended for people who have family or blood О Α are cruel (as opposed to the blood type and Β ΒΑ). As the statistics indicate that the majority of people have blood group О Α or it is not surprising that the success of this common type of diet to lose weight.

Conclusion that there is no scientific studies to prove the Court of this relationship. Indeed, some scientists are skeptical of the secretariat of Dr. de bloodied the scientific world when he stated in his books of more than twenty years that in the latter stages of clinical studies to prove the claims, but has not yet published any of them. Valsbb either to reverse the results of the studies were, therefore, the impact Maideih not publish them, or it did not work any clinical studies at all.



Goodbye Blood ..

Yes, I have bid farewell to days of blood groups. The reason is that the group of Danes find a way is the removal of vehicles Α and Β on the surface of red blood cells using a particular enzyme, making it similar to the red blood cells from blood group О and thus can be transferred to any person safely. This study, published in the journal "Nature Biotechnology" Since recently, may help in the future (of course, after conducting the studies necessary) to resolve the perennial problem in blood banks is the lack of the required quantities of each species is always blood.