Sulfur for Health

Sulphur, or in the US 'sulfur', is a basic mineral necessary for healing.  I am pleased to be able to offer my clients and readers an excellent organic form of sulfur.  It is the one I use.  I also can offer an excellent quality product for balneotherapy.

Sulfur is very interesting in the way it works and how it benefits your health. And it is great for pain, inflammation, and anti aging.

I have many clients with diabetes using it and they have found that their blood sugar levels are coming down.

Use sulfur (organic MSM) to help prevent glycation of your cells, allowing insulin to carry glucose.   You may have trouble losing weight even though you have been working out because Sugar molecules cross link with collagen to make your cell walls THICK.  This acts to block the hormone insulin from carrying in glucose you need to FUEL your cells and give you ENERGY!

Take  sulfur twice a day in water to help unglycate your cells! Biologically active sulfur (unlike most MSM sold today) will make your cell membranes more permeable so insulin can carry in the glucose and oxygen (O2) can flood into the cell. Your mitochondria start producing energy once they have enough oxygen. (When cells produce energy in an anaerobic environment, one by product is LACTIC ACID which makes you feel sore!)

Sulfur is a great way to get O2 into the cells. ATP is energy for the cells, but you need O2 to produce it! 

When insulin can't bring in the glucose that you need you gain fat and most often belly fat.  In America the Obesity/ Diabetes epidemic is out of control!

Stop eating sugar and fast acting carbs! Start monitoring your blood sugar,  Use supplements such as chromium polynicotinate and l-glutamine to lower blood sugar levels and stop carb cravings. (Ask us more about this).

Start eating good fats.... that will help convert your body from a glucose burner to a ketone burner and you will start burning your own body fat if you do, and thats GOOD!Good fats include cultured butter, olive and coconut oil. Eating healthy fat doesn't make you fat.  Eating carbs and too much protein (which breaks down into glucose) does. Eat lots of green leafy vegetable and cut out bread, crackers, cookies, ice cream, cake, and beer.Kettlebells make a great exercise proggram that doesn't take more than 10 minutes a day. Walking, cycling, swimming and gardening are also good forms of exercise. Sulfur will help you avoid lactic acid buildup causing pain, and it will help you by making more oxygen available to your sells. (Lactic acid is generated when cells produce energy in an anaerobic environment.)

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About Sulfur -

Sulfur is a naturally occurring mineral that is found mostly near hot springs and volcanic craters. It has a distinct "rotten egg" smell, caused by sulfur dioxide gas escaping into the air. As a supplement, sulfur is available in two forms: dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and methylsulfonylmethane (MSM). About 15% of DMSO breaks down into MSM in the body. Both have been touted as treatments for pain.

MSM and DMSO are commonly used in veterinary medicine.

MSM occurs naturally in some plants, such as horsetail; fruits and vegetables; some grains; and milk. MSM is important in joint health and helps form connective tissue -- cartilage, tendons, and ligaments. It may also slow the nerve impulses that transmit pain signals, reducing pain.

DMSO is a chemical byproduct of papermaking and is used as an industrial solvent, as well as for medicine. The Food and Drug Administration has approved DMSO for intravesical use. That means it is instilled in the bladder by a doctor to treat interstitial cystitis. DMSO is also used in creams and taken by mouth for pain and other conditions. Unlike MSM, DMSO is absorbed through the skin.

Never use industrial-grade DMSO as a supplement, because it may contain dangerous impurities. 

You should talk to your doctor before either taking DMSO internally or applying it to your skin.

People also apply sulfur products to the skin to treat acne and other skin conditions.

Mud baths containing sulfur, often called balneotherapy, can help treat skin disorders and arthritis. Balneotherapy is one of the oldest forms of pain relief for people with arthritis. The term "balneo" comes from the Latin word for bath and means soaking in thermal or mineral waters. Some people claim these baths are useful for allergies and respiratory problems.

There are more than 1 million scienece based articles about MSM.

Skin DisordersSulfur baths, and other forms of sulfur applied to the skin, seem to help treat psoriasis, eczema, dandruff, folliculitis (infected hair follicles), warts, and pityriasis versicolor, a long-lasting skin disorder characterized by patches of skin that are a different color from the usual skin tone.
Arthritis

• Balneotherapy --
 Well-designed studies, most conducted in Israel, suggest that balneotherapy can help treat several different kinds of arthritis, including osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and psoriatic arthritis. People who took sulfur baths and other spa therapies improved strength, had less morning stiffness, had better walking ability, and less inflammation, swelling, and pain in joints, particularly in the neck and back. Mud packs and Dead Sea salts dissolved in a regular bath tub also improved symptoms of arthritis, but not as effectively as soaking in the Dead Sea itself.

• MSM --
 MSM is a popular supplement for treating the pain of arthritis, including both OA and RA. But there is not much scientific evidence that it works. One preliminary study suggested that 6,000 mg of MSM did improve pain and function without side effects in people with OA of the knee. Some preparations combine MSM with glucosamine to treat OA. One study suggests that approach might help, but more research is needed to be sure.

• DMSO --
 Several studies suggest that DMSO creams may reduce pain and swelling in people with RA and OA, but not all studies agree. Some find that DMSO is no better than placebo. More research is needed.

Allergic Rhinitis (Hay Fever)One preliminary study showed found that taking 2,600 mg of MSM per day for 30 days reduced symptoms of seasonal allergies. But more and larger studies are needed to see whether there is any real effect.
ShinglesTopical DMSO has been proposed as a treatment to relieve pain and inflammation of shingles (herpes zoster). Some evidence suggests it may reduce the number of lesions and lower inflammation, but more studies are needed.
Interstitial CystitisAlthough research is limited, the FDA has approved DMSO to treat interstitial cystitis, a chronic bladder inflammation that causes frequent and nighttime urination, as well as pain. When DMSO is used to treat interstitial cystitis, a doctor inserts a liquid solution of DMSO directly into the bladder. General anesthesia may be needed because the procedure can be painful and may cause bladder spasms.
AmyloidosisSeveral case reports suggest that DMSO, applied in creams or taken by mouth, may help treat amyloidosis, a condition where protein builds up in the body's organs and damages them. However, because the condition is rare, there are no scientific studies about DMSO and amyloidosis. Take DMSO, or apply it in creams, only with your doctor's supervision.
Dietary Sources:
MSM is found in protein-rich foods such as eggs, meat, poultry, fish, and legumes. Other good sources include garlic, onions, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, kale, and wheat germ.
Available Forms:
Sulfur supplements are available in two main forms: dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and methylsulfonylmethane (MSM).
Healthy people who eat a well-balanced diet don' t usually need extra sulfur. People who follow a vegan diet, however, may be at risk for sulfur deficiency.
Ointments, creams, lotions, and dusting powders containing sulfur are available to treat skin rashes. Natural sulfur baths -- the kind usually found at hot springs -- may help ease pain associated with arthritis.
How to Take It:
PediatricDon' t give sulfur to a child.
AdultThere is no recommended dietary allowance for sulfur. Most people get all they need from their diet.

• Arthritis: Studies have used a dose by mouth of 500 - 3,000 mg MSM per day; or topical doses of a cream or gel with 25% DMSO applied 1 - 3 times per day

• Hayfever: One study used 2,600 mg per day.

• Amyloidosis: Case reports have used a dose by mouth of 7 - 15 g DMSO per day; or, topical doses of 50 - 100% DMSO applied 2 times per week.

Precautions:
Because of the potential for side effects and interactions with medications, you should take dietary supplements only under the supervision of a knowledgeable health care provider.
Researchers believe MSM is safe. However, you should talk to your doctor before taking large doses of this or any other supplement.
Do not take DMSO internally except under your doctor's supervision. Side effects of taking DMSO internally include headache, dizziness, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, or constipation. Used topically, DMSO can cause skin irritation.
If you have diabetes, asthma or liver, kidney or heart conditions, do not use DMSO. Never take industrial-grade DMSO.
DMSO should not be used by pregnant or breastfeeding women.
Possible Interactions:
There are no reports to suggest that MSM interacts with any conventional medications. The only indication I have found is possibly with warfarin or other blood thinning medicine.
However, DMSO may interact with a number of other medications. Talk to your doctor before using DMSO.
Read more: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/sulfur-000328.htm#ixzz1qQrBbxoR

Most Taking Rx for Bone Drugs Quit

Certainly this is no surprise.  Osteoporosis drugs have many problematic and even life threatening side effects. They also require many lifestyle adjustments that after time many people, both men and women, find difficult.  Additionally many are fluoride based which causes the reduction or even ending of the function of osteoclast cells in your body.  Many severe fractures and jaw bone problems are linked to this drug function.



There are more natural things you can do to protect bone health.  And there are many natural approaches to keeping them strong and healthy.


Walking and weight bearing exercise are great!  Learn Tai Chi. Look into Lymphology at IAL.


A healthy diet and the right supplements are great! (Just don't be taking so much calcium.  Generally doctors tell you to take about twice what you need and the wrong type - carbonate).


Get hydrated!


Cut down on exposure to EMF and fluoride as well as other environmental toxins (the DEXA test is one of these and so is your cell phone).


Consider drinking nettle tea.


Consider using homeopathic cell salts.


Get tested for and take vitamin D3. (25 OH test)


Watch soy, it can block calcium, and is too often GMO.


Susan Brown PhD has been writing on this subject for years. Check out her book, Better Bones.

By Frederik JoelvingNEW YORK | Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:27pm EST(Reuters Health) - People with the bone-thinning condition osteoporosis often skip the drugs they are prescribed, and telephone counseling does little to change that, according to new research.
Researchers said osteoporosis is involved in more than two million fractures a year in the U.S., racking up medical costs of $19 billion.
In addition to exercise and a healthy diet with enough calcium and vitamin D, as well as measures to prevent falls, medications may reduce the risk of broken bones -- which can take a serious toll on the health of old people.
For people at high risk, bone drugs such as bisphosphonates may cut the yearly fracture risk from five percent to three percent, said Dr. Daniel Solomon of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
But people often stop taking the medications, added Solomon, also of Harvard Medical School.
"It's the problem with all chronic conditions," he told Reuters Health. "Drugs for asymptomatic chronic conditions are universally poorly adhered to."
Some 10 million Americans currently suffer from bone thinning, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. The majority are postmenopausal women.
Bone drugs include Merck's Fosamax, Roche's Boniva, Novartis's Reclast and Warner Chilcott's Actonel.
To see if they could convince people to take their drugs, Solomon and his colleagues divided more than 2,000 men and women with osteoporosis into two groups.
The participants were all on Medicare, the government's health insurance for the elderly, and got their meds for a co-pay of no more than a few dollars.
All of them received fall-prevention lifestyle tips in the mail from the researchers, and one group also had about eight counseling sessions over the phone.
During those sessions, trained counselors tried to identify why people skipped their drugs and to motivate them to get back on the treatment. The intervention ended up costing about $281 per patient, including training of the counselors.
After one year, there was little difference between the two groups.
Those who got counseling filled their prescriptions 49 percent of the time, while the others did so 41 percent of the time, based on claims data. That gap was too small to be reliable, statistically speaking.
The researchers didn't find any differences in how many people broke a bone or reported falls, either.
According to Solomon, people who skipped their medicine often said they had forgotten about it, didn't like the way it made them feel or didn't think they needed it.
Still, Solomon, whose findings appear in the Archives of Internal Medicine, wasn't willing to give up on counseling.
"It would be overstating the data to say that we should use this. What I'm saying is you don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater," he said. "I think that counseling is something we need to continue to examine."
Researchers have been experimenting with a lot of ways to get people to take their drugs, including beeping pill caps and financial incentives, Solomon added. But the results have often been disappointing.
"At this point there really aren't any proven interventions," he said.
In an editorial, Dr. Seth Berkowitz and Dr. Kirsten Johansen of the University of California, San Francisco, say behavior change is an increasingly important part of medicine as chronic diseases continue rise.
"There is likely no 'magic bullet' in the behavior change arsenal in general or for increasing treatment adherence specifically," they write. "This does not mean, however, that the effects may not be clinically significant."
SOURCE: bit.ly/yMrnv4 Archives of Internal Medicine, February 27, 2012.

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Natural Health News: Chipping you with drugs

Feb 18, 2012

Osteoporosis drugs have many drawbacks. The same drugs have many risks including the risk of very bad fractures and having your jaw bone eaten away (necrosis). For the most part the drugs are fluoride based and cause ...

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Natural Health News: How big is the bang from osteoporosis drugs?

Dec 27, 2011

Researchers asked if “real-world” patients taking bone drugs received the same fracture-reduction benefits seen in the clinical trials. After analysis of hundreds of studies, they found that highly compliant, “real world” patients ...

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Natural Health News: Bone Drugs Cancer Protective?

Feb 03, 2010

New results from a landmark women's health study raise the exciting possibility that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel may help prevent breast cancer. Women who already were using these medicines when ...

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Natural Health News: Bone Loss Problematic, Bone Drugs Risky

Nov 18, 2008

Bone Loss Problematic, Bone Drugs Risky. In January 2008 the FDA issued warnings regarding the class of drugs developed to allegedly help people with osteopenia and osteoporosis. Numerous problems are associated ...

ALL VACCINES ARE CONTAMINATED

"The chief, if not the sole, cause of the monstrous increase in cancer has been vaccination" - Dr. Robert Bell, once Vice President International Society for Cancer Research at the British Cancer Hospital

Experts say families need to take a critical look at vaccines.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Have you been rushing out to get a yearly flu vaccine or diligently taking your children for the 40 or so mandated childhood vaccines?

That's really a shame because you have unwittingly been trading a run-of-the-mill flu or just the measles, for loading up your or your children's bodies with cancer and other deadly viruses, a destructive bacteria, a chemical selected to damage fertility, and with synthetic DNA that threatens to damage your own DNA - the biologic code for your existence.

Who is saying the vaccines are contaminated?


All the vaccines mandated to children and many other vaccines as well, including the seasonal flu vaccines being mandated to health care workers, are contaminated with polysorbate 80, the central ingredient in a pharmaceutical industry patent to damage fertility. 


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Got PAIN? Let Us Help You with Natural and Custom Remedies

This isn't new news.  I've read and re-read articles on this very topic for years and I have yet to see mainstream medicine, CDC, or even Big PhRMA do anything to address this other than a move to control it by and or through legislation (which really has yet to be effective).

I have yet to see a real patient-centered approach used to focus on a person's real needs for pain treatment and a very directed and proactive appraoch to this issue.

See our Natural Pain Relief information linked below or ask us about Health Forensics or customized pain relief remedies.

Painkiller overdose 'epidemic' strikes US
Kerry Sheridan AFP
November 2, 2011

Lethal overdoses from prescription painkillers have tripled in the past decade and now account for more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, US health authorities say. The quantity of painkillers on the market is so high that it would be enough to medicate every American with a standard dose of Vicodin every four hours for one full month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "The unfortunate and in fact shocking news is that we are in the midst of an epidemic of prescription drug overdose in this country. It is an epidemic but it can be stopped," said CDC chief Thomas Frieden. "In fact, now the burden of dangerous drugs is being created more by a few irresponsible doctors than by drug pushers on street corners." The CDC Vital Signs report focused on opioid pain relievers, including oxycodone, methadone and hydrocodone, better known as Vicodin, which have quadrupled in sales to pharmacies, hospitals and doctors' offices since 1999. Last year, 12 million Americans reported taking prescription painkillers for recreational uses, not because of a medical condition. The number of deaths from overdoses of opioid pain relievers has more than tripled from 4000 people in 1999 to 14,800 people in 2008.

The epidemic is at its height among middle-aged white men and American Indians or Alaska natives, the CDC said.

Pain Relief Naturally

Rural and poor areas tend to have the highest prescription drug overdose death rates.

Deaths from prescription drugs made up almost 75 per cent of overdose deaths in which a drug was specified on the death certificate, the CDC said, noting that deaths and hospitalisations have increased in parallel with the boost in supply. The sales rate of the three opioids included in the study reached 7.1 kilograms per 10,000 population last year, or the same as 710 milligrams per person in the United States. "Enough OPR (opioid pain relievers) were prescribed last year to medicate every American adult with a standard pain treatment dose of five milligrams of hydrocodone (Vicodin and others) taken every four hours for a month," the CDC said. Even though a relatively small portion of the US population admits abusing prescription painkillers, the costs to health insurance companies are huge, $US72.5 billion per year, according to the report. States could do a better job of regulating the problem via drug monitoring records and insurance claims information that "can identify and address inappropriate prescribing and use by patients", the report said. More laws targeting so-called "pill mills", which are prescribing at higher than normal rates in particularly affected states, could also cut back on the problem, it said. "State policy can make a huge difference in either controlling or allowing this epidemic to proceed," said Frieden. "States should rigorously monitor who is prescribing and to whom."

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Natural Health News: Hands on Healing for Pain and So Much More

Jul 28, 2011

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Sep 30, 2011

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Sep 29, 2008

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Natural Health News: Chili Counters Pain

Apr 28, 2010

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When you need real help

It is quite clearly established that adverse effects of pharmaceutical drugs cause an estimated 2000+ a day in hospital admissions.
Other research shows that at least 50% of all of these adverse reaction are preventable.
If you are a regular reader of Natural Health News, the original natural news blog, you will know this topic is one we have been covering for years.
Most recently we began offering our very well tested Health Forensics and related services to the public.  i find I have competition for a computer seemingly set up by IBM and a health insurance firm to use in an actuarial approach to decision making in health care.
Currently the US ranks 37-39 out of all industrialized countries for health care.  We are the only country that ties health insurance to employment.  This leaves millions without coverage.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont today help a meeting and discussed poverty in the US and health.  His reports verified what has long been known by health professionals like me: poverty shortens your life because of its impact on your health and nutritional status.
I do not believe this is the United States that people want.
Another medical commentary caught my attention and it is directly related to the serious problem we are facing in mainstream care, or should I say disease management by medicine.

22 false assumptions, practice failures, and everyday clinical errors that we believe are common in modern medical practice:1. Lack of appreciation of the phenomenon of physician persuasion and its hidden power. The placebo effect is scientific, potent, and worthy of use.
2. Lack of understanding of the power of prevalence or pretest probability in the diagnostic process, leading to frequent false positives and "overdiagnosis" of nonexistent diseases.
3. Lack of understanding that many disease processes are gradual and progressive -- not "on or off" signals; analog and not digital. This leads to great confusion about when to diagnose and treat. For example, at what percent stenosis is an artery "diseased" and in need of treatment?
4. Incorrect assignment of reductions in death rates and increasing life expectancy to curative medicine rather than to preventive efforts.
5. Medicine has a tendency to remove many physicians from relying on direct experience and personal observations and replace this with a reliance on indirect information. This leads to an over-reliance on lab and imaging findings by both patients and doctors.
6. Lack of long-term clinical outcome data, stratified by gender and age, leading to an inability to obtain a truly informed consent.
7. The mind-body dichotomy, present since René Descartes in the 1600s, holds erroneously that the mind and body are completely separated. This false separation leads us to believe that the lack of evidence for disease in the body of a symptomatic patient confers a diagnosis of mental disease: Thus the non-helpful statement to the patient, "Don't worry, it's all in your head."
8. Lack of appreciation for what is scientifically established versus what is still in the thought stage of development.
9. A failure of medicine to recognize what it can effectively treat and what it cannot, and admitting that some diseases have no effective treatment.
10. Failure to recognize that the fields of human biology and clinical medicine overlap but do not coexist. Schools of medicine are becoming more schools of human biology and less schools of clinical medicine.
12. Lack of a blood or urine test that can measure mental status. Dementia can be missed in up to 20% of admissions to hospitals.11. Absence of a test that will distinguish well from sick. The lack of a test leads to the erroneous assumption of sickness as the rule of thumb for almost all patients.
13. Lack of full understanding of the intense secondary gain of illness.
14. Fallacy of the first lesion found being assigned importance, whether or not it is the cause of the symptoms.
15. Fallacy of any lesion found being sufficient to explain symptoms.
16. Failure to stop a drug or treatment when it is not helping.
17. Failure to identify what abnormality or test result is to be followed to determine success or not, when someone is being treated.
18. Failure to look for little signs of improvement and stick with the treatment rather than change it too soon.
19. Failure to know a patient well enough to know what their wishes are in terminal or hopeless situations.
20. Failure to recognize and advise the family when a condition or situation is futile and should move to palliation and comfort care.
21. Failure to keep the number of drugs to a minimum.
And, number 22, perhaps the most important to today's society:
22. An exaggerated and unfounded fear of malpractice suits with abdication of professional responsibility just to avoid any chance of being sued.
The above are from George Lundberg MD and Clifton Meador MD and this is sourced from MedPage Today. 

Working as I have in critical care for so many decades I have seen all 22 of these and probably more.

When you need help getting through the quagmire known here as "health care" look to Health Forensics

Also consider that there is recently a move to looking at nutrient status as it relates to health.  Very few offer this although I have been working with nutritional status and health since the 1960s as encouraged by the renowned Dr Hoffer.

Nutrient review and depletions identification as related to pharmaceuticals are key parts of this unique system.

When you are looking for the best, look for Health Forensics.

Half of Americans Have Chronic Disease

This article was interesting to me even though I do not follow FOX News.  It speaks of one reason why we rank so low (37-39) in health care.  It also speaks of the problems with the food products thrown at us by Big AG corporations.

What bothers me more is the disinterest in getting back to good, sound health care like it used to be when it was important to cure people, not just manage their "disease".  Big PhRMA can take a bow for this along with Big Insurance.

This is indicative of why I developed Health Forensics.

More than half of Americans have at least one chronic disease, according to research published Tuesday.
Some 55 percent of people in the U.S. said that they were diagnosed with one or more chronic conditions, compared to 41 percent of people in the UK and 52 percent of Canadians, the results of a survey conducted by business-services firm Deloitte showed.
The international survey, which quizzed people in 12 countries, also found that more Americans rated their overall health as "excellent" or "good" than any other country.
Almost two-thirds (61 percent) of Americans believed they were in "good" or "excellent" health, compared to 55 percent of Canadians and 56 percent of people in the UK.
However, researchers from the Washington-based Deloitte Center for Health Solutions also found that only 16 percent of Americans were satisfied with the performance of their health care system, compared to 34 percent of people in the UK and 32 percent of Canadians.
The data was based on surveys with 15,735 adults in 12 countries worldwide -- the U.S., Canada, China, France, Germany, Brazil, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland, Mexico and the UK.
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Got Drugs?

I don't know which is worse, the downgrade and free fall in the economy or the downfall in health care.  For the life of me I just can't understand why so many in medicine are clinging to dying dictates.

Earlier today I wrote a comment about the problem with soy for menopausal complaints. Every time I read one of these reports I feel the hair rising on the back of the neck on millions of women who are at a disadvantage.  They either don't ask any questions, or they are afraid to ask any questions.

I bet its the fear, but worse are the outrageous responses flowing frequently from the lips of their doctors.

"If soy doesn't work the we can give you SSRIs and/or gabapentin (Neurontin) for your troubles."

You can read this and see my comments -

Soy No Help for Bone Loss, Hot Flashes

And if this doesn't make you mad as hell then how about this one -

Antidepressant Scripts Often Lack Diagnosis

And this one comes from the premier pill pushers, PCPs, and even some shrinks too!

Now maybe you get a sense of why I created Health Forensics and why I'm planning to change course and write crime stories.  

In the interim, I am willing to teach my new method to health care providers, if they think they can handle the heat.

VETS: PTSD Gets No Benefit from Antipsychotic

The one major concern many have is that the reason the Rx fail veterans with PTSD is that the core cause is exposure to depleted uranium in the war zone.

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Our organization has recently worked with some attorneys regarding this issue.

By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

August 02, 2011

Military-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) showed no response to risperidone (Risperdal) for antidepressant-resistant symptoms, data from a multicenter Veterans Affairs study showed.

Risperidone-treated patients had about a four-point greater improvement on a PTSD scale than did those who received placebo, but the difference did not achieve statistical significance.

Detailed analysis showed no significant difference between groups at any point during the six months of follow-up, John H. Krystal, MD, of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, and co-authors reported in the Aug. 3 issue of JAMA. read more

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Natural Health News: Closed Head Injury and PTSD

Sep 10, 2007

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Chantix Risk Rises Again

Natural Health News has been covering Chantix since 2006.  There are at least a dozen articles here that speak to the dangers of this drug.

Now it is announced that there is a risk of PAD and other cardiovascular diseases caused by the drug, and the study shows about 62,000 people are affected.

The report follows an FDA announcement last month that prescribing information for varenicline will be revised to include a warning about an increased risk of second heart attack and peripheral artery disease in people with a history of cardiovascular disease.  SOURCE

If you are interested in stopping smoking using natural options please contact us or Health Forensics. 

Prevention and Health Forensics

Here's a very good example of why Health Forensics was created.

• Natural and nutritional support can prevent hardening of the arteries.
• Thorough evaluation of your medications can identify nutrient depletion that can lead to other health risks and also problems with poly-pharmacy (drug interactions), risky side effects and more.

Autopsy reveals Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage died of natural causes
By Chris Chase
An autopsy revealed that wrestling great Randy "Macho Man" Savage died from heart diseaseand not from any injury sustained in hisMay 20 car crash.The St. Petersburg Medical Examiner's Office found that the 58-year-old had an enlarged heart with hardened coronary arteries. He became unresponsive while driving his Jeep Wrangler on a Florida highway in May and crashed into a tree. While the auto accident left minor cuts and bruises, the heart problems were the official cause of death of the wrestler.

At the time of his death, it was unknown whether the former wrestling star had died because of the heart issue or because the heart issue caused him to crash. The coroner said Savage was found with therapeutic levels of a number of prescribed drugs in his system and that alcohol wasn't a factor. There was no evidence he was taking any heart medication, leading to the assumption that Savage may not have known about his condition.

His wife, Lynn, was riding in the car during the accident. Their Jeep Wrangler flipped over a concrete median into oncoming traffic before skidding into a tree. The couple were married in a beachfront ceremony in 2010.

Born Randy Poffo, the future Macho Man had a brief minor league baseball career before joining the wrestling circuit. He grew to fame in the 1980s with the WWF where his bouts with Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and George "The Animal" Steele made him a star. Advertisements with Slim-Jim and his signature catchphrase, "Ooh yeah!," helped him become a household name.

Adverse Drug Events in Seniors

HEALTH FORENSICS

A new set of criteria for identifying potentially hazardous medications in elderly patients accurately predicted serious adverse drug events, a prospective study found.

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Natural Health News: Overmedicated Society Needs Natural Health

Jun 01, 2011

And in another story that tells you how how hospitals are seriously low in their supply of prescription drugs, you should have your contingency plan. Natural Health is here to help you. ... Our Health Forensics service may be of help to you , or the many of our acclaimed educational programs from The Oake Centre for natural health education. Posted by herbalYODA at 08:12 ·

Avoiding Drug Side Effects

May 29, 2010

Health Forensics offers drug nutrient depletion information and interaction review services. This information is provided by Creating Health Institute through our Health Matters(c) project.

Natural Health News: The Case of a Sequestered Mind

Dec 18, 2010

If this is trouble making then I'm happy to continue providing Health Forensics® to all of the people who depend on me to help them understand the problems and nutritional deficiencies caused by drugs. ...

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The chance of an avoidable adverse event occurring was significantly greater when medication use was evaluated with the criteria known as STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions), with an odds ratio of 1.847 (95% CI 1.506 to 2.264, P<0.001), according to Denis O'Mahony, MD and colleagues from University College Cork in Ireland.
In contrast, use of the traditional Beers criteria did not predict the risk of adverse medication-associated events (OR 1.276, 95% CI 0.945 to 1.722, P=0.11), the researchers reported in the June 13 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The Beers criteria, in use for two decades, are based on two lists of drugs that should not be used in older patients, specifically drugs that should be avoided in all older patients and those that should be avoided in patients with specific conditions.
These criteria have been criticized, however, and studies incorporating them have shown conflicting associations with adverse event outcomes.
The importance of being able to identify the use of potentially inappropriate medications in the elderly, according to the researchers, is that adverse drug events today represent the fifth leading cause of death among people in the U.S.
O'Mahony's group developed and validated the STOPP criteria, which focus on potentially inappropriate medications that are in wide use, incorporating drug interactions and duplications.
According to STOPP criteria, the most commonly used inappropriate medications were:

• Full therapeutic dosage of proton pump inhibitors for longer than eight weeks in patients with uncomplicated ulcers
• Aspirin in patients with no history of coronary, cerebral, or peripheral vascular symptoms or occlusive arterial events

The most common in the Beers set were:

• Short- to intermediate-term benzodiazepines in patients with a history of falls
• Long-term benzodiazepines and tricyclic antidepressants in patients with a history of depression

To compare the overall accuracy of the STOPP and Beers criteria, as well as the ability to identify adverse drug events that lead to hospitalization, the researchers prospectively evaluated 600 consecutive patients, ages 65 and older, admitted for treatment of an acute illness.
Patients' median age was 77, and more than half were women.
They had been prescribed a total of 4,523 medications for a median of seven per patient.
According to the STOPP criteria, 610 potentially inappropriate drugs had been prescribed in 56.2% of patients, compared with 235 potentially hazardous drugs in 28.8% of patients using the Beers criteria.
When the researchers looked at adverse events in the cohort, they identified 329 potentially serious events in 26.3% of patients, with 10.9% being the main cause of patients' hospitalization.
An additional 55.6% of the events were considered to have contributed significantly to the need for hospitalization.
A total of 51.7% of the adverse events related to drugs included in the STOPP criteria, compared with 20.4% for the Beers criteria (P<0.01).
In addition, among the 71.4% of the adverse events considered avoidable, 67.7% were included in the STOPP criteria compared with 28.5% in Beers criteria (P<0.001).
"The present study results indicate that STOPP criteria are more sensitive to [potentially inappropriate medications] that result in [adverse drug events] than Beers criteria and are therefore more clinically relevant," O'Mahony's group stated.
Limitations of the study included the lack of information on over-the-counter drug use and on the duration of use of potentially risky medications.
In the same issue of the Archives, Alessandro Morandi, MD, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and colleagues reported on a prospective cohort study that looked at prescription of medications before and during hospital admission.
Among 120 patients (median age 68), the percentage of patients taking at least one potentially inappropriate medication rose from 66% at admission to 85% at discharge.
Morandi and colleagues also determined that half of these medications were first prescribed in the intensive care unit.
"While it is possible that these drug therapies may be appropriate when started during the course of an acute illness in the ICU (e.g., stress ulcer prophylaxis with H₂ antagonists in mechanically ventilated patients), most should have been discontinued at ICU and/or hospital discharge," they stated.
In an invited commentary, Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, decried the current inadequacy of implementation of available tools for assessing medication safety.
Advances in safe medication use, Schnipper wrote, won't simply be a matter of new technology such as tools that can automatically alert clinicians of potentially inappropriate medications.
"Also required is process redesign that effectively incorporates these tools into work flow, monitors the impact on patient care, and allows for iterative refinement," he argued.
Furthermore, research should focus on "multifaceted interventions in real healthcare settings so that gains in medication safety can be widely and successfully spread," Schnipper concluded.

The STOPP study was supported by The Health Research Board of Ireland and Enterprise Ireland.
All authors and the editorialist had no financial disclosures.
The second study received support from several sources, including the Veterans Administration and the National Institutes of Health. Two contributors disclosed receiving honoraria from Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Hospira, and Aspect.

Primary source: Archives of Internal Medicine
Source reference:
Hamilton H, et al "Potentially inappropriate medications defined by STOPP criteria and the risk of adverse drug events in older hospitalized patients" Arch Intern Med 2011; 171: 1013-1019.

Additional source: Archives of Internal Medicine
Source reference:
Morandi A, et al "Inappropriate medications in elderly ICU survivors: where to intervene? Arch Intern Med 2011; 171: 1032-1034.

Additional source: Archives of Internal Medicine
Source reference:
Schnipper J "Medication safety: are we there yet?" Arch Intern Med 2011; 171: 1019-1020.