Chronic Diseases and Chronic Illnesses

by Howard Jamison on January 21, 2012

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I assume you landed on this site because you are looking for answers regarding various health conditions – especially chronic diseases.

You may not be aware that the USA and New Zealand are the only countries in the world that allow drug Ads on television! So we are bombarded day and night by Ads from pharmaceutical companies. Most people would not need to take them if they just did their homework and discovered what the real facts are. By changing your lifestyle and nutritional habits, you should be able to avoid taking drugs.

We provide the truth about pharmaceutical companies and offer alternative and integrative medicine solutions, especially as it relates to chronic illnesses. See chronic disease definition.

Take a look at the Products section to get solutions to specific chronic disease conditions.

And here is our Favorite Books section.

Also, we have a section on Heroes in Alternative Health – People who have “stuck their neck out” to go against the current mainstream thinking. Most of these people have suffered in one way or another because of it.

Join our Membership Area – We provide additional answers you will not find any where else to obtain optimal health. Join Membership

Don’t wait until you have a chronic disease or illness such as cancer – act now!
Learn how you can prevent or overcome chronic disease and illness without drugs and have optimal health.



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The Grand Unified Theory of Mind-Brain Function

by Howard Jamison on January 24, 2012

After nearly 4 decades of practicing complementary/alternative, integrative and holistic medicine and psychiatry, and carefully assessing (and “curing”) many thousands of patients with in-depth, functional medicine testing and genomics (gene testing), Dr C.E. Gant is happy to present the culmination of his life’s work – The Grand Unified Theory of Mind/Brain Function.

The philosophical approach to his work and research has always been science based, and has tended to downplay proposed panaceas for the world’s ills as poppycock. After all, the human being is composed of roughly 200 trillion cells, each having 50 million chemical reactions per second. We have 6 feet of DNA per cell, which if unraveled and stretched out and connected end-to-end, calculates to 10s of billions of miles of DNA per person.

When malfunctioning, how could anything so marvelous and complex be reduced to simplistic notions of one cure fits all. Panaceas are extraordinary claims and they must be supported by
extraordinary evidence to be taken seriously.

For the first time in his life, he may have found the panacea.

He says “may have” since it has only taken one ugly fact to destroy the most beautiful theories ever proposed. But so far, The Grand Unified Theory of Mind/Brain Function appears to subsume all approaches to healing within one model. And all attempts to discover fatal flaws in this model have so far failed.

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Alternative Medicine Treatments in Psychiatry

by Howard Jamison on January 21, 2012


Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments in Psychiatry

By Dan Stradford, Garry Vickar, Christine Berger, and Hyla Cass

With the public’s increased interest in and use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments, physicians find themselves being questioned more frequently by their patients about non-pharmaceutical options and wellness-oriented therapies.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments in Psychiatry gives the mental health practitioner a solid introduction into the philosophy behind CAM approaches as well as a broad array of evidence-based CAM therapies that are increasingly finding their way into patient treatment plans with positive results.

The book is available at no cost here: Alt-Med-Treatments-Psychiatry.pdf



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Paula Deen is The New Poster Girl For Diabetes Drugs

by Howard Jamison on January 17, 2012

This posting is a rant about more drugs being pushed by entertainers with the latest being Paula Deen – “The Queen of Southern Cuisine”. She recently admitted to having Diabetes 2 and is promoting Victoza® (produced by Novo Nordisk), an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar (glucose) in adults with type 2 diabetes.

With her past unhealthy cooking and eating she has brought on this condition and now she will no doubt make more money by promoting a drug!

Don’t be duped. In almost all cases, Diabetes 2 can be prevented without drugs.

Victoza Drug Side Effects

In animal studies, Victoza® caused thyroid tumors—including thyroid cancer—in some rats and mice. It is not known whether Victoza causes thyroid tumors or a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in people which may be fatal if not detected and treated early. Also, inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) may be severe and lead to death. The drug may cause nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea leading to dehydration, which may cause kidney failure.

Why would you take this drug when you can make simple changes??

Type 2 Diabetes

The most common form of diabetes is type 2 diabetes. About 90 to 95 percent of people with diabetes have type 2. This form of diabetes is most often associated with older age, family history of diabetes, obesity and physical inactivity. About 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.

When type 2 diabetes is diagnosed, the pancreas is usually producing enough insulin, but for unknown reasons the body cannot use the insulin effectively, a condition called insulin resistance. After several years, insulin production decreases.

The symptoms of type 2 diabetes develop gradually. Symptoms may include fatigue, frequent urination, increased thirst and hunger, weight loss, blurred vision, and slow healing of wounds or sores. Some people have no symptoms.

2 Simple Lifestyle Changes to Reduce your Risk of Diabetes

Reduce your risk of diabetes by following these two steps:

1- Greatly reduce all sugar – especially fructose (and totally eliminate all soda pop) and eat a balanced meal that includes healthy carbs, fats and protein.
2- Exercise – walk 30 minutes a day

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The Smarter Science of Slim Book Review

by Howard Jamison on January 16, 2012

I was privileged to be offered an advanced copy of a book to review: The Smarter Science of Slim. The author, Jonathan Bailor, did an excellent job of reviewing massive amounts of research to separate fact from fiction regarding diets and weight control.

He stated: I have spent over ten years reading thousands of fat loss studies. Not gurus’ theories. Not what magazines say. Not what TV tells us. Not what marketers promote. Not what everyone else does. Not even the opinions of doctors whose specialties have nothing to do with fat loss. Only the proven data. Just the facts.

When I was Director of Program Development at SyberVision in the ’80s, our best selling product was The Neuropsychology of Weight Control and it was based on the “Set Point” theory. (see sybervision.com/npwc/index.htm) This book also talks about the set point theory but has gone another step beyond and brought new information to the table.

The author puts forth an interesting concept about “Hormonal Clog” and also the use of SANE eating and the quality of foods as opposed to inSANE foods.

Being smarter is the key to success. By eating more — but higher-quality food — and exercising less — but with higher-quality, we provide our body a unique combination of nutrition and hormones which reprograms it to behave more like the body of a naturally thin person. Our body starts burning — instead of storing fat.

There were a couple of “eye opening” charts he used to illustrate the profitability in foods and also how the tobacco industry is taking over the food industry. See the charts below (permission granted by the author):

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Autoimmune Disease Psoriatic Arthritis Solved With Functional Medicine

by Howard Jamison on January 16, 2012

Autoimmune diseases collectively affect up to 23.5 million Americans. Classifying autoimmune diseases based on symptoms and pathology does not usually improve treatment decisions. Standard treatments include NSAIDs and steroids. These tools have significant risks and are often applied regardless of the diagnosis. Frequently, they are only modestly effective in relieving symptoms and limiting the advancing disease process.

Despite the extensive categorization of autoimmune diseases into diagnoses such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, nephritis, and scleroderma, the treatments are based on diagnosis and not the cause. The conventional approach to autoimmune disease seeks to answer the question of WHAT disease the patient has, not WHY the patient has the disease, suggesting only small variations in treatment.

Functional medicine considers the diagnosis, of course, but also seeks to answer the question WHY. The cause of any disease may be different in people with the same diagnosis. Conversely, the cause may be the same in patients with very different pathologies—for example, mercury toxicity is found in both multiple sclerosis and Crohn’s disease.

Approaches to treatment, therefore, will vary when the upstream causes and downstream effects differ from patient to patient. Treating only the downstream effects (such as nutrient deficiencies or food sensitivities due to malabsorption and intestinal hyperpermeability) without treating the upstream causes (such as gluten sensitivity, gastrointestinal yeast, or mercury toxicity) will often result in treatment failure.

5 Factors That Cause Disease

Focusing on the patient’s individual etiology or cause of autoimmune disease provides a personalized framework for diagnosis and treatment. There are 5 primary etiologic factors that affect gene expression and give rise to nearly all disease, including autoimmune disease: toxins, allergens, infections, poor diet, and stress.

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