Preventive Medicine Specialists Help Patients Reduce Their Risk of Diabetes

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Diabetes is a chronic disease that results from higher than normal levels of sugar in the blood. This occurs as the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin and fat, liver and muscle cells fail to respond properly to insulin that is produced.

Types
There are three different types of diabetes. Gestational is the type that occurs during pregnancy. Type 1 usually occurs during childhood, although it can appear when older. Type 2 diabetes is the common form that usually begins in adulthood due to the pancreas not producing enough insulin for blood glucose levels to stay within normal limits. Because more people are overweight or obese and many people do not exercise enough, type 2 cases are significantly increasing. With statistics showing that more than 40 million Americans have been diagnosed as pre-diabetic and an additional 20 million people having diabetes, preventive medicine can play a major role in reducing these numbers as well as managing cases of existing diabetes to prevent serious complications.

Risk Factors
Although some risk factors cannot be changed such as age, hereditary factors and ethnicity, other risk factors can be changed or prevented. These include not getting enough exercise, being overweight or obese and having high cholesterol.

Symptoms of High Sugar Levels in Blood
Several symptoms can occur when glucose levels become too high in the blood. These include weight loss, fatigue, blurry vision, hunger, excessive thirst and frequent urination.

Preventive Medicine and Diabetes
Using the expert services of a preventive medicine doctor in Colorado, these specialists can help reduce the risks of developing this serious disease. These doctors can also help those who are currently diabetic in assisting them in managing their illness to prevent dangerous complications. Preventive medicine specialists not only write prescriptions, but treat the entire body using preventive measures such as weight loss programs, exercise programs, nutrition therapy and controlling high cholesterol levels. With preventive programs and education, patients can significantly lower their chances of developing this disease. Those who are pre-diabetic can also benefit from these highly trained doctors in controlling their condition and possibly reversing it. Individuals who currently suffer from this disease can expect complete monitoring and management of their illness as well as treating any complications that arise. These doctors provide extensive testing for cholesterol and triglycerides as well as fasting blood glucose level testing and urine analysis. Education can include meal planning & exercise, foot care, self-testing of glucose levels, blood pressure monitoring and properly using medications or insulin. Because there is no cure for this illness, effective treatment involves making lifestyle changes to reduce and prevent diabetes.

Folk Medicine – The Natural Solution

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Long before orthodox medicine took center stage in the health care practices around the world people who were sick used to visit different kind of doctors. These doctors were not the steth-wielding, tech-savvy, white-coated medical geniuses of today. Mostly, they were bearded, wizened and gnarled humans looking less like physicians and more like witches or wizards. But they were revered, loved and even feared because of one particular skill they possessed the healing touch.

In the early days of civilization, a vast majority of people were cut off from formal’ medical care. Competent physicians were a luxury, to be enjoyed only by the super-rich and royalty. For everyone else, there was the local witch-doctor who was respected for his or her in-depth knowledge of folk medicine. This was the man or woman who treated everything from boils to gangrene, from cesarean to malaria and even small pox.

What is astonishing is that many of these so-called doctors’ effectively cured their patients. What is even more interesting is that these medicines have lost none of their charms with the passage of time and more and more of them are finding their rightful place in mainstream medicines.

Remember how your grandma used to give you wild cherry bark for cough, or boil the twigs and leaves of red cedar to cure your cold? Well, that’s folk medicine! If you were to ask your grandma how she learnt those techniques, she’d draw a blank! These unofficial health-related practices were passed on informally by word of mouth and were developed through observation and experimentation.

Illnesses ranging from the common cold and sore throat to warts, cancer, malaria, impotence and arthritis are said to be treated through folk medicine.

Folk medicine largely depended on the use of natural materials such as herbs, plant roots, trees, barks, fruits, insects and food items. Therefore, these practitioners paid a lot of attention to botany.

But the advent of modern medicine saw a decline in folk medicine as these rustic’ practices were put under the microscope, dissected and then discarded as worthless. One more reason contributed to the decline of folk medicine.

Folk medicine started its downward slide with the advent of magical healing powers. Seedy people on the lookout for a few fast bucks were successful in capitalizing on the trust and faith of large sections of the society. Once their ruse came to light, people began to lose faith in folk medicine. Soon folk medicine was relegated to a gray area between orthodox medicine and quackery.

However, as more and more people have started to realize, there is a wealth of knowledge in traditional folk medicine. As people have started adopting the holistic way of life, there is a struggle to re-invent the precious folk medicine of yore. In recent years, the folk medicine of indigenous people is becoming more popular.

Some examples of folk medicines that we use in our daily life are:

Garlic – to reduce blood cholesterol levels
Chinese acupuncture – to treat blood clotting and migraine
The juice of neem leaves – to treat malaria
Poultice – to treat infected wounds

Turmeric – to treat bee or wasp stings

Today, amazingly more than two-thirds of the world’s population rely on the healing powers of folk medicine at some point of their lives. For many nothing else is available or affordable. For some, nothing else is acceptable. And for a very few, nothing else works.

Alternative Medicine and It’s Use in Natural Pain Management

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Chronic Pain conditions are a growing problem in the United States. And while the debate still rages about whether or not chronic pain should be managed as a separate condition or just a symptom of another problem it is clear that pain management has become a booming segment of the healthcare industry.

Consequently, the use of pharmaceutical drugs for pain control has also reached an all time high. Drugs like Oxicontin, Vicodin and methadone, are front page news in causing America’s latest drug crisis, as a result, the use of cocaine and heroin have also reached levels not seen in this country in 30 years.

Due to the economic and scientific phenomena of the pharmaceutical revolution of the 20th century, thousands of years of knowledge were suddenly abandoned. Herbal medicine has safely and effectively treated pain for millennia, and is for safer than the synthesized, processed medications that today’s doctors seem to be all too willing to hand out like so much candy.

In the realm of alternative medicine, there are many forms of natural pain management that are in fact, the basis of where many of our oh-so-popular pharmaceutical drugs come from.

Codeine and morphine are opium derivatives that may be effective but are also highly addictive, and even aspirin is a derivative of willow bark. Many other plants have been used in natural pain management since antiquity, such as lavender and chamomile for minor pain issues and these plants have the added benefit of also assisting with the emotional component of pain such as anxiety and difficulty sleeping. Plants like henbane and mandrake are so effective that they are even used very effectively during labor to ease the pain of childbirth.

Some wonderful and powerful herbal medicine can also be found in the spice cabinet. Spices like turmeric, and ginger are two of the most powerful anti- inflammatories on the planet. These plants are natural COX-2 inhibitors; they are the alternative medicine answer to the popular pharmaceutical drugs Celebrex and Vioxx. In the middle east, India and all over Asia where the diets are rich in spices like turmeric, and ginger and cayenne, where life is also far less convenient then our own, people have a far less occurrence of arthritis and chronic back pain, and continue to work very labor intensive jobs such as farming and agriculture work even into their 90’s.

There has always been an accepted school of thought in allopathic medicine that it is acceptable to injure one part of the body to heal another, thus even common over the counter NSAID pain relievers such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen, can cause long term damage, acetaminophen to the liver and ibuprofen to the kidneys, in natural pain management many plants, roots, barks, and other herbs not only antistetic in nature but they are also anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic as well, and herbal medicine is gentler on the system and is more synergistic with the body allowing for greater absorption of the necessary constitutes.

So you see that alternative medicine goes beyond the typically accepted ideal of treating just the symptoms and goes farther to treat many of the underlying causes as well as some of the other components involved in chronic pain conditions.

Chinese Medicine for my toddler Really

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The past two weeks have been rough for our 3 year old. Naps and bedtimes have rendered her a killer diaper rash. You know the kind Im talking about: you put them to bed or down for a nap with a soft little peachy bum and they wake with raging red blisters and you feel like Mother of the Year. The poor thing has had moments where its tough to walk because shes so sore.

What We Have Done

Ive been around the block a few times when it comes to raising babies, so a diaper rash isnt something that gets me down, but this is ridiculous. I have gone through rash creams, we have done muscle testing and eliminated foods giving her difficulty (corn, wheat, dairy, chocolate, brown and white rice). We know there is no yeast issue, nor is there an infection, parasite, or bug present in her gut, which is simply down right inflamed. I have bathed her twice daily, let her run around naked and even attempted to extract breast milk while hand pumping to pat on her behind. Once I eliminated offending foods, she cleared up after one week. Then, because I am human and allowed myself to get frazzled, I mistakenly gave her a piece of sprouted wheat toast instead of gluten free toast and within two days the raging rash was back again. Now, experience tells me it will take up to a week to clear up, and the peanut will hardly let me wipe her tush.

My Light Bulb Moment-Yesterday

This morning, in between seeing clients, I thought to ask the acupuncturist at the studio I work out of what she thought of diaper rashes. Her feedback was fascinating. She gave me a list of foods that would be cooling to her system as the heat in her body is trying to escape and through wee ones it comes through their mouths or behinds. We talked about the foods I have eliminated and why thats important on the level of eastern medicine and decided to use acupressure beads to help alleviate the rash by balancing out the heat in her body. I have had experience with these beads and they are just little tiny beads that stick to your skinears are the typical location for these as they correlate with different places on your body, and they work really well. Now, Ill step away from this and report back tomorrow.

My Light Bulb Moment-Today

WOW. Not only is she more grounded and happy today, but her little hind end has gone from raging red to dark pink with no use of any rash cream since the acupressure beads. Where her skin was “open” there is now dry skin peeling away and her hot red hives have decreased in size. She is completely excited about her “buttons”, the little moxa seeds that are used for the acupressure beads, and happily shows off and “pushes my buttons” as told to do by our acupuncturist. All in all, what an awesome experience. I would never have guessed that my three year old would have sat patiently for the three minutes it took to place each bead, but it didnt take long for her to excitedly remove her thick wool socks to let us see her sweaty pink toes for proper placement of the beads on her feet. With just a handful of tiny beads on her feet, legs, tummy and ears, I am seeing a little one way more at peace than she was yesterdayand that equals one happy mama!

How Can Micro-chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Help Patients Eliminate Hematuria

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After the symptom of persistent Hematuria appears, some patients of Chronic Renal Disease went to many doctors for treatment, for fear of the disease developing into Uremia. When the disease improves, like hematuria is gone, however, because of a sudden cold, fever and fatigue, the symptoms may appear again. Everything just returns to the start point. In this way, the vicious circle goes over and over again.

How can Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Eliminate Hematuria?

As we all know, the main cause of having red blood cells in urine is the increase of permeability caused by damaged glomerular filtration membrane. Western medical treatment only focuses on improving the symptoms, but has weak pertinence in the recovery of glomerular filtration membrane. Even if the occult blood decreases or disappears for a period of time, no underlying problems are solved, and the glomerular filtration membrane is not recovered. With the disappearance of medicine effects or other causes, occult blood will occur again.

The micronized Chinese medicine has stronger drug activity. It made full use of the advantages of Chinese medicine: to have a permanent cure, and make a second link of the cracked molecular Chinese medicine, which formed a new function. At the same time, contraposing the damaged glomerular basement membrane, it can remove the immune complex and pathological tissues, and then recover the damaged basement membrane. This therapy is to recover the damaged pathological renal gene and cellules neoplasiques, activate the reproduction of DNA in the damaged histocyte, impel the change of renal structure, and recover the damaged renal function. As the permanent cause was removed, the occult blood will gradually decrease and disappear, which would disappear with the elimination of pathogeny, so, there would be little possibility of repeated outbreak or rebound after drug withdrawal.

Therefore, in terms of Hematuria treatment caused by renal disease, the key lies in effecting a permanent cure, which means to recover the damaged basement membrane, or rather deceived by the superficial phenomenon, chasing the figures on test reports. Only in this way can we achieve the treatment effect in the true sense.

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