Archive for the ‘Treatments’ Category

8 Part Antiaging & Restorative Medicine Series

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Coming up soon - an 8 part blog series on the latest in antiaging and restorative medicine.

Over the past few years there have been signficant advances in restorative medicine, and longer term findings on the various approaches to antiaging medicine and wellness.

This series will focus on different protocols such as: Caloric restriction – just what personal impact does it have on longevity Restorative medicine – how they grow your own replacement body parts in just a few weeks Oxygen therapy – a new use for old technology ….and many more.

Don’t miss out on this update series that gives you all the information on how to add decades to your life.

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Best Time of Day?

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Ever wondered the best time of day for taking your meds, having surgery, getting a bikini wax, going to the Doctor, having a root canal or just a taking a power nap….then this article just might give you the answer: Check it out

Athritis Suffers Find Comfort in Weight Loss

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Studies found that people with knee osteoarthritis experienced less pain and disability simply by losing weight:

  • A 5 per cent weight loss was enough to ease problems
  • A 10 percent weight loss resulted in ‘moderate to large’ improvements in physical ability

All good news for sufferers of this painful joint condition.  Researchers suggest suffers of arthritis lose 10 percent of their weight in a period of two months to gain the most benefit. Since mobility is often a problem for such patients, the emphasis must be on food intake. Once the pain starts to ease, and mobility improves, exercise will help with further weight loss

Age Defying Human Biological Programming

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

In David Louis Edelman’s novel ‘Infoquake’ nanotechnology is injected into the human body to act as a carrier for programs that can be activated on demand to control emotions, to assist the host to sleep or stay awake, and the receive communications and partake in a virtual world, without external viewing interfaces. The process was coined ‘Human Biological Programming or Bio-Logic.

Human biological programming is an emerging medical science being heralded as the future to the self healing human. In reading through the programs used in Infoquake, it is hard not to ask oneself, are these not the very mechanisms that the body is designed to control itself, through our hormonal and neurological pathways. Could it be that living is evolving faster than life. The human body is not keeping up with the demands that merely existing in the world are placing upon it. Could it be that this accounts for the number of people who are:

  • Obese
  • Emotionally stressed
  • Physically wearing out
  • Sleep deprived
  • And so on

All biological systems exhibit adaptation and robustness in dealing with widely changing environments. By adopting these properties of biological systems, the medical world is aiming to design systems that operate adequately even in the presence of ‘catastrophic failures and large scale attacks’. Sort of like a utility system that can detect, repair and restore, akin to that of modern computers. Just as computers have built in fault tolerance, so too does the human body. However, when the level of toxins in our human environment escalate beyond the level with which our bodies can resolve on a daily basis, as residual of toxins builds up in the body, and illness follows. Back to our computer analogy, the same thing occurs in a PC. Every day, small indiscernible flaws build up in the operating system and memory, and in spite of regular cleansing and defrag programs, the hard drive is eventually deemed ‘corrupt’. At this point the only remedy is a complete reformat, and reload of programs. Biological programs could well act in the same capacity – allowing for mini restorations as our bodies become contaminated in any number of ways.

Big Jump in Cancer Treatment Efficiency

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Two big improvements in breast cancer treatment make for one big jump in cancer therapy efficicency.

Molecular Dye

An Australian scientist has developed a test that detects within days whether chemotheraphy is actually killing a patient’s cancer cells, allowing doctors to prescribe alternative, less debilitating treatment earlier. Injected molecular dye attaches to dying or dead cancer cells, within 24 to 48 hours of the patient’s first dose of chemotheraphy or radiotherapy. The dye illuminates the dying and dead cancer cells, visible on CT scan imaging. Currently, cancer patients need to wait up to six months to determin if a tumor has been reduced. All the while, the full chemotheraphy course is killing off healthy cells as well as canccer cells.

Partial Breast Cancer Irradiation

The second new treatment allows women diagnosed with breast cancer to reduce the time needed for radiation treatment from five weeks to five days!!

MammoSite RTS is a form of partial breast irradiation, which delivers radiation from inside the lumpectomy cavity directly to the tissue surrounding the cavity where cancer is most likely to recur.

Two or three weeks following removal of the cancerous tumor, an uninflated MammoSite balloon is placed in the center of the lumpectomy cavity through a small incision in the breast. The balloon is inflated with a saline solution and remains inflated throughout therapy. A catheter connected to a computer-controlled machine delivers a tiny radioactive seed travels into the center of the balloon. The seed delivers irradiation to the tumor site and the area immediately surrounding the cavity for a maximum of 10 minutes.

After five days of MammoSite radiation therapy twice a day, the balloon is deflated and removed from the breast. This compares with current standard treatment of five days a week for five to six weeks.

Agrimseng – Cancer Cure!

Friday, July 6th, 2007

I was just reading an account of a NZ women who used the five-herb and plant based extract, Agrimseng in an effort to cure her incurable lymphatic cancer.

Agrimseng

Agrimseng is designed as a dietary supplement used before, during and after medical surgery or treatment to aid recovery. It is not intended to treat or cure, although studies have demonstrated it’s longevity effectiveness. Agrimseng assists with good health, wellness and cell function using key ingredients:

  • Ginseng – supports pituitary and adrenal function
  • Shitake mushroom – supports immune system and energizes immune response
  • Asparagus – a powerful antioxidant
  • Souther Ginseng – healthy immune system
  • Wolfberry – rich in amino acids
  • Minerals, fatty acids and vitamins

This recipe was the result of worldwide studies covering 400 herbs and plants with known anti-cancer properties.

Patient Case Study

Joyce, a middle aged woman, was diagnosed with incurable lymphatic cancer in 2001. By 2004 the pelvic tumor had grown to such a size she looked around 6 months pregnant. She agreed to a trial of Agrimseng late in 2004 and after 9 months of treatment could recognise a definite reduction in the size of the tumor. Six months later it was gone completely. No other treatment was administered during this time that could impact the tumor in this positive way.

To find out more on Agrimseng

If you have other cases of positive outcomes from herbal treatments, we would love to hear from you in comments below.

Nicola

The Gym Sweat Facial

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

With fast pace and convenience the foundation of lifestyles today, it is no surprise that someone would come up with a facial you can have whilst working out at the gym.

When we workout out intensively, and sweat, we lose nutritional skin salts in this sweat.

To prevent this loss, Dr Rosy Fenwicke, New Zealand, developed the Gym Facial, a non-oil based skin cream absorbed into the skin to act as a barrier preventing the leaching of these skin salts during sweating.

Dr Fenwicke says that the only element in the ‘cream protected sweat’ is water and suggests that our natural sweat should be rubbed back into the skin to return the lost salts.

Well that should appeal to the male blokes who refuse to use cosmetic creams!

Nicola

Using Weight Training To Prevent Osteoporosis

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Osteoporosis is far too accepted as being inevitable.  Sure, loss of calcium from the bones increases as we age – but rather than just accept it, why not look at why it happens and do something to prevent it.

People do not do anything about osteoporosis until it becomes a problem. Yet it never needs to BE a problem. It has been scientifically proven in multiple studies that weight training prevents osteoporosis. So if osteoporosis is an issue for you – then add this it to your fitness goals

“Aim to not lose ANY bone density”

So how does weight training work to prevent osteoporosis? (more…)

Fitness Reduces Negative Effects of Menopause

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Until recently it was believed that there were no positive beneftis associated with increased physical fitness and menopause. However, recent study results now show the physical activity may help ease symptoms and increase quality of life during menopause.

About 1.5 million American women reach menopause each year, at an average age of 52. Between 80 to 85 percent of these women experience symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, irritability, anxiety or emotional instability.

Both aerobic walking and anaerobic yoga classes provide a better quality of life and reduced negative effects of menopause compared to not exercising. Improvements include mood and physical improvements.

Cardiorespiratory fitness has the greatest impact on helping women cope with menopause with the least unpleasant symptoms. This has positive mental health and quality of life outcomes.

Fitness improvements either directly or indirectly impact the symptoms of menopause, and should be regarded as an integral part of menopause medical interventions.

The Society of Behavioral Medicine. http://www.sbm.org

Be Wise About Health & Beauty

Monday, January 29th, 2007

With the launch this week of the consumer education campaign “Be Wise About Beauty” by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS), I thought I would add my support.

This campaign aims to update the consumer on the facts about cosmetic surgery. This includes patient safety and qualifications of practitioners. How well do you know your medical practitioners?

I don’t know about you, but the look of my doctor or health practitioner means something to me. If they don’t look healthy and fit themselves, I don’t feel confident that they are in a position to dictate my health and fitness.

Okay, I can accept the elements of age and illness contributing to appearances, but you can usually tell whether a person smokes, whether they drink too much, whether they keep themselves fit. The other elements in my decision are:

  • I expect that most doctors have the requisite medical certification – although it pays to check what’s hanging on the wall.
  • What am I seeking advice on. I go to my General Practitioner for general health issues, but I consult with my health store owner on alternative medicines, my pharmacy on drug related information and I seek out specialists in areas like endocrinology for any hormonal factors.
  • If I need emergency treatment at an accident clinic, I don’t take much notice as to other advice they feel inclined to offer. I listen, but I don’t give it a lot of weight. I am not there for my total health; I am only there because I cut my foot of whatever.
  • Attitude to alternative medicine and health supplementation. This is still a hot area with many medical practitioners. For many years my Doctor did not support taking supplementary vitamins. I believed in them, so I just didn’t discuss it with her. If they added no benefit, no harm done. Out of interest, she has recently come out supporting them. I also believe in alternative therapies, used in conjunction with prescribed medicine. It is purely a personal position. I do not support replacing highly effective prescription drugs with unproven alternative remedies. I also do not support Doctors opinions based on the fact that an alternative treatment is not medically sound just because it hasn’t got FDA approval. With the cost of getting such approval, I expect a lot of extremely powerful remedies won’t come onto the prescription list.

With the Internet providing so much accessible information on health and beauty there is no excuse not to be informed about anything in this area.

You get the picture – its ultimately up to you to manage your own health. And cosmetic surgery is an area where the health and safety factors are too often passed aside by patients, being overpowered by the lure of the pleasing appearance results they are aiming for.

Fortunately, most Cosmetic surgeons view patient safety as their number one priority, and hope that the campaign will encourage all consumers to make smart, educated choices when it comes to beauty.

Be Wise About Beauty Website

As part of the campaign an interactive Web site at http://www.bewiseaboutbeauty.org offers a suite of tools designed to educate patients and prospective patients about cosmetic surgery, including

  • Information about specific procedures
  • What to look for when choosing a cosmetic surgeon
  • Sample questions patients should ask a cosmetic surgeon
  • Myths and facts about cosmetic surgery
  • An interactive ‘Beauty Monitor’ quiz to help determine whether cosmetic surgery is the right choice.

About Be Wise About Beauty

The American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS) launched Be Wise About Beauty to arm patients with the facts about cosmetic surgery, patient safety and the qualifications of practitioners so they can make informed decisions about cosmetic enhancement.

Be Wise About Beauty Website  

The American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery

Nicola