Basic cause of anxiety is the arrival at the brain of more nervous impulses than can be properly sorted out by the brain. In other words, there is incomplete integration of the impulses. A good sleep helps the brain in reaching this integration. We go to bed tense with anxiety, and wake refreshed and with things clearer in our mind after a good night’s rest. Sleep then is a help in the integration of the inflow of nervous impulses. But a regressed state of mind is very much more effective in this respect than is sleep. This is clearly shown by the fact that people with severe chronic anxiety may be given drugs to make them sleep well; but anxiety of any severity is not relieved by this means. However, these people usually lose their anxiety if they can be brought to a regressed state of mind, and if they practise this consistently, the condition is gradually alleviated. In other words, the regressed state of the relaxing exercises aids the integration of the impulses arriving at the brain, and so reduces the general level of anxiety.

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I have a recent newspaper clipping before me. An Associated Press correspondent reports from a medical conference, held in October, 1966 in San Francisco:

The president of the National Arthritis Foundation, Dr. William S. Clark, says medical science will, within a relatively short time, be able to pinpoint the causes of arthritis. It could come, he said, within ten years… Discovery of the causes of arthritis will provide the key to the cure of this disease.”

That statement sums up the present stand of orthodox medicine in relation to arthritis. Medical researchers admit that they do not know what causes arthritis and, consequently, do not know how to cure it.

Biological medicine takes a much more hopeful stand on the problem of arthritis.

Although in all fairness it must be admitted that the final answers to the exact nature and the mechanics of the disease could not be pinpointed in detail in every case of arthritis, the empirical and practical experience of biological therapies and their positive results show that arthritis is caused by a metabolic disorder in the body. The distorted or disordered metabolism, in turn, is affected by health-destroying environmental factors, including faulty nutrition, overeating, emotional and physical stresses, sedentary life, etc.

The prevalent observation of practitioners is that the arthritic patient usually suffers from general deterioration of health in the form of sluggishness in the vital functions of his organs; incomplete digestion and assimilation of foods; impaired elimination of metabolic wastes and toxins from the system; a weakened nervous system and circulation; etc. These systemic disturbances affect the biochemical structure of the various tissues of the body. One of the pioneer practitioners of biological medicine in the United States, Dr. R. P. Watterson, M.D., calls the result of such a systemic disturbance a “biochemical suffocation.”

One of the most characteristic pathological changes observed in rheumatoid arthritis is the degenerative changes in collagen. The changes in collagen—the connective tissues of the body, the intercellular cement—are affected by biochemical changes brought about by metabolic disorders or nutritional deficiencies. The resultant accumulation of the fibrous tissue in the joints and the accumulation of toxic wastes and mineral deposits completes the picture of a fully developed arthritis.

The reasons for the pathological degenerative changes in the tissues leading to crippling arthritis can be found in a number of man’s environmental factors. Some of these are: allergic reactions; results of severe stress or injuries to the joints or related soft tissues; various kinds of infections; etc. However, by far the most important causative factor in arthritis is civilized man’s general deterioration of health and his diminished resistance due to faulty nutrition: overeating, malnutrition due to devitalized diet, vitamin-mineral-hormone deficiencies, etc. In addition to nutrition, other negative factors in man’s environment contribute to diminished vitality and general deterioration of his health. Sedentary life with its resultant impaired circulation and anoxia; constipation; smoking and drinking; contaminated air and water; emotional and physical stresses; lack of adequate rest—all these contribute to man’s bodily deterioration.

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Occasionally the shivering associated with high fever, particularly frequent in infections of the urinary tract, may be confused with a convulsion.

Night terrors-These episodes are common in children between the ages of 5 and 10 years and frequently worry parents. Typically a child who has been in bed, asleep for 1-3 hours will waken suddenly, screaming. The child will be sitting up in bed, wide-eyed and unresponsive; they cannot be comforted. Within a minute or so, the child will lie down, turn over, and go back to sleep. There is no memory or recollection of the event the next morning. Reassurance (of the parents) is all that is required.

Rage attacks/outbursts of temper-Bizarre, semi-purposeful behaviour and confusion may rarely be part of a complex partial seizure arising from a temporal lobe. However, violent behaviour or uncontrolled rage are almost never a type of epileptic seizure. They are usually provoked by someone or something, even though the cause may be trivial.

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A STUDY ON DOSE EFFECTIVENESS AND PATIENT RESPONSE-SUMMARY

The results of this study lead to several conclusions regarding its five principal objectives:

1.) Optimum dosage levels appear to be equal for all three types of arthritis investigated: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and reactive psoriatic arthritis. This is evidenced by the gradual return of minor arthritis symptoms in several of those treated with only 16 or 24 capsules, and no regression in those treated with 50 capsules in two series separated by one week without treatment.

2.) Dosage level requirements appear to be equal irrespective of the severity of the subject’s condition.

3.) Initial response time for minor improvement appears to vary from two to seven days irrespective of the severity of the subject’s condition.

4.) The time for maximum attainable response appears to vary from seven to twenty-one days, resulting in 70% to 100% overall improvement. (Apart from this study, three of the most severely afflicted subjects were treated again after a five week interval, resulting in an additional 10% to 20% overall improvement.)

5.) The two non-responding subjects both proved to have suffered previous damage to the liver from steroid or alcohol abuse, indicating that impaired liver function may preclude success with this protocol.

In addition, it was evident that for many subjects the relief of inflammation resulted in marked improvement in joint deformation.

It is important to note that the substance utilized for oral administration in this study, CMO, was not an unmodified cetylmyristoleate, but the unique form of cetylmyristoleate

(cerasomal-cis-9-cetylmyristoleate) – produced using cerasomal techniques to give it a high level of bioavailability when taken orally. Free cetylmyristoleate liquid has very low levels of bioavailabilty orally, and is best utilized only as an injectable.

This study was conducted at the San Diego Clinic, Chula Vista, California, and several additional sites following a model prepared by the San Diego Clinic.

Note: This is the first ever human clinica study conducted, and it was done using only authentic CMO. We have seen promotional literature for other products referring to our study as if it applied to their products. It does not. Any such claim is fraudulent and we do not hesitate to take legal action against such criminal trickery.

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Symptoms: hoarseness, dry, hacking cough, scratchy throat, low-grade fever.

Home care

Use a vaporizer in the child’s room.

Give the child warm drinks.

Give aspirin or paracetamol to reduce fever and relieve pain.

A nonprescription expectorant cough remedy may relieve a troublesome cough.

A child with laryngitis should be discouraged from talking.

Precautions

-    If laryngitis is accompanied by breathing difficulty, the child should see a doctor.

-    A cough along with climbing fever and breathing difficulty may indicate inflammation of the epiglottis. This is a medical emergency; take the child to the doctor at once.

-    If laryngitis persists, the doctor may have the child see an ear, nose, and throat specialist.

Laryngitis is an inflammation of the voice box (larynx). It is closely related to croup but, unlike croup, it isn’t associated with breathing difficulties. Laryngitis is almost always due to a respiratory virus, and may last from a day to a couple of weeks.

Signs and symptoms

Signs of laryngitis are hoarseness, dry hacking cough, and scratchy throat, sometimes accompanied by low-grade (37.8°C) fever. Diagnosis is based on the typical symptoms of hoarseness and dry cough unaccompanied by breathing difficulty.

Home care

Use a vaporizer in the child’s room. Give your child warm drinks. Encourage the child not to try to talk. Give aspirin or paracetamol for fever or pain, and a nonprescription expectorant cough remedy for temporary relief of cough.

Precautions

• If any breathing difficulty arises, notify a doctor.

• If a child has a climbing fever and difficulty breathing, he or she may have an inflammation of the epiglottis (the structure in the back of the throat that prevents food from entering the larynx and windpipe). Inflammation of the epiglottis is a medical emergency; take your child to a doctor promptly.

Medical treatment

The doctor will verify a diagnosis of laryngitis and rule out other conditions by physical examination of the child. The doctor may take a throat culture and a complete blood count. If laryngitis persists your doctor my X ray the child’s chest and neck or refer you to an ear, nose, and throat specialist.

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Approximately 80 percent of the cholesterol in your body was made in your liver, so it makes sense to take good care of it. If your liver is healthy, you should have a healthy cholesterol level. The amount of cholesterol we consume in our diet has very little effect on our blood cholesterol. The liver primarily converts excess calories from carbohydrates and sugar into cholesterol and triglycerides. Therefore, an excess of sugar and carbohydrate in the diet is one of the most common reasons why people develop a fatty liver. Trans fats are also responsible for the development of fatty liver disease; these are unnatural, twisted fats that our liver doesn’t know what to do with. They can end up clogging your liver with unhealthy fat.

In modern times fatty liver disease has become extremely common, with approximately 20 percent of the population affected. You can find out if you have a fatty liver through the use of a liver ultrasound, a blood test called a liver function test, and just by observing if you carry excess weight on your abdominal area, especially the upper abdomen. If you need more specific information about fatty liver disease and how to reverse it, please see the book “The Liver Cleansing Diet”.

The liver is the cleanser and filter of the bloodstream; if you were to look at it under a microscope it really is built like a sieve. Your liver is responsible for keeping your bloodstream as clean as possible. Every chemical and toxin you are exposed to ultimately ends up in your liver. Whether it was something you inhaled, rubbed on to your skin, ate, or toxins that were generated in your own body; each of these are taken to your liver for detoxification. The liver attempts to change these toxins into a water-soluble form so that they can be excreted in watery fluids like the bile, urine, perspiration, and through the breath.

If you have a fatty liver, you surely have an excess of toxins stored there. Most toxic substances in our body are fat soluble, and an excess of fatty tissue in the liver will mean an excess of toxins. Many people with fatty liver disease have raised liver enzymes, this means that there is excessive inflammation in their liver, and as a consequence liver cells are being damaged. These inflammatory chemicals and toxins will spill out into the bloodstream and place a great deal of stress on the immune system. Remember that it is the liver that produces C-reactive protein when there is an excess of inflammation in the body; C-reactive protein is one of the biggest risk factors for heart disease we know of.

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Selenium is a mineral. As an antioxidant, it protects you against highly reactive chemical fragments called free radicals. These free radicals have been linked to cancer, coronary heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and premature ageing. They speed up the ageing process by destroying healthy cells as well as attacking collagen (the ‘cement’ that holds cells together), which is found in bone, cartilage and connective tissues like skin.

Free radicals are created when oxygen becomes unstable during normal biochemical reactions in the body. They can also be formed by other sources, such as fried, blackened or barbecued food, radiation, exhaust fumes and smoking.

Antioxidants, such as selenium, are essential in your diet because they can disarm these harmful free radicals. With its protective effect, selenium can prevent chromosome breakage, which is known to be a cause of birth defects and miscarriages. It can also protect against poisoning from heavy toxic metals such as cadmium and lead which can affect the development of sperm.

Good levels of selenium are essential to maximize sperm formation and are also needed for optimum testosterone production. In one double-blind trial, selenium supplementation resulted in an increase in fertility from 17.5 per cent to 35.1 per cent in sub-fertile men.

Out of 41 men volunteering to be sperm donors in one study, 23 had normal sperm counts and 18 had low sperm counts. Blood selenium levels were significantly lower in the men with low sperm counts.

Because selenium is needed for healthy sperm formation, it is especially advisable to supplement with selenium when semen analysis shows a high percentage of abnormal sperm. As a powerful antioxidant, selenium can also protect against possible DNA damage to sperm.

Selenium should be found in the soil where our food grows but unfortunately we can no longer rely on this. Because there are no obvious signs of deficiency, you don’t know you’re not getting enough until it is too late. It is therefore much safer to take a supplement.

You should take l00 mcg of selenium a day.

Your partner should take l00 mcg of selenium a day.

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What is it?

A viral disease which produces cold sores on the lips, a venereal disease that is difficult or impossible to cure, and a potentially fatal infection in newborn babies.

Although many think of herpes as a new disease this is not so-it has been around since ancient times. What is new is the extent of the disease in society and this was almost certainly brought about by the sexual revolution of the 1960s. The larger number of sexual partners that this social change has brought about has meant that any venereal infection spreads more quickly than before. Coupled with this is a greater readiness to experiment with new sexual techniques. Thirty years ago oral sex was considered a perversion but over the last twenty years it has become fashionable. Now the transfer of the virus from the mouth to the genitals is a major source of the disease. Lastly, as with polio virus, about fifty years ago most children would have contracted the herpes virus and would have built up at least some resistance to it. Today this is less likely. Having had oral herpes (cold sores) affords at least some protection against the genital variety but the level of such protection is not great.

Herpes became the media scare story of the 1970s, and understandably so, with stories of an ‘incurable’

disease which killed babies of affected mothers, produced intermittent, long-term infections in adults, might be implicated in cancer of the cervix, had serious harmful effects on people’s sex lives, and so on.

Herpes is caused by the herpes simplex virus that is related to the chickenpox virus, the glandular fever virus and cytomegalovirus. Although, as with other viral infections, the virus can affect many different parts of the body, the real scare (and what this piece is about) is genital herpes.

In a man herpetic sores can affect any part of the penis and scrotum but they are most often seen on the head of the penis. The sores are painful and the glands in the groins enlarge. Herpes can also affect the area around the anus and can cause extreme pain on opening the bowels.

In women the same pattern occurs as in men but with certain differences. One is that there are more ulcers and they are much more painful. Passing urine can be ‘agony’ and there can be considerable difficulty in passing urine at all in some women. The virus may attack the neck of the womb and such women have a temperature and pain in the lower abdomen as well as the other signs. An attack of thrush can also occur alongside the herpes as the woman’s local defense mechanisms break down.

Between 40 and 70 per cent of all herpes sufferers have recurrent attacks and some people go on having them for years.

What causes it?

Genital herpes is caused by two viruses, HSV1 and HSV2. The vast majority of infections with the virus are subclinical, that is they produce no effects of which the sufferer is aware. That an infection has occurred can be detected by finding antibodies to the herpes virus in the individual’s blood. The first attack of the virus tends to occur in childhood or adolescence-just as with other viral illnesses. Such attacks produce a ‘flu-like illness with relatively few local symptoms.

Herpes virus is transferred from person to person by close body contact between wet areas of the body. This is why the lips, genitals, mouth and gut are affected. The virus enters the cells and some enter sensory nerves up which they travel to clusters of nerve cells close to the spinal cord. Here they remain to produce recurrent infections over the years.

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Anorexic patients often have trouble with the idea of group therapy. They resist relationships because they fear rejection. They use their thinness as a shield to protect them from having to deal with other people. If they feel anxious, they tend to respond by losing more weight or running way. Because their social skills aren’t as developed, they may need more support than other members.

However, group therapy can help some anorexics precisely because it shows them how to express their feelings and interact with others. Recently Pam, a former patient, called to tell me how happy she was in her new job as a receptionist. We shared a laugh, because before treatment, Pam was notoriously shy and refused to speak to anyone. Her experience in group gave her the emotional strength to reach out to others. Now here she was, greeting visitors and talking on the phone – tasks that, just a year before, would have driven her to starvation.

When the members of a group are more compatible-similar in age, level of education, length of illness, and so on-there is usually greater group cohesion. Group therapy also stands a better chance of helping if the anorexic is not severely ill, is highly motivated, and has responded to other treatments.

It sometimes works to have at least one patient in the group who has returned to a normal body weight and maintained that weight for a period of time. Such people serve as role models. Similarly, including a patient who is on her way to recovery, who can express her feelings more easily, helps shift focus away from body weight and onto other issues.

Inpatient programs: Because they are more severely ill and their treatment is more intense, inpatients are generally willing to take part in groups. The size of the group varies. Sometimes inpatient groups are larger than outpatient groups, but because each patient may take part in several group sessions a day, she has more chances to contribute.

Of course, the goal of hospitalization is to get the patient better and send her home as soon as possible. Thus inpatient groups, by definition, are short-term groups.

A challenge comes when the patient must make the transition from the hospital to the outside world. We encourage patients who respond to the group approach to continue with therapy as outpatients.

Outpatient programs: Outpatient anorexic groups work better if their numbers are small -groups of four to six patients may better address interpersonal problems than groups of seven or eight, the size of most other outpatient therapy groups.

Programs vary, but most groups meet once a week. It’s probably best if the group plans to run for at least six months, and if it is an “open” group – that is, it allows members to come and go. This policy helps replenish the membership and keep the group operating when patients drop out, as some inevitably will.

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For Cindy Engle, a family reunion ended a 14-year pattern of losing and regaining weight—and helped her permanently part with 20 pounds.

Like both of her parents, Cindy had struggled with her weight for most of her life. From the time she was in her late twenties, she tried just about everything to slim down. “I followed far too many diet plans. I took diet pills. I even ran half-marathons,” says the 42-year-old mother of two from Sierra Vista, Arizona. “Sure, I’d lose weight. But the pounds would always come back.”

In the summer of 1998, Cindy attended the fateful family gathering. “When I looked around, I noticed that everyone had gained 5 to 10 pounds—maybe more—since the year before,” she says. “That day, I made a serious commitment to losing weight.”

Cindy wasn’t about to accept what seemed like her genetic destiny. Because she already led a fairly active lifestyle, she decided to focus on revamping her eating habits. After reading up on nutrition, she began building her meals around fresh, nutritious foods: fruit for breakfast, salads and lean proteins for lunch, and lean meats for dinner. She also began drinking lots of water—at least eight full glasses a day.

Within 4 months of making these simple dietary changes, Cindy had taken off 20 pounds. She has maintained her weight at a healthy

117 pounds ever since, thanks to her dietary vigilance and her com- : f mitment to jogging 40 to 60 minutes, three or four times a week.

WINNING ACTION

Reject the family fat gene. Do your relatives—especially parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles—struggle with their weight? If so, you may have a genetic predisposition toward overweight. That doesn’t mean you should accept it. Studies show that your lifestyle choices—what you eat and how much you exercise—are far more important than your genes in determining your weight.

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