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neurofibromatis with muscle wasting
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neurofibromatis with muscle wasting
by helena3970, Jul 08, 2007 12:00AM
hi.. i am 36 y/o woman with neurofibromatosis 1 . for the last few years i have had muscle wasting in my hands and lately in my shoulders mostly all the symptoms are on the left side but are in the right but milder. the doctor told me that i have brisk reflexes and that my legs are slightly weak. i also suffer mild short term memory loss..can anyone help with this please?
The ROOT Cause of ALL Chronic Degenerative Diseases is Inflammation.
I highly recommend Cellular Nutrition for ever living breathing human being with or without problems. Read below.
You can contact me if you like at my webste. www.antoniogiuliano.com
I hope this info helps you.
July 2004 Vol. 1 No. 6
Inflammation—the True Killer
I have been sharing for years with my readers that
inflammation is the underlying cause of heart
disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s dementia,
macular degeneration, arthritis, and the list goes
on and on. Well, the media is now picking up on
these truths and you are going to be hearing a lot
about inflammation over the next decade. In fact,
it is the hot topic of our time. In the February 23,
2004 issue of Time Magazine, the front cover and
main article is on the subject of Inflammation—
The Secret Killer. The authors of this article state
that heart disease is NOT a disease of
cholesterol, but instead, is an inflammatory
disease. Over half of the patients who have heart
attacks actually have normal cholesterol levels.
They go on to state that the underlying cause of
diabetes, Alzheimer’s dementia, diabetes, and a
host of other diseases is inflammation. Dr. Meigs
recently reported in the April 28th issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA) that women who had the highest amount
of inflammation in their arteries had 5 times the
risk of developing diabetes than those with the
least amount of inflammation. I shared this study
with you in last month’s newsletter. Suffice it to
say that you are now just beginning to hear about
the dangers of too much inflammation in your
body. However, you are going to be hearing more
and more about this throughout the media and
medical community and there is one main reason.
The pharmaceutical industry is on verge of
releasing several drugs and promoting drugs that
have already been released that are aimed at
reversing this damaging inflammation. However,
very few will ever you tell you how you can
prevent this inflammation from starting in the first
place.
This month’s issue will just give you an overview
of the best way you can protect yourself from
developing inflammation in the first place.
What is the Cause of all of this Inflammation?
In my book, What Your Doctor
Doesn’t Know About Nutritional
Medicine May Be Killing You
(Thomas Nelson 2002), I explain the
underlying or root cause of over 70
chronic degenerative diseases is
oxidative stress. This is the dark side of oxygen.
We are actually rusting inside. Oxidative stress is
actually the cause of this inflammatory response
and the media and medical community are not
relating these two phenomenons within the body.
Free radicals must be immediately rendered
harmless via antioxidants or they can go on to
damage the vessel wall, cell wall, proteins, fats,
and even the DNA nucleus of the cell. When the
vessel wall, cell wall, or DNA is damaged the
immune system is activated in an attempt to
repair this damage. However, since the causes of
oxidative stress are usually chronic, the immune
system has difficulty shutting down and a lowgrade,
chronic inflammatory response usually
develops. Medicine and medical research is
going to focus on trying to reverse this
inflammation once it has already done some
significant damage. However, nutritional
medicine aims at eliminating or preventing the
oxidative stress that is causing the damage in the
beginning. Not only is your body protected from
this damage but it also prevents the inflammation
from occurring in the first place.
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Heart Disease—an Inflammatory Disease
I would encourage everyone who has a copy of
my book, What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About
Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Thomas
Nelson 2002) to at least read chapter 5. You will
realize that the medical evidence that heart
disease is an inflammatory disease has been
present for the past 12 to 14 years in our medical
literature. I also wrote about these findings in my
book, Bionutrition (Health Concepts 1998) over 6
years ago. The cause of heart attacks is not the
build up of too much cholesterol found in your
blood stream but instead is the result of a lowgrade,
chronic inflammatory process of the thin,
one-cell lining of your arteries. What are the
causes of this inflammation?
• Oxidized or Modified LDL cholesterol
• Elevated Homocysteine Levels
• Excessive free radicals produced from
high blood pressure, diabetes, cigarette
smoke, excessive stress, excessive
exercise, pollutants in the air, food, and
water, medication, and radiation.
• Elevated blood sugars especially following
a high-glycemic meal
• Elevated fat especially following a highfatty
meal
• Elevated insulin levels (Metabolic
Syndrome/Syndrome X)
All of these situations actually produce excessive
free radicals that actually damage this very fine
lining of our arteries called the endothelium. The
body’s natural immune system will try to heal this
damage by creating an immune response or
inflammatory response. If this damage can be
healed the inflammatory response settles down
and everything is fine. However, what happens in
the majority of cases, the insulting factors that
created the damage in first place continue to
create more and more damage. The result is a
chronic, low-grade inflammatory process that
literally goes on to do more harm than good. In
fact, it is the inflammation that actually does most
of the damage to our arteries than the original
insult. When physicians and researchers actually
do blood tests to check for this inflammation [the
most common test is the high sensitive C-reactive
protein] they are better able to predict who is
going to have a heart attack or not.
Alzheimer’s dementia, diabetes, cancer etc.
There now is increasing evidence that oxidative
stress actually leads to this inflammation, which is
the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s dementia,
diabetes mellitus, cancer, arthritis, and a host of
other degenerative disease. Obviously, I am not
able to fully cover this subject in one newsletter.
However, I want you to be aware of the fact that
the medical community and pharmaceutical
industry are going to become very excited about
this new information because it offers them
several different strategies to try to decrease the
prevalence of these diseases. As I mentioned
earlier, their approach will focus on developing
newer and more powerful drugs to reverse this
inflammation after it has already occurred. This is
the way medicine approaches almost all of these
problems. They will bombard you with
information, education, and commercials telling
you why you need to be taking their drugs. What
they will not inform you is how you can modify
your lifestyles so that you can eliminate the
inflammation from occurring in the first place.
This would be “True” preventive medicine.
Healthy Lifestyles that Decrease or Prevent
Inflammation
I believe in a triad of healthy lifestyles that are
designed to decrease or eliminate all of these
causes of inflammation and is your best protection
against developing any of these chronic
degenerative diseases. These healthy lifestyles
are detailed on my web page and you merely
need to click on to the option that shows you
these Healthy Lifestyles. You need to develop a
healthy diet that combines good fats, good
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proteins, and good carbohydrates that does not
spike your blood