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Simple and Inexpensive Magnesium better than drugs at Protecting Brain

Magnesium is a powerhouse. It is inexpensive and is used to treat a vast array of medical problems, often better than any drugs or medical procedures available. The latest feather in magnesium’s cap is its newly discovered ability to protect the brain and improve the neurologic outcomes of infants and adults who have had oxygen deprivation to their brains. Pretty impressive for a cheap mineral present in practically every multivitamin and Mineral Supplement on the market.

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Dangerous Prescription Drug Reactions Affect 25 Percent of Seniors

A new study shows that 25% of the elderly who are in home care have reactions to prescribed drugs. This is ONE in FOUR elderly that have REPORTED drug reactions!! The elderly, the report states, are now taking 6 or more different prescribed drugs on a daily basis! In contrast to the growing media trend of reporting reactions due to ERRORS in drug prescribing, these are "properly" prescribed medications. Yet 25% of our most vulnerable population is having reactions to the drugs that are being properly prescribed for their medical conditions.

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If You Have Carpal Tunnel Symptoms, Better Check Your Thyroid

For the most part, doctors believe that the Causes of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome are usually related to an 'impingement' of the median nerve that runs down the wrist. According to doctors, strain and repetitive motion causes inflammation of the connective tissue that surrounds this nerve running through your wrist into your hand; surgery is often indicated as a treatment to 'release' the impingement on this nerve. But Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is simply a collection of symptoms and not a disease itself.

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Candida Albicans: It May Not Be What You Think it Is!

Candida Albicans is a common yeast EVERYWHERE. It shows up in the environment, on our bodies and in our bodies. It competes for space with 'good' bacteria on the skin and anywhere that it is warm and moist in the body- such as the mouth, constantly wet skin and the genitals to name a few places that it colonizes. When your immune system is good, Candida Albicans is usually not even noticeable, but if your immunity is compromised from stress, disease and other problems, then it may dominate the space that it's in- wherever that is- and cause a candida infection.

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Hospital Laboratory Magnesium Testing Only Catches a Fraction of Magnesium Deficiencies

Magnesium is the second most abundant ion inside of cells and, along with calcium, is critical in regulating the electrical activity of the body, including ALL muscle contractions, heart beats and brain activity. Magnesium is also a crucial factor in over 300 enzymatic reactions that require the mineral to be replaced continually. Hospitals and doctors' offices often check a serum magnesium levels when a patient has certain medical conditions such as heart or kidney problems.

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Do Cholesterol Lowering Medications Work Simply Because They Raise Vitamin D Levels?

Here's an interesting little fact. Studies show that statins, the class of drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol levels, have the effect of INCREASING vitamin d levels. Now, there is plenty of evidence that Vitamin D decreases risk of heart problems and that the vast majority of people- including heart patients- are Vitamin D deficient . So, there are some researchers speculating that the small reduction in heart attack risk that has been shown with statins, could very well be simply from improved Vitamin D status! This is not idle speculation either.

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Mothers to Be, Better Get Your Vitamin D!

When we speak of disease and health, we often think that people who are healthy are 'lucky' and people who are unhealthy as 'unlucky'. But the debate is beginning to tip towards the fact that environmental factors influence genetics more than we can ever imagine, and luck of the genes has less to do with health than environmental factors. Vitamin D as an environmental factor in our health is not debated, only HOW MUCH of a factor in our health is what is debated.

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Are Statins the New Gateway Drugs?

So, you go to your doctor’s office and get your cholesterol checked. Standard operating procedure, right? We have been taught since grade school that low cholesterol levels are the best way to lower your heart disease risk. So, if you DO happen to have “high cholesterol”, and the definition of ...

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Cholesterol Lowering Statin Drugs Being Recommended for Children as Young as 8 years old

Indication Creep is the phenomenon whereby a drug is tested and approved for one specific use and doctors prescribe it for another use. This is a perfectly legal and legitimate practice. Once a drug is approved for use, a doctor is allowed to prescribe it for any usage that they choose to.Prescribing drugs for "Off Label" uses, as it is known, often saves lives and helps many people. It also will often drive studies to be done for usages that doctors have found the drug to be useful for.

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Babies Receive Heart Transplants Instead of Vitamin D Treatment

Cardiomyopathy is a rare but frequently fatal heart condition in infants and children. In many cases, doctors are unable to find the cause, and severe cases need to stay in the hospital while waiting for their last hope at life- a heart transplant. But whole teams of specialists at major medical centers across the nation may be overlooking vitami D deficiency as a cause of cardiomyopathy, and children are dying because of it. Cardiomyopathy is a rare condition where a child's heart becomes enlarged and too weak to pump blood properly.

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New Vaccine for Superbug is Entirely Unnecessary and Potentially Dangerous

Clostridium difficile, more commonly called "C-difficile" or "C-diff" is the "new superbug". It is a highly contagious disease that causes abdominal pain and diarrhea and is a HUGE problem in hospitals. Most people acquire C difficile as a 'side effect' of antibiotic use and often acquire it ...

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Age Related Hearing Loss Does NOT Have to Be a Part of Getting Old

Current thinking has us believe that age-related hearing loss is an inevitable consequence of getting older, but is it really? Hundreds of studies from around the world show severe vitamin deficiencies as causes of this loss. Even more importantly replacing the missing vitamins improved the hearing of vast numbers of people, making hearing loss simply another one of many age-related problems preventable with good nutrition. When most of us think of getting older, we think of canes to walk, glasses to see and hearing aids to hear.

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Is the Pneumococcal Vaccine all Its Cracked Up to Be?

The CDC, hospitals and doctor's offices around the country are intent on pushing the pneumococcal vaccine as a safe and effective way to reduce the burden of pneumonia on society. It's touted as being especially important for the elderly population to get this vaccine, as they are not only more prone to GET pneumonia, but more prone to dying from it or becoming critically ill.

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Sick all the Time? You Probably Have glute Sensitivity..

Celiac Disease (CD) is an autoimmune disease caused by a genetic inability to digest the protein portion of many common grains- including those in wheat. This undigested part of the grain, called gluten, is then attacked by the body's own immune system, causing inflammation and damage to the intestines where nutrients are absorbed. Standard Celiac Disease Symptoms, also known as Gluten Sensitivity, include abdominal pain and weight loss; but rarely is the same from patient to patient.

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Simple Prescription Antacids Increase Your Cancer Risk and Cover Up Your Real Problem

Antacids, known as Proton pump inhibitors by the medical community, are a class of drugs normally prescribed for heartbu symptoms. With names like Prilosec, Prevacid, Nexium and Protonix- a large percentage of Americans are intimately familiar with these prescription drugs. They are SO often recommended for heartbu that most people who take them have never had any testing to figure out WHY they have chronic heartburn. Yet that is EXACTLY the question that they SHOULD be asking before they just hand over a prescription medication to you.

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Simple Prescription Antacids Increase Your Cancer Risk and Cover Up Your Real Problem

Antacids, known as Proton pump inhibitors by the medical community, are a class of drugs normally prescribed for heartbu symptoms. With names like Prilosec, Prevacid, Nexium and Protonix- a large percentage of Americans are intimately familiar with these prescription drugs. They are SO often recommended for heartbu that most people who take them have never had any testing to figure out WHY they have chronic heartburn. Yet that is EXACTLY the question that they SHOULD be asking before they just hand over a prescription medication to you.

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What You Must Know About the Pneumococcal Vaccine

The CDC, hospitals and doctor's offices around the country are intent on pushing the pneumococcal vaccine as a safe and effective way to reduce the burden of pneumonia on society. It's touted as being especially important for the elderly population to get this vaccine, as they are not only more prone to GET pneumonia, but more prone to dying from it or becoming critically ill. Pneumococcal pneumonia is also one of the main complications of flu infection. People RARELY die of the flu itself, but most often die of COMPLICATIONS from the flu. And they most often die of pneumonia.

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Effective Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis that is practically free...

Multiple Sclerosis is a horrible disease with few treatment options except hope. It often strikes at a young age and leaves the afflicted unable to care for themselves when they should be in the prime of their lives. It gets its name from the ‘sclerosed’ appearance that the fatty outer layer of the spinal cord, the myelin sheath, has when viewed on medical scans. These patches slow down- and even stop- electrical transmissions from the brain to the rest of the body and vice versa. Over time, strength and movement slow and are lost entirely.

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Vitamin D levels in Kids SO low that Rickets is back!

Kids get so little Vitamin D these days, that Rickets- a disease that was thought to be virtually eradicated over 50 years ago in developed countries- is back again. Rickets, with it's characteristic bowed legs from improper bone hardening, is caused by a simple nutritional deficiency. Yet children right here in the US are getting this easily preventable disease in numbers never thought possible. Vitamin D, which is naturally present in few foods except for Fatty Fish like salmon and sardines, is made naturally when the skin is exposed to sunlight.

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