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Multiple Sclerosis Remedies - What You Must Know
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If you or somebody you like has been diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis), then you are already aware how ravaging this disease can be. Nevertheless, there’s a lot concerning the disease that you may not be aware of. In the event you suffer from multiple sclerosis, or watch others suffer, you see what occurs to the individual’s body, however what you do not see is what the disease is doing inside the body. There are many multiple sclerosis remedies, however they vary as much as the disease itself.
MS is an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack it is own cells and tissues. However, why does this happen and what causes it? The cause of multiple sclerosis continues to be a mystery. It’s identified nevertheless, that the immune system doesn’t respond normally and attacks the covering of nerve fibers. The nerve fibers affected are in the optic nerves, brain, and spinal cord.
Early symptoms can often be brief and generally even missed. They may include numbness, tingling, weak limbs, unsteadiness, and double or blurred vision. Often because the disease continues on, the symptoms become more severe. Every case of MS varies, however in later stages symptoms include paralysis that’s either partial or full, loss of body part awareness, blindness, memory issues, incontinence, seizures and respiratory problems.
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Multiple sclerosis remedies mainly have been designed to minimize the symptoms and slow the development of the disease. Probably the most frequently prescribed medicines include Betaseron, Avonex, and Copaxone. They can help avoid relapses in symptoms once begun. Each drug treats in a different way and may have different side affects, so you will need to remember and utilize the very best drug for each individual patient. Some of the side effects can be serious, like liver dysfunction, depression and flu symptoms.
There may be an increasing interest in using natural multiple sclerosis treatments. Vitamin D and omega 3 fat are thought to possibly be helpful. Antioxidants have additionally been thought to help in some cases.
There isn’t a cure for Multiple Sclerosis, however it’s possible to have a confirmed plan that can assist your body keep the symptoms of the disease under control. Many suffers have rid themselves of the paralyzing effects of this disease. Best of all, the plan does not contain expensive treatments and the negative effects that come with medicine treatments.
Are you ready for relief? This Multiple Sclerosis Remedy plan may give you back the quality of life you deserve.
Alternative Health Care is Under Attack - The Unfortunate Case of Dr. Shortt
A recent case in the news highlights an alarming trend in “alternative”
health care—how difficult it is becoming to both obtain and provide
alternative care in the United States. Dr. James Michael Shortt (an M.D.)
practicing longevity medicine in Greenville, South Carolina, has been sued
by the relatives of a patient who died under his care, and may be indicted
for murder. (AP/LA Times 1-09-05.)
The information in the media concerning this unfortunate case is very
instructive if read with a discerning eye. Dr. Shortt is being sued because
he administered a therapy that is outside “the standards of care of the
medical profession.” This phrase is key. Another cause of action in the
lawsuit was that Dr. Shortt had told the patient that her multiple sclerosis
was caused by a bacteria or virus and that the organism(s) could be killed
by hydrogen peroxide infusions. Finally, the coroner and pathologist who
examined the patient attributed her death to “complications caused by the
hydrogen peroxide infusion, which the pathologist said ‘had no legitimate
use . . . in the medical literature.’ ”
The missing data in this homicide ruling is that the patient was taking two
prescriptions prescribed by her mainstream physician—Tegretol and
Copaxone. If you read the Physician’s Desk Reference, there are warnings that
both of these substances may cause exactly the kinds of side effects that she
died from. Hydrogen Peroxide does not cause these effects. Even more
disturbing, is that one of these drugs is not approved for use with Multiple
Sclerosis. So who is truly at fault here? (If you want the technical
details, please contact Dr. Richards directly.)
Dr. Shortt consulted with the International Oxidative Medicine Association,
which developed the regimens he used. The group found that Dr. Shortt had
followed its “well-established” protocols. These protocols are clinically
established in thousands of patients. Dr. Shortt himself has treated over
1,800 patients with this protocol.
The issues here that are highlighted within this unfortunate set of
circumstances are:
1) The legal establishment makes the assumption that the medical
profession has proven treatments and, more importantly, the only legal
treatments for conditions of human health.
If you’ve been following the news, you know how fallacious this is. Vioxx
is only the latest example of a substance, approved for use, that has proven
to be life-threatening. Where was “the medical literature” when this drug
was approved for use? How did it achieve acceptance without better
scrutiny? I predict that we will soon have another scandal in the news –
statins and the way in which they cause heart failure.
2) The medical profession uses its peer review process to decide
what information and research enters the public realm and becomes part of
the accepted “medical literature”.
Any information that is outside the medical paradigm (read alternative
therapies) is systematically shut out by peer review and never gets
published in medically accepted journals. I can give you hundreds of
references documenting the link between Lyme disease and over 350 chronic
health conditions. But, the medical profession chooses to selectively
ignore them.
3) Most of the research in the United States is funded by the
pharmaceutical industry. Natural remedies, which cannot be patented,
provide no profit incentive to the pharmaceutical houses and are, therefore,
ignored – even though they are safer in many cases than the approved drugs.
There is a large body of research work in Europe and in Asia on the efficacy
of many “natural” remedies that simply do not show up here in the U.S.
4) There are a wide variety of conditions for which the medical
profession has no etiology. MS is one. There is research showing that many
of these conditions are linked to the Lyme disease parasite; however, the
medical profession is busy pretending that wide spread Lyme disease doesn’t
exist, despite massive amounts of evidence to the contrary. MS has been
specifically linked to the Lyme organism (for example, Fallon BA, Kochevar
JM, Gaito A., Nields JA, “The Underdiagnosis of neuropsychiatric Lyme
disease in children and adults,” Psych Clin North Am., 1998,
Sep;21(3):693-703. From the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Medical Center, New York, New York. The abstract specifically references
the connection between Lyme Disease and multiple sclerosis.)
I personally believe that the medical profession is fighting for its
credibility, because there are so many conditions for which they have no
effective treatment. Whenever possible, the full weight of the medical
board and the legal system is brought to bear on any medical practitioner
who dares to buck the system. Dr. Shortt is only the latest in a long line
of distinguished predecessors.
The only solution that I can see to this dilemma is that the public become
informed about what is going on and start a grass roots movement to oppose
this entrenched power grab. Your health and your health care freedom depend
upon it.
—Dr. N. Rowan Richards, D.C., D.A.B.C.I., F.I.A.C.A.
By: Dr. N. Rowan Richards
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