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Nutritional
Medicine
Michael Lam, MD, MPH
www.DrLam.com
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| Before You Begin
Information presented here is for general
educational purposes only. Each one of us is biochemically and metabolically
different. If you have a specific health concern and wish my personalized
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Contents
Introduction
1. High Blood Pressure
2. Cancer
3. Peptic Ulcer disease (PUD)
4. High cholesterol
5. Arthrosclerosis
Our Diet - Then and Now
Introduction
The use of nutrition as a tool to prevent and treat diseases is as
old as human history itself.
Since the advent of modern medicine in the past 100 years, modern society
has rushed to this newfound method of "quick fixes" which are
supposed to cure disease painlessly via pills. It is quite amazing
how the public at large quickly abandon what has been in the norm for 5000
years.
 After
100 years of modern medicine, the number of people suffering, from chronic
age-related degenerative diseases, continues to skyrocket despite the best
medical effort. Modern medicine has utterly failed to cure chronic
degenerative diseases.
Why? Let us consider the following:
1. High Blood Pressure
Myth: Too much
fluid in the blood vessel causes high blood pressure.
Traditional Treatment: Remove
excess fluid by diuretics is often the first line of treatment.
This is augmented with vasodilators. Amazingly most people believe this
distorted explanation without question.
Discussion: More than 43 million Americans have
high blood pressure (hypertension), but less than one
third of them have achieved targeted levels of blood pressure with
medications. Even among the 23.4 million who take antihypertensive
medications, only 42.9% of these patients actually get their blood pressure
down to acceptable levels. This was reported in the Meeting of
the American Society of Hypertension (May 2000).
Fact: One of the primary causes of the high blood pressure
is the loss of fluids. The fewer the fluids in the
body, the more the blood vessels constrict in an auto regulatory attempt
to increase the pressure so that valuable blood flow and oxygen is delivered
to the brain and various parts of the body. Diuretics
increase dehydration. They make you lose more water, and
promote a vicious cycle of increasing blood vessel constriction which in
turn higher blood pressure still exists. In other words, high blood pressure is often a symptom of dehydration.
Nutritional Solution: Drink more water! By adding more water
to the system, the heart won't be so desperate to hang onto both sodium
and water. Increased blood volume also makes the blood more dilute.
With increase blood flow, the negative feedback system kicks in to dilate
the blood vessels and open them up wider, resulting in the lowering of blood
pressure. Such a simple method consistently lowers blood pressure on a long-term basis. My natural Hypertension
Protocol is very effective to lower blood pressure.
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