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Survival Of Alzheimer's Patients With Diabetes Or High Blood Pressure
Alzheimer's plus diabetes - the worse of both worlds. A recent study of 323 people revealed that people who had both Alzheimer's disease and diabetes were twice as likely to die sooner than non-diabetic people with Alzheimer's.

Hibiscus Tea May Lower Blood Pressure
Herbal Tea Reduces Blood Pressure. In a new study, drinking three cups of herbal tea containing hibiscus each day lowered blood pressure.

Beta-Alanine Improves Fitness in Elderly
According to research, this non-essential amino acid increases physical work capacity.

Quote of the Week
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors ~ Chinese Proverb

Medicine is needed for acute illnesses. There is simply no substitution for antibiotics when faced with severe infection. Unfortunately, most, if not all medicines have side effects. When natural remedies fail, I use medications as a last resort. Our diet is directly related to our illnesses. We are who we eat. The good news: changing one's diet has a reversing effect on chronic diseases. 80% of adult onset diabetes can be REVERSED with diet and lifestyle alone. Isn't that wonderful news? I want you to pay attention to what you put into your body. Choose from my food choice table.

I want you to be smart - see the light. Thousands are doing it today. Read their success stories here.

That's A Good Question!
Question: I read an excerpt from your web page on adrenal insufficiency. I am a senior year biochemistry student and would like to do research in the area of endocrinology. I wanted to know your thoughts on how to best restore proper adrenal function - especially when excess androgens are produced due to alternate pathways. Do you think that it is best to solely utilize pregnenolone or would you use this in conjunction with progesterone and natural hydrocortisone? DHEA would be less preferable since symptoms of hyperandrogenism are often present (hirsutism, scalp hair loss, acne, etc.). I have noticed in women that this is often the symptom presentation associated with adrenal insufficiency. I appreciate any thoughts that you might have.

Answer: The best way to restore proper adrenal function is to provide raw materials and let the adrenals decide when to assimilate into the various hormones (each of which has a negative feedback system). What are these Raw materials? They include glandulars, lysine, proline, vitamin C, and vitamin B5, all in quite high doses. If you expect to get well with nutrients, you have to understand that nutrients are nontoxic and not very strong, so more is needed for health challenges. External introduction of DHEA, pregnenolone, progesterone, and natural cortisol will help short term, and can be used effectively to adjunct the adrenal recovery program (which normally will take 6-12 months). It takes a long time to deplete the adrenal glands and “recoup” (recover).. Women react differently to hormones, especially DHEA, compared to men. Adrenal recovery therefore requires 3 major actions to be done concurrently:

a. Take proper doses of the basic nutrients mentioned above
b. relieve of stressor(s)
c. Patience in time ( together with diet and lifestyle changes)

Most people focus on one of these, and don't give it enough time. I have worked with many who were at the “end stage” of adrenal fatigue and followed my protocol closely for 3-6 months. These people all became happy campers. The hard part is being patient through the recovery process, as one’s conditions are likely to worsen (though not all the time) before getting better.
Just buying supplements and loading up will not help, for each person has to be titrated. One person's nutrient is another's poison. The dosage depends on each one’s specific metabolic type.

The solution is not as simple as most people think, otherwise, there is no need for people like us to study all our lives and gain the insight into this most troublesome syndrome.

Furthermore, you should note that adrenal fatigue in women seldom stands alone. Clinical or subclinical thyroid and estrogen imbalance accompanies 90% of the cases. I call this the OAT syndrome (ovarian/adrenal/thyroid imbalance)

That's A Good Question!
Question: I am 66 years old and have had my thyroid taken out because of a cancer nodule inside both sides. So far, my thyroid pills have been changed 6 times.  In the last 2 years I haven’t been able to lose weight. I had joined jenny Craig, herbeal magic and nutrisystem. I also walk 2 miles a day and do Pilates. I am very frustrated that I cannot lose 1 ounce no matter what I do. Please help!

Answer: The adjustment of the thyroid is often times a complicated process. While lab tests serve as good guides, some patients’ bodies are such that they can be still hypothyroid with "normal" test results. If you are one of those people, then losing weight will be very hard.

First, you need to ask if you still have symptoms of hypothyroid, such as dry skin, cold feeling, etc.

If you don’t, and your lab tests are normal, then at least you know that the thyroid is not the main culprit. If you do have symptoms, and the blood test is normal, then you need to talk to your doctor and ask him to adjust your dose so that your symptoms are gone, or alternatively, change to different meds.

Some people might have a very hard time losing weight if they also have metabolic syndrome. So that is another consideration.  Read more: Metabolic Syndrome

Special Report
Natural Medicine and Cancer, Part 2 of 6
While conventional medicine primarily treats cancer as a focal disease with localized symptoms, naturally oriented physicians think otherwise. They view the body as a closed internal ecosystem, and believe that the dysfunction of this ecosystem leads to the development of cancer...