Trigeminal Nueralgia

Nerve axon with myelin sheath

Nerve axon with myelin sheath (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Some say there is no cure for the unforgiving trigeminal neuralgia, as someone who as fought with trigeminal neuralgia  I can can tell you that mine is gone. Here is my story about “the suicide disease“. I suffered with the horrific pain of TN like many of you do and was given  anti seizure drugs like everyone else gets, they made me feel terrible and didn’t help much and of course the neuro docs have nothing to say except surgery (micro vascular decompression) or increase dosage well in my business there was no way I could increase dosage and feel any more spacey of loopy then I already did so I quit the pills and just dealt with the horrible pain. well I had been looking into  alkaline water ionizers for a while because I heard they were great for high blood pressure and I had terrible high blood pressure (200/96). So I decided to purchase a Kangen alkaline water ionizers, after I started drinking the Kangen water my blood pressure dropped in less than 7 days to normal I know this because I used to have to check it 2 times a day to make sure it wasn’t so high I was going to have a heart attack. Here is the part that is amazing my trigeminal attacks became less and less and now I don’t remember when the last attack was! I can’t tell you how great it is to be free of this dreadful disease. I wanted to share this with all of you that suffer to tell you there is relief just give it a try.

here is why doctors say it works:

An acidic body is caused by soda, coffee, acidic foods such as dairy products and meat as well as medications. The myelin sheath deteriorates by a diet and lifestyle that causes an acidic condition in your body. You can monitor your body’s alkalinity by pH testing of your saliva. You correct any acidic condition by eliminate acid causing foods and maintain an alkaline state by drinking alkaline water.

Importance of water – Your body needs water for all its functions, but be sure that this water is pure and healthy and consumed in the proper way. In the morning hours, your body is going through its elimination cycle. An early morning glass of water will assist in this process. Drinking water with a meal will impede digestion, but water spaced between meals throughout the day will facilitate proper hydration, digestion and elimination. It is recommended that the water you drink be alkaline water.

The best way to reverse this disease

The best way to reverse this insidious condition is to first and foremost make a dietary change – eliminate all meat, dairy products, refined grains, refined starches, sugar, salt, and acidic beverages, i.e. milk, alcohol: wine, beer, champagne, etc.; lattes, coffee, hot cocoa, soda pop, etc.

Eat predominantly raw or perhaps, 75% raw foods and 25% cooked but vegan foods.

Drink alkaline ionized water preferably * this is the fastest way to alkaline the body*

I hope that this helps some one that is suffering throw this horrible disease

taken from: http://rawtrutheducation.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/trigeminal-nueralgia/

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An Alternative Antihistamine

Acupuncture to treat hay fever.

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Acupuncture to treat hay fever.

After a long winter, you gotta love spring’s green grasses, budding bushes, and leaf-sprouting trees – unless they turn you into a sneezing, wheezing, watery-eyed mess. It’s a big-time bummer, but hay fever can quickly make March, April, and May miserable. And while antihistamines and other medicines may help ease the symptoms, they can also leave you in a groggy, doped-up haze.

If you’re already dreading allergy season and know you’d love some relief without relying so heavily on drugs, you might want to give acupuncture a whirl. A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine‘ in February found that hay fever sufferers who received 12 acupuncture treatments over eight weeks had fewer symptoms and needed less antihistamine meds than patients who didn’t do the needles. Continue reading

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Spine MRIs Often Show Harmless ‘Defects,’ Study Finds

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Harmonic magnetic resonance (Photo credit: d4yw41k3r)

, March 13 (HealthDay News) — Even though expensive MRIs produce very detailed images for assessing back pain, they may not be very good at evaluating results after treatment, research suggests.

Many physicians order an MRI before and after treatment of patients with lumbar-disk herniation and persistent sciatica. But some experts say spine imaging is overused and not necessarily accurate in certain cases.

This new study used MRI scans from a study initially designed to compare surgery to conservative care for sciatica, which is pain or weakness that radiates from the back down the leg. The researchers compared a person’s first MRI to their follow-up MRI taken a year later. They couldn’t tell from the follow-up MRIs who had good results and who didn’t.

“The discriminative power of MRI is much less than expected in patients who had sciatica before or who have had persistent complaints for more than one year,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Wilco Peul, professor and chairman of neurosurgery at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Peul said that the decision to have a second surgery shouldn’t be based on MRI findings alone. Continue reading

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Clay Walker, Country Music Star and Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Patient Urges Others to “Stick With It”

Country music singer Clay Walker announced the launch of “Stick With It!,” a national public service announcement campaign to educate relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients about the importance of remaining adherent to a disease management routine for the long-term. Teva Pharmaceuticals and Band Against MS (BAMS) — the charity Walker founded a decade ago to help those living with the disease — have teamed up for this campaign. The kick-off of “Stick With It!” is in conjunction with Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week and will raise money to fund MS research via the campaign Facebook page www.facebook.com/stickwithitRRMS.

For every action the public takes to promote awareness, Teva will make a $1 corporate donation for MS research (up to $25,000). Actions include: liking http://www.facebook.com/StickWithItRRMS or asking the public to share their favorite “Stick With It!” routine. In addition to supporting a worthy cause, the public can access tips and helpful information on the site such as questions to ask the doctor and the importance of adhering to a routine to manage RRMS.

Research has shown that combining a treatment regimen with lifestyle management including proper diet and exercise can actually reduce the frequency of relapses. But clinical studies show that patients who had gaps in therapy lasting ≥90 days were nearly twice as likely to experience a severe relapse. Continue reading

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New Studies Reveal How Acupuncture Works

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English: I took this photo. It is a self-portrait for my user page, and useful for the Acupuncture page. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Researchers at the Georgetown University Medical Center found that in laboratory rats electronic acupuncture stimulation resulted in the reduction of a key stress hormone.

“Many practitioners of acupuncture have observed that this ancient practice can reduce stress in their patients, but there is a lack of biological proof of how or why this happens,” said the study’s lead author, Ladan Eshkevari, PhD, an associate professor of nursing at Georgetown University’s School of Nursing and Health Studies, a part of GUMC. “We’re starting to understand what’s going on at the molecular level that helps explain acupuncture’s benefit.”

Rats were chosen because they are used in medical research to test stress responses. They start exhibiting stress responses when exposed to cold air temperatures for just one hour a day. The research was conducted over a period of 10 days and consisted of groups that had been stressed, a group that had been stressed and received acupuncture therapy, a group stressed that received a mock acupuncture therapy and a group that just received the acupuncture with no stress. Continue reading

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Series of studies first to examine acupuncture’s mechanisms of action

NYCTCM Acupuncture Clinic visit

NYCTCM Acupuncture Clinic visit (Photo credit: NYCTCM)

While acupuncture is used widely to treat chronic stress, the mechanism of action leading to reported health benefits are not understood. In a series of studies at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), researchers are demonstrating how acupuncture can significantly reduce the stress hormone response in an animal model of chronic stress.

The latest study was published today in the April issue of Journal of Endocrinology.

“Many practitioners of acupuncture have observed that this ancient practice can reduce stress in their patients, but there is a lack of biological proof of how or why this happens,” says the study’s lead author, Ladan Eshkevari, PhD, an associate professor of nursing at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies, a part of GUMC. “We’re starting to understand what’s going on at the molecular level that helps explain acupuncture’s benefit.”

Eshkevari, a physiologist, nurse anesthetist and certified acupuncturist, designed a series of studies in rats to test the effect of electronic acupuncture on levels of proteins and hormones secreted by biologic pathways involved in stress response. Continue reading

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Intense acupuncture can improve muscle recovery in patients with Bell palsy

English: Bell's palsy

English: Bell’s palsy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Patients with Bell palsy who received acupuncture that achieves de qi, a type of intense stimulation, had improved facial muscle recovery, reduced disability and better quality of life, according to a randomized controlled trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Bell palsy is sudden onset of facial paralysis that is usually temporary, resolving within weeks or months, although it can sometimes be permanent.

Acupuncture is used to treat a variety of conditions and is gaining acceptance worldwide. De qi is a combination of sensations stimulated by manipulation of acupuncture needles — soreness, tingling, coolness, warmth and others radiating at the insertion points — but has not been validated by randomized controlled trials. Continue reading

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Histamine, Allergies, and Alkaline Ionized Water

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histamine (Photo credit: Henry C)

Fight Allergies! Is Alkaline Water the Ultimate Antihistamine!?

Studies have shown that an estimated 75 percent of the population has some degree of dehydration, significant enough to affect their health. Along with dehydration, the majority of people’s body state is acidic due to our typical North American diet. The acidity in our bodies causes irritation and inflammation which triggers histamine production.

Allergies plague thousands of people every year. Some people experience wheezing as part of their allergic response but they don’t have a diagnosis of asthma. The weepy eyes, runny nose, pounding headache and cough are characteristic signs of an allergic response. The root causes may shock you.

Allergies are caused by a histamine reaction in the body. Histamine is one of the body’s main neurotransmitters. It has two functions in the body hydrated and it becomes increasingly active when the body becomes dehydrated. It is also triggered when the body is acidic in combination with being dehydrated.

According to recent research, allergies are a sign of dehydration that are triggered when the body starts conserving its water resources. When dehydration occurs histamine is produced to begin the process of water regulation. It will prioritize where the limited available water will be used. Histamine is the good guy, delegating where the available water is to be used. Continue reading

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Anatomy of Brain

Brain Anatomy

BRAIN

BRAIN

Brain acts as a control center by receiving, interpreting, and directing sensory information throughout the body. There are three major divisions of the brain. They are the forebrain, the midbrain, and the hindbrain. Intelligence, creativity, emotion, and memories are a few of the many things governed by the brain. The brain receives information through our five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing, it assembles the messages in a way that has meaning for us, and can store that information in our memory. It controls our body, receives information, analyzes information, and stores information in our memories. The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1300-1400 g), the human brain reaches its full size at about 6 years of age. Continue reading

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Neuroscience & Farts

neuron fractal 1

neuron fractal 1 (Photo credit: Anthony Mattox)

The communication process of neurons in the brain is best explained by starting at the beginning.  Most people have about 100 billion nerve cells, which are also called neurons.  The basic purpose of all neurons is to receive and transmit information.  Dendrites, which are miniscule fibers extending beyond the neuron’s cell body, pick up incoming messages from other neurons and communicate them to the cell body.  The axon is a long fiber which extends far beyond the cell body.  The function and main purpose of the axon is to transmit outgoing messages to neurons which are close by.  The axon can also communicate outgoing messages to nearby muscles or glands.  “Terminal buttons at the end of each axon release chemical substances called neurotransmitters” (Morris & Maisto, Understanding Psychology, 2010, p.42).

Neurotransmitters are chemicals which have been released by the synaptic vessels that travel over the synaptic area, affecting nearby neurons.  Synaptic vessels are tiny sacs in a terminal button that release chemicals into the synapse.  The synapse is “the entire area composed of the axon terminals of one neuron, the synaptic space, and the dendrites and cell body of the next neuron” (Morris & Maisto, Understanding Psychology, 2010, p. 45).  Some common neurotransmitters have distinct effects on human behavior.  Examples of these types of neurotransmitters are acetylcholine, dopamine and serotonin.  Acetylcholine plays a role in arousal, attention, memory and motivation.  Dopamine usually affects voluntary movement, learning, memory and emotions.  Serotonin is related to emotional experiences and is often referred to as “the mood molecule” (Morris & Maisto, Understanding Psychology, 2010, p. 47).  Endorphins are also associated with the inhibition of pain.  These neurotransmitters are typically present during strenuous exercise, such as running.  Endorphins could possibly be responsible for the condition known as “runner’s high.”  Research conducted on the effects of endorphins and their relation to opiates, such as heroin, have concluded that when a drug user takes more of these types of drugs to emulate the same “high” given off by endorphins naturally, they lessen their own capability of naturally producing these neurotransmitters, thus requiring more of the drug to sustain their “high.” Continue reading

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