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Tuesday September 23, 2008

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 ASK LENA Q & A EDITION!
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The answers to questions submitted each week come from my 20+ years as a Medical Office Nurse along with many years and ongoing education in nutritional and alternative treatment modes. Add that to many years of friendship with Dr. Wayne Garland, a very knowledgeable naturopath and herbologist, who many years ago, beat his cancer death sentence given by the traditional medical world, has helped along the alternatives path and hopefully help to give hope to those who need it... Also receiving a lot of study reports and try to ascertain if they are good or bad then report them to you, which has increased my knowledge along the way and I pass them on to you to use or not...

I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more than they help. Those same medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness, which led me to look for something to change that premise for myself and those around me. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity -when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

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Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

QUESTION:
 
Hi Lena,

I need help to find out what is happening to me. I'm a 45 year old female and for the last year or more what I eat gives me such pains to the point I can't stand it and therefore I don't want to eat due to the pain and this leaves me getting very thin. My hair is dry, brittle and falling out and my skin is dry to the point I can't seem to use enough moisturizer to make a difference.  Help!  What do you think is my problem and can it be corrected naturally?
 
Marcy
 
ANSWER:
 
Yes, it can be corrected naturally!
 
First off your stomach symptoms tell me your intestinal system is badly in need of healing. You don't mention it but I bet you've taken birth control pills for many years as so many gals these days do... That decimates areas of the body you wouldn't expect, intestinal system being one of those systems. I also bet you've never supplemented for balance to utilize what few nutrients you do get from foods, nor have taken probiotic/digestive enzyme supplements or eat lots of raw fruits and vegetables. Read "Digestion The Path To Healing Or Illness" to understand the need for those things?
 
The lack of such life building balance is the making of the problems you are now having. Medications of all types and especially birth control pills kill the hormone producing glands, steal nutrients from your body and kill natural flora needed in your body for a healthy immune system.  When all of that happens the thyroid slowly dies along with those hormone producing glands because your hormone and thyroid systems are directly connected and when not functioning correctly needs to be repaired in order to correct the dry and falling out hair as well as dry skin. Or if not taking birth control the thyroid and hormones out of whack could be from your perimenopause that occurs several years before menopause. If both then your system needs rebuilding ASAP. I bet you have other symptoms that you are most likely ignoring, such as trouble sleeping, mood swings, temperature imbalances compared to those around you and a host of other things. This happens to most women between the ages of 40 and 50, although today I hear those complaints from a host of 20+ gals! With the lack of nutrient containing foods we are in epidemic state of such things with both men and women's hormone/testosterone and thyroid systems out of order! Then you add medications to that and it's a miracle more people aren't having health issues...
 
First and foremost you need to understand that supplementing is necessary in this day unless you are lucky enough to eat nothing but organic foods, live in pristine air quality area, clean unpolluted pristine water and use nothing but botanical products...  Since it's highly unlikely that you are one of those then supplementing the necessary supplements to balance your body is a must before your body starts to break down. Sadly it appears that yours has already begun that decline.
 
I find that decline of health begins with the reproductive systems, which are directly related to the thyroid therefore creating seemingly minor problems that most ignore until they experience problems due to a more severe break down of those systems... This isn't only women it includes the Male Reproductive system and thyroid, which is resulting in problems men don't even recognize until more severe illness crops up...
 
To begin to balance out your body you need to supplement balanced minerals, taken as directed this will allow your body to absorb what few nutrients do remain in the foods you eat. For without that balance your body slowly breaks down over the years. Some start younger and others - with great health genes - later but it happens eventually and in later instances is regarded as age related health issues but most could have been prevented... As for your stomach problems/pains, which will allow you to eat better, you must get Probiotics with Digestive Enzymes. Take 1 at the beginning of each meal and 2 at bedtime on an empty stomach. Doing that may take several weeks to correct the balance in your body. While that will help with your digestive problems it also will strengthen you immune system, as 80% of the immune system is in the intestinal tract and being so decimated will eventually find you even more ill! To correct the hormonal and thyroid balance - hair and skin problem - requires Balanced Woman from 1 to 3 capsules three times a day and Iodized Thyroid. Thyroid/iodine requires graduated doses - will come with your product information when ordered - for a while then switch to a Thyroid Energy capsule morning and evening.
 
I hope my answers can help you begin to correct your problems and feel better soon!
Lena

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Thought for the Day
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Afluria - Fluarix - FluLaval - FluMist - Fluvirin - Fluzone
Different names but all the same!

This years flu vaccine names! Something you should know before getting a flu vaccine!
A fallacy the drug industry continues to spout! But not true is that if you have the flu vaccine it will prevent Pneumonia... FACT: "In seniors, flu vaccine was not linked to a reduced risk of pneumonia."

That's what Michael L. Jackson, lead author of a new study, told HealthDay News and other researchers found out. And needless to say, not what the FDA and CDC officials want to hear just as they're gearing up their seasonal fear-promotion of the flu shot.

Mr. Jackson reports that in his three-year study, which included more than 1,170 subjects over the age of 65, the flu vaccine reduced pneumonia risk by a "nonsignificant" 8 percent during flu season, but was linked to an INCREASED risk of 4 percent during seasonal peaks. 

Other researchers found; After examining the records of more than 3,500 patients ages 65 to 94, those researchers found that, over the course of three different flu seasons, there was no link between the flu vaccine and risk of pneumonia.

SURPRISE! SURPRISE! The FDA announced that only 40 percent of health care workers in the U.S. get a flu vaccine each year. Maybe those workers know something you don’t!

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MOTIVATOR
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REAL LIBERATION

I had a remarkable conversation with a woman about physical limitations. Nancy was a sufferer of M.S. She could no longer walk and spent her waking hours in a wheelchair.

"I'm not 'confined' to the wheelchair," she insisted one day. "It doesn't confine me. It sets me free."

I had never thought of it that way. And I have never referred to someone in a wheelchair since as being "confined."

She asked me, "Do you want to know my reason for living?" It seemed like an abrupt change of subject, but I went with it.

"What is it?"

"To liberate people. To set them free."

She must have studied my face and figured I needed more help. "It's like me...before I got my wheelchair, I had trouble getting around," she explained. "Now I can go places. But other people may be trapped in different ways. So however I can free people, I want to do it."

"People speak of being 'shut in,'" she continued. "People who have difficulty leaving a room or a house or a bed are not 'shut in.' They're 'shut out' -- shut out of activities and shut out of people's lives. So I try to help people find some freedom, however I can."

I wonder how she'd handle my limitations, though. I can get around all right, but I hold myself back by my thinking. I say, "We'll never do that!" or "I just don't believe that is possible" and later find that somebody proved me wrong. It's my beliefs and attitudes that cause some of my biggest problems. They are as limiting to me as Nancy's disease is to her.

"Almost everybody walks around with a vast burden of imaginary limitations inside his head," says author J. H. Brennan. "While the burden remains, personal success is as difficult to achieve as the conquest of Everest with a sack of rocks tied to your back."

It IS a burden, isn't it? Like a sack of rocks. Some people carry the burden that they will never be able to pursue a passion or achieve a cherished dream. And some tote around the idea that other people can experience good things of life, or simply be happy, but they never will. Our thinking itself can be as much a burden as climbing a mountain with a sack of rocks tied to our backs.

When I feel "confined" by my thinking, I sometimes ponder these words from Darwin P. Kingsley, past president of New York Life Insurance Company:

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind."

Now THAT sets me free! Free to live. Free to risk. Free to move forward. Free to be...me.

It's real liberation.
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