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Tuesday December 2, 2008

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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The answers to questions submitted to me 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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Be sure to give at least your first name, if it is a question you want answered in person feel free to give me a call at 928-636-9425

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

QUESTION:
 
Hello! 
 
My name is Ramona, and a friend recommended me to you.  I am 48 years old, am 5 feet 5.5 inches tall.
 
I have had a hard time losing weight.  No diet has worked for me.  I have cravings.
 
In 2000 I had my third daughter and during that pregnancy, I was diagnosed with Gestational diabetes.
 
In 2004 I had a partial hysterectomy, I had many fibroids.  Non cancerous.  I kept my overies.
 
I gained 60 pounds when I had my first daughter in 1992.
 
A month after having my 2nd daughter, she was diagnosed with viral meningitis.  We were in the hospital for a week before her fever finally broke.  I am glad to tell you she is still with us today, and very healthy.
 
My father's side of the family there has been on-set diabetes.
 
My mother is from Germany, and so I don't know much about her side of the family.  My mom is 80 years old and has high blood pressure since her 40's.
 
I went to a diet doctor to get help with losing weight, and they did a physical on me and blood work.  They said that I have Insulin Resistance.  They put me on a diet,  protein=120, carbs 50-100, and fat 30 per day.  I am 48 years old, am 5 feet 5.5 inches tall, and I weighed in at 194 pounds.  I lost 4.5 pounds on the first week and 1.5 pounds the second.  I now weigh 188.5 pounds.  I'm still having cravings, which is ruining my weight loss efforts. 
 
I am an HVAC estimator, which is very stressfull, most of the time, and I sit in front of the computer most of the day.  When I get home, most days, I feel drained, don't even want to get up off the sofa.  With this new diet I feel a little more energetic. 
 
Oh!  At this clinic I'm going to, they told me that they're not just trying to teach me how to live with Insulin Diabetes, but they want to cure it for me. 
 
What advise can you give me. 
Ramona
 
This required more answers for a complete recommendation:
 
Questions I asked her:

1. Is this clinic putting you on anything along with your diet? If so? What? Are you taking any other supplements, medications or OTC drugs of any kind? If so What? How much? How often?

2. Were your periods regular when you were having them? 

3. What condition is your hair and skin in? Dry? Dry & Flaky? Oily? Normal?

4. How are your sleeping habits?

Once we get those answers a better recommendation can be given...
 
Ramona's Answers:
1.  The clinic told me to take a multi-vitamin every day, which I mostly forget to do.  I take it when I remember it.  Also they wanted me to take a fiber supplement, because that is supposed to make me feel full.
 
2. Yes, they were regular up until the end.  At that time they were very heavy.  The Gynocologist put me on birth control pills to help, but it didn't help. That's when I had the hysterectomy.
 
3.  My hair has always been dry.  My feet, lips, and eyes are dry. 
 
4.  I sleep good, except if my husband is snoring, then I have to have him roll over on his side, and then I can go to sleep again. 
 
5. I forgot to tell you that I was a very sick when I was a girl.  I had allergies, and as I remember it, I was sick every 6 weeks with brochial coughing, fevers, (like a bad cold).  Many nights I had to sleep in a reclining chair because of the coughing, etc.  My parents told me that I was allergic to feathers, cat dander, dust, and at one time they thought I was allergic to milk and eggs.  We moved from Ohio to Florida when I was 12.   I don't remember being sick anymore.  As a young adult, I had a lot of sinus infections, and if I didn't get an antibiotic then i would end up with Bronchitis.  I finally when to a Allergist, and had myself tested for allergies.  I wanted to know just what I was allergic to.  I found out that I was allergic to nothing but 2 molds.  I am allergic to the mold that grows in books, and a certain type of candida.  I think the house that I lived in, and the grade-school that I went to in Ohio had mold problems.  And I think that was why I was sick.
 
6.  I don't have a very good memory.  I don't know why I can remember some things but not others.
 
 
ANSWER:
 
Ramona thank you for those answers that can help me better advise you. 

You are not unique with this problem. Sad to say many many women suffer from the same problems...

Here are mine and Dr. Garland's recommendations...

Fiber is a good thing but not effect when other things aren't working as they should... Necessary when obtained from whole foods and not supplement... Also a MultiVitamin without minerals balanced body will not work anyway and is a waste of money... We have known that since 1936 but in the 1950's stopped being taught in the medical schools when the drug industry took over medicine...

Balance in all areas are really key to health... If you take a probiotic and balanced minerals faithfully you will find no constipation and a host of other health benefits and most find weight loss will most likely begin to happen when those things are achieved... The body's immune system is 80% in the intestines and when the natural stomach enzymes along with the intestinal flora are out of balance chronic constipation and/or chronic diarrhea occurs, weight gain happens as well as opening you up to other illnesses that you come in contact with. Allergies is a tip off that the natural flora is really not there and most of the time when Intestinal Flora and Digestive Enzymes are balanced out allergies lessen and in some completely disappear... Your allergies are very common and are most likely result of candida/yeast since you had so many illnesses growing up, that would have killed your immune system and now having problems and severe weight gain.  First choice in order to kill the Candida/Yeast, do at least 6 weeks of Ionic Silver Water NOT Colloidal Silver as colloidal can have serious side effects with this dosage...  Initial dose 1/4 cup then 3 tablespoons twice a day thereafter to kill Candida/Yeast but it must be in conjunction with the Probiotic/Digestive Enzyme compound or they will continue to overpopulate. The S.W. will kill what is already there but not prevent the overgrowth if the body's natural flora and digestive enzymes are not balanced... Second choice to treat would be Candida Clear Formula, which also require Probiotics with it to stop the overgrowth...

Something overweight people are not aware of; To eat or drink anything saying diet, sugar-free or that contains Sucralose, Splenda or Aspartame are weight builders not reducers! true no calories with those artificial sweeteners but they have chemicals that has shown to be hormone disrupters as well as brain disrupters and build huge fat cells that can be almost impossible to overcome... This fact has been backed up by many studies but not released to the public in their original report, therefore not well known... Reading the Aspartame link above will explain more fully...

The fact that the doctor put you on birth control pills - man made hormones - before the hysterectomy for heavy bleeding tells us that your hormone system has been off kilter for a very long while, yet the traditional/conventional medical world has no idea how to truly treat it other than surgery... Dry skin, hair and eyes are more indications that your hormones are off balance... And when the hormones/progesterone are out of balance it is harder to achieve total balance and until all those things are corrected you cannot expect to lose much if any weight without drastic measures. To balance the hormones is a simple thing, even without a uterus... Dr. Garland has formulated this great herbal formula Balanced Woman 40+, not hormone containing that works with the hormone glands to open and function as they are meant to. Hormone supplements don't work and create other problems but when the body is given the proper ingredients, such as Balanced Woman contains, the glands will produce the proper balance of hormones/progesterone. Must tell you that the reproductive systems and the thyroid are directly linked and usually when the hormones have been off balance for so long the thyroid is also out of sync... Do a home thyroid test and after you do that call me with the results and then we can decide if that is the case with you...
 
Do not discount your diet, as food can become a habit so take into consideration what you eat as a deterrent as well. Diet alone seldom ever achieves long term weight loss...  I suspect you are most likely careful with that but this is just a reminder...

Best wishes for great health.
Lena

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Thought for the Day
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Beat Cancer without Chemo?

Most surveyed doctors would never accept this barbaric cancer treatment. Why should you?

This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will receive the most frightening diagnosis in medicine -- cancer. Most will spend months or years receiving deadly chemotherapy drugs that wither away their bodies, leave them depressed, and shred their immune systems. And these patients may never realize that they are part of one of the greatest cons in the history of modern medicine.

Outrageous? No way. A whopping 81% of doctors surveyed said they would NEVER accept chemotherapy for themselves. And why should they, when there are safer and more effective cancer treatments available?

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MOTIVATOR
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MOMENTS TO REMEMBER

Have you ever noticed that you do not remember days, you remember moments?

A strange story about immortalizing moments comes from the book SPIRITUAL LITERACY (Touchstone Books) by authors Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. It is about a Brooklyn cigar store manager named Oggie Rand. Oggie has an unusual habit -- at precisely eight o'clock each morning, he photographs the front of the store. Always at exactly the same time and from exactly the same spot. Every morning. Oggie collects his daily snapshots in photograph albums, each labeled by date. He calls his project his "life's work."

One day Oggie showed his albums to a friend. He had not told his friend about his unusual hobby. Flipping the pages of the albums, the man noticed in amazement that the pictures were all the same.

Oggie watched him skim through the pictures and finally replied, "You'll never get it if you don't slow down, my friend. The pictures are all of the same spot, but each one is different from every other one. The differences are in the detail. In the way people's clothes change according to season and weather. In the way the light hits the street. Some days the corner is almost empty. Other times it is filled with people, bikes, cars and trucks. It's just one little part of the world, but things take place there, too, just like everywhere else."

This time Oggie's friend looked more carefully at each picture. No two were alike. Every picture was unique, just as every moment is unique. Through a series of photographs, he became conscious of one of life's great truths -- that each minute that passes is special, even sacred.

I'm reminded of something writer Henry Miller said, "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." And those are the moments we'll remember; the ones for which we stopped everything else long enough to pay close attention.

The advice for me is this: to pay as close attention to each moment as I can, as if I were carefully observing a series of snapshots. I would like to take time to study the moments. If I look closely enough, I know I'll see that each is unique. Each is sacred. And each holds a special place in time.

I suspect it will be these moments -- not whole days, weeks, months or years -- that I will finally remember. And much of the happiness and joy I will find in life will be because I took care of the moments.


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