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Tuesday February 23, 2010

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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Today's question started as a simple question but I had one of my intuitive moments and eventually became more than simple. Hope you can garner some info that you can use.

 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 and also was taught those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help is where my answers are based. 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 who ask. 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! 

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

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> THOUGHT FOR THE DAY<
> MOTIVATOR STEVE GOODIER<
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 QUESTION:

About 4 weeks ago I began experiencing numbness in my fingers and toes.  I do not have the numbness when laying down.  My hands and feet are very cold (especially my right hand where I have more numbness).  The numbness coincided when I returned to a vegan diet.  In the past I have been told that my ferratin is low and I am slightly anemic.  My HCT is low, gran % is low and lymphs high (all slightly out of the normal range). My b12 is 250.  I have elevated serotonin which is being investigated (possible carcinoid, mastocytosis, etc).   I went for acupuncture yesterday that warmed my body and temporarily  alleviated the numbness.  The acupuncturist says I don't have enough red blood cells (going strictly on symptoms; she did not know about my blood counts).  She gave me Chinese herbs and suggested I eat red meat at least 1 time per week as well as yellow vegetables and cinnamon.  I saw your article on treating anemia.  Is there a particular brand of iron liquid minerals or meganutrient supplements that you recommend?  I want to get all my vitamins and minerals in balance.
Thank you,
Deanne

ANSWER:

I could not let this one go by with just the one answer as I had an intuitive moment when reading her email. So just to answer her question regarding supplements, etc. would not have served her well. Therefore I emailed her for more information and received answers that make this a very difficult evaluation. Deanne has so many health issues from several surgeries to several illnesses that were treated by removing parts of the body that is required for balanced health. Because it is so personal I will not publish her answers, you can bet her health issues go back a long way and this one is simply a culmination of that.
My return email to her after her answers:

Deanne, this is going to take some real brain work to write up the answer. This latest problem is simply a culmination of all the others and some of the treatments they used, but some can be reversed to make you feel better. There is one thing you can do ASAP that will help to improve your problem - Start a Balanced Minerals Complex found at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/ionic_liquid_minerals.htm.   If you don't understand why I say that read "MINERAL USES" at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/mineral_uses.htm  You don't mention a severe head trauma that could have damaged your brain so I'm going with the next most likely cause.... As a rule people who have a balance of minerals do not have seizures, anaphylactic reactions and a host of the problems you have named, as that balance is necessary for the brain and your body's organs to function. That one step could improve and maybe stop the numbness you are feeling but you may have another cause going on also...

I replied to her; I will get a full answer to you question and problem in a day or so but do yourself a favor and get a bottle of Life Transfusion Ionic Liquid Minerals instructions will be emails as soon as you place the order, also make sure you are getting lots of B vitamins daily.  

No matter how good the diet you will always need to supplement as our earth is so replete in nutrients necessary to our health...

Your diet is good, but seems to be lacking sufficient good oils. That would be Virgin Olive Oil or Walnut oil or coconut oil.. At least once a day you should have at no less than 1 tablespoon of good oil. Eat at least 2 oz. of nuts or 1/2 avocado, salad dressing made with lemon and virgin olive oil and spices on your salads, which would give you that necessary healthy oil.  This too is important to your brain function, which is where all this and past problems started. This will take time but I think we can help you, not totally able to repair surgical damage done but can make great improvements.

On to answer her question taking the long route;
Deanne I am not deliberately trying and confuse you but I have some things to say that might help you regain your health.

I'm totally amazed that you haven't had more problems develop, even though that list you have would floor anyone. 9 serious problems since 1983. That is a lot and I can honestly say that points to your immune system most likely in the dumper because of all you have experienced. But I want to start at the beginning and get to that later.

 I can only make suggestions and explain what is most likely happening to you - even if you didn't ask but I cannot let something go by that can be improved with natural alternatives. That said;

Starting with; 1. The numbness of the limbs is very possibly the culmination of a lifetime of imbalanced and specific electrolytes in the brain along with a medication you are taking. Pointing to that conclusion are; seizures, anaphylactic reactions and thyroid removal all tell me your brain is totally lacking balanced minerals to fire the neurons and electrical impulses making it impossible for your body to receive the signals from you brain that it needs to function all these years. Our body is an amazing thing and can go along with all those things happening for a long time then one day it can't handle it any longer, which is where I think you are now.

2. The numbness you are experiencing most likely has nothing to do with being vegan and the fact that you are vegan is a good step for you. Providing you make sure that you eat at least 50% to 80% raw fruits and vegetables regularly. Your doctor means well about eating meat but eating meat will not solve the underlying cause for your anemia, because our animal world is so deplete in minerals that you will not get sufficient balance to help you assimilate what you do eat. You have a good diet according to the sample day you sent, maybe lacking a bit more good oil. That would be Virgin Olive Oil or Walnut oil you should have at least 1 tablespoon of oil. You don't have to take a Tablespoon of oil by itself, eat at least 2 oz. of nuts or ? avocado, a couple of tablespoons of almond butter or peanut butter without all the additives Jif and most brands add.

I say that because an RN friend, who was part of a movement to go on a fat-free diet to lose weight, and just about her whole hospital floor was at least 30 lbs. overweight. So they all decided to lose weight together along with a few of the overweight doctors and went all fat-free, which some weight loss guru's say is the reason people are overweight. Sadly, after three months the illnesses among the group skyrocketed and they were catching every cold and virus that came near them and that is a lot in a hospital. After another couple of months they decided the fat-free was doing something to their immune system, so they backed off the fat-free and add healthy fat - no animal fat - back into their diets and after a few weeks found that all but a couple of nurses was better. Another few weeks on the new diet adding daily nuts, avocado, fresh coconut or virgin olive oil brought almost all of them back to 100% health. It took a few a bit longer and those soon admitted to not adding fat back as they doubted the others decisions made by the others. But once they saw the others improve they too added fat to their daily intake. 

3. Several treatments you received over the last twenty years has interrupted a lot of your body's ability to work properly creating the atmosphere for the numbness.  There are a few reasons. Neuropathy, medical term for numbness of limbs, is known to be a latent side effect of your Mantle Radiation, even though it was twenty years ago. Also neuropathy can also be a result of the thyroidectomy, which is my first suspect because Synthroid - the medication you've been on since the thyroidectomy - has latent side effects of neuropathy the longer you take it. Since you've been on Synthroid for 14 years you are due to start a lot of problems caused from it. Those can be any one or several of the following;
Side effects listed for Synthroid are: Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; flushing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; unusual hoarseness); changes in appetite; changes in menstrual periods; chest pain; diarrhea; excessive sweating; fast or irregular heartbeat; fever; heat intolerance; limb numbness; joint pain; leg cramps; mental or mood changes (eg, anxiety, irritability, nervousness); muscle weakness; seizures; severe or persistent headache or fatigue; shortness of breath; stomach cramps; tremors; trouble sleeping; unusual weight gain or weight loss; vomiting; wheezing; Cardiovascular side effects have included symptoms of palpitations, hypertension, tachycardia, and angina which may be exacerbated in patients with underlying cardiovascular disorders. 
Another thing the company literature says; Women taking daily doses had significantly lower bone mineral density levels at the ultradistal radius, midshaft radius, hip, and lumbar spine compared to controls.  Because of this I suggest you take Dr. Garland's Vitamin D-3,K1, BetaCarotene formula to preventing that possibility happening to you. One of the last things I read from the drug company's literature about Synthroid was; Hypersensitivity reactions to inactive ingredients have occurred in patients treated with this thyroid hormone product. 

This is most likely the reason you have your anaphylactic episodes and will most likely continue to happen again from time to time, and you may never know what the inert cause is. There are natural alternatives to providing your body with the thyroid hormones needed and if you are interested in learning them Dr. Garland will be happy to assist you with that.

4. Anemia - is a decrease in red cells as your acupuncturist stated. That does not always equate to needing more iron. 
I and my youngest daughter suffered anemia practically all our life until we started taking Dr. Garland's liquid minerals complex seventeen years ago. I have not seen a doctor in almost ten years but the last CBC that I had and all the ones up to that time since I started taking the minerals were normal. My daughter has a yearly physical and hers continues to be normal as well. The minerals allow your body to absorb the food nutrients you eat making anemia less likely to occur as well as it has just the right balance of iron, which is a minerals.  About 99% of iron pills OTC or prescribed is not an absorbable quality of iron that will equate to correcting anemia

5. Your immune system needs to be strengthened, which isn't too difficult with natural healing. Balanced minerals is the first step or all else will not work very well. Then to heal and take care of the largest part of your immune system the digestive tract. That too is easy to do by simply supplementing digestive enzymes for the stomach to begin the process and a balance of good bacteria (probiotics) your intestinal system requires. Again the person I trust to give the very best and healthiest supplements Dr. Wayne Garland and his Probiotic Digestive Enzyme healthy formula will do the trick. Week one: 1 capsule at the beginning of each meal and 2 at bedtime on an empty stomach. Week two and thereafter; 2 capsules at bedtime or between meals during the day, will do the trick unless you eat a very sugary diet then you will need to do a day with 1 cap. in the beginning of each meal and the 2 at bedtime on an empty stomach. 

I'm sorry to take such a long route but if I can help you reverse what is and has happened to your body I want to try. Now to answer the question you initially asked:  "Is there a particular brand of iron liquid minerals or meganutrient supplements that you recommend?" 

Yes! Life Transfusion Ionic Liquid balanced minerals and MegaNutrient Electro VitaMin formula made to work in conjunction with each other then when you add the immune building supplement Probiotic Digestive Enzyme Formula to strengthen and heal 70% to 80% of the immune system. You cannot go wrong! These three can correct and improve 99.9% of any health issue or problem. I know that sounds arrogant and know-it-all but I've watched it happen for years with people so I can make that statement without reservations! Make sure you get plenty of sunshine or at least 5,000IU of Vitamin D as well. This is crucial. 
Lena

KEEP ON SWINGING

They say that opportunity only knocks once. But temptation seems to pound on my door forever. Even opening up and letting it in doesn't seem to make it go away. More temptations come along and the  beating goes on.

Those temptations that cause me the most problems are those that pull me away from being my best self. So I can relate to the Swiss woman who was served dinner on a domestic American flight. She opened up her dessert - a delicious looking piece of chocolate cake - and immediately sprinkled a generous layer of salt and pepper over it. A shocked flight attendant exclaimed, "Oh! It's not necessary to do that!"

"But it is," the woman replied, smiling. "It keeps me from eating it."

She found a way to drive temptation away from her doorstep, at least for a while.

The most persistent temptations in my life are distractions that keep me from doing what is in my best interest.

I forgo some much-needed exercise because I "just don't feel like it" today. Have you ever felt like that?

You may want to quit that reading group, that difficult class or those music lessons. It's easy to become distracted and get discouraged.

Or maybe we say we just "can't find the time" to spend with those closest to us, such as family. We may want to do these things; it's just that sometimes we need a nudge.

Something baseball great Hank Aaron once said can help out here. "My motto was to keep swinging," he said. "Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging."

Sometimes we just need to keep swinging. And if we tell ourselves that all we need to do today is to take one more swing, that may be enough. We can always take one more swing. And who knows -- today  we might hit a homerun.

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MOTIVATOR
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KEEP ON SWINGING

They say that opportunity only knocks once. But temptation seems to pound on my door forever. Even opening up and letting it in doesn't seem to make it go away. More temptations come along and the  beating goes on.

Those temptations that cause me the most problems are those that pull me away from being my best self. So I can relate to the Swiss woman who was served dinner on a domestic American flight. She opened up her dessert - a delicious looking piece of chocolate cake - and immediately sprinkled a generous layer of salt and pepper over it. A shocked flight attendant exclaimed, "Oh! It's not necessary to do that!"

"But it is," the woman replied, smiling. "It keeps me from eating it."

She found a way to drive temptation away from her doorstep, at least for a while.

The most persistent temptations in my life are distractions that keep me from doing what is in my best interest.

I forgo some much-needed exercise because I "just don't feel like it" today. Have you ever felt like that?

You may want to quit that reading group, that difficult class or those music lessons. It's easy to become distracted and get discouraged.

Or maybe we say we just "can't find the time" to spend with those closest to us, such as family. We may want to do these things; it's just that sometimes we need a nudge.

Something baseball great Hank Aaron once said can help out here. "My motto was to keep swinging," he said. "Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging."

Sometimes we just need to keep swinging. And if we tell ourselves that all we need to do today is to take one more swing, that may be enough. We can always take one more swing. And who knows -- today  we might hit a homerun.

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Steve Goodier Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com  is a professional speaker, consultant and author of numerous books. Visit his site for more information, or to sign up for his FREE newsletter of Life, Love and Laughter at http://LifeSupportSystem.com

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