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Tuesday October 6, 2009

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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Today's question covers RA, a problem that plagues millions today so I'm hoping you aren't one of those souls but if you are this can maybe give you some insight into the problem.

In the last three days I have had several calls and emails regarding fevers in them or a loved one  and the doctors are telling them to lower all fever. That really is counterproductive to what your body needs, so if your family has this dilemma you might want to read "Starve A Fever" to find out what to do about one and when to lower a fever.

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 and also was taught those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems 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 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! 

IF YOU HAVE A HEALTH QUESTION 
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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

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QUESTION:
 
I am sending this to ask you about things to use for Rheumatoid Arthritis. I have been diagnosed with it and am using as many antiinflammatory herbs as I know. I was diagnosed in August and since then I have started using Boswellian, Devil's Claw, Tumeric. I am taking those in powder and tablet now, but my daughter and I have tinctured them along with Ginger, Valerian and we will tincture White Willow Bark. Do you know if there is anything that I am missing or do you have a product that helps with inflammation and pain. This week we have had lots of rain and needless to say, I am swollen and in pain. I have been told that the herbs I am using work very well, but may take some weeks to get into my system. I have been only using them for about two weeks. Other than that, we are doing well.

 
Jackie

 
ANSWER:

This email was really a compliment as this gal and her husband have been our friends for many years but living across the country from each other for many years now and not seeing each other as often as we should with all being so busy, it was a great compliment she asked her questions.  Friends and family tend to forget I do health evaluations until something brings it to mind, therefore I feel it a great compliment when they ask questions and listen. Here was my answer to her and one that so many could benefit from as arthritis is so rampant!

Jackie, what you are doing is good, just not the right track!

I thought I had told you about my experiences with pain and arthritis. It started when I was 23 years old... First was fibromyalgia then came arthritis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, more pain... My fingers had arthritic nodules for about twenty-something years and hurt all the time. Then add fibromyalgia pain on top of that sometimes it seemed almost unbearable. I had bad reaction after bad reaction to prescription drug given me by doctors and nothing seemed to work. I tried herbs but never found the key to them helping me so went back to conventional medicine... I was spending almost $400 a month on prescription drugs at that time and still no real pain relief and the nodules grew more. But when I met Dr. Wayne Garland in 1995 - my now naturopath friend - he advised me on what to do and I stopped all prescription drugs! Within days I found pain relief and then sort of ignored symptoms as I had none, unless I ate sugary foods or became overtired, then had pain because of it. Anyway about a year after starting the program one day Sam noticed I did not have the nodules on my hands - I have no idea when they dissolved since I was pain-free I was ignoring my body - they have never returned, it's almost 14 years now. Of course I continue taking the balanced liquid minerals and supplements daily - when I'm away from home and get away from my routine I sometimes forget to take them as faithfully but within a couple of days of not taking them the pain begins to raise its head - I try not to let that happen too often. I also now take lower doses of the herbal formulas, lowered them after the first year or so. But below is his program he had me do that was so successful. 

What most don't really understand is that Arthritis, whether it's Rheumatoid or Osteo is inflammation gone wild because your immune system isn't working very well or as in RA overworking and warring against itself so your body is really trying to overcome the problem, hence the pain and inflammation. The Immune system must be brought into balance or you can't heal and fighting pain is a losing battle until the cause is eliminated. Our body is a strange thing and the immune system can go wild over almost anything thing. The herbs you mention are good just not enough and probably not the right balance either. So until you work on your immune system even they won't work too well for long... There are hosts more herbs that need to be added and that is what Dr. G. has done with his formulas! Put them all together in an affordable balanced formula. That way you don't have to buy so many and guess how much of each will work together. I'm sure that the reason I wasn't able to gain control the first time I tried herbs was because I had no idea how much I needed of each. This man has done wonders for me and my family and friends! and I hope it doesn't overwhelm you... But it so works for 99.9% of people who try it. That one person who tried it didn't do the whole program so we couldn't expect it to work too well for him. Some people are so strong headed they don't want to listen to anyone else and think they have the answers... Occasionally a person does but the majority aren't herb savvy enough - as I was for all those years - to know what works and what doesn't or how much to take to get results. Just like drugs too much or too little in the herb family won't work correctly either!
 

Dr. G.'s Rheumatoid Arthritis Solutions that worked for me!
 

DIET: I won't dwell on diet recommendations as your diet is probably good already - being a vegan for so long - as he says NO MEAT OR DAIRY PRODUCTS NO PREPACKAGED OR PREPARED FOODS NO WHITE ANYTHING.  Get exercise - at least 30 to 45 minute brisk walk daily - double your heart rate for at least 15 minutes before cooling down - with as few clothes on as possible to let the sun do the vitamin D thing as arthritic patients are severely deficient in vitamin D. If you can't get at least 20 to 30 minutes of direct sunlight a day - extremely important - you need to be taking a high potency Vitamin D3 supplement, then lots of purified water (put 1/2 gal filtered water and mix 1 Tablespoon baking soda to get it alkalized as arthritic people are severely lacking alkalization, drink two of those a day if you can but at least 1/2 gallon, 1 gallon is better.) along with the following;

1. Start with a 7-Day Cleansing Diet, which you may or may not need but take a look and see what you think as it is important to get the Alkalizing started and detox as fast as possible to start healing the Immune System, which requires  cleansing the liver, kidney and adrenal glands, which his 7-day plan does.

2. LIFE TRANSFUSION IONIC LIQUID MINERALS  This is really key to any healing or prevention and not doing it will severely compromise the success of the program.
 Week One - 1/2 teaspoon am -1/2 teaspoon pm (no later than 4 or 5pm) in tomato or V8 juice or until your body can tolerate that much detoxing and electrical impulses.
 Week two or whenever tolerance was obtained - up it to 3/4 teaspoon twice a day.
 Week three or whenever tolerance was reached to allow you to increase it -  1 teaspoon twice a day in juice, thereafter. For those who are severely malnourished or eat bad diet, take doses breakfast, lunch and mid afternoon until balance is reached.

 3. PROBIOTIC WITH DIGESTIVE ENZYMES FORMULA
 Absolutely a must for strengthening the immune system since 80% of the immune system resides in the digestive/intestinal tract. 1 or 2 capsules with each meal and 2 at bedtime on an empty stomach, depending on your daily food intake. If you eat lots of ChemChee or other fermented foods and at least 70% of your meals are raw organic vegetables and fruits this can be omitted from the protocol after ten days. I don't do that so I take them every night at bedtime and at least 1 twice a day with meals as I have IBS - accompanies fibromyalgia in 90% of FMS cases - so is a must for me otherwise the morning IBS pain is more than I can handle. IBS is something that happens when the immune system has been out of whack for a long time, as mine had been. Now my oldest daughter, 48 years old,  has the same problems with fibromyalgia, because she didn't listen to me for years when I told her she was following in her grandmother and mothers footsteps, has now developed IBS. She too controls the IBS pain and balances the large part of the immune system, which is controlling most of her FMS pain, with this formula.

 4. IMMUNE SUPPORT FORMULA.
 For at least three months this added immune system building formula of herbs and nutrients to further regulate and balance the immune system as RA is an immune system failure. Take 6 caps a day 2 with each meal.

 5. ARTHRITIS X HERBAL Formula
 We have known for several years that a food supplement extracted from yucca acts like a natural form of cortisone, to reduce and eliminate the pain, swelling and joint stiffness suffered by arthritis victims. This formula contains that and more! Take 6 caps a day 2 with each meal for at least 12 to 14 weeks and can usually cut back... I stop them a year later, but still take it when I find myself indulging in sweet concoctions or not getting sufficient sleep that triggers the pain.

 6. STRUCTURAL LUBRICATION FORMULA.
 An ultimate anti inflammation killing formula. This is vital to reduce inflammation caused pain. Take 3 caps with food three times a day. After the immune system starts to respond favorably you may be able to decrease this formula as much as 2 or 3 morning and evening.  I now only take 3 most mornings.

 7. SKELETAL SUPPORT Formula
 This special anti-arthritis formula contains the vital bone minerals boron, magnesium, calcium, copper and glucosamine, an amino sugar derived from the chitin of shellfish that assists in the formation and repair of cartilage and body tissues. Formulated to provide maximum nutritional support for all bone, hip, joint, cartilage and ligament needs. 3 capsules three times a day with food! I took it for a full year and now I only take it for a couple of weeks every three or four month just for balancing my skeletal system strength.

 8. LIQUID CALCIUM FORMULA.
This assists the Structural Lubrication Formula in repairing and balancing bone building, which is necessary with RA damaged bones and marrow. Two Teaspoons - One teaspoon spaced 12 hours apart daily. 

All his formulas contain pure organic ingredients so you can take them with the assurance they are the best and healthiest you can get.
Lena

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Thought for the Day
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Sadly, the prevailing school of thought is for women to begin getting pap tests by 21 years old or three years after they become sexually active, whichever comes first. These days, I'm afraid that number keeps getting younger and younger.

But British experts found that dropping the screening age to below 25 years old did not bring about a drop in the incidences of cervical cancer.

Why is that? Simple! The lesions discovered in the Pap exams of younger women are often so low grade that they eventually go away on their own without any treatment. In fact, it was found that aggressively treating cancerous cervical lesions in younger patients is actually making the situation worse.

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MOTIVATOR
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GOOD PEOPLE

A doctor said to his patient, "You have a slight heart condition, but I wouldn't worry about it."

"Really, Doc?" the patient replied. "Well, if you had a slight heart condition, I wouldn't worry about it either."

We can sometimes get the impression that most of the world is more or less out for themselves and that people care little about the plight of others. But I choose to believe differently. I believe that a lot of people are basically concerned about others, even if they don't always know how to express it. That is perhaps why a certain story, clipped years ago and filed away, has remained one of my favorites to this day.

A trucker relates that he was traveling through rural North Carolina on I-95 when a brown sedan merged onto the highway. It weaved back and forth between lanes, causing the driver of the truck to shift into a lower gear. At first he thought the driver was drunk, but when he came closer, the trucker saw an old man shaking uncontrollably behind the wheel. He noticed a Citizen's Band aerial whipping to and fro as the car jerked between lanes, so he called on the radio: "You in the brown Chevy, if you can hear me, pull over. Pull off the road!"

Amazingly, he did! The trucker pulled up behind the car and climbed from his cab. The elderly man staggered from his auto and fell into the trucker's arms. He poured out a story of months of fear and pain that accompanied the illness of his only daughter.

Now he was returning from the hospital where it was decided that she would cease any further treatment. In the hospital he remained "strong" and stoic for his daughter, but out on the road he fell apart.

The two men talked for the good part of an hour. The father eventually decided to share his pain with his daughter and said he felt good enough to drive home. The men embraced and the trucker followed him for 50 miles. As they drove along, the two talked together on the radio.

The older man finally acknowledged that his exit was ahead and thanked his new friend again for the help. The trucker asked if he could make it home all right and, suddenly, a third voice broke in on the conversation: "Breaker 19, don't worry, good buddy. Go your way. I'll see him home!" Glancing in his mirror, he saw a livestock truck move into the exit lane behind the brown sedan.

I think there are good people the world over. People who will gladly give that caring touch, a needed warm embrace or a patient and listening ear. They are like angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Look around. You're sure to see one. And look in the mirror. You might spot one there, too.
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