Determining Factors in Children’s Weight Problems

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://pictures.directnews.co.uk/liveimages/children%20with%20congenital%20heart%20disease%20are%20more%20likely%20to%20be%20overweight_3265_800245189_0_0_7075181_300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://pictures.directnews.co.uk/liveimages/children%20with%20congenital%20heart%20disease%20are%20more%20likely%20to%20be%20overweight_3265_800245189_0_0_7075181_300.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As more and more Americans become overweight, we are seeing our poor choices as adults being passed on to our children. There are three main factors that increase the risk of obesity in our children.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Poor diet. If you are unsure about how to develop <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">a healthy diet</span> for your child, consult your doctor or a dietitian. Children grow and develop rapidly and their nutritional needs differ from yours. <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">A diet that works</span> for you may not be right for your child.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lack of exercise. How does your child use free time – riding a bike and playing outside, or sitting in front of the computer or television? And how do you as parents spend your free time? Parents play a key role in their children’s attitude toward physical activity. The earlier you start adding fitness to your family routine, the more readily the kids will accept it as a normal part of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">family life</span>.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="float: right; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 10px 0pt 10px 10px;"> <ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></ins> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Genetics. Take a look at yourself and your child’s other parent and grandparents. Are several members of your family overweight? Your child may be genetically predisposed to put on excess weight. This genetic tendency is realized in an environment where high-calorie food is always available and opportunities for activity are scarce.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Among the most important things we can do for our children are teaching them to eat sensibly and exercise regularly. This will give them the best chance for a long, disease free life in spite of their genetic tendencies.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If we as parents do not act in the best interest of our children’s health, the effects can be devastating. The resulting issues can include low self-esteem and bullying, behavior and learning problems and depression. Not to mention the health risks associated with being overweight such as sleep apnea, asthma and diabetes. If your child’s weight problems persist into adulthood, they will have a greater chance of developing other life-threatening conditions such as heart disease or cancer.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Let us foster our children’s natural inclination to run around, explore and eat only when hungry (not out of boredom), and a healthy weight should take care of itself</span>

Determining Factors in Children’s Weight Problems

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What Everybody Ought to Know About Water

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://fauzanfadli.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/water2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://fauzanfadli.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/water2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Many people don’t stop to consider that most waters available to us in the West are dead and acidic.  Municipal water travels through pipes and various systems that manipulate the electrical properties and chemically taint the water with up to 90 legally allowable chemicals and contains chlorine and chlorine by-products which have been linked to bladder, breast, and other cancers.  Municipal water generally has no energy value (ORP), little oxygen and is not easily absorbed. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The bottled water that has been enjoying such popularity for the last couple of decades is also dead and is usually quite acidic, which adds to the problem of acidic toxin buildup.  Over 40% of bottled water is from purified, filtered municipal water and some bottled waters are more contaminated than municipal water.  Plastic bottles can also leach dioxin, a known carcinogen, and other chemicals into the fluid contents.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why is this important to you?  Most people have acidic bodies due to accumulated acidic waste from food, drinks, lack of rest, stress, and pollution that is not completely disposed of by their systems.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="float: right; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 10px 0pt 10px 10px;"> <ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></ins> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Consider that when people are born, their bodies are predominantly alkaline. During the normal process of growth, through eating habits, and everyday activities, the human body acquires and stores excess acid waste that may build up to alarming levels and begin to destroy body tissues and organs. These acid wastes deplete their bodies of much needed oxygen and create an environment conducive to the growth of discomfort and disease.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When cells dehydrate, they put into motion the catabolic phase which includes muscle wasting, cell hypoxia (oxygen starvation), DNA damage, and accelerated aging.  As a result, the cell becomes more sensitive to free radicals and more susceptible to viruses and autoimmune diseases. Virtually all symptoms of aging can be traced to cellular dehydration accompanied by free radical damage.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Although it isn’t ideal, our bodies do have a way of dealing with all this acid: neutralization. The body plays a clever trick and leaches (removes) calcium and magnesium (alkaline minerals) from our bones and organs to help offset the over-acidification.  Another clever trick our bodies use is to store the acid that can’t be eliminated or neutralized as solid waste, also known as fat.  This is another defense mechanism our bodies use to actually save our lives in the absence of a healthier way to deal with acidic toxin buildup.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As acidic toxins build up in our bodies, the result is often inflammation in one form or another such as joint stiffness and pain, swelling, gout, acid reflux, fatigue, ‘brain fog’, low-energy, constipation, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">weight gain</span>, etc.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Alkaline ionized water, with its strong antioxidant and super absorption properties due to its much smaller molecular structure, helps extinguish the fires of acidity and inflammation <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">and aids</span> in restoring cellular membranes to their former flexible and permeable state. This allows your cells to once again become more easily hydrated, nourished, oxygenated and healthy. As cells become healthier and less congested, they once again take up the insulin and sugar more efficiently and sugar levels remain lower and more stable in the bloodstream.  Oxygen is also more efficiently distributed throughout your body.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="float: right; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 10px 0pt 10px 10px;"> <ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></ins> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong>Improved cellular hydration also results in a reduction of cell acidy, enhanced immunity, increased <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">fat burning</span>, DNA repair, and increased resistance to viruses. </strong>The proper use of antioxidant alkaline water is the single most important thing that one can do for his or her health.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><em style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Drink alkaline ionized water for 7-10 days and see the results for yourself. Call Tina Smith at 951-505-0502 for a free two-week supply. </em>

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Who ensures the safety of dietary supplements?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://image.made-in-china.com/2f1j00fBqtIMeoCjku/Dietary-Supplement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="http://image.made-in-china.com/2f1j00fBqtIMeoCjku/Dietary-Supplement.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dietary supplements include any products taken by mouth that contain a “dietary ingredient” intended to supplement the diet. This would include vitamins, minerals, herbs, botanicals, amino acids and concentrates, metabolites, constituents, and extracts of these substances. Dietary supplements are not classified or considered to be drugs. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By law, manufacturers are responsible for ensuring their supplements are safe before they are marketed. Unlike drug products, dietary supplements are not reviewed by the government before being made available to the consumer.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On January 04, 2011, President Obama signed the <i>Food Safety Modernization Act</i> into law.</div><div style="float: right; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 10px 0pt 10px 10px;"><ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins><br /><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This measure imposes significant changes in our food safety laws and mandates preventive measures by farmers, manufacturers and distributors, providing increased inspections. The law also provides the FDA with greater authority to regulate the industry. An important part of the law allows the FDA to recognize accredited third party inspection and certification programs for imported products, which has presented a challenge for our food safety authorities in the USDA and FDA.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Is there a National Standard for dietary supplements?</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes. NSF International, one of several independent organizations, has developed a national standard, NSF/ANSI Standard 173. Companies that manufacture and distribute dietary supplements can participate in an independent testing and verification program, which is based on this standard. This program protects consumers by testing for contaminants and then verifies that what’s stated on the label is what’s actually in the bottle.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Federal law requires labels on dietary supplement products contain the following information:</div><ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><li>Statement of identity</li><br /><li>Net quantity of contents</li><br /><li>Directions for use</li><br /><li>Supplement Facts Panel, listing serving size, amount, and active ingredient</li><br /><li>Other ingredients in descending order of predominance</li><br /><li>Name and place of business of manufacturer, packer, or distributor</li><br /></ul><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dietary supplements may not be totally risk free, under all circumstances. Some supplements are marketed without submitting to independent testing. It is important to take the time to make sure there is a GMP, QAI, USDA, NSF, USP or CL quality certified seal on the bottle of product, you are buying.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Rick Mayer can be found at <a href="http://alwaysnatural.com/" target="_blank">Always Natural</a></i></span></div>

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Preserving the Ecological Balance Inside Your Mouth

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn2.content.compendiumblog.com/uploads/user/2c9b66c6-7b80-4006-afb9-8204439bca12/1f5cba22-5c6d-4804-a165-f25a41006350/Image/b57471155970b3b3b327907f9d4490fa/greening_the_world.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://cdn2.content.compendiumblog.com/uploads/user/2c9b66c6-7b80-4006-afb9-8204439bca12/1f5cba22-5c6d-4804-a165-f25a41006350/Image/b57471155970b3b3b327907f9d4490fa/greening_the_world.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We all know the importance of clean air, fresh, wholesome food and pure water, the three most important things in life!  But do we realize that the QUALITY of our air, food and water is what matters most?  And if we do recognize that quality is essential do we know why?  Do we understand at a molecular level what oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and other elements are actually doing, needed and in what amounts?  And when we do know, are we aware of how to use them to maximize health and minimize disease?  This is the essence of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">biology</span>, chemistry and LIFESTYLE MEDICINE!  Using simple but essential elements in our life, to increase our health, performance and longevity!  So simple, yet so complex and so misunderstood!</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unless you’re prepared to go back to school or devote most of your days researching you probably need a team of healthcare professionals who can do the research for you!  The  essence of biological dentistry, naturopathic nutrition, energy and informational medicine and functional lab testing is simply understanding how to assemble natural ingredients in a way that maximizes health and wellness!</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of the most important aspects of a LIFESTYLE MEDICINE program involves regular, and medically supervised detoxification.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="float: right; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 10px 0pt 10px 10px;"><ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins><br /><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Among the many methods that can be used to initiate the gentle removal of toxic poisons that accumulate in the body and contribute to disease, degeneration, and ageing in addition to physical removal of teeth and mercury are:</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><li>OXYGEN and <a href="http://healthytimesarticles.com/ozone-therapy/" title="OZONE THERAPY">OZONE THERAPY</a></li><br /><li>Bio-Resonance Quantum Biofeedback</li><br /><li>Chelation Therapies, IV versus  oral Supplements</li><br /><li>Detox Soaks, Clay or mud baths, wraps or packs</li><br /><li>Colonics and Enemas</li><br /><li>Juicing and cleansing diets</li><br /><li>Homeopathic drainage</li><br /><li>Herbal detox , Detox Foot Pads and <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">Ionic foot baths</span></li><br /><li>Alkaline <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">water machines</span> and Fasting</li><br /><li>Near and Far Infrared Sauna</li><br /></ul><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">OZONE is the naturally occurring elemental form of oxygen that forms in response to ultraviolet energy or in the presence of lightning.  It is the result of a temporary repatterning of oxygen atoms into groups of three.  Ozone generators simulate lightning using an electrical discharge field.  Ozone has a protective influence on the earth and all life forms on the earth , from single celled amoebas to complex human forms.  Ozone absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun in order for life forms to survive the scorching rays and harmful electromagnetic emissions in our atmosphere.  Ozone forms at ground level as a result of the reaction between these ultraviolet lightwaves and the hydrocarbons, nitrogen-oxide and sulfur compounds produced in industry and the process of living.  Ozone helps clean the air so we can safely consume the oxygen in the atmosphere!  Without ozone, anaerobic microbes would literally destroy the ecosystem and create an environment in which you and I could not survive.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ozone is a powerful oxidizer making it highly effective in the control of bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites inside and outside the human body.  The goal of any biological system is ecological balance, and in this instance the battle  between microbial populations and all other kingdoms that share planet earth.  Ecology is essential to life and health inside and outside the body and ozone occurs naturally to help preserve this ecological balance and ensure the procreation of life.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">Medical grade oxygen</span> has been used effectively for many years in conventional medical practices.  Today, the use of medical grade ozone is being recognized as equally as effective in the control of microbial populations in the mouth.    Because of ozone’s physical properties, with the ratio of ozone to oxygen being extremely low, it can easily be directed with precision to effectively regulate bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections in, around and in between teeth and gum pockets around the teeth or on the tongue.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oral infections are a continual battle in both soft and hard tissues of the mouth.  Infections stem from single organisms or combinations of many.  In the early stages of dental work it’s essential to identify and control infections at both the focal and the systemic level in order to have a successful outcome.  Acute and long standing chronic infections of any kind can interfere with the success of healing.  An infection anywhere in the body impacts the immune system and if overlooked can be the primary cause of poor wound healing, recurring cavities, gum disease, failed implants and reinfection of the afflicted tissues or teeth.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="float: right; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 10px 0pt 10px 10px;"><ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins><br /><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oxygen and its energized form, ozone, weakens and penetrates the protective membrane surrounding microbial colonies inside the mouth where organisms sequester to avoid annihilation by the immune system.  Ozone exposes the contents of pathogenic colonies to both the immunologic system and highly concentrated oxygen so they can effectively be eliminated.  One of the most amazing biochemical and physiological studies conducted at Scripps Institute recently showed how antibodies actually produce ozone to protect themselves from invading microorganisms.  When these biofilms are perforated the bacteria can no longer hide from circulating antibodies that attach to identification pathogens and they are exposed to the deadly ozone.</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In reality, we are now duplicating nature’s work within our dental standard of care.  By integrating alternative and holistic therapies into dentistry, we can combine sound, evidence-based science with natural methods.  The therapeutic goals of LIFESTYLE MEDICINE are inclusive rather than exclusive of standard of care and include:</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><li>Elimination of pathogens</li><br /><li>Restoration of proper oxygen metabolism</li><br /><li>Induction of a friendly ecological environment</li><br /><li>Increased circulation and flow of energy</li><br /><li>Immune activation and</li><br /><li>Stimulation of the humoral anti-oxidant system.</li><br /></ul><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>OZONE THERAPY</b> is an exciting method of naturally preserving the ecology of the mouth, gums, teeth and entire oral cavity and it’s now available in Temecula, as part of the holistic services offered through biological dentistry and LIFESTYLE MEDICINE.  We will continue to provide you with informative articles that combine innovative natural methods for regeneration and detoxification of the body, mind and environment!</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Adding oxygen/ozone therapy in dentistry offers a multiplicity of protocols to deal with dental infection in order to optimize results and ensure positive outcomes for the patient.   By working in ALLIANCE with seasoned professionals the patient can enjoy comprehensive care for the whole body, mind and even their environment.  Please watch for our next article about combining the use of bio-resonance and quantum biofeedback to identify where stress is held in the teeth, gums and acupuncture meridians that connect the teeth to the entire body and discover how you can integrated this effective method into your own lifestyle to optimize detoxification and improve systemic healing.</div>

Preserving the Ecological Balance Inside Your Mouth

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Dental Phobias

<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.1800dentist.com/adx/aspx/adxGetMedia.aspx?DocID=136,1759,27,1,Documents&MediaID=1923&Filename=dental-fear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.1800dentist.com/adx/aspx/adxGetMedia.aspx?DocID=136,1759,27,1,Documents&MediaID=1923&Filename=dental-fear.jpg" width="248" /></a></div>In practice, I often encounter (or don’t encounter) patients with dental phobias.  A phobia is defined as an “irrational fear.” It is easy to label this behavior as irrational, but to the patient it is very rational and is usually the result of a childhood trauma at the hands of a dentist who was rough or due to the days before Novocain, when there was no numbing involved.  The dentist would just go to town on the tooth with a hand piece.  Chances were that the hand piece was a slow relic and the burs not as sharp as the industrial diamonds we have today.  It was similar to cutting steak with a butter knife.<br /><br />Through the years, I have only had 3 patients who preferred not to be numb, and I think there was something different about their wiring. One of them would just laugh as I drilled, the other felt like they were getting a “high” off of the drilling.  One patient, who had been in the military, did not allow himself to feel any pain.<br /><br />Then there are other patients who are simply terrified and have never been to the dentist.  Perhaps it is fear of the unknown and someone sticking things in their mouth in a clinical setting.  I have had people with piercings and tattoos who said they could deal with pain anywhere but not in the mouth.  Mothers have told me that visiting the dentist hurt more than childbirth.  In one famous film, a person is tortured by drilling into his teeth without anesthetic.  No wonder people have a fear of the dentist!<br /><br />The problem is that the fear is keeping some people from getting the dental care that they desperately need.  And by the time they do come to the office, in pain, the years of damage and neglect can end up being quite involved and very expensive.<br /><br />Having said all this, how has dentistry changed to address dental phobias?  First of all, Novocain has evolved over the years.  Some of the new anesthetics are stronger and longer lasting.  A lot of the patients that come in saying “they couldn’t numb me” have been able to get numb.  Sometimes the previous doctor just doesn’t get the right landmarks in the mouth. There are at least three to four different anesthetics that we have to choose from with different strengths and durations.  Topical anesthetics can be left in place to numb the tissue before an injection.<br /><br />The subject of anesthesia can extend to breathable gases such as nitrous oxide, oral conscious sedation, and IV sedation.  With nitrous oxide, patients breathe in a mixture of oxygen and nitrous which has a relaxing effect.  It can be quite effective with patients and children and is considered safe, with no lasting effects.  The patients leave the office fully conscious as the nitrous is flushed out of the patients system completely before they leave the office.<br /><br />Oral conscious sedation had become more popular in recent years, where the patient is given a crushed pill placed under the tongue.  The patient’s vital signs are monitored continuously, making the procedure quite safe.  The dentist practicing oral conscious sedation must have adequate training and the administration of the drugs monitored by the proper authorities.<br /><br />IV sedation usually falls in the realm of dental anesthesiologists.  These are dentists who usually study at least two years after receiving their dental degree or are dental specialists such as oral surgeons.  The idea is that when you wake up, you won’t remember the experience you just had, such as the pulling out of wisdom teeth.  It is also helpful when a patient needs a lot of work and doesn’t want to have to keep coming back.<br /><br />Hopefully, I have shed some light on the advances and options a person has that may help to alleviate some dental phobia.  Of course, a dentist’s chair side manner is a good place to start in making the patients’ experience more bearable.<br /><br />Meer Stanisai, DDS is a Murrieta, CA dentist who understands dental phobias and strives to accommodate patients who have fear of dentistry.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">source: <a href="http://healthytimesarticles.com/dental-phobias/" target="_blank">healthytimesarticles</a></span></div>

Dental Phobias

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Orthomolecular Medicine and Nutty Mental Health System

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-page-main/ehow/images/a01/u1/gu/learn-orthomolecular-medicine-800x800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-page-main/ehow/images/a01/u1/gu/learn-orthomolecular-medicine-800x800.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hardly anyone recovers from a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=id&site=&source=hp&q=mental+illness&btnK=" style="color: #cc0000;">mental illness</a> in world. Schizophrenia and other serious disorders, we are told, are incurable and must be managed. And the only management allowed consists of psychiatrist visits and psychotropic drugs—for life. Whether the patient is labeled “bipolar with psychosis,” “bipolar,” or something else, the bottom line is that once these unfortunate individuals become ill, they are not given treatment that enables them to restore what they used to have: their mental health.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After 55 years of dealing with my family members’ mental disorders, I’ve finally learned that the real problem is not mental illness—the problem is how it is treated. Here in the U.S., patients are given care which (A) only suppresses the symptoms and (B) is designed to bring in the highest profits. While caring for my relatives with “uni-polar bipolar,” and “bipolar with psychosis,” and “ADHD” and “slight, atypical bipolar,” and “bipolar with a touch of schizophrenia,” (no joke) and all the rest, I learned the hard way that it’s the profit motive in mental health care that explains why patients don’t recover. There are billions, maybe trillions, of dollars to be made each and every year by managing these illnesses. No one makes a dime once a patient actually recovers.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Clearly, America’s model of mental health care is bad but just how bad is it? Consider this:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In October, 2000 the King County Council (where Seattle is located) passed Ordinance #13974, the purpose of which was to enable mentally ill DSHS clients to recover. The next year, still using traditional mental health care, 9,304 such patients were treated. Of these, 5 recovered, adding up to a success rate of .0005%. For emphasis, that’s point zero zero zero five percent. By any standard, that number represents a colossal failure. Since mental health care is practiced the same way in every city and town across America, I believe it’s safe to say that the recovery rate is about the same from San Diego to New York and everywhere in-between. And yet, it is the only type of mental health care DSHS pays for. And when I say “DSHS,” I mean “you.”</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For a small percentage of psychiatric patients, this type of care controls the patient’s symptoms well enough that he/she can lead a fairly normal life. Of course, the fact remains that the symptoms are merely being suppressed, not cured, and he or she must remain a patient—for life.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Let’s take a closer look at the problem. Remember, whether in private offices or through DSHS, mental health care is practiced the same way across the entire country. It is a three-part model that goes like this:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Part One:  The patient is given a “diagnosis,” which is, in reality, only a description of  his symptoms, such as “ADHD,” “schizophrenia,” “bipolar,” “Sudden Rage Disorder,”  “Oppositional-Defiant Disorder,” etc.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Part Two:  The patient is given a lifetime of (expensive) appointments to talk about his symptoms.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Part Three:  The patient is given synthetic, patented (expensive) drugs in an attempt to control his symptoms.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Aside from a few patients who are also given shock treatment (electro-convulsant therapy), these three parts are all there is to our mental health care system.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It’s like having pneumonia and coughing a lot, so you’re diagnosed with “Bad Cough Disorder:”  Part One of your treatment would be your ridiculous diagnosis of “Bad Cough Disorder.”  Part Two would be a lifetime of talking about your cough, such as how you feel about it, how your family feels about listening to you cough, how sad it is that you lost your job due to your cough, how DSHS will pay your living expenses since your cough keeps getting you fired, etc. Part Three would be patented, synthetic, (expensive) cough syrup—for life. That is how American mental health care works. It is nothing more than palliative care and that is why it doesn’t work—and never will.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, what’s the answer? Orthomolecular Medicine</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can tell you from many, many years in talking to psychiatrists during my loved ones’ appointments that there is one topic that is virtually never addressed in American psychiatric care: the biological causes of mental disorders.  Yet what could be more important?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What tens of thousands of people in more than 40 countries have learned to use to cure mental illnesses is something that does uncover and cure the biological causes of mental illnesses. It is called “Orthomolecular Medicine,” a term coined by the late Linus Pauling, PhD to describe a method of “correcting the molecules” of the body. In other words, it means rebalancing the body’s biochemistry.  It is real, effective, simply awesome mental health care.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Orthomolecular medicine has been around for decades. Even though patients who have been chronically ill for many years have less chance of making a full recovery, many others have been cured of even serious psychiatric problems such as schizophrenia, paranoia, bipolar, anxiety disorders and others. How do they do it? Doctors (or even laypeople, like myself) have learned the proven causes of these illnesses as well as which lab tests detect them. Treatment means using nutritional medicine to rebalance the patient’s biochemistry.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For example, scientists have known since the 1930s that a highly elevated level of histamines can cause psychosis or schizophrenia. In traditional mental health care, the psychotic patient is given a synthetic drug—for life.  Yet, a blood test, costing about $40 at most any lab, will show your (or your loved one’s) level of histamines. If the level is too high, it is Carl Pfeiffer, M.D.’s treatment of amino acids, vitamins and minerals that brings it down. As the level returns to the normal range, the psychiatric symptoms gradually disappear but only if the histamines were too high to begin with. There are several other proven, biological causes of psychosis or schizophrenia and each case must be treated according to which biochemical problem he has.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The histamine blood test showed that my relative who was psychotic and talking to demons had an extremely elevated level of histamines. I gave him the nutritional medicine which I bought at the health food store. He recovered completely and now lives a very good and normal life.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Being an “integrative” model of mental health care, orthomolecular medicine does not disallow synthetic medications. If a patient is psychotic, tranquilizers or antipsychotic meds are used. The difference is that the patient isn’t simply left on these drugs for life. The doctor takes the next step: he orders the diagnostic lab tests proven to detect the biochemical causes of mental illnesses. He then prescribes the nutritional medicine necessary to restore his patient’s biochemistry. As his biochemistry rebalances, his psychiatric symptoms disappear and he is gradually weaned off the synthetic medications (if he was taking any).</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Since I didn’t know of any doctors in my area who knew how to use orthomolecular treatment, I read books about it and followed the recommendations they contained. Now my relative is 100% well and free of welfare, DSHS, psychiatrists and synthetic medications. Gone also are all the ambulances, ER visits, police officers, psychiatric hospitals, social workers, judges and lawyers.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another relative diagnosed with “ADHD,” then “Slight, atypical bipolar disorder” is also 100% well and free of any kind of psychiatric care. While more than one school administrators thought he’d end up in jail, he’s now in college with a 3.75 GPA and is on the Dean’s List. Getting his biochemistry straightened out was a big part of his recovery from psychiatric problems, drugs and alcohol, and finding success in life.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But the point of this article is not to talk about my family—I’m just mentioning our experiences so you can see what other people are doing to cure mental disorders, and not just here in the U.S. but in over 40 countries.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Orthomolecular Society has an annual conference in Canada where orthomolecular experts from all over the world meet to share new scientific information on the abnormal biochemistries that lead up to mental disorders. Laypeople can attend the sessions and may also be interested in attending the “Mental Health Regained” session in which recovered patients get to speak about their experiences. If Canada is too far away for you, the Society also sells a CD of the sessions. They also have the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and a quarterly newsletter.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Except for those who profit by keeping people mentally ill, such as drug companies, America’s mental health care system is a miserable failure—and it needs to go away. Besides causing inhumane, lifelong suffering for people with a mental illness and their families, it forces you and me to pay about $2 million per patient over the course of his or her lifetime when you add up the costs of half a century of rent, utilities, food, medical and psychiatric care and, in many cases, ambulances, ER visits, and even jail or prison time, not to mention the cost of crimes they tend to commit.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Orthomolecular medicine, by contrast, might cost about $500 for all the lab work and six months’ worth of nutritional medicine.  Once recovered, the patient returns to work and pays taxes, doubly benefiting the system. Over the last 60 years or so, orthomolecular medicine has proven to be sensible, effective, inexpensive, and safe. You can even use it to prevent mental illnesses in the first place. It really is awesome mental health care.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Written by Linda Santini, M.Ed. • more info at <a href="http://restoremymind.com/" target="_blank">RestoreMyMind.com</a></div>

Orthomolecular Medicine and Nutty Mental Health System

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