Are they telling you that it’s time to look at your diet? If you are reacting to pollens, grasses, and other environmental “allergens,” your sensitivity and intolerance to these substances may be just the tip of an iceberg. It appears that seasonal allergy symptoms are expressed based on a “total load” of antigens in the body, of which food is a part. Dietary changes have proven again and again to influence our sensitivity to season allergens, having a profound relationship to the cause of our symptoms. Are they telling you to work on your digestion? For centuries, Chinese Medicine have given us insight into the relationship between digestion and the entire respiratory system. In most cases where susceptibility to allergy is strong, there is a central digestive component. This focuses largely on the phenomenon of intestinal permeability, also known as “leaky-gut syndrome,” as well as
Read more →You may be. Having treated hundreds of patients with symptoms of hypothyroidism, I can say with assurance that many cases where the TSH test was within what is considered to be normal range benefited remarkably from empirical use of the thyroid medicines, usually a desiccated thyroid preparation known as Armour Thyroid™ or Nature-Throid™. Indeed, if we accepted the TSH test as the only indicator of the need for thyroid, countless patients in our clinic (and in clinics throughout the United States) would be suffering needlessly from symptoms of hypothyroid. Despite normal basic laboratory tests for hypothyroidism (i.e., the TSH test), many of our patients are indeed “sub-clinically hypothyroid.” Another way of putting this is that they have “sub-laboratory” hypothyroidism, a term coined by Alan Gaby, M.D. in his excellent review article entitled “Sub-laboratory” Hypothyroidism and the Empirical use of Armour Thyroid ™in 2004 (Altern Med Rev 2004:9(2): 157-179). Here Gaby
Read more →There can be many causes of fatigue, but one thing is fairly consistent: it strongly impacts all of your activities, and the very quality of your life. Fatigue is the absence of energy, vigor, and the drive that was once your’s. Whatever your definition, it is intolerable, and conventional diagnostic and treatment methods do not address what is becoming an epidemic problem. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) affects 1 out of every 544 people in North America, 80% of whom are women. Fatigue can be a feature of many other health problems, as well as a significant “disease” in itself. Quite frankly, it is the biggest complaint amongst our patients, sometimes the main problem for someone seeking care, or as is often the case, secondary to other problems. Common Causes of Chronic Fatigue Hormone Imbalances (thyroid, adrenal, sex hormones, pancreatic hormones) Prolonged exertion (mental or physical) Injury, surgery,
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