by CEGant on January 21, 2012
I specialize in molecular health and healing, especially as it supports psychospiritual growth and mental health recovery from problems such as AD/HD, autism, mood problems, addictions, food and carbohydrate compulsions and nicotine dependence.
See my article on: First Priority in Providing Health Care
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Yours to good health,
CE Gant, MD, PhD
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by CEGant on January 20, 2012
I appreciated the article on constipation by Debra Graugnard, a Certified Colon Hydrotherapist at NIHA, and I plan to photocopy it and provide the copy to all of my patients who suffer from constipation.
Constipation as a symptom is not taken seriously by many healthcare practitioners, including me at various times in my career, which is in my opinion constitutes negligence. Constipation is a serious and deadly symptom and should be aggressively cured.
I have some good news to add to these nice suggestions about managing constipation in the article Got Constipation? (Part 1) by Debra Graugnard – the actual, primary cause of chronic constipation has been discovered. Anytime in history when the causal factor is discovered for a symptom or a disorder, clinicians have been able to zero in on the cause and be more effective in achieving positive outcomes. Knowing the primary cause of chronic constipation helps us understand why colon hydrotherapy is so effective. Knowing the cause also should help clinicians and patients alike take this symptom very seriously.
Cause of Chronic Constipation
The primary cause of all constipation are unfriendly germs which live in the intestines, usually a class of bacteria called anaerobes, which over eons have evolved certain clever, chemical, survival skills. These organisms secrete “neurotoxins” – toxins which damage neurons – and which paralyze the muscles surrounding the intestines. Why does this toxin confer a survival advantage to these nasty germs? By paralyzing the intestines (AKA constipation), peristalsis (intestinal movement) slows down or stops and the organisms don’t get removed via the stool as easily as they might have, had the intestines not been paralyzed.
The germ also tries to stick to the surface of the intestines with glue-like substances so that it is not swept away by peristalsis. Colon hydrotherapy, fiber, additional water, exercise and various herbal therapies and antibiotics and other supportive strategies are effective because they all conspire to weaken and wash the germ away.
Perhaps the most famous constipation-causing, anaerobic organism is the clostridia bacteria or the tetanus germ. It secretes a neurotoxin (tetanospasmin) which is so potent in fact that if a tetanus infection were to get past the protective barriers of the intestines or were to infect you through a skin wound, you might develop the dreaded disease tetanus or “lockjaw” and become totally paralyzed for months and unable to breathe on your own. Tetanus infected patients require assisted respiratory therapy for months in an ICU until the toxin which is bound irreversibly to muscle receptors, gradually fades away.
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by CE Gant on January 3, 2012
Most people believe symptoms are the disease so they often take drugs, herbs or supplements to suppress symptoms in the false belief that a medical or psychiatric problem is resolved if symptoms disappear. These myths may stem from deep, unconscious fears handed down to us from ages past when diarrhea was equated with typhoid fever or a cough could mean that one has tuberculosis. TB did kill about one billion human beings in the 1800s, so one can understand why people are afraid of symptoms and believe they are the disease itself.
Only recently have we come to understand that symptoms suggest something very different. Symptoms are actually the result of the body trying to heal itself in some way. Diarrhea and cough could very rarely signify a lethal problem and should be investigated if they become chronic problems, but actually these symptoms are protective detoxification mechanisms which the body employs to remove toxins from gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts respectively.
Fatigue can signify malnutrition and therefore tiredness could be a natural response of the body to conserve calories. Nausea is a protective signal from the body instructing us to fast, because the GI tract is dealing with something toxic or infectious and does not want to devote its limited resources to digesting food. Joint pain is a clear protective signal to rest an inflamed joint. Depression could result from overdoing our fight/flight sympathetic nervous system and the consequent burnout protectively forces us to rest.
Symptoms are the result of the body trying to heal itself in some way, but those symptoms can be maladaptive. If diarrhea causes severe dehydration, or if a cough prevents sleep, obviously these symptoms, however valid as healing mechanisms, are maladaptive and may need to be suppressed with herbal or drug therapies. But usually, symptoms are perfectly adaptive attempts of the body to heal, and should be understood from that perspective and modified only if they spill over into a maladaptive pattern.
For instance, fever is a protective mechanism designed to injure infectious organisms which do not reproduce as well at higher temperatures. However, brain injury or seizures can occur if fever gets too high, so medication may be needed to keep it under 104 degrees to prevent such adverse maladaptive responses.
Three Main Kinds of Chronic Symptoms
Chronic symptoms are usually not lethal, but they can be life-limiting. The three main kinds of chronic symptoms are:
1- fatigue,
2- pain (emotional or physical) and
3- dysfunction (occupational, social, academic, interpersonal).
I am often asked, “Doc, how should these be treated?” Or, “What can I take to make these symptoms go away?” This is the wrong question, and the age old dictum – if you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong answers – applies here. Many chronic medical and psychiatric problems never resolve because the wrong questions are asked about how to resolve them.
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by CE Gant on December 27, 2011
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, severe, usually progressive, autoimmune, demyelinating, mildly inheritable disease of the central nervous system which many studies suggest is rapidly increasing in prevalence and incidence (1). The earliest symptoms of MS include psychological distress, fatigue, numbness, impaired vision, loss of balance, weakness and even bladder dysfunction, and they usually begin in early adulthood.
With conventional management of MS, these symptoms can wax and wane for up to 30 years, but in roughly 50% of all cases MS steadily progresses to severe disability and premature death killing about 3,000 Americans a year. MS is named for the many scars it produces in the brain and spinal cord as white blood cells (T cells) attack the myelin insulation around neurons. MS afflicts between 250,000 and 350,000 Americans per year.
Drug therapies can slow progression of MS but usually cannot put it into prolonged remission. The multiplicity of probable or proven risk factors – toxic (e.g., heavy metals), infectious (e.g., herpes), psycho-emotional, gastro-intestinal, allergic (e.g., gluten), lifestyle and nutritional – risk factors which undoubtedly worsen MS, and the power of integrative medicine to neutralize such causalities, should offer new hope for MS sufferers. For example, long-term, hyperbaric oxygen therapy alone has been shown to slow or remit the disease (2, 3) and applying hyperbaric oxygen simultaneously with nutritional intravenous therapies (NIHA Relox therapy) is likely to accelerate healing of MS even more.
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by CE Gant on December 2, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement protests economic inequities and blatant corruption in our free enterprise system gone amuck. Liberals and Democrats are generally glorifying the Occupy Wall Street movement as an opportunity to push for higher taxes on the wealthy to fund bigger government and reign in corporate profits. Conservatives and Republicans see another threat to free enterprise, more uncertainty and more big government intrusion on the horizon, and suggest that the Occupy Wall Street movement’s anger should instead be directed at the Federal Government where crony capitalism and the heart of the corruption lies.
I suggest that a far more fundamental issue exists which has the potential to capitalize on Occupy Wall Street raw energy and ultimately achieve bipartisan support, which incidentally tallies to 100% of the people and not merely 99%.
A Day in The Life of an Occupy Wall Street Protester
Let’s imagine a typical day in the lives of a protester and a Wall Street executive. They both drink a cup of coffee first thing in the morning laced with plastic residues and phthalates from a coffee maker, although the executive’s is served in a ceramic mug and the protester drank theirs from a Styrofoam cup which enhanced such toxic exposures.
On the way to the protest or to work, they both inhaled hefty whiffs of MTBE, a carcinogenic gasoline additive. They both had a processed food breakfast laced with preservatives, additives, hydrogenated oils and diabetes-causing carbohydrates, and like all non-organic food, the breakfast contained “acceptable” residues of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. The executive’s coffee creamer comes with antibiotics and xenohormones and the protestor’s coffee contains artificial creamer and a raft of unpronounceable chemicals including brain-damaging hydrogenated oils.
We’ve only gotten past breakfast so bear with me as the plot thickens.
Lead and chlorine-laced tap water is consumed by the protestor that morning and here is where the executive may have an advantage – their water is filtered – but alas, it has been sitting in a plastic container for 2 months so they get more phthalates added to their dose in the morning coffee.
The executive eats a delivered lunch from a local, upscale restaurant polluted with aluminum from the cookware and the aluminum container and foil wrapping. The protestor eats more junk food riddled with most of the above, and they get their aluminum hit and more plastics too from the can of their favorite soda. The executive imbibes perhaps the most dangerous pollutant of all, alcohol in the form a few martinis, and the protester takes a few hits of street pot laced with a tad of PCP and 4 other psychotropic drugs intended to increase its potency and street value.
By midafternoon the urban smog has reach its peak and both the protester and the executive absorb hundreds of carcinogens through their lungs and skin, this despite the air purifiers struggling to remove some of the pollutants in the executive’s suite of offices. Despite this, the protester may ultimately have the advantage her by breathing outdoor air which originally was “fresh” whereas the executive has been inhaling rebreathed indoor air which has a higher concentration of carbon dioxide and less oxygen.
Despite the air purifier’s best efforts, the office building (like most) suffers from “sick building syndrome” and mycotoxins (mold toxins) lurking in its nooks and crannies and ducts. The new office rugs in the foyer look inviting, but they are outgassing the worst possible industrial solvents imaginable and will continue to do that for years.
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Occupy Wall Street? Give Me Chemicals or Give Me Death!
by CE Gant on December 2, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement protests economic inequities and blatant corruption in our free enterprise system gone amuck. Liberals and Democrats are generally glorifying the Occupy Wall Street movement as an opportunity to push for higher taxes on the wealthy to fund bigger government and reign in corporate profits. Conservatives and Republicans see another threat to free enterprise, more uncertainty and more big government intrusion on the horizon, and suggest that the Occupy Wall Street movement’s anger should instead be directed at the Federal Government where crony capitalism and the heart of the corruption lies.
I suggest that a far more fundamental issue exists which has the potential to capitalize on Occupy Wall Street raw energy and ultimately achieve bipartisan support, which incidentally tallies to 100% of the people and not merely 99%.
A Day in The Life of an Occupy Wall Street Protester
Let’s imagine a typical day in the lives of a protester and a Wall Street executive. They both drink a cup of coffee first thing in the morning laced with plastic residues and phthalates from a coffee maker, although the executive’s is served in a ceramic mug and the protester drank theirs from a Styrofoam cup which enhanced such toxic exposures.
On the way to the protest or to work, they both inhaled hefty whiffs of MTBE, a carcinogenic gasoline additive. They both had a processed food breakfast laced with preservatives, additives, hydrogenated oils and diabetes-causing carbohydrates, and like all non-organic food, the breakfast contained “acceptable” residues of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. The executive’s coffee creamer comes with antibiotics and xenohormones and the protestor’s coffee contains artificial creamer and a raft of unpronounceable chemicals including brain-damaging hydrogenated oils.
We’ve only gotten past breakfast so bear with me as the plot thickens.
Lead and chlorine-laced tap water is consumed by the protestor that morning and here is where the executive may have an advantage – their water is filtered – but alas, it has been sitting in a plastic container for 2 months so they get more phthalates added to their dose in the morning coffee.
The executive eats a delivered lunch from a local, upscale restaurant polluted with aluminum from the cookware and the aluminum container and foil wrapping. The protestor eats more junk food riddled with most of the above, and they get their aluminum hit and more plastics too from the can of their favorite soda. The executive imbibes perhaps the most dangerous pollutant of all, alcohol in the form a few martinis, and the protester takes a few hits of street pot laced with a tad of PCP and 4 other psychotropic drugs intended to increase its potency and street value.
By midafternoon the urban smog has reach its peak and both the protester and the executive absorb hundreds of carcinogens through their lungs and skin, this despite the air purifiers struggling to remove some of the pollutants in the executive’s suite of offices. Despite this, the protester may ultimately have the advantage her by breathing outdoor air which originally was “fresh” whereas the executive has been inhaling rebreathed indoor air which has a higher concentration of carbon dioxide and less oxygen.
Despite the air purifier’s best efforts, the office building (like most) suffers from “sick building syndrome” and mycotoxins (mold toxins) lurking in its nooks and crannies and ducts. The new office rugs in the foyer look inviting, but they are outgassing the worst possible industrial solvents imaginable and will continue to do that for years.
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