Dysautonomia (12 Stressors behind the Total Stress Load Index)
The Primary Cause of All Chronic Medical and Psychiatric Disorders
The nervous system is like the famous Certs commercial, “Two, two, two mints in one.” Two parts of the nervous system are anatomically and physiologically distinct yet they coexist in our brain and nervous system. They are:
1) The rest and digest, regenerative, parasympathetic system
2) The fight and flight, degenerative sympathetic nervous system
The rest and digest, regenerative, parasympathetic system is where our nervous system prefers to be, but when sudden, emergent threats to survival occur, our nervous system will gladly sacrifice its regenerative, healing mode of operation in order to deal with a short-term, life-threatening emergency. A little degeneration and physiological injury is a small price to pay to avoid getting attacked and killed by a predator (originally where the fight/flight response came from).
The key phrase here is “short-term,” because in the modern world, many kinds of stress are preventing us from returning to the preferred rest/digest, healing, parasympathetic mode (12 stressors listed below). Thus, chronic stress (scientific term is dysautononomia) leads to long-term, biochemical and cellular adaptive abnormalities, often causing the symptoms of psychological, immunological, neurological and endocrine (acronym is PINE) distress. Once chronically trapped in PINE Distress, an over-expressive, sympathetic nervous system drives unremitting fight (anger/resentments/hate) and flight (anxiety/fear), and relatively less time is spent living in the serenity of the present, the Now. Psychic pain and suffering results and individuals afflicted in this way are prone to psychiatric symptoms (anxiety, depression, insomnia, obsessions, phobias, inattentiveness) and experience unhappiness.
At least 12 types of stressors can gang up on us and add up to a Total Stress Load Index (TSLI) which drives the symptoms of distress, medical and psychiatric symptoms, accelerated aging and human unhappiness. The Total Stress Load Index can be assessed by taking a good medical, dental and psychological history, vital signs (blood pressure, pulse, temperature), a mental status exam, psychological testing (such as IVACPT ), brain imagery testing (e.g., qEEG Mapping), functional medicine diagnostic testing, autonomic response testing (ART) and heart rate variability (HRV) testing, all of which are available at the National Integrated Health Associates (www.NIHADC.com). Once properly assessed, targeted interventions can reduce the TSLI.
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ADHD Cause
Brain imagery studies suggest that Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is caused by dysfunctional, “stressed” frontal lobes of the brain (see this article: ADHD-fMRI-and-Frontal-Lobes.pdf).
Numerous other peer-reviewed, published studies suggest that the frontal lobe dysfunction is caused by various stressors (12 stressors presented in previous webinars – see these articles: 12-Types-of-Stress-7-Kinds-of-Toxic-Stress.pdf and 12-kinds-of-stress-to-eliminate-from-your-life).
These stressors include:
* nutritional deficiencies (e.g., mineral and essential fatty acid deficiencies),
* toxicities (e.g., lead toxicity),
* neurotransmitter imbalances which activate frontal lobe function (serotonin, dopamine),
* food allergy,
* gastrointestinal distress (mycotoxins (mold toxins) from processed carbohydrate diet induces candida overgrowth), and
* genetic vulnerabilities to all of the above.
ADHD Recovery
AD/HD is easily reversible (see article: ritalin-supplements-case-study.pdf) when these risk factors are determined with functional medicine testing (now covered by insurance) and treated properly. In the webinar (May 13, 2010), brain imagery and inexpensive continuous performance neuropsychological testing, and examples of functional laboratory testing (all offered at NIHA – www.nihadc.com) is explained, so that listeners will understand that rational, science-based, safer, psychotropic-chemical-free alternatives and choices are available for everyone (parents, adults and children) suffering from AD/HD.
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by admin on April 30, 2010
As a physician, for over 35 years I have quietly and successfully helped many thousands of my patients to quit or cut down their use of nicotine, the poisonous and deadly addictive substance in cigarettes. I am astonished that we stand idly by and ignore the science of basic, brain chemistry and let almost 500,000 Americans and 5 million worldwide die of heart and lung disease and cancer, when all we have to do is provide smokers with some fundamental and practical knowledge and assist them in applying it in a simple, rational and scientific way.
Cigarette Cessation Treatment
For over 3 decades, thousands of my smoking patients have benefited from my cigarette cessation treatments. First I provide them with some basic facts about the dangers of tobacco and how it greatly increases their risks of cancer and heart and pulmonary diseases. More importantly, I provide them with fundamental and practical knowledge about their brain chemistry so that, unlike the nearly half million smokers in the United States and almost 5 million worldwide who are killed by tobacco every year, they will understand a simple, rational and scientific way to quit.
Realizing early in my medical career that the prescribing of nicotine and dangerous medications for my patients did not work, I developed a science-based, rational, effective and natural treatment that I have prescribed for decades to thousands of patients. I spend a lot of time educating every smoking patient about the science of basic brain chemistry so that they can choose to not become the next to die of cancer, heart and lung disease.
How is it that so many people are compelled to use nicotine on a regular basis and risk such adverse consequences? Moreover, how is it that smokers who are addicted to nicotine are given prescriptions to the very substance they are hooked on, or are prescribed drugs which can be just as addictive and dangerous? The answer to both of these questions lies in an understanding of the way our brains work. And by the way, so does the answer to the question, “How can I quit smoking or cut down without resorting to using nicotine patches and gum (and other stop-smoking drugs) without incurring further risk?”
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by admin on March 29, 2010
Bringing the Powerful Healing of Integrative Medicine to People in Recovery from Addictions to Alcohol, Tobacco, Illicit Substances, Prescription Drugs and Processed Carbohydrates
Recovery from substance abuse disorders and addictions is usually referred to as a recovery of mind, body and spirit. This also describes precisely the Integrative Medicine approach to any physical or mental disorder provided by NIHA (National Integrated Health Associates) . Integrative medicine has advanced remarkably in the last few decades but strangely, very few of the powerful and healing integrative medicine methods have been made available to those in recovery from substance and alcohol use disorders.
Addictions may be the cause of 90% of prison incarcerations, 50% of psychiatric admissions and 25% of admissions to general medical hospitals, as well as a major factor in the incidence of suicides, murders, vehicular homicides, spouse battering, divorce and other kinds of social and occupational upheaval. When a loved one is suffering from an addiction, the stress of that relationship (codependency) can be at the root of any medical or psychiatric disorder, and this cause of illness is often overlooked by both conventional and non-conventional health care providers.
Generally speaking, when a recovering person or their loved one looks for help, they will find assistance for a recovery of mind and spirit – but not the body. You may even find “energy” treatments like acupuncture, but few resources are available to assist you in the natural regeneration of neurotransmitters like serotonin, or to assist in detoxifying your body from the residual poisons left over from the use of drugs and alcohol.
NIHA offers this missing link in recovery- a recovery of the body. For instance, we offer amino acid precursor therapies to help restore the imbalanced neurotransmitters that may have caused substance and alcohol use or abuse in the first place. These amino acid and nutritional therapies can be delivered through nutritional supplements, intravenously and transdermally (through the skin).
We also offer detoxification therapies such as infrared sauna, oxygen/steam treatments, IV’s and other detoxification treatments. We can provide functional laboratory testing prior to treatment to determine what your specific nutritional and metabolic imbalances and toxicities are, so that your unique “body” or physical causes of addiction can be pinpointed and corrected.
How to Proceed
All addiction therapies at NIHA are medically supervised and are adjunctive treatments. They are not meant to take the place of conventional addiction treatment or peer support groups like AA. Integrative addiction therapies at NIHA are intended to complement and enhance the benefits of conventional addiction treatment and support groups.
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by admin on February 16, 2010
Diagnose and Treat the Root Biochemical Causes of Suffering
For nearly 4 decades I have provided “healthcare” for 10s of thousands of patients. In my opinion, authentic “care” entails taking the time and making the effort to deeply understand the root, unique, physical causes of each patient’s suffering. I have become skilled at reversing chronic medical and psychiatric disorders because I address the actual biochemical causes, but I would never label myself as a healer. I only facilitate a release of my patient’s biochemical potential for self-healing, which is already written into the very fabric of their 100+ trillion cells. Practitioners who define themselves as “healers” could not possess such knowledge about our vast, innate, self-regulating capacity to heal, and they must consequently limit their capacity to provide authentic “care.”
The knowledge originating from providing decades of health “care” has led me to realize that the so-called “healthcare crisis” is a crisis of ignorance, a preoccupation with diagnostic labels and diseases which somehow magically “just happen” without well-defined causes. I “care” to much about my patients to allow them to suffer from this delusion, so one of my first tasks as a healthcare provider is to make it clear that all chronic diseases, maladies, disorders and illnesses are merely fantasized labels for various types of mental and physical suffering that we had invented over the ages before we had the science to know what the underlying causes actually were. Now that the physical causes of most diseases are well known, I “care-fully” and urgently suggest to my patients, practitioners and now to you, that we all break through this ignorance and achieve far better outcomes than we are currently getting.
The healthcare field uniquely epitomizes a level of ignorance which I have not seen in other walks of life. For example, highway engineers would never describe a breakdown of transportation infrastructure in terms of certain “bridge diseases” or “road disorders.” Instead, they would describe that breakdown in terms of the infrastructure’s composition, such as the wear and tear on its constitutional steel, concrete and asphalt. Furthermore, they would describe certain factors which are “toxic” to the longevity of our roads and bridges, such as salt and extreme weather conditions, and suggest methods for limiting those “aging” effects. Why has the healthcare system failed to define health problems in this way?
Essential Molecules
Essentially, the infrastructure of your body is made of certain classes of molecules: 20+ amino acids (from protein), several essential fatty acids (e.g., omega 3’s from fish oil), essential vitamins, essential minerals, oxygen, fiber, water, sunlight (photons are particles too) and enzymes (from raw foods like uncooked fruit). Note that these are essential, which implies that if any of these are deficient enough, the basic mechanisms underlying life must (by definition) breakdown, and symptoms, maladies, illnesses, disorders and diseases must occur.
Functional Medicine Testing
Out of “caring” for my patient’s “health,” I must not let this happen, so I routinely order functional medicine testing to diagnose precisely what is deficient in each and every patient, and then replenish those missing, essential items. (see www.FunctionalMedicine.org and www.HealthSolutionCenter.com)
More importantly, I also order in-depth, diagnostic testing for toxins (AKA – “Toxic Load”), which accelerate a breakdown of my patient’s infrastructure, contributing to the appearance of symptoms and “diseases,” accelerating aging and causing premature death. If you cared for someone being poisoned, would you sit idly by and let it happen? How can we practitioners let this happen under the guise of providing “care?” And since medications are also contributing toxins, mostly prescribed to merely cover up symptoms, I am interested in eventually detoxifying those as well, so that my patient’s innate, self-healing mechanisms can be restored.
Some of the classes of toxins which I routinely test for and address are:
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