Dealing
with Chronic Health
From Mayo Clinic Health
Quest 11/03
Common tasks can become
difficult if you have a chronic health condition like
cancer, arthritis, diabetes or heart disease.
Marilynn Olney, M.D., a mayo
Clinic doctor in preventative and occupational medicine,
says that an employee with a chronic health condition
"needs to take very good care of himself - getting a
good diet and regular sleep."
Additional tips:
Know your limits. Ask
for help when you need it.
Pace yourself.
"Don't try to do 10 hours of work in an 8
hour day, says Dr. Olney
work with your
doctor. Develop daily exercise or therapy program
to help manage your condition
Practice stress
management techniques.
listen to soothing music, practice deep breathing
or visualize yourself in a peaceful setting.
Adopt a positive
attitude. Focus on your strengths.
Remember you aren't
alone. Join a local support group where you can
share your feelings and learn from others
experiences. Circle of Love
Access your ability
to do your work. If necessary, reduce your hours
or take time off from your responsibilities.
PERSONAL NOTES:
I found it helpful to
eliminate most all volunteer activities and club
meetings.
Time is needed to concentrate on rest and preparation for personal
food preparation. I do lots of juicing of
vegetables and fruits.
Food preparation is
more time consuming as I look for new recipes to
make foods presentable and palatable.
I have shared many
recipes under Healthy
Recipes.
I Believe In Miracles!
I I I
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Surviving
Cancer
Many people have contributed
to my recovery.
Their faith and prayers have
strengthened my faith.
This poem speaks well of others who
have been there for me.
"If
I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain".
Emily
Elizabeth Dickinson
Try the website
below to check out your Real Age and
Health.
http://www.medizine.com/realage.asp
See: Stress Management
Also check out
this website:
Dr.
Lorraine Day
overcomes
Cancer
Below are 2 Videos I found helpful.
I faithfully
followed her Workbook on
"Getting
Started and Getting Well."
"Cancer
Doesn't Scare Me Anymore"
"You
Can't Improve on God"
"My
Story and How I overcame Cancer"
Sarah
Boschi's Story
Circle
of Love
I have shared many recipes under
Healthy Recipes.
Live Defensively
Be Aware of Large groups of People
during Flu Season, especially! Limit the number you
attend if any.
Breathe through your nose which
helps filter out allergies.
Those suffering from allergies or
flu Sneeze faster than imagined.
Water droplets can travel up to 100
MPH when sneezing. They attain a very high rate of speed
because when you sneeze you exercise multi muscles: It is
a reflex response that involves the muscles of the face,
throat, and chest.
A sneeze is A
multimuscle exercise!
See more help on Preventing
Flu.
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Breast Cancer
Green
Guide 106 | January/February 2005
Antibiotics
And Breast Cancer
by
Francesca Lyman
In
the first U.S. study of its kind, researchers found that
'increased use of antibiotics was linked with increased
risk
of breast cancer.' The study, reported in the February
2004 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),
showed a strikingly higher rate of breast cancer among
women who took antibiotics than among those who did not.
However,
researchers aren't sure how to explain the link and say
that additional research is necessary before any hard
conclusions can be drawn from the study.
Scientists
from the University of Washington, the National Cancer
Institute and the Group Health Cooperative and Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle examined the
pharmacy and health records of 10,219 women, of whom
2,266 had developed breast cancer. They looked at the
number of antibiotic prescriptions each woman had been
given and the total number of days they had used the
drugs. While some very strong antibiotics-chloramphenicol
or fluoroquinolone, for example-are proven carcinogens,
most are not thought to be carcinogenic.
In
this study, researchers looked at such commonly
prescribed antibiotics as tetracycline, erythromycin,
penicillin VK and cephalexin. They found the risk of
breast cancer doubled in those who had used antibiotics
for more than 500 cumulative days. The risk was the same
whether a respiratory tract or skin infection was being
treated.
'We were all very surprised at the type and
strength of the association,' says Christine Velicer,
Ph.D., a University of Washington epidemiologist and lead
author of the study. 'In our study, antibiotics were
shown to be an even larger risk factor than hormone
replacement therapy,' Velicer notes. Hormone replacement
therapy is thought to pose about a 30 to 40 percent
increased risk to women for getting breast cancer,
whereas this study found that women who used the most
antibiotics had up to twice the risk as women who had not
taken antibiotics.
A
similar epidemiological study, published in 2000, looked
at
breast-cancer patients in Finland. In a study population
of 10,000 women, investigators found that women younger
than 50 who reported taking antibiotics for urinary-tract
infections had elevated rates of breast cancer compared
with women who didn't use antibiotics.
The
Seattle study raises many questions, which scientists
will be following up on for years. These include whether
antibiotics weaken bacteria in the digestive tract and
interfere with the body's absorption of cancer-fighting
foods. Another consideration is the timing of the doses.
'The amount of antibiotic use at particularly sensitive
times in breast development, such as adolescence,
pregnancy, or during menopause, may be pertinent,' the
JAMA article says.
Researchers
may also explore whether medical antibiotics might have
more of an effect in combination with other
exposures-through diet, for example. Forty percent of all
antibiotics in the U.S. are used in feed for chickens and
beef.
On the other hand, it could ultimately be found
that the antibiotic use is merely marking an
'epiphenomenon.' As Velicer explains, 'It's possible that
the link to cancer might not be the antibiotics but the
underlying infections.' For example, she says, the women
surveyed may have had a hormonal or immune-system problem
that predisposed them to both the underlying infection
and the breast cancer.
The study's researchers stress that additional studies
will be needed to replicate these results and to rule out
other non-causal reasons. Until then, Ness emphasizes,
the study provides no basis for doctors to stop
prescribing antibiotics, or for women to stop using them,
when medically necessary. While she agrees that it may be
premature to alter prescription policies, Christina
Clarke, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at the Northern
California Cancer Center in Fremont, adds, 'Nevertheless,
this was a very compelling study that has opened up a
whole new avenue of inquiry for cancer scientists,
looking at immune response as a factor in cancer
causation.' Clarke has begun a small study of
breast-cancer patients' use of antibiotics, as well as
other exposures that affect the immune system.
Preventing Breast Cancer from the
Mayo Clinic.
Prescription
Drug Side Effects
Links
to:
1.
PDRHealth/Physicians'
Desk Reference
2.
FDA's Med Watch
This site explains how to report adverse reactions to the
FDA.
3.
Arizona Center for Education and Research on
Therapeutics.
4.
Public Citizen's Worst Pills
Prevent Cancer with
Foods and Diet and
More
http://lwazcc.org/web/jcarstens/cancer2.htm/prevention
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Test Your Own pH Levels
The pH Miracle Living Acid/Alkaline Saliva and Urine
Test:
1. First, upon waking
test your saliva with the pHydrion paper. When you get
out of bed, lick and wet the end of a pHydrion test strip
with your saliva. Note the color change and write down
the pH number. Do this before brushing your teeth,
drinking, smoking, or even thinking of eating any food.
The optimum saliva pH should be 6.8 to 7.2.
2. Next, test your
first urine of the morning. This is urine that has been
stored in your bladder during the night that is ready to
be eliminated when you get up. You need to pee on a
strip of pHydrion paper, note the color change and write
down the pH number. The first urine should run optimally
between a pH 6.8 to 7.2. If your first urine pH is
lower than 6.8
you are deficient in alkaline buffers and need to move to
a more alkaline diet rich in fresh green vegetables and
fruits. If your first urine pH is higher than7.2
your alkaline buffers are sufficient to neutralize the
acidic food and drink you ingested the day before.
To balance the pH of the urine you need to move away from
acidic foods and drinks and begin ingesting liberal
amounts of electron rich green vegetables, low sugar
fruits and healthy polyunsaturated fats.
3. Next, test your
second morning urine before eating any food. This number
should be the pH of your second urine after you have
eliminated the acid load from the day before. The acids
should be gone the second time you go to the
bathroom so your urine pH should be ideally around 6.8 to
7.2. If the pH is lower than 6.8 then you are in a
state of latent tissue acidosis and you are deficient of
alkaline buffers such as bicarbonate, sodium, potassium and magnesium. The lower pH is also indicative of a
diet high in protein and an
increase in acids from proteins including nitric,
sulfuric, phosphoric and uric acids. Eliminate from
the diet proteins from beef, chicken, turkey, pork and fish to normalize pH at 6.8 to 7.2 while eating
liberal amounts of green foods and green drinks and
healthy polyunsaturated fats.
4. For breakfast eat an
avocado soup, vegetable soup, or drink some fresh almond milk or a fresh green drink. Wait five minutes and
then check your urine and saliva again. Write these pH
numbers down also. The pH numbers will go up from the
first and second morning urine and saliva if you have
sufficient alkaline reserves to buffer acids. If you
do not then the pH numbers will show very little change or
even go down from the early morning pH numbers.
5. Make sure you check
your urine and saliva pH between meals, i.e., between breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner.
The pH should always be between6.8 to 8.4, right after
meals and between 6.8 to 7.2 a couple of hours after meals.
To purchase the pH Hydrion paper click the link below
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/ph_strips.htm
The five tests above show the
following:
1. The efficiency of
the digestive system to deal with what you ate the night before, i.e., the first and second AM urine and
saliva pH. These numbers will change from day to day if
you are living an eating acidic. When you begin The
pH
Miracle Living Plan you will see the pH of the urine and
saliva become more constant and balanced at a pH of 6.8 to
7.2.
2. How well you treat
yourself in general, i.e., how 'strong' the salivary glands, pancreas, gallbladder and liver are in
dealing with excess acidity. This is once again the AM
urine and saliva pH. This number shows the overall state
of
your health, the condition of the alkaline reserve of
your body which reflects the diet you have been eating
over the last months and years. This pH number stays
rather constant and will only change after some work has
been done in
alkalizing and energizing the body as outlined in the pH
Miracle books. Since the saliva and urine pH is an
indicator of intracellular pH, saliva and urine pH readings should never be below the pH of the phosphate
buffer system, 6.8. (See
below).
The most accurate readings of saliva and urine pH
is recorded immediately upon awakening--after sleeping at
least five hours and before brushing your teeth.
It is during sleep that the body removes waste and is in
an anabolic state restoring and replenishing the body. For
example, if you have a saliva or urine pH of 5.5 and only
5.6 after eating, you know that you are deficient in
alkaline
reserve and your body is devoid of the minerals necessary
to process food properly -- your body cannot adequately
respond to the physiological crisis of handling food or
drink that is acidic.
3. The pH of your
saliva and urine after you eat or drink gives you an
indication of your alkaline mineral reserves and your
body's ability to deal with the acid residues created
from the digestion of that food or drink. It is normal
for your
pH number to increase after you eat or drink not stay
static or decrease. This once again indicates your
inability to deal with acid, the deficiency of alkaline
reserves and the buildup of latent tissue acidosis.
Even if you think of a food
like an avocado or a lemon the pH of your saliva should
increase by a whole point. This simple test indicates you
have sufficient alkaline reserve minerals to pull into
your digestive system to begin the digestive and
buffering process. The ideal urine and saliva pH pattern
is 6.8 to 7.2 on awakening, 6.8 to 7.2 before eating and
7.2 to 8.5 following any alkaline meal or drink.
A simple test can be done at most any time of the day by
eating a few almonds. This will check the adequacy of the
alkaline reserve of the body. When a healthy
person with adequate alkaline reserves eats a few
almonds, the saliva pH almost immediately goes up to a pH
of 8.4. The more acidic the food that is eaten, the more
rapid the response of the alkaline reserve, and the
higher the saliva pH
should be following a meal.
4. The pH of the saliva
and urine between meals should be kept in the basic
range, pH 7.0 to 7.2. After one eats, the stomach
releases its necessary HCL to help digest the food. While
doing this, it also performs the opposite action,
i.e., it makes an equivalent amount of base or baking
soda, sodium bicarbonate, that is picked up by the blood
stream and delivered to the alkaline glands of the body,
the saliva, the pancreas, the gallbladder, the pylorus
glands in the
duodenum and the liver. The maximum amount of base in the
blood and therefore in the urine and saliva occurs one to
two hours after you eat.
This rhythm of the acid and base flow of the body is
called by Frederick F. Sander, the Base-floods and the
Base-tides of the Acid-Base household.
This information was first published in 1930, by
Frederick F. Sander, a German scientist, in a book
called, The Acid-Base Household of the Human Organism and
its cooperation with the nail circulation and the rhythm
of the Liver.
In his book he states that the body fluids and therefore
the urine is most acid at 2:00 A.M. (pH 5.0 to 6.8) in
the morning (the base tide) and most alkaline at 2:00
P.M. (pH 7.0 to 8.5) in the afternoon (base flood).
'The
ideal pH numbers depend on the time of day. Plotted on a
curve it looks like the double hump of the back of a
camel. Two times a day the urine should be alkaline and
that is the top of the humps and corresponds to 10 A.M.
and 2 P.M.,
the alkaline tide after meals. During the rest of the day
the pH should be between 6.8 and 7.2. This is optimal
urine. The first urine in the morning should be more
acidic because of the decalcification that takes place
during the night
in neutralizing excess acids.' If all the acids generated
in a day of digestion are, respiration, metabolism and
degeneration are not all flushed out during the night
they accumulate, day after day. The results are the
expression of states of imbalance as the body desperately
tries to maintain the alkaline fluid pH at 7.365.
The day to day
buildup of acids affects each of us differently depending
on our genetics, lifestyle and diet. I have found that
acids settle in the weakest parts of the body and if not
eliminated through the bowels, urinary system, lungs or
skin,
acids are then bound to fat and stored on our hips,
thighs, stomach, breasts and brain. Bottom-line
acids are the expression of all symptomologies and the
direct cause of ALL sickness and disease.
Monitoring your saliva and urine pH puts the
responsibility of caring for your health back into your
hands. Measuring the saliva and urine pH guides your
therapy and shows you how living, eating and drinking
determines the quality and
quantity of your life.
You should monitor your saliva and urine each day for at
least 12 weeks or until you establish your balanced pH at
6.8 to 7.2. Once you have established a balanced
saliva and urine pH at 6.8 to 7.2 you can reduce the
number of tests to
once a day or 2 to 3 times a week.
Dr Robert &
Shelley Young
www.phmiracleliving.com
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