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"When these nerves become overactive or underactive (from a herniated or bulging disc, a pinched nerve, or even a slight misalignment), all three of these important functions can suffer. The Lumbar nerves control intestinal peristalsis, the wave-like contractions which help move waste through the body. Sometimes, pressure on these nerves can limit peristalsis and thus allow an onset of bowel dysfunction. When these nerves are affected, you may feel pain that spreads across your abdomen, nausea, or you may even lose control of your bowels." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"This particular autonomic nerve carries information from the brain to the heart and stomach and intestines and from those organs back up to brain. It is the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic system that is involved in turning off the fight-or-flight response, moving the body back and forth from a state of alert to one of calm. Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) is FDA-approved to treat epilepsy when that condition continues, despite good medical treatment. No drug is specific enough to activate only one nerve, so VNS is done by a device." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Serotonin connects to special receptors on the postsynaptic nerve. 3. Extra serotonin is retaken into the presynaptic nerve end for reuse or destruction. Prozac blocks reuptake of serotonin. This causes more serotonin to remain in the synapse for a longer time. Direction of nerve I impulse Serotonin connects to serotonin receptors Direction of nerve Synapse Presynaptic Synapse Postsynaptic nerve__nerve FIGURE 2.1 have been studied, the network of serotonin neurons is the most widespread. Overall, the functioning of the serotonin system is complex beyond our imagination." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.)

"The pituitary gland gets its information from the optic nerve—when the optic nerve senses sunlight, it signals the pituitary gland to kick-start the melanocytes. Guess what happens when you're wearing sunglasses? Much less sunlight reaches the optic nerve, much less warning is sent to the pituitary gland, much less melanocyte-stimulating hormone is released, much less melanin is produced—and much more sunburn results. If you're reading this on the beach with your Ray-Bans on, do your skin a favor—take them off." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"This category of pesticide was originally designed as a nerve gas to damage the nervous system.12b This pesticide inhibits the proper function of the nervous system. At the end of each nerve cell there must be an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase which breaks down acetylcholine. If it is not broken down, acetylcholine accumulates and this in turn impairs normal nerve conduction so that nerve impulses cannot be transmitted properly throughout the body. Organophosphates can extensively hurt the human body, potentially damaging the lungs, intestines, bladder, heart, muscles, nerves and brain." - Doris Rapp, Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"Poor nerve conduction. Without enough glutathione, nerve cells, including brain cells, cannot effectively transmit messages from one cell to another. 4. Vulnerability to toxins in the brain. Low levels of glutathione in brain cells create heightened sensitivity to heavy metals, and to other toxicants. 5. Absorption of neurotoxic proteins. Low glutathione that results in leaky gut syndrome allows harmful peptides to enter the brain. 6. Increased autoimmunity and allergy." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The theory is that if GABA can stop nerves from firing in the brain, it should be able to control the nerve impulses that affect facial muscles—the kind that lead to expression lines. There is no research proving GABA is a revolutionary (let alone effective) antiwrinkle ingredient, but we do know that in the body GABA does not work alone. Keeping nerves from being triggered requires a lot of other components. Even Botox doesn't affect muscle movement when rubbed on skin. Don't fall for the hype, and don't use this product, primarily because it promises to be "intensely cooling." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"Although she couldn't be certain as to which abnormality was pinching the nerve provoking the arm symptoms, the radiculopathy pointed to the problem being at or near a particular nerve root. She offered you surgery, both to remove any spur or the like from the neighbourhood of that root and to "stabilize" that region of the neck with hardware so it couldn't move and pinch the nerve again. You thanked the neurosurgeon but demurred. You were aware that this surgical approach was based on a theory that had never been tested." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"We know that cell phone signals can warm the side of the head, where the auditory nerve is located. An earlier Swedish study, used in Dr. Newman's case, compared more than 1,400 people with brain tumors to a similar number without the disease between 1997 and 2000. Tumors of the auditory nerve were three times more frequent in persons who had used cell phones for more than a decade.7 In 2004, other Swedish researchers found that long-term cell phone users had significantly more tumors on the auditory nerves than nonusers." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"When the sugars pop into the sweet receptors, they stimulate a cascade of molecular events resulting in an electrical signal in the nerve. The action potentials propagate along the nerve carrying a message of sweetness to the brain. In other words, the sourness isn't being converted into sweet; its taste is being overwhelmed by the sugars attached to the protein. You don't swallow the sugars attached to miraculin. They linger on your tongue for the next hour, waiting to be reactivated by more sourness. And then the effect dissipates." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"High blood glucose also causes nerve damage that can not only trigger numbness in the feet and hands but can also affect the penis, interfering with the nerve signals that help orchestrate male sexual arousal. For a healthy male, some stimulation—by sight, touch, sound, or something else—activates the nerves and causes muscles to relax and blood to flow into the penis, which then becomes erect. But a man with diabetes who isn't properly managing his disease can't have an erection or maintain it long enough for satisfactory sex." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Anorexia or bulimia may cause gastroparesis because vomiting and starvation alters the metabolism and nerve conduction. • Medication such as anti-depressants, calcium channel blockers, chemotherapy, lithium and narcotics may interfere with the vagus nerve. • Diseases such as Parkinson's disease, hypothyroidism and multiple sclerosis. • Medical tests may find no known reason for this disturbance. What are the Symptoms of Gastroparesis?" - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Improved nerve flow in the digestive tract also lessens back pain by acting on the nerves in the spinal column. • Toxic accumulation may block receptor sites for various biochemical processes. For example, certain things can block the thyroid's receptor sites for thyroid hormone. These events result in hypothyroidism due to lack of absorption of the hormone. • Weight loss is a natural occurrence of cleansing. • The standard North American diet is full of acids, fats and proteins that cause health concerns. What are the signs that I may need to detoxify?" - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"For example, the anti-cancer drug cisplatin is very toxic to nerve tissues. When patients are pre-treated with vitamin E supplements prior to cisplatin treatment, the incidence of nerve damage is reduced from 85 to 31 percent without inhibiting the effect of the drug. [Journal Clinical Oncology 21: 927-31, 2003] In another study, vitamin E (600 mg/ day) reduced nerve damage caused by chemotherapy from 73% to 25% of patients." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "The chronic use of dichloroacetate (DCA) for diabetes has been compromised by nerve and other forms of toxicity. DCA is metabolized to glyoxylate, which is converted to oxalate and, in the presence of adequate thiamine levels, to other metabolites. nerve toxicity from DCA administration appears to result from depletion of body thiamine stores and abnormal metabolism of oxalate, a known nerve toxin. The co-administration of vitamin Bl with DCA reduces urinary oxalate levels from 86% above normal to only 28% above normal." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"If you are in pain, imagine the nerve endings in your entire body and "see" healing energy being taken in with every breath, flowing through your muscles and blood cells, through your arteries to the nerves, where they are soothed and healed. ?Send out the visualization often, both during meditation and throughout the day. BELIEF The copious evidence of the placebo effect demonstrates the extraordinary power of belief. Belief in the power of intention is also vital. Keep firmly fixed in your mind the desired outcome and do not allow yourself to think of failure." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Besides its limited use in epilepsy, the government had agreed in 2002 that Neurontin could also treat patients suffering from nerve pain caused by shingles. Regulators approved the wider use of the drug after Pfizer provided studies showing it could help some patients with this kind of pain. Dr. Mack noted that there was some limited evidence that Neurontin worked for migraines and nerve pain suffered by diabetics." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"There are four ways the heart communicates with the brain: neuro-logically (the transmission of nerve impulses), biochemically (hormones and neurotransmitters), biophysically (pressure waves), and energetically (electromagnetic field interactions). There are 40,000 nerve cells in the heart as well as neurotransmitters such as noradrenaline and dopamine (known emotional mediators), that the heart synthesizes and releases. "With every beat of the heart, a burst of neural activity is relayed to the brain," Martin explains. " - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"High blood glucose also causes nerve damage that can not only trigger numbness in the feet and hands but can also affect the penis, interfering with the nerve signals that help orchestrate male sexual arousal. For a healthy male, some stimulation—by sight, touch, sound, or something else—activates the nerves and causes muscles to relax and blood to flow into the penis, which then becomes erect. But a man with diabetes who isn't properly managing his disease can't have an erection or maintain it long enough for satisfactory sex." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"It isn't much better for "pinched nerve" pain, so-called radicular pain that shoots down the arm or leg (sciatica). Whatever we see on the mri is likely to have been present before you started to hurt and likely to persist when you heal. The discal hypothesis, the idea promulgated seventy years ago that a "ruptured disc" is the culprit, has withstood scientific scrutiny very poorly. It is largely untenable for axial pain (backache and neck pain) and marginal for radicular (nerve root) pain." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "However, the particular arm symptoms, the radiculopathy, pointed to the problem being at or near a particular nerve root. She offered you surgery to remove any spur or the like from the neighborhood of that root and then "stabilize" that region of the neck with hardware so that it couldn't move and pinch the nerve again. You demurred. You were aware that this surgical approach was based on a theory that had never been put to the test. The neurosurgeon was extrapolating studies for radiculopathy at the low back (sciatica)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"If you are misaligned, and have blockage of nerve function along your spine, this can lead to nerve damage, which can lower resistance to the organ connected to a particular nerve. This can cause sickness and disease. Chiropractic care is a wonderful option in staying healthy and pain free as I have done for years. Doctors of chiropractic will work with you so you may become pain free, without prescription medication. Believe me, this really works." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Extra serotonin is retaken into the presynaptic nerve end for reuse or destruction. Prozac blocks reuptake of serotonin. This causes more serotonin to remain in the synapse for a longer time. Direction of nerve I impulse Serotonin connects to serotonin receptors Direction of nerve Synapse Presynaptic Synapse Postsynaptic nerve__nerve FIGURE 2.1 have been studied, the network of serotonin neurons is the most widespread. Overall, the functioning of the serotonin system is complex beyond our imagination." - Peter R. Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Get the book.)

"She had been on disability for one and a half years for severe, incapacitating nerve pains in her legs and chronic low back pains, which were only relieved by nerve blocks every three to six months. To make matters worse, she had gained over thirty pounds in two years. All of Jane's symptoms had started in her early forties, when she began having heavy, painful, and irregular periods. Unfortunately for her, this common perimenopausal problem was never treated with progesterone. As her menstrual problems worsened, so did her sleep." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The Centers also turned up people with a variety of other neurological disorders that commenced after the flu shots: facial paralysis, nerve inflammation, encephalitis injuries to nerves of the hands or feet, brachial nerve inflammation, inflammations of the optic nerve, people whose nerves were losing their insulating layer, called myelin. The Guillain-Barre cases, however, stood out, triggering the law requiring that the federal government compensate vaccine victims. The decision was to compensate anyone who got the disease within ten weeks of a swine flu shot." - Gina Kolata, Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic (Get the book.)

"Choline supplementation while in utero also increased the levels of nerve growth factor (NGF) in the adult rat hippocampus and cortex [109], suggesting that prenatal choline availability had an important role in promoting neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus, mediated by the nootropic action of NGF [110]. Opposite changes were reported for choline deficiency while in utero in other areas of the forebrain, such as medial septal nucleus, nucleus of the diagonal band, and the nucleus basalis of Meynert [111]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Fingertips have a lot of nerve endings, so finger injuries are extremely painful. Despite the use of painkillers, this young boy was in agony—experiencing pain at a level of ten on a one-to-ten scale. Hed been like that for hours, and was trying to be tough, but his face and tears betrayed how excruciating this was for him. I went to work immediately, super-loading his linger and hand with BioEM energy. Within a matter of minutes, I dropped the pain from a ten to a two. Everyone was stunned how quickly we made progress, and the boy was utterly transformed—he finally felt human again." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Any of several chemical substances that transmit impulses from one nerve cell to another or from a nerve cell to a muscle or gland. Obesity. A condition in which the body stores excessive amounts of fat. Body weight in excess of 20 percent above ideal body weight is considered obese. Oral. Pertaining to the mouth. Osteogenesis imperfecta. A rare inherited disease in which the bones are abnormally brittle and fragile. Osteoporosis. A condition characterized by porous, brittle bones that are prone to fractures. Oxidation." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"As any neurologist will tell you, chronic acute pain inflames nerve endings and otherwise "conditions" the nervous system to be hypersensitive to pain. Hypnotic pain relief allows the nervous system to relax and regain normal functioning. This will help you recover more quickly. If you are a chronic pain sufferer, you spend a lot of mental and physical energy on pain management and endurance. Hypnotic pain relief will free you from that drain and liberate your mental and physical energy so you can use it to speed your healing along." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "The human body is also composed of energy: from the quantum energy that forms the basis for electrons, neutrons, and protons—the building blocks of chemical composition, cellular structure, and function—to the electric nerve impulses that govern the human heartbeat. EMFs in and around the human body and all organic life forms are called bio-electromagnetic energy fields (BioEM energies). Even human rhought and feeling are composed of energy." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

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