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"If it attacks the joint space, we call it rheumatoid arthritis; if it attacks our bowels, we call it Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis; if it attacks the myelin sheath of our nerves, we call it multiple sclerosis; and when it attacks the connective tissue of our body, we call it lupus or scleroderma. Why and how does this happen? I learned in medical school that autoimmune diseases were the result of an "overactive" immune system that begins attacking "self" instead of "nonself." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"As a young clinician who had recently finished medical school, my training focused upon hospital-based patients who were acutely sick or critically ill—heart attacks, acute asthma attacks, cancers, broken bones. These are the problems that Western medicine is designed to treat. But the subtle symptoms such as fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, and low-grade chronic complaints that I was seeing in my urban outpatients were not well addressed by my medical training." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"According to Nielsen Media Research, drug ads increased dramatically in the weeks after the attacks. In October 2001 alone, Glaxo spent $16 million on advertising Paxil, almost twice what they spent the previous October.102 It worked. Medicaid recipients, for example, who lived within three miles of the World Trade Center filed 18 percent more antidepressant prescriptions in the three months after the attacks.103 Some ads for Paxil appeared after shows depicting the World Trade Center towers collapsing." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Results of the study demonstrated that women with more anginal attacks (Group A) had a higher magnesium retention rate and lower magnesium levels in their red blood cells than those experiencing fewer attacks (Group B), indicating that Group A patients were deficient in magnesium. The level of intracellular magnesium deficiency was directly related to the frequency of chest pain. Arrhythmia and Sudden Death Magnesium also plays a role in counteracting all phases of the processes that lead to arrhythmia and sudden death. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study conducted by the U." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"As a young clinician who had recently finished medical school, my training focused upon hospital-based patients who were acutely sick or critically ill—heart attacks, acute asthma attacks, cancers, broken bones. These are the problems that Western medicine is designed to treat. But the subtle symptoms such as fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, and low-grade chronic complaints that I was seeing in my urban outpatients were not well addressed by my medical training." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Women were divided into two groups: Group A averaged four or more attacks per week; while Group B experienced less than four attacks per week. Magnesium levels were checked in the blood, urine, and red blood cells, and the 24-hour magnesium retention rate was calculated using a magnesium loading test (see glossary for further description)." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"The intestines face the most attacks from bad microbes; your intestines are the major entry point into your body for pathogens. Research has uncovered a unique interaction between the intestines and probiotics. Probiotics help the intestinal lining fight off attacks from bad microbes. What Types of Bad Microbes Do We Ingest? We have already seen that Rotavirus is an example of a bad microbe that can have grave consequences: it causes diarrhea. However, any bad microbe can attach to an intestinal cell and colonize there, releasing toxins and causing damage that leads to diarrhea." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"For example, you may have noticed that strokes today are sometimes called "brain attacks." The name is actually quite fitting as a description of the problem. Eighty percent of strokes are caused by blockage of an artery that cuts off the supply of oxygen and nutrients to an area of the brain, causing the death of brain cells in much the same way that blockage of coronary arteries causes heart attacks. These are called "ischemic strokes." (The other 20 percent of strokes, called "hemorrhagic strokes," are caused by bleeding either within or just outside the brain." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Anxiety attacks, Panic attacks, and Panic Disorder Extreme episodes of anxiety and panic attacks are the most intense and scary forms of anxiety. I once had a neighbor, Dave, a Vietnam War veteran, who was unable to work because of wounds he had suffered in combat. Dave invited a number of people, including me, to attend a July 4 fireworks display at a nearby military base. I had wondered whether he might find the sound of fireworks reminiscent of his battlefield experiences, and my concern was justified." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.) "After the first panic attack, a person may feel subsequent attacks start to build to a crescendo. When a person repeatedly experiences panic attacks, he or she is diagnosed as having panic disorder. Some people become so petrified of experiencing more panic attacks that they physically isolate themselves, staying home and avoiding people and unfamiliar situations. Psychological Tips When you sense the early signs of a panic attack, find a private place (such as your home, an office with a door you can close, or your parked car) to isolate yourself from stimuli." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Heart attacks and strokes are twentieth-century diseases. Since peaking near midcentury, their incidence has been diminishing in all age groups. This trend started before "prevention" was purported to be effective and continues despite the minimal-to-marginal effectiveness of public-health agendas to modify "risk factors." Of course, the diminished incidence of strokes and even heart attacks is less striking in octogenarians, but that's an issue in proximate-cause epidemiology." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"People with severe mental illness are much more likely to hurt themselves, or to be hurt by others, than they are to exert violent attacks on others. A 2005 study showed that more than one-quarter of people with severe mental illness had been victims of a violent crime in the past year—eleven times the rate of the general population.45 A British study showed that psychiatric patients are six times more likely to be murdered than the average person.46 Conversely, the violence that the mentally ill perpetrate on others has been enormously exaggerated by the media." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Depending on how narrowly it is defined, the prevalence of intermittent explosive disorder ranges from 4 to 7 percent of the population, with a mean of forty-three lifetime attacks resulting in $1,359 in property damages.56 "We never thought we'd find such high prevalence rates for this condition," said the lead author, Dr. Ronald Kessler, apparently shocked that so many of his countrymen are so . . . well, angry.57 Shopaholism is also being explored as a bona fide psychiatric ailment." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Quick Facts: An autoimmune disorder is a disorder of the body's immune system in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys body tissue that it believes to be foreign. Insulin-dependent diabetes is an autoimmune disease because the immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells. Multiple sclerosis is believed to be an autoimmune disease, along with vsystemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma. ^ Quick Facts: Food allergies occur in roughly 1 to 2% of adults and 3 to 8% of children, according to the AAFA." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"In a double-blind, randomized, crossover trial that studied the effectiveness of ginger in hyperemesis gravidarum, the most severe form of pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting, early in pregnancy, 250 mg of ginger root powder taken four times a day significantly reduced the severity of the nausea and the number of attacks of vomiting in 19 of 27 women." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Medicaid recipients, for example, who lived within three miles of the World Trade Center filed 18 percent more antidepressant prescriptions in the three months after the attacks.103 Some ads for Paxil appeared after shows depicting the World Trade Center towers collapsing. One television viewer, Rebecca Ames, commented, "The drug companies have to push those drugs, but it does make my little eyebrow go up a bit. The commercials make it seem like if you take the drug, all your troubles will go away." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"In these studies, ginger brought about a significant reduction in both the severity of the nausea and the number of attacks of vomiting in the majority of the patients. In all of these studies, there were no adverse effects on pregnancy and pregnancy outcome. In fact, in the most recent study of 70 women, there were three spontaneous abortions in the placebo group and only one in the ginger group. More full-term pregnancies occurred in the ginger group than in the placebo group as well. No infants had any congenital anomalies." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"During those first twelve months, his experimental patients had suffered less severe and less frequent attacks of angina than the members of the control group. Follow-up angiograms had showed reversal of coronary artery disease among the experimental group, and that benefit continued at the five-year follow-up study. Additional PET-scan imaging of his experimental patients at five years confirmed that 99 percent were able to halt or reverse disease. There was a direct correlation between adherence to the program after one year and after five years. Dr." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Over the coutse of the next five yeats, Heraclius conquered one Persian army aftet anothet, trusting the walls of Theodosius and Constantine to preserve the capital from attacks by both Sassanids and Avars. In 627, he took Ctesiphon itself, and on September 14, 628, returned to Constantinople with the pieces of the True Cross that Khusro II had removed from Jerusalem fourteen years before. The campaign against Persia was to be the high point of Heraclius's reign. While he was writing the last chapter in the thousand-yeat-long wat that had defined the classical world, another age was beginning." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The first time," Kerr answers, duly aware that the breakthrough offers a long-overdue gleam of hope on what often seems a bleak scientific horizon for the growing number of Americans facing multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, transverse myelitis, and a host of other neurological autoimmune diseases in which the body attacks its own nervous system, leading to weakness, numbness, and, in some cases, paralysis in the limbs." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The oxidation of proanthocyanidins hardens the seed coat, which induces moderate dormancy in the seeds and limits the detrimental effects of physical and biological 123 attacks (Shirley, 1998; Debeaujon et al, 2000). Thus, the proper subcellular localization of these flavonoids is crucial for fulfilling their functions in plant cells. The subcellular localization of flavonols is still a matter of debate. Some flavonols have a protective role as UV-B filters, and they also could function as copigments for anthocyanins in specific tissues." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"The vicious attacks were entirely unprovoked. Sally cannot recall the events but our reconstruction indicates that she probably shot her son twice while he was sleeping on a couch. After that, she awakened her sleeping daughter Celia with blows to her head from a baseball bat. When Celia tried to flee, her mother caught up with her in the kitchen and resumed beating her. It's unclear what happened next but the brutalized, terrified girl managed to hide in an empty bathtub where she nearly bled to death." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "For many years, Earl had suffered from occasional attacks of anxiety. When he experienced an especially terrifying episode of panic attack, his general practitioner prescribed the tranquilizer Ativan. Probably in an effort to control his anxiety, Earl increased his alcohol intake. Ativan may also have exacerbated his drinking. Not only does the tranquilizer have similar effects to alcohol, it can become a gateway drug to abusing alcohol. Alcoholics are often cross-addicted to tranquilizers like Ativan, Xanax, and Klonopin." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Medical care for illness (heart attacks, trauma, cancer treatment, pneumonia, appendicitis, etc.) increases our life span by 44 to 45 months. The overall effect of medical care, then, has been to increase longevity by only about 5 years and 3 months during the twentieth century. (It is also important to remember that many medical interventions—like joint replacement and cataract removal—can produce benefits in the quality of life without improving longevity. These improvements are included in the World Health Organization's calculation of "healthy life expectancy," discussed above." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The Economic and Political Processes • Terrorism spreads, together with declared and undeclared attacks on countries suspected of harboring terrorists. • The North Atlantic Alliance linking Europe, the United States, and Russia collapses. • France, Germany, Russia, and China form a coalition to balance what they perceive as growing U.S. military-economic hegemony, joined by Brazil, India, South Korea, and other developing countries. • Global military spending experiences a sharp rise, as the U.S. and its allies and the opposing bloc countries enter the spiral of an arms race." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"They were happiest dashing off into the unknown—their diaries are filled with accounts of momentous discoveries made after enduring punishing hardships: getting lost, eating raw vulture flesh, trekking through rain forests shoeless and clothesless, being sucked into whirlpools for hours on end, fending off rabid buffalo attacks, falling with their horses into hippopotamus wallows, having all their hair eaten by rats while sleeping and negotiating with armed, xenophobic natives ready to stone foreigners for trespassing on their sacred farmland." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Iraq's seed bank, which had been located in Abu Ghraib, was demolished during U.S. attacks, but not before two hundred valuable seeds were shipped to Syria for safekeeping. One of the most ambitious conservation endeavors ever attempted by humanity is a seed bank near the North Pole that aims to create a genetic backup of the world's most important plants. Located inside a permafrost-encrusted cave in a hollowed-out mountain on the frozen island of Spitsbergen, Norway, the Svalbard International Seed Vault is a safety net for humankind's agricultural heritage." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"For three days, from August 17 to 19, each army proved able to repulse the other's attacks; the ravines of the plateau strongly favored the defense, parricularly so long as they had archers. In some accounts, a grear wind from rhe east creared a storm that drove sand into the eyes of the Roman line, permitting a decisive attack by Khalid's troops, who routed the Roman cavalry, and rode down the unprorecred infantry." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"JACKIE BREAKS INTO THE LIGHT At thirty-nine, Jackie was diagnosed with lupus, a condition in which the immune system attacks the body's cells and tissues. Her energy was zapped, and it was frequently hard just to get Ito work. She felt chained to every part of her life: the musty apartment, Brooklyn's chilly winters and humid summers, and the lack of nature around her. When we began working with Jackie, we realized that she was unable, or perhaps unwilling, to consider options and break free." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"It can also induce asthma attacks, cause abdominal pain, and suppress blood-cell levels. It can cause severe side effects, especially in the elderly, including peripheral neuropathy and lung scarring. It can also cause birth defects when given to pregnant women. VANCOMYCIN Vancomycin, which inhibits bacterial cell-wall formation as well as synthesis of bacterial ribonucleic acid (RNA), is effective against methicillin-resistant staph areus (MRSA). Vancomycin can cause deafness and kidney damage and therefore should be used with caution." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

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