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"This translates to an increased survival over dialysis of about eight years. Thus, claims an accompanying editorial in the New England Journal ofMedicine, kidney transplantation should now be viewed as a "lifesaving rather than just a life-enhancing procedure."46 In this book, where we have highlighted so much that does not work, treatment for renal failure is worthwhile. Clearly, dialysis works better than no treatment, and surgery works better than dialysis. This is a great accomplishment of scientific medicine. WHAT IF? What if surgery disappeared? The excision would be significant." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Thus, our question is: Do kidney transplants work better than renal dialysis? The answer is an unqualified "yes." For those with transplants there is a 68% reduction in the long-term risk of death compared with those on the waiting list who never receive a transplant. This translates to an increased survival over dialysis of about eight years. Thus, claims an accompanying editorial in the New England Journal ofMedicine, kidney transplantation should now be viewed as a "lifesaving rather than just a life-enhancing procedure." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Clearly, dialysis works better than no treatment, and surgery works better than dialysis. This is a great accomplishment of scientific medicine. WHAT IF? What if surgery disappeared? The excision would be significant. More than 23 million operations per year would not be done. Surgery's absence would be noted particularly in obstetrics and cardiology. Birthing without obstetric laceration or breaking of the amniotic sac, let alone C-section or episiotomy, would now by necessity happen in a natural way." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"When patients undergo renal dialysis, the small carnitine molecule is quite readily lost or "washed out" by the dialysate. The kidney is the major site of carnitine biosynthesis, so a diseased kidney is a threat to carnitine production. We have to be mindful that a diseased kidney may not synthesize enough carnitine. Patients with renal failure who are undergoing hemodialysis often experience muscle weakness, high triglyceride levels, congestive heart failure, and cardiac arrhythmias." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"There are two types of dialysis: hemodialysis and peritoneal. diphtheria—An acute, contagious disease that causes fever and problems for the heart and nervous system. diuretic—A drug that increases the flow of urine to help eliminate extra fluid from the body. endocrine glands—Glands that release hormones into the bloodstream and affect metabolism. end-stage renal disease (ESRD)—The final phase of kidney disease. epinephrine—A hormone, also called adrenaline, secreted by the adrenal glands and helping the liver release glucose. The principal blood-pressure-raising hormone." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "It is a common cause of high rates of dialysis and death. Once people begin kidney dialysis, they usually die within five years. The diabetic process affects the kidneys in a few ways: glomerulosclerosis, an arteriosclerosis of the entering and leaving renal arteries; arteriosclerosis of the renal artery and its interrenal branches; and deposits of glycogen, fat, and glycopolysaccharides around the tubules. Early on, nephropathy has no symptoms, but as it advances we see edema (swelling, particularly around the eyes), nausea, fatigue, headache, and generalized itching." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"In 1972 the Social Security Act was amended to extend Medicare coverage to all patients with end-stage renal disease, covering all the costs of chronic dialysis. About 250,000 Americans are alive today because they have access to ongoing dialysis. Successful transplantation of hearts, lungs, and livers have been lifesaving. Transplantation of kidneys and corneas allows people to live normal lives. Hip and knee replacements have restored comfort and function to millions of Americans. There has been great progress with new drugs, too." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Kidney International 67: 1161-70, 2005; Nephrology dialysis Transplantation 16: 35-39, 2001] There is other evidence that erythropoietin works better when supplemental folic acid, vitamin D and carnitine is provided to anemic patients. [Nephrology dialysis Transplantation Sept. 6 2005; Current Opinion Hematology 6: 121-26, 1999] Health authorities have stopped short of halting the use of red blood cell boosting drugs during cancer treatment. If they did so, three major pharmaceutical companies would fail financially." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"That would make Johns Hopkins the Vatican of hospitals, the site of some of the most significant milestones in modern medicine, including the development of the radical mastectomy, open-heart surgery on blue babies, and kidney dialysis. Today, the slate-clad spires of the original building are flanked by a sprawling, forty-four-acre complex of modern structures housing dozens of medical departments, including the emergency room, which can be found in a nondescript brick building on the north side of the old hospital." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The mainstream media is full of advertisements for new gadgets and drugs for diabetics, and the health care industry is gearing up to meet the surging demand for heart bypass operations (80 percent of diabetics will suffer from heart disease), dialysis, and kidney transplantation. At the supermarket checkout you can thumb copies of a new lifestyle magazine, Diabetic Living. Diabetes is well on its way to becoming normalized in the West—recognized as a whole new demographic and so a major marketing opportunity." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"HIV-positive women and women who are immunosuppressed because of kidney dialysis or immunosuppressive medications are at higher risk for cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer and need more frequent screening. • Consider contraceptive options other than oral contraceptives. lifestyle habits, dietary factors, nutritional supplementation, and regular Pap smears, most cases of cervical dysplasia and its consequence, cervical cancer, could be avoided." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"About 250,000 Americans are alive today because they have access to ongoing dialysis. Successful transplantation of hearts, lungs, and livers have been lifesaving. Transplantation of kidneys and corneas allows people to live normal lives. Hip and knee replacements have restored comfort and function to millions of Americans. There has been great progress with new drugs, too. Tagamet first became available when I was just starting my two years in the National Health Service Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, in 1977." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Certainly, some of the increase that Petri and other clinicians are seeing in lupus is due to the improved treatment many patients receive through kidney dialysis and transplants, which help them live longer (the longer patients survive, the larger the overall patient number). And the skill with which physicians diagnose lupus has improved somewhat in many large metropolitan hospital centers. However, this increase in lupus "is so enormous," says Petri, part of it can only be explained by an increase in the incidence of lupus itself." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Although for most people there are no problems, caution should be exercised if dealing with severe health issues such as kidney problems and dialysis because of the levels of potassium and phosphorus, or severe blood pressure problems, because the tea can help rid the body of the substances that may be causing this problem; thus, it is always best to inform your physician when taking natural therapies. Because the tea may reduce some of the causative factors of illnesses, the need for medications may be reduced." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Treatment of hyperlipemia in diabetic patients on dialysis with a physiological substance. AmJNephrol. 1991;ll(l):32-6. 51. Donati C, Bertieri RS, Barbi G. Pantethine, diabetes mellitus and atherosclerosis. Clinical study of 1045 patients Clin Ter. 1989 Mar 31;128(6):411-22. 52. Donati C, Barbi G, Cairo G, Prati GF, Degli Esposti E. Pantethine improves the lipid abnormalities of chronic hemodialysis patients: results of a multicenter clinical trial. Clin Nephrol. 1986 Feb;25(2):70-4. 53. Arsenio L, Bodria P, Magnati G, Strata A, Trovato R." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Hospitals were no longer simply warehouses for the sick and dying, where little more than comfort could be offered; they had become factories whose product was miracles—"gleaming palaces of medical science," as sociologist Paul Starr puts it, where doctors were in the midst of pioneering work that would soon allow them to mend damaged hearts with open-heart surgery, transplant organs, and routinely postpone death with kidney dialysis." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Those with this complication need dialysis or a kidney transplant in order to survive. One of the first signs of kidney damage is the presence in the urine of a protein called albumin, which can be detected through an analysis of a urine sample (a urinalysis). If this early stage of kidney damage (called microalbuminuria, the presence of small amounts of albumin in the urine) is not detected or treated, the kidneys will increasingly lose their ability to function, and levels of a substance called creatinine will increase in the blood." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"A group of IBS patients reported having more pain and fatigue and a greater impairment of normal social functioning than a group of chronically ill patients with kidney disease requiring dialysis. This impact often translates into taking off from work and/or visits to the doctor. I say "and/or" because not all patients with symptoms consistent with the diagnosis of IBS take their problem to the doctor. One study in Minnesota found that only half the patients with IBS actually went to the doctor because of their symptoms." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Once people begin kidney dialysis, they usually die within five years. The diabetic process affects the kidneys in a few ways: glomerulosclerosis, an arteriosclerosis of the entering and leaving renal arteries; arteriosclerosis of the renal artery and its interrenal branches; and deposits of glycogen, fat, and glycopolysaccharides around the tubules. Early on, nephropathy has no symptoms, but as it advances we see edema (swelling, particularly around the eyes), nausea, fatigue, headache, and generalized itching. This also has the potential to be slowly reversed on this program." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "See also dialysis. hemoglobin (Hgb)—The substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen to the body's cells. HgbAlC—A test that sums up how much glucose is non-enzymatically bound to the hemoglobin during the past three months. high blood glucose—A condition that occurs in people with insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, and diabetes when their blood glucose levels are too high. Symptoms include having to urinate often, being very thirsty, losing weight, and a general accelerated aging process." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Secondary carnitine deficiencies are most often associated with renal failure, dialysis, severe malnutrition, and liver cirrhosis. Recently, the AIDS population has shown significantly reduced levels of carnitine. Some of the end-stage symptoms of AIDS—exhaustion, cachexia, and muscle weakness—may respond to carnitine supplementation, offering patients a potential therapeutic benefit. Although carnitine deficiencies may occur at very different levels, the more common subtle deficiencies occur in those with cardiovascular disease." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "In one study involving a small group of patients, there was significant reduction in the frequency of ventricular arrhythmias in those treated with 2 grams of L-carnitine the day before the start of the dialysis procedure. Carnitine therapy resulted in an increase in plasma carnitine and a corresponding reduction in free fatty acids. Treated subjects also had a lower incidence of severe arrhythmias." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Serum triglyceride concentrations decreased significantly, suggesting that administering L-carnitine to dialysis patients with high triglycerides and low HDLs can help correct these lipid abnormalities. One could then speculate upon a risk reduction for atherosclerosis in this subpopulation of renal patients. These findings may also be applied to the general population. In one Italian study of twenty-six patients with high cholesterol and triglycerides, 3 grams of oral carnitine per day caused a significant reduction in plasma lipids." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"She made this disclosure in a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine in which she argued that a group of German researchers had been wrong to conclude in their clinical trial that Pfizer's medicine Lipitor did not help diabetic patients who were on dialysis. In the German study, fewer diabetic patients taking Lipitor had heart attacks or died from heart disease, but more of them died from stroke than those who had taken sugar pills. Dr. Robinson argued that the researchers should have looked only at the heart disease data and ignored the slightly higher death rate from stroke." - 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.) "Many of the cases are ugly," he wrote, "involving paralysis, dialysis, long hospitalization, disability and two potentially related deaths." As the number of injuries continued to rise, Bayer executives did what other pharmaceutical companies do when they receive reports of people who have been hurt by their products. They added language to Baycol's written label explaining that such injuries had been reported. The label, which is also known as the prescribing instructions, is the official guide to a drug and is carefully monitored by the FDA." - 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.)

"IU/day to 100,000 IU/week over 90 days in patients with stages 3-5 CKD, but none on dialysis. Serum iPTH levels decreased among CKD stages 3 and 5, but reached statistically significant decreases only in patients with stage 4 CKD. As with the other vitamin D supplementation trial, there was a significant increase in serum levels of 25(OH)D in all the CKD patients. Whether or not cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) treatment would be more effective in CKD remains to be determined; as well, the appropriate effective dose level of vitamin D and stage of CKD for initiation of treatment are not yet known." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Vitamin E decreases the two-year heart attack rate by 75 percent in dialysis patients with known CVD. • It decreases disease progression in men following bypass surgery. • Together with aspirin in patients with TIA, vitamin E decreases the two-year stroke rate by 50 percent versus aspirin alone. Our Recommendations Read labels carefully. Don't just buy any vitamin E. You want 200 to 400 IU daily of natural vitamin E (D-alpha-tocopherol) in combination with the family of other vitamin E compounds, including gamma-tocopherol and tocotrienols." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Newsmagazines ran weekly reports on medicine under hopeful headlines: 1 U T l_ l\ I I \ 1— #~» I 1— "Machine of Life," a story about dialysis, and "Hunt for Cancer Vaccine Closes In." Newsweek quoted U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, who predicted that by 198 c nine out of ten diseases would be eradicated and "spare parts for the human body . . . may seem almost commonplace." Television aired shows about heroic doctors, including Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, and Marcus Welby M.D., which in 1969 was the nation's favorite program." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "At Hopkins, he split his time between the dialysis ward and classes in epidemiology. The Wennbergs' third child, Diana, was born at Johns Hopkins with what at first appeared to be pyloric stenosis, a defect in the muscular valve that sits at the bottom of the stomach. Because they can't pass food from the stomach to the small intestine, babies with pyloric stenosis vomit everything they eat. Surgery introduced in the early twentieth century had transformed pyloric stenosis from an almost invariably fatal condition into a curable disorder." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

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