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"Guillian-Barre is disorder characterized by progressive paralysis, beginning in the feet and advancing up the body, often causing paralysis of the diaphragm and breathing muscles within a matter of hours or days. Nearly all patients with GBS are hospitalized because of paralysis. The prognosis of GBS varies. Up to 13 percent die and 20 percent more are left significantly disabled, defined, for these purposes, as unable to work for at least a year. The CDC reports this side effect to be "rare, perhaps 1 or 2 per million flu shots given." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Deficiency of vitamin B12 first shows as a paralysis that begins in the extremities and moves inward. Correct identification of vitamin B]2 deficiency can prevent permanent paralysis and nerve damage. Remember that there are no symptoms of anemia when folate levels are high and only the vitamin B12 levels are low. Adults need only 2.4 micrograms (2.4 millionths of a gram) of vitamin B12 each day. This tiny amount, still billions of molecules, provides enough for all of our needs." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"In serious cases, the condition can cause paralysis and death as the kidneys shut down. All statins had been found to cause rhabdomyolysis in rare cases. But some Bayer executives began to worry that the risk for patients taking Baycol was higher than for those taking the other drugs. The company's drug safety office was soon deluged with injury reports. On December 30, 1999, employees wrote that they had received sixty reports of patients hit by rhabdomyolysis in the United States in the last two months. " - 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.)

"He is one of a group of thirteen rodents recently cured of paralysis in a groundbreaking stem-cell study at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The audience bursts into enthusiastic applause. One gets the impression that, if they could, the folks who are dependent on wheelchairs, walkers, or canes would be on their feet by now instead of hooting cowboylike bravos and clapping from their seats, letting their voices and hands convey the standing ovation that their bodies cannot. The researcher they are lauding is the slightly sheepish but smiling Dr." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Imagine, if you can: the tingling foot and ankle that turns out to be the beginning of the slow paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Four hundred thousand patients. Excruciating joint pain and inflammation, skin rashes, and never-ending flu-like symptoms that lead to the diagnosis of lupus. One and a half million more. Relentless bouts of vertigo—the hallmark of Meniere's. Seven out of every one thousand Americans. Severe abdominal pain, bleeding rectal fissures, uncontrollable diarrhea, and chronic intestinal inflammation that define Crohn's disease and inflammatory bowel disease." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "He also tended many patients with transverse myelitis, an MS-related autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that causes severe paralysis and other neurological disabilities. In his fourth year of residency at Johns Hopkins in 1999, Kerr treated an eleven-month-old baby named Morgan Gertz, who was suffering from transverse myelitis. Kerr grew discouraged when current treatment therapies "couldn't do a thing for Morgan." Research into neurological autoimmune diseases wasn't moving fast enough to help one whit. Morgan died." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Rickets • Curvature of the spine ? paralysis of the legs Seizures Convulsions Thyroid abscesses Cyanosis of the liver and kidneys ? Enlarged colon • Degeneration of motor nerves throughout the brain and spine And by the third generation, this group could not reproduce • Studies done with laboratory rats have shown that rats eating raw foods live about 30% longer than rats eating diets devoid of enzymes. • Then there's the fact that the classic Eskimo diet consists of 80% saturated fat? That's 80% saturated fat (primarily from raw fat and raw meat)!" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"A tiny stone marked deaths from infantile paralysis, the subject of a million dollar yearly outpouring in public largesse. The tombstone for cancer was huge, though public funding for research about the disease was considerably lower. Commenting on the exhibit, Little pointed out the importance of crafting compelling messages. The public forms its judgment of the relative importance of its health needs on visual and emotional stimuli rather than by the process of thought. Infantile paralysis hits children and leaves very clear evidence of disease. . . . Cancer, too, moves silently and quickly." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Symptoms may include paralysis on one side of the face (Bell's palsy), double vision, eye pain, or severe pain in one area, such as the leg, chest, or lower back. This form of neuropathy is not particularly common in diabetic neuropathy, but it can occur. Prevention and Treatment of Diabetic Neuropathy There are several important steps you need to take to prevent and treat diabetic neuropathy. ?Limit glycation-induced nerve damage by controlling blood sugar levels. ?Reduce food-derived glycotoxins by adopting an antigly-cation eating plan (see chapters 5 and 6). ?" - 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.)

"Severe hypokalemia can result in muscular paralysis or abnormal heart rhythms that can be fatal. Conditions that Increase the Risk of Low Blood Potassium The use of potassium-depleting diuretics Severe vomiting or diarrhea Alcoholism Bulimia Overuse of laxatives Magnesium depletion FOOD SOURCES OF POTASSIUM Fruits and vegetables are the richest sources of potassium; please refer to Graph 8-2. People who eat large amounts of fruits and vegetables have a high potassium intake of about 10 grams daily (10,000 mg). Average dietary intake in the United States is two to three grams daily." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Other problems correlated to distortions in this Integrator include chorea, delirium tremens, vertigo, Parkinson disease, and paralysis due to central nervous system conditions (but Energetic Integrator 7 also likely plays a role). In terms of problems correlated to toxins or microbes, there is a strong bioenergetic link in this Integrator to the E. coli bacterium and the Aspergillus niger fungus." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"For example, Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is a technique that uses low-level electrical currents to reactivate nerves in the arms and legs of people who suffer paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury, head injury, or stroke. Biofield therapy—using simple mentalistic means to manipulate BioEM energies—is much more powerful and versatile than conventional energy medicine. It can often stand alone as a cure. I have had countless experiences like the one earlier in this chapter of complete and instantaneous healing using only biofield therapy." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "From that day on, he suffered partial paralysis and pain on that side of his face. It got progressively worse until the whole left side of his face and mouth drooped. His doctors tried a variety of medications and therapies, but nothing worked. During hypnotic regression, Mark found himself in an unfamiliar place. At first, he thought he was in a subway tunnel but then realized he was on a concrete stairway in an underground military facility." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"While I clearly possessed the genetic predisposition to autoimmunity, and, yes, a virus had attacked, these two factors had been true for me many, many times before, yet I had never demyelinated and undergone the "flaccid paralysis" of Guillain-Barre syndrome after having had the stomach bug. Clearly, like most people who develop autoimmune disease after a virus, something else in my environment had to have been slowly pushing my immune system to this precipice—a precarious edge from which one viral hit could send me tumbling, like Jill, all the way down the hill." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"You see this paradox at work with spinal cord injuries or other cases where the nervous system is seriously compromised: in the immediate term paralysis or severe numbness results and the sensation of pain is dampened or absent altogether. When surgery or therapy restores the flow of energy to the nervous system, the sensation of pain returns. This type of pain is a sign of progress; it's a sign that energy flow has been restored to deadened tissues. The mind is capable of performing a function similar to chemical painkillers and anesthetics." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Correct identification of vitamin B]2 deficiency can prevent permanent paralysis and nerve damage. Remember that there are no symptoms of anemia when folate levels are high and only the vitamin B12 levels are low. Adults need only 2.4 micrograms (2.4 millionths of a gram) of vitamin B12 each day. This tiny amount, still billions of molecules, provides enough for all of our needs. Vitamin B]2 is found only in foods made from animal products, such as meat, dairy products, and eggs; please refer to Graph 1-7." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (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.)

"Add another $40,000 per person for rehabilitation costs after months of paralysis. Therefore the cost to healthcare for this "rare" complication can be approximated to be at least $4.4 million. This conservative estimate doesn't include lost wages, reduced standards of living for patients who returned to work but had to take a lower paying job because of their illness. And of course, there is no price tag for the "human cost" of being paralyzed and away from your family for months." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Nearly all patients with GBS are hospitalized because of paralysis. The prognosis of GBS varies. Up to 13 percent die and 20 percent more are left significantly disabled, defined, for these purposes, as unable to work for at least a year. The CDC reports this side effect to be "rare, perhaps 1 or 2 per million flu shots given." Using the numbers determined from a variety of sources—including medical journals and government documents, it can reasonably be assumed that the flu shot may cause 40 cases of GBS per year." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"When humans ingest these plants, their neurochemicals have effects ranging from relaxation and inebriation to paralysis and death. Cashew nuts are highly toxic until roasted. The seeds are surrounded by double shells that contain a skin irritant similar to poison ivy. This caustic liquid, called Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL), must be removed in order to eat the nut. Ackee, the national fruit of Jamaica, is tricky: when underripe, it contains hypoglycin, a violent purgative that can make you vomit until you die. Its seeds are always poisonous." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Probing further, we found that the anesthesia she was administered was accompanied by a paralysis of her respiratory muscles. It's a short-term muscle relaxant that blocks the neural muscular junction and the transmitter, and you are supposed to recover in a matter of minutes. She recovered in a day. If they had not had an automatic pressure respirator there, she would have died. She has a potentially fatal disorder. When she was measured, they found that her detoxifying enzyme, called cholinesterase, which is supposed to get rid of a chemical like this, was abnormally low on a genetic basis." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In 1953 about one out of every 100 Americans below the age of 20 had experienced some degree of paralysis caused by polio. Then, with well-deserved fanfare, the Salk vaccine was launched for use on April 12, 1955, exactly 10 years after the death of our most famous polio victim, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The vaccine was immediately put into widespread use. I remember lining up in the elementary school gym as a third-grader to get my first polio shot, my childhood fear eased (mostly) by the understanding that I would no longer have to worry about getting polio." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Because they can occur in the absence of grosser bodily dysfunctions, such as a paralysis or tremors, there is a tendency to conclude that there is "nothing physically wrong" with the person. This is because the brain is the most sensitive organ in the body, and when damaged, the first signs are often mental or emotional. Furthermore, psychiatric drugs are selected for their capacity to impair brain function without obviously interfering with bodily functions." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The venom that snakes release enters our bodies and quickly binds to nicotinic receptor sites, blocking cellular activity and causing paralysis. Antivenin is an antibody that seeks out and also binds to the toxic protein in the venom, hence protecting receptor sites from blockage. Though snake bites can be lethal, humans have learned to similarly manipulate nicotinic receptors to their advantage. Some analgesics, known colloquially as "painkillers," work by binding to nicotinic receptors, relieving us from the experience of pain." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "This promises exciting opportunities for intervening in the progression of formerly incurable diseases and injuries, such as diabetes, paralysis, dementia, and other conditions in which unabated cell death causes human suffering. In fact, it is likely that stem cells will be more helpful in situations where one particular kind of cell is involved, as is the case in diabetes, where insulin-producing cells are located in the pancreas (although even in that relatively simple condition, experts say stem cell treatments are far away)." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"REM generally occurs in a rhythmic pattern at intervals throughout the night and normally includes muscle paralysis. The three general characteristics of REM sleep are: dreams, muscle weakness (cataplexy), and paralysis (Mahowald & Schenck, 1989). It affects the muscles by producing an almost temporary paralysis so that people cannot act out the dreams they are experiencing. But those who are affected by RBD do not experience this temporary muscle paralysis." - Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More (Get the book.)

"In animal studies, statins reversed paralysis in mice with MS and prevented a relapse of the disease. It's not known exactly how statins work in this regard. A large controlled trial is now under way • Statins may improve macular degeneration, an age-related disorder in which cholesterol accumulates in membranes of the eye. • Trials are now under way to clarify a potential role in cancer. So far results are mixed. Statins have improved prostate and bowel cancers and acute myeloid leukemia, but in Japan there was an increase in lymphomas in patients taking very strong statins." - 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.)

"Reports began surfacing from hospitals and physicians in 1930 that users of one cream were developing paralysis, abdominal pain, blindness, and other severe symptoms. Only after injured consumers filed lawsuits against the manufacturer was the cream removed from the market in 1932, though in some areas of the U.S. the product continued to be sold for another year. Exposes began to appear in the media showing how widespread the dangers to health and safety had become." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"When bizarre movements and tics disappeared, as well as examples of hysterical paralysis, psychiatrists shifted their attention to people who reported multiple other medical symptoms that had no apparent medical cause. It was only a short leap for psychiatrists to believe that patients with such problems were also hysterical. That leap was not a logical one, however; it merely heaped new illnesses onto an old definition and had no scientific basis in fact. Among these illnesses were chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia (FM)." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The good news is that the paralysis from Bell's palsy is rarely permanent; it usually resolves without treatment in 2 to 3 weeks. Only about 10% of sufferers experience a recurrence—often on the opposite side of the face. A single droopy eyelid can be part of a cluster of nerve-damage-related signs that, taken together, are known as Horner's syndrome. Typically, Horner's affects just one side of the face. The eye on the damaged side will have a constricted (small) pupil, an eyeball that recedes into the face, and an iris that changes color. (See Eye Color Changes, below." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

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