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"Some of the mechanisms by which the recommended herbs enhance the detoxification process include: stimulation of bile production in the liver stimulation of peristalsis (wavelike movements in the intestines to move waste along) stimulation of urine output (a diuretic effect) hydration of the colon stimulation of blood and lymphatic circulation ?nutritional support to strengthen organs and protect them from toxic damage ?promotion of mucus discharge from lungs (an expectorant effect) ?eradication of pathogens (such as fungi, viruses, and bacteria) ?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Magnesium is the natural guard against too much stimulation of the NMDA receptor by glutamate, the neurotransmitter that normally flips the "on" switch. Zinc is also a natural relaxant. GABA, taurine, vitamin B6, vitamin D, n-acetylcysteine (the glutathione booster), and even green tea all act as a brake on the overstimulation of the NMDA receptor." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Today, experts believe that the increase in allergic diseases is linked to a lack of stimulation by microbes in the intestines of infants. Probiotics are thought to offer this stimulation. The use of infant formula and increased hygiene practices may be promoting the development of allergies in children by reducing their exposure to probiotics. A lack of probiotics in the intestinal tract allows bad microbes to grow and release toxins that cause intestinal inflammation. Inflammation in the intestines allows allergens to gain access to the body, leading to sensitization." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Vagal Nerve Stimulation Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS), a new technique that involves the surgical placement of a stimulating device on the vagal nerve in the neck, sends rhythmic pulses of electricity that stimulate the vagal nerve, by which means it is thought to influence brain function and treat depression. VNS is a new treatment, although there is some evidence that it can help people who don't respond to medication. Like ECT it is a treatment of last resort. Alternative Medicines There are some natural remedies that have been recommended for depression. ST.-JOHN'S-WORT St." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"As you know by now, triglycerides are key to determining the level of the "Store Fat for Winter" program stimulation you deliver to your liver. After great strides in weight loss, blood pressure reduction, and control or elimination of their diabetes, many of my patients relax, pat themselves on the back, and let down their guard by enjoying a few more "beige," "brown," and "white" foods. These are the very foods that raise blood sugar levels, provoking an insulin response, which in turn triggers the liver to produce triglycerides, which show up as fat on your hips and gut." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Apparently, this lack means that they get less dopamine stimulation and less of the feel-good sensation that dopamine provides. This leaves them feeling a bit out of sorts compared to other people. As a result, they are drawn to tobacco, alcohol, or drugs; presumably, they are seeking the stimulation that nature has not given them. They may even fall prey to compulsive gambling or compulsive eating. It all starts with a gene." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"Many different forms of treatment are available depending on the type of cancer, including chemotherapy, drugs, radiation, nutritional support, and immune system stimulation and support. Because there are so many different types of cancer, all requiring different types of intervention, individuals must work with an oncologist to determine the best course of therapy, including the use of enzyme therapies. Enzymes are the basis for certain anticancer drugs, but separate enzyme therapy has also been studied in cancer patients." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Researchers from the Nestle Research Center in Switzerland showed that immune stimulation was maintained in human volunteers as long as the probiotic was being taken. Levels declined 6 weeks after the probiotic was stopped. Yogurt helps the gut. Yogurt with active cultures may prove helpful for certain gastrointestinal conditions, including lactose intolerance, constipation, diarrheal diseases, colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and Helicobacter pylori infection." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (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.) "Energy medicine—One of four domains of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) identified by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health, which is based on the understanding that illness results from disturbances in the body's bio-electromagnetic (BioEM) energies and that these disturbances can be addressed via electrical or electromagnetic stimulation. Many of the body's electrical systems and electromagnetic fields are well-known, well-documented, and the focus of established conventional medical interventions." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"High blood glucose leads to increased aldose reductase activity in the diabetic individuals [290], leading to changes in retinal blood flow and the stimulation of growth factors in the diabetic retina [291, 292]. cc-Tocopherol, through increasing the ratio of reduced glutathione to oxidized glutathione in the plasma [293-295], is hypothesized to improve the beta-cell's response to glucose [266, 297]. It has been shown that hyperglycemia induces production of diacylglycerol (DAG) [298] and subsequently protein kinase C (PKC) [299, 300]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"As the weight increases, his or her ability to move quickly, efficiently, and easily becomes more difficult. When stimulation and wrong living habits are discontinued, the body begins to heal and reverse the disease process. A lower level of health is telling us that our body needs help; its organs and glands are losing their ability to function efficiently. Toxic Buildup Causes Disease A toxin is defined as any substance that is harmful to the body, which the body cannot use in any way for life-maintaining purposes, and which costs the body energy and nutrition to eliminate." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Pink is perceived as calming, and may be suitable for heart drugs or tranquilizers, while bold colors such as red suggest rapid action and stimulation, and may therefore be appropriate for a painkiller or antidepressant," the IMS consultants wrote in an article in 2001. "On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine a pill in black, a color associated with death and morbidity." - 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.)

"The body attempts to eliminate toxins through stimulation, which "revs up" the metabolism and costs the body energy and nutrition in the process. The simple code for nutritional digestion in the body is: it takes enzymes to get protein; it takes protein to get minerals; and, it takes minerals to get vitamins.5 Each item is dependent on the one before it for complete digestion to take place. When food contains all of its live ingredients, digestion can proceed to completion; bowel movements are easy, and produce very little odor." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Through acupuncture we learn that certain points on our body match up to the control and function of different muscles and organs. The stimulation of the nerves in these points with needles can restore "balance" to a body by improving the function of certain systems and/or by alleviating pain that is exacerbating an illness or condition. Often, acupuncture is used for pain management following a muscle injury or is used to induce relaxation in people who suffer from great stress. The benefits of acupuncture vary, and acupuncturists design treatments to meet the needs of their patients." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "Electronic entertainment is designed to provide continuous stimulation, and game and program developers have steadily become better at it. Over the years, the action in video games has grown more intense, and television shows for children now pack as many flashing colors, quick cuts, and consecutive action sequences in their time slot as possible. The result for children is that they never have to focus on any one scene for long in television shows; in the case of video games, quick and often repetitive reactions are rewarded with points, with enemies destroyed, and with objects collected." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"There was a lengthy how-to guide on sex, including lines like "Continuous sexual stimulation is indispensable in order to be able to reach the ultimate pleasure of orgasm/ejaculation and relief." With the help of Eli Lilly, the young anglers were learning everything they needed to catch the big fish and then relax, like the pros. Back at the Quad Cities golf tournament, Cialis was not the only prescription drug being promoted. At the eighteenth hole, men and women sat behind a white picket fence, sipped their Bud Lights (a tournament sponsor), and watched J. S." - 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.)

"Another way that maitake's beta-glucans may help is by stimulation of tumor inhibitors. In these and other experimental models, systemic macrophage activation and certain cytokine releases seem to be critical for freeing tissues of tumor cells and inhibiting metastasis. In 1995, Dr. Mitsuhiro Okazaki and co-researchers demonstrated that maitake mushroom stimulates release, or rather "primes" the body to release tumor necrosis factor-alpha. Additional studies have shown that maitake is a powerful broad-spectrum cytokine inducer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Perhaps the hairiness brings stimulation or cleansing. Maybe there is a sting or a prick that could be a protective quality or one that brings you to instant attention. When you touch further, you find the plant to be dry with not much liquid, so perhaps it can act as an astringent and dry excess liquids. On the other hand, the plant may feel juicy, thus promoting fluid production or lubricating joints, or maybe even slimy with lots of mucilage, which soothes mucous membranes." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Among the benzos, Xanax is especially likely to cause stimulation, including agitation, anxiety, disinhibition, loss of control, and ultimately mania. Its potential range of effects is surprisingly similar to the stimulating antidepressants and the stimulants themselves—although it more often produces a quieting and sedating effect. The brain and mind, when healthy, provide the individual with a seemingly unlimited potential for thinking, feeling, and acting, often in unanticipated and creative ways." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "He wanted the Prozac label to definitively describe how the drug causes stimulation or activation but that never occurred.5 The FDA and Eli Lilly chose to disregard Dr. Kapit's findings. This occurred inside the FDA in the mid-1980s, almost twenty years before the agency finally began to acknowledge the problem of antidepressant madness." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Under stimulation by agents known to increase bone remodeling (e.g., PTH, L-thyroxine), the osteoblast synthesizes and extrudes RANK-ligand that binds to RANK located on osteoclast precursors, leading to production of new osteoclasts. The repressor molecule, also produced by osteoblasts, is a protein called osteoprotegerin (OPG). Production of this protein increases when the osteoblast binds agents that inhibit remodeling, such as estrogen." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Approximately 10 minutes of therapy on each foot is usually sufficient to induce effective stimulation. A foot massage is heaven for some people. They find it so soothing, enjoyable and relaxing that they fall asleep. Yet others have such sensitive feet they become quite hysterical when their feet are touched. Nevertheless, massage does not tickle and a trained reflexologist will resolve any sensitivity with appropriate techniques. Some degree of pain can be experienced when a reflex point is pressed: this can indicate a problem in the area of the body related to that particular point." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"My feeling is that anything that decreases androgen stimulation of the hair follicle has the potential to decrease acne." The Supporting Players in the Acne Fight In addition to saw palmetto (either in conventional form or as the product Clearogen), a number of other supplements and herbs have been found helpful for acne. Tea tree oil has remarkable antibacterial and antiseptic activity and is great for cleaning the skin. One study showed that a 5 percent tea tree oil solution worked as well as a similar solution of benzoyl peroxide but with much fewer side effects." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Though chiropractors will typically use other modalities besides adjustment—ice, muscle stimulation, and other physical therapies—the corrective series of chiropractic adjustments remains their number-one tool with a bullet. Fixing the Problem, Not the Symptom Besides "fixing" the pain, chiropractors also focus on rehabilitative exercise, stabilization, and flexibility. "Remember the subluxation happens in a complex system—there's a bone, a nerve, and a soft tissue component." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "The cells that line the hair follicle over-respond to this hormonal stimulation." When this happens, the oil glands produce too much oil, which in turn clogs the follicles and creates a welcome environment for bacteria. "The immune system mounts an attack against that bacteria, which leads to inflammation, which is why a pimple can turn into a nasty, red cyst that can scar both physically and emotionally," Fried says. The theory—and it remains a theory—is that by downsizing the conversion of testosterone to DHT, saw palmetto can make a big difference." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "In this case, the placebo group actually got massages—like treatment, but it was uneven, tactile stimulation to areas of the ears, hands, and feet that would not be considered good "reflex points" or appropriate targets for real reflexology treatment for PMS. In this case, all the placebo subjects reported finding the treatment relaxing and pleasant, though a few complained that the manual pressure was too light. They all thought they were getting "real" reflexology treatment. The results were pretty interesting." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"John Harvey Kellogg offered hydrotherapy, colonic irrigation, purging, abdominal surgery, and clitoral stimulation along with his therapeutic corn flakes. In response to "heroic medicine" and all the quackery, the nineteenth century birthed a religious backlash that included Christian Science and the Pentecostal movement. Metaphysics was a match for heroic medicine. By the way, Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science, arguing that worry could make one sick and faith could heal. Please believe me that in choosing the title of this book, I mean no obeisance to this bit of history." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

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