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"They are imbalances in the body's hormonal system brought on by nutritional deficiencies, stress, pharmaceutical drugs, unnecessary surgeries, and environmental toxins. An industry has been created to exploit, and unfortunately, exacerbate these problems. It is estimated that 500,000 hysterectomies are performed annually in North America, 90% of which are classified as "elective surgeries."13 This procedure, when combined with removal of the ovaries, immediately triggers menopause." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Rates of complications from coronary artery bypass surgeries?such as heart attack, infection, stroke, and central nervous system dysfunction—are disturbing. People are naturally looking for less risky alternatives. However, bypass is a sound approach to improve quality of life and possibly advance longevity when other alternative or conventional medical therapies fail to correct persistent chest pain and shortness of breath caused by coronary artery blockage. The two sides of the coin—conventional therapy alone or alternative therapy alone—represent misguided medicine." - 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.)

"As well, vitamin D deficiency can be precipitated by gastrointestinal surgeries such as bariatric surgery (intestinal bypass) or small-bowel resection (short gut syndrome). In renal failure, several pathologies are related to vitamin D metabolism. The concentration of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D falls in chronic renal failure because of a reduced number of junctional nephrons providing 1-hydroxylase for the endocrine pathway." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"While we are swallowing too many pills, we are also undergoing unneeded surgeries, X-rays, and CT scans. The companies striving to sell us as many pills, medical devices, and hospital stays as possible have goals that conflict with a basic tenet of medical intervention: do not overtreat. Instead, the medical marketers of the twenty-first century work by the advice given to displaymen employed by the nation's department stores in the early 1900s as they learned to seduce the masses into buying more shirts, dresses, and toys." - 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 papers say that medicines are not only saving lives but saving money by keeping people out of the hospital and eliminating the need for surgeries. But the cost-saving potential of most medicines is not so apparent. Most of these studies, known as pharmacoeconomic reports, suffer from the same bias as other research the industry has paid for. Many were written by academics who work as consultants to the industry." - 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.) "Tagamet proved so effective at healing holes in the stomach that doctors began to attribute the steep decline in the number of ulcer surgeries to its healing effects. The new ulcer medicine also richly rewarded Smith Kline for its financial investment in a risky scientific project. By 1981 some fifteen million people in the world had taken Tagamet. Executives at other pharmaceutical companies had been watching. They had been quietly performing their competitive intelligence and gathering data on the activities at Smith Kline." - 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.) "Often forgotten or not disclosed, however, is the fact that the remedy of pills, injections, or surgeries might be worse than the disease. Even the tests needed to find the disease?the needles, the probing endoscopes, the radiation-emitting CT scans?can harm. Unnecessary procedures also waste billions of dollars every year. One study found that almost 40 percent of tests ordered by hospital physicians were not needed. More important, doctors can become so distracted with finding disease that they no longer have enough time for those who truly are sick." - 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.)

"Social critics and psychologists have looked to media pressure—and the more available surgeries for reshaping the human body—as some causes of the dissatisfaction women often feel about "normal" bodies. Most experts agree that a spectrum of factors contributes to these diseases?individual, family, interpersonal, biological, and cultural. Treatment, often mul-tidisciplinary, addresses both the physical and psychological components of the eating disorder." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The most helpful lists will include: •A chronological synopsis of the frequency and disruptiveness of your symptoms •A list of the medications you are currently taking •Previous illnesses, hospitalizations, and surgeries that you've had •Family history of any diseases, particularly of a neurological, cardiovascular, or psychiatric nature •Insurance information •A list of specific questions and concerns In the past, such assiduous preparation for a visit to the doctor's office may have seemed excessive, but today, such preparation is appreciated." - 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.)

"It was at this point that I had my first encounter with coenzyme Qio- It seems no accident that I came across an article in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, reporting how patients taking coenzyme Qio were able to be weaned more quickly from the heart-lung bypass machine we use during open heart surgeries. I'd recently lost a dear patient after a successful mitral valve replacement operation because he had failed over and over to come off that same pump—a nightmare scenario that happens on extremely rare occasions. So, that article really grabbed me, and made a strong impression. What regrets!" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Any surgeries that involve the esophagus, stomach or small intestine may damage the vagus nerve. • 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.)

"Even in 2005, coronary artery bypass surgeries (CABS) are still performed on the basis of clogged arteries alone with no regard to quality of life issues. This is not smart medicine. Rates of complications from CABS—such as heart attack, infection, stroke, and central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction—are disturbing. It's important to note that CNS dysfunction was observed in an alarming 61 percent of patients six months after CABS. People are naturally looking for less risky and fewer surgical alternatives in lieu of such downsides." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"She had been a dancer in her youth and her knees had worn down on her completely. Knee surgeries had done little to help. For about fifteen minutes, I used biofield therapy techniques (more on this in a few pages), giving powerful doses of healing energy to her injured knees. What happened next was like something from an old movie. The woman stood, smiled broadly—and she began to dance about, right there on the stage, ecstatic with her newfound health. She left the auditorium without the use of her cane to huge applause." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"More than half a million bypass surgeries are performed in the United States each year. They involve increasingly older patients and an increasing percentage of repeat operations. As a result, injury, death, and cost have risen substantially. Multiple studies show that pretreatment with CoQIO improves the postoperative status of not just bypass patients but also heart valve replacement patients. Hopefully, cardiologists will recognize the value that a simple supplementation program can contribute to surgical outcomes. An Anti-CoQIO Bias? Dr." - 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.) "It reported how patients taking CoQIO were able to be weaned quickly from the heart-lung bypass machine used during open heart surgeries. I had recently lost a dear patient after a successful mitral valve replacement operation because he failed to come off that same pump—a nightmare scenario that happens on rare occasions. The article made a strong impression. What if I had known about CoQIO before I'd sent that kind man for surgery? His death had hit me hard. I couldn't bring him back, but I could tell patients awaiting open heart surgery to start taking CoQIO daily." - 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.)

"I had done many surgeries and human dissections and studied all of the nerve and blood pathways, but I had never seen a meridian. Then one day in an art class, I had my "eureka" moment. When an artist paints, he must paint the "negative space," the seemingly empty area between objects. Meridians are the negative spaces, or the empty planes, between our organs, muscles, vessels, tendons, and lymph channels. This space is not truly empty; it is filled with fluids, rich in salts and minerals, with an electromagnetic charge and flow." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Excessive bleeding is typical and can lead to anemia, D&C's, and surgeries for fibroids and cysts. Most hysterectomies are done for such problems, and many could be prevented by simply recognizing the symptoms of hormone imbalance (that is, lack of progesterone to balance estrogen) during perimenopause. Our bodies were not designed erroneously. Our natural progesterone balances our estrogen's effects on our cells—preventing excess clotting and cell growth, in addition to the many effects noted above. Progesterone Confusion Progesterone is perhaps the most misunderstood hormone of all." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"After twelve surgeries, including wrist fusions and replacements of one hip and two knees, she lives in constant pain and can write with only her fourth and middle fingers. "It's not that I don't wake up feeling lousy, even depressed sometimes. But when I do, I lie in bed and concentrate on the day ahead. I see myself swimming. I feel the warm water against my skin and the pleasure of soaking in the sauna. I see myself enjoying a good biography on the couch. Other people see me as disabled, but I see myself as high-functioning and healthy. It's simple, really. My morning mantra is, 'Get up." - 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.)

"On a per-person basis for patients of all ages, the United States does three and a half times as many coronary angioplasties and coronary artery bypass surgeries as the other industrialized countries. One might conclude that this investment in the treatment of heart disease in the United States and increased longevity for heart attack victims is proof positive of the superiority of our treatment of heart disease, end of story. Not so, according to data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "In 1997, an editorial mused about why so many more cardiac surgeries were being done on American heart attack patients aged 65 and over compared with similar patients in Canada, when there was no evidence of better outcomes from the extra surgery. The author, Dr. Harlan Krumholz, suggested that at least part of the answer had to do with the prestige and the billions of dollars these procedures generate each year for "hospitals, physicians, and vendors of medical equipment." One year later, Drs. Richard Lange and L. David Hillis wrote an editorial addressing the same subject." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The tools of healing that they want to learn about are blood tests, electrocardiograms, x-rays, MRIs, drugs, surgeries, and scopes of all kinds. Doctors in training work in the teams that are frequently seen making rounds in teaching hospitals. These teams are made up of students and doctors at all levels of training, the most senior member being the attending physician, usually a faculty member of the medical school. Each team represents a microcosm of medicine's hierarchy of knowledge, experience, and authority." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Despite the advent of stents, the number of coronary artery bypass surgeries increased by about a third during the 1990s. In 1987 the FDA approved the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug, Meva-cor. Sales of statins climbed steadily, so that in 2002 they took over as the best-selling class of drug in the United States. What effect did all of these breakthroughs have on the death rate from coronary heart disease? Instead of a dramatic improvement, the rate of decline in the death rate actually slowed during the 1990s (from an average decline of 3.1 percent per year between 1970 and 1990 to 2." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"I couldn't bring that one gentleman back, but from then on I could, and did, tell patients awaiting open heart surgeries to start taking a daily dose of 30 milligrams (mg) of coenzyme Qio two weeks in advance. Thanks to the lessons from one patient, they all came off the heart-lung bypass machine without a problem. All through the 1980s, I found myself driven to learn all I could about mind-body and nutritional medicine. It consumed most of my spare time." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"For a time it persisted even in doctor's surgeries as the death toll of chemical anaesthesia continued to climb. And despite its European decline, mesmerism was not everywhere banished from public medical debate. As Chapter 4 details, it thrived in imperial India, alongside orthodox western medicine, and another competing European medical system: homeopathy. The 'Law of Similars': Homeopathy and the Rise of 'Alternative Medicine' In 1810, Samuel Hahnemann (1755?" - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"My arm required two surgeries that kept me out of commission for several years. I quit competing in tennis and didn't do much else athletic for at least a decade. I got back into being active during my residency, which was during the running craze surrounding Bill Rogers's success and the popularity of the Boston Marathon. Running made me hungry to play tennis again, and then I got into squash with a couple of colleagues, including my good friend and longtime collaborator Ned Hallowell. We played three times a week for almost twenty-five years, competing, cajoling, and encouraging one other." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Myomectomies are surgeries that remove the fibroids but leave the uterus. There are two basic approaches: abdominal myomectomies, which are used primarily for the removal of subserous, pedunculated, or intramural fibroids, and a hysteroscopic myomectomy, which is used for removal of submucous myomas. Hysterectomies can be done with an abdominal incision, a vaginal incision, or by laparoscopy. Except in vaginal hysterectomies, it is possible to leave the cervix, removing the uterine fundus (body) only, which contains the uterine fibroids." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "These surgical procedures are still associated with a high rate of relapse, persistent pain, permanent or intermittent need for catheterization, and additional surgeries. SEEING A LICENSED PRIMARY HEALTH-CARE PRACTITIONER (N.D., M.D., D.O., N.P., P.A.) The symptoms of IC can range in severity from mild and intermittent to chronic and very severe. The main reason to see a licensed health-care practitioner is to diagnose the cause of the symptoms." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "These surgeries can be done separately or together. The incidence of hysterectomy and oophorectomy in the United States is substantial. Women who undergo a bilateral oophorectomy have an increased risk of developing osteoporosis, coronary artery disease, and/or atrophy of the genital area at a younger age. Probably the most dramatic entry into menopause is to have both ovaries removed. From 1994 through 1999, an estimated 3,525,237 hysterectomies were performed among U.S. women aged 15 years or older.4 During this time, the overall hysterectomy rate for U.S. women was 5.5 per 1,000 women." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Uterine fibroids, endometriosis, and prolapse of the uterus are the most frequent reasons for these surgeries in women aged 15 years and older. With new laparoscopic-assisted hysterectomies, ovaries are removed more easily (and this is unfortunate if the ovaries are healthy) and removal of the ovaries has increased significantly, from 20.4 percent in 1994 to 42.5 percent in 1999. When the ovaries are removed, the onset of menopause is immediate." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Add to that the increased knee replacement surgeries (more than 300,000 each year), visits to orthopedists for generalized back and muscle discomfort, and you're looking at a rapidly growing epidemic of the stiff, the sore, and the achy. And baby boomers, like my hiking buddy, are not only living longer, they're not going to take a life of inactivity sitting down (pun intended). So how do we help alleviate the discomfort that comes with our weekend warrior lives and our rapidly degenerating joints? Enter MSM." - 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.)

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