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"By the end of the six-week study, a significant difference in symptom rating occurred in nineteen of the twenty-three symptoms, when comparing the two groups. The average improvement over all of the symptoms was 3.5 times greater (+350%) in the active than the placebo group. The top seven most affected symptoms were improved fifty-five times more (5,500%) in the active group than in the placebo group. Purpose of the Study The study was done to see if taking neurotransmitter precursor lozenges as directed could alleviate the known symptoms of neurotransmitter deficiencies." - Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD, The Feel-Good Diet (Get the book.) "The participants rated how strongly each symptom applied to them on a 0 (nonexistent) to 5 (strongest) point scale. Symptoms of Deficiencies Twenty-three common symptoms of deficiencies of either serotonin or dopamine were on the symptom rating sheet." - Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD, The Feel-Good Diet (Get the book.)

"While the idea that a "natural" product may hold the answer for symptom relief in CFS, FM, or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may seem attractive, the few carefully done studies don't support your spending money to try them. And because these products are not under tight governmental control as is the case for drugs, they may have unknown, dangerous adverse effects. Drugs can go through careful placebo-controlled double-blind trials and achieve positive results. But positive results don't always stand up to time and experience—especially if they are not based on large numbers of patients." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "In contrast, physicians match symptom, syndrome, or disease with the myriad possibilities in the modern drug pharmacopeia with the goal of improving health and quality of life. Learning how to do this highly sophisticated matching is a major reason why physicians have to go to medical school. The operative words here are "improve health." Despite all its advances, modern medicine can only cure vitamin deficiencies, bacterial infections and a few caused by viruses, and the rare cancer. We still can't cure viruses that range from the common cold to the ones causing SARS or HIV." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BODY SIGN AND A symptom? Symptoms—such as pain, fever, and bleeding—come in loud and clear. But body signs tend to be more subtle and difficult to interpret; we may find them dull and banal, embarrassing and bizarre, or anything in between. As John Brown, a 19th-century Scottish physician, put it, "Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language." And while only patients can describe their symptoms, many body signs can be detected by patients, physicians, partners, and even passersby." - 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.)

"If you find yourself speaking to a physician who either doesn't listen or cuts you off after listening for only a few seconds, you too have seen a symptom: your doctor is exhibiting what I call the three Bs—brash, boorish, and overbearing. This doctor will not be of much help to you. Finding the appropriate doctor is often difficult, but you have the right to a physician who listens, takes you seriously, and tries to help. For whom should you look? For starters, try to find a doctor trained in family practice. These doctors are the closest to the general practitioners of yesterday." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Prior to the development of brain magnetic resonance imaging (the well-known test usually called an MRI), MS was diagnosed only if a person had at least two episodes of totally different neurological dysfunction separated in time from each other. The symptom in one episode might be weakness or numbness on one side of the body, while the other episode might involve an experience of double vision due to weakness in the nerves of an eye. But brain MRI has made diagnosing MS simpler. Now a doctor looks at an image that shows the brain from front to back and side to side." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"By following the principles of the Digestive Awareness Diet you can learn how to read these symptom signals in your own body. You will be able to identify their cause, and learn to utilize completely natural methods to prevent your digestive system from creating these types of symptoms. How the Digestive Awareness Diet Impacts Vbu Possibly even more important than knowing how to eat is learning what symptoms occur in your digestive system as the result of eating incorrectly. From a practical point of view, these body symptoms are going to be your first sign of digestive distress." - John K. Pollard, The Digestive Awareness Diet: You Are HOW You Eat (Get the book.)

"Note also, that at birth, Jim is in relatively good health and is symptom free (as no point of his Personal Health Line dips below the Line of Symptoms). Over the 40 years of his life, however, Jim has contributed to that weakness in his heart and circulatory system because of a diet high in hydrogenated oils and refined carbohydrates, a folic acid deficiency, a low pH, and heavy free radical damage—to the point where his Personal Health Line has dipped below the Line of Symptoms. Death Immune Heart Cancer etc. figure 4 A friend of Jim's suggests he try an antioxidant supplement." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The above process of starting and stopping drugs, and observing the patient's reactions, is called challenge (the drug is given, causing the symptom), dechallenge (the drug is withdrawn, stopping the symptom), and rechallenge (the drug is restarted, reinitiating the symptom). During rechallenge each of the patients developed akathisia and reported that this feeling had driven them to become suicidal each time. The challenge, dechallenge, and rechallenge results clearly confirmed a cause-effect relationship between the drug and the adverse effect of suicidal impulses." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "In general, if the withdrawal symptoms start to subside in a few days, you're probably going to be symptom free in a relatively short time, perhaps in days or in weeks. If the symptoms do not subside quickly, there is no way to know with certainty how long they will last. Contrary to what most physicians tell their patients, some people experience lasting residual difficulties after they stop any class of psychiatric drug. Memory and concentration problems are especially common, as well as unstable moods and irritability, weakness, and fatigue." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Symptoms of Deficiencies Twenty-three common symptoms of deficiencies of either serotonin or dopamine were on the symptom rating sheet. These were depressed mood, fatigue, low motivation, poor focus, poor muscle strength or feeling weak, anxiety or worry, fearfulness, PMS-related moodiness, irritability, anger, chronic pain, achy muscles, sleep problems, cravings in the afternoon or evening, eating large food portions, feeling not satisfied after eating, thinking about food often, and craving chocolate, caffeine, nicotine, starchy foods, sweets, or alcohol." - Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD, The Feel-Good Diet (Get the book.)

"It may be a side effect or adverse reaction to the drug, or it may be an additional symptom of the illness. If you are unsure, call your doctor. 18—Frequency This is an estimation of how often symptoms occur in persons who take the drug. The four most common categories of frequency can be found under the SYMPTOMS heading and are as follows. Life-threatening means exactly what it says; seek emergency treatment immediately. Common means these symptoms are expected and sometimes inevitable. Infrequent means the symptoms occur in approximately 1% to 10% of patients." - H. Winter Griffith, M.D., Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 (Get the book.) "You may experience a symptom that is not listed. It may be a side effect or adverse reaction to the drug, or it may be an additional symptom of the illness. If you are unsure, call your doctor. 18—Frequency This is an estimation of how often symptoms occur in persons who take the drug. The four most common categories of frequency can be found under the SYMPTOMS heading and are as follows. Life-threatening means exactly what it says; seek emergency treatment immediately. Common means these symptoms are expected and sometimes inevitable." - H. Winter Griffith, M.D., Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 (Get the book.)

"If today overweight is considered a condition of health and not a disease, tomorrow FDA may proclaim it as a biomarker of or even a symptom of cancer, high blood pressure, or diabetes, removing it from the lexicon of allowable speech for dietary supplements. If today the production of free radicals may be considered a normal part of cell metabolism, tomorrow FDA may proclaim free radicals a biomarker of or even a symptom of cancer, cardiovascular disease, or cataracts, removing the term from the lexicon of allowable speech for dietary supplements." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"HTP was also effective and demonstrated a moderate reduction in terms of symptom reduction on a 90-item symptoms checklist and anxiety inventory. Unlike the clomipramine, 5-HTP did not reduce any symptoms of depression. The authors of this study concluded that serotonergic pathways are involved in the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders due to the positive results of these two treatments. Prescribing L-trypophan and 5-hydroxy try tophan L-tryptophan The optimal dose of L-tryptophan appears to be 2 g daily in conjunction with vitamin B-6." - Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH, Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment (Get the book.)

"Conventional medicine only sees histamine production as a symptom, then gives that symptom a name like "asthma" and produces a drug that counteracts the most obvious and blatant symptoms associated with that label. That is a classic case of biohacking. Bodybuilders sometimes give in to the seduction of biohacking, as well. That's when they consume anabolic steroids, or engage in the consumption or injection of illegal substances to enhance their muscle mass in unnatural ways that are extremely dangerous to their long-term health." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Anybody can observe a symptom, especially if the symptoms are identical to normal behaviors. For ADD, childhood itself became the pathology. In 1987 the revised 3rd edition of the DSM (DSM-III-R) [10] appeared and it featured a new version of ADD. The emphasis on high activity levels had returned and the name was broadened to accommodate the change, now becoming attention deficit/hyper-activity disorder. Instead of three groups to choose from, there was now one list of 14 symptoms, of which any eight could be observed in order to make the diagnosis." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"In allopathic medicine, masking may be why one person benefits from a drug or therapy while another does not, and why when one symptom or disease is taken care of, the person finds that soon they have an entirely different set of symptoms or health problems. There is no getting around masking, but you can learn to work with it. Because the preferred sequence for correcting distortions in the body-field is not always intuitive or logical in an allopathic medical sense, you have to be prepared to release preconceived notions of what your scan should show." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Along the way, they also reduced symptoms such as angina pectoris—chest pain—perhaps the most frightening and incapacitating symptom of heart disease. Normally, physical effort or strong emotion causes the endothelium to go into action, producing nitric oxide, dilating the blood vessels, and thus boosting the flow of blood to the heart muscle. But in a patient with coronary disease, the endothelium's capacity is badly diminished. His narrowed coronary arteries do not dilate, and therefore his heart muscle does not receive the flow of blood it needs. The result: pain." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"They've got all this money - billions and billions of dollars - and they spend it on promotion of those symptom relievers. But symptom relievers don't really help! The best way to look at it would be if you have a pebble in your shoe. You walk around on that pebble, it hurts, and it's very uncomfortable. You could try to shift it around a little, but if you stepped on it, it would still hurt. You could, maybe, take your foot out of that shoe a little bit, right? It feels better. And what happens when you put your foot back in that shoe if that pebble is still there?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The health care culture typically does not deal with the issue of a patient who wants to be released from his symptom immediately without listening to the message his disease is "sending" him. ?We must open our eyes, listen to our disease, hear its message, and believe in our own power in healing our bodies, being led by treatments that are aimed at eliminating the causes of a problem and not just its symptoms. What about Cinema? Even the cinema was exploited by "booster commercials" on Sight Preservation Month and when the Harry Potter book series came out." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Every treatment in medicine, including most so-called natural alternatives, is in reaction to a symptom or condition. This symptom/ treatment duality means that you have this condition (symptom), and 1 am going to prescribe treatment for that condition. It is a stimulus-response or behaviorist model at its core, largely extrapolated from laboratory studies on rats. But how many of you reading this think rat physiology and biochemistry are close enough to those of human beings that our medical healthcare should be based on them?" - Richard Bartlett, Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation (Get the book.)

"This final symptom is an EMERGENCY signal of sinking into unconsciousness. An ambulance and doctor must be called immediately. Not all asthmatics have such obvious signs of an acute attack. There are many people whose breathing deteriorates very slowly over a long time, sometimes days or weeks, and who do not have noticeable wheezes. The only immediate symptom of an acute attack in such an asthmatic may be muddled conversation or behaviour (a sign that the brain is not getting sufficient oxygen) or a loss of colour in the face, with a grey—blue tinge appearing around the nose and mouth." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"And what's the difference between a symptom and a personality trait? My patient Bill had been critical and negative most of his life. He wasn't sick, technically, but he had what I would call a shadow syndrome of depression and was a perfect candidate for a lifestyle change to benefit his Eeyore-like outlook. Prescribing medicine to make people "better than well" is the subject of a longstanding ethical debate, and this is one area where exercise offers a huge advantage over antidepressants. Just because you don't have all the symptoms of depression doesn't mean you can't feel better." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Nevertheless, these approaches are largely directed toward symptom management and eventually must give way to identification of environmental hazards that can be eliminated and raising the level of public health, or to chemo preventive strategies that can be administered to exposed, at-risk, or minimally symptomatic individuals. The therapeutic nihilism traditionally implied in the term "degenerative" is giving way to the dissection of the sequence of the molecular events that lead from the initial trigger to cellular extinction.21 Wow." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Possibly, too, the attention these various stories got was just a symptom of the beginnings of public doubts that would have broken the bubble one way or another whether these stories had been written or not. In that sense, the public interest in these publications was mostly a symptom of a feedback mechanism's working its way out in the downside direction. The subsequent massive decline in the entire market appears to have been related to the break in confidence about stocks in general that came about first for the Internet stocks." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"You take drug A to relieve symptom B, but drug A triggers effect C, for which you now pop drug D, and so on and so forth. Let me give you another example. Constipation is a common side effect of many medications. It can result from ingestion of antidepressants, pain medications, diuretics, antibiotics, and antacids that contain aluminum. Antacids, however, can further aggravate the very symptoms they're taken to alleviate (i.e., heartburn, indigestion).They also inhibit phase I detoxification in the liver (discussed in Chapter 4) and can cause damage to this organ." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"By thinking about what caused a certain symptom, you would eventually find many causes for that symptom as well as many other symptoms, because the mind is giving a lot of attention to symptoms, responses, and reactions. I protested I would be very happy to be free of the symptoms which had been tormenting me. Michael answered certainly, consciously, I would choose to let go of my illness, but he emphasized that at an unconscious level I did not believe in my true freedom to create physical reality." - Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N., Breaking Out of Environmental Illness: Essential Reading for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Allergies, and Chemical Sensitivities (Get the book.)

"Referring specifically to "activation" including "akathisia and insomnia," he suggested that "those symptoms or signs may represent a precursor to the symptom we most fear, that of suicide intent." Chairman Goodman emphasized that the drugs were not only proving to be dangerous in children, they were also ineffective. He told the hearing: We learned that three out of the fifteen studies in pediatric major depression were positive so that the majority of the studies were either failed or negative." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

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