My beginnings with holistic medicine
Holistic medicine is all that lies outside of Western traditional allopathic medicine. I cannot write at such a breadth of alternative health, and I cannot qualify. My experience and training is a logically rational research scientist, a world in which something valuable must be proved by double-blind, experimentally grounded scientific research.
In 1991, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It is rather unusual to have at the age of 50, because this disease or manic depression, as it is also called, is usually not struck at the age of 40. I was clinically depressed when my wife, Marcia, pulled me to Manhattan from our home on Long Island for about an hour and a quarter of a car ride. Her friend, our insurance agent Jerry, suggested that the Atkins Center could help. Robert Atkins, MD, a few years ago, but back in 1991, he had a five to six-story building that was dedicated to what he called Complementary Medicine. Additional meaning means that kind Dr. Atkins added some holistic medical approaches to traditional cardiology training of internal medicine. On arrival early in the morning, I was given a 5-hour blood glucose tolerance to determine if I was either hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) or hyperglycemic (possibly diabetic), blood was taken for various tests, stool samples and food were collected. products and other allergies.
By the end of the day, I had a bag with vitamins, I was told that I had yeast in my intestinal tract, and I went on a high Atkins protein, low-carb diet. That same year, Marcia also pulled me to our first alternative medical conference in Manhattan. None of the proposed approaches, even orthomolecular psychiatry at the Atkins Center, did not alleviate clinical depression, but he really started me with holistic medicine. Today I practice my own brand of complementary medicine strictly for myself and for all who want to listen. Back in 1991, I did not know that when I returned to Stony Brook University in August 2000 to resume my academic duties after five years of disability leave from Bipolar Disorder, I would suggest an eight-hour course in nutrition medicine for dentists. Much of what I learned, I included in this course on nutrition. I discuss a little here.
Sugar and migraine
When I was twenty-seven years old, I returned to Toronto from Israel with a Ph.D. in biophysics, my headaches that I have been turning into migraines all my life, which I thought, now I will have my whole life. Migraines were much worse, and my pain gained a new dimension of intensity. I learned to endure pain at the age of four, but this pain was excruciating. Migraine headaches are vascular in nature when one of them causes vasoconstriction or squeezing of blood vessels in the head and neck, followed by vasodilation or dilation of blood vessels. During the second vascular phase, the blood vessels dilate when they initially begin, and those suffering from the poorest migraine show a terrible pulsating migraine. I do not know about childbirth, but you can not imagine what pain is without the fact that you yourself suffer from migraines.
After many years of living with this physical pain, I read a book by a South American doctor in the early eighties about the relationship between sugar and migraines. I do not remember his name or the name of the book, but I remember what the doctor wrote. He said that sugar caused a migraine in some people who were susceptible to the biochemical changes caused by sugar. My scientific experience allowed me to understand what the doctor was offering, and I was looking for an explanation for my migraine, since I was desperate. I went to a headache clinic at the Montefiore hospital in the Bronx, New York, and no such explanation was offered. In general, sugar-sugar or sucrose disaccharides are broken down to monosaccharides, glucose and fructose, in the body and cause the secretion of insulin by the pancreas.
Insulin is needed to transport sucrose glucose sucrose to our cells for energy, to work in our muscles and to create triglycerides in our fat cells. A complex biochemical process occurs and some ions, such as magnesium and calcium, are exchanged through cell membranes, which cause changes in the bioelectric nature of the cells. If too much sucrose is broken down to glucose, the pancreas will secrete an excess of insulin. The effect of insulin can actually lower blood sugar levels to even lower levels than normal in human blood, sometimes to a level that is considered hypoglycemic. Reducing blood glucose levels causes the body to hide hormones, adrenaline (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (norepinephrine) to cause the destruction of the glycogen stored in our cells in order to raise and balance blood glucose levels. Blood glucose levels are actually our blood sugar levels, but the use of the word “sugar” is actually wrong, because when we talk about sugar, we usually mean sucrose, but it is a product of sucrose rupture, which is glucose . In any case, the secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine can be a problem in some migraine sufferers, which the blood vessels are sensitive and unbearable, because these hormones or neurotransmitters, in addition to the destruction of glycogen, which is a chain of glucose molecules, cause the blood vessels of the head and neck to vasoconstrict the skin and shoulders. The consequence of this is that the migraine will remain and be difficult to arrest.
A South American doctor noted that shortly after taking sweets, migraines began in humans. Forty-five to ninety minutes after sweets do it. I noticed its results in the early 1980s in my head, but I never tried to closely monitor my products. This is up to the Atkins Center in 1991. I weighed 175 pounds at the beginning of my treatment at the Atkins Center. A couple of months after the carbohydrate diet, I was 150 pounds. Miraculously, the migraines disappeared with lower weight. When I returned the weight, the migraines returned. This is not a double-blind study for a scientist, although it convinced me that there is some validity of the relationship of sucrose to migraine. I still have not seen any work on this issue; however, I suggest you try to see if sugar is related to your migraine. It may not be. Migraines have other causes, such as food allergies and genetics, but it may be worth a try.
As a consequence of this story, my migraine had an additional component. I did regression therapy, Primal Therapy, back to my mom's mom and eliminated the emotional component of the migraine. I could feel my repressed rage in the womb. I no longer suffer from migraines, although if I don’t watch the sugar, and even if I do, I still have muscle pain. In Florida, I feel pain, which is localized in my temples, which can be a completely different kettle of fish or a horse of a different color. Thank God, the migraines are gone. Many products in supermarkets contain sucrose or glucose, so you need to read labels. You are trying to keep all sugar products to a minimum. Let's move on to the related topic.
Sugar and why you can gain weight
Low carbohydrates were a full promise for the Atkins diet to lose weight, and it works if you limit your diet in accordance with its proposals. There has been a lot of controversy over the Atkins diet, which you can read about elsewhere. With the death of Dr. Atkin, the diet lost some traction, although there are still quite a few successful imitations. Some arguments that the diet is not healthy, and it is a truism that there is a risk with everything. I went back to my weight at 175 pounds, but I'm watching for sugar. The truth is that only about twenty-five percent of us can adequately absorb sugar and quickly remove it from our body so that it does not cause gain. The rest of us can be affected by ingesting carbohydrates. It is also a fact that, although the total daily calories are important, you can reach the state when you are older, when you do not eat, and what you eat. You are probably asking yourself why you are gaining weight when you eat, or how you think. The whole weight loss syndrome is like passing your minefield.
I don’t want to be too technical or to give you a scientific explanation that I don’t have at my fingertips, but have you ever heard of insulin resistance. Holistic doctors talk about insulin resistance in terms of becoming pre-diabetic and ever diabetic, and attitudes towards being overweight. But why some people with more diabetes, while some overweight people do not have the disease?
When the sugar breaks down, we said above that through a complex biochemical process, glucose gets into our cells. This happens not only for table sugar, but also for starch, such as potatoes, which decompose into glucose or any simple carbohydrates, such as too much popcorn in movies. We need this glucose for all our cells to provide energy in the form of ATP, when glucose reacts with oxygen inside our cells. The brain needs a lot of energy and it takes about 20% of our blood glucose levels. In addition to energy, our muscles need glucose to convert to lactic acid so that they can function, for example, when you throw or exercise. Finally, glucose is transferred to our fat cells and initially forms triglycerides, which can be assimilated, while the components of triglycerides are transformed into other lipids inside our fat cells. These are all these lipids that can gain weight, especially if we store more fat than we burn. In the Atkins diet, a low-carb, high-carbohydrate diet causes the body to burn fat and that Atkins has seen weight loss in its patients. If weight loss is dramatic, like that of an overweight person, if you have type 2 diabetes and you cannot, diabetes can be partially or completely canceled, because the pancreas still has the potential to produce insulin. With a higher weight with so much blood sugar, your doctor should prescribe insulin. With a lower weight, your own insulin can do the job of monitoring your blood glucose.
Insulin resistance first occurs for energy in our cells and the brain, although we usually have enough to function. There is a slowdown in the rate of glucose transfer (this also indicates the amount of glucose removed from the bloodstream), which can be increased by using drugs such as metformin or a dietary supplement known as alpha lipoic acid. Now, glucose accelerates more into our muscles and fat cells than into our cells and brain. It can occur at 150 pounds or 275 pounds depending on the person and his or her biochemistry. Then the muscles slow down when glucose is transported in insulin, so the best way for the body is to transport glucose into fat cells. Muscle cells, in addition to our other cells, have become more insulin resistant. The last to become insulin resistant are fat cells, so if we are unacceptable, we gain weight until our fat cells become insulin resistant. We can weigh 350 pounds, but we still cannot be so bad in terms of insulin resistance in systems with fat cells. We continue to gain weight because we have not achieved insulin resistance with our fat cells. Or we can be that 175 pounds and already be insulin resistant throughout. Once all three systems become significantly resistant to insulin, the blood sugar level (glucose level in the blood) can increase to such an extent that we are considered pre-diabetic. Insulin from the pancreas, which reacts to glucose in the bloodstream, can no longer do its job. When glucose levels go even higher in the bloodstream, diabetes can occur regardless of fat or skinny. There is, however, a greater correlation between diabetes and overweight for other biochemical reasons.
Yeast Intestinal Infection Prevention Council
Sugar can have detrimental effects on aggravating heart disease and cancer. This can also be a problem for some of us if we acquire an intestinal yeast infection, because yeast, such as fungal microorganisms albicans love sugar. I must warn you that traditional allopathic doctors do not believe in intestinal yeast infections, even though they are taking oral and vaginal yeast infections. As a scientist who survived the effects of yeast, I believe. It is much harder to get rid of something than to acquire something. Some people talk about their marriages. The yeast in your colon can be damaging to you, just as mercury contamination can lead to heavy metal contamination. Or, the yeast can cause similar symptoms, such as low thyroid or low blood sugar during hypoglycemia. A few tolling signs of yeast are bloating and brain fog, but stool cultures and blood tests are needed to confirm an intestinal yeast infection. The mine was confirmed in 1991 at the Atkins Center. Yeast is very difficult to eliminate, and a doctor who knows what he is doing is required. Interfering with all of this is an allergy to yeast and the possibility of what I call yeast psychiatry. You may experience clinical depression from yeast, and your family doctor can tell you that you need a psychiatrist. Most likely, you will need to go on a limited carbohydrate diet.
While you are killing the yeast and building your immune system to attack the yeast from inside your body, you need to replace your intestinal tract with what we call good bacteria. When yeast takes over, they replace all your good bacteria. Back in the early nineties, we compared a bunch of commercial products for their good bacteria. It turned out that many commercial products do not contain live bacteria or are contaminated. We have never published this work, but you need a product with live bacteria, similar to those found in some organic yogurt, so that the bacteria can attach and stick to the intestinal wall. I still use one of these products today. This is called Kyo-Dophilus. I assure you that I have no shares in the company. There are others, and you can ask your health food store to recommend a product.
My advice is to prevent yeast. The use of a broad-spectrum antibiotic that kills a large number of bacteria (both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria) can alter the composition of the bacterial flora in the intestinal tract, which will make it easier for yeast to go away. Every time you take a pill of your broad-spectrum antibiotic, you need to go through an hour and a half to two hours with two Kyo-Doplilus capsules or a similar product. You allow the antibiotic to pass through the digestive system first, and then follow the good bacteria in a couple of hours. An antibiotic every time you take it destroys good bacteria, and you need to replace it with new good bacteria. The use of good bacteria also helps in vaginal yeast infections.
Conclusion
Many years ago, before we were all born, the sweet taste was satisfied with the berries that our ancestors chose in the wild. Today, sugar has become the staple of the American diet, and our children love it. Refining white sugar from cane sugar is the culprit, and we are accustomed to the sweet taste. Food producers place sucrose or glucose or sugar derivatives, such as corn syrup, into most products found on supermarket shelves. You may ask the question: “What do we like about sugar?” I will leave you with a brief, poorly designed experiment that was related to infant rats. The researchers placed the rat puppies on the hob, and the puppies only inserted a few seconds before jumping off the hot plate. If the scientists previously fed the puppies with sugary water, the puppies could stay on the hob much longer. The conclusion is that sugar stimulates a rat and, apparently, our endorphin system, which distracts us from pain. Everything in life that endorphin gives us with great vitality makes us feel good. But every action has a reaction and our costs to continue the good life.
