Fibromyalgia is a word
that you've probably heard,
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a lot of people tend to have it
especially in middle aged women
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and some people think
that it is all in the head,
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but for these people, there
are some surprises in store so
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I hope you will stay with us
as we discuss this rather common
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disorder, fibromyalgia.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself To Health
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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There are a lot of symptoms
associated with fibromyalgia,
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in fact they are wide
spread in the body and sometimes
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the person looking on who does
not actually themselves feel
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the symptoms, they think well
this probably cannot possibly be
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something that is real,
it's probably simply something
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that's just in the head, the
person is just thinking these
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things are true
when they really are not.
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But there is such a list
of things that people can
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suffer from, I'd just like
to read some of these for you:
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Can be, of course it's primarily
diffuse and rather wide spread
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pain, but with some
tender points in certain areas,
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in addition to these tender
points, and the tenderness
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all over, there may be fatigue,
sleep disturbances, digestive
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complaints of various
kinds, bladder complaints of
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various kinds, chronic
head aches, feeling not well,
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feeling sensations here
and there that are not real,
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hearing things that are not
there, or having noises in the
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head, being dizzy or unsteady
on the feet, all of these are
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things that people can
feel and more, there are many
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other symptoms that people
with fibromyalgia may have.
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The disorder is fairly common
and for those people who have it
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it's really quite a serious
problem, it is not know why it
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occurs but there are some
things that are now developing
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because of research that seem
to point a finger in certain
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areas so we would like
to present some of those.
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The diagnosis is based on the
symptoms mainly and the history
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of these symptoms and the
treatment is unfortunately
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non-specific, we just treat the
symptoms and hope for the best,
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but there is some good news
and that is that it does tend to
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sort of burn itself out, so
after a few years the person
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does say they are better
and they are feeling quite well.
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Now I would like to show
you some of these tender points
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and if you will look here
at the board you will see these
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points that I have drawn on
the board, but then I would also
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would also like to show you
these on a person, so I've asked
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Justina Thomas if she would
come and help me to show that so
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Justina come and I will
let you just face the people
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this way and I will show you
where these points are located
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on a real person: They
are paired areas in all places
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that you find these in the body,
the tender points are paired
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areas, one is right here,
so if you push your fingers
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right there for the person
and they say ouch! then you've
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probably hit the spot, now right
here is another spot, so if you
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press on this area just under
the collar bone which is here
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you press right there
and the person says ouch!,
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you've probably hit one of
the tender spots, then right at
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the elbow, right here and
right here, always symmetrical
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if you press in this
area and the person says ouch!
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then you've hit
one of the spots.
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Now there are two others
as you can see at the knee,
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now on back there are
four paired spots on the front
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and five paired spots on
the back, as in the front
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there are two on the neck
high up, here is the base of the
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skull right here and just below
that on the neck there are two
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points, then going out a little
way on the shoulder, right here
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there are two
points, that feel tender?
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- Yes! - She has it, and then
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there are two other
that are right here,
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does that feel tender? - Yes!
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Ok! She's probably got it,
now to find this other one,
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it's done simply this way,
put your hands on the waist
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and then just about just
about the extent of your thumbs
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if you just reach down like
that you will find some little
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dimples on the skeleton there
and it's where those little
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dimples are that you have
the problem, then just under the
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buttocks on the edges of the
thighs you will find the other
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tender spots, now fortunately
Justina does not have the
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problem but these are
the spots that you can check,
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just rub them or press on them
and if you illicit pain and the
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person has generalized pain
and some of these other problems
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then that may be
helpful to make the diagnosis of
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fibromyalgia, thank you Justina!
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Now as I mentioned there
are numerous research projects
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going on, on this very
baffling problem of fibromyalgia
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and one of those has to do
with digestive problems and
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Dr. Don Miller who is here
with me today, he is going to
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tell you about one of
these digestive complaints that
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may have some pay dirt
in establishing what this
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disorder is, Dr. Miller!
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- Yes, there are a lot
of nice studies coming out.
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This is from the annals
of rheumatic disease, it says
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in association between irritable
bowel syndrome and small
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intestinal bacterial
growth has been found.
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So IBS or irritable bowel
syndrome which I'm going to
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talk about right now could be
associated with small intestine
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bacterial overgrowth,
let's go to the next one,
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this comes Cedars of
Sinai UCLA School of Medicine,
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evidence that inflammatory
bowel disease or Irritable Bowel
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Syndrome could be
associated with fibromyalgia.
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Now we say that fibromyalgia
could be associated with
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome
which could be associated with
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small intestine bacterial
overgrowth, so these could be
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a causal link right here.
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There is another study that
came out as far as symptomatic
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trying to see if
there is symptoms here for
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome,
92% of the people with IBS
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have bloating, if you constantly
feel bloated there is a good
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possibility that you
have Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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Of course we find that things
in our intestinal tract can
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certainly cause this type
of bloating, now there are some
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symptoms of Irritable
Bowel Syndrome that we
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need to look at, there is
basically three different types:
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1. There are people with
constipation that is accompanied
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by pain, and of course I would
say most people are chronically
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constipated just because of
the life styles that we have,
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but constipation with pain
normally constipation does not
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have pain until we try to pass
the stools, but we are talking
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about
constipation and constant pain.
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2. Then there is
alternating between diarrhea and
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constipation, normally the
diarrhea will come upon first
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rising and at breakfast time
and then the rest of the day
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will be constipation, if
you are following this pattern
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good chance that you
have Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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3. Then there is painless
diarrhea accompanied by mucous.
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So if you seem like you always
have diarrhea and there seems
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to be a lot of mucous in your
stools then it could be a sign
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that you have
Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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There are other symptoms there,
we have gas, of course gas
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could be formed by many
different things in our dietary,
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our very lifestyles, if you
find that every once in awhile
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you have gas, the best way to
find out what is causing my gas
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is do what we call, keep a food
diary, every time you have a
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meal you write down what
you eat and then you start
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writing down symptoms.
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If you have a symptom that
every once in awhile you have,
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write down the symptom, write
down what you are eating until
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you see a pattern developing,
it seems like every time I eat
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peanuts I start itching the
next day, and if you find that
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pattern, then apparently
your problem is peanuts,
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or your problem is beans,
or greens or something else,
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find out what it is.
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A person with IBS will often
be nauseated, this is something
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going wrong in the stomach
and in the intestinal tract
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can cause nausea, bad breath,
we realize that if you have
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mal-digestion things going
on in the intestinal tract,
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it's going to back up and
you will start to smell it
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through the breath, bloating,
weakness, appetite loss,
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even faintness, all are signs
of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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Usually it appears between the
ages of 20 and 50, women have it
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about twice as much as men
do for some reason, and about
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one fifth of the Americans
have this particular problem
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so it is not an uncommon
problem and there are some
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simple things that you can
do for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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and if that's associated with
fibromyalgia then this is the
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tract we want to take
to try to take care of it.
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The reason why you have the
sometimes diarrhea and sometimes
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constipation is a spasmodic
contraction of the colon,
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if it goes to fast you are going
to have diarrhea, if it goes
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to slow you are going to have
constipation because the purpose
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of the colon is to take up
moisture and prepare it for
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exiting the body and so a
spasmodic, sometimes it is
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going to fast, sometimes it is
going to slow, you are going to
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have your diarrhea
and constipation going
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back and forth.
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So what can you do to
treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
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Since it said over here in this
one particular study that it's
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associated with a bacterial
overgrowth and also other things
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growing in the colon, then
there are some certain things
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that we can take that are
vermicides, that will kill off
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worms, bacteria, funguses,
and other things growing in
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our intestinal tract.
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Let me just read some of these
I'm going to read them rather
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slowly because if you think
you have this problem and let's
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go beyond this problem, let's
go to where you are going to be
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traveling in another country
where you might pick up a bug
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that you don't want to have
or you might have some type of
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intestinal parasites from
whatever reason, if you have
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pruritis ani, you are
always scratching at the anus or
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other things, it could be a
sign and so here are some of the
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things that you can take to
help purge these things from
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your system: Aloe Vera is
very good, you can take it in
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a number of forms, you can
go to the store and buy some
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Aloe Vera liquid and drink it
that way, I like to just take an
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Aloe Vera plant, I've got
a bunch of them growing on my
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window sill in my office,
I'll take a whole leaf off,
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cut it, cut the little spines
off, wash it off, I'll drop the
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whole thing into a blender along
with a banana and some pineapple
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juice and whiz that up
and it makes sort of a chiffon
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and so I'm getting my Aloe Vera
juice in a very pleasant way.
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Worm-Wood, now I'm going to
mention a few herbs here that
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are extremely good I would not
travel over seas without these
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things, Worm-Wood is
one, another on is Echinacea,
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Goldenseal, these are
very common herbs in America,
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Goldenseal is extremely
expensive but get some,
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have it on hand, cloves,
now we don't recommend you eat
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cloves all the time because
they are a spice and can be
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irritating to the intestinal
tract, but it's very good for
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expelling things that
should not be growing there.
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Burdock, another extremely
good vermicide is Black Walnut,
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I usually buy it in a tincture
form, if you buy something
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that's been extracted by alcohol
I don't recommend you taking it
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just taking the dropper and
just putting it into your mouth
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because any alcohol is
not good, here's what I do,
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I bring some water to
a boil, (a cup of water),
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I pour the water into a cup,
I add my extract and let the
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heat dissipate the alcohol,
just a few moments and it's all
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dissipated and then you can
drink it with perfect safety.
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Grapefruit seed extract, another
thing I will not travel without
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when I go overseas, I usually
carry a few bottles because
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I usually end up giving it
away to other people I find
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along the way, I will add it
to all water I drink overseas
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taken from a common source,
I try to buy bottled water but
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anyway the GSE, Grapefruit Seed
Extract is extremely good for
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expelling these types of things,
and establishing a good flora
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in your intestinal tract.
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Pumpkin seeds and figs are very
good, another thing is get some
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Diatomaceous Earth, you
can buy Diatomaceous Earth,
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capsulize it, or you can buy
it in capsules and take this for
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about three weeks, if you
have worms or other types of
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parasites, they will eat
it and it will cause them to
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disintegrate, very good thing
to take and it won't hurt you
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at all.
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Garlic, onion, cabbage and
carrots, are extremely good
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they are all high in sulfur, the
animals that may be inhabiting
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your intestinal tract
don't like them so take those.
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Garlic is extremely good,
I go to places in the world
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over there in Africa, I go
to this place called Shingoma
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and there is a lot of people
living in the area with asthma
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and worms and other things
and so I take garlic to them
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and I say plant the garlic,
I give them enough to take
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right then and enough to
grow so garlic is great to have,
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I would take some garlic drops
or some garlic capsules with you
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and extremely good for
Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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Bilberry, tarragon, and Mugwort
also are very good as expellers
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of these type of things
from your system, so I would
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recommend you take them.
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You can apply heat to
the abdomen when you have
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome because
it's very good for causing a
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relaxation and taking away
the pain, charcoal is very good
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for the gas, now charcoal
will take care of the gas but
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find out what's causing the
gas and then you won't have to
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take it in the first place.
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Swallowing air, now when do
we swallow air, people who drink
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soda's, all that fizziness
they are swallowing that,
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it will cause bloating and
cause more gas, increase the
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bran and fiber in the
diet basically by eating fruits
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and vegetables in their natural
state and whole grains and
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drinking plenty of water along
with this, and extremely regular
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be on a regular schedule, it's
extremely good for Irritable
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Bowel Syndrome, that
means that you are eating at the
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same time every day, you are
going to bed at the same time
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every day, you are exercising
at the same time every day,
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and never eat food
before going to bed at night.
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These are some simple things
that you can do for Irritable
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Bowel Syndrome, and as
you follow these simple steps
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God has promised if we do
our part He will do His part,
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so you are praying and if there
is something that I haven't
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mentioned ask Him, say Father
what else can I do and He will
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give you some simple
things to do and if you find out
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something that works for
you you call us and let us know,
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an that's pretty much how
you found out all the simple
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remedies that you put in all
your books isn't it Dr. Thrash?
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- We found a lot that way,
I am very happy that there is
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a lot of research now going
on to establish the validity of
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very simple things, take the
one for fibromyalgia that just
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came out about six or eight
months ago about vitamin D.
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Deficiency in vitamin D has
a wide spread group of symptoms
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some of them very much like
fibromyalgia, so someone got
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the idea, I think
it was published in the
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American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition and they found that
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by giving people vitamin D
they could make a change in the
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symptoms that people
have, so then they checked the
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vitamin D levels of all
the people that they had,
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all patients who came in with
fibromyalgia, they checked them
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for their vitamin D level in
the blood and they found that as
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a general class the people
with fibromyalgia tend to have
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low vitamin D levels and so
what we are now recommending
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is that many people, not
just people with fibromyalgia
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but many people get an annual
vitamin D level run in the
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blood, it can be very revealing.
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Now there is another one
that comes out of Boston,
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also very recently in the Boston
University School of Medicine
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did a very nice research
project on vitamin D and it's
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relationship to fibromyalgia
and found essentially the
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same thing, that giving
vitamin D to people with
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fibromyalgia will
often improve their symptoms.
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Here is another one that is
published in a journal called
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Medical Hypotheses and
this one show that chronic
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inflammation can be a
problem for people who have
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fibromyalgia, they found that
the stress between various cells
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of the vascular tree
could release some nitrous oxide
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into the blood and that
caused a relaxation but in these
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individuals with fibromyalgia
they tended not to have such
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good sheer forces and
consequently did not release
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as much nitrous oxide and
so they postulated that chronic
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inflammation was a factor
so they did some tests that
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revealed that chronic
inflammation was going on
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in these people and in the
whole class of patients who have
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fibromyalgia and by eliminating
inflammation they could improve
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the fibromyalgia.
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Here is another very interesting
study that was done with a
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staphylococcus vaccine,
what they did was to take the
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staphylococcus and make a
staph vaccine then they injected
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it into patients with
fibromyalgia and they found that
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giving the vaccine improved
a number of things about the
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patient, their ability to
neutralize a staph antigen
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greatly improved and they also
were able to neutralize a staph
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toxin, that also improved, so
while they were doing this they
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discovered that the IGG,
the Immune Globulin G was also
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improved in these individuals
but not in the controls,
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none of these things were
present in the control people
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who were normal but did improve
in the people with fibromyalgia,
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so as you can see there are
a number of things that are now
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being found and another one
of those is an interesting one
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and Dr. Don Miller will talk
with you about that right now.
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- Sometimes I read some of these
studies and I am absolutely
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amazed at what science is
investigating and I wonder
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why did they go down
this road but I'm glad they
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went down this road.
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This one from the Journal Of
Women's Health, the title of the
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study is asking a question:
Use Less Cosmetics, Suffer Less
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From Fibromyalgia, and basically
here is one of the premises:
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fibromyalgia patients
often complained of dry skin
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and so the person conducting
this study hypothesized that
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perhaps it's all this cosmetics
and the dry skin and the
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moisturizers could
be causing the problem.
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It says here over ambitious
cleaning resulting in dry skin
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and regular use of cosmetics
as moisturizers could contribute
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to their symptoms.
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So he took a group of women
who used make-up and who did not
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use make-up and found
out what is the result here?
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After two years in the
study here's what he found:
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After two years there was a
significant improvement in pain,
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which is one of the
major problems in fibromyalgia,
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improvement in sleep,
another symptom of fibromyalgia,
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sleep loss, and stiffness,
together with better physical
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function and improved well
being, something as simple as
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not rubbing the stuff on
your face and it could be a real
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good way of not having the
fibromyalgia problems Dr. Thrash
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it sounds like a pretty
cheap and sane way of doing it.
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- A good way and I'm very
happy that we have that one.
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Here is another one that shows
that if there is some kind of
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obstruction to the intake
of air when one is sleeping,
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that can be associated
very closely with fibromyalgia
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and then if they put a machine
for positive pressure air
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then they found that
these patients greatly improved.
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Here is another one that hooked
up some women with fibromyalgia
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to an EEG, an
electroencephalogram and they
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found sleep spindles were
abnormal in the women with
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fibromyalgia, in fact they might
have a decreased number and
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decreased quality of the
sleep spindles that are the
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Hallmark of good sleep.
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Another study showed
that fibromyalgia might be an
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auto-immune disorder, very
complicated study but a very
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nicely done and indicated that
it may be associated with or
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actually be an immune disorder.
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Now another thing
that Dr. Miller is going to
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talk with you about is one of
the Hallmark's of fibromyalgia
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and then I will tell you a
few things to do to treat it.
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- Well I'm going to mention
one thing that is very good for
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perhaps treating the symptoms
and the problems caused by it.
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This was found in the
International Journal of
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Psychiatry Medicine, they were
trying to study the fact that
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fibromyalgia is often caused
by stress, psychological stress
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it's been linked both with
the beginning of fibromyalgia
00:23:40.23\00:23:43.04
and the symptoms severity
and so they found that people
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who are religious, and here
is the conclusion of the study
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right down here at the bottom.
These data, the data they have
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in the study suggests that
the religiousness of a person,
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the religious spiritual
connection with God may have a
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protective effect upon a
patient with fibromyalgia.
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There's another thing that
you can do as far as perhaps
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diagnosing fibromyalgia, we find
that women with fibromyalgia
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urinated eight or more
times during the day compared to
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six times for women who
do not have fibromyalgia.
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So perhaps there is something
about the abnormally high
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frequency in urination
that's characteristic feature of
00:24:25.07\00:24:27.88
fibromyalgia so that's just
one of the other signs that if
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you have frequent urination
during the day and sometimes
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urgency means you've got to
go but you can't go very much,
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it could be a sign that
it is in fact fibromyalgia.
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- Very good diagnostic feature
there, now as to the treatment
00:24:40.90\00:24:45.39
some of these are
very nice treatments.
00:24:45.42\00:24:48.51
Here is one that's depressed
mood often means that the kind
00:24:48.54\00:24:54.42
of treatment that you are
going to give may be a failure
00:24:54.45\00:24:57.63
so the first thing to do is
to relieve the depression that
00:24:57.66\00:25:02.79
person feels, and often the
fibromyalgia itself makes the
00:25:02.82\00:25:06.77
person depressed, they
wonder what is wrong with me,
00:25:06.80\00:25:10.01
people think that I am
just putting on, I really don't
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feel good, I'm not lazy I'm
sick, and yet they look good
00:25:13.06\00:25:17.83
and they are strong but
they just have these disabling
00:25:17.86\00:25:23.51
symptoms, so first correct that
and any other kind of treatment
00:25:23.54\00:25:29.73
that you do
will be more helpful.
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Then here is one of Spa therapy,
I like this one, it almost makes
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me want to have fibromyalgia
just to get t do the treatment.
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This was a study done in Turkey,
it would be nice to go to a Spa
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and get a treatment at
the Spa and enjoy the Spa.
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Here is one swimming, another
good treatment, but people with
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fibromyalgia who
entered into a swimming therapy,
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they did far better than those
who did not do it, and while
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none of these treatment
is entirely curative, they do
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help so much that they are
well worth the trial to do.
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Here is another study, this was
low intensity aerobic exercises
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such as walking, or riding a
bicycle at low speed, nothing
00:26:16.76\00:26:22.99
that's exhausting nor
debilitating for a person
00:26:23.02\00:26:27.59
who is not well but something
that they can easily do and
00:26:27.62\00:26:32.14
the tender points improved
and the general tenderness also
00:26:32.17\00:26:35.63
improved quite a lot.
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There is another one that I
would really enjoy and that's
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baths in the Dead Sea, that's
sounds like a fun thing to do.
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Here is one that is obvious
what it would help and that is
00:26:46.08\00:26:51.23
hyperbaric oxygen therapy
oxygen given in a chamber that
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is under pressure and that
has found to be helpful for
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a number of patients.
00:27:00.86\00:27:01.83
Then here is one that was done
in Utah, giving patients Ribose
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which is a sugar that's
associated with the energy
00:27:09.67\00:27:13.47
capsules that we make in the
body, and this was shown to be
00:27:13.50\00:27:18.27
very helpful in repleating
the reserves of energy that
00:27:18.30\00:27:24.87
these people have
with fibromyalgia.
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Now again the good news is that
fibromyalgia tends to get better
00:27:27.92\00:27:34.62
in a few years, and even if
it is all by itself even if it's
00:27:34.65\00:27:38.36
not helped by any of these nice
treatments it will still get
00:27:38.39\00:27:43.10
better eventually, so the
woman should not be depressed,
00:27:43.13\00:27:46.31
she should not be discouraged,
she should do some of these
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exercises and expect that
the Lord is going to give her
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complete relief, may the
Lord Bless you with relief.
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