Hello! The
skin,and the hair, and the
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nails are right out there
in front of us, so that we
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can see them all the time.
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When something goes wrong
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we are very concerned because
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it's right there in view.
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We have a lot of things that
we can tell you about the skin
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that can help you take care of
your skin, and hair, and nails,
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so that you can get
the very best service
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from these very fine structures.
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We'll be talking about some
of these things in our program
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today, so we
hope you will join us.
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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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I sometimes wish I had
made a specialty of dermatology.
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It is such a nice
thing to practice.
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So many people take
a look at their skin
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and they think,
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oh my skin doesn't look nice.
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Or my skin is sick in some way,
or I've got a serious problem
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with my skin and it might be
such a problem as would cause
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me to lose my life, and all
of those things are appropriate
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problems that we
can have with the skin.
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I have asked my friend,
Ronda Clark, who is my colleague
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at Uchee Pines to join me
for today's program, and I would
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like find out some of
the things that you are going
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to tell us about today.
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Ok.
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I brought a couple
of things to talk about,
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and one that is
kind of important to me.
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With the growing
number of people who have had
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gastric bypass surgery, or who
have lost a great deal of weight
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You will find more interest in
knowing what to do about excess
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skin that remains when a person
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has lost quite a bit of weight.
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I have been working on a weight
loss program myself, and this
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is a personal concern for me,
so I appreciated the research.
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At first it was a little
discouraging because it seems
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that there is really much that
can be done, once the skin has
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so greatly expanded.
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But I did find a few tips,
and one particularly interesting
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concept that I wanted to share.
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It's vitally important, during
weight loss process, and in the
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process of maintaining that
weight the next few years to
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maintain a diet very
high in fruits and vegetables.
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These contain very essential
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nutrients for our
skins best health.
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I also learned that,
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don't even
consider having any type of
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of skin reduction
surgery for one to two
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years after your weight loss,
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for during that
time the skin will
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continue to tighten and reshape
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so you may want to
hold off a little bit,
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you may find that
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your skin may come back nicely.
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So if a person gets
the surgery too soon,
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they may find
themselves stretching again
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after the surgery is completed
because with the natural
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tightening that the
skin can do somewhat,
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it might then
start stretching again.
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They put themselves
through a risky procedure,
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and possible complications,
when a little bit of time,
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may have really been
all that was necessary.
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Of course it is important
to strengthen the muscles that
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are under the skin, to support
the body, that the muscles can
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be very toned, that they
themselves are not loose.
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The one most interesting fact
or theory that I came across
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was that of, perhaps, the person
who has excess skin, that is
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very loose, has not
lost quite enough weight.
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We tend to loose our weight
from the inside part of our body
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moving outwards.
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If we continue to have skin that
we feel hangs or sags a bit,
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it may be that the skin is still
containing in that subcutaneous
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layer of skin, the fatty
layer of skin a little to high
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percentage of fat, and so the
researcher was saying why don't
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you try to lower the body weight
maybe a few more pounds and
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see if that won't help give
you a much nicer appearance.
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Now let me ask you something.
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One time many years ago, a woman
asked me if I would remove her
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abdominal apron, after she had
lost about 120 Ibs, and I said
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no indeed, and she said,
well why not, my response was
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that it is a bit risky, it's
not just inject the skin with
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a local anesthetic
and remove the excess and
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sew the edges back together.
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Did you research
anything about that?
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I didn't, other than to know
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this indeed isn't
just a simple procedure.
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Skin reductions are now being
done on all parts of the body,
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the back of the arms, the legs,
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buttocks, even
the chest and abdomen.
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But these are general anesthesia
serious surgeries, where blood
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loss, infection, and other
complications can occur, and so
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many people may think that well,
you know maybe it is not as bad
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as I thought, especially a year
or two after the weight loss.
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My sister even told me,
don't worry about loose skin,
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when you tell people
that you have lost weight,
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it gives you authenticity.
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So I appreciated
her comment on that.
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Oh yes, well, that's
certainly a very good thing.
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At Uchee Pines we only do minor
surgery, and I certainly do not
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consider these tummy tucks, and
other tucks to be minor, they
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should be done with general
anesthesia, and as you say.
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You should not have these
procedures done, until two or
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three years after the
weight loss is finished.
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Another very good reason for
that is that people who loose
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weight unfortunately, sometimes
gain a bit back, and so if they
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have already had these
procedures of removing excess
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skin, then, if
they gain weight again.
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Then, as it was, with
not allowing the skin to
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reduce itself, they may
also find that they need
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that extra skin to expand into.
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Do you have anything else
that you can talk with us about.
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I do. You know one of my
functions at Uchee Pines is to
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counsel people who call on the
telephone with medical questions
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and I had a telephone call from
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a young woman
was just desperate.
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She had been beginning to
grow a mustache, a beard, heavy
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sideburns, some of the hair
on her arms was beginning to
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coursen, and darken, and she
asked if there was anything to
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explain this change, was there
anything she could do naturally.
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This condition is know as
Hirsutism, and it is caused by
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by an excess level
of male hormones or
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androgens in a female body.
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This can be caused
from a couple of things.
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It can be caused from a problem
with the ovarian function.
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It can be caused with a problem
with the adrenal glands, it can
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also caused by obesity,
where the adipose tissue itself
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contains a lot
of estrogen storage,
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and can
unbalance hormone levels.
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The things that we learned for
treatment on Hirsutism are some
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very simple lifestyle things.
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I do want to let people
know that we are genetically
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predetermined that the number
of hairs that we have per square
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section of skin, and
we have two types of hair.
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A very thin fine baby hair
known as vellus hair, and then
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the courser, darker hair
is known as termial hairs.
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Terminal hairs are responsive
to hormones, vellus hairs
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usually are not, but in
this presence of increased male
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hormones, women's vellus hairs
can actually convert to terminal
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When they have, when a terminal
hair now is in the place of
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what used to be a vellus hair,
these will not go back to being
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a vellus hair, and you are kind
of stuck with those dark, course
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hairs that have occurred.
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They can be removed permanently,
either through electrolysis,
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or there are some really
interesting new laser treatments
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that are specially beneficial
in individuals who are
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light
complected, with dark hair.
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The greater the contrast
in pigment between the skin
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and the hair, the more
successful a laser treatment
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will be for permanent removal.
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So focusing on
treating this naturally folks
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is a lot on
preventing further vellus hair
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from being
converted to terminal hairs,
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and helping a woman get
her hormones back in balance.
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It's very important for the
woman to loose weight, and to
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avoid anything in her diet or
environment that will add more
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estrogens or external
hormones to her system.
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A plant based diet is
the perfect prescription.
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Any animal product because
it comes from a mammal that also
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makes hormones will add
more hormones into the system,
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so animal products
should be strictly avoided.
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Weight should be lost, and this
can also be accomplished nicely
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with plant based
diets, high in fiber.
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Plenty of exercise.
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Plenty of exercise is very
important in this, and getting
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lots of fiber,
drinking plenty of water.
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these are all part of
that treatment for this.
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Some other treatment
that I wanted to recommend,
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is to add
freshly ground flax seed.
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This has the benefit of
bringing some healthy fats into
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diet, which are beneficial for
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helping to contain
a balanced hormones.
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Make that sure
you don't overeat.
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You must just take in a modest
amount of calories, in order to
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not only maintain your weight
loss, but to prevent fluctuation
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to hormone levels, even insulin
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is a hormone that we
need to be careful with.
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It was interesting to me to
find that insulin resistance can
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be a predisposing factor
to women developing Hirsutim.
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Changing the vellus
hair into terminal hair.
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Women who suffer from polycystic
ovary syndrome will know what
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I'm talking about, not only do
they have insulin resistance as
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a part of this syndrome, but
Hirsutism is one of the signs
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and symptoms of
this disorder as well.
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Fasting and taking a two meal
plan can help in lowering the
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calorie intake, and
aiding in the weight loss.
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In addition, there are some
herbs that may be beneficial.
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I have a list here and I
want to read them to you:
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One is Saw Palmetto, now
many people think of this as the
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the healthy
prostate hormone for men.
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The very same breakdown
product of testosterone that can
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contribute to prostate cancer,
and prostate enlargement will
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cause Hirsutism in ladies,
so taking saw palmetto may help
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keep that testorone breakdown
product from telling the little
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hair follicle from turning
vellus hair into terminal hair.
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It can prevent a
worsening of Hirsutism.
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Stinging nettles is another
herb that may be beneficial in
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Hirsutism, and that can be
taken as a tea or capsule as
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followed on the
package instructions.
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Vitex chasteberry is a wonderful
herb for a woman to take to
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help balance
the female hormones,
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its highly recommended for women
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who have polycystic
ovaries syndrome to take,
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as the package
instructions prescribe.
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Then, make sure you are getting
plenty of whole grains which
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are rich in zinc, and chromium
and the vitamin E's, the B
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vitamins that are also essential
nutrients for a person who is
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trying to fight insulin
resistance, loose weight and
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balance their hormone levels,
so here are a few tips anyway,
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Very Good!
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for this condition, that can be
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very distressing for many women.
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Yes.
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Now in drugstores you can
sometimes find these little kits
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that have an electric needle
powered by a little battery
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and especially if the hairs are
dark, and the skin is pale, one
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can easily thread the little
needle into the hair follicle.
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The little device automatically
gives a little spark and it can
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kill the hair follicle, and
some person can perform this
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little surgical procedure
on another, very safely, very
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helpfully, just doing maybe
a half dozen to a dozen hairs
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at a time, until they
have reduced the population
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sufficiently, that she
feels quite comfortable with the
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number of dark
hairs that she has left.
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Or maybe even get
rid of all of them.
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I imagine you want to
numb it with a little ice cube.
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No.
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It's a little painful, yes
it is, but not so painful that
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the person wants any numbing.
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Oh good, ok.
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Usually, if you don't do
to many at one time you can
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tolerate it quite well.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you for having me.
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I appreciate
your research on this.
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Sure.
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Very nice.
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Now another thing that people
often have as a problem is
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The loss of hair.
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Not only is
excess hair a problem,
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but the loss of
hair certainly is to.
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One way that one can tell
whether the loss of hair is
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serious, or is not serious is
by simply looking at the number
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of hairs that one
can simply pull out.
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So if you pulled twenty hairs,
just in random areas across
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the scalp, and then take a
little hand lens, look at the
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end of the hair
shaft, look at the bulb,
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and see if there is a bulb.
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If there is no bulb, then the
person is loosing growing hairs,
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The bulb part is left inside,
but if a person has a shaft
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If a shaft has a bulb on it,
that's a resting hair and the
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whole bulb came out with it.
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there is still a germinal
portion left in the follicle
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but, the little bulb came
out with it and that's a resting
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hair, so if no more than about
two or three are growth hairs,
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that's a very good sign, that's
just a resting hair, and when
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the hairs quit resting,
they will start growing again.
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But if they are coming out from
growing hair follicles that's
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more serious, indicates
that it may be more permanent.
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So a woman who is losing
a lot of hair may feel very
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discouraged to learn that
she is losing growing hairs,
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and, she may
never replace those.
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Of course that's the way
men do when they are going bald,
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they loose growing hairs
and once they are out they don't
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come back usually.
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Now I have some pictures
that I would like to show you of
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certain problems on the skin,
that I think can help you to
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understand other skin
conditions, so we will now
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take a look at some of my
pictures that can graphically
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show to you certain things that
I cannot explain so well just
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by telling you about them.
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So here is one that we can
easily see, and much more easily
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feel, it's an aphthous ulcer or
a mouth ulcer, and these occur
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on the inside of the mouth,
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these are extremely painful,
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and they can be treated nicely
with a little golden seal powder
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sprinkled inside the lip
and right onto the little ulcer.
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Or golden seal tea can be
prepared, and the tea swished
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around in the mouth and then
swallowed, and that can give
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one quite a
great deal of relief.
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Now the next picture that you
see is also an aphthous ulcer
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on the tongue.
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This one is going to be
much more difficult in treating,
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because you will notice that
there is a whitish growth also,
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on this tongue.
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On the sides of the tongue,
this is a very serious problem
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in this man who has Aids,
and the aphthous ulcer, and the
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growth of the fungus or the
yeast on his tongue indicates
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that his immune system is not
functioning very well, and of
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course we already knew
that with the diagnosis of Aids.
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The treatment however is about
the same, for the aphthous ulcer
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as I mentioned before the golden
seal is very good, drinking
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lots of water is also very good
for a mouth ulcer or an aphthous
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ulcer, and a
number of other things.
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Do not drink very
hot teas, or coffee,
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or any kind of hot fluid
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that could make a
mouth ulcer worse.
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But what could we do for the
thrush, or the fungus growing
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on his tongue.
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Well a nice thing to do is a
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saturated
solution of baking soda.
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Simply take the baking soda,
put as much in a glass of water
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as you can get to dissolve.
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Then take a cotton tipped
applicator stick and just apply
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the saturated solution
of baking soda on the tongue
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multiple times during the day,
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perhaps ten or
twenty times during the day.
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A person who has as much pain
and difficulty in the mouth as
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this poor gentleman has,
will probably be at home nursing
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himself, and so he has plenty
of time to swab the mouth with
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the baking soda, every half
an hour, to an hour is certainly
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fine to do with the baking soda.
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Ok. Our next picture
will show another problem,
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again this problem is
one that may be serious.
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This is a temporal arteritis
you can see that the temporal
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artery is thickened, and if
you felt of it, it would be both
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tender to the patient and
you would feel it as a rope like
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structure rolling
under your finger.
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The major thing to do in
temporal arteritis is to try to
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assist the immune system to be
better functioning, that's when
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such herbal remedies, as
licorice root tea, astragalus
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is very good, Echinacea is
very good, a plant based diet is
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excellent to boost the
functioning of the immune system
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and to try to help this person
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who has an
auto-immune disorders.
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It's not Aids, it's not the
auto-immune disease which can
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be systemic,
this one is a disease
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of a poor immune
system functioning,
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but of all together
different nature than the Aids
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which is caused by retrovirus.
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No one knows the cause of this
kind of collagen disease, or
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auto-immune disorder
called temporal arteritis.
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Now, along with the things
that you can do, with a plant
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based diet, and the herbs is
other lifestyle changes which
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anyone is capable of doing by
studying the various lifestyle
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measures that are available.
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Now the next picture will show
another serious problem that you
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will find in some people.
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This particular one is lupus,
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and you will see
the butterfly rash.
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This is on the cheeks,
maybe a little bit right on the
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forehead, and the middle, and
a little bit on the chin to make
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a configuration of a butterfly.
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This is also an auto-immune
disorder, similar to the
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temporal arteritis, and
can be treated in the same way.
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These people are especially
sensitive to the sun, and we
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don't want to have them
exposed to direct sunlight.
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they can usually tolerate a
little broken sun, as in the
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shade of a rather
thickly leafed out tree.
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They can also walk in the
sun with an umbrella, or a large
00:20:27.65\00:20:32.06
hat and long sleeves
that cover all of the skin.
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Now the next picture that you
see is one that you will find
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very interesting.
00:20:42.94\00:20:43.91
This picture is called the
petechia, and people with low
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platelets can have pethechia.
00:20:48.71\00:20:50.78
These are little
bloody spots under the skin,
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again, these can be
treated with lifestyle changes.
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The lifestyles changes that
we expect will be the same ones
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that we mentioned for the
other auto-immune disorders.
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This is as well an auto-immune
disorder which can be treated
00:21:07.58\00:21:12.79
by lifestyle changes, and
the herbs which I mentioned.
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A plant based diet is the
most favorable diet for these
00:21:16.77\00:21:20.66
individuals,
avoiding all animal products
00:21:20.69\00:21:23.42
and making the life as
nearly perfect as can be.
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In these cases there is
a premium on the lifestyle.
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Now, the next picture that
we have is another case that
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you will also find interesting.
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This one is a dry eye syndrome.
00:21:44.15\00:21:47.74
This one is
another collagen disease,
00:21:47.78\00:21:53.22
but actually this person
does not have the dry eye.
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You will notice this little
testing strip, the end of it is
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put in the into
the conjunctival space
00:22:00.60\00:22:03.46
and the tears travel
down the little test device
00:22:03.50\00:22:10.03
and you can see a
little wet spot if
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you look very carefully you
can see down under the eye lid
00:22:12.76\00:22:16.66
all the way down
under the eye lid,
00:22:16.69\00:22:18.67
and actually down on the cheek,
00:22:18.70\00:22:20.00
you can see the wet
spot on the test strip,
00:22:20.04\00:22:23.10
so this person, does not
have the Sjogren's Syndrome,
00:22:23.14\00:22:27.57
or the dry eye
syndrome, which can only at best
00:22:27.60\00:22:31.91
give a three
millimeter zone of moisture.
00:22:31.94\00:22:37.14
Where as this one perhaps has
two and one quarter centimeters
00:22:37.18\00:22:42.20
of moisture from the tears,
so the eye is red and the person
00:22:42.24\00:22:46.82
may have a dry eye, but it could
be from something as simple as
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not drinking enough water, very
few people drink enough water.
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Next slide, when we see our
next slide, I think you will
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also see another very
interesting case, and this is
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a case of, you can see that
the conjunctivae is swollen.
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The conjunctivae is the
portion of the covering of the
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eye, that covers the entire
eye, including the cornea.
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The conjunctivae is resistant
to disease, and can usually
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ward off most germs that come
through the eye, but in this
00:23:29.92\00:23:36.91
case there has been an
infection and the person does
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have the swelling
of the conjunctivae.
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In cases of injury of
the conjunctivae, we may need
00:23:45.36\00:23:50.14
to irrigate any kind of foreign
material, like dirt or trash
00:23:50.18\00:23:57.77
that may get into the eye during
the injury, and then if there is
00:23:57.81\00:24:02.84
a flap of the conjunctivae
by simply directing a stream of
00:24:02.87\00:24:09.73
saline, made by one teaspoon
of salt to one level pint of
00:24:09.76\00:24:15.86
water, and making it at
body temperature, if possible
00:24:15.90\00:24:21.46
irrigating or directing a
stream of the saline against
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the flap, and directing it
back into its proper place.
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Then close the eyelid and
bandage it shut, using a thick
00:24:33.10\00:24:40.38
gauze over the eye to keep
the eye from displacing the flap
00:24:40.41\00:24:46.85
of conjunctivae, and the next
day it will be all stuck down
00:24:46.88\00:24:53.29
and the bandage
can usually be removed.
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The person may
still have a sore eye,
00:24:56.38\00:24:59.34
so they may prefer to
have a small bandage kept on.
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An inflamed eye will usually
give you a quite great deal of
00:25:04.24\00:25:11.69
photophobia, or pain on a light
shining in the eye, and so you
00:25:11.72\00:25:19.14
want to always be careful
to protect the eye of a person
00:25:19.17\00:25:23.32
who has an injured eye.
00:25:23.35\00:25:25.37
Now I have here something that
may be helpful to you if you
00:25:25.41\00:25:30.64
have a sick person in your home.
00:25:30.67\00:25:32.52
This device is simply
something to go on a faucet,
00:25:32.55\00:25:38.61
such as on a sink,
and then the person,
00:25:38.64\00:25:43.06
if you have a sick person who is
00:25:43.09\00:25:44.43
chronically ill,
cannot get in a bathtub,
00:25:44.47\00:25:47.86
with this device, you can
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with their simply
bending over a sink
00:25:51.03\00:25:55.18
or lying in a
chair bent backwards,
00:25:55.21\00:25:59.56
with the head
extended over the sink
00:25:59.60\00:26:03.92
you can use this spray
to keep the hair clean.
00:26:03.95\00:26:07.15
You would be amazed how it
helps with the healing of a
00:26:07.19\00:26:11.94
chronically ill person,
just by washing the hair.
00:26:11.97\00:26:16.08
It stimulates the entire
body, it of course cleanses an
00:26:16.12\00:26:21.30
important part of the
body, and it advances healing.
00:26:21.34\00:26:26.45
Now I don't think it would be
appropriate for me to stop the
00:26:26.49\00:26:31.85
discussion of the skin, and
other parts of the body that we
00:26:31.88\00:26:37.21
can easily see,
without telling you about the
00:26:37.24\00:26:40.63
development of
the teeth in children.
00:26:40.66\00:26:45.00
The age in months minus six will
give you the number of teeth
00:26:45.04\00:26:52.35
that a child should have, that
is nice for young mothers to
00:26:52.39\00:26:57.38
know, and then if you would
like to know the average height
00:26:57.42\00:27:04.11
the age multiplied by two
plus thirty two can give you the
00:27:04.14\00:27:10.80
average height in inches.
00:27:10.83\00:27:12.20
Now if you would like to
know the average weight, the age
00:27:12.24\00:27:18.01
times five plus seventeen
will give you the average weight
00:27:18.05\00:27:22.40
after the age of three years,
so let me give you those again.
00:27:22.44\00:27:26.72
The age in months minus six,
gives you the number of teeth.
00:27:26.76\00:27:30.97
The age times two, plus thirty
two gives you the average height
00:27:31.01\00:27:38.63
and the age times five,
plus seventeen will give you the
00:27:38.66\00:27:44.87
average weight, after
the age of three years.
00:27:44.90\00:27:47.57
So I hope that
mothers will enjoy that.
00:27:47.60\00:27:50.28
May the Lord Bless you
with these very simple things to
00:27:50.32\00:27:53.91
take care of your
skin, and hair and nails.
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