Deep South calls in Iran to cure its health blues
In ground-breaking project, one of America’s poorest communities is turning to the Middle East to try to resolve its crisis

By Christina Lamb
December 20 2009

As Marie Pryor shuffles along a Mississippi roadside collecting discarded drink cans to sell for a few cents, her breath comes in short puffs caused by a congenital heart defect. The same condition caused her granddaughter’s death earlier this year.

The last place on earth she would look for help is Iran, a country widely regarded in America as the enemy. The US and Iran have not had diplomatic relations for 30 years and the two governments trade daily insults over Iran’s nuclear programme. Last week Tehran charged three American hikers with espionage after they apparently strayed across the border.

But with Congress acrimoniously debating the reform of health care, it is to Iran that one of America’s poorest communities is turning to try to resolve its own health crisis.

A US doctor and a development consultant visited Iran in May to study a primary health care system that has cut infant mortality by more than two-thirds since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Then, in October, five top Iranian doctors, including a senior official at the health ministry in Tehran, were quietly brought to Mississippi to advise on how the system could be implemented there.

The Mississippi Delta has some of the worst health statistics in the country, including infant mortality rates for non-whites at Third World levels.

“It’s time to look for a new model,” said Dr Aaron Shirley, one of the state’s leading health campaigners.

“Forty years ago, when I was a resident at Jackson hospital, I was in charge of admitting sick babies and was astonished at all the children coming in from the delta with diarrhea, meningitis, pneumonia.

“After years of health research and expenditure of millions of dollars, nothing much has changed.”

As the House of Representatives and Senate weigh the cost of President Barack Obama’s health reforms, Shirley points out that good primary care prevents people from ending up in hospital in the first place.

Besides, nowhere is the need for reform more acute than in Mississippi. The southern state has the highest levels of child obesity, hypertension and teenage pregnancy in the US. More than 20% of its people have no health insurance.

Baptist Town, where Pryor lives, is typical. A rundown suburb of Greenwood, the collapse of the cotton industry has led to massive unemployment. The local stores are a pawn shop, Juanita’s Beauty Salon and Bail Bonding, and an office offering “payday and title loans”.

Pryor’s son Kenneth and daughter-in-law Lizzie, who live with her, are both out of work and their only daughter died from her heart condition at the age of 26. With no local clinics or transport, they go to the hospital’s accident and emergency department if they need a doctor.

The idea of looking for solutions in Iran emerged when James Miller, a consultant based in Mississippi, was called in to advise a rural hospital in financial difficulty. He was shocked to find that the state had the third highest medical expenditure per capita, but came last in terms of outcome.

Miller, managing director of Oxford International Development Group, remembered a conference in Europe where Iranian officials had explained how their country had revolutionized its health care system.

Facing shortages of money and trained doctors at the start of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, the new government launched a system based on community “health houses”, each serving about 1,500 people.

Locals were trained as health workers known as behvarz, who would travel their area, dispensing advice about healthy eating, sanitation and contraception as well as monitoring blood pressure and conditions such as diabetes.

It was a stunning success, reducing child mortality rates by 69% and maternal mortality in rural areas from 300 per 100,000 births to 30. There are now 17,000 health houses in Iran, covering more than 90% of its rural population of 23m.

Miller contacted Shirley, who is seen as a community health pioneer in Mississippi and had recently converted a deserted shopping centre in Jackson into a “medical mall” for the poor.

“I thought if the Iranians could do it with a fraction of resources we have, then why shouldn’t we?” said Shirley.

An Iranian doctor helped them make contact with Shiraz University, which manages more than 1,000 health houses and trains health care workers.

Shirley and Miller visited Iran in May and were astonished to be welcomed with open arms. When they went to remote villages to see the health houses, the Iranians were equally amazed.

“They told us this is a miracle,” said Miller. “Not only were Americans coming here, but also they were learning from us rather than telling us what to do.”

One villager exclaimed: “We always knew rain fell down but never knew it could fall up.”

They signed an agreement with Shiraz University to form the Mississippi/Islamic Republic of Iran rural health project and applied to the US Treasury for a special licence for “Iranian transactions”.

The next step was to win over communities in Mississippi. They started with Greenwood, where Shirley had already been in talks about setting up a local clinic.

Community leaders were shocked when he advised using Iran as a model. “To be honest, I wasn’t overwhelmed with the idea of copying Iran,” said Larry Griggs, the local fire chief. “It’s not exactly one of the most favourable countries to the US.”

They also had to overcome the legacy of distrust between blacks in the American south and public health officials after a series of scandals over medical experiments. The most notorious was the Tuskegee experiment between 1932 and 1972, in which 399 impoverished, black, illiterate farmers were left to suffer from syphilis even though penicillin was available. More than 100 died.

To sell the Iranian idea, Miller promoted it as “a health care model just like the Beetle”, pointing out that the popular Volkswagen Beetle had been conceived by the Nazi regime to show “good things can come out of somewhere not very popular in the world right now”.

The Iranian experts who came to Mississippi included two of the programme’s architects, Dr Hossein Malekafzali, a former minister who is professor of public health at Tehran University, and Dr Kamal Shadpour, the initiative’s co-ordinator in the health ministry.

The Greenwood community was convinced and leased a defunct car showroom for $1 a month for the first Mississippi health house, which is due to open next month. Fifteen Delta communities have expressed interest and Harvard’s School of Public Health will monitor the project.

Paula Gutlove, deputy director of the Institute for Resource and Security Studies, a US think tank, said there was a positive shock value to using an Iranian model. “The exotic nature of working with Iran makes it intriguing to potential funders and sponsors,” she said.

The first candidates from the Mississippi Delta are expected to be trained as health assistants in Iran this spring. If it works, Shirley hopes to extend the programme to the rest of the US. “Just as Mississippi was ground zero in the civil rights movement, so it can be for health,” he said.

Nonetheless, the Iranian connection poses a problem. Knowing that many Americans might be outraged, they have not spoken about the project. Even the governor of Mississippi is unaware of it. “We’ve been deliberately working under the radar,” said Shirley.

The programme chimes with Obama’s policy of engagement and his support of so-called “smart diplomacy”, using links between scientists as a way of breaking down barriers between countries. Following his speech in Cairo last June, aimed at reaching out to the Islamic world, the president has appointed three science envoys who will head to the Middle East next month.

“The Iranians are a proud people with 5,000 years of history and huge contributions to science and medicine,” said a State Department official.

“A project like the Mississippi one is incredibly powerful as it appeals to that Iranian concept of history. It’s a great way to keep the door open between the two countries.”

Gutlove points out that similar meetings between American and Soviet scientists in the 1980s helped pave the way for the end of the cold war. “What we did in the 1980s created lasting relationships which cut across the divide,” she said.

“It’s a win-win project,” said Shirley. “Not only do we finally have a way of addressing disparities in Mississippi, but also building relations between peoples.”

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All I can say is “way cool”.

Iran has a lot to share with the rest of the world.

Such a pity they are always demonized.

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First off, my thoughts are not my own, but merely gleaned from the wisdom of my forefathers, at least those forefathers with the means to publish their wisdom in bound book form.  With that caveat, let me refer to the work of the peerless R.V. Price (the handsome fellow pictured), the writer of The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser.  He also established The Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, NY (which, as the advertisement in his book notes, is “one of the healthiest cities in the United States”).  The following information is taken from the ninety-sixth edition (96th!), published in 1918.  Has anything that has gone through 96 incarnations ever been wrong?  Ponder.

RV Pierce, MD

Well then, how does one know one has the hypertension?  Does one feel “dizz[y]” and “oppress[ed]”?  Does one have “pain in the heart and down arms”?  Do one’s arteries feel “firm, cord like, full, often beaded”?  Then one might have the hypertension.

As the estimable Dr. Pierce teaches, “high blood pressure, like high temperature in fever, is a condition due to a poison in the blood”.  How do you rid yourself of said poisons?  You could “increase the volume and thinness of the blood by the free use of water”.  Or, if you don’t feel like kowtowing to Big Water, you could try Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets (which rid the system of “fermenting poisons”).  Or you could use Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, which leads to the “expulsion of poisons in the blood”.  Or perhaps Dr. Pierce’s Anuric Tablets, miraculous medications which “lessen fermentation and poisoning in the intestines by their increase of the flow of bile from the liver which is the natural antiseptic and laxative”.  Or, better yet, by taking all three.  Of course, by taking all three, you might run the risk of your blood pressure becoming super-terrific.  Is that a risk you’re willing to take?

Reference: Pierce RV.  The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser.  World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 1918.

The Medicines Company and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a nationwide recall of eleven lots of Cleviprex (clevidipine butyrate) injectable emulsion, indicated for treatment of hypertension, due to the potential presence of particulate matter found to be inert stainless steel particles. If the particles were to aggregate, or if larger particles were present, then they could theoretically reduce blood flow in capillaries, cause mechanical damage to some tissues, or initiate acute or chronic inflammatory reactions. Reduced blood supply to tissues may lead to ischemia or organ insufficiency in the brain, kidney, liver, heart or lungs.

CLICK HERE to read the full report and to find a link to the company press release for information on specific lots affected by this recall.

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Scientists have raised the possibility that cardiovascular disease is linked to disturbances in the body’s 24-hour clock.
Working on mice, the Japanese team found a genetic risk factor for a form of high blood pressure is influenced by 24-hour or circadian rhythms.
The study appears online in the journal Nature Medicine.
Malfunctions in the body clock – which influences much of the body’s chemistry – have been linked to many diseases.

We know that there is a strong correlation between time of day and cardiovascular events which often coincide with the early morning surge in blood pressure
Professor Bryan Williams
University of Leicester
And lead researcher Professor Hitoshi Okamura said the latest study was in line with data which suggested shift workers, long-distance flight crews and people with sleep disorders have a heightened risk of heart problems.
High blood pressure – known as hypertension – can lead to heart attack, stroke, kidney damage, and many other medical problems.
Many genes have been identified as being essential elements making up the circadian clock.
For example, mice lacking a pair of molecules known as cryptochromes have an abnormal circadian rhythm.
The latest study, by Kyoto University, found these mice were vulnerable to high blood pressure because of abnormally high levels of a hormone called aldosterone that prompts water retention in the kidneys.
Strong correlation
The researchers showed that the circadian clock directly controls a gene that plays a key role in production of the hormone.
The researchers say a similar gene is found in humans.
They stress more work is needed to determine whether a misfiring circadian clock can lead to high blood pressure in humans.
But Professor Okamura said the research raised the prospect of new ways to treat hypertension.
Professor Bryan Williams, an expert in hypertension at the University of Leicester, described the study as “fascinating”.
He said: “We know that there is a strong correlation between time of day and cardiovascular events, which often coincide with the early morning surge in blood pressure.
“So this does provide some insights into the mechanism that might underpin blood pressure deregulation in some people.”
Professor Williams said some people with high blood pressure were known to have high levels of aldosterone.
But he added: “What we don’t know is how common this mutation might be in human hypertension.”
Professor Jeremy Pearson, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said: “Hypertension is common, but the genes controlling blood pressure are not well understood.
“Their identification will help design better treatments for high blood pressure.”
But he also stressed more research was needed before it became clear whether the study had identified a potential target for new treatments.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8404097.stm

Life Saving Nanotechnology

A middle-aged man sitting at home alone watches his favorite program on TV. He is disturbed by the siren of an ambulance screeching to a halt in front of his house. He peeps through the window and wonders who in the neighborhood could have suddenly become sick. To his astonishment, he sees the paramedics rush towards him. He opens the door with utter confusion. The doctor informs him that he has to go with them immediately and with much persuasion he agrees. Once reaching the hospital the person suffers a massive heart attack, but he survives it, as the specialists tend to him prepared.

Nanotechnology can do wonders in medicine by saving lives. A small device implanted in a human body can anticipate the physiological turbulences and alert the hospital even before the person becomes a victim of such turbulence in his body. A patient of hypertension or diabetes has to take a pill for each, every day for the rest of life, irrespective of sugar levels in the blood on a given day or the reading of blood pressure. A far better option in such a scenario is an implanted chip that can release the required quantities of medicine to adjust the sugar level in the body and modulate the pressure of blood as needed.

This is just one of the very many facets of what nanotechnology can bring to the table. Space technology, primary education, hospitality, manufacturing, medicine, banking services and many other paradigms of society can be led to the next level by this technology. The ability to manipulate the matter at the atomic level is revolutionary for the advancement of technology. DNA sequences have been a mystery for long and the recent researches have largely been able to decipher these secrets. A concerted and a well-coordinated research of nanotechnology can decode the DNA sequences to a phenomenal extent. Once done, this can pave the way for curing and eliminating most of the life-threatening diseases.

Playing around with the atomic arrangement of molecules can help innovate new types of food grains and exponentially increase their production and this will greatly help reduce the mortality rate across the globe. According to Jean Ziegler more than 36 million people died due to hunger or malnutrition across the world in 2006 alone. Such tragic events can largely be minimized by effective culmination of scientific pursuits.

The epochal uses of nanotechnology are many and varied. With my limited knowledge on the subject I have touched upon a few. This short write-up is a humble tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of the lecture delivered by Richard Feynman at Caltech on nanotechnology on the 29th of December 1959.

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Indian Music, especially Carnatic Music , is proved to possess properties of curing Hypertension, insomnia,depression and a host of other ailments.
Carnatic music has seven basic notes, ascendant and descendant put together.They are combined mathematically in either arithmetic of geometric progression to create tunes-Ragas.Each tune has a separate mood and special properties to cure and also elevate one spiritually.
There are basically 72 Ragas.
Ananda Bhairavi is associated with happiness, Muhaari with Tragic notes, Neelambari to induce sleep.
ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2009) — If you paint, dance or play a musical instrument — or just enjoy going to the theatre or to concerts — it’s likely that you feel healthier and are less depressed than people who don’t, a survey of nearly 50,000 individuals from all socio-economic backgrounds from a county in mid-Norway shows.
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When the Quality and Outcomes Framework was first introduced, I was involved in a lot of work (much of it for pharma companies) that attempted to help GPs meet their targets. Much of this was in hypertension, which made sense in a peverse way as there’s oodles of money to be made in hypertension work – for both doctors and pharma companies.

Salutary reading, then, to see this:

I seethe with indignation when careless commentators announce blithely that hypertension is the commonest condition seen in general practice, as they often do. It is not. It may be the commonest condition included in the QOF, but it is knocked into a cocked hat by childhood eczema and kicked clean overboard by skin disease as a whole.

A recently published and well received dermatology Health Care Needs Assessment found that skin conditions are the most frequent reason for people to consult their general practitioner with a new problem. Around 24% of the population in England and Wales (12.9 million people) visited their general practitioner with a skin problem in 2006, with the most common reasons being skin infection and eczema. It found also that of the nearly 13 million people presenting to GPs with a skin problem each year in England and Wales, around 6.1% (0.8 million) are referred for specialist advice.

The author argues that target setting and financial incentives ‘disadvantage huge and clearly definable groups of patients, distort clinical priorities and drain primary care of flexibility’. Very timely, given that his article is in response to the British Medical Association’s request that targets be relaxed in order to free up time for swine flu vcaccination.

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As an American citizen, you have lots of rights. The United States of America signed a very important document called the Declaration of Human Rights. In him, according to Article 3, point you will notice that "everyone has the right to life …" That said, most people suffering from mesothelioma by inhalation of toxic asbestos fibers over a long time without any notice. This means that the law may have a mesothelioma asbestosclaim.

Mesothelioma is a statement that the action for a sum of a person who has mesothelioma due to injury to the threat has developed from exposure to asbestos was made. It is against the person responsible for the exposure of the victim, asbestos is responsible filed. The defendants could help non-governmental organizations, producers, employers, professionals in asbestos removal, or any other party whose carelessness against asbestosExposure.

Never be uncertain or think twice about whether you are seeking legal advice on asbestos mesothelioma claims. There are a lot of good hard-working lawyers who can find the perfect compensation for the completion of mesothelioma caused by inhaling of asbestos fibers. But you have to be diagnosed with the disease in a file. Because of the many cases of people who have indicated that currently only the symptoms of cancer,Justice for people to feel bad Mesothelioma has a disability. The Justice Department has no choice but to delete these cases spam asbestos mesothelioma claims by people suffering from this disease in reality.

Victims of mesothelioma are generally people who live or work in areas where we can not keep away from inhalation of asbestos particles. Shortness of breath, chest pain andrarely weight loss are other symptoms of mesothelioma recognizable. It is highly recommended to consult a physician should any of these symptoms, because people tend to overlook most of them. Unfortunately, the diagnosis is cancer caused by asbestos, often very difficult.

This is mainly because the symptoms of disease are produced by asbestos, as a rule similar to the symptoms of many other diseases. A complete medical historywith frequent visits to the doctor is the best option for a better diagnosis. To have a success story mesothelioma, you should also be able to prove the exact source of exposure to asbestos, the person responsible for the exposure and the damage suffered as a result of voice, were asbestos. Support for a lawyer qualified mesothelioma may be the right of these factors to establish and defend a strong argument and developMaximization of victims' rights reserved.

Obesity Part 1 – It’s not about looks.

This month I’ll give you the facts. Next month, I’ll talk about the why and what we can do about it.

Obesity is a national epidemic which has created a national crisis. This has nothing to do with looks. This is about the health of our citizens, our communities, our economic state, our children and our future. During the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States. Obesity comes with a myriad of health and lifestyle consequences, and the cost of obesity has risen along with the obesity rates.

Obesity for an adult is defined as a BMI of 30 or more. Overweight for an adult is a BMI of 25 or greater. BMI is calculated by dividing weight in kg by height in meters.

THE BAD NEWS

The Rise in Obesity in the US[i]:

About 66% of US adults are currently overweight or obese! About a third of US adults are obese. In 1998 there were no recorded states with obesity rates greater than 14%.

The Cost of Obesity to our country[ii]: $117 billion (2002)

This includes $61 billion in estimated medical spending and $56 billion in indirect costs. Recent estimates put current health related costs at well over 9% of US health expenditures.

The Direct Cost of Obesity to California[iii]: $7.7 billion (2002)

The Health Implications of Obesity[iv]:

As weight increases to reach the levels referred to as “overweight” and “obese,”* the risks for the following conditions also increase:

• Coronary heart disease
• Type 2 diabetes
• Cancers
• Hypertension (high blood pressure)
• Dyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides)
• Stroke
• Liver and Gallbladder disease
• Sleep apnea and respiratory problems
• Osteoarthritis
• Gynecological problems (abnormal menses, infertility)

These medical conditions are just the tip of the iceberg. Each one of them comes with its own list of complications which expands the health and lifestyle consequences of obesity exponentially.

The lifestyle costs of Obesity:

• It can be hard to find clothes that fit, and seats are often not designed for larger body sizes.
• Everyday activities such as driving, walking, climbing stairs or carrying shopping bags may be uncomfortable or even painful.
• Many people with obesity say they feel bad about themselves and suffer from low self-esteem.
• Low self esteem can affect social life and work. For example, a person may feel uncomfortable applying for a job because they don’t think they’ll be good enough to get one or worry they will be judged because of their weight.

Children and Obesity[v]:

• ^· 12.4% of children 2-5 years old are overweight or obese!
• ^· 17% of children 6-11 are overweight.
• ^· 17.6% of teens (12-19 are overweight)

Research over the last 40 years tells us that overweight kids are at greater risk of becoming obese adults, predisposing them to life-long obesity-related health issues.

Being overweight increases a child’s risk for a number of diseases and conditions, including[vi]:

Asthma, Diabetes (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that one in three American children born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime), Gallstones, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Liver Problems, Menstrual Problems, Trouble Sleeping, Metabolic Syndrome (Metabolic syndrome includes: Abnormal lipids, High blood pressure Insulin resistance), Depression and Low Self-Esteem.

THE GOOD NEWS!

The good news is that the health problems (and hence the economic cost) associated with obesity respond well to diet and exercise. Obesity is almost always TOTALLY preventable and curable without drugs or drastic medical intervention. It’s as simple as that (or is it?).

THE CHALLENGE

Obesity is most often the result of lifestyle and dietary choices. Habits are hard to change, especially when our whole social structure is built around them. Food addictions are as real and can be more challenging to deal with than drug addictions. In order to beat this epidemic which has infiltrated every corner of our country and is now spreading across the world we need to recognize and acknowledge it, decide to do something about it and work together to support the necessary changes to our lifestyles and our eating habits.

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[ii] http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/index.htm#econ

[iii] http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/causes/economics.html

[iv] http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/causes/health.html

[v] http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/prevalence.html

[vi] http://www.ucsfchildrenshospital.org/education/health_risks_for_overweight_children/index.html

High blood pressure, headaches are the painful symptoms that many suffer from hypertension (or HTN), know or have been warned.

What you need to know is that there is no conclusive evidence to support this age old idea of a direct link between hypertension and migraine, evident from the conflicting results of several studies.

For example, the results of two separate but related studies – one with 22,684 adults in Norway and another with a smaller sample of150 patients in Poland – seem to contradict this view.

In addition, there are studies that suggest anxiety as a cause of headache in patients suffering from this disease recently observed diagnosis.

That said, there are also studies that have happened for people with frequent migraine HTN.

Regardless of what causes high blood pressure, headache, here are 5 (five), suggestions that are sure to help ease the pain:

1. Prescribed medications HTN

A studyconducted by the University of London states that can accommodate four different classes of hypertension drugs prevent headache. Therefore, you should continue with the prescribed medication is the first step. If there are migraines, you can ask your doctor for a review of prescription drug with a different class.

2. Coffee

Coffee can provide temporary relief, controlling your blood vessels so that blood to the head.

3. Aspirin

This pain conventionalMurderess is still a highly effective treatment.

4. Massage

Massages relax relax the muscles of the shoulders and neck, causing anxiety / tension headaches.

5. Anxiety and Stress Management

Meditation, relaxation techniques and stress management can reduce the frequency / intensity of the attacks.

I suggested above, while useful for migraine, do not help with the current state of HTN.

To control hypertension, you must continue taking the prescribedDrugs and the practice of healthy lifestyles and diet, along with a regular exercise program.

There is also an online resource to deal with natural methods for HTN, you should look into, including those that suggest a rather controversial, but effective, to have more chocolate!

In summary, while high blood pressure symptoms of headache in many patients, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that are directly caused by hypertension.

Drug Can Stop Strokes, But Most Patients Don’t Get It
by RICHARD KNOX

‘…Since 1996 there’s been an approved drug called t-PA (for tissue plasminogen activator) that, according to some big studies, can often break up the clot, restore blood flow and prevent much permanent damage —- if the drug is given within a few hours of symptom onset.

‘About a third of stroke victims are thought to be eligible to get the clot-busting drug. But fewer than 5 percent do, by some estimates. The reasons are complicated…’ -full article at NPR.org

And a disturbed body-clock raises HBP risks:

‘Add high blood pressure to the long list of heightened risk factors for night shift workers, long-distance flight crews, and others with disturbances in the body’s 24-hour clock. In findings with implications for treatment of hypertension, Japanese researchers working on mice have shown that the circadian clock directly controls a blood-pressure-related gene that humans also have, BBC reports.

‘The researcher found that the circadian clock controls a gene that determines levels of a hormone that, when produced in excess, causes water retention in the kidneys, and thus high blood pressure. “Hypertension is common,” an expert says, “but the genes controlling blood pressure are not well understood. Their identification will help design better treatments for high blood pressure.”‘ -BBC

For Heart Vein opening
1) Lemon juice 01 cup
2) Ginger juice 01 cup
3) Garlic juice 01 cup
4) Apple vinegar 01 cup

Mix all above and boil in light flame approximately half hour, when it becomes 3 cups, take it out and keep it for cooling. After cooling, mix 3 cups of natural honey and keep it in bottle.

Every morning before breakfast use one Table spoon regularly. Your blockage of Vein’s will open (No need any Angiography or By pass)

Nature’s wonder drug is a cheap way to beat obesity, cancer, asthma and more.

Top doctors have revealed that the combination of garlic, vinegar, and honey is a wonder drug that can cure every thing from cancer to arthritis. Amazing studies from respected universities around the world prove the miracle home remedy that costs just pennies a day to make is a super way to fight just about any affliction. Experts have verified that this health-restoring trio of garlic, vinegar and honey can wipe out both common and uncommon ailments. Successes include ache, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, some forms of cancer, excessive cholesterol level, colds, flu, gas, and indigestion, headaches, heart and circulatory problems, hemorrhoids, infertility and impotence, toothaches, obesity, ulcers and many other diseases and conditions. In a study of arthritis victims Dr. Angus Peters of the University of Edinburgh ’s Arthritis Research Institute found a daily dose of vinegar and honey reduced pains by 90%.

A daily dose of garlic and vinegar has proved to be a powerful fat destroyer and weight reducer, according to Dr Raymond Fish of London ’s famous Obesity Research Center.

The prestigious British medical journal Lancet reported that cholesterol levels plunged on average from231.4 to 224.4 after volunteers consumed 50 grams of garlic and four ounces of butter. The study proved the dangers associated with high fat foods can be neutralized by adding garlic to your diet. A study of 261 adult patients by the German Association of general Practitioners indicated that serum cholesterol and triglyceride level factors associated with the risk of heart disease are significantly reduced by regular use of garlic in the diet. Studies at Housing’s MD Anderson Cancer Institute in Houston , the Pennsylvania State University and GCLA support earlier evidence that certain ingredients in garlic block agents the cancer of the breast, colon, esophagus and skin. The National Cancer Institute found in a study of 1,000 people that eating a lot of garlic is linked to a reduced risk of stomach cancer. Dr.Etik Block of the State university of New York at Albany has discovered garlic unleashes at least 100 sulfur producing components, all of which are powerful medicines.

There appears to be little doubt that this astounding remedy of garlic vinegar and honey can extend life by protecting the user of many proven killers.

Dr. Hen Lee Tsao writes in China ’s respected journal of Natural Medicines.

‘Patients given this miracle drink before breakfast showed a remarkable reduction in high blood pressure and cholesterol in less than a week.’ Italian nutritionist Emilio Steffani adds, ‘Years of scientific investigation by experts around the world have proven beyond a doubt that garlic, vinegar and honey are nature’s magic potion.

‘The three powerful ingredients are available everywhere and they cost only pennies a day. Considering all that these natural substances can do for human health, it is a amazing they are not more widely used’ Dr. Jack Soltanoff a nutritional expert from New York , praises the benefits of the apple cider vinegar. He has recorded remarkable success stories involving arthritis sufferers,’ I have seen many arthritis patients start to loosen up at once ’says Dr.Soltanoff. Some even call it (apple cider vinegar) a natural arthritis tonic that frees them from stiffness pain and throbbing aches.

Within just few weeks most pain wrecked arthritis patients can perform normal activities because of this simple tonic ‘boxing legend Mohammad Ali reportedly take a daily dose of garlic. Vinegar and honey to fight the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and many other athletes use it to gain competitive edge. Dr. Tsao is sweet on the power of honey. ‘Honey has been described as the perfect food ‘notes the respected researcher. It contains at least 31 nutrients, 13 minerals, the component parts of nine vitamins six acids and four key enzymes. Patients, who took the traditional vinegar and honey drink daily, were more vigorous, had never cold or infectious diseases and in general were healthier than those who didn’t. There is no question that this astounding drink can elixir can extend life by protecting you from many proved killers.

Honey not only makes your daily dose taste better. The sweet stuff also aids in your body’s ability to absorb the medical properties of the powerful ingredients. Garlic provides in storehouse of vitamins and minerals, but what excites researchers most is growing evidence that allicin, an enzyme (amino acid) present in large amounts in garlic stimulates the immune system.

BASIC ELIXIR RECIPE

In a bowl, mix together one cup of cider vinegar-use only cider vinegar, one cup of honey and eight cloves of chopped garlic. Place the combination in a blender and mix on high speed for 60 seconds, pour the mixture in to jar or other glass container, seal and have in the refrigerator for minimum of five days. Normal dosage is two teaspoon in a glass of water or fruit juice, grape or orange juice is best, before breakfast. A second dose, if desired can be taken in the evening.

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Along with many other ingredients used in food, the role of vitamins in reducing high blood pressure is also essential. There are very minerals that help lower the blood in our body. As sodium chloride or common salt, for example, includes an item and it is often thought that increases blood pressure. But there is no limit to the salt as a person should consume high blood pressure and is kept under control, then it need not panic orDispose of salt permanently from his food. After all the body needs sodium chloride, biologically, and thus is a mineral necessary.

Today is the view that the important role of vitamin C in reducing blood pressure plays in the body. Many studies have been conducted to try to discover the exact role of this vitamin when it comes to blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. E 'was shown by these studies that the blood pressure is a suitable person to be higherif it is less vitamin C it needs. Scientists have shown that a minimum level of vitamin C are consumed by all, in order to maintain normal blood pressure. In a person suffering from hypertension or high blood pressure of this figure is even more important because they help to control your blood pressure.

If a person needs more than 240 milligrams of vitamin C every day, as he is a much lower probability of high blood pressure than those who have about 60 mg to takeor vitamin C daily. 240 milligrams of vitamin C per day is within safe levels established by doctors and scientists.

Today, a patient and the heart of a patient with hypertension has suggested that taking vitamins and minerals, if not get the vitamin from natural sources in the diet. These vitamins and minerals are essential, and prevent heart failure and stir so that it worked perfectly.

But it is important for everyone, first, to consultCould be a practitioner of the heart and the case and help determine which vitamins and minerals you. Need It is certainly not a good idea to decide for themselves consume, vitamin C or other vitamins restart without consulting your doctor. We may have other problems and take an excessive amount of these vitamins might be more issues that would benefit.

Vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B complex – each of which are also expected to be consumed at a moderate level in order toPatients with hypertension. Vitamin mineral supplement for the treatment of hypertension is very popular these days and almost all doctors recommend it. And 'natural and therefore may be safer than any other drug. 500 IU of vitamin A basic formula of vitamins and minerals is composed of 4000 mg vitamin C, 400 IU of vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin B15, niacin amide, Vitamin B1, pantothenic acid, vitamin B2, 300 mcg of folic acid , 100 mg of vitamin B6, Biotin 100 mcg and 500 mcg of vitaminB12.

Other activities of the heart muscle and the nutrients needed for the various vitamins is provided. Beta-carotene, vitamin A acts as an antioxidant that is, so it is good for the heart. Vitamin C also helps in the conversion of cholesterol and that is very good for the heart. Vitamin E strengthens the muscles, heart and keeps it protected from various diseases.

As the heart remains healthy and active, helps keep blood pressure under control.

Theseare just two of many strategies to reduce and help successfully control high blood pressure.

More simple yet powerful strategies and step-by-step instructions on what to do and how to do it well, you can find in a special report by Samuel Baron "Natural Treatment of hypertension.

This heart is significantly larger than the three I made for The Waiting Room installation. If it were an actual human heart, it would be extremely hypertensive (an art critic/former autopsy pathologist who’s advising me told me that).

It seems as though many Americans are living a life that leads to high blood pressure or hypertension. As people age, this situation can get worse. Nearly half of all older Americans have hypertension. This disease makes people five times more prone to strokes, three times more likely to have a heart attack, and two to three times more likely to experience heart failure.

The problem with this disease is that nearly one third of the folks who have hypertension do not know it because they never feel any direct pain. But overtime the force of that pressure damages the inside surface of your blood vessels.

However, according to experts, hypertension is not predestined. Reducing salt intake, adopting a desirable dietary pattern losing weight and exercising can all help prevent hypertension.

Obviously, quitting bad habits and eating a low fat diet will help, but the most significant part that you can do is to exercise. And just as exercise strengthens and improves limb muscles, it also enhances the health of the heart muscles.

Heart and Exercise

The exercise stimulates the development of new connections between the impaired and the nearly normal blood vessels, so people who exercise had a better blood supply to all the muscle tissue of the heart.

The human heart basically, supply blood to an area of the heart damaged in a “myocardial infarction.” A heart attack is a condition, in which, the myocardium or the heart muscle does not get enough oxygen and other nutrients and so it begins to die.

For this reason and after a series of careful considerations, some researchers have observed that exercise can stimulate the development of these life saving detours in the heart. One study further showed that moderate exercise several times a week is more effective in building up these auxiliary pathways than extremely vigorous exercise done twice as often.

Such information has led some people to think of exercise as a panacea for heart disorders, a fail-safe protection against hypertension or death. That is not so. Even marathon runners that have suffered hypertension, and exercise cannot overcome combination of other risk factor.

What Causes Hypertension?

Sometimes abnormalities of the kidney are responsible. There is also a study wherein the researchers identified more common contributing factors such as heredity, obesity, and lack of physical activity. And so, what can be done to lower blood pressure and avoid the risk of developing hypertension? Again, exercise seems to be just what the doctor might order.

If you think that is what he will do, then, try to contemplate on this list and find some ways how you can incorporate these things into your lifestyle and start to live a life free from the possibilities of developing hypertension. But before you start following the systematic instructions, it would be better to review them first before getting into action.

1. See your doctor
Check with your doctor before beginning an exercise program. If you make any significant changes in your level of physical activity — particularly if those changes could make large and sudden demands on your circulatory system — check with your doctors again.

2. Take it slow

Start at a low, comfortable level of exertion and progress gradually. The program is designed in two stages to allow for a progressive increase in activity.

3. Know your limit

Determine your safety limit for exertion. Use some clues such as sleep problems or fatigue the day after a workout to check on whether you are overdoing it. Once identified, stay within it. Over-exercising is both dangerous and unnecessary.

4. Exercise regularly

You need to work out a minimum of three times a week and a maximum of five times a week to get the most benefit. Once you are in peak condition, a single workout a week can maintain the muscular benefits. However, cardiovascular fitness requires more frequent activity.

5. Exercise at a rate within your capacity

The optimum benefits for older exercisers are produced by exercise at 40% to 60% of capacity.

Indeed, weight loss through exercise is an excellent starting point if you wan tot prevent hypertension. Experts say that being overweight is linked to an increased risk of developing hypertension, and losing weight decreases the risk.

By: Emmanuel Jeudy, Unique Health and Wellness
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She looks the most healthy amongst patients
With abnormalities hardly noticeable at a glance
A long stare into her eyes, still one may chance
She is one of a kind
The world hardly find
A phaeochromocytoma of sound mind

At night she is full of heat
At times her heart begins to beat
Like drums from African hills and Jamaican streets

Sweat flows like Niagara Falls
Her attacks comes and goes without a call
A minute, an hour, you won’t know at all

Under drugs she is strong and cheerful with face flush
But her stay in hospital
Phew! Is so long with no medical leave at all
A thing puzzling indeed for those who saw her
“Oh she’s so healthy! so fine!
Like Snow Bears from Whispering Pines”

by
S Chooi 30/3/89

(Not my work… but a poem I stumble across while studying… for those of you who don’t know, phaeochromocytoma is a pretty cool tumour that can present in a myriad of ways and is usually heritable and is associated with other endocrine tumours…)

It is at least 70years  since modern science suggested hormone contraception with prolactin or progesterone or estrogen; and since estrogen therapy of menopause was first described (by Prof Joe Meigs himself) on Pubmed – with presentation of endometrial cancer after 8 years on estrogenics .

In general, after 50 years of hormone contraception since we were students, with more than a hundred million women now on low-dose hormone contraception, such synthetics – a progestin with or without ethinylestradiol EE2 – are considered pretty safe in current low dose compared to unplanned pregnancy or physical contraceptive methods, provided contra-indications are respected; with almost 50% reduction in future endometrial and ovarian cancer; and no change in mortality from breast cancer.

But in A Short History of Oral Contraception (2006), Prof Wolfgang Oelkers notes that Ethinylestradiol EE2 was only discovered in 1938 and the first highly active progestin in 1954, leading to the registration of the first oral contraceptive OC pill in USA in 1961-  and within 10years the occurrence of malignant hypertension on such OC pill, with acute and often irreversible renal failure due to the EE2 activating both the renin-angiotensin syndrome and thrombosis. (I had the misfortune to have to put on chronic dialysis a beautiful young university student who presented on such OC pill in 1974 with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura with irreversible renal failure, while I was working at the Leeds General Infirmary under the dialysis pioneer Dr Frank M Parsons).

Oelkers notes that even ultralow dose combinations of EE2 and 3rd-generation progestins can still cause thrombosis; and “The thromboembolic risk associated with the recently introduced transdermal combined  contraceptive Evra®does not seem to be any better than modern oral contraceptives, since it also uses EE. This, unlike natural oestradiol, seems to affect hepatic protein synthesis  independent of its route of application.    In postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy, the transdermal route of oestradiol application seems to be devoid of a prothrombotic risk.  Development of a transdermal combined hormonal contraceptive with oestradiol instead of EE would provide a great next  chapter in this endocrine story.

Wiki reports that The Ortho Evra contraceptive patch and the Evra contraceptive patch are both intended to gradually release into the systemic circulation approximately 20 µg/day of ethinyl estradiol and 150 µg/day of norelgestromin. Since such hormones bypass hepatic metabolism, no wonder the doses delivered still have thrombotic risks. 

Does that make such massively profitable contraceptive hormones that were designed in fierce competition for fertility (and ovarian) suppression in healthy young women both safe and effective for the ageing no-longer-healthy fattening (post)menopausal women? Parenteral physiological balanced HRT does not cause the fattening and muscle loss that OHT does.

Now young Janey asks an important question: “I am 56 yrs old and very happy with Yaz (ethinyl estradiol EE2 plus drospirenone). I do menstruate while on the placebo. I would like to find a doctor who will let me stay on Yaz, which I like a lot, or if absolutely necessary try the Testosterone, Bi-estrogen, Progesterone combo. I worry about weight gain that occurs in almost all cases of oral HRT. I need the bone protection and hair, skin and vagina health benefits that have been wonderful on Yaz. “

CANCER RISK OF ORAL XENOHORMONE THERAPY:

In July this column last visited ovarian cancer as a relatively rare disease but with high (70%) mortality due to its late presentation, hence feared more  than other womens’ cancers eg breast, endometrial or cervix.

So it is worth revisiting the major Danish observational study spanning 10 years published last July ; which documented almost a million women for   8 years. The crude primary ovarian cancer OvCa incidence rate in never-users (5 million women-years) was only 0.04%, vs 0.052% in current  HT users (1.4million women-years) ie overall, hormone therapy HT increased the risk by 1.3, or 30%. That study concluded: “Combined therapy with norethisterone was associated with an increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer (RR, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.36-1.76), which was not significantly different from the RRs associated with medroxyprogesterone, levo- norgestrel, or cyproterone acetate CPA”.

The only regime in that series which was not statistically significantly associated with increase in OvCa was in the 23 women who developed OvCa on solo transdermal E2TD ie hormone replacement HRT (out of a total of 64000 women-years on E2TD), where OvCa relative risk increased by 13% but the 95% confidence interval spanned unity (0.74 – 1.71) ie not significant . By contrast, oral estrogen HT for some 287 000women years increased OvCa risk significantly by 34%; and any progestin added to estrogen ie in some 847 000 women years increased OvCa risk above no HT by 47% to 68%.

This neutral effect on OvCa only of unopposed E2TD is most reassuring for women. All the synthetic progestins they compared – including the antiandrogen CPA- were associated with significantly more OvCa (let alone BRCA).

The nub of the matter is that gynecological cancers generally do not apparently proliferate without the influence of female cyclical hormone levels- FSH, LH, estrogen – and especially oral estrogens and progestins. In the main study of cancer with Turner syndrome, in 3425 women in UK followed for some 17years ie 58000 patient-years, breast cancer was 70% less common than average women, while the only gynecolological cancers that appeared to increase were endometrial cancer 8fold at age 15-44years, and gonadoblastoma of the ovary by 8% by age 25years- and gonadoblastoma is over 90% associated with the ‘male’ chromosome Y . These statistics are reassuring considering that most such women were treated with oral estrogen therapy, and that uterine cancer is avoidable if estrogen therapy is appropriately opposed with some progestin, with periodic withdrawal bleeding allowed.

Unbalanced anabolics eg vitamins or sex hormones merely promote dormant malignant cells already present, they do not cause cancer de novo; and adult cancers take an average of 20 years to present clinically.

There is no report on Pubmed of testicular cancer developing on testosterone TT replacement let alone abuse; nor of increased ovarian or breast or uterine or colonic cancer in long term female testosterone users – if anything long term testosterone replacement in women appears to diminish breast proliferation in rodents, monkeys and humans, as this column has regularly reviewed..

It is common cause from clinical menopause practice and trials that pharmacological ie unphysiological oral estrogen – progestin therapy – while improving bone density- increases body fat and if anything decreases lean ie muscle mass and collagen -hence the increasing postmenopausal fatness frailty and urinary incontinence of elderly women on oral HT.

DROSPIRENONE

The new combinations with  drospirenone for contraception ( Yaz/Yasmin- drospirenone DSP -ethinylestradiol EE2 in fertile women), and post menopause (Angeliq – DSP -estradiol E2) certainly seems to reduce fluid retention and thus weight and hypertension problems, and to have anti-androgenic benefits when required. There is apparently no published longterm data on DSP to judge it’s influence on cancer and mortality.

This column has regularly detailed reasons for postmenopausal women PMW to avoid oral transhepatic sexhormone therapy with the high doses of oral estrogen needed to control menopause symptoms, and the multiple adverse effects of transhepatic xenohormones like EE2, premarin and progestins. But 50 years of experience including the under 60’s cohort of the WHI, and the Oulu trial (Heikkinen ea ) certainly showed overwhelming benefit of oral estradiol/conjugated estrogen-progestin combination when started appropriately in well young PMW for up to 10 years. It has been well known for three decades that continuing such OHT well beyond 10 years gradually increases the incidence of BRCA above non-users.

However, as we have repeatedly discussed, why should Kitty subject herself to the longterm risks of eg breast cancer from such oral use of any designer hormones like orohepatic estrogens and progestins? when evidence is that physiological human HRT with non-oral, or oral micronized (see Dr Lee Vliet’s books) sexhormones, has no risks, only benefits – especially when human E2+- estriol E3 are balanced by progesterone P4 and testosterone TT as by creams, or implants, or tiny subcutaneous self-injection, all easily available by prescription in US.

And when oral EE2 ethinylestradiol for contraception is associated with low but real thrombosis and biliary risks; and when it is enormously potent compared to human estradiol; and when it’s successor competitor diethylstilbestrol DES is still causing horrendous problems in women and their children and grandchildren after it was recklessly prescribed from the 1940s to the 1970 without there ever being evidence of benefit let alone safety.

Lowdose EE2 has certainly proved it’s relative safety when used as birth control in young healthy non-overweight women. But just as oral prempro has proved that it causes problems and little benefit when started after the age of 60years in overweight women ie those already with atheromatous disease, why take potent synthetic oral EE2 post menopause? Using a potent synthetic is neither prudent, physiological nor replacement.

Recently a Brazilian trial confirms equal benefit of “nonoral HRT (nasal spray- estradiol -micronized vaginal progesterone) ; or oral HT (low-dose estradiol-drospirenone ) for 2 years on metabolic, vascular and body fat risks in early postmenopause;” but once again that “Triglycerides and von Willebrand factor levels decreased significantly only with nonoral treatment”- ie the nonoral- parenteral- route is better protection against atheroma and thrombogenesis.

DSP combined with oral E2 is certainly theoretically advantageous HT for those PMW with hypertension and fluid retention. But since no longterm trials or studies of DSP use are available yet, it is too early to judge if DSP+E2 is as safe as physiological HRT with appropriate combination of E2/ estriol E3/ P4/ TT.

But as we have repeatedly pointed out, the evidence from both evolution, and 60 years of experience, and trials, is that physiological parenteral human hormones ie not by the orohepatic route have distinct safety and physiological benefits, as comprehensively detailed by l’Hermite, Genazzani ea on behalf of the International Menopause Society recently , as well as all the data this column has previously reviewed on the importance of balance non-oral testosterone as part of the HRT regime.

So the answer for Janey is: be a volunteer guinea-pig if you like, but dont use Yaz (ie EE2)  but rather use  the natural  E2 -containing Angeliq – in low dose. Since all other synthetic progestins increase ovarian cancer in women, rather use natural progesterone parenterally until Schering publishes a controlled trial showing that drospirenone does not increase ovarian cancer when fed to reproductive age female rodents (let alone women) for the human equivalent of a decade or more. There are no human studies reporting drospirenone use for a decade or more.

But  preferably enroll yourself in a longterm randomized comparative trial of the new (eg Angeliq)  versus the old. – balanced appropriate estradiol-estriol-progesterone-testosterone, whether as a cream or depot injection-  titrated to what suits you.  Why risk the new but long-term unproven when the evidence for the old (as long as human evolution with balanced non-oral human estrogen +P4+TT) is so strong.

And while you may find out the best for you  by your trial and error without longterm adverse effect, none of us may  learn better by your self-experimentation?

* Important causes of hypertension
* Objectives orthomolecular therapy for hypertension
* Scheme orthomolecular therapy:
o Vitamins
o Minerals
o Amino
o Polyunsaturated fatty acids
o Phospholipids
o Probiotics / prebiotics
o Fiber
o Herbs
o orthomolecular complexes

Hypertension – the other names or related symptoms

High blood pressure, hypertension, etc.
Important causes of hypertension

When hypertension is an increased permeability of cell membranes, increasing the load on power cells with the development of the breakdown of adaptation and the emergence of cell calcium overload, an excess of vasoconstrictive and vasodilatory factors, lack of recurrence of the state of “metabolic syndrome”.
Objectives orthomolecular therapy for hypertension

In the case of hypertension requires:

* Stabilization of cell membranes,
* Filling intracellular eletrolitov,
* Maintenance of cellular energy processes, antiksidantnoy protection
* Correction of an excess of vasoconstrictive and lack of vasodilatory factors
* Removal and prevention of a possible state of “metabolic syndrome”
* Shortfall of biologically active substances.

Hypertension is not just increased blood pressure by age. This is the condition of the body in which an impact of autonomic nervous system on cardiac activity. So it’s very wrong to take medication for high blood pressure before you specify the cause of the disease. According to the statistics of Dr. Toshkov, 60% of his patients owe their high blood diseases of the nervous system and stress, 20 percent – a result of kidney disease, 10% – due to liver disease and 10% – lung diseases . Therefore, when created Hipertin Universal has made a special combination of herbs that influence complex on the nervous system, kidneys, liver and cardiac muscle tone.

High blood pressure occurs more frequently in persons engaged in mental work, accompanied by neuro-psychological tension. Development of high blood pressure are important hereditary factors that are insufficiently understood. As predisposing factors to adopt smoking and alcohol abuse. In high blood pressure early complaints are headache, disturbed sleep, tinnitus, palpitations, easy mental and physical fatigue. Headache was more pronounced in the morning after the night sleep and after work. It is usually localized in the frontal and occipital region and a tightening in nature. In later stages of the disease complaints acquire a permanent character and the values of blood pressure is stabilized at levels 150-180/95-110 mm Hg. In the course of the disease occur frequently hypertensive crisis, with rapid and sharp increase in blood pressure and more than 190/115 mm Hg and increasing headaches. The crisis is of varying lengths – from 1-2 hours to 3-4 days and is accompanied by severe headache, often nausea and vomiting, dizziness, decreased vision and hearing, heart palpitations, trembling.