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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Alternative medicine = mainstream
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:40:39 -0500




'Alternative' Medicine Is Mainstream


Many people tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug,
laser or high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time
believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle --
what we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke
cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our
relationships and social support -- can be as powerful as drugs and
surgery. But they often are. And in many instances, they're even more
powerful.


A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences found that these approaches may even change gene
expression in hundreds of genes in only a few months. Genes
associated with cancer, heart disease and inflammation were
downregulated or "turned off" whereas protective genes were
upregulated or "turned on." A study published in The Lancet Oncology
reported that these changes increase telomerase, the enzyme that
lengthens telomeres, the ends of our chromosomes that control how
long we live. Even drugs have not been shown to do this.


That is awesome news. I had no idea that the switch could flip that quickly.


Joy, pleasure and freedom are sustainable, deprivation and austerity
are not. When you eat a healthier diet, quit smoking, exercise,
meditate and have more love in your life, then your brain receives
more blood and oxygen, so you think more clearly, have more energy,
need less sleep. Your brain may grow so many new neurons that it
could get measurably bigger in only a few months. Your face gets more
blood flow, so your skin glows more and wrinkles less. Your heart
gets more blood flow, so you have more stamina and can even begin to
reverse heart disease. Your sexual organs receive more blood flow, so
you may become more potent -- similar to the way that
circulation-increasing drugs like Viagra work. For many people, these
are choices worth making -- not just to live longer, but also to live
better.

I have noted, that beginning last summer, that my cheeks were 'rosy'.




It's time to move past the debate of alternative medicine versus
traditional medicine, and to focus on what works, what doesn't, for
whom, and under which circumstances. It will take serious government
funding to find out, but these findings may help reduce costs and
increase health.

Hope to see that happen, but Big Pharma will see to it that it doesn't.
At best, they will jump on the bandwagon and market the alternatives themselves,,,,look at how many 'Zicam' type products there are.

Bev, who has been smoke free for one year and one day. Who would have believed that I could do it?


--
"The world is my country, all mankind are my
brethren, and to do good is my religion."
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)




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