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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

> '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)