There are certain toxic drugs that doctors may readily prescribe for conditions such as asthma, diabetes and acid reflux in the hopes that the condition would improve.
But if asked whether they would prescribe these drugs for themselves, that could be an entirely different story altogether.
Take asthma for example. A doctor might prescribe Advair. But it’s asthma medicine that makes your asthmas deadly since it contains slameterol which was found that after regular use increases the severity of an attack.
Researchers estimate as many as 5000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone are caused by Advair.
Would your doctor take it? I doubt it!
There are much better strategies one can do to help asthma problems which are non-toxic and have no side-effects.
Have you ever considered that increasing allergies and asthma are partly due to environmental factors?
How so?
Think about it, we have anti-bacterial soap, vaccinations and over-use of antibiotics playing havoc with our immune system, never giving it a rest from trying to protect us from invaders.
Other reasons also include toxins that we are exposed to on a daily basis such as pesticides, heavy metals and solvents and not to mention the biggest toxin of all, STRESS!
If Advair is not recommended then you might be thinking of using corticosteroids in a puffer. The New England Journal of Medicine informs us that people who inhale corticosteroid drugs are at increased risk for developing cataracts.
Lovely!
So your asthma may get better but in the long run you won’t be able to find your puffer. Just what the doctor ordered.
According to that study, cataracts affecting the central area of the lens were seen 50 percent more in people who used inhaled corticosteroids compared with people who never used the drugs.
Even more alarming is the fact that cataracts affecting the back surface of the lens were 90 percent more prevalent among steroid users.
How can use of this drug be justified? I always say “follow the money”.
Now instead of relying on asthma and allergy drugs that hurt you, here are some very easy things you can do to help an asthma condition:
- Apples and selenium – Research has found that eating at least two apples per week can reduce your asthma risk by 22 to 32 percent. Now doesn’t that sound more pleasant than sucking steroids?
- And, people with the highest intakes of selenium ( 54 to 90 micrograms a day) have been found to be about half as likely to have asthma as those who consumed the least amount of selenium (about 23 to 30 micrograms daily)
- Vitamin E – Free radicals are oxidants that depress the immune system which asthma sufferers have more of. So antioxidants such as vitamin E may reduce the likelihood of asthma by reducing levels of these compounds.
- Healthy exposure to bacteria and viruses – With the introduction of vaccines, our bodies stopped making its own natural vaccine against bacteria and viruses.
- Instead, we have let ourselves be misled into believing that vaccines can do the job our body cannot. Now the horrors of vaccination toxicity are starting to hit some smaller publications but still repressed from national news.
- Breast feeding — Finally breast feeding is once again finding its feet as research has found that introducing milk other than breast milk to infants younger than 4 months old increases their risk of developing asthma
- Avoid antibiotics – Anti means against and “bio” means life. So antibiotics kill all life. How much clearer can that word be? Very often the head congestion can be attributed to no microbes in the gut.
- Scientists have shown that antibiotics can change the balance of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract, which in turn has an impact on the way your immune system responds to common allergens in your lungs. It’s so easy to add a good probiotic to your diet. Why don’t doctors recommend them along with antibiotics? Maybe they don’t know???
- Avoid fish but take Omega-3 – We are told to eat fish in order to get our Omega-3, but today’s fish, unless your source is pristine, will be most likely contaminated with mercury. Heavy metal contamination is known to increase asthma incidents. A good quality, metal free supplement may be your better choice.
- Address Underlying emotions. Emotions are not often thought of as being a cause for any disease, let alone asthma, but there are a number of good case studies documenting the effectiveness of EFT for asthma. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique which is a series of tapping procedures upon specific meridian points of the body and can be very effective in many health areas, even de-programming the brain from pre-conceived ideas.
- Last but certainly not least, a high quality air purifier could be the “i” that needs dotting to round out your asthma fighting arsenal.
Stay tuned for my next post on diabetes. Your doctor knows the dangers of Avandia and the heightened risk of heart failure and heart attacks.
Would he take it or find an alternative?
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