I like the advice that Robin Murphy, ND gave that homeopaths should not follow the allopaths and treat the Test Results e.g. the Cholesterol numbers. Instead we should always treat the person.
If someone presents and has absolutely no pathological symptoms (rare, I know) but is only concerned about a number on a medical test then there is nothing to treat.
The "Normal Range" that is specified for allopathic tests do not necessarily mean that someone who is outside that range has a pathological condition. It might be their normal healthy state. "Normal" numbers are also now being skewed by the general ill health of our population.
And arbitrarily bringing down someone's cholesterol numbers with statins or other drugs has not resulted any improvement in lifespan, either.
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Re: Treat the Person not the Test Results
I agree, but the test results can also help you do that.
For example if the cholesterol is extremely high that suggests nutrition advice may be warranted.
The test results should lead you to figure what they really tell you - what caused them - so as to remedy the cause if it one needing remedy.
But someone within the range may well have a pathological condition.
Ability to read and interpret blood work is very useful and needs to be used in the right way. Many normal ranges are inappropriate. For exampe potassium levels are seen as normal if the potasium is only 3.5. But heart attacks and strokes in ill people will occur at any potassium level under 4.2 and if I see one under 4.5 I persoanally consider it too low. My version of a decent range woudl be more like 4.5 to 6.5
Allopaths have intentionally lowered it as they are afraid of potassium. (What kind of logic is that?) Oddly they are not afraid of sodium, which people have free access to, and are forced to overconsume in all processed foods - with zero attempt to balance the potassium. Any potassium of more than 99mg in USa needs a Rx. Yet that is so little it hardly suffices as a supplement for a cat.
So it is also necessary to understand the range of each blood test and what it really tells you.
Yes a lot. Most normal numbers are taken from an averge reading of the local population. That is hardly the right way to determine a healthy range. Blood tests should be shown against a healthy range, not some local average called normal. Who wants to be normal?
That should read:
Replacing a high cholesterol reading with diabetes and rhabdomyolosis by RXing statins, is not seeming to increase health of anything but drug company pocketbooks.
In 2009, "Ashwin Sachdeva and his co-workers found that the mean LDL-cholesterol in 136,905 patients referred to hospital because of an acute heart attack was lower than normal, not higher." Later that year, similar results were found by Mouaz Al-Mallah and his co-workers at Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute in Detroit.
Read more real facts here:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/8/prweb9739205.htm
A healthy diet includes red meat, with fat (not overheated) and lots of eggs - as well as lots of high antioxidant foods. The problems are the starches, grains and added salt and sugar. It is carbohydrates (starches and sugars) that cause central fat deposit in the body, and it is central fat that generates the unhealthy cholesterol components. The food we eat witih cholesterol in it, is othig to do with that and provides healthy cho9lesterol needed fro brain function.
IMO:
If you want bad memory, brain fag, alzheimers, diabetes, etc, then skip the cholesterol in foods and take statins.
If you want a healthy brain, then eat foods with cholesterol like eggs and red meat, and take fish oil and Vit E.
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
For example if the cholesterol is extremely high that suggests nutrition advice may be warranted.
The test results should lead you to figure what they really tell you - what caused them - so as to remedy the cause if it one needing remedy.
But someone within the range may well have a pathological condition.
Ability to read and interpret blood work is very useful and needs to be used in the right way. Many normal ranges are inappropriate. For exampe potassium levels are seen as normal if the potasium is only 3.5. But heart attacks and strokes in ill people will occur at any potassium level under 4.2 and if I see one under 4.5 I persoanally consider it too low. My version of a decent range woudl be more like 4.5 to 6.5
Allopaths have intentionally lowered it as they are afraid of potassium. (What kind of logic is that?) Oddly they are not afraid of sodium, which people have free access to, and are forced to overconsume in all processed foods - with zero attempt to balance the potassium. Any potassium of more than 99mg in USa needs a Rx. Yet that is so little it hardly suffices as a supplement for a cat.
So it is also necessary to understand the range of each blood test and what it really tells you.
Yes a lot. Most normal numbers are taken from an averge reading of the local population. That is hardly the right way to determine a healthy range. Blood tests should be shown against a healthy range, not some local average called normal. Who wants to be normal?
That should read:
Replacing a high cholesterol reading with diabetes and rhabdomyolosis by RXing statins, is not seeming to increase health of anything but drug company pocketbooks.
In 2009, "Ashwin Sachdeva and his co-workers found that the mean LDL-cholesterol in 136,905 patients referred to hospital because of an acute heart attack was lower than normal, not higher." Later that year, similar results were found by Mouaz Al-Mallah and his co-workers at Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute in Detroit.
Read more real facts here:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/8/prweb9739205.htm
A healthy diet includes red meat, with fat (not overheated) and lots of eggs - as well as lots of high antioxidant foods. The problems are the starches, grains and added salt and sugar. It is carbohydrates (starches and sugars) that cause central fat deposit in the body, and it is central fat that generates the unhealthy cholesterol components. The food we eat witih cholesterol in it, is othig to do with that and provides healthy cho9lesterol needed fro brain function.
IMO:
If you want bad memory, brain fag, alzheimers, diabetes, etc, then skip the cholesterol in foods and take statins.
If you want a healthy brain, then eat foods with cholesterol like eggs and red meat, and take fish oil and Vit E.
Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."