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GOUT is a type of arthritis, characterized by acute attacks of sudden burning pain, stiffness, and swelling in a joint.  This condition is caused by an excess type of arthritis, gout is often characterized by acute attacks of sudden burning pain, stiffness, and swelling in a joint.  The condition is caused by an excess of uric acid on the blood, leading to the formation of hard crystals in joints. Tanya Flynn, from the University of Otago (New Zealand), and colleagues analyzed data collected on 2150 New Zealand residents with clinically confirmed gout. Participants were surveyed for their food habits, with 71% reporting that they had one or more to gout food triggers. The researchers then analyzed data collected on 12,722 objects participating in the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) Study, Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), and Framingham Heart Study (FHS).  Data analysis revealed that tomato consumption linked to higher levels of uric acid in the blood.  Writing that:  “the positive association between tomato consumption and serum urate levels suggests that the self-reporting of tomatoes as a dietary trigger by people with gout has a biological basis,” the study authors submit that tomatoes may be the fourth most common gout trigger food, after seafood, alcohol, and red meat.A type of arthritis, gout is often characterized by acute attacks of sudden burning pain, stiffness, and swelling in a joint.  The condition is caused by an excess of uric acid on the blood, leading to the formation of hard crystals in joints. Tanya Flynn, from the University of Otago (New Zealand), and colleagues analyzed data collected on 2150 New Zealand residents with clinically confirmed gout. Participants were surveyed for their food habits, with 71% reporting that they had one or more to gout food triggers. The researchers then analyzed data collected on 12,722 objects participating in the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) Study, Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), and Framingham Heart Study (FHS).  Data analysis revealed that tomato consumption linked to higher levels of uric acid in the blood.  Writing that:  “the positive association between tomato consumption and serum urate levels suggests that the self-reporting of tomatoes as a dietary trigger by people with gout has a biological basis,” the study authors submit that tomatoes may be the fourth most common gout trigger food, after seafood, alcohol, and red meat.

One way  to quickly relieve an attack of gouty arthritis is to alkanize the blood.  A quick and tasty way to do this is right here!  I have also had major success with acupuncture in boosting the kidney to relieve this condition.

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As a Naturopathic doctor, ND,  who specializes in digestive/GI disorders I first became interested in black cumin oil due to its long heritage as a way to quickly reduce inflammation in the gut for many of my clients.  That was just the tip of the iceberg of its many benefits.  According to Dr. Gary Null and NaturalNews: 

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The balance is attributed to  the Chinese properties of yin and yang. Balance in these areas are essential to health.  All foods are categorized as yin, yang, or neutral or balanced. In the 1960s, it was not uncommon to go on an all brown rice diet with the prescribed fermented soy sauce for a week or two in order to break through a spell of very bad health, or just as a cleansing fast.  Of course, some people took it too far and perished and consequently this diet received a lot of bad press.

But there is much more to macrobiotics than just brown rice, although it is a staple. The diet focuses mostly on grains and legumes with some vegetables and sea veggies (seaweeds), very little fruit, and no animal meat, although some macrobiotic dieters allow for a little fish. A diet heavy with grains cuts across the current thinking of some highly regarded alternative health practitioners and writers who believe grains create inflammation. However, the macrobiotic diet has a long history of health giving success with its focus on whole organic grains. 

Some raw food is considered okay, but light cooking, usually steaming or stir frying, is the preferred method of preparing macrobiotic foods. Although there are a few dissidents within macrobiotic circles, the macrobiotic diet mostly shuns  ALL supplements, remember though this is back when the soil may have had some nourishment and foods were still unmodified. 

After its introductory impact in the USA, public interest in macrobiotics waned. The notion of curing serious disease by diet alone was not appreciated, and as a method of getting healthier and staying healthy, it was considered too strict and severe by most.

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America's tremendous imbalance between stress and rest/relaxation/ enjoyment has created an society of chronically anxious, fatigued, "stressed out" Americans. I would go so far to say burnt out. Recent clinical research has shown that stress can shorten telomeres, the protective nucleoproteins at the ends of chromosomes. Thus stress can shorten life expectancy. Chronic stress is also associated with many of the biological changes we associate with "aging".

 

SOLUTION:

 

Botanical adaptogens have been clinically shown to help the human adapt to stressors of all types. They also provide relief for the biologic shifts associated with stress, provide relief for anxiety, provide potent antioxidant protection, and improve energy and stamina. Pre-clinical studies on botanical bioactive ingredients show promising results in preventing the shortening of telomeres and enhancing the expression of longevity gene SIRT1, thus potentially serving to lengthen life.  One botannical which has been researched thoroughly is Panax ginseng,  this form of ginseng is beneficial to the adrenals. A very recent study demonstrates yet again this herbs positive impact on memory.  Other nutrients which are noted to resuscitate the adrenals are: Pantothenate a B Vitamin, adrenal extract and licorice root as well as vitamin C.  These are available in a formula here.  Please see our Adrenal Aisle here.

 

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It is important to have adrenal hormone testing done for adrenal insufficiency as some of these supplemental nutrients can cause problems if not appropriate for someone.  Testing will also help indicate the length of time treatment is needed. See Functional Adrenal Stress Profile by Biohealth Laboratory

 

Furthermore, stress must be greatly alleviated if not eliminated prior to beginning treatment.

 

Since the adrenals are the parent of most other hormones, proper care and nourishment is the first step in any person's anti aging program.

 

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Although most of my clients are on lower carb programs initially many of them and most of you I find are eating WAY too many carbohydrates.  It takes quite a bit of retraining to find a happy balance between NO carbs, and too many egatcarbohydrates.  Here are some signs you are eating too much:

Do you tend to gain weight eating even healthy carbohydrates?

Are you fatigued or sleepy after a meal with carbs?

Are you a sweet or starchy food craver?

Do you find it hard to stop eating carbohydrates or sweets once you begin? 

Do you get irritable or light headed after skipping a meal?

Do you tend to turn to carbs or sweets to help with emotional problems?

Do you tend to gain weight in the face abdomen and upper body?

Do you turn to sweets or carbs whenever you fweel down?

Does your weight fluctuate?

If you answered “yes” to three or more of these questions, you may be eating more carbs than your system can handle or process efficiently.

To regulate their negative effects, FIRST remove  the sweet and starchy “white” and refined foods. If you've already done that, take it a step further. Try cutting back or avoiding all grains, including whole grains, legumes, as well as high-sugar fresh fruits. If you must have a treat, a small daily amount of low-sugar berries like blueberries may be okay for you — but you'll have to monitor how your body reacts to know for sure.

Then,  you'll need to experiment a bit to find the right amount of carbs for your body, and to find out how your life circumstances affect your ability to tolerate carbs. Stress, sleep, exercise, and other factors will all affect your carb tolerance, so you'll need to find your own balance.

Eat more green leafy vegetables and healthy fats. These foods will fill you up while providing you with vital nutrients. You'll have a better chance of finding your healthiest level of grains if you're also getting enough other types of food.

Exercise. You might be able to tolerate more carbs if you give your body the vigorous movement that it craves. A sedentary life and a high-grain diet burdens your body with the worst of ALL worlds.

Many people have issues with carbohydrates due to bacterial balance in their body. For more information of that follow this link.

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Many of my new clients are a bit surprised when I ask them to stick out their tongues so I can examine it with respect to their health!  After many years of training in both naturopathy and also Chinese medicine, I have honed excellent diagnostic skills which gives me great insight as to what is going on with a patient.  While tongue diagnosis is a wonderful skill it takes many years of training and practice to master and is beyond the scope of this blog. Today, just for illustrative purpose I will discuss the most common tongue presentation and what it means.

A fissured tongue is the most common finding in an integrative examination of a client. A fissured tongue is also the most common oral finding in patients with psoriasis. Other names applied to the fissured tongue are scrotal or plicated tongue. Erythema migrans (geographic tongue) is often associated with fissured tongue as well.

Figure 1: Fissured tongue. Photo at left is courtesy of Alyse Shockey, ND, RDH. Photo at right is courtesy of Dr. Carolyn Bentley.

Additionally, certain medical disorders are associated with fissuring of the tongue such as Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (MRS) (consisting of a triad of components: fissuring, orofacial edema, and facial nerve palsy), Down syndrome, acromegaly, and Sjögren's syndrome. Electrolyte imbalances in saliva and mild hemolytic abnormalities have been noted as well (Eisen and Lynch, 1998). All of the above disease states can usually be eliminated as possibilities because of the strong clinical characteristics of each.

Intraoral findings: A chief complaint is that of malodor and discoloration associated with deep fissuring of the tongue due to the bacteria and food particles that become embedded in the grooves and cracks. The trapped particles may lead to inflammation and often cause discomfort/burning in the patient.

These more subtle patterns usually are noted during dental exams, and the health-care provider will offer reassurance to the patient that the condition is benign. In most cases, the tongue exhibits a central groove with smaller grooves radiating from the center line. Some practitioners view the fissuring of the tongue more as a sign of other underlying issues with the total body.

What do we know about the fissured tongue?

The literature suggests that the fissured tongue is relatively common. In fact, it's so common that it is not noted in many clinical exams. Both aging and local environmental factors may also contribute to the small and deep grooves that become noticeable.

A Holistic Approach: In Chinese medicine, the tongue is considered to be the window to total body health. A Chinese medicine practitioner will take a thorough lifestyle history, a medical history, and then the first element of the body that is examined is the tongue. Integrative medicine practitioners will link the tongue to other areas of the body such as the liver, heart, bladder, spleen, and intestines. Many such organs are associated with key areas of the tongue.

I usually advise patients regarding the status of the color, shape, thickness, and coating of the tongue with regard to their total health. I usually combine with pulse diagnosis.  A tongue details far more long term conditions than the pulse.  As with Chinese medicine and integrative approaches, the naturopathic practitioner views the tongue as exhibiting possible health issues that may need monitoring with regard to the total body.

If I encountered with a fissured tongue such as the example depicted in Figure 1. it would indicate to me that  long-term period of deficiency in the body similar to a period of drought over a mass of land had occurred. The ground will become extremely dry and start to crack. The tongue topography will look the same way. The deeper the cracks, the more chronic the condition of the tongue. The body is experiencing dehydration and long-term adrenal stress.

Typically, the tongue is swollen in this state and the pressure causes cracking. Usually swollen tongues will indicate digestive problems. Regardless, once the underlying issues have been addressed, the fissuring should begin to diminish. I have seen this often.

The color of the tongue is a useful tool for monitoring the improvements or possibly decline in a patient's condition. The tongue's body color helps determine chronic conditions, and the coating helps determine acute conditions. She correlates this with the patient who has flaming red gingiva vs. pale, pink tissue.  Flaming red tongues indicate heat in the body.  Mottled tongues will indicate which organs are being impacted by the inflammation.

I always counsel patients to address lifestyle factors that may be preventing the body's natural ability to heal itself.  pH, for one example is an important aspect in rebuilding and detoxifying the body. Since thiscondition has been chronic and has taken a long time to reach the current level found clinically, the patient must realize that the process of healing will take some time as well. She usually will suggest a "live food supplement" to make the content readily available to the body.

The most common items missing in the body are minerals, proper fats such as essential fatty acids (EFAs) and greens. The diet is extremely important, and the patient needs to increase fresh foods and water. Once the factors associated with lifestyle are addressed, the body will begin to heal on its own, and the fissuring will start to diminish.

Conclusions: Even though the fissured tongue is considered a benign condition with no treatment needed, the body is perhaps telling us something that needs to be addressed. Assisting patients in trying to determine some lifestyle changes that may be beneficial for total health is certainly something that we need to consider.

To heal conditions like this from a lifestyle perspective,  I am a firm advocate of decreasing your toxic world by cleaning up your environment and air quality. Many allergy sufferers will tell you that their health improved dramatically  when they removed carpeting, covered beds with "dust mite" proof covers, discarded old mattresses, and began to use a neti pot when needed to clear nasal passages. These factors often allow a patient to stop or reduce taking their daily allergy medications and begin to breathe clean air again. Dust and dirt need to be removed from our world, especially in areas where we sleep.

Then, fresh food sources instead of the processed foods that are commonly eaten can make a huge difference in our health. If you would not place an ingredient in your mouth, don't use it on your skin!

• If the label lists more than five ingredients, you do not need it!
• If your great grandmother would not recognize what you are about to eat, don't eat it!
• Do not buy your meals in the same place that you fuel your car!

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Now food producers have completely stripped away your freedom to opt-out of eating genetically modified foods.

• Chips and other snacks… full of GMOs.
• Baked goods and packaged meals… they have GMOs too.
• Cooking from scratch? You still can't get away from GMOs. They're in flour. They're in whole-grains. They're in meat. They're in fruit. They're in vegetables.

Do some due diligence... you will find that they are everywhere!

GMOs now exist in  even  healthy and organic foods: You've no doubt heard how grass-fed beef is significantly better than “normal” meat. Or how grass-fed beef has a superior taste and far more nutrition. And that's all true.

…Except now we have a bigger problem:

Grass has been genetically modified too! Cows will eat this grass, and big food producers sell the beef to you as “grass-fed” and “all-natural”. But, it's anything but that! The pesticides from the GMO grass accumulate in the cow, leaving you with toxic meat.

So what can you do? How can you stay healthy? How can you fight the damage these GMOs cause to your body? Well, let's talk about exactly how you can “undo” the effect of these GMOs.

“Eating organic” now just isn't enough!

Birds, bees, and wind spread GMO seeds and pollen miles away. These air-bourne seeds go on to contaminate other farm fields… even those farmed organically or without pesticides.

Just recently, researchers found genetically modified corn growing “intermixed” with heirloom, native varieties of corn in a remote village — high in the mountains of Mexico. The nearest farm that ever had any GMO crops was in a valley over 60 miles away!

In other words, even the safe foods we recommended you rely on… may not actually be that safe!

So if you can't fully avoid GMOs, you need to do something to counteract the damage they cause (especially in your children). You need something that ensures their bodies create new, healthy cells faster than the GMOs can destroy them. Superfoods like Acai, Chorella, Spirulina, and beet root are some common ones . Maybe you've even heard of some of them before. Anyways, these superfoods are packed with healthy vitamins and minerals.  Our Green's First product contains 49 different superfoods.  We have FREE samples in our office so please request some!  These foods help your body to detoxify these chemicals the moment they hit.  The second way is to grow an extremely healthy and proactive gut and immune system for the same reason.

What's great about this is that these superfoods guarantee your child gets the “building blocks” it needs to repair and replace cells damaged by GMOs.

If you're a mother, you know how just important it is for kids to get proper nutrition. And these superfoods are full of all the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, Omega-3 essential fatty acids, and antioxidants that…

• Flood their body with energy so they can play, grow, and learn
• Kick their metabolism into high gear (so they can keep up with other kids)
• Sweep away the toxins in your body… leaving them feeling lively and alert

These “Superfoods” are great at what they do but there's even a better option.  This option is called YES!  According to the FES society this formula was developed during the Chernoble disaster.  According to Patricia Kaminski this formula results in an adaptive response to the various environmental insults we experience such as all forms of geopathic stress, residual effects of past exposure, dysfunctional immune response and allergic hypersensitivities of all kinds.  While no license to ignore your lifestyle, I do believe it can be extremely advantageous as an accoutrement to a great lifestyle in terms of mitigating the things we cannot control in the environment.  Daily usage is recommended for some time with then occasional use.  Let us know if we can help you with this or any other matter.  Best of Health!

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If you have chronic symptoms of vaginal dryness which have not responded to our recommended vaginal suppositories in part I of this series, http://www.apple-a-day-clinic.com/15.html?m8:post=a-natural-cure-for-vaginal-dryness,  it may be the case that you have an estrogen deficiency, which can lead to vaginal dryness and predispose you to frequent urinary tract infections (UTI's).  This is a common situation which I see frequently in my clinic.

Some of my clients have then had great success with  a bio identical estriol vaginal cream to help vaginal irritation, dryness, and frequent UTI's (cystitis). It may be all you need for your vaginal dryness and UTI's.

Estriol (E3) is a bioidentical hormone that is produced in women's bodies in large amounts by the placenta during pregnancy and in relatively small amounts by the liver and other fat tissue. Sometimes called the "forgotten estrogen," estriol is considered to be the most therapeutic estrogen for the vaginal lining, cervix and vulvar tissues, but exerts only a weak effect elsewhere in the body. Estriol is quite good at "plumping up" these delicate tissues to reverse vaginal dryness, irritation and atrophy.  This is available in our store  or from a compounding pharmacy, usually at much higher cost.

A second, stronger form of estrogen known as estradiol (E2) is also sometimes prescribed to treat inflammation of the vagina (atrophic vaginitis). Bioidentical estradiol is commercially available in regular pharmacies in the form of vaginal cream (brand name Estrace), vaginal tablets (Vagifem), and an insertable vaginal ring (Estring, which needs to be changed every three months). Bioidentical estradiol is also available from compounding pharmacies with a prescription from your M.D.

Depending on the severity of your symptoms, one of the above bioidentical options may be just right for you. You will need to work with your health care provider for a while to get the right dosage. One advantage to using compounded bioidentical hormones is that your healthcare provider can customize your dose, combining hormones as necessary, expressly to meet your needs. Women past menopause should usually combine estrogen with progesterone therapy.  Full scale hormonal testing is available to test the adrenals as well as the sex hormones for around $450.   Please schedule an appointment if you have questions or would like testing. You can also visit the bioidentical hormone section of my natural pharmacy.

We have just developed our own brand products beginning with the estriol and probiotics as well as many other wonderful supplements.  Please stop in or call us and request a catalogue of our offerings.

Best of Health!

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