ments with no harmful side effects,” says Teitelbaum. “Most often I use a SHINE protocol that I developed, based on 30 years of treating patients with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, with a 90 percent success rate.”
His is just one example of the
way functional medicine would treat a difficult-to-diagnose and to treat disease. Cass uses functional medicine very effectively against depression, ad- diction and a host of women’s health issues. Hyman specializes in managing diabetes and obesity with the tools of functional medicine. “If other medicines worked as well as treatments used in functional medicine, I’d use them, but they don’t,” concludes Hyman. “My Hippocratic Oath says I must help relieve suffering. I can do that with the tools that func- tional medicine gives me.”
Kathleen Barnes is a natural health advocate, author and publisher. Eight Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Take Charge Plan for Women is among her many books. Visit
KathleenBarnes.com.
SHINE Protocol Optimizes Energy
Sleep eight to nine hours a night. Hormone balance is critical in remedying hormonal deficiencies
that can contribute to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.
Infection control boosts immune function and helps eliminate un-
derlying viral, bacterial and fungal infections that sap energy.
Nutritional supplements should include B-12, magnesium, acetyl
l-carnitine, d-ribose and glutathione, as well as vitamins A, B, C and D.
Exercise in a gradually escalat- ing program as former symptoms
improve. Source:
EndFatigue.com
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consciouseating Banishing by Lee Walker D
Wheat Belly The Drawbacks of a Wheat- Dominated Diet
r. William Davis, author of Wheat Belly:
Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health, is a preventive cardiologist who has gone against the grain to expose yet another genetically engineered mon- strosity, shedding light on the dark side of today’s commercial wheat crops.
What made you suspect that wheat might be behind numerous health problems?
When I recognized that 80 percent of the people that came to see me had diabetes or pre-diabetes, I began ask- ing patients to consider removing all wheat from their diets. This made sense to me due to wheat’s high glycemic index. Foods made from this grain raise blood sugar higher than nearly all other foods, including table sugar. The next logical step was to reduce blood sugar by eliminating wheat—organic, multi- grain, whole grain and sprouted—from anyone’s diet. Patients that followed my simple
directives and replaced the lost calories with healthy foods such as vegetables, raw nuts, meats, eggs, avocados, olives and olive oil returned three months later with lower fasting blood sugars and low- er glycohemoglobin levels, which tests how well diabetes is being controlled. Some diabetics became non-diabetics
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and pre-diabetics became non-pre-dia- betic. On average, these people each lost about 30 pounds and experienced relief from arthritis and joint pains, acid reflux, migraine headaches, edema and irritable bowel syndrome, as well as other condi- tions. Some even reported that they no longer needed inhalers for asthma. Initially, it seemed like these posi-
tive results were just odd coincidences. However, based on the overwhelm- ing number of incidences, I clearly saw that it was a real and repeatable phenomenon. I began systematically removing wheat from all my patients’ diets and continued to witness similar turnarounds in health. Research related to agricultural genetics, an area largely ignored by medical doctors, and my own inter- views with U.S. Department of Agricul- ture experts substantiated what my own anecdotal evidence has revealed.
Why has wheat suddenly become such a health threat?
The wheat we eat today is not the same wheat our grandmothers used for baking. In the 1970s, in anticipation of a global population explosion and world hunger issues, a well-meaning University of
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