NUTRITIONAL BASED DISORDERS: HOW CAN A LAY PERSON IDENTIFY THEM?
August 22nd, 2008 -- Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »So why would someone who suffers from a chronic ailment want to know how to identify a nutritional based disorder? Why not just ask their physician about an ailments origin? Answer, ordinarily you would simply ask your doctor. However, the question goes to the heart of why I write about Nutritional Based Disorders as well as to an even deeper question…..What happens when the doctors don’t know?
Like it or not, the doctors don’t know what’s wrong far more often than they care to admit. (That’s material for another article.)
Meanwhile, many times we lay people are forced to be responsible for our own health, and thus even when the doctors do know we all need to realize that we are ultimately responsible for our own health all of the time. Personally, I learned that reality the hard way. (For further understanding on this matter put into a Google search engine the phrase, “Nutritional Based Disorders” and see for your self how many ailments fit into the category where the physicians do not really know what’s wrong.)
For now, suffice it to say there are millions of people who mostly live a western culture life style who also suffer from one or more debilitating symptoms. And, when their condition does not improve, or if the physician’s testing equipment fails to turn up an actual ailment, the “patient” is often told something like,
“Well, there’s nothing more that we can do.” (”we” means standard medical testing, surgery, and drugs)
Or, “You’ll just have to learn to live with “it”". (It being debilitating symptoms that have decimated your quality of life)
Or, “Are you sure this is not all in your head?” And the physician(s) will maybe even suggest that you seek psychiatric care. (In my case 5 physicians conspired to try and convince me that 32 symptoms were psychosomatic and they each recommended that I see a shrink. And they almost had me believing it. Again, this is material for another article.) I just need to make it clear right here that it is the people who are now in a predicament similar to mine that are the main group of people who I write these articles for. Meanwhile,
What I share with you now is a concept that you might initially consider to be preposterous. I deduced it (stumbled upon really) as part of the process I used to recover from what was finally diagnosed as Fibromyalgia. The term Fibromyalgia is a physician’s “catch all” diagnoses for when they really do not know what’s wrong. Yet, most often Fibromyalgia is one of many conditions that that can be a “Nutritional and Lifestyle Based Disorder.” Whereby, the related symptoms can often respond to a regimen of nutrition and nutritional supplements better than they will to drugs (and surgery).
That said, there are two major attributes and one minor attribute that all Nutritional Based Disorders seem to have in common.
1) With respect to standard medicine, they all have no known cause or cure. 2) They all are believed to be the result of some sort of an auto-immune deficiency. 3) They are usually non-life threatening. …Let me further reiterate when an ailment or condition has these distinctions present there is a chance that particular ailment could respond to certain Food and food supplements better than it might to drugs and surgery.
So how do I know what I’m saying is accurate? You can learn it for yourself. Simply use the “Physician’s Desk Reference” (PDR) as a main source of information and general confirmation. For example,
“Rheumatoid arthritis (often shortened to “RA”) is a disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues. The joints of the hands, wrists, ankles, knees, and feet are usually the most seriously affected, but the severity and pattern of the disease varies substantially from one person to another” (excerpt taken from the PDR) ["RA" seems to be the result of an auto immune deficiency] Let’s continue,
“Rheumatoid arthritis is thought to result from a combination of genetic susceptibility and exposure to some “trigger.” The specific trigger for rheumatoid arthritis has not been identified at this time.” (Excerpt taken from PDR) [It seems like "RA" has no known cause or cure.]
Continue to read through a PDR and you might be surprised at how many ailments fit the category of a nutritional based disorder. If you find that your ailment (or group of symptoms) fits into the category of a nutritional based disorder, especially if your physician(s) have patronized you about them, the question then is, “what do you intend to do about it?”
To learn more about Nutritional Based Disorders and what can be done to abate or prevent them go to www.nutritionalbaseddisorders.com …… Why wait? Educate yourself and start to regain and retain your quality of life right now.…..Be well… Click on the orange colored icon below and subscribe to my RSS feed to stay updated.
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