AIR OUT THAT TEEN
April 22, 2009
~High D is Better Than Low D
A low D is a bad thing for a teen-ager. Low vitamin D, that is. A study finds teens with low vitamin D levels were more likely to have high blood pressure and high blood sugar. They also were more likely to have metabolic syndrome, which includes those conditions and others – and raises the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
Jared Reis of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health found this in national survey data.
[Jared Reis speaks] “The thing that surprised me most was how strong these associations were, in terms of vitamin D deficiency associated with almost four times the risk of metabolic syndrome among adolescents,.’’
Sunlight can help you get vitamin D…
The study presented at an American Heart Association conference was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
~Teens, TV and Depression
A study indicates that the more TV a teenager watches, the higher the risk that the teen will have symptoms of depression years later.
Brian Primack of the University of Pittsburgh bases that on data on more than 4,000 middle and high school students who didn’t have depression at the start. After seven years, the data showed that some did have signs of it.
And Primack says: [Brian Primack speaks] “For each additional hour of daily television exposure, there was an 8 percent increase in the odds of becoming depressed.”
Primack can’t be sure if TV-watching fostered symptoms or if teens who developed symptoms wanted to watch more TV.
But he says it’s a good idea to limit TV time.
The study in Archives of General Psychiatry was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
~BOTH STUDIES SUGGEST TO ME (DR.JOE Z.): GET THEM OUTSIDE & MOVING & MAYBE TAKE AWAY THEIR UNECESSARY MEDICATIONS AND REPLACE IT WITH A FRESH GREEN JUICE OR SUPER-GREEN CONCENTRATE POWDER DRINK & CLEAN WATER…
~IF YOU KNOW A CHILD/TEEN WHO IS STRUGGLING IN ANY AREA OF HIS OR HER DEVELOPMENT, SEND THEM TO ME & I WILL SUPPORT & MOTIVATE THEM TO GET ON THEIR LIFE PURPOSE OR AT LEAST START THEM THINKING ABOUT IT. YOU CAN NEVER START TOO EARLY WITH RESPECT TO THE EVERYDAY BASICS OF A “WELL” CREATED LIFE & LIFE EXPERIENCE!
LEARN HOW TO BECOME INNER-DIRECTED & NOT OUTTER-REACTIVE!
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Russel Sher, DC | April 22, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Most of us have been conditioned to approach health problems in an isolated fashion, which might mean going to a rheumatologist for our painful joints, a gastroenterologist for our bowel symptoms, a dermatologist for the rash, or a psychiatrist for our lingering depression. Chances are that each one of those practitioners will arrive at a diagnosis and – according to his or her training – prescribe a medication that shows the best fit for a particular symptom. While this approach generally works well for acute problems (e. g., a cast for a broken arm, or an antibiotic for a kidney infection), it fails the patient with chronic problems in several key ways:
Relationships
Relationships between multiple health problems are never detected.
Uniqueness
The patient’s individual uniqueness is rarely taken into account in developing the best treatment.
Diet & Environment
The influence of diet and environment is rarely considered in either evaluation or treatment.
Optimal Wellness
Optimal wellness is rarely the goal, hence hardly ever achieved.
Managed; Not Resolved
At best, chronic symptoms may be “managed” for awhile; at worst, the underlying causes of symptoms are not discovered, and disease moves deeper into the body, requiring, over time, stronger doses or additional medications in a patient’s treatment program.
Clearly, there are times when medication or surgery can be life-saving. However, it is important to keep in mind that conventional medicine was designed for acute rather than chronic health problems. Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, chronic fatigue, arthritis, and fibromyalgia, are on the rise today. Clearly a better approach is needed.
Functional medicine represents a dynamic and science-based approach to whole person health care that embraces optimal wellness as the goal. As the name implies, functional medicine is based on the awareness that many health problems are reflections of underlying imbalances in physiology and chemistry. Accordingly, a functional medicine practitioner helps to identify and correct those imbalances as the primary method of improving the patient’s health. To do so requires consideration of the human body as a finely orchestrated network of interconnected systems, rather than viewing individual systems as autonomous. For example, imbalances within the intestine may precipitate the entry of toxins into the system, which, in predisposed individuals, can stimulate arthritis through an immune response in the joints. Chronic stress may imbalance the adrenal glands, resulting in blood sugar swings, easy fatigue, inflammation, and menstrual irregularities.
This “web-like” approach includes a thorough evaluation of the patient’s environment and lifestyle choices which may have an influence on health. Toxic exposures may precipitate neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, nutritional deficits may promote the development of atherosclerosis, social isolation may contribute to cancer by suppressing a person’s immune system, physical trauma may result in structural imbalances that limit function in various organs. This is “patient-centered” medicine at its best, where “patient care” rather than “disease care” is the priority. As Sir William Osler once said, “It is more important to know what patient has the disease than to know what disease the patient has.” Toward this end, the functional medicine practitioner evaluates a patient’s health problems in light of the totality of interactions among his or her environment, lifestyle, and genetic predisposition.
The goal of functional medicine treatment is dynamic balance – among the internal and external factors in a patient’s body, mind, and spirit. Because “health” is regarded as a positive vitality, rather than merely the absence of disease, the person is assisted in care to a point of optimal wellness. There is no reason that we should settle for anything less.
R. Sher DC
Asheville Center for Health Excellence
Asheville, NC 28801
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