Anybody interested can find heaps of explanations, why it is so. For example MS Treatment Market will Reach $11.9 Billion by 2011 or News from MS market ’07.

No doubt, MS drugs are a group of very profitable medications. Because of that almost nobody speaks about most serious problems, connected with their usage. Unfortunately, there are some serious underlying reasons, resulting in production of so terribly poisonous medications. Anybody interested can find more information in article Faulty medicine?.

More warnings

Just now I want you to see something essential. This piece of information is arguably the most important for anyone dealing with Multiple Sclerosis. It arrives to you from the most popular world’s natural health website  www.mercola.com:

The usual prescription for MS is a cartload of highly toxic medications.

It is my strong recommendation to not accept these drugs, and if you’re already on them, to wean yourself off, as they are some of the most toxic drugs used in the field of medicine. These drugs include:

• Prednisone - a steroid hormone that can significantly impair

  your immune system, and cause diseases like osteoporosis and cataracts…

• Interferon. This drug is quite deceptive, because even though it’s a natural substance, it’s typically given in a dose that shuts down your body’s natural feedback loop. As a result, it tends to do more harm than good

Fortunately, there are many alternatives to these toxic treatment methods offered by conventional medicine

Some of the special cells involved in autoimmune process can attack host body organs or tissues directly, while others could produce autoantibodies – substances, circulating in the blood and accomplish the attack.

Antibodies, acting against the body’s own organs or tissues are known as autoantibodies.

Allopathic medicine solutions

Drugs-based treatment usually suppresses activity of deregulated immune system and sometimes additionally reduces inflammation of attacked tissues. That’s the most common approach to autoimmune disease for almost 50 years. Many newly introduced immunosuppressants are regularly becoming available, but all the synthetic medications used for autoimmune diseases treatment have serious side effects – especially when taken in high doses for years…

In the 1970s a new approach of autoimmune diseases treatment was developed. Medications that suppress the immune system or reduce inflammation are often combined with this new treatment, but they usually can be used in reduced doses.

Idea behind this new treatment was really simple: instead of changing to suppress the immune system only with powerful medication, it could be possible to mechanically remove autoantibodies from the blood during a process similar to dialysis treatment. The procedure later became known as plasmapheresis or plasma separation. It’s also known as plasma exchange.

Basics of all plasmapheresis procedure can be find in articles:

• Facts About Plasmapheresis
• Plasmapheresis and MS
• Plasmapheresis (Plasma Exchange)

Plasmapheresis side effects

Plasmapheresis is a sort of invasive procedure, so it’s sometimes named “Blood surgery”

As any kind of surgery, this one also possesses some dangers:

• The most common problem is a drop in blood pressure, which can be experienced as dizziness, blurred vision, faintness, coldness, sweating or abdominal cramps. A drop in blood pressure can be remedied by giving intravenous fluid and adjusting patient’s position
• As medications to keep the blood from clotting during the procedure are usually used, bleeding can occasionally occur. Some of used medications can cause other adverse reactions, which, if allowed to progress, can lead to an irregular heartbeat or seizures
• An allergic reaction (begins with itching, wheezing or a rash) to the solutions used to replace the plasma or to the sterilizing agents used for the tubing can be a true emergency. Procedure must be stopped and the person treated with intravenous medications
• Increased suppression of the immune system can temporarily occur because of plasmapheresis, as during the procedure all sorts of antibodies are removed. In time, the body can replenish its supply of needed antibodies, but sometimes these are given intravenously after each plasmapheresis treatment. Special precautions against infection must be taken
• Medication dosages need to be adjusted carefully for patients during plasmapheresis because some drugs can be removed from the blood or changed by the procedure…

Holistic approach – enzymes

Therapeutic doses of proteases (protein digesting enzymes) act as an all-natural blood enhancer!

They break down all sorts of protein-based invaders in the blood supply, leaving them vulnerable to destruction by the immune system.

Protease is also known to act as a scavenger of oxidized and damaged proteins, is active in helping to eliminate blood toxins, modulate the immune system, addresses hormonal imbalances, speeds wound and tissue repair, helps to arrest and remove heavy metals and removes their toxins.

Benefits of proteases therapeutic doses (when taken on an empty stomach):

• efficiently removes blood toxins and clots
• presents a powerful immune-strengthening effect
• hormonal imbalances may be helped by oral protease supplementation
• enzymes capable of degrading immune complexes can ameliorate impaired kidney function
• oral protease supplementation leads to the formation of activated production of collagen and matrix proteins and then returns to its pre-injury structure
• clinical observations have noted that upon high intake of proteases, heavy metal concentrations have been significantly decreased in the blood. This may be due to the binding of these toxic substances with the supplemental protease enzymes, facilitating their removal
• oxidative reactions generate free radical damage to various molecules including proteins. Free radicals have been implicated in accelerating the aging process as well as several diseases, including arteriosclerosis, diabetes, and neurodegenerative conditions
• proteases may help hydrolyze and remove extracellular proteins damaged by free radicals

Protease side effects:

• therapeutic doses of protease can cause a burning sensation if a person has any of the following conditions: Gastritis, Gastric Ulcer, Duodenal Ulcers, Esophage Ulcers

Resume

Even superficial survey shows clear advantage of proteolytic enzyme (protease) therapy over traditional plasmapheresis.

Nevertheless, no officially trained doctor will advice an autoimmune patient enzyme treatment. There exist many different reasons (based mainly on pharmaceutical business aspects) for that:

• MS – allopathic vs. holistic approach
• MS – name ambiguity
• Why MS will never be treated
• Who’s business is your MS?
• Advantages of MS ! ? !

Anyhow, it’s good to know different available options for dealing with all autoimmune diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis.

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PS Just reminder – I managed to stop MS exacerbations and stay on a permanent remission from 1997, using therapeutic doses of protease enzymes for over 18 months.

Modern medicine is firmly founded on the “Germ Theory of Disease” promulgated by Louis Pasteur in the 1860′s. Pasteur’s 140-year-old theory is still the medical paradigm upon which Western medicine fights disease as we enter the 21st century

That’s initial part of  extraordinary article  “Is Modern Medicine Founded on Error?” by a Gabriel Donohoe, citizen journalist, published in a highly important educational health-related website NaturalNews.com.

Everything is presented in this article thoroughly. Here are some experts:

1860 – According to Pasteur:

• Germs, or microbes, cause disease
• Germs invade the body from the outside, i.e., air, water, or food
• Human blood is sterile and can only be infected by outside microbes
• Germs are monomorphic, i.e., they have only one form and can be identified by species
• Specific diseases are caused by specific germs
• Germs should be killed by pharmaceutical drugs

~1880 – The “proofs” of the new Germ Theory were already showing flaws

~1890 – Still, despite being highly controversial, the Germ Theory was quickly adopted by the medical powers of the day. This new theory about germs invading from outside the body empowered the medical and pharmaceutical industry as guardians of human and animal health. People became dependent on the fledgling medical/drugs industry for information and protection from disease. Thus, Modern Medicine was born.

Consider this alarming statistic from a report commissioned by the Nutrition Institute of America in October, 2003: 2.2 million hospital patients suffer Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) to prescribed medicine each year leading to the deaths of 106,000 people (proven cases). In other words,
over 2,000 Americans die each week from properly prescribed medicine in properly prescribed doses

…..

Author finishes the article with these rhetoric questions and statements:

• We still have a lot to learn about life, medicine, and healing but we need to approach these things with an open, inquisitive mind.
• How long will it take modern medicine to accept that germs don’t cause disease but only appear as a result of disease? Who will fund research into the pleomorphic work begun by Béchamp, Enderlein, Rife and others? Who is brave enough to confront Big Pharma’s doctrinaire, Pasteurian approach to drug based medicine?
• When a group of people are exposed to a virus or food toxin, modern medicine examines only those who get sick. What they should do is examine those who didn’t get sick. One would no doubt find that the sick people had acidic blood and tissue while those who didn’t succumb to the virus/toxin were alkaline. Therein lies the key to health.
• Disease cannot take hold in an alkaline body. An alkalising diet and way of living can prevent and reverse disease. But don’t expect this to be endorsed by orthodox medicine – there’s no profit in it.

No – it isn’t another terrible disease. Nevertheless, it’s something even more dangerous. For anybody! That’s how does orthodox medicine operate.

You see – FUD stands for fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

Just now you might be surprised: “What’s in common between cancer and these not-so-nice things”?

I came across this elegant explanation, as and lots of others, in the article
by a health ranger Mike Adams Cancer Industry Spreads Fear and Disinformation To Scare People Away From Learning About Alternative Treatments for Cancer on the Internet at his website NaturalNews. He describes all the system of persuading patients by cancer industry.

Although the author uses an example of cancer industry in his article, same
situation perfectly applies to multiple sclerosis and all other  autoimmune disorders. I’ve cited some his perfect insights in my article MS – name ambiguity, describing problems with multiple sclerosis definition.

Here I will put some crucial excerpts from the article:

• …fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) initiated by purveyors of modern medicine in order to scare people away from finding information about cancer on the internet
• …let’s get to the bottom of this and look at the real reason why this kind of propaganda is being distributed through the national media. The real reason they are attacking cancer websites is because the internet is the only place people can go to actually learn the truth about the cancer industry and cures for cancer that don’t involve chemotherapy, surgeries, or other radical procedures offered by western medicine
• Frankly, organized medicine would rather people remain ignorant. They don’t want people to be informed about anything other than the treatments that they promote and control, and as a result they continue to engage in these FUD campaigns to discourage people from learning about health online
• Ideally what the industry wants is a form of censorship – they want websites to be flagged to indicate which ones are “official” (therefore -
  best) cancer websites
• …person can undergo $50,000 worth of treatment and live an extra 3 months, and western medicine calls that a success, and it is their official position that that is the only treatment that should be available to sufferers of cancer – that if you go outside the system and find something that increases your lifespan by years or decades, then you are committing some sort of crime by venturing outside of orthodox western medicine
• …existing cancer industry prevents prevention. They are against prevention. They do not want prevention to be well known or to be adopted by medical practitioners, and one of the ways they do that is of course to spread fear and uncertainty about alternative cancer treatments through headlines such as the one I’m discussing here. If they can scare people away from the internet, then they can keep people ignorant of the true treatments for cancer

What I like in particular – it’s a nice analogy with plantation owners in the slave days of the United States. Mike Adams explains:

• it’s kind of like if you ran a plantation back in the slave days of the United States, you would make sure your slaves remained illiterate, because that way they wouldn’t gain enough education to venture out on their own and leave your plantation. In modern medicine, patients are like slaves, and the medical industry wants to keep everyone enslaved by making sure they don’t have access to good information about how to prevent chronic disease. “Keep ‘em dumb!” seems to be the slogan of organized medicine. The less you know about health and disease, the better they like it

Further the author presents major reasons for all this situation (the explanation perfectly fits for multiple sclerosis etc):

• When it comes to cancer, western medicine has failed. It simply does not work – it doesn’t cure cancer, it doesn’t offer any long-term benefit to patients, and it only results in massive costs associated with these
  short-lived treatments. Alternative medicine and natural healing approaches, on the other hand, are inexpensive: they are safe to use, they are widely used throughout the world, outside the United States, and they’ve been proven safe through thousands of years of effective use by various populations of the world who know far more about medicine and healing than our so-called “high-tech” system of modern medicine

Look – I never experienced any cancer. However, as a (former) multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferer, I experienced similar kind of FUD – directly and indirectly.

As usually, everything everywhere starts with definition. I tried to describe
all the confusion in articles On MS definition and MS – name ambiguity.

To be able to do something with it it’s necessary to know it. It’s included in magic words: “Knowledge of how to have health gives greatest power” I’ve chosen as My Health Manifesto.

Having more knowledge you are less vulnerable to FUD !

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Even more information regarding history and different uses of FUD in different areas of human activity has been presented in a
Wikipedia article. It appears that:

FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence public perception by disseminating negative and dubious/false information designed to undermine the credibility of their beliefs

Knowing this marketing strategy usually helps to understand, what and why happens around.

Tridosha Theory:

The canonical aspect of Ayurveda is that all of life in universe (people, animals, food, nature, the universe itself and also diseases) are combinations of 3 humors (energy elements) doshas: air (Vata), fire (Pitta), and water (Kapha). Once these factors are harmonious, person remains healthy. Thus, illness is specified as an unbalance of these 3 humours (elements). All disorders by excesses of one or more of above elements.

Doshas (Elements) and health

A person’s internal constitution (dosha) is preponderantly one or more of above elements. Every element associates with some body type, foods and health touches. By nature (in Ayurvedic medicine), whatever a person’s internal constitution is, it has a inclination to move to excess. For example an air internal constitution person (Vata dosha) is thin and bony. Physical symptoms of Vata overabundance admit dry out skin, breaking bones, excessive gas and usual constipation. Mental symptoms from excess Vata include fear, anxiety, worries, and restiveness.

Once air constitution (Vata dosha) persons remains well-balanced, they are creative, elastic and expose no physical health concerns. Ayurvedic system of rules notices that some foods increase air proportion and other – reduce it. At large, overabundance air is reduced by eating cooked or steamed foods, and eating every three or four hours. Again, carrots, rice and mung beans reduce excess air. Conversely, broccoli, baked beans and barley increase air (can cause excess gas). Additionally, excessive lifestyles likewise gains the air element.

Fire constitution (Pitta dosha) people usually incline toward extra heat. Being healthy they are strong and also good leaders – caring and goal orientated. Once the Pitta dosha becomes unbalanced, mentally they turn choleric, impatient, easily irritable. They usually acquire heat – related disorders: acne, skin rashes, toxic blood, ulcers, diarrhea, liver, gallblader, kidney, spleen or heart troubles.

Water constitution (Kapha dosha) people tend towards excess internal water. Being healthy they are strong, muscular, calm and faithful. Once water dosha starts moving to excess, people commonly acquire phlegm, and a collecting or greedy nature. Physically they acquire congestion, overweight, oedema, heart or kidney problems, etc.

Looking back, health means equilibrium

Moreover, each constitution (dosha) has a innate tendency to convert to unbalanced – to move towards excess. By consuming foods as well as living lifestyles that reduce the excesses, one can remain in balance. Equilibrating produces healing (prevention), and thus overrides the ageing process. As a lot of people have two or even all three doshas (elements) in their internal constitution, both (or all three) elements usually tend toward excess. Hence foods and lifestyles that reduce all the excessive elements need to be followed.

What therapies does Ayurvedic medicine offer?

Applying a wholistic approaching, Ayurvedic approach proposes therapies for each of the five senses since different folks acquire fuller through different feels.

Proposed therapies admit:

• Taste: herbs and nutrition
• Touch: massage (abhyanga), yoga, exercise
• Smell: aromatherapy
• Sight: color therapy
• Hearing: music therapy, mantra meditation, chanting

Holistic spiritual (mental) therapies include meditation, living ethically, and working in a enjoyable or meaningful career. As this outlook is completely holistic, environmental constituents are also studied. Therapies include living space (house, apartment as well as office) construction and also astrological burdens. The laws of nature that integrate the earth, the person and the planets and stars are considered. The outside and inner design of constructions could also raise balance or drive imbalance.

What does anyway holistic average?

Holistic accepts two significances:

1. It looks at the whole thing of one’s life. Health and disease are generally by-products of all expressions of one’s life: nourishment, career, intellectual framing, family and societal actions and spiritual life. Whenever any single sphere is dampened, all other regions commence to abide. If any single individual is distressed at work, it to some extent will affect all other areas of life.
2. Holistic also means holy. Ayurveda prompts that to accept and hold real health, humans need to acquire some calm time for spiritual growing. The destination of life is self-fulfillment. That’s a expression of steady Divine peace of mind.

Ayurvedic medicine is completely holistic – it proposes unique healing to every individual according to his or her present internal constitution (doshas structure).

The easiest way to know your personal doshas is to perform
dosha survey

In a separate article you can read more about
Some basics of Ayurvedic medicine

To health and wellness -

Dr. Czes Kulvis

[tags]dosha, vata, pitta, kapha, ayurvedic medicine, tridosha[/tags]

In Hinduism, the three gods that constitute the Sacred Trinity (trimurti) are known as Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Preserver), and Shiva (the Destroyer). These divinities acquire different personifications (incarnations) for different purposes and among Vishnu’s incarnations one comprises Dhanvantari, the god of Ayurvedic philosophy.

Legend alleges that when the oceans of the world were being created by the gods, Dhanvantari arose out of the depths carrying a jar filled with the nectar of immortality that could cure all diseases and began to instruct the artistry of Ayurveda’s science – for wellness and health. Statues of him can be found in many Ayurvedic hospitals and clinics and he is worshipped by Hindus for Dhanvantari healing powers.

Ayurveda – origins

Ayurveda (Ayurvedic medicine) is an complex system of curing that started in India thousands of years ago. It is possible to find historic evidence of Ayurveda in the ancient records of wisdom known as Vedas. In the Rig Veda, over 60 formulations are mentioned that can be used to assist any individual in getting over various ills. The Rig Veda was written over 6,000 years ago, but Ayurveda in reality has been just about even longer than that. It is easy to see that Ayurveda is further than just a medical system. It indeed is a Science of Life. We are all component and share of nature. Just as all the creatures live in harmony with nature and apply the Laws of Nature to create health and balance in- and outside, humans, too, should adhere to the same principles. Hence, it is reasonable to say that Ayurveda is the system that helps maintain health for everybody – by applying the integral principles of nature to bring the person back into balance. Essentially Ayurveda has been in existence since the beginning of human race because we all have always been regulated according to nature’s laws.

Simple explanations

Ayurveda is a arrangement of wholistic (holistic) practice of medicine from India that uses an integral model. It’s aim is to provide counseling concerning food as well as lifestyle so that people in good shape can stay healthy and those with health problems can improve their condition.

Aspects that make Ayurveda rather unique:

Recommendations according to Ayurveda’s system laws often are significantly dissimilar for each person concerning which foods and what lifestyle they had better adopt in order to be completely healthy. This flows from it’s use of a inherent model. Everything in Ayurveda is comprised by observation, inquiry, direct examination and cognition gained from the ancient texts. There exists a basic apprehension that there are energetic forces, influencing nature in total as well as humans particularly. These forces are called the Tridoshas.

Since in Ayurveda there is considered a firm association between the spirit (mind) and the body, a vast amount of data is in stock concerning this relationship.

More valuable information concerning different(including historic) information -in separate article about Ayurveda

To health and wellness -

Dr. Czes Kulvis

[tags]Ayurvedic medicine, Ayurveda, health and wellness[/tags]

Scientists created a cancerous cell in the lab, simply deducting oxygen from a healthy cell. In such conditions it becomes cancerous within a few hours
To the contrary, supplying cancerous cells with more oxygen causes that cancerous cell to die within a few hours

Any individual cell cannot be cured of cancer – once cancerous, such a cell must be demolished.

Any body must be slightly alkaline for its cells to be decently oxygenated. Therefore it is essential to keep proper acid/alkaline balance in the body.

Technically acidity/alkalinity level is monitored by measuring the pH – hydrogen ion concentration, which is regulated by the level of body’s oxygen saturation.

pH scale goes in between 0 to 14:

• 0 – means purely acid
• 14 – means purely alkaline
• 7 – means neutral pH

Without exception, people with cancer have a pH below 7
That means their tissues, their cells, are not being properly oxygenated
That’s acidosis

People with a body pH over 7.4 do not have cancer because their cells and tissues are being properly oxygenated.

The body is constantly regulating the replacement of old cells while creating new cells to repair tissue damage.

“Cancerous” is the term applied to cells that reproduce in an unregulated manner until they form a tissue mass, or “tumor”.

Conversely all present medical information, cancer is among the ‘softest’ of all degenerative diseases to understand and is readily reversible without dangerous drugs, irradiation or surgery.

The natural way to achieve the effort of destroying cancer cells is exposing them to oxygen. Increasing the amount of oxygen available to the cells is reached by raising the body pH – through diet and exercise.

It has been demonstrated that cancerous cells cannot survive in a pH of 8.0.

The most alkalinizing element is cesium. Daily intake of cesium, with potassium, will quickly increase body pH.

Once cancerous cells have been destroyed, maintaining body pH at 7.4-7.5 readily prevent cells from becoming cancerous.

There are no surgeries that can be performed nor drugs taken that will restore or maintain the body’s acid/alkaline balance

To health and wellness -

Dr. Czes Kulvis

[tags]cancer cures, natural cancer cure[/tags]

Look at the store shelves loaded with products to relieve digestion conditions such as gas, bloating, excess acid, and heartburn. All of them can be easily eliminated by proper digestive enzymes supplements.

Lack of digestive enzymes can cause conditions such as fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, gas, headaches, colon problems, high cholesterol, food allergies, and diabetes. These conditions in time can become chronic, degenerative diseases.

Increasing number of research is confirming that to have quality health and wellness it is vital to digest, assimilate and eliminate our food efficiently

Present fast-paced lifestyle together with increasing pollution, overcooked foods, stress, alcohol, and smoking place infeasible demands on our systems and our enzyme production needs. These permanent assaults on the body’s ability to produce and utilize our enzymes lead to difficulties in deflecting disease.

Enzymes are the basis of good health

Therefore enzyme supplementation is definitely an essential component of digestive health. When cooked and/or processed (devoid of enzymes) food is only partially digested a cascade of events is set in motion that ultimately can lead to serious disease processes. Digestion is the key component to avoiding different diseases and insuring a vital health and wellness.

So, answer to a question is:

Yes, you need quality digestive enzymes

To health and wellness -

Dr. Czes Kulvis

[tags]digestive enzymes, health and wellness[/tags]

If clinical trials bear out the findings, adding the enzyme to gluten-containing meals “might eliminate gluten toxicity, thus offering patients the possibility of abandoning (at least occasionally) their strict gluten-free diet” …

The enzyme accelerated the digestion of gluten that is found in bread and other grain products, the authors report. Similar results were obtained when a fast food meal was tested instead of white bread alone…

The investigators believe that this enzyme is a good candidate for clinical trials to see if it can remove all gluten toxicity. They add that the enzyme is available on an industrial scale.

SOURCE: Gut, January 2008.

Czes Kulvis

[tags]enzymes[/tags]