Milk thistle is a highly beneficial supplement that comes from the daisy family of plants and can be found growing naturally in parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and throughout certain sections of Europe. Milk thistle is a tall plant with a green furrowed stem and a purple disc-shaped flower at the top.

Many studies have shown milk thistle to be a natural tonic for the human liver, providing salubrious protection and helping it function. The main protective ingredient in milk thistle is silymarin, which is a powerful antioxidant that naturally blocks toxic substances from entering the liver. Silymarin also promotes production of healthy new liver cells and is effective at regenerating badly damaged tissue. Hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, jaundice, malfunctioning gallbladder, these have all been treated successfully with milk thistle. Usually silymarin is given in doses of 200 to 500 milligrams, but actual data on the most effective dosage is still unknown.

Because the human liver is such an primary organ in the body, let’s digress for a moment and explain some of its functions and characteristics. The liver is a large, brownish-pink organ shaped similar to a boomerang and weighing around three pounds. It is responsible for numerous functions in the body, such as performing detoxification, regulating metabolism, storing glycogen, synthesizing plasma proteins, processing various byproducts of digestion, producing bile for emulsion of fats, and performing at least five hundred other distinguished chemical functions.

But the most amazing thing by far about the liver is that it’s worthy of regeneration, one of only a small number of organs in the body with that ability. For example, if you lose 75% of your liver, the other 25% can actually grow back into a whole liver again. The liver does this through a stem cell production process, with cells splitting in two and growing fast.

If your liver ever fails, you will die. Every minute of each day your liver detoxifies one liter of blood, and toxins in everything from cigarette smoke to prescription drugs to air pollution are filtered out for elimination. If your liver becomes scarred and blood flow is stifled, it is known as cirrhosis of the liver, and this type of hurt is not often reversible. Symptoms of cirrhossis include jaundice (yellow eyes and skin), edema (leg swelling), fatigue, nausea, and other problems. Cirrhosis can lead to liver failure and even death. Approximately 25 thousand people die each year from cirrhosis. But milk thistle, Vitamin C, and Green Tea are three important supplements you can pick to keep your liver healthy. Milk thistle is by far the strongest of the three, due to silymarin being a powerful antioxidant, which is over ten times stronger than Vitamin C, for example.

Concerning milk thistle, most health aficionados are familiar with its beneficial effects on the liver, but it is also effective for many other health problems as well. Studies have shown it can lower cholesterol, plus cleave cancer cell growth of certain types, namely prostate, breast, and cervical cancer. Milk thistle can also prevent skin conditions and fight varicose veins. Claims have even been made that it relieves unpleasant symptoms of a hangover. It also stimulates the sail of bile throughout the body, which aids digestion and fights off gallstones. Also there are very little side effects reported with taking milk thistle as a supplement, other than it can occasionally act as a unexcited laxative.

Although milk thistle has been proven effective for keeping the liver healthy, that doesn’t mean one should take it and then imbibe more alcoholic drinks. Reducing alcohol consumption is one of the best ways to protect your liver. Also cutting down on fatty and fried foods is helpful, since they overtax the liver during the digestion process.

Cancer is a word that strikes fright. While it isn’t the killer that it was several years ago, sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease. We are told that cigarettes, viruses, shaded jellybeans, red lipstick, and a number of other offenders cause cancer. Every day something recent is added or taken away from the list. What do all the offenders have in current? They all fill our system with toxins. My goal is to bring to light alternative treatments that can be used in conjunction with traditional cancer treatments. In the first article I mentioned a foot detoxification, a footbath that draws toxins from the body. I gave my personal story of taking a footbath from Stephanie Like, the owner of the website on the foot ionization and detox in my novel article Alternative Cancer Treatment. I was not just an insomniac, but one that went for days without sleep, only to sleep for an hour or so. Six years of that had taken it’s toll when I realized I was actually functioning as a person, a different one than myself, in my sleep for hours at a time. I slept after the detox for a solid eight hours. It was a miracle.

In early times natural hot springs were considered to be one method of cure for many ailments. Mineral springs and seaside cures were tried when there was no other medical treatment. Who doesn’t feel refreshed after inhaling the moist ionized air that comes in from the ocean? The fresh ionized air after a rainfall is always uplifting. Natural ionization has been occurring for centuries, but in today’s metropolitan society we no longer back from it. Crowded cities, pollution, and towns that no longer are built around a waterway don’t allow us to bask in it.

This was the basis for Royal Raymond Rife’s study. He believed that the cause of cancer was a virus. Recently there have been studies to substantiate this belief. He, however, did his studies in the 1920′s and 1930′s where he successfully treated several cancer patients. He is credited for creating the first dark field microscope that could view a live virus, but the scientific world was not impressed. He continued his studies by stating that the assaults of living day to day change the cell electrolyte balance and creating a block where the cells cannot excrete the waste. The toxins earn up and block the receipt of cellular nutrition and allowing viruses to grow.

In order to combat the toxin build up he created a machine that would kill the virus by changing the electrical charge. He frequently submerged the entire body in water and used a machine to lightly charge the water. Later he extinct the feet alone, since there are large amounts of vessels, large pores, and the end of the lymph system located there. That was the beginning of the ionization detoxification for the foot.

One of the claims is that it neutralizes acidification. An acidic body tends to be a diseased body. Neutralizing the acid is done by reducing the amount of negatively charged hydrogen ions and replacing them with neutralized ions. The change in the pH in gardening can mean the difference between a plant living or dying. The same is true of humans and viruses. Correcting the pH for humans creates a stronger immune system and a horrible environment for the virus.

According to the information detox of the foot can rejuvenate and refresh. There has been a lot of success treating chronic fatigue syndrome. Claims to cure cancer cannot be made. But, just like chicken soup, it can’t hurt. That is, unless you are pregnant, have a pacemaker, are epileptic, young children or people with organ transplants. These people should not have the treatment.

As the footbath ionizes and detoxifies the system there are changes in the color of the water that vary from individual to individual. According to the chart provided by the technician, the water changes colors because of the toxins that it pulls. Black is supposed to be detoxifying the liver and if it is black flecks it’s removing heavy metal from the system. (So does that mean you will change your taste in bands? ) Brown removes gunk from the liver, cell debris, and some tobacco residue. Dark green is ruin from the gallbladder and orange from the joints. Finally red dots or flecks in the water are the removal of blood clot material.

I personally know of one gentleman that began treatment. He did not see considerable improvement in his diabetes at first but continued on hoping results would occur. Occur they did. Little by little his doctor has dropped the insulin requirement that he needs to control his diabetes.

The foot detox treatment can be done by a representative, as I had mine, or a machine can actually be purchased. Most people prefer to have a few treatments to “test the water” (I am so sorry for the pun.) before they purchase one of the machines. There are differences in various machines and knowing what you are getting is extremely important.

Does the foot detox work on cancer? It would seem logical that if it changes your body PH and pulls out pollutants that it would give your immune system a fighting chance to help in the treatment. I believe, with out any scientific knowledge or medical degree, that one aid in the treatment of cancer is increasing the capability of the immune system to fight it off. Cancer cells constantly occur in the body, but we fight them off since they are weaker than the normal cell. If your body is run down it takes control and thrives.

Skeptics say that the water change comes from the minerals in the water and chemical changes to the anodes that are attached to the machine. I question that because I have seen two different colors of water from the same machine when another person archaic it after I did. Of course, the water was modern, but from the same source, I watched it being filled and there was nothing done differently.

Can the body leach out toxins? I don’t know. I know that I sweat and toxins come out. I know that my feet stink because bacteria find that environment fabulous.

Is it really friendly for you? Aside from those people that shouldn’t subject themselves, I don’t see how it can hurt. Perhaps the ionization of the water creates that wonderful uplift that a walk on the beach gives you. Perhaps it doesn’t back because it pulls toxins, but just uplifts your spirits. That cures, too. It is one arrangement that is worth a try.

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Stephany Esteem @http://www.footloveandfancyfeet.com

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October began as any other with exception that I was starting to hurt. About an inch to the right (my right), of the spine I began to feel stabs all the map through to the front of my abdominal area. Saturday morning, my best bartend shift of the week, I hurt so badly that I have to veil my shift and head to the local emergency room. By the time they make it to my room to examine me, the afflict was all over, front to assist, back to front. The diagnosis: ovaries covered in cysts. Monday morning I call the referral and make the appointment to get this fixed. The gynecologist sees me and says my afflict is too high. “It must be the kidneys.” he says. So from here I am referred to a Internal Medicine doctor. “The pains location falls similar to kidney stones. Let’s accumulate some urine and see if that’s it.” All is done and there is no blood in my urine. Therefore I am sent to another clinic to get an ultrasound for stones. The only thing the ultrasound gets is ovaries full of cysts. The injure continues to get worse. My incredible doctor sends me away to a Gastrointestinal doctor to find the stones. From cameras down the throat, and cameras up the boat some biopsies were taken and I left shaken. I finally ask him about the Barrett’s esophagus, and without looking at my file he tells me, “Yours is so small, there’s nothing we can do. We will do another endoscopy once a year to see if anything changes.”
Now we are rolling right around Christmas, when the lab calls to tell me the results of my biopsy. “Ma’am, I am sorry to protest you that you have Barrett’s Esophagus. It is now inevitable that in 2 to 5 years, you will have cancer.” Wow, I cried. Between my son and Christmas, I didn’t expect this. She explained that Barrett’s esophagus is where your flap between your stomach and your esophagus does not work. Therefore my stomach acids were coming into my esophagus. My body naturally tries to fight it producing those fighter cells which are preliminary cancer. I also get to add Acid Reflux, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Hiatus Hernia, and reddening/ thickening of my stomach walls to my Christmas list.
Of course I failed to mention that in November, I had pause my job. The pain got so bad in my aid, I couldn’t work a full shift. I went from 60 hours a week to sitting at home staring down the walls. The afflict strikes in my chest when it comes, that I ask the doctor what I could do. He prescribes me Xanax and sends for more tests. My next was to be the Hyda- scan. This is where they cleanse your gallbladder, and it then goes to your liver. Then comes the radiation injection. Then you lay relieve for an hour or so and watch it glow. From your gallbladder to liver you’ll see, yellow on the hide. “All looks well so far,” the technician says. Yeah! All except for my gallbladder that should be tear shaped is the mirror image of a dime! Calming back down, it’s time to drain to my liver. Oh! Wait, it doesn’t want to drain. “Maybe you have a stone clogging your gallbladder Ms. LaPointe,” the tech says again. This test is based purely on a mathematical equation system to peek to what percent your gallbladder works. Monday my Gastro doctor should have the results.
Monday at last and results are in. Yes, baby, yes! Let’s score this damage out of me once and for all. Good old Gastro doctor tells me it’s at 72%, and it has to be below 35% to remove. He’s cutting my pain medication and treats me like a fool. I am making it all up in his eyes, and he has given up. February is finally the month, and after doctors visits 3 and 4 times a week, I too have given up. A friend referred me to a new doctor because the stir crazed person I have become is about to kill my relationship. I am over experienced and composed hurting to get a job.
This doctor I do meet. I love him right off. He appears to understand me and know about all my conditions. I procure an anti- depressant, xanax upped, taken off of some useless medicines and put on some novel ones. My pain medication is at 4 a day. The unique doctor understands and gives me some of these too. All seems qualified for the moment. The pain is tolerable, and I am feeling better. There’s only one problem, I can’t focus on a danged thing. I make another appointment to up my anti- depressant thinking this will be solved. I get to the doctor, and things have changed. My back got intolerable the night before and I must let the doctor know. I get into his office to get the surprise of my life. Instead of upping my medication, he tells me, “You’re becoming quite the junky. I’m going to give you some Adderall. As well being, I am going to cut your injure meds. You are taking too many, so we will drop you from four to one.” He refers me to a pediatric orthopedic and touches my back, twice.
Now I am wait on to giving up on doctor’s all again. The Adderall that made me a junkie or the pain pills, helped me and never once did I abuse my medications. And I didn’t ask to be save on these! So here I am just happy to have something to where I can write and focus again. The medication is working. I feel like me again, overlooking the fact that my back is still stuck with a knife.
Sunday and out of damage pills my back pain is going into my leg. I make dinner and come to sit down. My thigh jerked on me to what felt like the bone ripped out of my hip. The pain tripled, and I couldn’t do shit! Monday morning I am in yet worse pain. I call the doctor asking for a three day early release of my pain pills and explain my injure. They call back and said “Ms. LaPointe the doctor said he would not let you rep your pain medication early.” Snootily and snot-nosed she talked to me. I explained that was fine. I’d do my best. Around five o’clock yesterday, a neighbor came by. We visited for awhile, and she seen I was in pain and left. In five minutes the pain ran through my whole body, from my serve to my thigh and toes. I screamed and cried. I was paralyzed. I called my boyfriend to tell him my distress. I needed an ambulance but couldn’t get to the door to unlock it. He leaves work and comes to my aide.
He has to carry me down the steps to the car. We rush off straight to the E.R. There’s cars all blocking the front of the doors, so he has to take to the parking lot. There is no parking with exception to three blocks away! Again he carried me until a security officer seen him and called for a mobile. Two security guards and my boyfriend put me in the van. I am screaming and crying in the worst damage of my life. Yes! Worse than child birth. My left leg I cannot move and sends sharp pains. My whole body is being stabbed again and again.
Most of this visit was a blur to me. What I know is that everyone in the hospital heard me and they shot me up quick. Running me for x-rays, and doing all they could. I finally could quit crying and screaming. The pain was going away. Four hours later, they come and they say, “Ms. LaPointe, your pain in your back, hip, and leg is called Sciatica. This means that something has happened to your spine, and this and that nerves are being pinched and causing the wound. The discharge me and stress how important it is that I see my doctor within 42 hours.
This morning I woke up, another day of pain. I made the call to my doctor’s office to schedule it for an emergency follow- up. I pleasant tell them that I had gone last night and what they had found. I am not a spiteful person. I don’t abuse my prescriptions. And I definately know when something is wrong with my body. Five months of pain, and now we are getting somewhere. The last I seen my doctor he made me feel abominable, cut my meds, added another controlled substance instead. All this evening I have researched sciatica and found there are very few causes that make this happen. The causes of this “symptom” are: Herniated disc, spinal stenosis, bone spurs, nerve root compression, and tumors. Finally we are getting close to finding out what is wrong with me. I left the doctor’s office March 18th is finally going to be over soon.
Tomorrow I go to see the same doctor to talk to him on a few matters. First off on my Delin-tude list: Does he want to continue to be my doctor or does he want out. Then I am going to explain to him that I am not a junkie and when I say something is wrong with me, it had better be checked out. I never took narcotics until my back started to hurt, not even in the military when my hip, pelvis, and fibular broke. Then if he choose to treat me with respect and not dismiss my condition; we shall plan what to do to start finding the root of my problems in my spine.
I don’t know why I wrote this article tonight. I am not here to hiss you about medical conditions. I am here to inspire those who know that something is wrong, don’t sit succor like me and just seize what the doctor says. Keep going and going until they acquire out what is wrong. After yesterday I wasn’t even sure I’d ever walk again. Don’t let a doctor bully you and create you feel abominable. It’s not worth the injure you will feel when your body is distress. Don’t put it off, getting checked out.
I am mad at my doctor, yes. He should’ve at least x-rayed me. Tomorrow will be more of a business meeting than a visit. However, one way or another, things will get set straight. I hope and pray I do not lose my temper. The trained soldier in me can be as sneaky and deadly in the tongue as in the hand. Tomorrow I could be on a search for a new doctor. I do know that somehow I will come out feeling better. Either he will know now I am not a junkie, or he will release me to a new doctor where I can get the relief I so badly crave.
Wish me luck tomorrow. I pray that I keep my patience and get what I need.