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Depression

DEPRESSION

The following are several questions and answers about the illness called Depression. Please read all of these carefully, since it is very important that you understand your illness as thoroughly as possible. Having studied this sheet, you may have some questions to ask us.

WHAT IS DEPRESSION? It is an illness affecting the entire mind and body, causing a person to feel miserable in many ways. Changes in brain chemistry make it happen.

WHAT CAUSES DEPRESSION? We do not know. We used to think it was due to something unhappy in a person's life or to some psychological hang-up. We now know, however, that this disease happens to people who have no reason to be depressed and who have no psychiatric problems. In other words, this is a disease often affecting normal and healthy people.

DOES HAVING A DEPRESSION MEAN THAT A PERSON IS MENTALLY ILL OR GOING CRAZY? No but it will very often make them think they are.

IS IT A COMMON ILLNESS? Yes, it is one of the most common illnesses seen in all of medicine; however, it is often confused with other illnesses. For example, many people who think or are told they have "low blood", vitamin deficiency, sinus headaches, low sugar, menopause, "the change”, "burnout", and "all run-down and need rest", actually have depression causing their troubles.

WHAT TROUBLE DOES A PERSON HAVE WHO HAS DEPRESSION? A person with depression will usually feel most of the following symptoms:

Very tired all the time, even when not working or exerting very much. They will be just as tired on days when they have rested as on days when they have worked hard.
Sleep will usually be affected in one of two ways: they will either go to sleep and then wake back up during the night and remain awake or they will sleep too much all the time, even during the day.
Feel very irritable. He will get upset very easily over little things that ordinarily would not upset him.
Feel very sad for no reason, and will often break into tears without knowing why.
Normal sex drive will be very much decreased, and will often go away altogether.
Have a headache, perhaps not very severe, but present most of the time. Almost any chronic pain elsewhere, such as in the abdomen or back, can be caused by depression. These pains are not imaginary, but are quite real and often severe. If another illness is already causing pain, depression can double its intensity.
Find it difficult to enjoy things. Also, they will feel little enthusiasm, even for things they used to look forward to.
Be constipated, or have other digestive symptoms such as abdominal pain or diarrhea. They may lose or gain weight.
Find it difficult to concentrate, to make decisions, to remember things, to get things done.
Feel like an ineffective, worthless person, even though they know there is no reason to feel that way.

IS THIS REALLY A SERIOUS ILLNESS? Yes. In a mild depression, the person will often think he just has a case of spring fever, or that he is just getting a little older, but his efficiency will still be affected. In a more severe depression, it can be quite serious. This is the illness that can cause a very healthy and happy person to decide to kill himself.

CAN A PERSON DO ANYTHING TO FIGHT THIS DISEASE? Not by his own efforts. This is a disease over which a person has no control, and it will do him no good to "try to fight this myself"

IS THERE ANY EFFECTIVE TREATMENT? There are several drugs that are usually very effective against depression. They are also quite safe compared to most medicines.

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DIABETES – An Epidemic with Hope

Diabetes mellitus is a serious disorder now suffered by 16 million people in the U.S. alone! Why do we say diabetes is epidemic? Because rapidly increasing rates of obesity and lack of exercise are major causes, with 30% plus with diabetes unaware of their dangerous diabetic condition! Diabetes is the 6th leading cause of death and a major cause of blindness and amputation in America. You are at risk, but knowledge can bring obtainable solutions for prevention or control.

Click here to see the full report by Frank M. Jordan

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Drug Free America

DO YOU THINK AMERICA IS DRUG FREE?

By Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.

Think again! “Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.” (Quoted by Voltaire)

In 2002, Americans filled 3,340,000,000 outpatient prescriptions —12 prescriptions for every man, woman and child in America. Each year in the United States, there are 106,000 deaths from properly prescribed pharmaceutical drugs. If you tell a doctor that a nutritional supplement, an herb or essential oil can bring about healing with no negative side effects, they won’t believe you. This is because in medical school, students are repeatedly told by the professors that all effective medicines have negative side effects, and if they don’t, then they can’t be effective.

When I was in medical school, one professor emphasized this point in a colorful, graphic manner with specifically prepared slides. In each slide, specific drugs were depicted as evil looking demons or goblins. As he presented each picture, he explained, although ugly and capable of doing harm, these demons are also the bearers of some good. “So long as the benefits outweigh the risk, we use them,” he summarized. “We have no choice,” he continued, “because if a drug has no dangers, then it can have no benefits. That’s just the way it is. That is why it is essential that only qualified physicians be allowed to prescribe medicines,” he concluded.

Actually, the professor was telling the truth. But in the restricted practice of allopathy (MD’s), the only real medicines are physician-prescribed pharmaceuticals. Such medicines always have negative side effects – all of them – no exceptions. Hence, doctors are trained to accept the bad with the good as a price of effective medicine.

The dangers of prescription drugs are intrinsic to the drugs themselves. No matter how careful the physician is in prescribing, and how compliant the patient in following doctor’s orders, even then death and damages occur. In this country, more people die from doctor’s prescriptions every ten days than were killed in the 9-11 terrorist attack.

Why is this so? Why do allopathic drugs always have undesirable effects while one can find healing with natural products with no undesirable effects? Here is why.

It is illegal to patent any natural products. The way to big profits in the medicine industry is to create an unnatural substance that never before existed in nature, then patent it, and maintain a monopoly. Hence the molecules of pharmaceutical drugs are all strange to the human body. In all the history of human kind, such molecules were never encountered or taken into any human body. Thus, the body does not easily metabolize them. God never made your body to accept and deal with these chemicals and antibiotics. And you can find traces of prescriptions drugs in your body that were taken in childhood.

On the other hand, natural molecules are easily metabolized by the body. In fact your body was created to handle them. By contrast, the unnatural molecules of man-made drugs attach themselves to various tissues, disrupting normal function, for years while the body tries to figure out what to do with them. Meanwhile, they wreak mischief with our bodily functions and even our mind. Drugs and natural molecules work in opposite ways. Drugs toxify. Natural molecules de-toxify. Drugs clog and confuse receptor sites. Natural molecules clean receptor sites. Drugs depress the immune system, and natural molecules strengthen the immune system. Antibiotics attack bacteria indiscriminately, killing both the good and the bad. Natural molecules attack only the harmful

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