Alternative Medicine and Nutrition -concise history and summary of alternative medicine and nutrition of today

1. Alternative Medicine
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Nutrition
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2. Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward
as having the healing effects of medicine but is not
based on evidence gathered using the scientific
method. It consists of a wide range of health care
practices, products and therapies, using alternative
medical diagnoses and treatments which typically
have not been included in the degree courses of
established medical schools or used in conventional
medicine. Examples of alternative medicine include
homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, energy
medicine and acupuncture.

3. • Complementary medicine is alternative medicine used
together with conventional medical treatment in a belief,
not proven by using scientific methods, that it
"complements" the treatment.
• Integrative medicine (or integrative health) is the
combination of the practices and methods of alternative
medicine with conventional medicine.
• Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online
(Medline) defines CAM as Complementary and
Alternative Medicine which is the term for medical
products and practices that are not part of standard care.
Standard care is what medical doctors, doctors of
osteopathy, and allied health professionals, such as
nurses and physical therapists, practice.
Alternative Medicine

4. • Complementary medicine is used together with
standard medical care. An example is using
acupuncture to help with side effects of cancer
treatment.
• Alternative medicine is used in place of standard
medical care. An example is treating heart disease with
chelation therapy (which seeks to remove excess
metals from the blood) instead of using a standard
approach.
• The claims that CAM treatment providers make can
sound promising. However, researchers do not know
how safe many CAM treatments are or how well they
work. Studies are underway to determine the safety
and usefulness of many CAM practices.
Alternative Medicine

5. • The term alternative medicine is used in information
issued by public bodies in the Commonwealth of
Australia the United Kingdom and the United States
of America. Regulation and licensing of alternative
medicine and health care providers varies from
country to country, and state to state.
• Numerous skeptics and critics have disputed the
term alternative medicine, citing variations of:
"there is really no such thing as alternative medicine, just
medicine that works and medicine that doesn't”.
Alternative Medicine

6. Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on
the relationship between the body's structure—
mainly the spine—and its functioning. Although
practitioners may use a variety of treatment
approaches, they primarily perform adjustments
(manipulations) to the spine or other parts of the
body with the goal of correcting alignment problems,
alleviating pain, improving function, and supporting
the body's natural ability to heal itself.

7. • Most research on chiropractic has focused on spinal
manipulation. Spinal manipulation appears to benefit
some people with low-back pain and may also be
helpful for headaches, neck pain, upper- and lower-
extremity joint conditions, and whiplash-
associated disorders.
• Side effects from spinal manipulation can include
temporary headaches, tiredness, or discomfort in the
parts of the body that were treated. There have been
rare reports of serious complications such as stroke,
but whether spinal manipulation actually causes these
complications is unclear. Safety remains an important
focus of ongoing research.
Chiropractic

8. • Many people who seek chiropractic care have low-back
pain. People also commonly seek chiropractic care for other
kinds of musculoskeletal pain (e.g., neck, shoulder),
headaches, and extremity (e.g., hand or foot) problems.
• An analysis of the use of complementary health practices
for back pain, based on data from the 2002 NHIS (National
Health Interview Survey), found that chiropractic was by far
the most commonly used therapy. Among survey
respondents who had used any of these therapies for their
back pain, 74 percent (approximately 4 million Americans)
had used chiropractic. Among those who had used
chiropractic for back pain, 66 percent perceived “great
benefit” from their treatments.
Chiropractic

9. A 2010 review of scientific evidence on manual therapies
for a range of conditions concluded that spinal
manipulation/mobilization may be helpful for several
conditions in addition to back pain, including migraine
and cervicogenic (neck-related) headaches, neck pain,
upper- and lower-extremity joint conditions, and
whiplash-associated disorders. The review also
identified a number of conditions for which spinal
manipulation/mobilization appears not to be helpful
(including asthma, hypertension, and menstrual pain)
or the evidence is inconclusive (e.g., fibromyalgia, mid-
back pain, premenstrual syndrome, sciatica, and
tempomandibular joint disorders).
Chiropractic

10. A 2010 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) report noted that complementary health
therapies, including spinal manipulation, offer
additional options to conventional treatments, which
often have limited benefit in managing back and
neck pain. The AHRQ analysis also found that spinal
manipulation was more effective than placebo and
as effective as medication in reducing low-back pain
intensity.
Chiropractic

11. • Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in
the world.
• In the United States, practitioners incorporate
healing traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and
other countries, acupuncture is considered part of
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
• Acupuncture became better known in the United
States in 1971, when New York Times reporter James
Reston wrote about how doctors in China used
needles to ease his pain after surgery.
Acupuncture

12. • Acupuncture has been practiced in China and other Asian
countries for thousands of years. Acupuncture involves
stimulating specific points on the body. This is most often
done by inserting thin needles through the skin, to cause a
change in the physical functions of the body.
• Research has shown that acupuncture reduces nausea and
vomiting after surgery and chemotherapy. It can also
relieve pain. Researchers don't fully understand how
acupuncture works. It might aid the activity of your body's
pain-killing chemicals. It also might affect how you release
chemicals that regulate blood pressure and flow.
NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine
Acupuncture

13. • Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a
technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force
— known as qi or chi (CHEE) — believed to flow
through pathways (meridians) in your body. By
inserting needles into specific points along these
meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your
energy flow will re-balance.
• In contrast, many Western practitioners view the
acupuncture points as places to stimulate nerves,
muscles and connective tissue. This stimulation
appears to boost the activity of your body's natural
painkillers and increase blood flow.
Acupuncture

14. • An herb is a plant or plant part used for its scent, flavor, or
therapeutic properties. Herbal medicines according to the
NIH are one type of dietary supplement. They are sold as
tablets, capsules, powders, teas, extracts, and fresh or
dried plants. People use herbal medicines to try to maintain
or improve their health.
• Many people believe that products labeled "natural" are
always safe and good for them. This is not necessarily true.
Herbal medicines do not have to go through the testing
that drugs do. Some herbs, such as comfrey and ephedra,
can cause serious harm. Some herbs can interact with
prescription or over-the-counter medicines.
Herbs

15. Common Preparations
• A tea, also known as an infusion, is made by adding
boiling water to fresh or dried botanicals and
steeping them. The tea may be drunk either hot or
cold.
• Some roots, bark, and berries require more forceful
treatment to extract their desired ingredients. They
are simmered in boiling water for longer periods
than teas, making a decoction, which also may be
drunk hot or cold.
Herbs

16. • A tincture is made by soaking a botanical in a
solution of alcohol and water. Tinctures are sold as
liquids and are used for concentrating and preserving
a botanical. They are made in different strengths that
are expressed as botanical-to-extract ratios (i.e.,
ratios of the weight of the dried botanical to the
volume or weight of the finished product).
• An extract is made by soaking the botanical in a
liquid that removes specific types of chemicals. The
liquid can be used as is or evaporated to make a dry
extract for use in capsules or tablets.
Herbs

17. • The action of botanicals range from mild to powerful
(potent). A botanical with mild action may have subtle
effects.
• Chamomile and peppermint, both mild botanicals, are
usually taken as teas to aid digestion and are generally
considered safe for self-administration.
• Some mild botanicals may have to be taken for weeks or
months before their full effects are achieved. For example,
valerian may be effective as a sleep aid after 14 days of use
but it is rarely effective after just one dose. In contrast a
powerful botanical produces a fast result. Kava, as one
example, is reported to have an immediate and powerful
action affecting anxiety and muscle relaxation.
Herbs

18. • The dose and form of a botanical preparation also play
important roles in its safety. Teas, tinctures, and extracts
have different strengths. The same amount of a botanical
may be contained in a cup of tea, a few teaspoons of
tincture, or an even smaller quantity of an extract. Also,
different preparations vary in the relative amounts and
concentrations of chemical removed from the whole
botanical.
• For example, peppermint tea is generally considered safe to
drink but peppermint oil is much more concentrated and
can be toxic if used incorrectly. It is important to follow the
manufacturer's suggested directions for using a botanical
and not exceed the recommended dose without the advice
of a health care provider.
Herbs

19. Orthomolecular medicine, as conceptualized by
double-Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, aims to restore
the optimum environment of the body by correcting
imbalances or deficiencies based on individual
biochemistry, using substances natural to the body
such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace
elements and fatty acids. The term "orthomolecular"
was first used by Linus Pauling in a paper he wrote in
the Journal Science in 1968.
Orthomolecular Medicine

20. The key idea in orthomolecular medicine is that genetic
factors affect not only the physical characteristics of
individuals, but also to their biochemical milieu.
Biochemical pathways of the body have significant
genetic variability and diseases such as
atherosclerosis, cancer, schizophrenia or depression
are associated with specific biochemical
abnormalities which are causal or contributing
factors of the illness.
Orthomolecular Medicine

21. Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of
preventing and treating disease by providing the
body with optimal amounts of substances which are
natural to the body.
"Orthomolecular treatment does not lend itself to rapid drug-like control of
symptoms, but patients get well to a degree not seen by tranquilizer therapists
who believe orthomolecular therapists are prone to exaggeration. Those who've
seen the results are astonished."
---Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D
Orthomolecular Medicine

22. • Every cell in your body requires nutrients to maintain
health and function. This is why many illnesses can
be linked to molecular imbalances caused by
nutritional deficiencies.
• Orthomolecular medicine attempts to identify
natural imbalances in individual biochemistry that
may lead to illness and correct them using vitamins,
minerals and other essential nutrients.
Orthomolecular Medicine

23. A TALE OF TWO BREAKFASTS
A breakfast of two eggs, sausage and cheese has the
same amount of calories as the USDA approved
breakfast of oatmeal, fruit juice and soy yogurt, but
contains no sugar and almost four times as much
protein and costs half as much. Such a breakfast is
demonized by government officials as containing too
much cholesterol and saturated fat.
Nutrition

24. UNHEALTHY BREAKFAST: USDA APPROVED
Instant oatmeal
(1 package)
160 4 7 0.37 17
Veg/Fruit Juice
(1 8oz can)
100 0 23 0.93 11+
Soy yogurt
(6 oz)
150 4 21 0.74 15
Total 410 8 44 $2.04 43+
SIDEBAR HEALTHY BREAKFAST: NOT USDA APPROVED
A TALE OF TWO
BREAKFASTSA
breakfast of two
eggs, sausage and
cheese
Calories
Protein
(grams)
Sugar
(grams)
Price/
Serving
Number of
Ingredients
Sausage
(one 1.5 oz patty)
170 12 0 0.50 5
Eggs (2) 140 12 0 0.22 1
Cheese (1/4 cup) 100 6 0 0.21 4
Total 410 30 0 $0.93 10
Nutrition

25. Most Americans are following a diet they have been
told by their government and the advertising
industry is good for them, while the shocking truth is
that this diet is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. That’s
because it is rooted in hundreds of lies, distortions
and deceptions built up over many decades by the
food industry. – Weston A. Price Foundation
Nutrition

26. • Did you know that heart disease and cancer were
rare in 1900? And yet today, one of every two
Americans will suffer from some form of heart
disease and one of every three Americans will die of
cancer.
• Did you know that learning disabilities were
extremely rare only a century ago? But today dyslexia
and hyperactivity afflict 7,000,000 young people.
Nutrition

27. It started -
Weston A. Price was a dentist and a researcher. During
the 1930s and 1940s he traveled to the remote
corners of the earth to study the dietary habits of
isolated, non-industrialized peoples. His goal was to
determine what we need to eat to be in robust
health.
Nutrition

28. Dr. Price was disturbed that so many patients he was
seeing in his dental practice in Cleveland had serious
health problems. He observed that they suffered not
only from a lot of tooth decay but also had crowded
teeth and poor bone structure. And these same
patients were afflicted with infectious diseases like
TB and chronic illnesses like cancer, arthritis and
heart disease.
Nutrition

29. He suspected that many of the problems he was seeing
were due to poor nutrition. So, he went on a quest
and traveled to more than a dozen isolated
communities around the world where people did not
have access to modern foods–sugar, white flour and
commercial vegetable oils–to see whether or not
they were healthy.
Nutrition

30. • He was completely amazed by what he found. In
communities where the inhabitants were consuming
only their own indigenous traditional foods, they were
superbly healthy. Even though they had never used a
toothbrush, they had beautiful straight teeth–and no
tooth decay! Most remarkably, these peoples did not
suffer from obesity, arthritis, cancer, heart disease,
infertility or birth defects.
• He studied their diets and found that the foods they
ate were very rich in vitamins and minerals. In fact,
their foods had four times the minerals that were
available in the typical American diet of his day.
Nutrition

31. • That’s partly because these people didn’t eat any empty
foods, like sugar, white flour and vegetable oils. But it’s
also because they ate foods that were naturally rich in
minerals–either seafood from mineral-rich waters or
meats, dairy foods and vegetables from animals and
plants that were nourished by mineral-rich soil.
• The other thing that Price discovered was that the
healthy isolated peoples put a very high value on certain
nutrient-dense foods like butter and cream, eggs, organ
meats, insects, fish, fish eggs, fish oils and shell fish.
• They went to great lengths to obtain these foods and
considered them very important for having healthy
babies!
Nutrition

32. • The importance of diet in relationship to optimal
health has been understood throughout recorded
history. Hippocrates regarded food as a primary form
of medicine more than 2,500 years ago. Records from
ancient Egypt as far back as 5000 BC show the use of
specific foods to treat various conditions.
• The first person to show a direct link between disease
and a lack of a specific nutrient was James Lind, a
physician in the British navy, who discovered that
sailors on long voyages without rations containing
citrus fruits developed bleeding gums, rough skin, poor
muscle tension, and slow-healing wounds, all
symptoms characteristic of scurvy.
Nutrition

33. In 1757, in one of the first controlled medical
experiments, Lind demonstrated that when sailors
were supplied with lemons, limes, and oranges,
scurvy could be prevented. As a result of his findings,
Captain James Cook made it mandatory that every
English sailor be supplied with rations of lemons and
limes, enabling to sail around the world scurvy-free,
as well as supplying them with the nickname
"limeys." Today, it is well known that scurvy is due to
vitamin C deficiency.
Nutrition

34. Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician, is famous for his
nutritional research.
• In 1893 he discovered that a diet of polished (overkvernet)
rice causes beriberi, and was able to produce the disease
experimentally in birds. He discovered vitamin B.
• In 1897, he proved that an element in unpolished rice was
essential to proper functioning of the nervous system and
carbohydrate metabolism, and that a deficiency in that
ingredient could cause beriberi and other diseases. In 1929,
his research resulted in him sharing the Nobel Prize with
British biochemist Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for
physiology and medicine.
Nutrition

35. • In the late 1920s, Max Gerson, M.D., began
observing that cancer could be cured with nutrition
in tandem with systemic detoxification.
• Charlotte Gerson writes: "Dr. Gerson found that the
underlying problems of all cancer patients are
toxicity and deficiency. One of the important features
of his therapy was the hourly administration of fresh
vegetable juices. These supply ample nutrients, as
well as fluids to help flush out the kidneys. When the
high levels of nutrients re-enter tissues, toxins
accumulated over many years are forced into the
blood stream.
Nutrition

36. The toxins are then filtered out by the liver. The liver is
easily overburdened by the continuous release of
toxins and is unable to release the load. Dr. Gerson
found that he could provide help to the liver by the
caffeine in coffee, absorbed from the colon via the
hemorrhoidal vein, which carries the caffeine to the
portal system and then to the liver. The caffeine
stimulates the liver/bile ducts to open, releasing the
poisons into the intestinal tract for excretion.
Nutrition

37. Roger Williams, Professor of Chemistry, was a pioneer
in the concept of orthomolecular nutrition. He
discovered pantothenic acid (vitamin B5 ), and was a
founder and director of the Clayton Foundation
Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas
which, under the directorship of Dr. Williams, was
responsible for more vitamin related discoveries than
any other laboratory in the world. He also developed
the concept of Genetotrophic disease.
Nutrition

38. • According to Williams, the following thesis formed
the basis of this new approach to nutrition: "the
nutritional microenvironment of our body cells is
crucially important to our health, and deficiencies in
this environment constitute a major cause of
disease."
• The contributions of Dr. Williams have opened the
door for personally tailored nutritional and medical
interventions that take biochemical individuality into
account.
• Natural health solutions are based on scientific and
objective testing including blood, urine, salvia and
hair.
Nutrition

39. • We offer a Science Based Nutrition™ report that
provides individual, drug-free recommendations to
promote optimum health based on imbalances and
dysfunction identified from the test results.
• It allows the healthcare provider to establish a
baseline of biomarkers to track your health and
nutritional needs. Getting a blood test is essential to
understanding your current health.
• Nutritional therapy is then recommended based on
the test results. Therapy consists of vitamin
recommendations and diet modifications.
Nutrition

40. To educate us of the importance of eating nutrient
dense foods in the way they were meant to eat and
to be more self-sustainable relying on food as it was
designed by God versus man-made processed foods
that are filled with chemicals and other un-natural
things that ultimately are destroying people’s health.
The Art of Eating Healthy

41. The information stresses food in its natural form versus
using ready made products to create a meal. It also
gives informative information of how to buy or
produce the food needed, plus information of how
the nutrient content of food feeds our bodies and
information of vitamins and herbs to utilize for
healthful purposes. It also helps the reader’s ability
to see how they can still prepare wholesome meals
and work and save money.
The Art of Eating Healthy

42. • Nutrition – food recipes, meals, preparation, buying,
storing, safety and preserving
• Herbs – usage, dosages and ways to incorporate into
meals and medicinal usage
• Vitamins – discussion of usage, dosage
• News – debunk some myths of untruths regarding
disease and processed foods
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