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Sleeping pills: stress

Michelle Hanchey — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:43:25 +0000

Many women who feel stressed and worried are turning to prescription drugs to get to sleep.

As women most of us keep a running to do list: “I need to get the mortgage payment in tomorrow. Make an appointment to get the kids teeth cleaned. Did I add milk to the grocery list?”

All perfectly acceptable matters to ponder but not at 3 in the morning.

Getting stuck mulling over the logistics of how you are going to get everything done can leave us listless the next morning. The solution for nearly one in three women in the U.S. is to use some kind of sleep aid at least a few nights a week, according to a 2007 ”Women and Sleep,” study by the National Sleep Foundation.

Last year over 15 million women between the ages of 40-59 used a prescription (overwhelmingly Zolpidem, the generic form of Ambien) to help get to sleep. That is double the number of men in that age group.

But who wants to deal with the possible side effects such as difficulty keeping your balance, dizziness, headaches, gas, heartburn, to name a few. Sleeping pills in the long run can lead to dependence and actually interfere with sleep with rebound insomnia.

But we shouldn’t jump to conclusions and assume that potent pills are out first course of treatment for insomnia. Instead, take steps to determine the source of the problem and whether or not it can be helped without the use of addictive medication.

First, examine daily habits in an effort to pinpoint changeable things that might be keeping you awake. How much caffeine did you drink? Are you exercising or eating right before bed? Getting too much TV time? A pill should not be our first course of treatment for insomnia.

Better to become knowledgeable about good sleep hygiene. Check out our article on over 100 ways to improve your sleep before considering a sleeping pill. We even offer an all natural sleep hologram that does not have any side effects. The importance factor is that you find the root cause of insomnia not just try to mask it with a pill.

Mother’s little helpers (healthsass.blogspot.com)

You want pain relief naturally

Michelle Hanchey — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:53:19 +0000

: “I want natural pain relief.”

You’re in pain, and ibuprofen just won’t cut it. Plus you have read that while ibuprofen is very helpful to relieve pain and inflamed tissues, excessive use can cause adverse effects or become life-threatening. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, don’t agree with your stomach and sensibilities, and you’re wary of stronger meds.

In addition, you care about our water. Testing of U.S. waterways has identified nearly a hundred prescriptions to over-the-counter drugs in our water. Further research suggests that there may be some ecological harm when certain drugs are present.

Fortunately, you have an alternative — a natural one. A break-through in holographic technology now allows an encoded holographic disc to communicate pain relief through your acupuncture points and meridians without side effects and danger to our environment.

Science Breakthrough

Holographic technologies develop by an Atlanta based company called 8ight is the first to offer a commercial application in advanced energetic and bio-chemical storage. Known as an intelligent hologram they create a thermal temperature differential when placed on the body and a series of imprinted sounds to lower the pain and inflammation.

The company recommends placing the holograms on an acupuncture points to turbo-charge the communication process.

Why Holograms?

Holograms contain all the information needed to reconstruct a whole image as well as containing many dimensions of information in far less space, like a compressed file. They also hold information in a subtle network of interacting signals. This material is then imprinted with energetic electromagnetic longitudinal waves (scalar waves) that your body can assimilate.

Cellular DNA Communicates Holographically

Ground breaking research out of the Moscow Institute of Control Science shows that the DNA in each of our cells carries complex information on the whole body.

Drill down further from DNA and atomic structure to the subatomic realm of quantum physics.

It is at this level that some physicists strongly suggest that the nature of reality is analogous to that of a holographic projection. Scientist propose that DNA functions in a way that correlates with holographic projection. DNA projects a blueprint for the organism that is translated from the electrodynamic to the molecular level and functions as a bio-computer. This DNA-wave bio-computer reads and writes genetic code and forms holographic pre-images of bio-structures.

Furthermore, recent presentations at the 2nd DNA World Congress (WDD-2011) in Dalian, China demonstrated the physics behind the cellular and DNA communication of the body. Resonance of DNA can be influenced by the resonant frequencies of water of water which can be signaled using informational longitudinal scalar waves.

The 8ight system uses specific formulated sound based longitudinal scalar waves in communicating holographically with the body.

How DNA communicates holographically (8ightnews.wordpress.com)
Holograms Multiple Applications (8ightnews.wordpress.com)
SMART Holograms (8ightnews.wordpress.com)

3 steps to keep your joints healthy

Michelle Hanchey — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:58:49 +0000

: Knee joint

I was walking down a friend’s steps carrying a big pot of collard greens when I missed the landing and twisted my right knee. I was covered in warm greens but worse my knee was injured. Thank goodness the relief disc reduced the swelling and the pain.

It has been almost 6 months and my knee has healed but it still makes a creaking sound. Ever accidentally turn on your windshield wipers on a sunny day? That rubbing sound is so awful; you can’t turn the wipers off fast enough. It’s similar to what has happened in my knee-joint. The knee is not well lubricated.

Even though you can’t hear them like a dry windshield wiper, our joints aren’t oiled with thick, slippery fluid become as creaky as rusty hinges on an old screen door. While you make less of that lubricating fluid as you age, I have found these three steps can help keep your joints moving smoothly and quietly. I have just about got my knee to “hush”.

Move it. Working out pumps more lubrication into your joints and (doubles your relief) releases more water into your lubricating fluid, so it spreads over the cartilage surfaces more easily. Regularly moving your joints through their full range first thing in the morning covers the cartilage nooks and crannies with fluid.
Feed your joints healthy fats. The same omega-3s that curb inflammation in your blood vessels calm it down in your joints, too. Get the fats from salmon, trout, olive oil, nuts, avocados, and supplements that are high in the DHA form of omega-3.
Take these joint preservers. Supplements with a combo of glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin may help on two fronts: They increase lubrication and decrease inflammation (and thus pain). Over the long run, the supplements may even repair some osteoarthritic damage. It is recommend you take 1,500 milligrams daily. You can check the book, Comparative Guide To Nutritional Supplements by Lyle MacWilliam. There are only five companies that received the highest 5 star rating. Make sure the product you buy has a 100% money back guarantee..

I’ve also found that our Relief discs helps with joint inflammation and any stiffness or soreness I might have.

More Information on Arthritis and Inflammation (tinaspharm.wordpress.com)

Swiss Government Report on Homeopathic Medicine

Michelle Hanchey — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:08:27 +0000

Clinical trials (Photo credit: Sanofi Pasteur)

The Swiss Government’s Remarkable Report on Homeopathic Medicine

by David Ullman posted on the Huffington Post – internet newspaper

The Swiss government has a long and widely respected history of neutrality, and therefore, reports from this government on controversial subjects need to be taken more seriously than other reports from countries that are more strongly influenced by present economic and political constituencies. When one considers that two of the top five largest drug companies in the world have their headquarters in Switzerland, one might assume that this country would have a heavy interest in and bias toward conventional medicine, but such assumptions would be wrong.

In late 2011, the Swiss government’s report on homeopathic medicine represents the most comprehensive evaluation of homeopathic medicine ever written by a government and was just published in book form in English (Bornhoft and Matthiessen, 2011). This breakthrough report affirmed that homeopathic treatment is both effective and cost-effective and that homeopathic treatment should be reimbursed by Switzerland’s national health insurance program.
The Swiss government’s inquiry into homeopathy and complementary and alternative (CAM) treatments resulted from the high demand and widespread use of alternatives to conventional medicine in Switzerland, not only from consumers but from physicians as well. Approximately half of the Swiss population have used CAM treatments and value them. Further, about half of Swiss physicians consider CAM treatments to be effective. Perhaps most significantly, 85 percent of the Swiss population wants CAM therapies to be a part of their country’s health insurance program.

It is therefore not surprising that more than 50 percent of the Swiss population surveyed prefer a hospital that provides CAM treatments rather to one that is limited to conventional medical care.

Beginning in 1998, the government of Switzerland decided to broaden its national health insurance to include certain complementary and alternative medicines, including homeopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, anthropomorphic medicine, and neural therapy. This reimbursement was provisional while the Swiss government commissioned an extensive study on these treatments to determine if they were effective and cost-effective. The provisional reimbursement for these alternative treatments ended in 2005, but as a result of this new study, the Swiss government’s health insurance program once again began to reimburse for homeopathy and select alternative treatments. In fact, as a result of a national referendum in which more than two-thirds of voters supported the inclusion of homeopathic and select alternative medicines in Switzerland’s national health care insurance program, the field of complementary and alternative medicine has become a part of this government’s constitution (Dacey, 2009; Rist, Schwabl, 2009).

The Swiss Government’s “Health Technology Assessment”

The Swiss government’s “Health Technology Assessment” on homeopathic medicine is much more comprehensive than any previous governmental report written on this subject to date. Not only did this report carefully and comprehensively review the body of evidence from randomized double-blind and placebo controlled clinical trials testing homeopathic medicines, they also evaluated the “real world effectiveness” as well as safety and cost-effectiveness. The report also conducted a highly comprehensive review of the wide body of preclinical research (fundamental physio-chemical research, botanical studies, animal studies, and in vitro studies with human cells).

And still further, this report evaluated systematic reviews and meta-analyses, outcome studies, and epidemiological research. This wide review carefully evaluated the studies conducted, both in terms of quality of design and execution (called “internal validity”) and how appropriate each was for the way that homeopathy is commonly practiced (called “external validity”). The subject of external validity is of special importance because some scientists and physicians conduct research on homeopathy with little or no understanding of this type of medicine (some studies tested a homeopathic medicine that is rarely used for the condition tested, while others utilized medicines not commonly indicated for specific patients). When such studies inevitably showed that the homeopathic medicine did not “work,” the real and accurate assessment must be that the studies were set up to disprove homeopathy… or simply, the study was an exploratory trial that sought to evaluate the results of a new treatment (exploratory trials of this nature are not meant to prove or disprove the system of homeopathy but only to evaluate that specific treatment for a person with a specific condition).

After assessing pre-clinical basic research and the high quality clinical studies, the Swiss report affirmed that homeopathic high-potencies seem to induce regulatory effects (e.g., balancing or normalizing effects) and specific changes in cells or living organisms. The report also reported that 20 of the 22 systematic reviews of clinical research testing homeopathic medicines detected at least a trend in favor of homeopathy.* (Bornhöft, Wolf, von Ammon, et al, 2006)
The Swiss report found a particularly strong body of evidence to support the homeopathic treatment of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections and Respiratory Allergies. The report cited 29 studies in “Upper Respiratory Tract Infections/AllergicReactions,” of which 24 studies found a positive result in favor of homeopathy. Further, six out of seven controlled studies that compared homeopathic treatment with conventional medical treatment showed that homeopathy to be more effective than conventional medical interventions (the one other trial found homeopathic treatment to be equivalent to conventional medical treatment). All of these results from homeopathic treatment came without the side effects common to conventional drug treatment. In evaluating only the randomized placebo controlled trials, 12 out of 16 studies showed a positive result in favor of homeopathy.

The authors of the Swiss government’s report acknowledge that a part of the overall review of research included one review of clinical research in homeopathy (Shang, et al, 2005). However, the authors noted that this review of research has been widely and harshly criticized by both advocates and non-advocates of homeopathy. The Swiss report noted that the Shang team did not even adhere to the QUORUM guidelines which are widely recognized standards for scientific reporting (Linde, Jonas, 2005). The Shang team initially evaluated 110 homeopathic clinical trials and then sought to compare them with a matching 110 conventional medical trials. Shang and his team determined that there were 22 “high quality” homeopathic studies but only nine “high quality” conventional medical studies. Rather than compare these high quality trials (which would have shown a positive result for homeopathy), the Shang team created criteria to ignore a majority of high quality homeopathic studies, thereby trumping up support for their original hypothesis and bias that homeopathic medicines may not be effective (Lüdtke, Rutten, 2008).

The Swiss report also notes that David Sackett, M.D., the Canadian physician who is widely considered to be one of the leading pioneers in “evidence based medicine,” has expressed serious concern about those researchers and physicians who consider randomized and double-blind trials as the only means to determine whether a treatment is effective or not. To make this assertion, one would have to acknowledge that virtually all surgical procedures were “unscientific” or “unproven” because so few have undergone randomized double-blind trials.

In my view, for a treatment to be determined to be “effective” or “scientifically proven,” a much more comprehensive assessment of what works and doesn’t is required. Ultimately, the Swiss government’s report on homeopathy represents an evaluation of homeopathy that included an assessment of randomized double-blind trials as well as other bodies of evidence, all of which together lead the report to determine that homeopathic medicines are indeed effective.

The next article will discuss further evidence provided in this report from the Swiss government on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of homeopathic care.

—REFERENCES:

Bornhoft, Gudrun, and Matthiessen, Peter F. Homeopathy in Healthcare: Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs. Goslar, Germany: Springer, 2011. http://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-20638-2/page/1 (This book is presently available from the German office of the publisher, and it will become available via the American office as well as select booksellers in mid- to late-February, 2012.)(NOTE: When specific facts in the above article are provided but not referenced, this means that these facts were derived from this book.)

Bornhöft G, Wolf U, von Ammon K, Righetti M, Maxion-Bergemann S, Baumgartner S, Thurneysen AE, Matthiessen PF. Effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness of homeopathy in general practice – summarized health technology assessment. Forschende Komplementärmedizin (2006);13 Suppl 2:19-29. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16883077

Dacey, Jessica. Therapy supporters roll up sleeves after vote. SwissInfo.ch, May 19, 2009. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/Therapy_supporters_roll_up_sleeves_after_vote.html?cid=670064

Linde K, Jonas W. Are the clinical effects of homeopathy placebo effects? Lancet 36:2081-2082. DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67878-6. http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673605678786.pdf

Lüdtke R, Rutten ALB. The conclusions on the effectiveness of homeopathy highly depend on the set of analysed trials. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. October 2008. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.06/015. http://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(08)00190-X/abstract

Rist L, Schwabl H: Komplementärmedizin im politischen Prozess. Schweizer Bevölkerungstimmt über Verfassungsartikel «Zukunft mit Komplementärmedizin» ab. Forsch Komplementmed 2009, doi 10.1159/000203073. (Translation: Complementary medicine in the political process: The Swiss population votes on the Constitutional Article “The future with complementary medicine” http://www.ayurveda-association.eu/files/swiss_referendum_on_cam_-_forschkomplementmed_2009.pdf

Little pill, big trouble (telegraph.co.uk)

Troy University is testing our 8ight bands

Michelle Hanchey — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:20:58 +0000

: Testing of 8ight performance bands at Troy University

Troy University is currently running a comprehensive study of our performance band as well as the holographic Slim Discs.

A test group of 60 are part of a study on the effect of our 8ight bands on heart rate, blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) as well as strength and stamina. The two guys in the picture to the left are waiting to have their blood pressure checked.

Another group of 30 are testing the effects of our performance band on their balance.

An additional group of 30 are testing the effects of weight loss with our Slim disc.

Dubai DJ is wearing our performance band

Michelle Hanchey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:35:26 +0000

: Dubai DJ David Craig

Look who is wearing the 8ight performance band: Dubai based DJ David Craig.

Sharing a bill with acts such as Stevie Wonder, Faithless and the Brand New Heavies, David is a very successful performer in his own right and he’s also very good-looking.

A regular fixture at Dubai’s Sandance (he’ll be supporting Snow Patrol on March 9th) and a guest star on the decks at the UK’s world-famous dance festival Southport Weekender (you can catch him there in May), David has been DJing for 15 years.

The 34-year-old has hosted parties for Estelle, Usher and Jay-Z, among others, and somehow ended up starring in an Emirates in-flight video.

Fitness in Dubai (8ightnews.wordpress.com)

8ight Performance Bands on the SMU sidelines

Michelle Hanchey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:06:14 +0000

Warren Hanchey watching SMU game on the sideline

For the third consecutive year, Southern Methodist University (SMU) Mustangs headed to a bowl game.

They defeated the Pitt Panthers 26 to 6 in the January, 2012 BBVA Compass Bowl in Birmingham, Ala.

Notice the guy on the sideline in the red Mustang hat and blue SMU shirt with his arms folded. That’s Warren Hanchey wearing the SMU sports performance band by 8ight.

It matches the wristband the SMU player is wearing while he is carrying the football.

SMU Mustangs show horsepower in 28-6 rout of Pitt Panthers (denverpost.com)
BBVA Compass Bowl: SMU vs. Pittsburgh (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

Pain Management

Michelle Hanchey — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:13:40 +0000

We understand what you’re going through and are here to offer you an alternative.

A dependency on prescription medication has become common in this country. It is estimated that today more than 4.7 million Americans are dependent on prescription medications.

Whether it is a result of a physical injury caused by an accident, surgery, anxiety, or chronic pain caused by cancer or another disease, people from every walk of life are struggling with this problem. This is a problem that does not have any external signs. It is not something that is easily identified just by a looking at a person, and can affect anyone, anywhere.

Most dependencies to prescription medications begin from the initial injury or trauma resulting in narcotic pain management. Over time, you need more and more medication to control the pain until you realize that you have become dependent on your medication. Eventually, the pull of the medication takes over every aspect of your day-to-day life. Your life is controlled by the drugs.

Physical dependency means that even if you want to stop taking the drug or drugs, it becomes extremely uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous, due to the withdrawal symptoms. The physical process of withdrawal is complex. The brain has responded to the presence of the pain medication by increasing the number of receptors for the drug. As a result, the nerve cells in the brain stop functioning normally. The body stops producing endorphins – the body’s natural painkillers – because it is receiving opiates instead.

The degeneration of the nerve cells in the brain creates a physical dependency on an external opiate supply. Reducing or stopping the drugs leads to a painful series of physiological changes. This is withdrawal and it can mimic the original symptoms that started you on the painkillers or tranquilizers.

At this point, a person may continue taking the medication to avoid the effects of withdrawal, rather than taking it to alleviate the pain or anxiety that triggered the initial drug use and never realize the difference.

One prescription from a physician can, over weeks, months or even years, lead to a dependency. Many people continue taking the drugs long after the initial injury has healed or the pain has stopped. Often the person takes increasingly higher dose of drugs like Vicodin, Xanax or OxyContin – more than was first prescribed by their doctor.

The alternative we offer is all natural signal tied into acupuncture points that helps eliminate pain. Best of all it is accomplished without withdrawal symptoms, without addition, without drugs or chemicals that have side effects.

How we are able to accomplish this is detailed in the Research and Science sections of this blog.

Firm previews painkiller, abuse experts worried (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
More powerful painkiller coming (cbc.ca)

1% of patients drive health care spending

Michelle Hanchey — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:48:18 +0000

Only one percent of Americans accounted for 22% of health care costs in 2009 according to a federal report from Healthcare Research and Quality.

That averages to about $90,000 per person. However, the top 5% account for 50% of the some $1.26 trillion spent on health care in 2009.

These statistics shows how a tiny segment of the population can drive health care spending.

The top 1% are users of publically funded health care and

80% white non-Hispanic
60% women
40% 65 or older

Biggest Bucks In Health Care Are Spent On A Very Few (npr.org)

What kills us?

Michelle Hanchey — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:39:51 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

Heart disease and cancer are the most common causes of death, accounting for 47% of all deaths last year according to the Center for Disease Control in a report which gathers data from death certificates provided by the states.

Here is the list of the top 10

Heart disease
Cancer
Chronic lower respiratory diseases
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke)
Accidents
Alzheimer’s
Diabetes
Nephritis (kidney disease)
Influenza/pneumonia
Suicide

Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Heath Statistics

CDC: You Are More Likely To Be Killed By This Disease Than By A Homicide (blisstree.com)
Americans Living Longer, CDC Report Finds (nlm.nih.gov)
New causes-of-death rankings: Suicide no. 10, homicide falls off list (mercurynews.com)

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