KIDNEY TROUBLES

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I originally began to investigate self-healing when I had no medical insurance and needed help, then I found out how dangerous were the practices of Allopathic medicine, not to mention what passes for food in our modern socety, so I studied in earnest how to take control of my own health. I recently heard a friend is having some kidney troubles so today I'm researching how to help control or at least find out the why of this particular illness...She says the doctor told her that although her urine doesn't look like it; she is bleeding from her kidneys[?]. This is not far off from the topic, as Diabetics often suffer from kidney disease, or renal failure. Indeed my friend has relatives with diabetes, so here goes....

Normally Kidney disease is a shutting down of the kidneys and the body is flooded with wastes and all of the problems accompanying that.
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The Facts About Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
~26 million Americans have CKD and another 20 million more are at increased risk.
~Early detection can help prevent the progression of kidney disease to kidney failure.
~Heart disease is the major cause of death for all people with CKD.
~Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is the best estimate of kidney function.
~Hypertension causes CKD and CKD causes hypertension.
~Persistent proteinuria means CKD.
~High risk groups include those with diabetes, hypertension and family history of kidney disease.
~African Americans, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans and Seniors are at increased risk.
~Three simple tests can detect CKD: blood pressure, urine albumin and serum creatinine.
~One in Nine Americans Has Chronic Kidney Disease
~Nearly half of people with an advanced form of kidney disease do not know they have weak or failing kidneys, according to recent research published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation

Symptoms of Chronic kidney disease are:
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~Fatigue and weakness (from anemia or accumulation of waste products in the body)
~Loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting
~Need to urinate frequently, especially at night
~Swelling of the legs and puffiness around the eyes (fluid retention)
~Itching, easy bruising, and pale skin (from anemia)
~Headaches, numbness in the feet or hands (peripheral neuropathy), disturbed sleep, altered mental status (encephalopathy from the accumulation of waste products or uremic poisons), and restless legs syndrome
~High blood pressure, chest pain due to pericarditis (inflammation around the heart)
~Shortness of breath from fluid in lungs
~Bleeding (poor blood clotting)
~Bone pain and fractures
~Decreased sexual interest and erectile dysfunction

Aside from bleeding easily it doesn't really reflect my friend's experiences so far, so Let's keep looking....

According to National Kidney and Urological Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) Hematuria is caused by many things most of which are not serious, but that it is also a symptom of Chronic Kidney disease. That said, what can be done? We know conventional medicine will insist on "life-saving drugs" and Invasive Surgery, but if one is not interested in those sorts of "cures" what's left?

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Cranberry
Makes urine more acidic. Eliminates buildup of bacteria. Helps heal the bladder.
~Acidophilus
Beneficial when taking antibiotics.
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) plus
Decreases fluid retention.
~Choline
Decreases fluid retention.
~Inositol
Decreases fluid retention.
~Vitamin C with bioflavonoids
Makes urine more acidic. Promotes healing. Stimulates immune system.
Dandelion root
Eliminates waste from the kidneys. Helps with nephritis.
~Buchu tea
Buchu has traditionally been used to treat stomach problems, rheumatism, and urinary tract infections. Use hot water but do not bring to a boil.
~Dandelion Root Extract
This herb can help the kidneys eliminate waste products. It may also be helpful in treating nephritis.
~Cranberries
The benefits of cranberries have long been told by grandmothers to their grandchildren that cranberry juice will help to clear up urinary tract infections. Reports have stated that they also acidify the urine, remove bacteria that has built up, and fosters healing of the bladder. NOT THE SUPER SWEETENED FAMILIAR TV ADVERTIZED BRANDS, BUT THE REAL BERRIES WITH ENOUGH PUCKER TO TUCKER YOU OUT.
~Hydrangea & Uva Ursi
These two herbs can remove excess water from the body. One of the best first steps to take in cleaning the urinary tract and keeping it that way is to literally use diuretics to flush the urinary tract. This should assist the urinary tract from harboring harmful deposits of calcium or other mineral salts from being able to settle
~Marshmallow Tea
Responsible for cleaning the kidneys. NOT MARSHMALLOWS THAT CONTAIN HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!
~SP-6 Cornsilk Blend
Solaray manufactures a product called SP-6 Cornsilk Blend. In addition, Nature's Way has a similar product called Kidney Bladder Formula that will also draw water retention.
~~Goldenrod Tea, Juniper Berries, Marshmallow Root, Nettle, Parsley, Red Clover, and Watermelon Seed Tea
These seven herbs may also be helpful for kidney disorders.~~

~Not listed but I strongly suspect that fermemted foods like sauerkraut will real help one to re-establish the proper flora killed off by repeated attack from antibiotics.
All of these can be purchased at an extremely reasonable price at:



At least these products will help and not cause any harm, just in case something really bad is going on in those kidneys.

As for me I'm staying healthy by using::CellPower™ to cover the basics, also
FLAX SEED OIL for my colon, but of course
~Glutathione-the master antioxidant is a great helper to counteract many diabetic complications.
I've also added D-3 [from Swansons] two caps per day to ward off the evil colds and flus, no Mercury-laden flu shots for me!
~4 essential minerals for diabetics
~SELENIUMhelps immune system,fights infection and aids circulation
~MAGNESIUMhelps to relax you, aids stress and muscle relaxing
~CHROMIUMimproves insulin sensitivity, and helps lower blood sugar.
~ZINC especially to help you heal.
~coconut oil


for the Omega-3~6 balance and losing weight
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-----THE GARDEN GNOME



~~~Jokes and Inspiration~~~
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I
requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day
and age, I don't want something around my neck
that's worth more than my head.
-- Rita Rudner

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
hits a target no one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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My wife struggled with a career crisis: Should she quit her job? Knowing how panicked she was, I called our florist and sent her a bouquet with a card saying "I believe in you. Love, Mose."

Later she called to thank me. "But I'm confused by the card," she said.

"Really? Why?"

"Because it reads 'I be leaving you. Love, Mose.'"


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The casino where I worked went through a round of layoffs just before the holidays. But it wasn't all bad news. In a memo, management stated, "During the Christmas season, laid-off casino employees will not have to wait the normal mandatory seven days before they are allowed to gamble."
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With everything going on in the world at the moment, it is worth
reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went
unnoticed last week.

Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at
the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him
into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.
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AN EXERCISE IN GRATITUDE - Part 1

I choose to be grateful...

For the wife who says it's hot dogs tonight, because she is home with me, and not out with someone else.

For the husband who is on the sofa being a couch potato, because he is home with me and not out at the bars.

For the teenager who is complaining about doing dishes because it means she is at home, not on the streets.

For the taxes I pay because it means I am employed.

For the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of
the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself
in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind.
-- Albert Einstein

Physicists like to think that all you have to do
is say, these are the conditions, now what
happens next?
-- Richard Feynman


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Just once do Weeweechu with me…
One beautiful December evening Pedro and his girlfriend Rosita were sitting by the side of the ocean.
It was a romantic full moon, when Pedro said, "Hey, mamacita… let's do Weeweechu."
"Oh no… not now… let's look at the moon!" said Rosita.
"Oh, c'mon baby… let's you and I do Weeweechu. I love you, and it's the perfect time," Pedro begged.
"But I wanna just hold your hand and watch the moon," replied Rosita.
"Please, corazoncito… just once… do Weeweechu with me."
Rosita looked at Pedro and said, "OK… one time… we'll do Weeweechu."
Pedro grabbed his guitar, and they both sang…
"Weeweechu a Merry Christmas,Weeweechu a Merry Christmas,Weeweechu a Merry Christmas,
and a Happy New Year."

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This will, no, might, be the last blog entry before January 1,2008, but then again, who knows.

MERRY CHRISTMAS; A HAPPY AND INDUSTRIOUS NEW YEAR, and MAY YOU BE BLESSED AS YOU MOVE THROUGH YOUR LIFE AND PASS ON YOUR BLESSINGS TO ALL YOU MEET. blessings

SOURCES
(1)http://www.kidney.org/kidneyDisease/
(2)http://www.emedicinehealth.com/chronic_kidney_disease/page4_em.htm
(3)Supplement Suggestions by Vitabase-and I'm a proud affiliate for
Vitabase Health Supplements

HEALING WITHOUT ANY OUTSIDE AGENTS.

"A cheerful heart is good medicine." - King Solomon (Proverbs 17:22)

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King Solomon gave us one of the earliest recorded accounts regarding the healing power of humor and laughter. In the 1300's, surgeon Henri de Mondeville reportedly told jokes to his patients in the recovery room. In the 1600's, educator Richard Mulcater recommended laughter for those suffering from head colds.

Throughout the centuries court jesters have been hired to relieve the royalty's stress from governmental duties. Perhaps the most insightful recording of the benefits of laughter and humor healing came from Dr. Norman Cousins in his book, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient.

Laughter And Humor Can And Does Enhance Our Overall Well-Being

In 1964 Dr. Cousins was diagnosed with a crippling and extremely painful inflammation of his body. With his physician's assistance, he checked out of the hospital and into a hotel to utilize as many natural resources as possible to treat his condition. His experience became a controlled study in pain management and overall healing.

Dr. Cousins had a strong will to live and knew if he focused on love and faith, he could generate positive emotions. He decided to experiment with laughter to create a positive factor in altering his body chemistry to be in a healing mode. Dr. Cousins systematically watched Candid Camera classics, Marx Brother films, and read books like E.B. and Katharine White's Subtreasury of American Humor and Max Eastman's The Enjoyment of Laughter. He later wrote, "I made the joyous discovery that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep." He recovered from this condition and spent the next 20 years teaching about the merits of laughter and humor in healing.

Experts now agree, Laughter:
-Is good for you
-Boosts your immune system
-Can be shared
-Relieves tension
-Benefits the mind, body and spirit
-Is free!

"Me, Funny?"

OK, let's go with that to start. It's a proven fact that a person can completely heal themselves with humor, they can sit down to a plate full of sitcoms and get up healed of the worst diseases. Also habitual smilers have sweeter kinds of wrinkles. It doesn't take a portrait of Dorian Grey to see that our lives are writ upon our countenances. Look at the Rolling Stones, I rest my case.

I have a couple of well; amusing stories I want you to read, you will be tested on this so don't try wiggling out of it. This is an experiment so just see if it helps you.

"The Duck that Flew before it Hatched"
AND
Part II~Time in the Well etc

But if humor cures are there other ways to get well with any outside agents? Yes!

We can implant positive feelings and outcomes in our minds to effect healing. Personally when I'm out I have a short mantra I repeat, I say to myself, over and over, "I'm Healthy and beautiful". Hey, why not, it is good to balance one word with a complimentary word, and it reminds me to suck in my stomach [good for the abs, Bunky] and when I smile I get postive return from others around me, it reinforces my own feelings of well-being. Why not try it for one day. What have you got to lose? I'm not asking you for anything that costs anything whatsoever to do. And you might lose that cranky look you've been carrying on your old old mug. Or don't your choice, Hee is someone else's thoughts on this subject:

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Holistic approaches to health have been tapping into the brain's control over every cell for centuries in a way that supports the brain=behavior line of thinking, external behavior controlled by the brain influencing internal behavior. The common name for such a tapped resource is called imaging or visualization, and is most helpful in cancer patients. More and more studies, such as the work going on at the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, are proving that using such a technique, in conjunction with other treatments, works by "boosting the body's natural immunity and actually increasing the activity of natural killer (NK) cells, which then attack tumors". Studies are proving people can actually send hormones or chemicals to respond to the problem area by just "thinking them up," signaling the nervous system and the organs/immune system in the body necessary to the defense to either respond or work harder. Of course, in most cases, medical course of action on the disease is necessary to truly fight off the cancer or illness, a healthy dose of positive imagery directed to output in a system response has been proven on numerous studies to aid in the healing process. This is the most often heard of use of positive thinking and the one that I have had second hand experience with, a friend of mine battling cancer and winning for longer than expected. A prolonged and better quality life is actually possible if you will it enough to force the brain to be stimulated with the thought and begin the necessary action potentials that send the messages to the immune and endocrine system. By the autonomic capabilities of the brain it does not take much conscious effort to produce the desired healing output, it is an unconscious process.

Then there's prayer, and it has been shown to really make a difference in the outcomes of many people's healing, another try it it's free kind of things. Reported in The Washington Post:

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Many studies done over the years indicate that the devout tend to be healthier. But the reasons remain far from clear. Healthy people may be more likely to join churches. The pious may lead more wholesome lifestyles. Churches, synagogues and mosques may help people take better care of themselves. The quiet meditation and incantations of praying, or the comfort of being prayed for, appears to lower blood pressure, reduce stress hormones, slow the heart rate and have other potentially beneficial effects.
But the most controversial research focuses on "intercessory" or "distant" prayer, which involves people trying to heal others through their intentions, thoughts or prayers, sometimes without the recipients knowing it. The federal government has spent $2.2 million in the past five years on studies of distant healing, which have also drawn support from private foundations.
San Francisco cardiologist Randolph Byrd, for example, conducted an experiment in which he asked born-again Christians to pray for 192 people hospitalized for heart problems, comparing them with 201 not targeted for prayer. No one knew which group they were in. He reported in 1988 that those who were prayed for needed fewer drugs and less help breathing.
William S. Harris of St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., and colleagues published similar results in 1999 from a study involving nearly 1,000 heart patients, about half of whom were prayed for without their knowledge.
But these and other studies have been called deeply flawed. They were, for example, analyzed in the most favorable way possible, looking at so many outcomes that the positive findings could easily have been the result of chance, critics say.
"It's called the sharpshooter's fallacy," said Richard Sloan, a behavioral researcher at Columbia University. "The sharpshooter empties the gun into the side of a barn and then draws the bull's-eye. In science, you have to predict in advance what effect you may have."

Basically it boils down to if you believe it helps if not, well you are on your own,
IN THE WORST POSSIBLE SENSE.

Well I'm doing all those things and still hedging my bets with:
~

~coconut oil



I am very regular in my CellPower™ and
~4 essential minerals for diabetics
~SELENIUMhelps immune system,fights infection and aids circulation
~MAGNESIUMhelps to relax you, aids stress and muscle relaxing
~CHROMIUMimproves insulin sensitivity, and helps lower blood sugar.
~ZINC especially to help you heal.
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Be sure to check out my new favorite interactive health message group healthwatch
Write to me at Webriter@verizon.net or use the comment or chat features. I do appreciate the feedback even if it’s negative, Christian Biblical stories
Natural herbal remedies
blessings

-----THE GARDEN GNOME



~~~Jokes and Inspiration~~~
What did the zen master say to the hot dog vendor? "Make me one with everything."
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"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees," -- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks.

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"Half this game is ninety percent mental." -- Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark [Danny was never really good at the stats]

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"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
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After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me: "Maybe life isn't for everyone." Larry Brown

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Is the key to the bathroom called a can opener?”

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"Everything is funny," said Will Rogers, "as long as it is happening to someone else."

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Tug McGraw, former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, was asked by his father, if he liked pitching on astroturf or grass better. His response was "I don't know, I've never smoked astroturf."

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WORLD GONE CRAZY


"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named, "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon". Need I say more?"

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Fools rush in where fools have been before.
-- Unknown

His lack of education is more than compensated
for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
-- Woody Allen

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood,
place it in the navel of a firefly and still have
room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's
heart.
-- Fred Allen

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity
over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the
criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the
well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
-- Herman Melville
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Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see
them being made.
-- Otto von Bismarck

On the whole human beings want to be good, but
not too good, and not quite all the time.
-- George Orwell

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1. Never tell everything at once.
-- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two
Great Rules of Life

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis
and I don't deserve that either.
-- Jack Benny

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
-- Will Rogers

Science is facts; just as houses are made of
stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of
stones is not a house and a collection of facts is
not necessarily science.
-- Henri Poincare
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A witty young egghead sold his books when short of money. He then wrote to his father, "Congratulate me, father. I am already making money from my studies.”
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Q. Do you know how the Roman Empire was cut in half?

A. With a pair of Caesars!

****************************************************************************************If I had any really funny, clean jokes I'd include them, I'm not holding out on you.
Today be someone else's Santa Claus. Bless like there's no tomorrow.

sources
(1)http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Shaw2.html
(2)http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro00/web1/Braswell.html
(3)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032302177_2

Also see:
www.vjcorganics.mionegroup.com.html