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The Seven for Stress
Majid Ali,
M.D.
In the
article, I
presented the causes and electromagnetic basis of
stress. In this tutorial, I define seven paths to
control stress and gain spiritual equilibrium. I
devote my book
What Do Lions Know
About Stress to a full
treatment of this subject. It is available from
www.aliacademy.org
Dr. Ali's Course on
Stress
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What
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What Is Chronic Stress
- It Is Biologic Addiction
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The
Seven for Stress
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Anxiety Is a
Matter of Biology, Not of Psychology
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Mental Health Course
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Dr. Ali's Mental
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Be Your Own Healer
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Be-Aware Living
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BeWare Living
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The
Seven for Stress
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Demand Nor Offer
Forgiveness, Act Compassion
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Roots of Fear
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Emotions Are Unsorted Thoughts
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Anger Is
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Disappointment Is Unsorted thoughts
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Jails
Are the largest mental health hospitals
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Mental Health and Disorders
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Anxiety?
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What Is Anxiety?
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Stress -
Physiology and Pathology
* Mental Health
* What Is Stress?
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Seven for Stress
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Depression
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Depression - How Large Is the Problem?
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Depression
- Early History
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Absence of Freedom of Thought
* The Aristotle Principle
* The Darwin Principle
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Why Do Men Go to War?
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Ethical Science for
Civilized Medicine
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Science, Health, and
Healing
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Nutrition for
Health and Healthful Aging
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AUTISM:
Who Should Be Charged
With Unethical Conduct?
* Rising
Prevalence of Autism Spectrum
* Brain
Edema
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Cerebral Ischemia and Infarction
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Brain Aneurysms
* Multiple
Sclerosis (MS) and Demyelinating Diseases
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Parkinson’s
Disease
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Pick's Disease
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The Oxygen
Model Alzheimer's Disease
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Anatomy of the
Parasympathetic Nervous System
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Alzheimer’s, Oxygen,
and Tau Protein
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George Putin, George
Obama -
A Dress Rehearsal for the Iran Thing
Ware Living
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Anxiety Is a
Matter of Biology, Not of Psychology
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Deep Healing for Anxiety Associated With Depression
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Course for
Anxiety Control
Pre-birth
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The First Path:
Spirituality Through Silence
The true answer to
the problem of stress is spirituality—not
psychology. Stress is an integral part of the
essential injury-healing-injury cycle of life. Both
injury and healing are spontaneous phenomena.
Healing is not an intellectual function, because the
mind cannot order healing in injured tissues. The
thinking mind—the cortical monkey in autoregulation
language—endlessly recycles past misery. And when
that is not enough, the mind precycles the fear of
future misery. The cortical monkey thrives on doubt.
It embellishes fear. Relentless recycling of past
pain or feared, future suffering can drive body
tissues into rebellions, but it cannot coax
rebellious tissues to function in healthy ways.
Psychology is no
substitute for spirituality. The ancient notion of
the mind-body-spirit trio is this: Whatever can be
experienced with the physical senses or perceived by
the mind cannot be spiritual. For the spiritual to
be discrete from the body and the mind, it must be
beyond the reach of either. One cannot reach the
spiritual by seeing, smelling or hearing—or by
superior thinking. Indeed, if that were true, there
would be no need for the trio. The popular press is
infatuated with the mind-body connection! Has it
lost sight, then, of the third element?
How does one go
about searching for the spiritual? One doesn't.
The spiritual
involves surrendering in silence to the larger
presence that surrounds and permeates each of us.
Why is silence essential? Because sights, smells and
other sensory perceptions are aspects of the
physical body—and language is the mind's turf.
Clever thinking, alas, is just that: thinking. And
thinking, as I write above, is not spiritual.
Consequently, a thinking mind cannot be banished
with clever words.
In the tutorial
entitled "Is There Another Door?", I suggest some
simple ways to escape the tyranny of the thinking
mind—the relentless clutter of the cortical monkey.
What that monkey cannot cope with is the silent
energy of the spiritual. Specifically, I make two
suggestions that I have found to be clinically
useful: meditation with the silence of a candle
flame in winter and with the silence of a stone
during summer. In essence, with these simple
approaches to meditative silence, one lets either
the flame of a candle or the mellow color of a stone
to lead him to perceive one's essential link with
the larger presence. These simple approaches are
usually far more rewarding—and revealing—than an
elaborate ritual. The Holy Quran puts it thusly:
Paradise is nearer to
you than the thongs of your sandal.
I have seen few
exceptions to the clinical value of silence: for
example, the early phases of severe anxiety states,
frequent panic attacks and depression. Metabolic
roller coasters in anxiety and panic disorders may
make silence unbearable during meditation. In that
case the practice of saying the rosary and mantras,
chanting or listening to spiritual music often helps
to reduce the inner turmoil that can make silence
suffocating.
Depression is a
serious disorder of neuronal and neurotransmitter
function, which is frequently made worse by
metabolic roller coasters. In many cases meditative
silence initially exaggerates these malfunctions.
Here again, healing sounds can be of great value
during the initial stages. After they are
stabilized, I strongly urge my patients with
anxiety-panic disorders and depression to learn the
profoundly healing practice of silence. Indeed, in
my clinical experience positive long-term results
for such disorders cannot be obtained without
persistent and prolonged spiritual work.
The Second Path:
Spirituality Through Service
Some of my
patients have taught me an important lesson:
Reaching out to others can be a powerful healing
influence for the sufferer himself. Again, in the
chapter entitled, Is There Another Door, I suggest
several ways to do so, such as helping an elderly
person with ordinary chores, befriending a sick
child or being kind to an animal. This path to
healing is especially therapeutic for those who are
very sick and have been so for long periods of time.
The reward for
reaching out to someone in need is not what one
receives for it but what one becomes by it.
The essence of
reaching out to someone in this context is simply a
matter of being with the sick or needy. Certainly,
what doesn't work is telling a seriously ill or a
severely depressed person to cheer up.
Sometimes I hear
visitors at hospital wards ask questions that reveal
a morbid curiosity about the patient's prognosis.
Family members of cancer patients often tell me
about the number of months or years the ill person
is expected to live. Of course, they have obtained
such information from the patient's doctor. It
amazes me that there are physicians who are so
insensitive—and ignorant—as to make predictions
about who will live and for how long. As for the
family members and friends, their morbid curiosity
about the precise dating of death seldom remains
shielded from the sick.
There is a
profound irony in this. What comforts the sick and
suffering most are compassion and empathy, and there
is no better way to express that than with silent
presence. A visitor's curiosity about the nature of
the sickness may be offensive to the sick. What the
ill person needs most is to be with someone who can
comfort him by his presence, and who is available to
be spoken to, if and when the sick person wishes to
do so.
A true gift of
service is the gift of presence, and the essence of
that presence is listening to what goes unspoken.
The
Third Path:
Gratitude, Not Happiness
Happiness is an
illusion. That is one reason why no two people ever
agree on what constitutes happiness. No matter how
one chooses to define happiness, it is an empty
notion—now you have it, now you don't. Few things
make people more unhappy than the search for
happiness.
The best reason
for practicing gratitude that I know is that it
makes getting out of the bed in the morning less
demanding. For others, it makes the morning hours a
profoundly spiritual time.
Practicing
gratitude does not require elaborate rituals or
travel to exotic places. It can be practiced
anywhere, at any time. It requires neither outside
support nor special inner capacity. I have seen
patients live with profound gratitude even as they
suffer a progressive paralysis of body muscles
caused by multiple sclerosis or amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis. I know many young people who are
incarcerated at home with disabling chronic fatigue,
yet they are grateful for simply being alive. I also
know chronically ill and angry patients for whom the
word gratitude is a cruel joke. They rage, without
quite understanding why they are consumed by
overwhelming resentment. For the former group,
gratitude is a river that flows endlessly, neither
revealing its true origin nor its destiny. For the
latter, gratitude is an impenetrable wall.
How does one
practice gratitude? How does one learn to know,
trust and surrender to the larger presence that
surrounds and permeates each of us at all times—the
divinity within each human being? There are, of
course, no simple prescriptions. First and foremost,
one must learn to live with the essential insecurity
of life. What is freedom? To the extent that human
beings can be free, it is the freedom from the need
to be free that sets us free. To the extent that we
can feel secure, it is the recognition that there
can be no complete security in life. Thus, freedom
and security are the gifts we receive when we learn
to trust that larger presence.
How does one
become aware of that presence? Natural beauty
requires no endorsement from mere mortals. Yet when
we see a sun lowering behind crimson clouds, we
speak of the magnificence of that scene. Then we try
to do justice to that scene. But does that
magnificence really need our endorsement? Does the
presence in that magnificence really need us to do
justice to it? We look at the snow-capped peaks of a
tall mountain and excitedly talk about its stunning
grandeur. We strive to do justice to it. But does
the presence in that mountain really need our
justice? We witness the innocent beauty of a
wildflower, marvel at it, then seek words to do
justice to it. Does the presence in that wildflower
require any justification from us to be? How did we
get so messed up? How did we get so infatuated with
ourselves? And with the notion that sunsets,
mountains and wildflowers need our approval for
their existence?
How does one
become aware of that presence? I return to the
question. We cannot do so by doing justice to that
presence. Rather, we need to let that presence do
justice to us, approve and endorse our existence. It
takes a certain innocence free from the cortical
clutter to know that presence in that sunset, that
mountain peak and that windflower. That is the
simple way.
The energy of that
presence surrounds and permeates us, just as
geomagnetic fields do. We can discern the magnetic
fields only when we open ourselves to them with
appropriate sensors. It is a crude analogy, but to
be aware of that presence we also need to open
ourselves. Then we don't need stunning sunsets or
lofty mountain peaks to become aware of that
presence. We can do so just as well by looking at
dust particles shining in the shaft of light
entering a room through a window, or through the dim
flame of a candle reflected in a rusty door knob.
That awareness is the gratitude that sets us free.
So it follows that we can receive all the freedom
and security we need through the light reflected
from a door knob—or, when walking on a sidewalk, by
the light absorbed in a shriveled dry leaf that the
wind might blow toward us.
Gratitude may be
practiced anywhere, anytime, through any trivial
object—for there is divinity in all trivia just as
there is divinity is each of us.
We can know only
as much divinity as exists within us.
The Fourth Path:
Control of Metabolic Roller Coasters
Many people live
on metabolic roller coasters. Some are on
sugar-insulin roller coasters, while others suffer
adrenaline-cholinergic roller coasters. Biology, I
write earlier, is a kaleidoscopic mosaic.
Sugar-insulin-adrenaline roller coasters trigger
neurotransmitter roller coasters, resulting in
anxiety, headaches, lightheadedness, heart
palpitations and panic attacks. Many patients
describe electric shocks in their muscles and
skulls. Many women live with PMS, wild mood swings
and hot flashes caused by
estrogen-progesterone-adrenaline roller coasters.
Yet others are tormented by neurotransmitter roller
coasters. In my clinical work, I consider the
elimination of such roller coasters a primary goal.
Control of
Sugar-insulin-adrenaline Roller Coasters in the
Morning
Sugar dysfunction
is the primary threat to human health today. I
devote the chapter, Lions, Hypoglycemia and Insulin
Roller Coasters, to an in-depth discussion of this
subject. The best way to preserve the integrity of
carbohydrate metabolism is to protect it from large
and sudden sugar overloads. For this purpose, I
recommend the following for breakfast: Take one and
one-half heaping tablespoons of a suitable soy,
milk, egg or rice protein formula with abundant
amounts of fluids, such as organic vegetable juices,
in the mornings. If deemed desirable, the taste of
this formula may be changed by adding small amounts
of fruit juice or club soda. I discuss this subject
at length in my series of videos outlining programs
for weight control, management of hypoglycemia and
nutrition for a healthy life span. (These videos are
available at
www.18006336226.com.
I drink 16 or more
ounces of water with nutrient supplements the first
thing each morning. For my own breakfast, I put one
and one-half heaping tablespoons of soy or rice
protein powder in 8 ounces of organic vegetable
juice, then add another 8 ounces of water. Such
fluid intake assures me a state of overhydration and
obviates any need for coffee or tea. Readers may
wish to add a piece of fruit to their protein drink
for additional support or add small amounts of fruit
juices or natural carbonated waters to change the
taste of the protein drink. I include additional
information about the composition of protein
protocols later in this chapter.
Control of Sugar-insulin-adrenaline
Roller Coasters in
the Evenings
I protect the
carbohydrate metabolism of my patients during
afternoon and evening hours with prescriptions for
supplemental cold-pressed essential oils to be taken
cold. Specifically, I prescribe two or three
tablespoons of one of the oils included in my list
of recommended oils an hour or so before dinner. The
oil may be taken with steamed vegetables (cooled to
avoid oxidation of essential oils), salads, goat or
sheep cheese, a small amount of grapefruit juice, or
simply taken alone.
ESSENTIAL OILS ARE NOT FATTENING
Essential,
unoxidized oils speed up fat metabolism. This is a
widely misunderstood aspect of human metabolism.
Essential oils provide a steady-state source of
energy, and prevent sugar-insulin-adrenaline roller
coasters. Other clinical benefits of essential oils
include their value in the prevention and management
of the following disorders:
1. Coronary artery
heart disease and other vascular disorders.
2. Various types
of arthritis including rheumatoid arthritis, lyme
arthritis, psoriatic arthritis.
3. Skin disorders
such as dryness, eczema, atopic dermatitis and
psoriasis.
4. Dry eyes
syndrome and other types of chronic eye irritations.
5. Asthma and
other chronic lung disorders.
6. Immune
disorders.
7. PMS and other
hormonal disorders.
Why should
essential oils be beneficial in such diverse
clinical disorders? What is the common denominator?
The simple answer is that all cell membranes need
essential oils for their structural and functional
integrity. And the health of any cell, tissue or
organ cannot be preserved without healthy cell
membranes—hence, the clinical efficacy of essential
oils in diverse clinical disorders. I discuss this
important issue at length in the companion volume,
RDA: Rats, Drugs and Assumptions.
List of
Recommended Cold-pressed Oils
* Extra virgin olive
oil Flaxseed oil
* Sesame oil
* Avocado oil
Pumpkin oil
* Coconut
oil
* Apricot
* Garlic oil
* Cod
liver oil*
* Cod liver oil is
an excellent source of vitamin D. However, it is
also rich in vitamin A, and I recommend that it be
taken in a small dose of 1 teaspoonful once a week.
An exception to that general recommendation is the
control of acute viral infections when cod liver oil
may be taken in larger amounts and for longer
periods of time such as 5 to 7 days.
Recommendations
for Oil Rotation
I recommend to my
patients that they obtain any two oils from the
above list and take them on alternate days. After
finishing the first two oils, they purchase the next
two oils from the list and so on. Such a rotation
plan assures an excellent mix of oils and one need
not worry about the adequacy of supply of omega-3,
omega-6 and omega-9 groups of fatty acids.
I prefer the
essential oil supplementation program outlined above
to the traditional way of prescribing one or more
oils in capsules for three main reasons:
1. Supplemental
oils taken cold with steamed (and cooled) vegetables
and salads can make a delicious meal.
2. Three
tablespoons of such oils equal 20 or more of the
generally available oil capsules, and ingestion of
such a large number of oils is cumbersome.
3. The cost of
such oil supplementation is usually less than
equivalent amounts of other choices, such as evening
primrose oil, borage oil and black current oil.
Control of Hormone
Roller Coasters
For eliminating
hormonal roller coasters, I find a combination of
folic acid (5 to 15 mg), DHEA (25 to 100 mg) and a
progesterone skin cream derived from wild yams
effective for most of my patients. Some other
natural therapies that I use in rotation include
dong quai, black and blue cohosh, licorice, false
unicorn root, fennel and sarsparrilla. I include
additional comments about this important subject
later in this chapter.
Ample but
judicious prescriptions for minerals and vitamin
supplements are also needed for controlling
metabolic roller coasters. These micronutrients are
essential for promoting a steady-state metabolism of
proteins and fats, and for preventing sugar roller
coasters. Again, I state my recommendations for
nutritional and herbal support for chronic stress
later in this chapter.
The Fifth Path:
Preserving the Integrity of the Bowel,
Blood and Other Body Ecosystems
Human antioxidant
and immune defenses are plants rooted in the soil of
the bowel contents. The bowel ecosystem is as
diverse and delicate as any other in nature. It
interfaces with the outside world on one side and
with the blood ecosystem on the other. The blood
ecology, in turn, integrates with liver, kidney and
brain ecosystems. Human health, in essence, is a
dynamic ecologic equilibrium among the various body
organ ecosystems.
Few things are as
distressing as seeing little children who live on
antibiotics. In so doing, food and mold allergies
that set them up for recurrent infections go
unrecognized. Their delicate bowel ecosystems are
battered repeatedly with broad-spectrum antibiotics
that violate their antioxidant defenses. When their
oxidative metabolism causes behavior and learning
difficulties, school psychologists promptly label
them with hyperactivity and attention deficit
disorders, or refer them to their pediatricians who
readily oblige the psychologists with Ritalin
prescriptions.
Many women
suffering from severely battered vaginal and urinary
ecosystems are prescribed one course of antibiotics
after another. The symptoms caused by such ecologic
disruptions are vigorously suppressed with yet
additional doctors. Not infrequently, they are
completely unaware of the true nature of their
suffering. I discuss these subjects at length in the
companion volume, RDA: Rats, Drugs and Assumptions.
Attempts to resolve issues of stress with therapies
based on the prevailing—and
simplistic—fight-or-flight notion of stress are
bound to fail, and they do.
Similarly, there
are important ecologic considerations affecting home
and work environments. I refer readers interested in
this subject to the companion volume, The Canary and
Chronic Fatigue.
Since health is
ecologic equilibrium, it can only be preserved with
ecologic thinking. Until mainstream physicians learn
to think ecologically, people who suffer chronic
stress have no choice but to learn about ecologic
balances in the body and how to preserve them.
The Sixth Path:
Rejection of Diagnostic Labels that Tell Us Nothing
About the Nature of Suffering, but Hide Much.
Every day in my
clinical practice I see patients who are tortured by
meaningless diagnostic labels. Their physicians use
those labels to justify the use of
symptom-suppressing drugs. Those diagnostic labels
reveal nothing about the true cause of their
suffering. Yet the patients remain trapped in
stress-causing disease modes of thinking.
I see chronic
fatigue sufferers tormented with yet another
diagnostic label of neurally-mediated hypotension (NMH).
They are prescribed steroids and drugs that affect
the heart activity without any regard to the
stressors that overdrive the heart. Their allergic
triggers go unrecognized and unmanaged. They live on
sugar-insulin-adrenaline roller coasters, but such
metabolic stressors are never addressed. Their
battered bowel ecosystems are further battered with
antibiotics—the simmering oxidative coals in their
blood continue to damage cell membranes of blood
corpuscles and cook enzymes, hormones and proteins
just as the white of an egg is cooked when it is
boiled. The NMH gurus never bother to ask the simple
question: What injures the autonomic receptors of
people who suffer from NMH? They contemptuously
dismiss the possibility of such injury by
environmental pollutants. Or by unmitigated
oxidative stress of unrelenting adrenergic
overdrive. It is sad because a physician could
recognize the underlying cause with a mere drop of
patient's blood and some skill with a microscope.
Disruptions of
urinary ecosystems occur as consequences of battered
bowel ecosystems—except in uncommon cases of
structural obstructive lesions of the bladder and
related organs. I see little girls who suffer from
repeated urinary infections and young women who are
given the label of interstitial cystitis for similar
problems. They are given repeated courses of
antibiotics that further damage their delicate
ecosystems. When that doesn't work—and why would
it?—they undergo urethral dilatations in operating
rooms. Their pediatricians and urologists completely
ignore all issues of antibiotic abuse, food and mold
allergy, overgrowth of yeast and disease-causing
bacteria in the bowel, and parasitic infestations.
Hyperactivity and
attention deficit disorders are almost always
associated with food allergy, mold sensitivity and
digestive-absorptive dysfunctions of the bowel. Such
individuals crave sugar and suffer wide mood swings
caused by sugar-insulin-adrenaline roller coasters.
School psychologists are only too eager to provide
suitable diagnostic labels and the pediatricians are
prompt in dispensing Ritalin, Cylert and dexidrine.
Neither the psychologists nor pediatrician seem to
have any sense of the nutritional deficits that feed
those disorders, nor of the relevant allergic
triggers.
I see patients who
are troubled by a cardiologist's diagnosis of mitral
valve prolapse, while the real problem is a heart
overdriven by sugar-insulin-adrenaline roller
coasters. In the chapter, Lions, Hypoglycemia and
Insulin Roller Coasters, I describe the true nature
of mitral valve prolapse in patients without
structural damage to the valve. Training in
effective methods of self-regulation is too
cumbersome for cardiologists. Why waste time
teaching anyone breathing methods to relieve the
symptoms when beta blockers can be doled out so
conveniently?
Coronary heart
disease is caused by oxidative injury to intima
(cells lining the arteries) and connective tissue
(collagen and other substances that hold intima
cells together as mortar holds bricks). Cholesterol
is an innocent bystander molecule in the saga of
coronary disease. No one has ever described any
mechanisms by which cholesterol—a weak
antioxidant—can inflict oxidative injury to vessel
walls. But cholesterol cats—the money men of
cholesterol industry—are not troubled by such
questions. They know there is much money to be made
by selling cholesterol-lowering drugs. Predictably
such drugs do not work. But, that doesn't matter
either. Cholesterol cats have enough money to hire
drug doctors and fly them everywhere singing the
cholesterol songs of their drug masters. How many
people suffer heart disease while worrying about
their cholesterol numbers? Cholesterol cats are not
interested in that question either.
I see patients who
have been prescribed antianxiety drugs for stress
without any attempt to understand the underlying
cause. I see patients given drugs for gastritis and
irritable bowel syndrome without any consideration
to the issues of disrupted gastric and bowel
ecology. The list of such symptom-suppressing labels
is a long one.
I see people for
whom the diagnostic labels are more tormenting than
their violated bowel and gastric ecosystems. The
same happens for sufferers of sinusitis, chronic
headaches, PMS, chronic fatigue and many other
ailments.
I provide detailed
explanations of the energetic-molecular events that
create specific stress patterns in various chapters
of this volume. I suggest the reader consider a
second reading of selected chapters to feel
comfortable with the scientific underpinnings of the
health-disease (dis-ease) continuum that I address
in this book. For this purpose, I recommend the
following chapters: 1) Stress and the Fourth-of-July
Chemistry; 2) Lions, Hypoglycemia and Insulin Roller
Coasters; 3) Adrenergic Hypervigilance, Mitral Valve
Prolapse, Dysautonomia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome;
and 4) Anxiety, Lactic Acid and Limbic Lions. I
refer the professional reader to my book Nutritional
Medicine: Part I—Intravenous and Intramuscular
Therapies.
The Seventh Path:
Optimal Hydration, and Nutrient and Herbal
Support of Body Ecosystems.
When injured
tissues heal, they heal with nutrients not with
drugs. This is self-evident and holds true for all
the ecologic disruptions I refer to in this volume.
I introduce the
subjects of optimal hydration and supplemental
nutrient and herbal support at the end of this
chapter for a specific reason. For many people,
popping vitamin and herbal pills seem to be an easy
remedy for stress. But it doesn't work that way.
Buckets of water
are not sufficient for saving a house on fire.
Similarly, a tablet or two of multivitamins and
herbal pills cannot extinguish the leaping oxidative
flames of a Fourth-of-July chemistry. What is needed
is a deep visceral-intuitive stillness that lifts
one to higher spiritual states.
With that
cautionary note, I include below brief comments
about the optimal state of hydration and lists of
vitamins, minerals, essential amino and fatty acids
and herbs that I have found to be of special value
in the management of chronic stress and anxiety.
Again, I prescribe nutrients to prevent metabolic
roller coasters that feed other stress responses. I
provide detailed information about the mechanisms of
action of most of these agents in the companion
volumes, The Butterfly and Life Span Nutrition and
The Canary and Chronic Fatigue. I refer the
professional reader to Nutritional Medicine Part I:
Intramuscular and Intravenous Therapies.
STATE OF OPTIMAL HYDRATION
My patients who
lead stressful lives frequently complain that they
need to drink large quantities of fluids to take
their prescribed nutrients and herbs. I tell them
that is good news. If nutrient protocols force them
to increase their water intake, so much the better!
Water is an
essential macronutrient. Water is nature's best
diuretic. It is the most efficient detoxifying agent
in the human metabolism. Water is the simplest
solution to acidotic overload in conditions of
stress. Water can significantly reduce the stress of
allergic and sensitivity reactions. Water is the
cheapest diluent for environmental pollutants. Need
we search for more reasons to benefit from an ample
intake of water—the miracle substance of all life?
The simplest and
most effective practical measure for reducing the
excessive acidotic—and oxidative—stress on biology
in chronic stress is to dilute and eliminate the
acidotic—and oxidative—molecules with increased
fluid intake. Parenthetically, one of the
fundamental changes of the general aging process is
cellular aging. Aged cells are shrunken and
dehydrated. Chronic stress is clearly a state of
accelerated molecular and cellular aging. A state of
overhydration is not only desirable, but necessary.
One-third of kidney disease in the United States is
considered to be iatrogenic—caused by prescription
drugs. Three major culprits are nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatory painkillers, antibiotics such as
aminoglycosides and contrast media used for scans
and x-rays. The simplest safeguard against such
kidney damage when taking drugs is optimal
hydration.
I recommend a six-ounce glass of
suitable fluid every three hours. Frequent urination
is a very small price to pay for upregulated energy
enzymes. I refer the reader interested in further
information about this critical subject to the
companion volume The Butterfly and Life Span
Nutrition.
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