Dealing With Insomnia – Part #2 – Herbs for Insomnia
For some a insomnia is slight annoyance and for others a living hell. Sometimes herbs are a gentler alternative to pharmaceuticals.
Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics – My Quin Story
The Fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics can have horrific side effects that can disable the most healthy of individuals creating long lasting injuries.
How Common are MTHFR Variations?
The rate of one MTHFR mutation in the standard population is a whopping 50%.
I hate Facebook!
Facebook is akin to a tractor stuck in a muddy field constantly spinning its tires and never getting anywhere, even though it is expending considerable energy.
Know Your Genes – The GSTP1 Gene
The GSTP1 are a family of enzymes that play an important role in detoxification of certain products.
Know Your Genes – The COMT V158M
The COMT V158M +/+ polymorphism is associated with improved cognition, better memory and attention to tasks due to higher amounts of dopamine in the synapses.
The Cult of Personaility
The cult of personality is not limited to public figures on the world stage. I do not get particularly upset by these leaders and consider them an inevitable hazard of internet community politics. As the saying goes, "You can't have a picnic without ants." Just remember, sometimes those who rise to power in an internet community would never be able to rise to power in "real life" and for good reason.
New Fluoroquinolone Forum
This fluoroquinolone forum will be a place for those who are chronically affected by fluoroquinolones to talk about and share healing and treatment information in a variety of areas.
Guide to Glutathione Supplementation for The FQ Sufferer
Glutathione, considered by some to be the body's master anti-oxidant, is involved amino acid transport, protein synthesis, the cell cycle, and plays integral role in methylation.
Food for Thought on Probiotics
Probiotics can be powerful substances that can exert a strong influence on the host person and like everything carry a small but measurable risk.
Methylation for the Fluoroquinolone Sufferer
Only this last year, with renewed genetic information at hand, desperation to change my failing health, and access to a researcher and personal physician that were willing to help, I was able to start researching more in-depth my own personal health issues as they related to methylation.
Gastroparesis
One of the results of nervous system damage or changescan be gastro-intestinal tract gastroparesis or dysmotility. Gastroparesis is a complex term for delayed stomach emptying which can be caused by the autonomic nervous system changes that can be done by the fluoroquinolones.
Don’t Get Lost
If you are not careful, you run the risk of believing that deliverance from your toxicity is entirely dependent on sources outside of yourself.
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!”
Claims of self-empowerment are more often than not contradicted by the behavior of health care providers. In reality, informed, assertive, and confident patients are often penalized for doing what they’ve been told to do. For the first time in my life I felt discrimination, alienation, and dismissal.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Some in society argue its existence is necessary, saying it's power is needed to defeat an even more powerful enemy. But with great power comes great potential for damage; And when the cure becomes the disease, we have truly created a monster of epic proportions.