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Metaphysical Yes but, attitude. Lack of joy. Fear of life. Feeling not good enough. It is safe for me to experience joy in every area of my life. I love life. http://www.scribd.com/doc/122099/Heal-Your-Body |
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CROSS-PURPOSES -- The underlying attitude or belief: You are living in a world hostile to your own needs and desires. Competition is always tough and mean. It’s a case of “tooth-and-claw, dog-eat-dog”. You have to fight in order to get and keep what you need for your survival. Everybody is against you. -- Suspicion, doubt, hatred, antagonism, mistrust, and hostility are key words in finding the primary causes behind your troubles. Among the illnesses that may be traced to hostility and cross-purposes are these: anemia sore throat, pneumonia, hypertension, infections, bacterial diseases, indigestion, cancer. -- ANEMIA may reflect a person’s belief in the absence of cooperation, love, or consideration from the world. -- A SORE THROAT may be the signal of hostility between a man and his boss, or a man and his wife. -- PNEUMONIA sometimes results from a person’s long-standing, or sudden and intense belief that circumstances have conspired against him, that the things on which he could depend have turned against him. -- INDIGESTION may be the body’s way of telling you to forget your anger, to release your suspicions, and to go on about your business in an alert but at the same time relaxed state of mind. From “The Secret of Instantaneous Healing” by Harry Douglas Smith |
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ANEMIA ANEMIA--TYPES AND CAUSES any disease conditions are associated with thyroid diseases, but of all these diseases, the one with the highest association is anemia. I read one study which indicated that about one half of all hyperthyroids had clinically diagnosed anemia. It's possible, and to me quite likely, that the other half were also anemic but not diagnosed because they had copper-deficiency anemia and not iron-deficiency anemia. Anemia is usually caused by a deficiency of hemoglobin which is the oxygen carrying molecule in the red blood cell. While many minerals are important in the body's manufacture of hemoglobin, iron and copper are the most important. A deficiency of either iron or copper will result in anemia, either iron-deficiency anemia or copper-deficiency anemia. Anemia is often medically diagnosed by determining blood levels of iron and the iron-carrying protein ferritin. This test will determine anemia if the anemia is due to iron deficiency. However, this test will not show if the person has copper-deficiency anemia. It seems that many doctors are unaware of copper-deficiency anemia and will try to correct all cases of anemia by prescribing very large doses of iron. Since the majority of cases of anemia are probably the result of iron deficiency, then this procedure usually works. However, in copper-deficiency anemia, taking excess amounts of iron will further deplete copper and cause the anemia to worsen. This exact scenario has happened to more than one person in our group. SYMPTOMS OF ANEMIA The symptoms of anemia are: rapid heart beat, dizziness upon standing, reduced capacity to exercise, reduced endurance, elevated heart rate when exercising and failure of the heart to return to a normal rate in a reasonable time upon exercise cessation, low physical energy, low mental energy ("brain fog"), feeling of unease which is alleviated by a period of breathing deeply, inability to fall asleep or to sleep well (insomnia), waking up gasping for breath, and an increase of all these symptoms when traveling to a higher altitude (vacationing in the mountains). All of these symptoms are related to a reduced amount of oxygen getting to the cells. The most serious of these symptoms is the increase in heart rate. Because each red blood cell carries less oxygen to the cells, the heart rate increases to increase the blood flow so that the cells will not be oxygen starved. CONNECTION BETWEEN ANEMIA AND THYROID DISEASE Keep in mind that there is no clear-cut proof of this, but I believe that the mineral deficiencies which lead to hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism bear remarkable similarity to the mineral deficiencies which lead to the two main types of anemia. Iron-deficiency anemia and hypothyroidism are similar in that in both iron is more deficient than copper. Copper-deficiency anemia and hyperthyroidism are similar in that in both copper is more deficient than iron. It is an easy step to postulate that anemia is the single most important pre-existing and causative condition in the etiology of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. Hypothyroidism may be the result of iron-deficiency anemia and hyperthyroidism may be the result of copper-deficiency anemia. Since iron is needed by the body in amounts approximately five times that of copper, then iron deficiency probably occurs more often than copper deficiency. I've read that one-fifth of the world's population suffers from iron deficiency. This may be one of the reasons that hypothyroidism is more common than hyperthyroidism. WHO GETS ANEMIA AND THYROID DISEASE Women in their child-bearing years need more iron and copper than women at other ages and men at any age because of the monthly blood loss during menstruation. ..Who else gets anemic and gets thyroid disease? People who exercise excessively like Olympic athletes and they often get anemia and hyperthyroidism. Older men and women, especially if they don't eat much red meat (iron) or drink much beer (copper). Also, people with poor digestion such as those with celiac disease. WHAT ARE THE MAJOR DEFICIENCIES INVOLVED IN ANEMIA? Following is a study from the US Dept of Agriculture, which seems to be doing some of the best nutritional research in the country. The study clearly states that copper deficiency causes anemia and serious cardiovascular disease. |
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Lactic
Acidosis
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Pernicious Anemia
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Vitamin B12 and folic acid are also used by the bone marrow to
make red blood cells. A deficiency of one or both causes
pernicious anemia. Vegetarians, and those with malabsorption
syndromes caused by gut problems or autoimmune disease such as
Crohn's or autoimmune gastritis, must use
Vitamin B12 and folic
acid injections to correct this anemia. Vitamin C deficiency causes small red blood cells; this condition also promotes anemia. Pernicious anemia is associated with autoimmune disease. It develops at the last stage of autoimmune gastritis because the immune system has destroyed the gastric mucosa (gut lining). Autoimmune hemolytic anemia results when red blood cells are attacked and destroyed. The body is unable to use Vitamin B12 and as a result, digestion is compromised, as is the body's ability to produce red blood cells. Ten to 15 percent of those with autoimmune gastritis have pernicious anemia. Two percent of the Western population over 60 years of age is deficient in vitamin B12 and has pernicious anemia. Pernicious anemia can easily be treated with vitamin B12. ... A lack of intrinsic factor needed to absorb B12 is often the cause of pernicious anemia. (Intrinsic factor is secreted by the cells of the stomach; these cells are often damaged due to disease. Or intrinsic factor may not be released due to low levels of stomach acid and the pancreatic enzyme trypsin.) [I took pancreatic enzyme tablets when I had anemia and it cleared it up immediately! - bfg] ...Vitamin B12 deficiency can be caused by poor nutrition, a strict vegetarian or vegan diet, or any digestive disorder such as malabsorption syndrome, Crohn's disease, leaky gut or gastric surgery. http://healthyimmunity.com/azbook/Anemia.html |