The Beginnings of mine with Holistic Medicine
Alternative medicine is everything that lies outside Western conventional allopathic medication. I cannot possibly create on such a breadth of alternative health, or am I qualified. My experience and training is as a logical rational trained research scientist, a realm where anything of worth needs to be established by two-fold innured experimentally sound scientific tests.
In 1991, I was clinically determined to have Bipolar Disorder. This’s very strange to have at age fifty, as this condition, or maybe Manic Depression as it is likewise called, typically doesn’t strike beyond the age of forty. I was in medical depression when the wife Marcia of mine dragged me into Manhattan from the home of ours on Long Island around an hour and a fourth of a drive by vehicle. A pal of hers, the insurance agent Jerry of ours, proposed that the Atkins Center may help. Robert Atkins M.D. died a couple of years back, but back in 1991 he’d a 5 or even 6 storied design that had been devoted to what he termed Complementary Medicine. Complementary meant that the great Dr. Atkins was incorporating particular holistic health-related approaches to his internal medicine cardiology traditional instruction. Upon arrival early in the early morning, I was supplied with a 5 hour blood glucose tolerance to find out if I was either hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) or hyperglycemic (possibly diabetic), blood was withdrawn for a variety of analyses, stool samples happened to be other, food, and collected allergies were tested.
By the conclusion of the morning I had a bag filled with vitamins, was informed I had yeast in my intestinal tract, and I proceeded the Atkins high protein, low carbohydrate diet plan. In that same year Marcia likewise dragged me to our first alternative health-related conference in Manhattan. Not one of the techniques provided, including the orthomolecular psychiatry in the Atkins Center, relieved the medical depression though it did start me on a journey with holistic medicine. Today, I practice my own brand of complementary medicine strictly for myself and for any person else who wants to listen. Back in 1991 I did not know that when I returned to Stony Brook University in August of 2000 to once again take up the professorial responsibilities of mine following a 5 year long term disability leave of absence from Bipolar Disorder that I would provide a 8 hour training course on health medication for the dental pupils. Most of what I have gleaned I put into this particular course on nutrition. I discuss a small bit of it right here.
sugar and Migraines
When I was twenty-seven and returned to Toronto from Israel with my Ph.D. in Biophysics, the headaches of mine that I had almost all my life turned into migraines which I thought I’d now have all my life. The migraines were significantly worse and the pain of mine took on the latest dimension of intensity. I had learned to tolerate pain since age four but this particular pain was excruciating. Migraine headaches are vascular in nature wherein one very first triggers the vasoconstriction or maybe squeezing of blood vessels in the head and neck accompanied by the vasodilation or perhaps expansion of blood vessels. During the second vascular stage, the blood vessels expand way past where they originally began and the poor migraine sufferer thinks the horrific throbbing of the migraine. I don’t know about giving birth but you cannot visualize what the pain is like unless you’re a migraine sufferer yourself.
After years of coping with this particular physical discomfort, I read a book by a South American doctor in the early eighties on the connection of sugar to migraines. I cannot recall his name or perhaps the book, though I do remember exactly what the doctor wrote. He said that sugar triggered a migraine in a few individuals who were prone to the biochemical changes initiated by sugars. The science history of mine allowed me to understand what the doctor was suggesting and I was looking for any explanation for my migraines as I was eager. I’d gone to the Headache Clinic at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York & no such reason was offered. Basically, the disaccharide or table sugar sucrose gets divided to the monosaccharides, glucose and fructose, in the body and brings about insulin to be released by the pancreas.
The insulin is needed to transport the glucose breakdown suscrose of the sucrose in the cells of ours for power, for work in our muscles, and also for making triglycerides in the fat cells of ours. A intricate biochemical process happens and there is an exchange of certain ions like calcium and magnesium across cellular membranes that create shifts in the bioelectric character of the cells. If an excessive amount of sucrose is categorized to glucose, the pancreas is going to secrete an excess of insulin. The insulin action can actually lower the blood glucose levels to even lower levels than normally observed in an individual’s bloodstream, sometimes to a quality which is regarded as hypoglycemic. The decrease in blood sugar triggers the body to secrete the hormones, epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline), to cause the breakdown of glycogen kept in the cells of ours in order to raise and rebalance our blood glucose amounts. Blood glucose levels are in fact our blood sugar but use of the name sugar is actually a misnomer since when we mention very high sugar, we quite often mean sucrose though Try it now is the breakdown product of sucrose that is glucose. The point is, the secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine generally is an issue in some migraine affected individuals whose blood vessels are susceptible and sensitive as these neurotransmitters or hormones, additionally to breaking down glycogen that’s a string of glucose molecules, cause vasoconstriction of skin blood vessels in the head, neck and shoulders. The result would be that the migraine is going to commence and becomes tough to arrest.