Holistic medicine, not pharma drugs

[Matt2584]

naturalnews.com/2017-01-26-...

[NightBird]

That study was on inflammatory bowel disease. You can't cure a brain injury with food. Even NaturalNews doesn't claim that.

[Matt2584 in reply to NightBird]

The study did begin by speaking about IBD but the article is mainly about how holistic medicine and how it is better than pharma drugs hence the title of the article.

I believe, and a lot of other people would agree, that you can cure a brain injury through eating food. I'm not talking about any old food either. Processed food, or as I call it "Fake food", won't do anything but likely make your health worse.

Real, natural foods have more of the nutrients and vitamins that our body needs to heal.

I had 2 brain tumours and I believe they were brought on by the awful diet I had when I was a child. A pure sugary, acidic diet.

There are a lot of lies in the world today. So how sure are you when you say that food cannot cure a brain injury?

If pure oxygen and laughter can heal or help with brain injury, I believe food can too.

I like many other brain injured people suffer with fatigue. Frankincense essential oil has helped a lot for me with fatigue, I hardly find it a problem now.

[jayne_h in reply to Matt2584]

Indeed, many argue it is possible to help the brain heal with the right foods: drdiane.com and Tina M Sullivan, Nourish your Noggin

[Matt2584 in reply to jayne_h]

Thanks for sharing the knowledge Jayne :).

I did not even know about Dr. Diane or Tina's book 'Nourish your noggin'.

Always good to share this kind of info.

I was looking at some old posts from a certain member on here and they made a post about the mushroom Lion's mane and how that is good for the brain and regenerating nerves.

Mushrooms are wonderful things alone but don't take my word for it. Look up Mycologist Paul Stamets and make up your own mind.

Anyway, I have nerve damage and was right on the case. I now drink a mushroom mix coffee including Lion's mane and Chaga and I also drink a mushroom mix elixir including Lion's mane. I also have a 120g bag I got online of Lion's mane extract which I add to my smoothies.

My right eye is stuck inward as if permenently cross eyed in one eye and this occurs/ed because of my BI/nerve damage.

I'm not expecting miracles any time soon but I shall keep drinking my mushroom drinks and if my right eye starts to gradually realign itself, I shall put that down to Lion's mane and the power nature can bring :).

[jayne_h in reply to Matt2584]

Thanks for this info. There were some articles about mushrooms and dementia. I googled a couple.

thesun.co.uk/living/2701999...

medicaldaily.com/add-mushro...

Mushrooms prevent dementia and can help with arthritis

Mushrooms are packed with vitamin D and can improve your immune system. Their anti-inflammatory characteristics can also help those suffering from asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, renal failure, and stroke damage.

[Matt2584 in reply to jayne_h]

Thanks for those links. Coconut oil is also good for the brain, demetia, Altzheimer's.

I have read quite a few things about how the first things scientists find in the brains of Alzheimer's patients is Aluminium.

Aluminium is an ingredient in most, if not all, commercialised spray-on deodorants.

Why put a metal in a can of deodorant? What is the need for it? There is none.

I ditched spray-on deodorants and use roll-ons now that I get from Holland & Barrett.

I aint spraying my pits with metal that will likely get into my bloodstream.

[jayne_h in reply to Matt2584]

Indeed, I also get organic deodorants from Holland & Barret (Dr Organics) or a brand from DM Markt in Germany which is about 3 Euros.

We should all use stainless steel pans for cooking.

I read somewhere that a type of algae in reservoir water which is not killed off during purification can produce substances which get into the drinking water and if you drink tap water without boiling it, can lead to dementia. Scary stuff.

[Matt2584 in reply to jayne_h]

That's what I get, Dr. Organic deodorant and I get Dr. Organic's toothpaste, mouth wash, body wash and I have used his dead sea minerals too.

I have read briefly that we should be using stainless steel pans and not cast iron ones.

It is scary stuff. It is a scary world we live in today really. I can understand about dementia from tap water because a lot tap water has fluoride in it and not the naturally occurring fluoride either that you would pick up from rivers and streams. Sodium fluoride which is added to drinking water along with bleaches such as chlorine. Sodium fluoride is responsible for a lot of health conditions such as cancer. Sodium fluoride was used as a rat poison years ago. Humans are spiritual beings and our pineal gland (our third eye) gets calcified because of fluoride dumbing us down and when you step back and take a look at the general public today, you can see this theory is not far off the mark.

Not sure if you have noticed but I am into conspiracy theories :). Those that don't believe in them, well they can't go and say that there is nothing wrong with the world today because there clearly is.

[barny1 in reply to jayne_h]

Interestingly if you place mushrooms outside they'll continue to make more vitamin D, a good option especially if you prefer dried mushrooms or want to save them for winter. In the UK you can't make vitamin D for half the year (October-March), which means your body relies on it's own stores and the little you get from eating vitamin D-rich foods like eggs, mushrooms, dairy and oily fish. I've been reading that cod liver oil has the most vitamin D, no surprise then why fish oils besides their omega-3 content are good for you.

I've never used an anti-perspirant, they work by plugging sweat pores of the skin with dangerous and man-made chemicals!

[Matt2584 in reply to barny1]

An anti-perspirant or in other words a spray that doesn't want you to perspire. But it is healthy to perspire, the body needs to perspire. Yes, people don't like sweat at the wrong or right times but there are easier, safer ways to stop perspiration.

[barny1]

Eating naturally can help prevent many diseases, that's for sure, and if you have a BI and your diet is unhealthy that probably will limit your recovery potential. 'Cure' is probably the wrong word to use, very few conditions can be cured and a BI and definitely a TBI is something that can't be prevented nor can any damage be stopped, so in that sense you can't cure a BI but you can reduce it's effect on your life by adopting a healthy lifestyle that includes eating naturally.

[Matt2584 in reply to barny1]

'Cure' probably would be the wrong word to use for most because I think many people would expect results right away, judging on how many impatient people there are out there.

But I was actually told by the current manager of my Headway that one guy who had a BI treated their injury with some form of pure oxygen which they would breathe in since oxygen is what the brain needs in order to heal. This is why I use Frankincense essential oil and plus it is a cheaper alternative.

When I speak of inhaling pure oxygen, it's not as if you can stick your head out of the window and take a few deep breaths. I wouldn't think that would do much good at all, especially as our air quality isn't exactly clean when you have the likes of geo engineering and other pollutants.

It was my manager that also told us about a guy who had a BI and would watch films and did other things that made him laugh because laughter is another way of healing the brain. Like they say "Laughter is the best medicine".

So in some cases, yes 'cure' may be the wrong word to use but if you know of ways to treat a BI until you feel you have overcome your BI then you have cured yourself.

I see it as similar, in some ways, to when you treat yourself when you have a cold or whatever. You treat it until it is gone and you have cured yourself, that's how I see it.

I did used to think "A brain injury is for life. Once you get it, that's it" and I would always disagree with people who would call their BI a recovery because I always thought that it isn't a recovery but looking back on that now, that is quite a negative thing to say and negativity will only hold you back.

If you slip on a puddle of water and bang your head, with force, you have got a TBI. if you were able to reverse that and avoid the puddle then you wouldn't slip and bang your head so you COULD'VE prevented the TBI.

As for ABIs, such as mine, I believe that it could've easily been prevented. If I or my parents and the people around me had the knowledge they have now back in the 80s, early 90s, I never would've had such an awful diet when I was younger and I believe that I wouldn't have even had a BI.

I was 11, nearly 12, when I had my first brain tumour and after the first bout of surgery, my GP told me that my tumour had been likely growing all my life. That means it took 11 years to grow to the size of an egg.

Just 2 years later I was then diagnosed with another tumour that was roughly the same size! 2 years to grow that big!

So for me, there is something definitely not right about the medical industry.

[barny1 in reply to barny1]

I know you didn't use the word 'cure' Matt, I was talking about the article's use (and I realise it was about IBD), but you're welcome to debate it's meaning as far as brain injury nevertheless.

I think you can't never 'cure' a brain injury in the absolute sense because by definition a brain injury involves death of brain tissue that isn't replaced by the body naturally even if, in theory, you could grow new brain tissue with stem cells and some people have tried it in other less-restrictive countries, don't know how successful it was for them. That is what I mean by not curing, I know we're talking semantics here and appreciate that you meant it in the sense of overcoming your BI.

Taking that point, I can only speak from personal experience, I haven't yet reached the point where I've overcome everything caused by my BI, it's been 16 years and over half my life, maybe having a BI at a young age makes it difficult to overcome everything as it alters the course of your normal upbringing. Having said that I'm so much better now than I was only a few years ago because of changes to my lifestyle and diet, by meticulously focusing on myself so developing an awareness of what works and what doesn't, so improvement is possible, neuroplasticity is continuous throughout your life and in 5 years time your brain connections will look slightly different to the way they are today as a result of what experiences you have. If i'd have known about all this at the time of my BI I would've changed my habits, taking diet as an example, it wasn't unhealthy back then but it was far from optimal for brain development. I'd eat breakfast cereals that contained nothing but maize and sugar or a piece of toast, some days I'd skip breakfast before school because I was always late thinking I could catch-up and oblivious to the effects. You definitely need greater nutrition after a BI, more than what's normally recommended and I go off research and feel to decide what works best.

I can't believe people still buy breakfast cereals (the processed type) for themselves and their kids as if thats nutritious, the only thing that's nutritious is the milk.