Portland Observer, June 12,1986, Page 7
STEWART CLEANERS
Healthwatch
by Steven Bailey, N. D- and
l a s i week in Healthwatch we pre
sented a view o f some o f ihe inade
quacies o f our conventional medical
sysiem. Thai form o f medical care is
characterized by: highly centralized
hospital systems, a scarcity o f neigh
borhood doctors, increased health
care costs, impersonal doctor-patient
encounters, and an increase in the
acceptance and use o f toxic medicines
with unknown mechanisms o f action
and numerous side-effects.
Central to the failure o f modern-
day medicine is an attitude about
health and disease which is nur
tured by conventional physicians. It is
an altitude that we grew up with, but
it is by no means a universal one, nor
is it the historical or traditional out
look. The conventional attitude is
that we “ catch” germs, that we are
“ victim s" o f cancer, that we "get
sick.” And the flip side o f that very
same idea is the one which says that
we go to a doctor to “ get cured,”
thereby fostering a system o f de
pendence. •
This attitude works against health
rather than for it. Wholistic doctors
and naturopathic physicians in par
ticular, view the individual in a d iffe r
ent light. We share with our patients
a goal o f positive wellness, not just
the dulling o f pain or Ihe disappear
ance o f symptoms. Positive wellness
means healthy lives that are mean
ingful and harmonious (a step be
yond just not being sick).
The biggest factor in staying healthy
is being able to cope with the stresses
o f our lives. It is a well known fact
that our most pervasive health prob
lems are related to stress in one way
or another. The body’s immune sys
tem, which is suppressed by the pres
ence o f chronic stress, is unable to
identify and ward o ff illness.
Illness is caused mostly by environ
ment, lifestyle, and a complex array
o f emotional and psychological in
fluences. We are not really at the
mercy o f a multitude o f germ and
bacterial forces who we have to con
stantly defend ourselves against. Ra
ther we must focus our attention upon
our susceptability to disease, which
means listening closely to our daily
rhythms in work and relationships.
We must increase our capacity to
care for ourselves and those around
us, so that we are less susceptable to
the mental, emotional, and physical
stresses that we face.
How important is lifestyle to health?
There was a study done at U C LA
recently, where 11,000 adults were
measured up against seven “ old
fashioned” health habits: regular
meals, breakfast each day, normal
body weight, 7-8 hours' sleep at night,
moderate drinking, regular exercise,
and no smoking.
The study found (and it ’s no sur
prise) that the more habits like these
you followed, the more healthy you
were. A 45-year-old person with 3 o f
these habits has an aserage o f 21.6
years left in their life. And, at the
same age but with 7 o f Ihe gixxt hab
its, you'd have 33 years o f life remain
ing. Some simple lifestyle changes
can promote health in a big way.
A wholistic outlook sees health as
a process, that is, a continual move
ment along a path. We are always
balancing ourselves along this path,
leaning to one side at a time, always
shifting and rebalancing ourselves.
A wholistic doctor, by using natural
substances that support your fx x ly ’s
ability to regain balance (or health) is
following the age-old methods that
have been on this planet fo r thou
sands o f years.
Traditional healing practices such
Preliminary studies show for the
first time that vitamin B-6 relieves
painful body cramps caused by sickle
cell anemia, an ARS chemist says.
Sickle cell anemia is an inherited
blixxl disease affecting approximately
5O,(XK) Black Americans. Victims
suffer debilitating attacks o f cramps,
especially when under day-to-day
stress, and often require hospitaliza
tion.
Robert D. Reynolds, a co-researcher
in the studies, cautions that vitamin
B-6 is not a cure for the disease Indis
criminate use o f high doses o f the
vitamin may lead to serious nerve
damage, he says.
After observing a vitamin B-6
deficiency in all sickle cell anemia
patients they studied, Reynolds and
Clayton L. Natta, o f Columbia U ni
versity, New York, carried out tests o f
the vitamin over the past year and a
half at Columbia University affiliated
hospitals in New York. Natta direct
ed the vitamin dosages and blood
sampling and Reynolds performed
the laboratory analyses.
The researchers cited the case o f
one patient with a history o f being
hospitalized by sickle cell anemia at
tacks about once every two months.
But, while taking daily B-6 supple
ments for a year, the patient needed
no hospital care.
as the use o f herbs, adjusting the daily
diet, use o f hot and cold, fasting,
homeopathy — all are wholistic in
exit look. Conventional medicine, on
the other hand, is not wholistic. It
focuses, rather, on areas o f the body
in a highly invasive and technological
way, with little regard for the in tri
cate interplay o f lifestyle, nutritional
status, emotional changes, or even
spirituality. Prevention o f major
illness lies mostly in our ability to
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transform our daily life. The most ef
fective things we do have little or
nothing to do with medical science as
we know it.
D r Ladd and Dr. Bailey are N a
turopathic physicians at the Cascade
Clinic, 819 N. hillingsworth. Their
fam ily practice emphasizes natural
therapeutics.
physical
med nine,
homeopathy, and nutrition with a
wholistic perspective.
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