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[H1764]How To Work Out Your Body

by Ron Garner, Ron

In life-threatening situations, the use of certain drugs may be necessary to save or prolong life. Notwithstanding this caveat, pharmaceutical drugs are manufactured chemicals; they are not natural to the body. They lack living energy and have electrical configurations that are incompatible with those of the body.

Drugs are toxic, and cannot be incorporated into the body's cellular structure to build tissue and promote health. Drugs cause the body to react. It reacts in a protective manner to eliminate the toxic substances.

Drugs work because the poisons they contain create a stress in the body that is more serious than the symptom for which they were taken. In this process, the symptom is relieved. For example, acetylsalicylic acid, used as a painkiller, causes bleeding in the stomach or small intestine.

Another top-selling painkiller causes similar stress in the liver. They relieve a symptom because they create a greater stress in another area of the body that forces it to divert its attention to the new threat. The body always tries to deal with the most serious problem first. Strong poisons taken into our bodies are viewed as life-threatening.

The body draws on all its energy resources, including the energy that is keeping us conscious, if necessary, to eliminate the threat. It goes into triage mode, and shuts down all our awareness centers.

This is what happens when systemic anesthetics are administered before a surgical operation. If too much anesthetic is given, the energy required to eliminate it is greater than the body has and the person dies. That is why the work and monitoring of the anesthetist is so critical. He or she must walk the fine line between the unconsciousness or death of the patient.

Antibiotics kill both harmful bacteria and friendly bacteria; they do not discriminate. The body requires friendly bacteria to maintain a healthy balance in the colon, and to manufacture certain vitamins and antibiotics of its own.

Our intake of antibiotics is not only from prescription sources. Approximately 2.4 million pounds of antibiotics are given each year to farm animals-mainly cattle, pigs, and chickens-as a preventative to infection. This is more than eight times the amount administered to humans.

Jane Goodall, in her book Harvest for Hope, warns of the dangers and short-term folly of eating farm-raised seafood. According to her research, commercial seafood farms use massive amounts of pesticides, antibiotics, and disinfectants to combat disease in the crowded environments where the fish and tiger prawns are raised. To make them grow faster and larger, their diet includes growth hormones.

Farmed salmon are fed pink dye to colour their flesh. In addition, these chemically-laden farms are devastating surrounding sea life, causing deadly water pollution and ruining the land on which the seafood farms are set up, with the consequent ruination of fishermen and farmers who depended on these areas for their livelihood.

When we eat these animal and seafood products,antibiotics,and growth hormones and chemicals, end up in our body systems. Over time, bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Scientists are warning that this could pose increasingly serious problems for humans, as available antibiotics are rendered ineffective against certain new bacterial strains.

Drugs only deal with symptoms.They do not correct the cause of symptoms. Natural and complete healing does not take place with drug use. In order to deal with a toxic drug, the body is forced to put the cause of the pain or infection "on hold." If the body has enough energy after the episode, the symptomatic condition returns at a later date as the body attempts to heal and correct the basic problem again.

If the drug is too devitalizing, the symptom may not return because the body no longer has sufficient energy to mount another healing attempt. That is, the symptom cause has been suppressed, but may return later as a more chronic disease.

There is no free ticket.We cannot get something in health without consciously working for it.We can take the quick fix, but there is a consequence to pay later. That consequence is usually reduced quality of life as we grow older.

Ask yourself this: Does it make sense that a person can be poisoned back to health? The problem with drug treatment is that it diverts the body's attention from working on its own priorities for healing.

Drugs send the body down a spiral, increasing in speed-like a whirlpool- toward degenerative disease. Eventually, as the body becomes less able to defend itself and correct the cause of malfunctions, it succumbs to critical disease.

The miracles of modern medicine allow doctors to fix problems in the human body that their predecessors couldn't even diagnose. The rapidly growing field of medical technology continues to eradicate threats to human life at every turn, but one of the most important leaps forward in medicine has been anesthesia's ability to keep patients comfortable during difficult procedures.

Today, there are many different types of anesthetics available to doctors. They can be injected, applied topically, or even inhaled by the patient. How inhaled anesthetics do their job stays the same, but which chemicals are used and what procedures they are used for change frequently.

A Brief History of Inhaled Anesthetics

As little as one hundred years ago, reliable anesthetics were hard to come by. Many different ancient cultures experimented with powerful narcotics in order to relieve human suffering, but early attempts at administering these remedies often went awry. Laughing gas, an anesthetic regularly used in dentistry, was not discovered until 1775 and was not put into regular medical use until the 1840s. Other medical professionals would experiment with other inhalants like chloroform and ether throughout the nineteenth century.

Common Inhaled Anesthetics

Nitrous oxide, diethyl ether, and chloroform were among the first and most commonly used anesthetics. The latter two eventually fell out of use because of adverse side effects. Laughing gas is still in regular use as an anesthetic for dentists because it sufficiently numbs without causing one to lose consciousness. This is important in dentistry because the dentist often needs to speak to his or her patient.

Most other inhaled anesthetics used today render the patient unconscious. This is called general anesthesia and considered the best option to long or intricate surgeries. Fluorochemicals are uniquely suited to being general anesthetics because they can easily be turned into vapor and are nonflammable. Many of these fluorochemicals are used in conjunction with each other in order to create effective anesthesia:

Sevoflurane

Desflurane

Isoflurane

Enflurane

Halothane

Most patients going into surgery today receive a cocktail of sevoflurane, desflurane, and nitrous oxide. Though many anesthesiologists use these substances skillfully, none of them are ideal. Some irritate the airways while others have a shorter potency. Some can even affect the organs adversely, so they are used sparingly. Professional anesthesiologists learn how to mix the gasses so that the patient experiences no adverse side effects and stay asleep for the entire procedure.

How Inhaled Anesthetics Work

Inhaled anesthetics is general anesthesia because of the way they are administered. Since the gas is taken into the lungs, it travels indiscriminately through the blood stream. General anesthesia is defined as a state where the patient is unconscious, immobile, and free of pain. Nitrous oxide only has the power to keep a patient from feeling pain.

Once the patient is anesthetized, the gas enters the blood in the same way as oxygen. The chemical moves through the circulatory system to the brain. Though it is still unclear exactly what effect general anesthetics have on the body, it is likely that immobility is caused when the chemical reaches the spinal cord. When the anesthetics find their way into the nervous system, pain is blocked. Lastly, the patient is rendered unconscious by the fluorochemicals' effect on the brain.

The anesthesiologist will continue to administer the gas as needed by the patient. The rest of the anesthetic will be removed from the body with other wastes and be expelled with carbon dioxide. In time, the patient will wake up with a few minor side-effects. These are generally caused by a build-up of the chemicals in the body, but serious problems are rare. General Anesthesia and Inhalants

Inhaled anesthetics are not the only way to induce general anesthesia. Some procedures use intravenous application of other chemicals in order to achieve the same effect. Even though these general anesthetics have been in use for some time, they can be harmful if they are not administered properly. This is why anesthesiologists are a pivotal part of the surgical team.

The aim of all medical procedures is safety, so because general anesthesia can cause problems, it is avoided whenever possible. However, there are some situations, such as serious and extensive surgery, in which it is the best course of action. In these cases, inhaled anesthetics allow doctors to gently put the patient to sleep and help doctors make difficult procedures less taxing. Their use makes many remarkable feats performed by surgeons possible.

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