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Posted December 17, 2012.  Painkiller Advocate Thinks Twice.  Article in 12/16/12 Wall Street Journal worth reading. Dr. Russell Portenoy, a longtime champion of the use of opioid medications to treat chronic pain, today says that experts overemphasized the benefits and glossed over the risks.  In 1986 he wrote a paper arguing that opioids could be used for pain in a much larger group of patients who didn’t have cancer, but who suffered from chronic pain.  The paper was based merely on 38 cases. Dr. Portenoy was very charismatic and convinced many doctors that it was OK to prescribe opioid painkillers.  Today drugs like Vicodin, OxyContin and Percocet are some of the most widely prescribed drugs in America, to the tune of more that $9 billion a year.  Overdose, addiction and death can be serious consequences with these drugs.  Dr. Portenoy’s program received millions of dollars from Big Pharma opioid makers, such as Abbott, Edno, Cephalon, Purdue and Johnson  & Johnson.   Dr. Portenoy now regrets being the champion of these painkillers.

I was a VERY disfunctional Lyme person with all Lyme symptoms imaginable.    I could not walk nor leave the house, except for the days when I was driven, every 2 weeks, to my doctor’s appointment.  I could do nothing other than that.  I was in constant, debilitating pain.  For the first three weeks of treatment I took ibupropen, then my LLMD told me I had to get off it.  So I white knuckled it every day, until I was well.  My LLMD felt that pain killers would interfere with healing.  And although he is in California, he will not prescribe medical marijuana unless it is an end stage lyme patient.  If there is hope of healing, he does not want marijuana or opioids to interfere with healing. He feels that one of the reasons I have recovered 100% from Lyme, all Lyme symptoms and co-infections is precisely because I did not introduce Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet or the like into my already overwhelmed body.

Think carefully before you take painkillers

I am not saying you shouldn’t take painkillers.  I know each case is different.  But this is an important issue and an important article to share with your LLMD.  Think carefully about painkillers especially if you are having trouble recovering from Lyme and Lyme symptoms.  Stay focused on 100% Recovery and try not to do anything that is going to get in your way.  To your good health!

Drop the aspartame to help get rid of  lyme symptoms!

Posted Dec. 15, 2012.  Interesting about Aspartame.  I stopped drinking diet sodas when I was in law school and one of my law school buddies said that his girlfriend was doing research at MIT and they determined that aspartame caused brain tumors and short term memory loss.  You didn’t have to tell me twice.  Read the new findings below.  If you’re really serious about recovering from Lyme disease and Lyme symptoms, drop the diet soda!  Sparkling water or tea is a great alternative!  Be committed to your 100% recovery from lyme and lyme symptoms.

As little as one diet soda daily may increase the risk for leukemia in men and women, and for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men, according to new results from the longest-ever running study on aspartame as a carcinogen in humans. Importantly, this is the most comprehensive, long-term study ever completed on this topic, so it holds more weight than other past studies which appeared to show no risk. And disturbingly, it may also open the door for further similar findings on other cancers in future studies.

The most thorough study yet on aspartame – Over two million person-years For this study, researchers prospectively analyzed data from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study for a 22-year period. A total of 77,218 women and 47,810 men were included in the analysis, for a total of 2,278,396 person-years of data. Apart from sheer size, what makes this study superior to other past studies is the thoroughness with which aspartame intake was assessed. Every two years, participants were given a detailed dietary questionnaire, and their diets were reassessed every four years. Previous studies which found no link to cancer only ever assessed participants’ aspartame intake at one point in time, which could be a major weakness affecting their accuracy. One diet soda a day increases leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphomas The combined results of this new study showed that just one 12-fl oz. can (355 ml) of diet soda daily leads to: – 42 percent higher leukemia risk in men and women (pooled analysis) – 102 percent higher multiple myeloma risk (in men only) – 31 percent higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk (in men only) These results were based on multi-variable relative risk models, all in comparison to participants who drank no diet soda. It is unknown why only men drinking higher amounts of diet soda showed increased risk for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Note that diet soda is the largest dietary source of aspartame (by far) in the U.S. Every year, Americans consume about 5,250 tons of aspartame in total, of which about 86 percent (4,500 tons) is found in diet sodas. Confirmation of previous high quality research on animals

This new study shows the importance of the quality of research. Most of the past studies showing no link between aspartame and cancer have been criticized for being too short in duration and too inaccurate in assessing long-term aspartame intake. This new study solves both of those issues. The fact that it also shows a positive link to cancer should come as no surprise, because a previous best-in-class research study done on animals (900 rats over their entire natural lifetimes) showed strikingly similar results back in 2006: aspartame significantly increased the risk for lymphomas and leukemia in both males and females. More worrying is the follow on mega-study, which started aspartame exposure of the rats at the fetal stage. Increased lymphoma and leukemia risks were confirmed, and this time the female rats also showed significantly increased breast (mammary) cancer rates.

This raises a critical question: will future, high-quality studies uncover links to the other cancers in which aspartame has been implicated (brain, breast, prostate, etc.)? There is now more reason than ever to completely avoid aspartame in our daily diet. For those who are tempted to go back to sugary sodas as a “healthy” alternative, this study had a surprise finding: men consuming one or more sugar-sweetened sodas daily saw a 66 percent increase in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (even worse than for diet soda). Perhaps the healthiest soda is no soda at all.

Sources for this article include: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097267 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16507461 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17805418

From Natural News, by  Ethan Evers

Posted December 14, 2012.  Russell Wilson and the Hobbit.  A willing heart.  Will you give what it takes?

http://www.nfl.com/videos/seattle-seahawks/0ap2000000111309/Russell-Wilson-An-unexpected-journey

BeRelentless!

Posted December 13, 2102.  They told him he was too short.  He was a third round pick.  People said he couldn’t do it. Look at him now.  His coach believed in him.  Don’t listen to anyone who says you can’t recover from Lyme disease or Lyme symptoms.  It takes hard work, just like in the NFL.  It’s about showing up early and staying late (figuratively).  It’s about keeping your eye on the ball (100% Recovery).  When I was sick and couldn’t walk, I knew I had to be mentally strong.  I didn’t listen to people who told me I couldn’t do it, couldn’t recover.  No matter how desperate you feel, be inspired.   BeRelentless.

Great interview:

http://www.seahawks.com/videos-photos/videos/Sunday_Sitdown_Russell_Wilson/1d41321f-8105-4fc5-99ca-013788c2b31e

Posted December 12, 2012.  If you are eating sugar and expecting to recover from Lyme disease and Lyme symptoms it is like pouring gasoline on a forest fire.   Sugar feeds the bacteria.

Are you pouring gasoline on the fire and expecting  to extinguish it?