I THINK this is more diet related than anything else....
Did anyone else ever seriously wonder about the connection between things like H.F.C.S., or man-made preservatives or for that matter, anything you can't pronounce (without a pharmacy degree) stuck in food today and their condition?
I've been into natural/herbal/Eastern medicine for the last 35 years trying to figure out the root cause of my seizures basically on my own (no help from the numerous doctors in my life -another mile long story!) and I may have hit on something, but I think in order to get any Dr. to take me seriously, I need some more information from others who might share the same idea. The last week, I have been digging into brain/spinal inflammation as a cause of seizure activity. Now granted, mine was originally caused by meningitis and encephalitis at 2 weeks old. But I've read numerous articles (yes, even some on medical sites) which state that chronic (Vs. like from an injury) inflammation in the body can last years if not addressed & treated. I've read that this can be continuing if you eat too much of the wrong stuff -specifically mentioning things like sugar (which has at least 56 names it's hidden under, I've seen on another site!), white bread, and several other things. Now I might not make an issue of this except that my seizures seemed to have went away at 10 years old (I was totally off all drugs then). But suddenly came back at 16 or 17 after, long story short, eating more fast food and processed food from stores and vending machines in H.S. instead of the off-the-farm food we had up until then. Even my neurologist once said; "Yeah, that'll do it."! Even in the last year or 2 my seizures seemed to have changed because of what I'm trying to do with my diet from what I can tell, from an uneducated guess. The problem is, if I have hit on something, how on earth with the way medicine seems to be operated nowadays, do you get any Dr. -especially a specialist- to address this if it doesn't involved drugs or surgery? I mean, if there's something out there that can help, to me, that's not only part of their job, but also their oath they take! Yet it seems that hardly any Dr. today does that anymore! (I know where most, if not all the problem lies.....just go look up "What did John D. Rockefeller have to do with medicine" and "The Flexner Report of 1910", and you'll see what they and Andrew Carnegie did 113 years ago to turn medicine on its head just for their own greed and bury everything they could about medicine that had been used since Hippocrates in 500 B.C.!)
Is there anything else I can do to get my Dr. to see this possible way of helping me (and others)?
Did anyone else ever seriously wonder about the connection between things like H.F.C.S., or man-made preservatives or for that matter, anything you can't pronounce (without a pharmacy degree) stuck in food today and their condition?
I've been into natural/herbal/Eastern medicine for the last 35 years trying to figure out the root cause of my seizures basically on my own (no help from the numerous doctors in my life -another mile long story!) and I may have hit on something, but I think in order to get any Dr. to take me seriously, I need some more information from others who might share the same idea. The last week, I have been digging into brain/spinal inflammation as a cause of seizure activity. Now granted, mine was originally caused by meningitis and encephalitis at 2 weeks old. But I've read numerous articles (yes, even some on medical sites) which state that chronic (Vs. like from an injury) inflammation in the body can last years if not addressed & treated. I've read that this can be continuing if you eat too much of the wrong stuff -specifically mentioning things like sugar (which has at least 56 names it's hidden under, I've seen on another site!), white bread, and several other things. Now I might not make an issue of this except that my seizures seemed to have went away at 10 years old (I was totally off all drugs then). But suddenly came back at 16 or 17 after, long story short, eating more fast food and processed food from stores and vending machines in H.S. instead of the off-the-farm food we had up until then. Even my neurologist once said; "Yeah, that'll do it."! Even in the last year or 2 my seizures seemed to have changed because of what I'm trying to do with my diet from what I can tell, from an uneducated guess. The problem is, if I have hit on something, how on earth with the way medicine seems to be operated nowadays, do you get any Dr. -especially a specialist- to address this if it doesn't involved drugs or surgery? I mean, if there's something out there that can help, to me, that's not only part of their job, but also their oath they take! Yet it seems that hardly any Dr. today does that anymore! (I know where most, if not all the problem lies.....just go look up "What did John D. Rockefeller have to do with medicine" and "The Flexner Report of 1910", and you'll see what they and Andrew Carnegie did 113 years ago to turn medicine on its head just for their own greed and bury everything they could about medicine that had been used since Hippocrates in 500 B.C.!)
Is there anything else I can do to get my Dr. to see this possible way of helping me (and others)?
I'n the last 35 years I've dug into & uncovered enough of that kind of stuff to fill a warehouse! My problem is trying to either find a neurologist within distance to me that deals in that kind of wisdom, or figuring out a way to get the one I see to take me seriously when I try to talk to him about root causes of things and getting him to realize that food, not drugs, are what can fix problems. -I've seen it for decades in improvement in my eyesight, in improvement in my seizures, and a handful of other things, and not just with me. The problem is, like I said originally, is that in the last 113 years things have been SO twisted around, people that should know this stuff don't anymore. It's not that they students aren't taught any of this anymore, but are given SO little info. on it before being overloaded with drug & surgery talk in college, they don't even tend to think of things like this anymore when need be, and when you bring it up to most of them, they look at you like something's wrong with you. It shouldn't take a genius to realize that lack of nutrition is at the heart of probably everything.