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)?