Posts Tagged ‘Immune System’

Did You Know Grapefruit Juice and Some Medications Can Cause Negative Effects?

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Do you like grapefruit? The interaction between grapefruit juice and some medications can cause negative effects, especially on the kidney, and sometimes it can be fatal. A woman that uses birth control pills and then suddenly drinks too much grapefruit juice can get pregnant because this juice makes the effects of the pills disappear.

Grapefruit juice is not suggested to drink while taking antidepressant medication, antibiotics and medicine for cardio-vascular diseases. A person that takes anti-depressives and adds to that grapefruit in huge quantities can feel that he has all of a sudden too much or too little energy, depending on the pills taken. Combining it with an antibiotic can cause stomach sickness or can extend the illness you are taking medication for because the antibiotics will diminish their effect. Heart drugs don’t work anymore, the blood pressure stays up and the heart beats irregularly. For those that love grapefruit juice, witch is more concentrated than the fruit itself, a recommendation would be to restrain from drinking it while they are taking medication.

Doctors try to raise attention upon avoiding and combating the combination of grapefruit with medicine especially because in some diets grapefruit juice is recommended in huge quantities.

Grapefruit is beneficial to the body if used properly. It belongs to that class of that burn calories, because it takes more calories to digest them than they have. Eating the fruit is not a problem, nor is drinking a glass of juice once in a while. The problem appears where human reasoning disappears. Wanting to loose more weight faster, people weaken their bodies and eat only grapefruits. It is efficient for a diet, but it also weakens the immune system. You may become more vulnerable, more tired and nervous and if taking any medications you are risking your health in this combination.

So eat grapefruits in moderation, and go ask a specialist of its precise effects when taking medication in your case and don’t abuse drinking grapefruit juice. Abusing something has never brought anything good, and it won’t in this case either. If you want to go on with your diet and keep your health find an alternative solution or make sure this does not affect your body.

This blog post was not written by a medical doctor. The information here is sponsored by www.expressmedscanada.com. Buy prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies and generic drugs from Indian pharmacies. Always consult your doctor before taking any medication.

Quality, a forgotten product ingredient that is needed for economic recovery

Friday, December 11th, 2009

In this day and age of economic meltdown one thing is clear. Those who have the best products, products that provide exceptional value will remain. The rest will be history. Maybe that will be a good thing.

Consumers are re-evaluating the value they get for their hard earned and uncertain wages. Marketing budgets are bursting at the seams with cash trying to get everybody’s attention for the same old products and consumers are mostly ignoring them.

Home business start-ups are growing at an exception rates. What is amazing is that while the media is constantly promoting the idea that the economy is collapsing and the government is pouring money into the economy at sums impossible to imagine consumers are finding ways to rescue themselves. Not content with waiting for the government, and certainly not expecting leadership from the captains of the financial industry they are starting home based business that they hope will provide products they use to others.

What is truly a revolution in thinking; consumers are choosing products that are important to their everyday lives and recommending them to their neighbours. The basic idea is along these lines: if I use this product and it improves my quality of life, or it save me time or it prevents a problem in my home it probably will for others. If it works for me, and other have the same problems I have it will likely work for them. If I tell them it solved my problem they will likely try it themselves and thus a home based business is born.

In our case, we have found that TAHITIAN NONI® Juice is such a product. It provides exceptional antioxidants, helps maintain cholesterol at existing normal levels, and supports the immune system and increasing energy. We represent this company because it provides quality and exceptional value in its products. We also obviously profit by selling sell TAHITIAN NONI® Juice and we are involved in our own economic recovery.

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Low Dose Naltrexone and Why I Care

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

My story and why I care.

I was diagnosed with MS in September 2000, when Texas had nearly a week of 100+ temperatures. I had no idea that it was partly the heat that was so debilitating, but it finally landed me in the emergency room, where I spent an extra day after the IV prednisone treatment because the temperature was still 112 degrees outside.

My doctor gave me the choice of which ABCR drug to go on, and was pleased when I chose Copaxone as the least destructive to my immune system. I carefully took a Copaxone shot every day for nearly 9 years. I swear that I probably did not miss 10 shots in that entire nine years.

Being an adult at diagnosis (52), I was lucky to not progress as rapidly as younger people. But the parallysis and debilitation did start to add up. My left leg would occasionally give out totally and even when it was good, there was marked weakness. The fatigue was tangible as only an MS patient would understand, and the heat would lay me flat for days on end.

Worst of all was the mental fog. In my younger days, I had a photographic memory. Now, I have entire years that are missing from my memory bank, when the short term memories did not get stored into the long term vault.

Then in the spring of 2009, the unthinkable happened — along with my job, I lost my employer provided health insurance. There was no way that I could afford the $1,600 per month to continue the Copaxone. Even the $600 per month insurance payments would put us in the poor house.

I had no alternative than to do the research on my own and see if there were something else out there that would make a difference in my life.

I am so GREATFUL that I found LDN for MS, the new protocol for using ldn to help repair the immune system and put my symptoms into remission.

I cannot adequately express the difference that LDN has made in my life. Now at 61, after being on low dose naltrexone for only a couple of months, I have just returned from a trip to the Colorado Rockies where we took two of our horses and rode for two hours a day for over a week. I climbed mountains and breathed the thin, clean air with a renewed joy of life that I feared would never be a part of me again.

My husband is pleased to have his wife of 42 years back by his side and my Mother cried when she saw me on my feet with a grin on my face and a twinkle in my eye, not bent over struggling with each step that I took.

Doing some research on ldn and chronic fatigue syndrome I found that there is much history of its use in curing and calming so many diseases, not because it cures the disease, but because it improves the immune system to help your own body cure your disease.

The first disease that it was used for was low dose naltrexone and hiv .

I am still somewhat atrophied from years of not being able to do the things that I would have liked, but the muscles are coming back almost as quickly as the memory. The mental fog is rapidly lifting, and I can now remember a phone number after dialing it once.

It has not made a big difference in the heat problems, but I will learn to live with that. What it has helped with is no more fatigue, I sleep like a baby through the night, my cognitive function is vastly improved, my left leg and right arm are no longer nearly useless, but as normal as they were as a youth.

I guess the thrill is just how “normal” I feel, and that pleasure comes from somebody who “never wanted to be normal.” I will never go without my LDN.

I hope is that the MS Society will spend some of their massive research dollars on this cheap generic drug that has no side effects, that is showing so much promise to thousands of MS sufferers. I realize that the ABCR drugs help support the MSS, but the Society is there to serve us, the MS patients even if it means that the thousands that we all spend on expensive and scary drugs is cut way down by the use of this generic LDN therapy that is cheap, safe and easy to administer either orally or topically with a cream that you just rub in.

I cannot thank my lucky stars enough that I lost my health insurance and found Low Dose Naltrexone. If anybody else wants to try it, there is a Yahoo newsgroup with 6,000+ happy members who are willing to tell their stories too, and help in any way that they can. Always consult your doctor before taking any new medication.