Autoimmune disease affects up to 50 million Americans, according to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA). An autoimmune disease develops when your immune system, which defends your body against disease, decides your healthy cells are foreign. As a result, your immune system attacks healthy cells. Depending on the type, an autoimmune disease can affect one or many different types of body tissue. It can also cause abnormal organ growth and changes in organ function. There are as many as 80 types of autoimmune diseases. Many of them have similar symptoms, which makes them very difficult to diagnose. It’s also possible to have more than one at the same time. Autoimmune di
WE NEED TO RESEARCH THERAPIES FOR CHRONIC DISEASES Since the 1970’s I have experienced with loved ones all types of chronic diseases, it started back when it left my heart with a big fat hole. My father was stricken by cancer and was under the statistics of conventional medicine. Well, with all the surgeries, chemo and radiation his chance was not in the cards. The cancer took his life along with millions every year. The studies have not changed since the 1970’s, for I also worked in the medical field and had gotten personal with patients that ended up just like my father – death. Sure, they do trials later after your immune system has been attacked by all the stress, chemicals and radia
Since the 1970’s I have experienced with loved ones all types of chronic diseases, it started back when it left my heart with a big fat hole. My father was stricken by cancer and was under the statistics of conventional medicine. Well, with all the surgeries, chemo and radiation his chance was not in the cards. The cancer took his life along with millions every year. The studies have not changed since the 1970’s, for I also worked in the medical field and had gotten personal with patients that ended up just like my father – death. Sure, they do trials later after your immune system has been attacked by all the stress, chemicals and radiation. They say that time heals all things, but does
Chemotherapy may be the priciest cancer treatment, but is its efficiency worth the money? Questioning the power of chemo has its reasons for more 40 years ago a shocking study could end chemo treatments if only it was given enough credit. According to many researches done in 25 years period of time, Dr. Hardin B. Jones, a former Professor of Medical Physics and Physiology at Berkeley, California, came to a conclusion that the three conventional treatments – chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, aren’t powerful to fight the disease and do not have any effect on prolonging the patient’s life, but actually have an opposite effect – they shorten the lifespan. Patients also experience agonizing de
Since it was World Cancer Day yesterday and today is Super Bowl Day, I wanted to share this story with you. It goes back four years ago, when my husband found out he had prostate cancer. Since then he has managed with cancer no more. Touchdown, with the treatments and the change of life both of us has the quality of life that leaves our lives with no long-term side effects. www.thejourneytogoodhealth.com BIOPSY AND RESULTS Before I start with my situation, Its October Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I cannot express enough to do your homework and research all. It’s not your doctor’s choice, but yours. Do you want cut, burn or chemo or do something less invasive? Either way it will cost yo
