DreamHealer : Alternative Medicine

Natural medicine is under siege, as pharmaceutical company lobbyists urge lawmakers to deprive Americans of the benefits of dietary supplements. Drug-company front groups have launched slanderous media campaigns to discredit the value of healthy lifestyles. The FDA continues to interfere with those who offer natural products that compete with prescription drugs.

These attacks against natural medicine obscure a lethal problem that until now was buried in thousands of pages of scientific text. In response to these baseless challenges to natural medicine, the Nutrition Institute of America commissioned an independent review of the quality of “government-approved” medicine. The startling findings from this meticulous study indicate that conventional medicine is “the leading cause of death” in the United States .

The Nutrition Institute of America is a nonprofit organization that has sponsored independent research for the past 30 years. To support its bold claim that conventional medicine is America ’s number-one killer, the Nutritional Institute of America mandated that every “count” in this “indictment” of US medicine be validated by published, peer-reviewed scientific studies.

What you are about to read is a stunning compilation of facts that documents that those who seek to abolish consumer access to natural therapies are misleading the public. Over 700,000 Americans die each year at the hands of government-sanctioned medicine, while the FDA and other government agencies pretend to protect the public by harassing those who offer safe alternatives.

A definitive review of medical peer-reviewed journals and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good.

Each year approximately 2.2 million US hospital patients experience adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to prescribed medications.(1) In 1995, Dr. Richard Besser of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections to be 20 million; in 2003, Dr. Besser spoke in terms of tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually.(2, 2a) Approximately 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed annually in the US,(3) while approximately 8.9 million Americans are hospitalized unnecessarily.(4)

As shown in the following table, the estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the US annually is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is itself the leading cause of death and injury in the US . By comparison, approximately 699,697 Americans died of heart in 2001, while 553,251 died of cancer.(5)

Ginkgo Biloba Helps Memory

Well, that is the conclusion I would draw from these study results, but mainstream medicine and media says the study showed that Ginko Biloba extract did NOT help stop memory loss.

The way the mainstream media is writing this story, and the conclusions of the study authors, looks like a deliberate misreading of the study results.

You decide – here are the two main results from the study:

* ” Half of the participants took ginkgo biloba extract three times a day and half took a placebo. During the study, 21 people developed mild memory problems, or questionable dementia: 14 of those took the placebo and seven took the ginkgo extract.”

* “they found that people who reliably took the supplement had a 68 percent lower risk of developing mild memory problems than those who took the placebo.”

In other words, 118 people were studied for memory loss, and 59 of them took Ginkgo biloba to see if the normal, expected memory loss in elderly people would occur or if the Ginkgo protected them from the memory loss.

Only 7 of the Ginkgo group, compared to 14 of the non-Ginkgo group, had some memory loss occur during the study period.

I think that sounds GOOD, it seems the Ginkgo was working for some of them.

But the media presents it the opposite way – “its a waste of money”, and “save your money” were remarks made by TV news anchors as they introduced the segment. The study authors said there was “no clear-cut benefit” from taking it. Are they deliberately misleading the public, and the study’s results? Are they paid by PharmaGiant Corps? Hmmmm.

Furthermore, this statement below from the study authors shows some bias against natural medicine in that if these results were found in a new Pharmadrug they would be saying how promising it is.

Here is what they said:
“Although there was a trend favoring ginkgo, the difference between those who took gingko versus the placebo was not statistically significant.”

Not statistically significant? Really? TWICE as many were helped in their declining years by taking Ginkgo Biloba as compared to those who didn’t take it, and that doesn’t say something?? COME ON, it is great news, and a good enough reason to take it when we get old, if not before.

Let me explain my reading of the study results a little further:

There was a “control group” of 59 people, the ones who took the placebo; none of them got the medicine. Their experience should reflect what is expected in the general population of their peers.

The other 59 people got the medicine, and their results are what we should expect if we take Ginkgo when we are old.

The control group saw 14 of their 59 people experience memory decline.
The Ginkgo group only had 7 of their 59 people experience memory decline.

When it is put like that, I don’t see how it can be said that Ginkgo has no benefit.

By the way, Ginkgo Biloba has other useful properties, just like many natural medicines do. For one thing, there is ginkgo’s antioxidant ability to reduce the level of harmful chemicals in the body.

Don’t trust authority, trust the truth.

The Europeans conquered a medically advanced civilization in North America. First Nations people know how to use nature to heal the body. Many alternative healing methods ceased when these cultures were suppressed. The type of medicine that was practiced so effectively for thousands of years was virtually outlawed.

I had the privilege of being an invited healer at the Nekaneet First Nations International Healing Gathering held in Canada in the summer of 2003. It was an experience I will cherish and remember forever. The elders and organizers showed incredible dedication and put enormous effort into keeping their culture and way of life alive. I will never forget the powerful energy and emotion I felt at this gathering.

The traditional healers were committed to helping anyone who needed healing. They spent long hours in the hot sun helping all who showed up. They freely shared their knowledge and traditional healing skills.

The cultural acceptance of the reality of spirit and energy interconnectedness made the First Nations people a pleasure to work with.

Visualizations and dreams are an integral part of their culture and have great meaning. We would do well to learn from our First Nations neighbors and connect to this inner power within us.

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Among people at high risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, fish oil may help reduce their risk, researchers have found.

The new study included 81 high-risk patients with either mild psychotic symptoms, transient psychosis or a family history of psychotic disorders, plus a decrease in daily functioning. These criteria identify people whose risk of becoming psychotic may be as high as 40 percent in a one-year period.

For 12 weeks, 41 participants were assigned to take daily fish oil capsules containing 1.2 grams of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and 40 were given a placebo. Of the 76 patients who completed the study, two (4.9 percent) in the fish oil group and 11 (27.5 percent) in the placebo group progressed to psychosis, a difference of 22.6 percent, the researchers found.

Based on these results, Dr. G. Paul Amminger of Medical University of Vienna in Austria and the Orygen Youth Health Research Center in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues estimated that four adults would have to take fish oil with omega-3 fatty acids to prevent one of them from developing psychosis over a one-year period. Read More….

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) — A new national survey finds that most medical students think that knowledge of complementary and alternative medicine could help Western doctors do a better job.

Complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, includes such therapies as acupuncture, yoga, massage and herbal treatments.

“Even with the high prevalence of CAM use today, most physicians still know little about nonconventional forms of medicine,” Michael S. Goldstein, senior research scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and senior author of the study, said in a university news release. “Investigating medical students’ attitudes and knowledge will help us assess whether this may change in the future.”

The findings were published online Jan. 20 in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Researchers from UCLA and the University of California, San Diego, sent a 30-question survey to 126 medical schools. They received 1,770 completed responses, representing about 3 percent of a pool of about 68,000 medical school students.

Of the respondents, 77 percent said that patients would benefit more if their doctors knew about CAM in addition to Western medicine. And 74 percent thought that a blend of Western medicine and CAM is better than either by itself.

More information

The U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has more on complementary and alternative medicine.

– Randy Dotinga

SOURCE: University of California, Los Angeles, news release, Jan. 20, 2010

by Sydney L. Murray

What if you knew that you had the ability to not only heal yourself, but heal others too? Now it is possible.

Meet Adam DreamHealer, internationally renowned energy healer, speaker and bestselling author of numerous books including DreamHealer, A True Story of Miracle Healing, DreamHealer 2: A Guide to Healing and Self-Empowerment, Intention Heals, and an interactive DVD entitled, Visualizations for Self-Empowerment. With a background in molecular biology and biochemistry, along with his current pursuit of naturopathic medicine, Adam’s healing work is unique in that he applies scientific principles to the channeled insights of his healing work.

People all over the world have attended Adam’s workshops and recovered completely from muscular pain, fibromyalgia, and even cancer. His work with intention and visualization empowers people with the knowledge to heal themselves and help others to do the same. Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Adam about his healing work and its potential to change the world of health as we know it.

Vision Magazine: What led you to your healing work?
Adam DreamHealer: It started off with my mom’s MS [Multiple Sclerosis]. With MS, there’s a common symptom that involves a stabbing pain in the side of the head. When I was 14, for some reason, I went up to her room and put my hand over her head. Immediately, I went into a very deep trance where it felt like I was navigating throughout her body. Inside her head, I saw a green light and it was very obvious to me that this was the problem. When I pulled this light out of her, there was an immediate change. She never got another pain, even to this day. And we were just scratching our heads trying to figure out what just happened. That was how the healing started and it just slowly grew from that point.

VM: Who is the most important influence in your life?
AD: There have been so many amazing people who have influenced my healing path over the years. The ones who have been the most helpful were my parents for being supportive, especially when I was so young. And we weren’t a family who was “new-agey,” or into healing and energy. They were very open-minded with the energies I was experiencing every day when I was very young.

VM: Is there anyone who is an everyday hero to you?
AD: There were some people who were very inspirational to me at a young age. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, for example, helped me understand that there is science behind what I was experiencing. My family was very scientifically-minded and we were trying to explain what was happening in scientific terms, but it was very difficult. He helped my entire family understand the science and that’s really driven the rest of my life. Recently I had an experiment set up called Global Intention Heals Project, in which thousands of people from around the world focused on one individual at a specific time. As a result, there were very significant changes in the brain waves.

VM: How did you develop your healing program?
AD: It’s been a very gradual process. It started off with individual healing and then it really branched off from there to help other people use their intentions to promote the healing process. That’s really the focus of my work. At a lot of my conferences I integrate concepts of molecular biology to explain why our intention influences our biochemistry so strongly. One common example is epigenetics, which is based on the fact that our genes are not set in stone. It’s all about the expression of these genes, which is very dynamic. You can directly influence how your cells perceive the environment that they’re in. If you’re in a happy state, that’s how your cells respond. The bottom line is that your environment directly affects the expression of every gene in your body—and we can use this to our advantage because that’s really what it comes down to when you’re trying to heal yourself. You can be in a more healing state just by focusing your intention and there’s an enormous amount of scientific evidence supporting this—not only with some of the work that I’ve done but with thousands of very well known scientists from around the world.

VM: What would be the most important goal you have right now in your work?
AD: I really want these concepts integrated into mainstream medicine by getting patients focused on healing and actively participating in this human process.

We have this idea right now that you go to the doctor, they give you a prescription, and you just take the pill. But there’s no responsibility on your part. It doesn’t make sense because we know scientifically that if you’re positive and focused, psychically you are far more likely to heal. But we don’t actively encourage people to do it. In fact, in many cases with people who have chronic diseases such as cancer, for example, when they go their oncologists, the way that the news is told to them does the opposite in discouraging them from participating in the healing process. I’ve heard from a number of different people that their oncologists said it doesn’t matter what you eat or what you do—it won’t make a difference as far as the healing goes. And that’s nonsense. You should still be doing everything you can to promote healing in your body. One of the problems with allopathic medicine is that we tend to judge health solely on a number of biochemical markers—but there’s more to health than that. A big part of it is the quality of life and how a person feels. You can use intentions to promote healing and affect those biochemical markers. You’re not only feeling better; you are getting better.

VM: What could someone expect by attending one of your workshops?
AD: People who come to my workshops learn a lot about the science behind healing, which I think is very important for a lot people who seem to think of healing and energy as a very mystical thing. I don’t like to think that at all. I like to break it down into very basic scientific concepts that help to explain it. And I think that really helps people use these energies more effectively.

In the workshops, people are also going to get a chance to use these energies a lot. They’re going to experience these energies first hand and have a lot of tools for playing around with it and using it for healing. There’s a lot of information in the workshop. It’s a real life-changing experience for many people who get to see and feel their energy for the first time.

VM: What is one thing that our readers can do on a daily basis to change their lives?
AD: Put five minutes aside every day to visualize how you want the next day to go. Some people like to visualize selling that house or getting that job. Others like to visualize health. Imagine doing all the things that you’re going to do once you get past whatever your illness is. Your intentions are very powerful tools once you start using them.

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VM: What do you think the future holds for our world?
AD: I think that the collective intention of the entire planet plays a huge role in determining which direction we will go. So it’s important to have everyone focus on the same wavelength to visualize the healing. Collectively, it makes a big difference.

Experience Adam DreamHealer’s one-day event March 7 in Marina del Rey as he merges the auras of all participants and performs two unique group energy treatments. The event will be held at the Marina del Rey Mariott, 4100 Admiralty Way. Register or learn more at dreamhealer.com, or explore Adam’s scientific research on the healing power of intention at intentionheals.com.

Vision Magazine website.

All healing is participatory, no matter what the method. Even Western medicine, which is allopathic—dealing with disease with treatments, including drugs, that have the opposite affect to the symptoms—accepts the idea that patients must be willing to improve their own health in order for their health to improve.

Many people have been encouraged to leave all the responsibility for their wellness in someone else’s hands, usually a medical authority. Each of us must realize that we ultimately choose every aspect of our health care. We are in charge. In this way, we become our own masters; we claim our birthright of total self-empowerment. At every turning point in life, there are decisions which we make ourselves. We define and create our own futures. Our wellness—physical, emotional, and spiritual—is part of this creation.

It is our choice whether we smoke, drink, take drugs, worry or place unnecessary stress or risk in our lives. Each lifestyle choice has consequences, but we ultimately make the decision. Generally, people want to remove themselves from the responsibility of their illnesses. They tend to pass that responsibility on to someone else, particularly to a healer such as myself. However, everyone must understand that healing themselves is ultimately their responsibility.

When people tell me that they will leave their healing in my hands, I have a serious discussion with them. I will not do a treatment on anyone who doesn’t accept the participatory nature of healing. The healer does not do the healing directly. The healer simply creates an efficient connection in order to facilitate the healing.

We also have other choices that influence our health. We can choose to ignore our own energy systems or we can dedicate time to understanding them. A healthy energy flow pattern will help each of us. To achieve this, everyone should strive to maximize his or her potential. When you are being your best self, the positive energy will radiate out in waves of healing that will affect everyone and everything, well beyond your conscious awareness.

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Vitamin C is widely known as an antioxidant and results of a new study hint it also could avert premature aging.

Recent Canadian research showed vitamin C stopped, and even reversed, symptoms of accelerated aging disease in mice.

The results suggest the vitamin, found notably in fruits and vegetables, also may be helpful in other age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

“We think that more studies should be done on other types of premature aging diseases to see if the vitamin C could have a positive impact on them as well,” said study co-author Michel Lebel, who works at the Quebec Cancer Research Centre at the Hotel-Dieu hospital in Quebec City. …. Read More..