| Two great places to start |
| Wikipedia.org
This site favors the medical perspective yet contains
lots of great information. It is easy for the novice to read
and understand com paired to Pub Med |
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Pub Med This
site is a little harder to read as it contains may difficult
medical terms. Its advantage is that it has hundreds of reviews
of actual medical research by doctors on natural compounds
(herbs). The search box is a little confusing as it is labeled
"For". Most of the research reports
on this site are FDA or equivalent research labs from all
over the world. To best understand this site look up words
you do not recognize. Each medical term has its own story
and if you do not understand it you will not get the whole
message from the article. Often a compound can be manufactured
from organic, animal or chemistry sources. Knowing which source
used in the tests is vital as some times one is less beneficial
than another for the human body. Also of note is to understand
when a report states it works on pigs, rats etc does not mean
that it does not work for humans. Labs write their reports
for pharmaceutical companies and specifically write the reports
so that the novice will not see what they are really saying
about humans. They do this because the pharmaceutical companies
take the research to make a chemical compound to mimic the
natural compound. This way both the lab and the pharmaceutical
companies make a profit. Such artificially altered compounds
are never as beneficial as the natural compound and often
cause other diseases or health problems. That does not mean
the natural chemical does not have side effects as well, so
be sure to study those too.
If you want to know what research has been done about a specific
herb type that term in the "For" box. |
| Medine
Plus This site specialized in a dictionary look up of medical
terms |
Don't be a dead sheep. Doctors are the third leading
cause of death. Natural health people are little better. Neither
fully understand the chemical reactions of drugs or herbs. The natural
people just copy what has been reported for thousands of years by
ancient China, India, Japan, South America, American Indians and
others. These sources are often very reliable but do not take in
consideration your body. It is far better to know what the actual
chemicals are in each item and how it affects the human body. When
you open the two sites above often you will see lists of the chemical
compounds. Research each compound to see what each compound does
to the human body.
There is so much greed in health products both medically
prescribed as well as from the natural fields that one must do serious
research before taking something they do not know what its reaction
is on the human body.
Learn to treat your medical professional as a consultant
not a god. Do your own research and then make your own informed
decision. Seek a second or even third opinion if you are still undecided.
Internet and health store products that combine numerous
compounds often conflict to each other. For example one compound
may thin the blood and another thickens the blood. This is only
an example, however this conflict often occurs because the manufacturer
does only marginal research. They see that a certain items help
diabetes so the lump them all together making claims listed for
the individual compounds. Each individually may perform as claimed
but together they may not.
It is more expensive but I have found it much wiser
to be the mixer not someone else. Years ago I greatly improved my
health taking numerous items individually. Then because they were
more expensive I changed to a multi compound and my health depreciated.
I did not know why then but have since recognized it is impossible
to put into one capsule all the health benefits of each item. If
a product has ten or as so often 20 items in it how is is possible.
It simply is impossible to put what you buy as an individual items
and put all of then into one pill. The other problem as mentioned
is that some may conflict with the others. This is just a few of
the reasons to avoid the so often advertised cure all pills either
pharmaceutical or natural.
Your health is too important to trust it to those
more interested in profits than your welfare. By doing a little
serious research you may avoid serious problems.
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