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    The Healing Power of Jerusalem Artichoke Powder
    The Healing Power of Jerusalem Artichoke Powder
    The Healing Power of Jerusalem Artichoke Powder
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    The Healing Power of Jerusalem Artichoke Powder

    By Michael Loes, M.D. and M.D. (H.)

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    The Healing Power Of Jerusalem Artichoke Fiber is a current and up-to-date informational Source for persons who wish to take advantage of the healing properties of the newly introduced nutraceutical, inulin. Over half of all persons today take antibiotics on a regular basis. Most people can enhance the healing qualities of antibiotics by simultaneously taking inulin. The Healing Power off Jerusalem Artichoke Fiber is part of the authoritative Healing Remedies that Really Work series and provides all the information consumers require to use inulin effectively when taking antibiotics as well as for improving immune function. The Healing Power of Jerusalem Artichoke Fiber by Michael Loes, M.D., MD.(H.) of the health advisory board of The Doctors' Prescription for Healthy Living. Antibiotics are very important medicines but may end up destroying both pathogenic and beneficial bacteria in the body. Inulin is a widely used natural medicine in Europe that helps persons taking antibiotics to selectively repopulate their gastrointestinal tract with beneficial bacteria which in turn enhances the healing benefits of antibiotics and strengthens the body's immune response. Inulin also helps to ease other antibiotic-related complaints, such as constipation, diarrhea, and irritable bowel syndrome. Now a simple, inexpensive guide shows consumers how to combine mainstream medical treatment with alternative medicine for their best outcome-with the most current and up-to-date information on complementary and mainstream medicine. He has helped thousands of athletes and chronic pain patients over the years to regain their health by enhancing their bodies' healing powers, using many of the techniques detailed in this book, including Wobenzym N.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreedom Press
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781893910713
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      The Healing Power of Jerusalem Artichoke Powder - Michael Loes

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      INTRODUCTION:

      Inulin—An Exciting Health Breakthrough

         AS A STUDENT OF TRADITIONAL MEDICAL education at the University of Minnesota, the gastrointestinal tract was discussed as one of the many systems that make-up the human body. Surely, it was stressed, that it is an important part, but under-stressed was the role it plays in balancing the body’s immune defense system. The gut, for all intents and purposes, was a digestive organ. Even through my residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, nothing of substance was presented to reshape that view.

      Now, we know considerably more. My interest has become solidly entrenched in what is now known as integrative or complementary medicine. This means that we must know and use what is useful and healthful from nutritional medicine and other holistic disciplines to help us enhance the healing response of our patients.

      For years, I have prescribed healthy supplies of yogurt, aci-dophilus, and lactobacilli supplements for my patients requiring antibiotics. Through these, we have usually considerably shortened the term of therapy. After all, what we want is to get the upper hand on the illness and let the body initiate its own healing response.

      Although this strategy has worked, patients’ bouts with irritable bowl syndrome following their use of antibiotics persisted for days and even weeks.

      My presumably non-infected patients would come in complaining of weakness, gas, bloating, belching, diarrhea. They were now out of balance. Their gastrointestinal tracts wanted to be feeling in tune again.

      The problem was that the viable cultures of friendly bacteria were not taking hold but rather offering only temporary help. What we needed was a pathway to feed and rejuvenate the remaining colonies of native friendly bacteria already residing within their gastrointestinal tracts. These particular bacteria were well-adapted to the individual biochemical variability of their host—the individual patient—and could once again thrive. They simply required a salt lick or stimulus to growth.

      With the renewed recognition of the beneficial effects of inulin therapy, we now have a simple safe and effective answer to these worries and problems. Inulin is another one of Europe’s natural medicine secrets. The data is there that it works to quickly boost back the bacteria in our gastrointestinal tract to healthy levels.

      The information in this book is presented to restore vitality and health to your gastrointestinal system and, in so doing, to your overall health.

      What we want is to enhance the healing response. I want to help boost your health back to salubrity—a state of beautifully enviable health.

      Michael W. Loes, M.D. M.D.(H.)

      Board Certified in Internal Medicine

      ONE

      So, the Doctor Prescribed Antibiotics… Now What Do You Do?

      MARA

         I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY about one of my patients, Mara.

      Mara began having problems with abnormal uterine bleeding after giving birth to her third child. She also developed several medium-sized fibroids and a prolapsed uterus. She became increasingly uncomfortable with abdominal pain and constipation and was scheduled for an elective hysterectomy.

      To complicate matters, Mara also had mitral valve prolapse. Thus, she received presurgical antibiotics such as Garamycin to prevent heart valve infection. During the surgery, she was given more broad-spectrum antibiotics, this time Rocephin, and, within forty-eight hours following surgery, another round of antibiotics.

      Upon seeing Mara, she was nauseated and lived on intravenous sugar for the first few days following her surgery. In addition, she had been discharged with a fever and was given another round of antibiotics, this time Keflex. Her bowels were not acting normally. She was experiencing cramping, gas, and irregular stools.

      When I saw Mara, I put her on an inulin-based formula and told her to take two grams three times a day. The first thing that Mara noticed was the cramping and gas went away with in forty-eight hours. Her strength and energy returned quickly. Her bowel function gradually returned to normal.

      Without the help ofinulin, it is likely that it would have taken weeks for Mara’s bowels to normalize. In fact, it is quite likely that she may have ended up with repeated courses of anti-fungal therapy because of vaginal and anal itching that was just beginning to occur from yeast overgrowth.

      Fortunately, we had inulin. Mara recovered uneventfully and was thankful that her physician recognized and effectively treated the imbalance problem that had occurred within her gastrointestinal flora. The solution was natural and, by enhancing the body’s healing response, insured a rapid return to health.

      So, your doctor has prescribed a regimen of antibiotics for you or your child. You’re a fan of natural medicine. You know nature’s powerful pharmacy works and, for the lengthening marathon of life, is extremely important.

      Do you say no to your doctor? No! Absolutely not!

      Antibiotics are one of the most important miracle medicines of the Twentieth Century. They are absolutely necessary to vanquishing illness and restoring the healing process. When antibiotics are a medical necessity, take them. Follow your doctor’s daily dosing instructions and don’t stop until you’ve taken them for as long as he or she has instructed. But when you do need antibiotics, your best course of action may be adding a newly recognized substance, inulin, that is becoming an integral part of complementary medicine—which is the practice of health and healing that combines the best of what your doctor has to offer from mainstream medicine with the best of natural and alternative medicine.

      But let’s start from the beginning.

      What is an antibiotic, anyway?

      ANTIBIOTICS 101

      Antibiotics are chemical compounds used to kill or inhibit the growth of infectious organisms. All antibiotics possess selective toxicity, meaning that they are more toxic to an invading organism than they are to the host organism (e.g., the person taking them).

      So, the Doctor

      Prescribed

      Antibiotics…

      Now What

      Do You Do?

      Organic compounds such as crude plant extracts have been used to fight infection since ancient times. Indeed, for many years before specific antibiotic therapy became available, a combination of bed rest, healing herbs and wholesome foods was commonly used with varying effectiveness to treat infections, even tuberculosis.

      In the 19th century French chemist Louis Pasteur discovered that certain bacteria can kill anthrax bacilli. In the early 20th century, German chemist Paul Ehrlich discovered and synthesized compounds that would selectively attack an infecting organism without harming the host. In 1928, British bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, a derivative of the mold Penicillium notatum, and showed its effectiveness against many disease-producing bacteria in laboratory cultures. Penicillin, however, was not available for use until the outbreak of World War II (1939-1945) stimulated renewed research.

      Since antibiotics came into general use in the 1950s, theyhave transformed the patterns of disease and death. As they are effective against once highlyfatal diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and septicemia, it is now less likely that people will die of infectious disease such as pneumonia or influenza. Antibiotics have also been used in the treatment or prevention of fungus infection and protozoal diseases, especially malaria. We are also less likely to die from surgery since such procedures have been made more safe for us and improved because operations can be carried out without a high risk of infection.

      It is important to remember that we have not conquered infectious disease. We have simply overcome some pathogens and as well created ever more terrifying, evolved forms. Unfortunately, our misuse of antibiotics, including taking them for less than the prescribed period of time, is blamed for creating such drug-resistant strains. These can then be spread to innocent bystanders who never took the antibiotics at all. So it is essential that we follow our doctor’s recommendations and not squander these miracles of modern medicine.

      Indeed, cases of new strains of age-old pathogens have emerged with fearsome consequences. For some time during the heyday of the sixties and seventies we might have thought that we had somehow gained the upper hand against the scourge of age-old infectious diseases. We haven’t. Ancient diseases caused by bacterial and viral toxins as well as parasites continue to account for half of

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