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6556. arkymalarky - 7/14/2005 6:49:17 PM Oooohkaay. Thanks! Does anyone here have an opinion on them one way or the other? 6557. thoughtful - 7/14/2005 6:51:03 PM don't know...never been to one. 6558. arkymalarky - 7/14/2005 6:57:41 PM One was just hired in our doctor's office, and I expect mine is preparing to retire in the next year or two. There will also be an MD coming in next summer, so I'll probably go with her instead, unless someone gives me compelling reasons to try the DO. I was thinking we'd discussed them in here a long time ago, but I couldn't recall any details. 6559. PelleNilsson - 7/14/2005 8:06:18 PM Here in Sweden they are classified among others who practice "alternative medicine". 6560. thoughtful - 7/14/2005 8:22:25 PM good news and a big surprise from my brother...he's quit smoking though his wife has not. He is using this inhaler thing which seems to be working quite well for him. He's also lost weight, been watching his diet and added exercise. He's been to 2 docs already who have said his eyes are good enough that he can return to driving...just needs one more with the insurance co for where he was working and he'll be able to get back to work.
I just hope he sticks with his reforms! 6561. arkymalarky - 7/14/2005 9:45:17 PM That is so wonderful, Thoughtful, especially since he's been able to lose weight and quit smoking. It's often discouraging for smokers to gain weight when they quit--it takes a lot of discipline to lose it instead, so that's a great sign that he's very serious! 6562. arkymalarky - 7/14/2005 9:47:00 PM That's interesting, Pelle. I guess "holisitc" would fall into that category as well? I wonder if DO's are the main practitioners of holistic medicine. 6563. judithathome - 7/14/2005 9:51:25 PM Does anyone here have an opinion on them one way or the other?
I love them...I've been going to DOs for over 10 years. They are very good doctors and mine in particular is very open to vitamin therapy. He has been so interested in what I am taking for lowering cholesterol and boosting my bones that he's looked into the things I'm taking...red yeast rice and plant-based calcium...and has told me to keep doing what I'm doing.
They are doctors, period. And the ones I've been involved with are good ones. I've never had him say I could be cured by skeletal manipulation but I have had him tell me what to do to improve my posture and to help my broken leg heal properly.
We had a friend who was a DO and he was a Major in the Air Force...he was a flight surgeon and took care of all the pilots. Once I had a pain in my neck and he manipulated my spine and the pain was gone...they know more than regular MDs, I feel, and sure, they have some alternatives to prescribing pills but they are very good at what they do. At least the ones I know have been.
I'd recommend DOs in a heartbeat.
6564. arkymalarky - 7/14/2005 9:56:20 PM Thanks Judith. This man's background sounded good, and I would trust my doctor's choices of people to come into his office, but I couldn't remember what I'd heard about DO's and couldn't get a lot of information that wasn't pretty vague. 6565. thoughtful - 8/4/2005 2:44:34 PM Articles like this annoy me....correlation is not causation. And they ignore completely the possibility that people who are interested in yoga are also generally more interested in their health and thus more likely to watch their weight.
Anyway, here it is for your digestion:
Practicing yoga may be one way to prevent middle-aged spread, according to the findings of a new study.
Although the connection appears to be indirect, yoga practitioners are apparently able to avoid - or at least minimize - the one-pound-a-year of gained weight that most people endure between the ages of 45 and 55.
The researchers used data from more than 15,000 men and women ages 53 to 57, who reported their weight at age 45 and their current weight.
The subjects were also asked to report whether they engaged regularly in three specific recreational activities - walking, weight lifting, and yoga - and whether they participated in two broader categories of activity, moderate and strenuous exercise. The researchers assessed the diet of the study participants using a detailed food questionnaire.
Practicing yoga for 4 or more years, for at least 30 minutes once a week, was associated with a 3.1-pound lower weight gain among people who were normal weight at age 45. The yoga practitioners who were overweight at 45 lost an average of 5 pounds, as opposed to an average gain of 13 pounds in overweight nonpractitioners. Being overweight was defined as having a body mass index of 25 or greater. 6566. wonkers2 - 8/18/2005 3:44:31 PM High altitude pulmonary edema. Sounds like this is what got my sister's fiance last weekend at 14,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes. Here. 6567. thoughtful - 9/29/2005 5:56:53 PM latest nutrition action newsletter does a review of the CDC study which suggested that people who are slightly overweight tend to live longer than those who are thinner.
They essentially destroy the study results. Key considerations are that they did not adequately adjust for people who are already ill and the aged. People who are ill and old tend to lose weight as they tend to be less healthy...think of those who literally waste away as a result of disease.
There were a number of other criticisms of the study including its use of the BMI which is a poor indicator. The waist to hip ratio measurement is a better indicator, esp as one ages as one tends to lose muscle. So one could easily be the same weight at 65 that they were at 25 but if it's fat and not lean muscle mass, they are clearly not as healthy.
Their final point was, many studies have had difficulties adjusting for various factors when trying to associate long life with weight. However, the studies are very clear on the correlation with being overweight and the risk of disease including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. So, it's best to maintain a low, healthy weight and minimize the risk of these horrible diseases. 6568. wonkers2 - 10/2/2005 3:48:07 PM What Americans have to look forward to. 6569. thoughtful - 10/5/2005 7:50:19 PM Doc has had hubby on Red Yeast Rice to lower cholesterol. Hubby went to apothecary to get more and she said that the stuff is no good...the statins...the chems that reduce cholesterol... have been taken out by law by the FDA and the stuff may actually be harmful to take while doing no good. (No comment as to who was behind that move!)
I sent a note to doc to see what he has to say and we'll go fro there. Frankly I'd rather he didn't take the stuff at all since he has 0 history of cholesterol problems in his family. 6570. judithathome - 10/5/2005 9:27:45 PM Well, my doc said it seemed to be working on me.... 6571. thoughtful - 10/6/2005 2:41:34 PM From Whole Health MD
If you've been waiting for solid scientific evidence before trying red yeast rice extract (original brand name, Cholestin) to lower your cholesterol, there's good news and bad news, as doctors like to say. The good news first. A rigorous trial from the UCLA School of Medicine, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1999, confirmed that a supplement known as red yeast extract reduces cholesterol levels by an average of 40 points in 12 weeks when combined with a low-fat diet. That's about the same result you'd expect from a low dose of the popular cholesterol drug, Mevacor.
Red yeast extract contains a number of cholesterol-lowering compounds known as statins, among them lovastatin, the same active ingredient that's in Mevacor. Other red yeast compounds are similar to those in other cholesterol medications, such as Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Zocor (simvastatin). Which brings us to the bad news. Because red yeast extract contains lovastatin, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has successfully banned red yeast rice from open store shelves, arguing that it's really a drug, needing a doctor's prescription. Therefore, red yeast rice can no longer be sold an unregulated supplement. Should it return to the market, it will require full FDA oversight, as do all other prescription drugs. 6572. wonkers2 - 10/6/2005 4:59:46 PM My brother-in-law who is a drug research scientist is recommending Tamiflu as a treatment? or preventive? for avian flu. Anybody know anything about it? 6573. wonkers2 - 10/6/2005 5:00:22 PM I believe he said it's a new anti-viral drug. 6574. Magoseph - 10/6/2005 5:07:25 PM tamiflu
Tamiflu is for treating adults, adolescents, and pediatric patients 1year of age and older with the flu whose flu symptoms started within the last day or two. Tamiflu is also used to reduce the chance of getting the flu in people age 13 and older who have a higher chance of getting the flu because they spend time with someone who has the flu. Tamiflu can also reduce the chance of getting the flu if there is a flu outbreak in the community.
6575. PelleNilsson - 10/6/2005 5:37:13 PM Yes, Tamiflu is the drug authorities hope will keep essential societal services going if a pandemic breaks out. It will take time to produce a vaccin in quantity because (a) it cannot be designed until the virus has already mutatated to spread between humans and (b) the production involves fertilized chicken eggs which come from specially bred livestock so production capacity is limited.
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