Yet another study shows that Chronic Pain is a Symptom of Vitamin D Deficiency.

This study, this time from the renowned Mayo Clinic, states that people with low Vitamin D levels use almost twice as much pain medicine as those who have normal Vitamin D levels. This is only one of MANY STUDIES that show the relationship between chronic pain and Vitamin D levels.
Many studies have even shown effective TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PAIN conditions by increasing Vitamin D levels to within the normal range.
 

Many researchers are even implicating Vitamin D deficiency as The Cause of Fibromyalgia and that many with this elusive condition can be effectively treated simply with proper high dose Vitamin D supplementation! Yet, it’s unlikely that this study will change policy in the Conventional Medical Field. There are a few doctors who are now starting to check Vitamin D levels for various reasons, yet most still are clueless about the MANY diseases that Vitamin D deficiency can improve and even cure.

Unfortunately, most of health care is driven by education from Pharmaceutical Companies- and Vitamin D doesn’t have any scantily clad representatives running around to doctors offices giving out samples so that awareness of it’s benefits increases. If you suffer from Chronic Pain, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Low Thyroid, Obesity, Fibromyalgia, Periodontal Disease, High Blood Pressure or any type of cancer- you owe it to yourself to get your Vitamin D Level Tested. I can help you to decide an appropriate dosage of this essential Vitamin- as well as helping you overcome any other chronic medical problems that you are suffering from.
 
 

“Stop Managing your health problems and Start Getting Well..”
 
 

I can help you to Finally Be well again!

Kerri Knox, RN

Functional Medicine Practitioner

http://www.easy-immune-health.com

More good news about Vitamin D AGAIN!
 

With March being National Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month (I’m not making this up!), you would think that  This Study would have garnered more attention than it did. But for most of National Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month, Big Pharma had it’s showcase, trotting out examples of people who have died from DVT and how THEIR drugs would have saved them.
 
 

Blood clots in the legs, also known as Deep Vein Thrombosis- or DVT’s- are most often acquired by people who are inactive for long periods of time, women who smoke and take birth control pills and hospitalized and post surgical patients. DVT’s in and of themselves are generally not dangerous and will often resolve on their own. But the BIG risk is that the clot in the leg will break off and go into the lungs causing a life threatening situation called a Pulmonary Embolism- or PE.

For people who are at high risk, anti clotting drugs are often given- sometimes for long periods of time. But the above study shows that a completely drug free- and in fact ENTIRELY FREE – option exists for the prevention of up to 30% of DVT’s- moderate sun exposure.
 
 

Researchers concluded that Vitamin D is the reason behind the preventative effects of the sun exposure.
 
 

Vitamin D seems to be nearly constantly in the news lately, with this being the newest study in the glut of news coverage about this amazing Vitamin. While new Vitamin D research continues to get almost weekly news coverage in its amazing ability to prevent and treat a vast array of diseases from Multiple Sclerosis to Periodontal Disease, it is still being pretty much ignored by the medical industry. Doctors, who should be on the forefront of implementing this research in order to protect the public, remain virtually clueless about the importance of testing Vitamin D levels and giving patients the proper dosage.
 

With nearly 80% of the population Vitamin D deficient, you would think that the myriad effects of Vitamin D on the prevention of diseases would have the medical world hopping. But sadly, few seem to care and insurance companies are often slow to pay for anything that is not  ‘standard medical treatment’. So the various ‘modern illnesses’ that could be prevented with proper Vitamin D Supplementation are continuing unabated despite the knowledge being out there for those who care to look for it. For those who want to take advantage of cutting edge Vitamin D research in the search for the best health possible, I offer

and help with determining your proper dosage of Vitamin D based on the most current recommendations of those in the forefront of Vitamin D research.
 
 

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

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Here’s an interesting little fact. Studies show that statins, the class of drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol levels, have the effect of INCREASING vitamin d levels.

Now, there is plenty of evidence that Vitamin D decreases risk of heart problems and that the vast majority of people- including heart patients- are Vitamin D deficient. So, there are some researchers speculating that the small reduction in heart attack risk that has been shown with statins, could very well be simply from  improved Vitamin D status!

This is not idle speculation either. An interesting parallel between Vitamin D and statins is that both of them reduce C- reactive protein (CRP) levels in the blood.

C reactive protein is a marker for inflammation in the body.

While it is a ‘general’ marker and not specific to heart disease, the vast majority of heart patients have elevated CRP levels and it is considered a risk factor for heart disease. In fact there are some doctors who believe that inflammation is the REAL boogey man and that Cholesterol Problems are All Just a Big Lie!

However, researchers STILL don’t know WHERE the inflammation is coming from in patients with heart disease.

Some experts speculate that one source could be periodontal disease.

Periodontal disease is a well known risk factor for heart disease, and there is a strong link between Vitamin D deficiency and periodontal disease.

Are you seeing the connection?
In reality, it may be much cheaper and safer to prevent heart disease by taking Vitamin D and getting good dental care than taking statins. Yet doctors are still not recommending EITHER of these simple approaches to prevent heart disease, instead they immediately recommend statin drugs that come with a whole HOST of problems of their own- diabetes, liver failure and muscle wasting among some of the more common.

Do your due diligence if your doctor asks that you take a statin drug. There ARE measures that you can take to reduce your risk of heart disease that don’t require taking pharmaceuticals. So, before you get on Statin Drugs for the rest of your life, you really owe it to yourself to read What Dr. Lundell Has To Say About Cholesterol Reducing Drugs.

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Health Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Easy Immune Health.com

A new study shows that 25% of the elderly who are in home care have reactions to prescribed drugs. This is ONE in FOUR elderly that have REPORTED drug reactions!!

The elderly, the report states, are now taking 6 or more different prescribed drugs on a daily basis!

And even though these drugs are  theoretically “properly” prescribed, 25% of our most vulnerable population is having reactions to the drug Side Effects that are being properly prescribed for their medical conditions.

Having been an Emergency Room nurse for many years, it is my job to find out what medications people are taking and to write it down for their medical chart. I can attest to the fact that many of our elderly are taking even MORE drugs than that- sometimes upwards of 12 or 15 drugs per day!

“Medication side effects are the #4 leading cause of death in the U.S. annually” (JAMA 1998)

This would seem to be an impossible amount of prescription medications for a population who often has memory issues and difficulty even opening the bottles.

My experience in the emergency department leads me to believe that these adverse effects are SERIOUS issues. We’re not talking simply a case of nausea here. A case of nausea in an elderly person, often leads to days of vomiting and a trip to the emergency room for dehydration and a urinary tract infection.

A case of constipation can lead to abdominal surgery from a bowel perforation or a blocked intestine. Dizziness or diarrhea can lead to a fall, which can lead to a broken hip from which they will never recover.

If the alternative health community reported that 25% of anyone had a reaction to anything that they did- be it giving supplements, doing acupuncture or chiropractic treatments- the FDA would investigate and put them out of business immediately.

In fact in the alternative community, a few people getting sick from ONE poorly prepared batch of supplements from ONE specific company is enough to take away access to that supplement forever- as was the case with the amino acid supplement Tryptophan.

But for the AMA, drug reactions in 25% of a population is just business as usual

Instead of this study being a call to action to the medical industry to change their prescribing practices in the elderly- as usual, it becomes a reason to add more regulations to home care provider agencies- which doesn’t SOLVE the problem at all and only adds more paperwork and more cost to health care.

While seniors definitely need medical care, there are MUCH better natural alternatives than prescription drugs in MOST cases:

1) Ensuring proper Vitamin D levels- a practice that is NOT done by the vast majority of physicians in the US- has been shown to not only prevent falls in the elderly, but also to help decrease blood pressure, normalize blood sugars, prevent heart disease and relieve depression. And it can be given in ONE very large dose twice yearly in the doctor’s office (as it’s done in other countries simply to PREVENT deficiency)
2) There are hundreds of studies on the use of nuts and fatty acids present naturally in foods to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol.
3) Fiber can not only help with high cholesterol levels and blood pressure, but prevent constipation AND diarrhea
4)  Regular exercise promotes heart health, blood pressure reduction, increased bone density, depression reduction and prevents constipation.

Just these 4 simple things would probably eliminate the need for 4 to 5 different drugs that seniors take for: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, depression and constipation.

It is NOT normal to be taking drugs as we get older- yet we are surprised to hear about a senior who is NOT taking medications. Since most most chronic medical problems are preventable with lifestyle changes, our  society should be shocked to hear when someone DOES have to take a prescription medication !!

Kerri Knox, RN
Functional Medicine Practitioner
http://www.easy-immune-health.com

In a groundbreaking move and without waiting for the Federal Government to raise the RDA, Wisconsin’s Aurora Health Care is urging all residents to take 1000 – 2000 IU’s of Vitamin D per day.

While this may not seem to be big news to you, Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a wide variety of ‘diseases of modern civilization’ while showing a remarkably low level of toxicity- much less than doctors and the media would have you believe.
So, Wisconsin has decided- based on current Vitamin D research- to encourage people to take doses twice to quadruple the amount of Vitamin D recommended by the US RDA!

This really IS groundbreaking. It shows that there ARE doctors and institutions out there that ARE looking at the overwhelming amount of Vitamin D research out there and are willing to take action despite the INACTION of our government agencies.
Kerri Knox, RN

Functional Medicine Practitioner

http://www.easy-immune-health.com

“Helping you overcome your health problems”

Tamiflu is a prescription medicine designed to shorten the duration of the flu and has been touted as the all encompassing savior of the flu season. Leading hospitals and even entire governments to stockpile the medication.

But it doesn’t seem like it’s savior status is going to last much longer and all of the money spent on stockpiling is going to go to waste.

It’s being found that Tamiflu is ineffective in 99% of flu cases this year!!

However, is the flu really what ‘they’ say that it is. Is it the next scourge of mankind. Does it REALLY kill 36,000 people a year- when as an RN for over 14 years in ER’s and ICU’s, I’ve never had a single person with the flu die that I can even think of.

And if, in fact so many people die of the flu, wouldn’t hospital admission rates for the flu be pretty high? Yet I have RARELY take care of anyone with the flu besides people that come into the ER, get diagnosed and sent home with a prescription for Tamiflu- and even then, that is not very frequent.

Many have questioned the Centers for Disease Control’s statistics of 36,000 deaths per year, citing evidence that most of the deaths were actually from pneumonia and NOT from the flu and that this statistic has not improved despite HUGE increases in flu vaccine administration.

And even how we GET the flu is in question. Much of what we know about transmission of the flu is taken from what we know about colds. But the flu is NOT a cold and it’s likely that it is not transmitted in the same way.

In fact, the ONLY evidence we have that it is transmitted from person to person is the case of an airline flight that had someone with the flu on it and a short time later dozens of others also got the flu.

But the only studies done on flu transmission showed that volunteers DID NOT contract the flu- even when secretions from sick people were put directly into volunteers’ throat and nose (yuck!).

Right now, there are researchers who believe that the virus is harbored inside of your body and gets ‘expressed’ when you get stressed and get low on vitamin D- like you do in the winter. That’s why there tend to be multiple outbreaks- even in different countries- at the exact same time.

But no matter how the flu is transmitted, your best defense is PREVENTION! While most health authorities stress handwashing- that strategy may or may not work against the flu.

So your BEST bet is to boost your immune system health from the inside out.

-Get your Vitamin D levels checked and keep it within normal ranges.
-Eat plenty of fruits, vegetables and lean meats
-Avoid processed foods, sugar and white flour products
-Eat organic foods whenever possible
-Drink plenty of pure clean water and stop drinking sodas!
-Add Cultured foods like kefir, yogurt and RAW sauerkraut
 to your diet. These foods provide good bacteria for your
 intestines that help to keep the immune system strong
-Get regular vigorous exercise

You can’t rely on Tamiflu or handwashing to protect you from the flu. YOU are your best defense against the flu- don’t let the health authorities tell you any different!

In Good Health,

Kerri Knox, RN
Functional Medicine Practitioner

http://www.easy-immune-health.com