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Important Symptoms

Helping to Make Your Own Diagnosis

Today, major health concerns revolve around the more dominant leading causes of death all westernized nations face. They are labeled as:

Heart and vascular dis-ease, stroke, cancer, diabetes II, kidney dis-ease, liver dis-ease, chronic lower respiratory dis-ease, Influenza/Pneumonia, Alzheimer's dis-ease. Moreover, lets not forget all the complication illnesses, conditions, syndromes, and secondary dis-eases that rotate around these causes of death. Read more about: "What We Are Not Told About Diseases" below.

Accelerating Premature Aging Dis-eases
Up until about 10 years ago, most people under age 50 did not yet have evidence of normal organ damage or tissue change due to “Aging” metabolic imbalances. That has changed. Over the past 10 years, more people in this age group are showing these damaging changes. More importantly, prior to such damage and changes doctors are seeing people in their thirties and forties coming to them with a host of symptoms which orthodox techniques offer no relief from.

These “symptoms” are known to be associated with Premature Aging and the progressive early development of dis-eases and conditions including, hyperinsulinemia (insulin resistance) heart and vascular disease, stroke, diabetes, kidney and liver disease, alzheimer's, obesity, osteoporosis, sexual dysfunctions, and cancer.

Common Early Warning Signs of Premature Aging, Metabolic Disturbance –
Remember this list is far from complete, but contains the most common signals of dis-ease producing changes beginning to take place and both orthodox medicine and the person generally ignore them.

*Fatigue, *Poor sleep patterns, *Mental confusion, *Stomach problems *Bowel problems, *Muscle weakness, *Intense cravings for sweets, fats and stimulants, *Allergies, *Skin and hair problems or changes, *Immune system problems, *Irritability, *Mood swings, *Depression, *Stress, *Difficulty concentrating or remembering, *Weight gain or loss, *Fluid retention, *Inflammation, *Back or neck pain, *Headaches, *Muscle pain, *Infertility, *PMS, *Sexual dysfunctions, *Irregular periods, *Menopause symptoms, and the list goes on.

These are symptoms you will never hear from a person who lives in a state of homeostasis and good health no matter their age.

Are There ANY Tests That Can Help Find The Causes of These Symptoms:
Orthodox Medicine
Can your doctor (or will they) provide any tests that may help show what is causing such symptoms? NO.

Until you have clearly demonstrating the presence of a serious illness or dis-ease - orthodox medicine does not have the right to perform widespread testing for either genetic or metabolic imbalances. This means they have no preventative testing ability – it is not in their accepted procedure protocols.

Natural (Holistic) Medicine
Yes, metabolic testing, especially “preventative” testing, has been an accepted diagnostic tool for years now.

What This Means to People with Back and Neck Pain
The above symptoms are the result of changes in our body’s homeostasis or metabolic systems, and many of the same metabolic changes are found in “degenerative” back and neck pain conditions. Did you notice Back Pain is one of the listed symptoms?

Pain is the body’s outward symptom telling you something is wrong and needs attention. Like, “GET YOUR HAND OFF THAT HOT STOVE, PLEASE.” That message arrived through a number of chemical metabolic signals, bounced through numerous systems. Metabolic changes occurring may result in just the symptom of back and neck pain. On the other hand, if you are suffering from back and neck pain, it’s a good bet that you will also find many other of the above symptoms may also be present.

Using These Symptoms to Find, Halt and/or Reverse Premature Aging Degenerative Conditions (including back and neck pain)

Making the most of this information to assist in finding the development of any possible premature aging dis-ease is only possible using the types of tests available through a Naturopathic Doctor, or an MD practicing Functional Medicine. As we said, MDs are not allowed to do “preventative” testing. There is one test MD’s can do that could be great help and that is a fasting insulin test. This is discussed a bit further into this article.

What Can These Symptoms Tell Us About Our Current State of Health?

Preventative Testing for 8 Modifiable Anti-aging Risk Factors:

For Natural Medicine physicians your symptoms will have significant meaning for anti-aging, dis-ease prevention. Scientifically, these “early warning symptoms” fall into eight modifiable categories. Naturopathic doctors will listen to you explain your symptoms, and they hear you describing errors in these eight important systemic metabolic areas:

1. Impaired Mitochondrial Function: - metabolic errors of mitochondrial function, energy production, and free radical production. Significant premature aging factors are found in this area

2. Dysglycemia/Insulin Dysmetabolism: Metabolic early identification of dysfunction related to adult-onset dysinsulinism, Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Syndrome X, significant causes of cardiovascular and peripheral vascular diseases, as well as renal failure, neuropathy, and erectile dysfunction.

3. Chronic Inflammation: assesses fatty acids levels and metabolism related to the physiological processes significantly affected by inflammation, including musculoskeletal health, inflammatory cardiovascular disease processes, mood, and cognition.

4. Imbalanced Methylation Reactions: A need to determine lipid status and analyze such independent risk factors as C-reactive protein, abnormalities in amino acid methylation, reflected in levels of homocystine.

5. Inadequate Detoxification Capacity: Tummy acid, digestive complaints, or bowel disturbance indicates a need to evaluate the body's ability to convert and neutralize toxins and metabolic products, including liver function. Problems with gastrointestinal function, digestive capacity, absorption and gut integrity, metabolic factors, microbiology, mycology, and parasitology.

6. Dysfunctional Immune System: Can be responsible for such conditions as allergies, osteoarthritis, depression, chronic flu and infections, autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, unexplained weight gain, and irritable bowel syndrome.

7. Chronic Stress Response: A number of the above symptoms indicate imbalances of important adrenal hormones. Adrenal hormones have a profound influence on the body's carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism, immune response, thyroid function, cardiovascular health, and overall resistance to stress.

8. Hormonal Imbalance: Male and Female Hormone levels can impact cognitive, cardiovascular, and sexual function. Improper hormone balance can negatively affect mood, influence muscle/fat ratio, and decrease the overall sense of well-being.

It is important we learn how to “read” our bodies messages.
Unfortunately, most of these early warning symptoms are ignored. We, or our doctors, simply chalk them up to the “oh, well, you’re just getting older – learn to live with it,” explanation. Orthodox medicine ignores them because they are not relevant to this medicine model until they become a part of an actual disease.

These symptoms can save your life because they generally start to appear long before the imbalance has progressed to more unmistakable dis-eases and more debilitating symptoms. Intervention at the “early warning symptom” stage has excellent results.

The problem is these symptoms are so vague and universal we never think they may be indicators of some developing dis-ease. So, they appear to have no specific significance in the grand scheme of things. UNTIL NOW.

Most of us don’t notice them until they begin to become a major problem. They tend to “creep” up on us. First, one symptom, a while later maybe a couple more, until one day we wake up and realize our life is not much fun anymore. We may not know why, but we do know we just do not feel good most of the time anymore.

We have been “brainwashed” to believe they are old age related and there is little we can do about them. Nevertheless, these symptoms are important – because if they appear much before the age of 50 they are very real indicators that there are premature aging, illnesses, and unbalanced metabolic processes taking place within all of our 70 trillion odd cells. Our bodies are talking to us and we need to listen.

What are the premature aging scientific indications for the above symptoms?
The real underlying cause of most back and neck pain is the same as any premature aged related dis-eases. We can’t separate them. The problem here is that much of what goes wrong in the body appears related to normal aging processes, premature aging factors, and the metabolic processes involved.

Certainly many dis-eases have an underlying genetic component that lead to early dis-ease processes, but it appears that many of the major factors involved in premature aging and its dis-ease development only make matters worse for these people. Even testing for such genetic involvement is now possible.

So, if you are having back and neck pain, consider seeking tests that can help determine if your metabolic system is out of whack, where it is out of whack and what you need to do. Rebalancing this system can go a long way to helping with your back and neck pain relief. If you have any of the other symptoms listed above they are another confirmation of the need to look at where your metabolism, and overall health stands. Testing for imbalances can help to do this while protecting your long-term health. And it could just help slow down your rate of aging.

Sneak Preview of One of Most Deadly Suspected Contributors to Premature Aging and Dis-ease

It turns out far too many people may be in danger of prematurely developing the five deadly dis-eases (and all of their complications) then anyone would have dreamed possible.

Some of the newest “Aging” research has provided an important link to most of the dis-eases that westernized nations are facing today. It has linked mitochondrial metabolic impairment to a derangement of the blood sugar control system. Branches of Endocrinology science have also been looking at the insulin resistance link in various dis-eases and has already identified a number of dis-eases all coupled to insulin resistance. All of which was well known in the 1930’s.

What most people do not know is that between 64% to 93% of the US population is estimated to have blood sugar/insulin impairment - just beginning to develop, or having already progressed to the dis-ease of diabetes II.

Yes, there are other reasons for these dis-ease symptoms, but when we looked at the high numbers of people estimated to have sugar/insulin impairment of one sort or another – we believe it prudent to make sure you have this tested as a part of looking into other metabolic impairment.

Easy Cheap Test for Everyone

Fasting Blood Sugar – Fasting Blood Insulin

Make sure you and all your family members have this test done.

We believe that when you are in need of metabolic tests through a naturopathic physician, blood testing for sugar/insulin would be automatic, but we can’t guarantee this. For those who can’t afford to have such extensive metabolic tests run (only private insurance covers such testing in the US and it is not covered at all in Canada) you can still demand a fasting, blood sugar/insulin test through your orthodox physician. That test is covered. They might give you some grief about the insulin part of this test. Don’t take NO for an answer. MAKE SURE YOU GET ONE DONE and get your result photocopied. We discuss the importance of getting your insulin tested and the expected test results and what they mean, in the article, “Metabolic Syndrome”

Quick Fact: The history of the epidemic in insulin resistance, (hyperinsulinemia) and the dis-ease called diabetes II, now sweeping the US, (as well as much of the rest of the world) exactly matches the introduction and use of man-made engineered processed (dead foods) foods and fats, empty carbs and adulteration of our once clean food supply. On this all science agrees, except of course for those with a financial stake in keeping us eating such foods and fats and sugars.

Coincidentally, sugar tops the list of the main dietary causes contributing to degenerative premature aging. And there is no getting around this.

Can Biological (Lifespan) Age Be Tested for or Predicted?
The single greatest marker for lifespan, as they are finding in the centenarian studies, is INSULIN, specifically insulin sensitivity. Insulin sensitivity can predict a person’s biological age, which may turn out to be much older than their actual, or chronological age.

What We Are Not Told About These “Diseases"
Insulin Resistance’s links to all the diseases of westernized nations was known about over 50 years ago. Many of the (old age) degenerative dis-eases of today continued to be investigated over the past 50 years. The newest science (from many sources) has confirmed what was well known to physicians of the 1930’s.
These “diseases” can be traced to a massive failure of our endocrine system known as Insulin Resistant Diabetes (Diabetes II, or Adult onset Diabetes.)
At one time:

• Strokes, both ischemic and hemorrhagic

• Heart failure due to neuropathy as well as both ischemic and hemorrhagic coronary events,

• Obesity

• Atherosclerosis,

• Elevated blood pressure,

• Elevated cholesterol,

• Elevated triglycerides,

• Impotence,

• Retinopathy,

• Kidney failure,

• Liver failure,

• Polycystic ovary syndrome,

• Elevated blood sugar,

• Systemic candida,

• Impaired carbohydrate metabolism,

• Poor wound healing,

• Impaired fat metabolism,

• Peripheral neuropathy (damaged nerves)

As well as many more of today's epidemic disorders were once well understood to often be but symptoms of diabetes

Guess What? Once again, all of the above have been proven to have a link to both insulin resistance and diabetes II, and are still being ignored for the most part by orthodox medicine, when treating any of their isolated specialized dis-eases.

How Did All These Insulin Resistant Symptoms Get Split into various orthodox medicine specialties groups and become identified as “Specialized” Diseases?

In the United States, in 1949, Orthodox Medicine took all the symptoms of Diabetes II and many other disease symptoms and reclassified them into specific and isolated dis-eases. Orthodox medicine was already broken up into “specialties”. The reclassification of diabetes symptoms allowed these medicine specialty groups to then claim related diabetic groups of symptoms as their own specialty “symptom sets”. Therefore, the heart specialist, kidney specialist, endocrinologists, neurologists, allergists and many others began to testing for the “risk factors” for their dis-eases, and then “treat” the various “symptoms” which they could lay claim to. All focus on the original underlying cause of insulin resistance was packed away, out of sight, and certainly was never a consideration in treatment, preventative or otherwise.

It is now common practice to refer to these symptoms as if they were separable independent diseases with separate unrelated proprietary treatments provided by competing medical specialists. It does not matter that the specialties have given “Names” like Heart Dis-ease, or Kidney Dis-ease none provide treatment that “cures” these diseases – they can only “treat” some of the symptoms of their “dis-eases.” One of the most discussed of these “Metabolic Syndrome” a set of testable factors that can determine a person’s risk factor for heart dis-ease and stroke.

Why Not Test for Insulin Resistance?
We have often wondered, as we put this site together, why Orthodox medicine is so loath to do a fasting insulin test? They have many reasons why this will not “prove” anything. However, science tells us something very different – your fasting insulin can clearly show if you are insulin resistant – no matter how “in-line” your fasting sugar may appear to be. We don’t believe in waiting until diabetic symptoms are so pronounced that you may have had the dis-ease for years (which is usually the case) – we believe in prevention. Fasting insulin can tell you where you stand – hopefully long before you are even close to being a full-blown diabetic.

Once again, we understand that many of these dis-eases result from other causes besides insulin resistance or diabetes; however, it is also true that this fact has disguised the causative role of insulin resistance and diabetes for years.

So today we are taught to believe we need to treat a number of life-threatening dis-eases and conditions when, in all too many cases, we may only be in need of treating one. The relationship of these dis-eases to insulin resistance and our diets plus the connection this has to the failure of the mitochondria due to blood sugar levels cannot be ignored.
Have you been tested? Have your children been tested?

Interestingly physicians in the early part of the last century had very good success treating diabetes II with simple diet changes. Further information today has strong pointers to the huge increase in diabetes II plus the “Specialty” diseases vs the timeline for introduction of new processed foods, bad fats, and sugars into our diets. Back to Top

Recommended Reading from Here:

The article titled “Aging and the Metabolic Affects of Western Living” aka "Insulin and Western Living" contains a lot of information we began to cover in the article you just read. It provides a list of the Six Identified Contributors to Aging and Premature Aging and what we can do about them. It also looks at results of studies done on Centenarian Societies compared to Westernized Countries. And, it gives some easy starting points in helping to change the identified contributors of premature aging. Some of the history of early connections between insulin resistance and dis-eases of today is repeated, so you can skip that part if you wish.

Eventually you will come to the article titled “Aging and the Mitochondria”. This is one of those “information-heavy” articles we mentioned. We included it for people who wish to evaluate the science behind Aging and Premature Aging. It is more scientific in language, but it is full of excellent information. We also included it so people might evaluate for themselves how we arrived (in part) at our “Concept.” Skip this article if you can take our word that we can back up our information with scientific data.