ARTHRITIS, Prevention, Control and Cure

PREVENTION, CONTROL AND CURE OF ARTHRITIS

Have you ever heard that there is nothing that can be done about Arthritis? Its not true!

An Aunt of mine was having a terrible time earlier this year with bad arthritis of her spine causing so much pain she couldn’t move. Unfortunately she is not in the States and I could not get to her. She told me she was hospitalized and was put through the ‘usual’ paces. MRI’s, Spinal taps and injections, pain medications and anti-inflammatories and then the usual ‘nothing can be done’. My first thought was: that’s a lot of money, time, energy and pain to end up with “nothing”. My second was : Of course something can be done, they are just staying with the same old paradigm.

One of the most magnificent things about the body is its ability to heal itself, those of us who practice traditional medicine just need to learn to tap into that ability. If we do, the sky is the limit, we will even ‘find’ the cure for cancer!

As always prevention is better than cure but what do you do if you are already afflicted?

I have read 9 books on Arthritis over the past month (I am happy to share the titles with anyone who is interested) and I am so excited about the information I was going to discuss it this afternoon at my ‘Skin” seminar! Not that arthritis and skin are not related because they are, but it certainly is a stretch on the ‘looking great for the holidays’ theme!

(By the way for those of you who keep asking me ‘when is your next seminar’, arranging a huge seminar like the last one is really time consuming so I will be doing mini-seminars at my office and sharing new information periodically.)

So why the excitement? I do believe that arthritis can be prevented, contained and cured! But not by managing it the way we are taught in medical school. i.e take anti-inflammatories to decrease the inflammation while your joints get worse and you suffer from the side effects. Oh, and then when it completely breaks down replace the joint with an artificial one.

I now believe that the non pharmaceutical measures you can take are much more powerful than drugs for the treatment and prevention of arthritis. These do not suppress the symptoms while the disease gets worse, they stop it.

So here’s a summary:

Oral Hygiene measures.

Dietary changes.

Healthy Oils

Supplements

Vitamins

Exercises

Maintain a healthy weight

Antimicrobials when indicated

Allergy testing

Nothing invasive!

If you have an interest in generating a personalized program for arthritis treatment then please feel free to schedule a consultation. If you have arthritis personally or in your family I would strongly encourage you to do so SOONER than later.

(Those of you who signed up for today’s seminar will be mailed the supplement sheet we prepared for today).

Yours in health

Dr. Tuakli

"Don't abuse the privilege."
With more and more disabled people being added to the population I have a concern regarding the distribution of parking permits by physicians. I believe that many truly disabled people cannot get access to designated parking spots because nondisabled people have parked there.

I am writing as a physician to suggest a new campaign to try to limit the abuse of the disability placard system. Over the years it has become more and more obvious that the disability sticker is being  abused . In my development there is even a physician who's not disabled and parks in one of only two available disability slots every day. Consequently when people who are really disabled come to the doctors office there is nowhere for them to park and the buses for the disabled block up the parking lot while they off load passengers. I also find it very irritating when I have refused to give a patient a disability parking sticker and they can go and get it easily elsewhere. Or patients come in and ask me to renew their disability parking because their other doctor always did it.  Patients who need to be encouraged to walk are given disability stickers so that they don't have to walk!
A patient asked me to give her a sticker the other day because her mother walks so slowly.

Some of the ideas that I would propose are the following :
 Doctors be fined for providing inappropriate disability stickers
All doctors carry medical liability and their medical liability companies could send them a polite gentle reminder not to issue inappropriate  parking stickers
Urgent care centers and hospitals should be encouraged not to fill out parking stickers but to encourage patients to get them from their regular physicians
Start a "" don't abuse the privilege campaign"
If the parking permit is being obtained for someone other than the owner of the vehicle do not give for more than six months at a time.
Educate physicians and let them know they are expected to be examples and act with integrity.
Educate the population as to what constitutes a real disability and that age alone is not a reason to request a disability parking sticker. People with seniors in their families can drop them at the curb and then go and park themselves. This is what used to happen and now everyone is clamoring for a parking permit which means that the truly disabled are not having access to these parking spots. I really don't think that designating more and more parking spots as disabled is the solution, it just gives people the idea or that they need to go and get a parking sticker so they have an advantage over others in the parking lot.

New Year, New You, Detoxify!

Happy New Year!
Its been a long time since we chatted! Well 2012 was very eventful and 2013 promises to be even more so. The only New Years Resolution I made was to write my blog more often.
Resolutions are great to make but even greater when they are kept. One resolution I think we all should make is to detoxify regularly. This doesn't have to be a major command performance in fact you can start with baby steps but I believe that in today's toxic world it is crucial.
For those of you who attended my last (fantastic) seminar in November, you would have heard my talk on detoxification and why it is necessary. For those who did not, let me summarize: Everything we do, eat, apply and breathe is contaminated and the health consequences of this are dire. For example, when I finished my residency the incidence of breast cancer in the US was 1 in 12: now it is reported as 1 in 8! 2100 chemicals including pesticides, medications and recreational drugs have been found in city water supplies. 80,000 metric tons of cancer causing chemicals are released into the air annually in North America ( Reference Douglas Labs). The EPA estimates that the average US citizen has residues from over 400 toxic compounds in their body.
The advantages of detoxing in January include it being easy to keep track of. Ideally do it twice a year. Start the year fresh and don't let all those other resolutions like weight loss and exercise go to waste!
We currently have two detox programs available in the office and the Omnicleanse one is 20% thru the end of January (so hurry if you want the discount).
Whichever one you choose you will still need to adjust your diet so here are the food guidelines:

AVOID:                                                  
Caffeine
Sodas
Alcohol
Processed foods
Red meat
trans fats
Sugar
Starch
Chemicals in home and work, Dry cleaning, Nail Polish

INCLUDE:

Plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables 8 to 10 servings a day
Organic produce
Almond or Rice milk
Fish
Whole unprocessed foods
Water

We will give you more specifics when you are starting the detox. Usually you will lose 3 to 5 pounds while detoxing but this is not supposed to be a weight loss method. Look at it as a system of renewal.

I will blog at a later date about controlling and maintaining weight loss.

We cannot not Detox in the year 2013! So get it over with :) Cheers!