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Sleeping position

If you’re waking up sore and achy every morning and your mattress is new, you may need to re-evaluate how you’re sleeping, says Scott D. Boden, M.D., director of the Emory Spine Center in Atlanta. Lying flat on your back forces your spine into an unnatural position, which can strain your muscles, joints, and nerves. “Your spine isn’t meant to be straight,” he says. “It has three natural curves: one in your lower back, one in the middle of your back, and one near your neck.” His advice:

Lie on your side in the fetal position with your knees bent and a pillow tucked between your legs. This will take the most stress off your back.

• Sleeping on your back may be putting stress on your spine.
• If you must sleep on your back, prop a big, fluffy pillow under your knees to reduce the pressure on the sciatic nerve in your lower back.

• Use a small pillow or a rolled-up towel under your neck as long as it doesn’t push your chin too far forward.

• Don’t sleep on your stomach. Sleeping facedown can exaggerate the arch at the base of your spine and cause strain. Our advice? Sew or tape a tennis ball to the front of your nightgown or nightshirt. We guarantee your stomach-sleeping days will be over.

Chemotherapy – is This the Real Answer to Cancer?

Before the start of treatment, it is important to know what is the treatment. In this sense I have entered in the main form of treatment for cancer treatment introduced: Chemotherapy – Chemotherapy was developed after scientists discovered that the deadly mustard gas during World War II, to kill people – Cyclophosphamide kill – could rapidly dividing cells, such as cancer. Chemotherapy, all rapidly dividing cells (T and B cells would be our responsibility to be well aligned, as they rapidly divide kill for our immune system). Let’s see what the leading scientists say about this drug: * Late Dr. Hardin Jones, professor at the University of California at Berkeley, completed in 1975, following the analysis of cancer survival statistics for several decades that the patients as good or better, “are left untreated. * Dr. Charles Moertel said the Mayo Clinic in Baltimore, the major chemotherapeutic drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) only produces an objective response in 15-20% of patients. Even at that time improvements have been only partially and temporarily. This is very poor balance caused by the drug toxicity and interference from the devastating emotional effects. * A German epidemiologist, Dr. Ulrich Abel has studied most of the published reports of chemotherapy and wrote to a cancer center and 350 experts and others said that “the success of most chemotherapies is appalling. There is no proof of his ability , significantly extend the life of cancer patients, the most common organic. He also said that “when a tumor, partially or temporarily disappears, the remaining tumor cells sometimes grow much faster afterwards. Often patients do not respond to chemotherapy survived longer than those that do. “ Dr. Abel has also published data on the survival of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, as follows: * Bubble – No statistics available * From the heart – no evidence of an increase in life expectancy * Cervix / uterus – no evidence of an increase in life expectancy * Colorectal – No increase in life expectancy * Stomach cancer – No evidence of improved * Head and Neck – No improvement in life expectancy (to reduce tumors) * The ovary – No evidence of an increase in life expectancy * Pancreas – negative than patients who were not treated, is used depending on the specific chemotherapy drug, side effects: nausea, vomiting, hair loss, possible damage to nerves and kidneys, hearing loss, seizures, bone marrow depression, anemia, blindness, irreversible losses in motor function, thrombosis, inflammation of the mucous membranes, heart problems, destruction of the bile ducts , the death of bone tissue, the limited growth, infertility, lower white and red blood cells, elevated leukemia risk (particularly for women, chemotherapy and radiotherapy for breast cancer were given), ovarian failure, premature menopause, lactose malabsorption, etc. .. Chemotherapy patients often destroys the liver and kidneys, with their side effects and negative attacks the immune system. Mechlorethamine, one of the drugs used is so toxic that medical treatment is recommended to use gloves and not inhaling. A reference for the medical treatment recommended by chemotherapy: The potential risks associated in dealing with cytotoxic drugs have a concern for the health sector. The literature reports various symptoms such as eye, membrane and skin irritation, dizziness, nausea and headache experienced by health care workers with no safety precautions. In addition, increased concerns about the mutation [Teratology deformed babies] continue to be analyzed. Many chemotherapy agents, alkylating agents, in particular are known to cause cancer cancer [resulting] in therapeutic doses. Medical personnel dealing with these drugs is recommended, Double Wear latex gloves, mask, goggles and gloves. Surprisingly, the used needles, injecting the lethal drug is classified as “hazardous waste”! Incredibly, when we are told that this drug can cure our cancer. The Medical Journal (Lancet 1998) states that irinotecan, a new chemotherapy drug only prolongs survival by about three months, but with many side effects. Chemotherapy is not necessary to help with metastases in the liver (Arch Med Res, 1998). It has been shown, however, to increase the life span of patients with ovarian cancer a few years and that patients with lung cancer a few months. Treatment of Hodgkin’s disease with chemotherapy has also shown positive results. However, the girls were treated in this way, also 35% chance of developing breast cancer later in life. All children are treated in this way, 18-times more likely to develop secondary tumors. The chemotherapy (1) carcinogenic (2) immunosuppression (3) Toxic (4) resulted in vain, why is it that doctors prescribe to keep? The answer is very simple: they do not know what else to do and want, in line with what to do to keep doctors. While most people know that chemotherapy alone has little chance of success, they feel that, if it something to prescribe, the patient will go elsewhere, and in most cases (medicine) prescribed chemotherapy. We must understand that this is their training. In a survey of 79 cancer physicians from McGill University in the United States carried out, with its 58 doctors, they were not part of the drug trials of chemotherapy. Why? Because of the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its toxicity.