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Beating Addiction Naturally

July 5, 2014

Natural Ways to Beat Addiction

Natural addiction recoveryDetoxifying the body is usually the first step of recovering from addiction but this is just a small part of how such addicts can manage sobriety for a long time if not for life. Patients can get both traditional and western therapies as part of treatment for their addiction. Natural therapies like acupuncture, hypnosis, yoga and guided meditation can help in addressing the whole body difficulties of addiction. Mind, body and spirit are all connected to addiction recovery considering the immense positive response to natural therapies of some patients. These natural therapies needs to start with the mind, body and the spirit where addicts will be taught natural ways to control their own health and they will also be taught how to focus on their habits in a natural way.

The said physical treatment will offer the affected people an opening to direct their feelings connected with addictions. Almost all addictions can be treated naturally but most people are oblivious to these facts. However, the common human being will try and approach it in different ways. Take for example the case of opiate addiction or addiction to pain killers. Many people believe that it is almost impossible to get rid of this addiction but this should not be hard if you are in the right path and know what you are doing.

Regrettably, most people don’t usually know about all these alternatives when trying to detox for these drugs or tablets. Treatment of addiction to pain killers can be done in three phases which is commonly known as detox (PAWS) post-acute withdrawal syndrome and recovery. For pain killer addiction natural therapy detox, ordinary wisdom says one has 6 choices (medicated home detox, cold turkey detox, rehab, in patient detox, ultra rapid detox and opiate replacement detox). Take an example of cold turkey therapy where the addict unexpectedly or suddenly stops all the opiates. These detox is mostly done at home devoid of medical involvement or drug prescription.

addictionPatients who opt for cold turkey detox usually do so because they have no choice mostly because they will either have no money to buy the opiates, luck the opiates or both. This is mostly because they don’t have other options due to lack of money to buy the opiates. The detox is easy and quite comfortable because it will only last for about a week. This detox is usually not recommended because it is difficult and does not work long term, the relapse rate with this method is very high to consider it a practical method.

However since statistics show that many people will not complete home detox and even if they do a big percentage will relapse. Below are some of the proven ways that have worked overtime.

  • Acupuncture: this will help manage the addiction behavior by arousing the brain and it will also help overcome cravings and unnecessary urges. Acupuncture has also been proven to help patients stay in addiction treatment for a longer time than those who don’t embrace it as a way of treatment.
  • Exercise: This therapy is another way of teaching addicts to control their unhealthy cravings to a great health. Exercise has also been known to aid in the management of stress and even weight that is always gained after quitting various addictions like hard drugs or even smoking. It has even gone further to make them feel confident of themselves.
  • Hypnosis: this will help patients reject or eliminate the behavior and will adopt a new way of thinking about their addiction.

natural addiction recoveryAll these channels when applied should be used alongside other remedies but not as an only way of intrusion. These remedies should be considered by patients as another potential means to address their infirmity. A combination of intrusions will give the best results when it comes to combating addictions.

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If you are suffering from addiction or need to train in addiction treatment and recovery, then we invite you to obtain expert help from tested and trusted professionals at the new Frontier Medicine Academy. You will get treatment from experts and also get expert training on all the aspects of addiction including the genetics and epigenetics of addiction.

 

Natural Ways to Beat Addiction

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Role of the gastrointestinal tract in detoxification elimination

June 28, 2014

Detoxification Is A Great Procedure For Elimination

Chemicals From Our Bodies

detoxificationThere’s no doubt that the gastrointestinal tract is a powerful tool in the absorption of nutrients. The stomach and the intestines, in particular, are the workhorses of the digestive team. However, the gastrointestinal tract can also go a long way in helping detoxify the human body of any illnesses it may be struggling with.

The Issue

The human body is exposed to a wide range of xenobiotics and xenoestrogens, which are toxins that are regularly introduced to the human body. Some are by choice – the artificial sweeteners that go into most sodas and many other products are a recent example – but some are not. Since toxins are regularly introduced to the body, it’s important to ensure that some time is spent on a regular basis detoxifying the body of the poisons it’s been introduced to. Detoxification and elimination of toxins does not have to be a complicated process, however; it’s important to realize it’s a fairly simple process that can go a long way to helping you take back your life.

If you are experiencing any one or more of the following problems, you might need to consider detoxification and elimination as a way to regain your health:

  • Fatigue
  • Excessive sinus problems
  • Headaches
  • Gastrointestinal disorders
  • Sleep problems
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Eczema
  • Canker sores
  • Acne
  • Puffy, dark circles under your eyes

So, how much is too much, then? Because toxins in our world are so pervasive, does it mean that, in reality, we are all toxic?

Truth be told, this is a legitimate concern, but there’s also a matter of degrees at play here as well. There’s also the matter of everyone being ever-so-slightly biochemically different. If our biochemistry wasn’t slightly different from person to person, we would all likely get sick at the same time, at the very least. In fact, it is in part because everyone is biochemically different that toxins can affect people in different ways. This can be to the extent that if two people are exposed to the same bad substance, one person may feel completely unaffected by the exposure while the other could be laid up in bed for months.

In fact, there are several diseases linked to toxicity, such as Parkinson’s, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, dementia, and heart disease. Just from such a simplified list alone, you can quickly get an idea that toxicity is a serious issue for all individuals, regardless of the extent to which you might be deemed “toxic”. It’s obviously a good idea to go through a detoxification and elimination process occasionally in order to keep your digestive tract running as smoothly as possible. Getting rid of the toxins will go a long way to allowing your body to absorb nutrients more effectively, thereby making you healthier.

Detoxification

The Detoxification Process

Your gut, of course, is one of the chief loading zones for toxicity. Given ingestion is one of the biggest ways in which we absorb any substance that comes into contact with our bodies, it comes as little surprise that we have a load of toxins sitting in our gut. As a result, we need to clear out those toxins to ensure optimal absorption of the nutrients we need to be healthy.

There are several steps we can take to detoxify our guts:

  1. Drink lots of water

Water is nature’s cleanser, and as such, it becomes a critical component in the detoxification and elimination process. As water hits our stomachs, it helps to dilute the toxins – say, artificial sweeteners from our coffee. The water will eventually make its way throughout our bodies and pull some of the toxins with it. The toxins will then, in part, get eliminated from our bodies via urine or excrement.

Many of us are perpetually dehydrated. This is because instead of drinking nature’s solvent – water – we continue to drink toxic sodas with artificial sweeteners, coffee, or alcohol. This means that we are only ensuring these toxins stay in our systems. Drinking more water – and the more filtered, the better – helps these toxins move through our digestive tract throughout the detoxification process and ultimately get eliminated by our systems.

  1. Keep things moving

If you find that you are regularly constipated, it could mean you have a build up of toxins in your system that are impairing your absorption of material that is good for your system. Improve your intestinal functioning by integrating flax seeds, acidophilus or magnesium capsules into your diet. Any one of these substances can go a long way towards allowing your gut to improve its absorption of nutrients, though if you have any sort of chronic disease, you should discuss taking these supplements with your doctor prior to starting them.

  1. Eat organic foods

Many foods that are not deemed to be organic are inundated with a wide range of pesticides and chemicals to improve their shelf life. This means that there are also a good many extra chemicals introduced into our systems; whether we eat processed cheese instead of fresh, or “unorganic” apples, we are introducing a wide range of unhealthy chemicals into our systems. Because our digestive tract absorbs many of these chemicals, we are, in effect, making ourselves unhealthier.

Eating a steady diet of certified organic foods and drinking lots of water can go a long way towards making our guts healthier and restoring balance. In fact, eating organic foods eliminates these toxins from our diets, which means if we drink greater amounts of water, we help flush these toxins out of our systems. In flushing these toxins out, our digestive tract becomes more efficient and helps decrease our chances of getting one of a myriad number of diseases.

And Finally…

 There are several different ways of helping our digestive tracts restore balance and eliminate toxins from our bodies. One of the best ways is by drinking water. Making an effort to eat organic and taking supplements that can promote digestion will go a long way towards improving the health of our digestive tracts and ensuring that we absorb the nutrients that are essential to the optimum functioning of our bodies.

Detoxification Is A Great Procedure For Elimination Chemicals From Our Bodies

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Neuroendocrine Restoration Will Lead You Out Of Addiction

June 28, 2014

The process of developing an addiction usually follows a pattern, regardless of the activity you become addicted to. There is a common misconception that has likely reified the concept into a simplistic definition; one that is inclined towards substance. Addiction does not necessarily have to deal with a substance. You can develop an addiction to eating, talking, masturbating, just the same way you get addicted to cigarette or bhang smoking.

At early stages the process is usually subtle and mostly subconscious. For the case of drugs, almost all addicts will have succinct picture of how they started; usually a few hurried gulps of the father’s favorite ‘long neck’ caring not to be seen; a bottle of Smirnoff which got them really high and chattering through the party; a stick of marijuana from a willing friend or a cigarette that appeared irresistible given the way a certain fatherly figure seemed to have felt heavenly while smoking it.

This would be followed by a series of like behavior occasioned by similar chances. The person usually repeats the action a number of times over a given period of time and cannot clearly tell the point when they could no longer back off this act.

Neurondocrine Restoration

Why can a person not simply stop the act as soon as they realize it has blown out of proportion? Why do they continue the act against their own will? Why does the process of rehabilitation from drug addiction so delicate that it can be fatal if not properly monitored?

Understanding the mechanism of addiction

The start of addiction is always a voluntary step. Your father smokes, you notice and become curious. You steal and smoke it.

You attend a party, people are all drinking and you are invited to have a taste; it tastes sweet (because it is Namaqua). You drain a glass, and wish it was a few inches deeper, just before you begin speaking louder and more than the music system.

You are just about to make the final turn to the hostel washrooms, when your nose picks a familiar smell. You decide to give a hand shake to the group of comrades involved in a hushed discussion a few meters away; they offer you a stick of bhang, which you accept ‘because you are a man’

You like the experience. So you get bored and feel like doing something different; you want a little adventure so you go for the drug you just tasted a few days back. Remember in each of these cases you could opt to refuse, but you just decided; why not?

Soon you decide to repeat the practice, because you are stressed and a friend said this usually work for them, or merely because you are tuned to it after having liked the experience. You do not notice it, but at this juncture your brain is releasing the happiness hormones like endorphins that stimulate the excitement.

This act becomes the triggering activity for the release of the hormones. Your body starts to relate the triggering activity to the sensation that it will cause as a cause-effect relationship. This begins to condition your body to an addiction.

You are welcoming a new habit; the condition now triggers a biochemical process in your body whose subsequent repetition soon gets your system conditioned to releasing the hormones.

Recovery from Addiction

addiction recoveryYou completely destroy a plant only when you dig its roots. Repetition of an activity gets entrenched as a condition in your system; a system controlled by a central engine in your body called neuroendocrine system.

The neuroendocrine system is the combination of interaction and interplay of the endocrine and the nervous system; the central nervous system.

Our bodies are made up of cells. And cells are components of the network of glands known as the neuroendocrine system that controls the internal state of balance in the body.

Therefore, when the body has been conditioned to react in a certain way, the neuroendocrine system becomes programmed to direct that certain response as a way of life. Getting out of an addiction therefore means deprogramming your body; which simply is reconditioning your hormonal responses.

Every hormonal response is controlled by the neuroendocrine system. For one to fully recover from an addiction therefore, their neuroendocrine system must be reconditioned to direct the normal response.

Dr. Dalal Akoury

Medical Doctor Dalal A Akoury is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist based in South Carolina, Myrtle Beach. She has a vast experience in medicine having served as a medical practitioner for thirty six years after receiving her medical degree from the University of Alexandria, Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Dalal Akoury currently runs a medical facility Awaremed Health and Wellness Resource Centre located in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. This medical facility is the brainchild of the doctor.

Neuroendocrine Restoration Will Lead You Out Of Addiction

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Stress and Addiction: Where’s the connection?

June 28, 2014

Relationship between Stress and Addiction

Addiction and stressDid you know that excessive stress could lead one to addiction? What is stress and what is addiction and how are they related to each other? Well, I will come to that later in my next paragraph. First and foremost, let’s talk about stress. In everyone’s life, one undergoes or experiences some stress of some kind. With the fast moving life of today one tends to find him or herself always trying to cope up especially since everything and everyone has evolved really fast for the past ten years or so. All this added up together can lead to one easily falling into what we call stress. Did you know that stress can also come from family, friends and peer pressure? These three elements especially the latter has caused lots of pressure in the world today that has been dubbed ‘digital’.

Now let us talk about what stress and addictions are. Well, for starters, stress is some kind of strain or tension felt when one is experiencing environmental, work or even family challenge. This could be as a result of death of a child, a lover and even of a close friend or relative, divorce, peer pressure and financial matters. To mention but a few. Addiction on the other hand is when one is devoted to something that could either be drug related or just devotion to something of some kind. Someone with an addiction problem always have the strong urge and need to always have that thing that they are addicted to. It’s almost if not a disease of some sort and can be treated if one seeks treatment in time.

We all know that a little push is good for everybody thus a little bit of pressure is not harmful. It’s dangerous only when it goes overboard. As the saying goes, too much of something is dangerous, so it stress and pressure. If you push yourself too much you will always get into stress, trying so hard to cope in your job, family or amongst your friends and feeling that you are not meeting their standard could also push one into stress because they will always be trying to fit in. well, trying is not bad but not to an extent that it affects you or drives you into stress and depression. It’s your life we are talking about here.

So how does stress result into addiction?

It’s actually not rocket science to relate the two. Though not all stress will always catapult into addiction, most of them usually do. Infect stress and addiction are almost synonymous. Synonymous in the fact that you can rarely get one without the other. Most or all individuals have their own ways of dealing with different kinds of stress in different ways. Some people will just need to take a few hours or days off from work or whatever stress is it that they are going through and it all goes away but there are some people who will turn to stronger things like alcohol, cigarettes or drugs like cocaine or heroin to relax them from the stress they are undergoing. In most countries, cigarettes and alcohol are legal so they are usually the most sort after as stress relievers. They are equally cheap, affordable and readily available.

One can start by just joining friends or relatives for a social drink over the weekend to put away or forget the stress he or she is went through during the week. It could just be an innocent get together that could start with one weekend then when you go home or is on your own, you will feel like the stress is has gone away or subsided. This trend may go on from weekends to daily because you will always seem to feel tensed during the week and after a few drinks later in the day or even on weekends you will feel better. By this time, you will have found or would thing you have a solution of getting rid of your stress. Is it me or does cigarette make a good companion of alcohol? These two go together very well just like stress and addiction. In fact, it’s almost impossible to separate the two. Most often your drink will be generously escorted with a cigarette. Some will also start with the hard stuff like heroin and cocaine.

  • Addiction

Well, remember we had mentioned earlier that addiction is too much devotion to something regardless of what it is? Now when one starts depending too much on something it becomes addiction. Please don’t get it twisted and start looking for comfort somewhere else as any form of dependency may lead to addiction. However there are many ways to know if you are addicted or headed there especially for the ones using drugs. We all know our body and can tell if there any weird changes. If you start losing weight, getting tremors then start getting worried. Honestly though, do we need to wait to experience all these and is it really worth it?

First avoid stress by always keeping away from whatever drives you into stress. It’s given that some stresses are inevitable like death or even family matters like divorce but it will help to know that we are not the only ones going through such calamities. Issues like peer pressure are avoidable. How? Simple. Keep away from anyone expecting too much from you at the expense of your health. All said and done, alcohol, cigarettes or any form of addiction will never be cure for stress.

If you fall victim of addiction from stress related causes, or suffering any form of addiction, we at New Frontier Medicine Academy.

Stress and Addiction: Where’s the connection?

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Understanding Alcohol, Its Effects and Categories

June 26, 2014

What is alcohol?

Alcohol is a tranquillizing liquid, which means it decelerates down your body’s responses in all kinds of ways. Just enough can make you feel gregarious; too much and you’ll have a hangover the following day, and may not even remember what you got up to; and way too much alcohol in a single term could put you in a coma or even kill you.Even though it is authorized for those aged eighteen years and over to buy and drink alcohol, that doesn’t mean it’sAlcoholism any less imposing than other drug.

Formal guidelines

Aimed at young people, it is endorsed that you don’t drink at all if you’re under fifteen year, as this can be expressly harmful. The best advice is not to drink alcohol until you are eighteen years of age. If you do choose to drink formerly then, reminisce to make sure you’re with a responsible fully-grown who will stop you doing anything that could be treacherous; On no occasion drink more than once a week, and on that one day young men are advised not to drink more than three to four units, and young women not to drink more than two to three units. For adults it is recommended men shouldn’t regularly drink more than three to four units a day and women shouldn’t regularly drink more than two to three units a day (regularly is drinking at this sort of level every day or most days of the week). After a night of heavy drinking, you shouldn’t drink for forty eight hours to let the body to recuperate.

Many individuals who see themselves as social drinkers are at risk of emerging with long term health situations because of the quantity they repeatedly drink. Most drinkers are unaware that regularly consumption more than the limits advised by medics can lead to a widespread range of long term health glitches, including cancers, strokes and heart attack.

Types of Alcoholic Beverages

The variety of alcohol types, different brands, and mixing ingredients is sometimes overwhelming. Syrup Magazine makes it easy for you to gain a clear understanding of each type of alcohol and mixing ingredients by breaking them down to their basic classes: Spirits, Liqueurs, Wines & Champagnes, Beers, and Mixers.

SPIRITS

  • GIN – a colorless alcoholic beverage made by distilling or redistilling rye or other grain spirits and adding juniper berries or aromatics such as anise, caraway seeds, or angelica root as flavoring.
  • VODKA – originally distilled from fermented wheat mash but now also made from a mash of rye, corn, or potatoes.
  • RUM – distilled from cane juice, or from the scamming’s of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxication WHISKEY – distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In t
  • TEQUILA – an alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequila.
  • BRANDY – an alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.

LIQUEURS (FLAVORED SPIRITS)

Liqueurs are flavored spirits prepared by infusing certain woods, fruits, or flowers, in either water or alcohol, and adding sugar, etc. Others are distilled from aromatic or flavoring agents.

WINES & CHAMPAGNE

  • RED WINE – wine having a red color derived from skins of dark-colored grapes.
  • WHITE WINE – any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; — distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy.
  • ROSE WINE – rose-tinted table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began.
  • CHAMPAGNE – a sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne.
  • SPARKLING WINE – any of various gassy wines, such as champagne, produced by a process involving fermentation in the bottle.
  • VERMOUTH – a sweet or dry fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and used chiefly in mixed drinks.
  • BEER-LAGER – a type of beer of German origin that contains a relatively small amount of hops and is aged from six weeks to six months.

NON-ALCOHOLIC MIXERS

alcoholWater, juice, sparkling beverages, syrups, coffee, chocolate. What are its short term effects? When a person drinks alcohol, the alcohol is absorbed by the stomach, enters the bloodstream, and goes to all the tissues. The effects of alcohol are reliant on on a variety of factors, including a person’s size, weight, age and sex, as well as the amount of food and alcohol expended. The disinhibiting effect of alcohol is one of the main reasons it is used in so many social situations. Other effects of moderate alcohol intake include dizziness and talkativeness; the immediate effects of a larger amount of alcohol include slurred speech, bothered sleep, nausea and vomiting. Alcohol, even at low doses, significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car safely. Low to moderate doses of alcohol can also increase the incidence of a variety of aggressive acts, including domestic violence and child abuse. Aftermaths are another possible effect after large amounts of alcohol are consumed; a hangover consists of headache, nausea, thirst, dizziness and fatigue.

What are its long-term effects?

Lengthy, heavy use of alcohol can lead to addiction (alcoholism). Sudden cessation of long term, extensive alcohol intake is likely to produce withdrawal symptoms, including severe anxiety, tremors, illusions and convulsions. Long-term effects of consuming large quantities of alcohol, especially when joint with poor nutrition, can lead to perpetual damage to vital organs such as the brain and liver. In addition, mothers who drink alcohol during pregnancy may give birth to infants with fetal alcohol syndrome. These infants may suffer from mental hindrance and other irreversible physical abnormalities. In addition, research indicates that children of alcoholic parents are at superior risk than other children of becoming alcoholics

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Understanding Alcohol, Its Effects and Categories

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