***What to do..?***
I am not trying to say that environmental toxins or those
suspected hormon ( endocrine ) disrupers are THE cause of
Endometriosis, IBS and lots of other diseases.
I am aware that causes for these diseases are not known and
there are just several theories.
And still, I would like to talk about this particular "theory"
in this homepage because:
a. Not many people seem to talk about it for some odd
reasons ( and by the way, I've decided that I am not going
to discuss those odd reasons here since I'd like to keep
my happy quiet life.. ) -
Some books and websites mention all the other theories but
this one while there are reports that show Dioxin has
caused Endometriosis among those poor monkeys in more than
one lab.
b. I became pain-free from Endometriosis after I decided to
make this one my principal "theory" and acted accordingly
as I'll describe below
There are many things we can do to avoid creating and to
try to make the people not create these toxins and I feel
it is very important to keep working on those things for
us and for the future.
But here at the moment, I would like to talk about
1. How we could try to get rid of toxins that are already in
our bodies,
2. How we could try not to take any more toxins into our bodies
and
3. How we could build stronger immune systems so that the
the toxins would not be able to act as much in our bodies
since it is just not possible to have 0 toxins in our bodies
while we live in this modern world.
*About immune system - I feel it is not so easy to do, but
very important to try to strengthen immune system.
More toxic chemicals accumulate in a body, weaker one's
immune system gets and a weak immune system cannot eliminate
toxins from body as much or as quickly, thus creates vicious
circle..
And there must be lots of people who have much more toxins
in their bodies than i do (pound for pound) and are still much
healthier than me. One of the reasons for it may be that they
have stronger immune systems.
Also, though a person had some symptoms in certain environment
and/or with certain diet etc, later on that person might
not have any symptoms with the same or even worse environment
or diet. That may have happened because of changes in strength
of the person's immune system.
Again, though I will be writing about some of the things I have
been doing, I am not trying to tell you these things should work
for you as well. I may not be aware of some contraindications
and/or side effects and I'm still experimenting, too.
And please understand that I am not trying to deny or criticize
modern or conventional medicine. I feel it is very
important to have examinations (and tests) and receive
opinions from doctors etc.
Though, I also feel it's important to seek second opinion and
so on when the first opinion did not convince you - or when you
simply did not like the first one.
Here is an example. It is a little extreme case, but no
exaggeration, every bit of this is true.
Several months ago, my mother-in-law's doctor prescribed her
4 times stronger medicine than what she was supposed to take.
After she took the medicine without asking him the reason
for the change though she noticed it, she fainted, hit
her head and back on the floor, unconscious for some hours
with her heart rate so low - the medicine was for lowering
heart rate. Fortunately she was ok (took some time for her to
recover, though). I was so mad because it was obvious that
it was the doctor's mistake, but
she said she had no intention of changing her doctors..
Ok, she is 80 and I guess she is from old school where doctors
are Gods and you do not question them..even though she almost
got killed. Upsetting still was he claimed that he did not
know where the mistake actually happened and he did not show
much sincerity or sympathy. Luckily, the doctor moved away and
she "had to" have another doctor.
Well, they say not much is known about Endometriosis and IBS (
along with many other diseases). I find new and different
information every time I buy a newly published book or
through new articles on the web, etc.
I think it is ok for us to wonder if it's possible for
all the doctors who are not specialists to keep totally up to
date with these diseases..or not.
(3-30-01)
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thanks.