The Integrative Connection
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Issue: # 02
February 2012
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Drug Nutrient Depletion
Sleeping Well
Patient Testimonial
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Can prescription drugs deplete essential nutrients?
Part 2 of an ongoing series
Medications can be very beneficial to your health and
are many times necessary. Unfortunately, there are
also many times when a medication is used for good,
but the drug causes an unwanted side effect. These
side effects often happen because the drug depletes
your body of a vital nutrient. These "drug-induced
nutrient depletions" may not be known by medical professionals as this
is a newer area of research. As an end result, you may suffer needlessly
or be put on another drug to combat the side effect when all that is
needed is a simple supplement.
Antibiotics and Probiotics
Often when you become sick you go to the doctor and are given a
prescription for an antibiotic. Antibiotics are great in treating the infection.
The number one cause of death before antibiotics was infection, so they
are certainly doing the job. Unfortunately, these antibiotics are not
selective for the bad bacteria. The antibiotic not only kills the bacteria
causing the infection but also kills off the good bacteria in the digestive
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and vaginal tracts that are important for digestion, nutrient absorption
and your immune system. This is easily demonstrated when someone
takes an antibiotic; the good bacteria have been destroyed by the
antibiotic, allowing the secondary infection to occur.
In order to replace the "good bacteria" after a course of antibiotics, we
need to supplement our diet using a product called a "probiotic."
Probiotics contain live active cultures of bacteria found in our
gut. Depending on the patient's needs, we can select a probiotic product
that contains 1 strain, or type, of bacteria or we can select one that has
15 different strains. The quantity of each bacteria contained inside the
capsule is listed as a "colony forming unit" or CFU. CFU is another way
of determining the potency of the probiotic.
Besides preventing side effects of antibiotics, probiotics may also benefit
patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn's Disease, may
reduce bladder cancer occurrence, and may treat eczema, and treat or
prevent occurrence of colds and flu.
To learn more about probiotics, please visit the links below:
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/probiotics
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Sleeping Well
Part 1 of 2
Do you sleep poorly or too little? Do you fall asleep easily, only to wake
in the middle of the night, wide awake for hours? Are you sensitive to
any little noise or activity during the night? If so, it's time to get back to
sleep basics for a month to see whether your sleep quality and quantity
improve.
Start each day mentally and physically winding-up your energy to
effectively accomplish your work. Raise your metabolism within the first
hour of waking by eating nutrition rich food and by raising your heart rate
even just 3-5 minutes.
Then, in the evening, start winding-down mentally and physically to
prepare for sleep. Avoid eating, exercising, or drinking anything within 3
hours of bedtime since your body can't do two big jobs, like digestion
and sleep, at once.
Eat twice as much veggies (tomato, onion, broccoli, and so on) as carbs
(fruit, root veggies, whole grains). Eat just as much protein (meat, fish,
yogurt, eggs) as carbs. Simple carbohydrates like bread, cold cereal,
and pasta increase your stress and your blood sugar imbalance, which
can worsen sleep.
Lifestyle choices that improve one area of health (like sleep) often
improve other symptoms also (weight, energy, mood, or anxiety). So it is
definitely worth giving these changes a try for a month.
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Actual Irseld Pharmacy Patient Testimonial...
Betaine HCL and Pepsin
" I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you again for
recommending Betaine HCL with Pepsin for my stomach issues. I have
been on almost every prescription medication on the market for
heartburn and acid reflux over the
past 25 years. My problems come
and go. About a year ago I was in
the pharmacy filling a prescription for
Protonix, and that is when you told
me about Hypochlorhydria - low
stomach acid. I have never heard of
such a thing, so you sent home some
samples of Betaine HCL with Pepsin
and I have not used an antacid
since! I made sure to carefully follow
instructions on how to take the
Betaine HCL and Pepsin, because
when I take too much or too little it causes the same symptoms as if I
were not taking anything. I wasn't sure it was really what I needed, but
now that I 've learned what meals I need to take more with and what
meals I need to take less with, it is an absolute God send! It's scary to
think how many people are taking prescription medications, when they
could be taking a natural supplement. I would recommend this product
to everyone who thinks they have acid reflux. I am sure they would be
happy with the results."
- Actual Irsfeld Pharmacy Patient
While prescription medications work well for people with too much
stomach acid, symptoms of heartburn may be due to too little stomach
acid. Having too little stomach acid increases the time it takes your body
to digest food, causing indigestion, poor nutrient absorption, and
symptoms of heart burn. In fact, as we age our body produces less acid,
not more!
Betaine HCl and Pepsin work differently than prescription
medications. Betaine HCL increases acid and helps digestion for
people who do not produce enough acid on their own. Pepsin helps
your body digest proteins.
If you suffer from heart burn and is not helped by prescription
medications, such as omeprazole, prevacid or pantoprazole, consider
trying Betaine HCl and Pepsin.
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