Weekly Health and Fitness Corner

"...schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the way reality is perceived with Associated changes in schizo means split and free Nia means mind in Greek but it's important to remember it is not meant to mean split personality which is a condition schizophrenia affect how people think to feel and behave and the symptoms are divided into three main types Karthik or positive symptoms negative symptoms and cognitive symptoms psychotic symptoms include hallucinations meaning sensing something that there and auditory hallucinations are particularly common thought to occur in 80% of patients at some point delusions are fixed belief that something is true despite having evidence that it is not in schizophrenia paranoid delusion is a common for believing the FBI is following them or that they're being poisoned delusions of reference are also common in schizophrenia where a person believes messages and meant for them for example believing a newsreader on TV is talking directly to them they can be delusions of control where a person believes that someone else is controlling their thoughts such as the FBI placing thoughts in their minds they can be delusions of grandeur meaning being a figure of great importance and delusions of erotomania meaning believing a person typically of higher status is in love with them another positive symptom is disorganized..."

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"...Serotonin syndrome also known as serotonin toxicity is a potentially life-threatening condition due to excessive serotonin levels in the body this can come from using the medication as a therapy due to drug interactions recreational drug use or even intentional overdoses the end result is an increased in the amount of serotonin in the synaptic cleft able to bind serotonin receptors, for example, selective serotonin reuptake Inhibitors like Citalopram inhibit the reuptake of Serotonin into the presynaptic neuron meaning more is available to bind the postsynaptic receptors monoamine oxidase Inhibitors likes alleged lean prevent the breakdown of Serotonin so more is available SSRIs tend to be the most common cause was because of their widespread use while monoamine oxidase Inhibitors tend to produce the more severe cases other medications include serotonin noradrenaline reuptake it is tricyclic antidepressants serotonin modulators and tryptophan supplementation as it is converted and leads to serotonin formation opioids amphetamines and cocaine also increase serotonin release serotonin is found mostly in the gastrointestinal system it is carried by platelets and also exerts a acts on the central nervous system within the CNS it has rules in attention mood sleep cognition and thermoregulation in the other systems it is involved in vasoconstriction gastrointestinal motility uterine contraction and..."

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"...welcome back to me chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner primarily is dr. Gates I am a board-certified chiropractic neurologist and so we have practice in which we have morphed into a practice of chronic pain and chronic conditions in the title of today's topic is hot flash going Beyond hormone replacement therapy and Little did I know when I started getting into treating fibromyalgia many years ago and that it would morph into the practice that we have and even less that I know that it would more into me having to understand something about hot flashes and or hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy seems to be pretty popular in this country I know those of you who may be watching in Southern California there seems to be hormone replacement therapy doctor on every other corner and and it's it seems to be like so many of the other treatments that have evolved current medical model or this current Healthcare model even relative to we have a symptom we try to alleviate the symptoms we find we don't have enough f let's take more estrogen that's we'll talk about a few minutes that is rarely a good long-term response and that's not even a saying that that's like the endocrine Society I agree with that so harm or replacement therapy has become really popular for a lot of different things but three things can happen when you use hormone replacement therapy for and and hot flashes are certainly one of the most common options that doctors will use hormone replacement therapy for..."

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"...obstructive sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of Airway obstruction during sleep leading to periods with breathing stops known as apnea moving from wakefulness to sleep causes relaxation of muscle tone including the muscles of the upper Airway this allows the soft palate and the tongue to relax and to create an obstruction that reduces the patency of the respiratory tract rapid eye movement or REM sleep, in particular, is known to feature this reduction in muscle tone but it can happen throughout the Sleep Cycle there is snoring when some still enter but as the obstruction progresses the airflow can be severely reduced causing apnea the reduction in the ventilation of the lungs causes a reduction in blood oxygen levels and as a result there is an interruption in sleep known as neurological arousal with a partially awakens in order to restore muscle tone and therefore oxygenation but this isn't necessarily perceived by the person partial collapses with reduced oxygen or arousals a termed hypo apneas while apnea is defined as over a 90% airflow obstruction lasting 10 longer a cycle is there for generated alternating between periods of deeper sleep and higher wakefulness with a typical sleep cycle is which ultimately disrupts the quality of sleep and can cause sleep deprivation risk factors are thought to be obesity as it increases the amount of soft tissue around the airway..."

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"depression is a mental state of low mood there are several subtypes of depression but the major depressive disorder is the one that is usually intended it is expected to be the number one cause of disease burden worldwide by 2030 the term major depressive disorder was first used in the 1970s and the disorder was added to the diagnostic and statistical Manual of mental disorders known as the DSM in the in 80s today we have the DSM-5 which lays out nine criteria on which the diagnosis is based they include a low mood most of the day on most days and anhedonia which means a loss of pleasure or interest in previously enjoyable activities these two are considered core symptoms and one of them must be present for a diagnosis of major depressive disorder the other criteria include significant weight loss or weight gain insomnia or hypersomnia meaning not sleeping enough or sleeping too much fatigue or a loss of energy nearly every day psychomotor retardation which means ass going down of thoughts and physical movements that is noticed by others then there is inappropriate guilt or feeling worthless a reduction in the ability tea to concentrate and it recurrent thoughts of death a total of five or more over a period of at least two weeks leading to significant clinical distress or impaired functioning need to be present for the diagnosis and the symptoms cannot be the result of substance abuse or another condition major depressive disorder is thought..."

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"I never heard a group okay and so the bottom line is that he was talking about that a long time ago it's been around a while when I started to see the Improvement in my page consistently I thought wow this is what I want to do for a living and I had no clue 0 no clue at all that I was going to become conversant in gut problems I did that was going to become in thyroid problems there's going to have to become conversant and hormonal issues but the biggest thing is I had no clue art practice with developed into a man it's almost virtually 100% so this immune issue the autoimmune issue and the Celiac and the non-celiac gluten sensitivity all really go together I know mites I hope we haven't thrown out too much I hope we have a like confused you on this matter if we have confused on this matter because it's a complex matter and if just get that to you then relative to these chronic problems than that's good but we go back to the beginning of this and the bottom line is is there is such a thing as non-celiac gluten sensitivity we see it everyday it is hugely important for you to understand that if you are eating eating glue is creating incentives and you amount of what the tests say you get off of it and you need to stay off of it the tests are convoluted I am certain that what we are telling you is going to be proven not only is it's been proven in the but in future testing the testing I think is in evolution I think they will be better like the test that you just got talking about the dma believe Mom feels that is a better test is pretty cost-effective it's not real expensive so I think we're going to see this thing calm down as time goes on I don't think the gluten free market is going to go away that'll that'll sink"

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the autoimmune issue and the Celiac and the non-celiac gluten sensitivity all really go together I know mites I hope we haven't thrown out too much I hope we have a confused you on this matter if we have confused this matter because it's a complex matter and if just get that to you then relative to these chronic problems than that's good but we go back to the beginning of this and the bottom line is there is such a thing as non-celiac gluten sensitivity we see it every day it is hugely important for you to understand that if you are eating glue is creating incentives and your amount of what the tests say you get off of it and you need to stay off of it...

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"...apparently, we already have enough questions for the next several months but one of the questions was related to stress and hypertension and blood and it was kind of a question that seemed to require a little bit more of coverage than just answering it in that format so to my stress and hypertension there's some we see every day all day long it's a big part of what we see I think it's kind of took like okay stress and hypertension yeah but when you're in something all day it seems so obvious and so normal and everything and then you when you get a question like that you realize that that that there's a lot of folks out there wondering about the connections and what the mechanisms are and so on and so forth so I think the question was more specifically about the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone...row and renin-angiotensin system or something along those nature so I know how stress affects and how stress affects it so they must have been trolling through the internet or something like that about stress right and how to get rid of it right when it's a troll guys throwing has a different country I'm not an error that guy did we do this right every week every week we sit here I don't know Facebook I don't know I don't know Twitter I don't know internet and I don't know what trolling means so now I know it's something I probably have to learn what it means okay all right so relative to stress and the renin-angiotensin system so basically we have systems in our kidney that help to know if you're bleeding out and those systems and Essence will raise blood pressure in the event that like you severed an artery and that's kind of the way renal physiology works and control blood pressure that's how everybody learns..."

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...in the end you have indicated through your research and response to care that you've been treating it as an autoimmune problem for quite a while now I've been three or four or five have I for at least four I'm thinking the one specific case back to back then so at least for so so share with us the data the new data on further on the fact that it's probably an autoimmune attack against the with certain aspects of your adrenal gland yeah exactly so the original studies came out the Mayo Clinic where they attacking the adrenal receptor basically there were these adrenal receptor antibodies sometimes there were immune cells to your autonomic nervous and so that's your the system that creates your fight and flight response in your rest and digest if you go to San dot you need a fight response to get blood up to your brain because otherwise all the blood...

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"...training Expedition where they're basically deprived of food and deprived of sleep and then they also looked at patients who had PTSD suicidal ideation so those are your severe depression patients and bipolar disorder and they looked at all of their stress hormones they looked at cortisol they looked at aldosterone aldosterone is a hormone that goes up when you're trying to save sodium into your circulation like if you cut off an arm and you're bleeding out that's why we have aldosterone but it is a stress hormone look to DHEA DHS a sex hormone that comes from your adrenal glands they also looked at estrogen and testosterone levels and what they found is that in the marathon runners their cortisol levels and they're all dosterone just went up a little bit but it was only temporary whereas they saw in these soldiers who are out there for two weeks and you know bad conditions their aldosterone went up three times normal what it should be but otherwise their sex hormones their testosterone their estrogen levels were not significantly affect it was just mainly their quarters all in there they're all documents the stress hormones went up but their sex hormones were not sacrificed however in the patients who had PTSD severe depression bipolar disorder they had a significant compromise of their testosterone and their estrogen levels also their stress hormones were much elevated and this has been seen throughout the literature but it's a nice expose relative to a lot of people in their concept of stress we're trying to get all this information out to you because a lot of people think well yeah you know I'm stressed for a little bit and then it goes away and you're right if you are stressed out just for a short period of time your body is going to recover but the problem is is that when you get into these chronic states of fight or flight if you have severe depression or bipolar you can go back and look at our broadcast some what that does to the relationship between your fear Center which drives is a stress response and your memory area in your frontal lobes because your frontal lobes in your memory area are always trying to shut off the sphere Center and so once the sphere..."

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