BiTherapca Health

Health is the state of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being(complete well-being), and not just the absence of disease. While a disease will most likely compromise all these three fundamental 'humors' of life, the absence of an obvious ailment does not preclude an imbalance in them. Disease treatment and especially prevention are a cornerstone in achieving good health. Good health means that the body, mind and spirit are functioning in harmony and in unison and this brings out the best in us. Early treatment is the key since an overwhelmed immune system or overworked repair mechanism, even if it were to be excellent in function, and aided by chemotherapeutic agents, can only, at best, keep the causative agent dormant within our body and will not succeed to completely eliminate it, except, in some instances, with the expert input from the more enlightened health professionals...

We cannot change most things that go on around us but we can put our mind to controlling our reactions to them. This will put us back in control. A world in which we just follow the tides is an erratic and schizophrenic one, with no consistency. This is very taxing and damaging to the body, mind  and spirit. What our inner mind wants, also known as urges(id) and  what individuals in the society or the society, as a whole, want of us, including cultural norms, are usually in conflict, resulting in unconscious manifestations, our egos; an attempt to assert selfness and bounce back. Urges that go against our conscience, which bears our moral values, deal with a more severe conflict because it(our conscience) tells us we cannot have it. This is superego. Since the urges(our inner wants) are usually very strong, as our conscious mind is in the process repressed, we react to the conflict w...

Making some lifestyle changes, undoubtfully, makes a huge difference in our quest for good health. Before treatment is given to a patient, host factors must be well understood and considered.  The environmental factors, including germs, pollutants and toxins, are essential in the decision making process. For germs, sensitivity to the antimicrobial drug, and for cancer, tumor sensitivity to the anti-cancer drug, must be ascertained. The stage of the disease will determine the appropriate approach and therapy to be instituted. The reason why disease occurs, in the first place, includes host susceptibility; which could be seen in enabling factors like disrupted immunity and metabolism, which in turn could be conditioned by genetics, sex, age or pre-existing conditions but may be alleviated by exercise or nutrition; and  environmental causes like germs with their virulence or triggers like pollutants, toxins...

Most of us erroneously think that taking an antibiotic or, for that matter, any antimicrobial, on a continuous basis is a wonderful idea, if we want to get rid of an infection. Alas, we equally need a good immunity to do so. We do not need a continuous infusion in antimicrobial chemotherapy. Rather an intermittent infusion(interrupted and spaced-out infusions), a bolus injection or an oral administration of a drug may be all that is needed. The reasons for this are quite simple: The immune system is usually disrupted and weakened by currently available antimicrobial drugs, due to their toxicity to the immune cells. Immune cells need to proliferate(grow) when they encounter intruder microbes(germs) so as to kill them and antibiotics do no help this, in any way, since they(the antibiotics) kill and will not promote growth. So, continuous infusion, though theoretically the ideal approach to kill a germ, in practice, is undesirable, as it does not allow immune cells to recover adequate...

There has been some hype, and some call it fad, lately, of the effect of microwave oven on food; and cell phones inducing accoustic neuroma, a very-difficult-to-treat brain tumor. A chemistry behind it all is homolytic fission(creation of unpaired electron in the outer orbital), which generates free radicals that subsequently inflict severe damage. The peroxide(O-O) bond is  relatively weak and its homolytic fission into the hydoxyl free radical is a major source of free radical initiation. So conditions that generate radiation(cooking,especially in direct flame and radio waves), aided by iron that generates hydrogen peroxide(and then hydroperoxides) will lead to powerful hydoxyl(OH.) free radical generation which damages the DNA and, and for that matter, any tissue and will potentially cause proliferative diseases, cancer and degenerative diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson's, diabetes and aging skin, as well as alter food quality. Autooxidation li...

Addictions, be they gambling, hoarding, smoking, sex, food, alcohol are driven by the brain's response in anticipation of the reward as a 'rush' or to the stimulus as 'kicks'. The feedback loop is one of the positive pattern type, that is, the more the pleasure derived from the previous episode or expected to be derived from the next, the more the object seeking behavior. The motivation to repeat the act is the 'kick' derived from the previous one and the 'rush' felt in thinking of repeating the act. Hence, different motivations may include direct pleasure from sex, food, alcohol, drugs or the status that, for example, hoarding gives the seeker of material things, that winning gives the gambler or boldness gives the drug taker . The characteristic of any addiction is the adaptations brought about as a result of sustained exposure to the object of addiction. Many start drug use, from curiosity, and do not like it, due to the side effects. They soo...

The importance of staying healthy has never been contested. By staying in good health, we preempt taxing our body, and our systems function at their optimum. Enzymes and chaperones, which depend on energy resources, work best when these resources are not stretched thin. Our cells are saved from toxins that stress them to damage and inflammation. Regulatory processes set in and keep the body healthy by slowing cell division, thus allowing for repairs or allow for the death of severely damaged cells. Too much need for repairs stops cell division altogether. This stoppage results in a failure to replace naturally dying cells. Functional tissue is replaced by scar. The regulatory processes that control the cell division to allow for repairs to take place can be further stressed. This leads to further damage to cells, which now lose self-control and divide uncontrollably. This way cancer is produced. Damage can be prevented, in the first place, by avoiding the insult, which could be phy...