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Fatigue
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
Grave warnings about climate reality turn our attention to the fatigue of our planet and its effect on our personal health. Emerging from this climate urgency is environmental medicine, which examines ailments and diseases that are caused by the external environment. Environmental medicine focuses on the interactions between risk factors in the environment and how they jeopardize human health. For example, exposure to mold and other environmental toxins has been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome.5 Environmental physicians focus on recognizing, treating, and preventing illnesses caused by exposure to biological and chemical triggers in air, food, and water. Consider whether and how these environmental factors might be sources of your fatigue.
The Electromagnetic Phenomena as Incitants
Published in William J. Rea, Kalpana D. Patel, Air Pollution and the Electromagnetic Phenomena as Incitants, 2018
William J. Rea, Kalpana D. Patel
According to Smith,21 (1) it should be possible to erase the common frequency pattern of adaptation to exposure substances, including disease-generating and other triggers (toxic chemicals, biologics, EMF, medication), in an individual (shown by Tues in all such persons). (2) This would then leave the individuals’ distinct frequency sensitivity patterns that could be measured and altered. These sensitivity patterns could be neutralized or erased on an individual basis, but this would only be a temporary measure as the underlying chemical and EMF sensitivities would reappear if not corrected by permanent tissue changes after total removal by cessation. (3) Chemical detoxification by environmental medicine techniques would be necessary for a more permanent solution, which would include replacement of nutritional deficits. However, some substances, such as metal or polysynthetics, especially implants such as polyurethane, polyvinyl, and polyethylene that can't be removed, need to have injections of the neutralizing dose every 4–7 days or more frequently to maintain stability due to the acquired hypersensitivity in the patient.
Our strained relations with environmental agents
Published in Richard Lawson, Jonathon Porritt, Bills of Health, 2018
Richard Lawson, Jonathon Porritt
Clinical ecologists, doctors who are represented by the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine,a have for a long time been treating people who react adversely to a variety of artificial chemicals. This form of medicine suffered a brief spell of notoriety in the media when the tabloids picked up a case of a young singer who they dubbed as ‘allergic to the twentieth century’. The furore about this case did nothing to help the credibility of the young discipline of clinical ecology with medicine as a whole, and the tabloid journalists, as is their wont, soon became bored with the topic, having done it to death in the eyes of the public and certainly in the eyes of the medical profession. Meanwhile, scientific research continues into the reaction of individuals to new chemicals, but is limited by the difficulty of obtaining funds for research The big money in medical research is in drugs. Clinical ecology offers cures not by taking drugs but by avoiding chemicals and foods that cause problems. Therefore there is a difficulty in getting funded.
Therapeutic effects of fluted pumpkin seeds on cadmium-induced testicular injury
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2022
Ogechukwu E. Ezim, Sunny O. Abarikwu
Cd is well-known to damage the gonads of male experimental animals and sometimes these effects are irreversible (Oguzturk et al. 2012). Because of the ubiquitous presence of Cd in the environment, studies of its effect on the reproductive organs are important in toxicology studies and public health. Consequently, studies on safeguarding the male gonads from Cd effects have become relevant in both environmental medicine and health (Järup and Akesson 2009). In the present study, we investigated the effects of Cd at an oral dose (24 mg/kg b.w.) that is equivalent to the intraperitoneal dose (1.2 mg/kg b.w.) reported to be the lowest dose of Cd capable of causing toxic effects in the tissues of rats (Cupertino et al. 2017), as well as the protective efficacy of FPS against Cd-induced testicular toxicity. The present results indicate that Cd significantly decreased the size of the testes. The testicular structure appeared hemorrhagic without the conspicuous presence of the blood vessels that supply the testis, suggesting that the blood vessels supply the tissues were ruptured by Cd. These characteristic features of Cd-treated testes observed in the present study are consistent with previous reports (de Souza Predes et al. 2010, Yari et al. 2010, El-Neweshy et al. 2013, Abarikwu et al. 2018) and confirm the organotoxic effects of Cd in rats.
The enigma of headaches associated with electromagnetic hyperfrequencies: Hypotheses supporting non-psychogenic algogenic processes
Published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 2020
Hyperfrequency fields (HF, or microwaves), are omnipresent in modern society. The HF frequencies range between 300 MHz and 300 GHz. The most popular applications to date are GSM/CDMA/TD-SCDMA/UMTS/LTE frequencies, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. According to the International Telephone Union (ITU), there were 3,385 billion internet users in 2016 and 7.1943 billion mobile telephony subscriptions registered in 2015 in the world (source: ITU, www.itu.int). This raises the question of the safety of these technologies. HF-induced symptoms are recognized by international organizations such as EUROPEAM (European Academy for Environmental Medicine)(Belyaev et al. 2016). Some objective brain consequences had been described, even though there are some controversial findings. However, subjective effects, often related to an underlying psychological susceptibility, are the most reported, mainly including headaches, anxiety, depression and other neuropsychiatric consequences. Therefore, an electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) has been defined and described with a prevalence of 1.5% to 5% (Durusoy et al. 2017; Hillert et al. 2002; Mohammadianinejad et al. 2016; Schrottner et al. 2007; Wilen et al. 2003). Although there are numerous reports supporting EHS, a nocebo effect is mostly mentioned by authors (Kwon et al. 2012; Oftedal et al. 2007).
Do they teach what they need to? An analysis of the impact of curriculum mapping on the learning objectives taught in a lecture series in surgery
Published in Medical Teacher, 2019
Jasmina Sterz, Sebastian H. Hoefer, Maren Janko, Bernd Bender, Farzin Adili, Teresa Schreckenbach, Lukas Benedikt Seifert, Miriam Ruesseler
Several publications focus on curriculum mapping (Robley et al. 2005; Hege et al. 2010; Spreckelsen et al. 2013; Zelenitsky et al. 2014; Keijsers et al. 2015); in this context, curriculum mapping ranges from mapping the curriculum of a single medical discipline at one single medical school to mapping the curriculum across different faculties in different medical schools. For example, Keijsers et al. (2015) analyzed the curricula of all medical schools in the Netherlands regarding (geriatric) pharmacology and pharmacotherapy education. As they considered the national blueprint as inadequate for their study goal, they developed a list of at least 47 core learning goals regarding (geriatric) pharmacology and pharmacotherapy education. On average only 79% of this learning goals were covered and they found large differences in quality and quantity between the faculties. Hege et al. (2010) give an example for mapping a single medical discipline’s curriculum and showed that relevant learning objectives in Occupational and Environmental Medicine were not taught as intended at the medical school of the Ludwig-Maximilians University. Based on this, they point out the need for restructuring the existing curriculum, but they do not analyze the influence this mapping had on the curriculum (Hege et al. 2010).