and we wonder why our healthcare system is so messed up.

Drug companies ma e th eir drugs insanely expensive and most doctors use drugs without discriminating a gainst the costly ones. Most people won't as for cheaper drugs because they are n't paying out of poc et most of the time so they just figure their insurance wi ll pay for it so might as well ta e the most expensive. Yet there are many inexp ensive natural treatments that have been proven to help many people that most do ctors haven't even heard of. For example, instead of using expensive and addicti ve opiates for chronic pain, they could be using this . . . "Our outpatient clinic has used both DPA and DLPA successfully since 1990, as ha ve other practitioners. Paul Anderson, MD, a pain specialist and CEO of Natural Pain Relief Center, and former president of the Canadian Institute of Biomechani cs, has been experimenting with alternative pain management methods for many yea rs. He has found DPA to be very effective when combined with a high protein/high vegetable diet. He's also found that low levels of microelectrie current can in itially amplify the effects of the nutrients. His results: "93.1% of my patients using a combination of electromagnetic current, proper diet, nutritional supple ments with amino acids and meditation/relaxation experienced significant long-Ia sting chronic pain relief without any pain medication. Most patients too a mini mum of 1000mg of DPA four times a day initially and didn't require it for pain c ontrol after 14 days." . . .Phenylalanine protects our endorphins. It has helped many people overcome pain, as well as the depression that often accompanies chr onic pain. In the original study of the effects of phenylalanine on pain, three of 10 patients reported significant relief. Phenylalanine has also been proven t o be effective against painful inflammation. According to Russell et al. (2000), phenylalanine may wor for up-regulating what is called the "endogenous analges ia system (EAS), a neural pathway that occurs in a part of the spinal column. Whe n stimulated by chronic pain or therapeutic measures such as opiates or acupunct ure, the EAS suppresses activation of pain-receptive nerves in the spinal column and thereby alleviates pain (Russell et al.2000)." . .. Amazing stuff . . .Phenylalanine was first tested against pain in a 1978 study a t the Chicago Medical School. Researchers began by timing how long laboratory mi ce would remain on a hot plate before jumping off. Then they injected hundreds o f mice with phenylalanine and again watched to see how long the mice would remai n on the heated surface before scurrying off. The amino acid bloc ed pain in 70% of the mice, allowing them to stay on the hot service longer. The pain bloc ing action actually grew stronger with time. Stan dard medicines tend to become less effective over time as the body grows accusto med to them, but phenylalanine was actually more effective on the ninth day than it was on the first. Plus, there was more good news. Phenylalanine wor ed with other medicines, ma ing them stronger, and did all this without any apparent sid e effects. Excited by these surprisingly positive results, the Chicago scientists tested ph enylalanine on humans. The results were astounding. All 10 patients studied who had been suffering from long-standing chronic pain (people who had not been help ed by modern medicine) found pain relief from this simple amino acid (Ehrenpreis et al. 1978). Phenylalanine relieved chronic pain that had not been helped by c onventional methods. There were no harmful side effects, and no one became addic ted (as can be the case with powerful pain medicines). Also, no one developed a tolerance to phenylalanine, requiring larger and larger doses to get the same ef fect, as is often the case with conventional pain drugs. Additional research supported these early promising results. In one landmar stu dy, 43 patients suffering from various types of severe pain were giving 250 mg o f phenylalanine 4 times a day. Some of the patients reported mar ed relief withi n 1 wee . But by the end of the fourth wee , 75% of the patients reported that t heir pain had been relieved (Balagot et al. 1993).

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