hearing loss

hearing loss aids

Save Your Hearing Now: The Revolutionary Program That Can Prevent and May Even Reverse Hearing Loss List Price: $14.99 Amazon Price: $7.53 Average Customer Rating: (2 reviews) Editorial Review: After 20 years of research, leading otolaryngologist Dr. Michael Seidman has developed a breakthrough all natural alternative treatment program to battle hearing loss safely and effectively. Using a specifi c combination of antioxidants, diet, exercise, and basic lifestyle changes, Dr. Seidman's program can help to prevent--and possibly reverse--hearing loss. The book offers a simple self-assessment test that identifies the type, severity, and prognosis of hearing loss, comprehensive advice on diet and supplements, and natural remedies and important lifestyle changes that can make a difference. This is the ultimate resource providing answers--and hope--to the millions of hearing impaired. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Customer Reviews: Summary: Save Your Hearing Now: What Every Boomer Needs Content: Because my hearing is somewhat impaired, I eagerly read "Save Your Hearing Now: The Revolutionary Program That Can Prevent and May Even Reverse Hearing Loss" by Michael D. Seidman, M.D. and Marie Moneysmith. Nearly half of 76 million baby boomers say they are dealing with some degree of hearing loss. That's a 238 percent increase since 1990 when hearing problems affected only 20 percent of this group. That means that if you are at midlife or even younger, you need to read "Save Your Hearing Now." This unique book is more than just about how to save your hearing. It is a comprehensive total health "how to." Everything you need to know to protect your health and hearing, from exercise to diet -- what's new, what works, how to do it, where to get it - it's is all there. The amount of research that went into this work to give the reader the absolute best information and help is outstanding. It's a meticulous blueprint for achieving a better quality of life. Unlike other books on hearing loss that I have read, the authors provide a detailed one-of-a kind action program that will help you achieve a level of overall vibrant good health and hearing you might not think possible. The program is a systematic, easy to follow, step-by-step plan that makes it possible to successfully protect and improve health and hearing. If you now have hearing loss, you can learn how it may be possible to reverse it. The authors explain how others have done it. Because diet is key to health, and certain dietary supplements play a pivotal role in maintaining and repairing health and hearing, the authors tell not only what to take, but why you should take it and how much to take. This is critically important. Advice to take supplements is useless unless you are told how much to take and why. I am particularly impressed that the authors stress the importance and role of potent antioxidants in preventing hearing loss, particularly alpha lipoic acid and acetyl l-carnitine. Other major supplements scientifically shown to support good health and hearing are covered in detail. You won't be confused or overwhelmed with scientific jargon because there isn't any. Even if you know nothing about supplements, presentation of information is so clear and "user friendly" that you will "get it." The quality of resource material and supporting documentation reveals the ultimate usefulness and credibility of any health book. "Save Your Hearing Now" provides many excellent resources with phone numbers, names and addresses for readers to use for additional help and guidance. As a pharmacist, I particularly appreciate the extensive documentation that supports the authors' findings and recommendations. Suggestion: If a midlife or younger friend has a birthday coming up, this is the most loving and life changing gift you can give.

This website has information on all aspects of hearing loss and digital hearing aids; from the signs of hearing loss, diagnosis of hearing loss and treatment for hearing loss. Whether you have an interest in hearing loss in children, hearling loss in adults or hearing loss in the elderly this site is for you. Giving information on ear infection hearing loss, bronchitis hearing loss, multiple sclerosis hearing loss, diabetes hearing loss, loud music hearing loss and low frequency hearing loss, this website is a resource on the subject of hearing loss.

hypothyroidism

all you need to know about Hypothyroidism

Living Well with Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You... That You Need to Know (Revised Edition) List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $8.44 Average Customer Rating: (99 reviews) Editorial Review: As many as one in eight women have a thyroid condition. In Living Well with Hypothyroidism, Mary Shomon outlines the most common of these--too little thyroid hormones in the body. Weight gain, depression, fatigue, and what patients call "brain fog, Brillo hair, and prune skin" result. Because the symptoms of hypothyroidism mimic so many other conditions--chronic fatigue, PMS, clinical depression--it can be very tricky to diagnose, especially since patients with HMOs may not get the thorough testing they need. Shomon knows of what she speaks: she's a health writer and thyroid patient herself. She also manages a thyroid Web site and writes a newsletter on hypothyroidism. In Living Well, she offers an extensively researched guide to this complex condition. She covers conventional, alternative, and late-breaking approaches to treatment--such as challenging the gold standard of Synthroid as the thyroid replacement therapy of choice. (Synthroid replaces T4, the less active... Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Customer Reviews: Summary: Educate yourself Content: This book was perfect for me. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in Oct 2007. I purchased this book in December and I was amazed at how much I did not know about my thyroid problem. It had ALL the right questions that I needed to ask my doctor and I am now on my way to getting the correct dosage for my problem. It has been a long 3 months but I am feeling so much better and I owe so much of it to educating myself by reading this book.

This website gives information about hypothyroidism; what is hypothyroidism? Symptoms and signs of hypothyroidism, living with hypothyroidism, assessment of hypothyroidism and diagnosis of hypothyroidism. Also how hypothyroidism is treated, what the doctor may not tell you about hypothyroidism, and the causes and management of hypothyroidism.

vitamin b12

all you need to know about vitamin B12

Could It Be B12?: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $7.74 Average Customer Rating: (25 reviews) Editorial Review: In Could It Be B12?, RN Sally M. Pacholok and her physician husband, Jeffrey J. Stuart, cite the extensive research done by numerous medical centers and universities that proves B12 deficiency plays a defining role in many seemingly hopeless problems. Yet, even in the face of these studies, this disorder has somehow been overlooked by the general medical field and is often misdiagnosed. The authors include numerous case histories and offer their readers strategies on how to learn if they or a loved one may be suffering from a B12 deficiency. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Customer Reviews: Summary: You can not afford to not read this book if you have or suspect having a vitamin B12 deficiency Content: Could it be B 12 ? : An epidemic of Misdiagnoses is the only book I could find about this issue and it is excellent. Hats off to the authors Sally M. Pacholok and Jefferey J. Stuart, who are undoubtedly experts on the topic. I bought and read it because my blood tests included a serum B 12 which came out deficient. My doctor told me that I needed to take B 12 tablets or better still have injections for the deficiency. He said if untreated for a long time the Myelin coating on the nerves could be damaged causing paralysis or similar diseases. I asked to try the pills first and if my body can not absorb them we shall resort to the B12 injections. My doctor said that because my total blood count results were OK there was no need to worry, because this was evidence that the B12 deficiency had not yet damaged my nervous system. Immediately I started taking the pills ( a month ago ) and I found and read this book in ten days. I am so happy that I read the book ; had I contented myself with the doctor's explanations I would have been unaware that he had given me seriously false information. According to the book a B12 deficiency can damage the nervous system many years before it shows up in the blood count. In fact it may never show up in the blood tests. This is exactly the opposite of what my doctor told me. I learned from the book that this myth is quite prevalent among doctors. Fortunately I do not have the symptoms indicating damage to the nervous system mentioned in the book. I am convinced by the assertion in the book that a serum b12 test is insufficient by itself to detect or rule out a vitamin B 12 deficiency ; in addition a urinary MMA ( Methylmalonic Acid ) and a serum Homocysteine test is a must and must be done using the correct method by a properly endowed lab with the gas chromatography / mass spectrometric method. The book explains how most doctors fail to detect a b12 deficiency because they order only the serum b12 test and not the other 2 tests mentioned. This has very serious consequences for patients who are misdiagnosed with other diseases and left untreated for the b 12 deficiency. Many diseases from psychiatric disorders to heart failures and various neurological diseases have b12 deficiency as one of their major causes. Moreover, b12 deficiency is very widespread ; according to the book 25 per cent of people of all ages and 40 per cent of people over 60 have it. And most of it goes undetected because doctors are either ignorant about it or too arrogant to test for it using the urinary MMA method. The b 12 deficiency can be caused by a vegetarian diet because vitamin B 12 is found only in animal food products. But a more prevalent cause is the inability of the body to absorb vitamin b 12 because of its complicated metabolism that can break down. Moreover, according to the book a B 12 deficiency often results in elevated Homocysteine levels in the blood ( a toxic amino acid ) which can cause clotting in arteries and veins and result in high blood pressure and heart failure just like LDL cholesterol does. Because most labs and doctors do not test for Homocysteine neither it also goes undetected. I read articles written by a famous doctor about b 12 deficiency in the health pages of a major newspaper ; he too mentions a serum b 12 test with no mention of the urinary MMA. When I showed the book to a neuropsychiatrist whom I know socially from a sports club and mentioned the urinary MMA test as more effective in detecting a b12 deficiency he claimed the contrary and dismissed the book as invalid without even skimming over it. This dogmatic and narrow minded approach by doctors is not limited to the B 12 issue. Of course there are many doctors and other medical experts who are open minded and welcome alternative views and use methods that lead to the right diagnoses eg : the authors of this book. However, it is amazing that all over the world many doctors who have very sophisticated medical education, training and experience have not learned to think correctly :they have flawed thinking and application methods leading to wrong diagnoses and treatments too often. According to the books titled You the Smart Patient by doctors Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen and How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, 1 in every 5 diagnoses is wrong. J. Groopman gives many examples of flawed thinking methods by doctors from many different branches of medicine. M. Oz and M. Roizen urge the patient not to take the first diagnosis for granted and to always get a second or even a third opinion before accepting the diagnosis and related treatment. I have screened the standard comprehensive tests of various labs ; they include so many tests and just like the book claims I saw that they seldom advise the inclusion of urinary MMA and serum Homocysteine tests, even though b12 deficiency is so common. I will soon go back to my doctor and when he orders a renewal of the serum b12 test to see the effect of the vitamin b12 pills, I will ask him to also order a urinary MMA and a serum Homocysteine test. If he refuses, which I think he will not, then I will take the advice of the authors of the book and go to another doctor and lab. I thank you the reader of this review to have read my review this far. Even if the correct tests show that you do not have a vitamin B 12 deficiency I still recommend that you read the book. You will know in advance how you can minimize the risk of ever getting the deficiency. Despite that even if this widespread disease ever knocks your door or that of your loved ones you will have the necesssary ammunition of knowledge to win the war against a b12 deficiency.

This website provides information about vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) and its use in the human body; why vitamin B12 is necessary for health, what happens if you have too much or overdose on vitamin B12 or have too little and develop a vitamin deficiency. The site provides details of nutrition, the recommended daily allowance for each vitamin (RDA) and how to source vitamin B12 to ensure a healthy balanced diet. Guidance is given on the vitamin content of specific foods and vitamin supplements are available to buy.

ringworm

ringowrm, athlete's foot and jock itch

Ringworm - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References List Price: $28.95 Amazon Price: $28.95 Average Customer Rating: No current rating. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Customer Reviews:

This website gives information about ringworm athletes foot and jock itch, the causes of ringworm, the diagnosis of ringworm, the symptoms of ringworm, the treatment of ringworm, and home remedies for ringworm. Whether you seek information on ringworm in adults, ringworm in children, how to treat ringworm at home, alternative remedies for ringworm, this site will help you. We also provide descriptions of what ringworm looks like, the appearance of ringworm in its different forms (ringworm of the foot, ringworm of the scalp, ringworm elsewhere on the body), how to avoid getting ringworm and the possibility of transmission between humans and animals.