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Mmmm! YAY! It's meat!!
Mmmm! YAY! It's meat!!
There are a stunning number of photos on the web of food shaped like hearts... Most of that food, BTW is made of MEAT. "YAY!" Or should we say nay?
I get such mixed reviews regarding the eating of meat, especially from the opposite sex. I know a few men who are college educated and refuse to touch a piece of meat with a ten-foot pole. All their reasonings are political... They all have doctorates. And I have to say I've been prompted, and continue to be prompted to look into the Politics of Meat time and again, because of them.
Then I know some other men who insist we cannot live without eating meat, that it is a bodily requirement because we do not get enough of the right proteins from beans and nuts. So from them I have learned, you must supplement your beans, okay? With rice. How about you women out there? What are you eating for your heart health, etc.?
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As for myself, I'm Irish
and grew up eating potatoes. YAY!
and grew up eating potatoes. YAY!
Or is that a good thing?
Because I understand there is not
actually a lot of nutrition in white food,
(such as a white potato, white rice or white bread).
According to some,
this is basically like filling your gut up
with paste.
In fact? It all turns into white sugar
and makes people fat!
"Christ Among the Doctors"
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Because I understand there is not
actually a lot of nutrition in white food,
(such as a white potato, white rice or white bread).
According to some,
this is basically like filling your gut up
with paste.
In fact? It all turns into white sugar
and makes people fat!
Yes, I'm Irish. In my family, we ate meat and potatoes, and lots of it. For generations. We also have this "hereditary" thing going way back with arthritis, rheumatism, and fibromyalgia. I don't ever remember a time in my life when I didn't contend with... Achy knees, joints in my neck, fingers and feet which snapped, crackled and popped.
Recently doctors prescribed neurontin for my mother's pain. I was stunned to go online to discover the medication was originally developed to treat people with herpes!?
That's when I struck on the idea and googled "herpes and food". Voila! Try it, and treat yourselves to the nasty truths online.
Got e coli? It's interesting how casually the news reports come in regarding the recent outbreak with peanut-butter salmonella - food we've been feeding our children. I know the Obama Administration began to crack down on the feds this week.
All of us in the USA need to become more aware of where our food comes from - how it's grown and stewarded, and... No, it wouldn't kill us to cut-back on our intake of meat. Just keep in mind - your heart gets to filter and pump all that junk.
Sometime after WWII, the feds decided it would be good for farmers to shoot-up the animals with steroids and hormones - substances we take into our bodies. My understanding is, the government wanted to produce an image to the world, of Americans being robust and healthy. So, they felt hormones were the answer. Steroids and hormones from our meat are turning Americans into a country of Fat-Asses. Meat-Eating Foreigners leave their countries, right? And come to here, to America, and eat our meat? And they grow Big Giant Fat Asses.
Further, our meat is riddled with the herpes virus (a.k.a. e coli), causing arthritic conditions which keep our medical and pharmaceutical practitioners in BIG business. This is due in part to the cruel conditions in which the animals are raised. If the cattle and chickens are grazing on human waste and sewage, for instance, or fed with food that was grown with or in sewage... Treating the animals with antibiotics should not be the alternative.
Beginning steps to making a shift in your health and well being:
1) Buy organic, hormone and steroid free meat.
2) Ask about where your meat is coming from; get grocery and restaurant owners to think about it.
3) Limit your meat to about 4 ounces a week, and replace it with other proteins
4) Think of your meat as a treat, Man!
Once I started googling "food and herpes" on the internet, I began to feel entirely different about how I eat. Then, it became literal!
Once I started eating organic, and less meat, I stopped having pain in my joints. I stopped having mood-swings around the time of my period... (Ladies, my periods have come and gone with barely any fluctuation in weight, bloating, inconvenience. Gee! This is coming from someone who would normally have to suspend her life for 10-15 days out of every month, to be "on the rag". Of course, I have all quit all caffeinated products, too. Highly recommended! All that stuff about chocolate is a myth. You can replace it with a pint of sorbet and some cookies with chocolate bits.)
The same holds true for our vegetables and fruits - like the peanuts - these also are subject to e coli. Check it out on the web - it's all there. If our foods are not grown organically, they may be subject to toxins and pesticides which are screwing up our bodies. If they are being fertilized with animal products that are tainted with e coli, it's a problem.
You will taste a big difference between an organic banana or tangerine, and ones that are not. Many non-organic fruits are sprayed with ethanol gas, I believe, as a preservative. So even if you peel away the skin, you will have an after-taste of gas in your mouth once you eat the fruit. (It will make you belch and have other questionable effects that make eating non-organic not worth it.) Sure, your fruit will last a whole week or longer! But there is nothing more putrid than biting into a piece of orange, with an after-taste of ethanol! With organic, you want to keep your foods fresh by getting them a couple times a week, then using them!
My tui na healer has urged me to stop eating fish altogether. I didn't bother to ask why. Being a great lover of sushi, I always knew I was taking a chance, eating mercurial poison. It's pathetic. I have stopped eating seafood.
On this note, we should all be looking at the quality of our drinking water. I suggest always filtering and boiling water before you use it. I always keep cold water in the fridge, with lemon juice in it. I don't drink carbonated drinks - the bubbles are very hard for the heart to filter! They can interfere with medications and make people black-out... They take away from the oxidation in our bloodstream. Everyone needs a good vitamin product, because we are not getting enough nutrients in our food. Some of the herbal products out there, like "Great Start Vitamins" are splendid and give lots of energy.
My main diet these days consists of raw or slightly steamed veggies, brown rice, some dressings and marinades for the veggies. Lots of raw juices, farm-fresh cage-free eggs, soups, fruits and tons of tofu and soy milk. Peanut butter and honey are staples. Safeway has a great line of organic foods; a wonderful organic series of breads which taste better than any other breads on the shelves...! Safeway also carries affordable organic fruits and veggies, and hormone and steroid free meat products. You find, once you start eating good food, you actually need less food. Once a week I "treat" myself to either a kosher hamburger, a little cheese pizza with some turkey pepperonis, or some beautifully-prepared shish-kabobs and Mediterranean Halal food... Far away, in a hidden place outside the city.
YRecently doctors prescribed neurontin for my mother's pain. I was stunned to go online to discover the medication was originally developed to treat people with herpes!?
That's when I struck on the idea and googled "herpes and food". Voila! Try it, and treat yourselves to the nasty truths online.
Got e coli? It's interesting how casually the news reports come in regarding the recent outbreak with peanut-butter salmonella - food we've been feeding our children. I know the Obama Administration began to crack down on the feds this week.
Y
All of us in the USA need to become more aware of where our food comes from - how it's grown and stewarded, and... No, it wouldn't kill us to cut-back on our intake of meat. Just keep in mind - your heart gets to filter and pump all that junk.
Sometime after WWII, the feds decided it would be good for farmers to shoot-up the animals with steroids and hormones - substances we take into our bodies. My understanding is, the government wanted to produce an image to the world, of Americans being robust and healthy. So, they felt hormones were the answer. Steroids and hormones from our meat are turning Americans into a country of Fat-Asses. Meat-Eating Foreigners leave their countries, right? And come to here, to America, and eat our meat? And they grow Big Giant Fat Asses.
Further, our meat is riddled with the herpes virus (a.k.a. e coli), causing arthritic conditions which keep our medical and pharmaceutical practitioners in BIG business. This is due in part to the cruel conditions in which the animals are raised. If the cattle and chickens are grazing on human waste and sewage, for instance, or fed with food that was grown with or in sewage... Treating the animals with antibiotics should not be the alternative.
Beginning steps to making a shift in your health and well being:
1) Buy organic, hormone and steroid free meat.
2) Ask about where your meat is coming from; get grocery and restaurant owners to think about it.
3) Limit your meat to about 4 ounces a week, and replace it with other proteins
4) Think of your meat as a treat, Man!
Once I started googling "food and herpes" on the internet, I began to feel entirely different about how I eat. Then, it became literal!
Once I started eating organic, and less meat, I stopped having pain in my joints. I stopped having mood-swings around the time of my period... (Ladies, my periods have come and gone with barely any fluctuation in weight, bloating, inconvenience. Gee! This is coming from someone who would normally have to suspend her life for 10-15 days out of every month, to be "on the rag". Of course, I have all quit all caffeinated products, too. Highly recommended! All that stuff about chocolate is a myth. You can replace it with a pint of sorbet and some cookies with chocolate bits.)
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The same holds true for our vegetables and fruits - like the peanuts - these also are subject to e coli. Check it out on the web - it's all there. If our foods are not grown organically, they may be subject to toxins and pesticides which are screwing up our bodies. If they are being fertilized with animal products that are tainted with e coli, it's a problem.
You will taste a big difference between an organic banana or tangerine, and ones that are not. Many non-organic fruits are sprayed with ethanol gas, I believe, as a preservative. So even if you peel away the skin, you will have an after-taste of gas in your mouth once you eat the fruit. (It will make you belch and have other questionable effects that make eating non-organic not worth it.) Sure, your fruit will last a whole week or longer! But there is nothing more putrid than biting into a piece of orange, with an after-taste of ethanol! With organic, you want to keep your foods fresh by getting them a couple times a week, then using them!
My tui na healer has urged me to stop eating fish altogether. I didn't bother to ask why. Being a great lover of sushi, I always knew I was taking a chance, eating mercurial poison. It's pathetic. I have stopped eating seafood.
On this note, we should all be looking at the quality of our drinking water. I suggest always filtering and boiling water before you use it. I always keep cold water in the fridge, with lemon juice in it. I don't drink carbonated drinks - the bubbles are very hard for the heart to filter! They can interfere with medications and make people black-out... They take away from the oxidation in our bloodstream. Everyone needs a good vitamin product, because we are not getting enough nutrients in our food. Some of the herbal products out there, like "Great Start Vitamins" are splendid and give lots of energy.
My main diet these days consists of raw or slightly steamed veggies, brown rice, some dressings and marinades for the veggies. Lots of raw juices, farm-fresh cage-free eggs, soups, fruits and tons of tofu and soy milk. Peanut butter and honey are staples. Safeway has a great line of organic foods; a wonderful organic series of breads which taste better than any other breads on the shelves...! Safeway also carries affordable organic fruits and veggies, and hormone and steroid free meat products. You find, once you start eating good food, you actually need less food. Once a week I "treat" myself to either a kosher hamburger, a little cheese pizza with some turkey pepperonis, or some beautifully-prepared shish-kabobs and Mediterranean Halal food... Far away, in a hidden place outside the city.
"Christ Among the Doctors"Y
AP IMPACT: Drugmakers' push boosts 'murky' ailment
AP - 02/08/2009 17:36:46
By MATTHEW PERRONE
Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions -- including whether it's a real disease at all.
Key components of the industry-funded buzz over the pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia are grants -- more than $6 million donated by drugmakers Eli Lilly and Pfizer in the first three quarters of 2008 -- to nonprofit groups for medical conferences and educational campaigns, an Associated Press analysis found.
That's more than they gave for more accepted ailments such as diabetes and Alzheimer's. Among grants tied to specific diseases, fibromyalgia ranked third for each company, behind only cancer and AIDS for Pfizer and cancer and depression for Lilly.
Fibromyalgia draws skepticism for several reasons. The cause is unknown. There are no tests to confirm a diagnosis. Many patients also fit the criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome and other pain ailments.
Experts don't doubt the patients are in pain. They differ on what to call it and how to treat it.
Many doctors and patients say the drugmakers are educating the medical establishment about a misunderstood illness, much as they did with depression in the 1980s. Those with fibromyalgia have often had to fight perceptions that they are hypochondriacs, or even faking their pain.
But critics say the companies are hyping fibromyalgia along with their treatments, and that the grantmaking is a textbook example of how drugmakers unduly influence doctors and patients.
"I think the purpose of most pharmaceutical company efforts is to do a little disease-mongering and to have people use their drugs," said Dr. Frederick Wolfe, who was lead author of the guidelines defining fibromyalgia in 1990 but has since become one of its leading skeptics.
Whatever the motive, the push has paid off. Between the first quarter of 2007 and the fourth quarter of 2008, sales rose from $395 million to $702 million for Pfizer's Lyrica, and $442 million to $721 million for Lilly's Cymbalta.
Cymbalta, an antidepressant, won Food and Drug Administration approval as a treatment for fibromyalgia in June. Lyrica, originally approved for epileptic seizures, was approved for fibromyalgia a year earlier.
Drugmakers respond to skepticism by pointing out that fibromyalgia is recognized by medical societies, including the American College of Rheumatology.
"I think what we're seeing here is just the evolution of greater awareness about a condition that has generally been neglected or poorly managed," said Steve Romano, a Pfizer vice president who oversees its neuroscience division. "And it's mainly being facilitated by the fact the FDA has now approved effective compounds."
The FDA approved the drugs because they've been shown to reduce pain in fibromyalgia patients, though it's not clear how. Some patients say the drugs can help, but the side effects include nausea, weight gain and drowsiness.
Helen Arellanes of Los Angeles was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in September 2007 and later left her job to go on disability. She takes five medications for pain, including Lyrica and Cymbalta.
"I call it my fibromyalgia fog, because I'm so medicated I go through the day feeling like I'm not really there," Arellanes said. "But if for some reason I miss a dose of medication, I'm in so much pain."
A single mother of three, Arellanes sometimes struggles to afford all her medications. She said she is grateful that a local Pfizer sales representative occasionally gives her free samples of Lyrica "to carry me through the month."
The drugmakers' grant-making is dwarfed by advertisement spending. Eli Lilly spent roughly $128.4 million in the first three quarters of 2008 on ads to promote Cymbalta, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Pfizer Inc. spent more than $125 million advertising Lyrica.
But some say the grants' influence goes much further than dollar figures suggest. Such efforts steer attention to diseases, influencing patients and doctors and making diagnosis more frequent, they say.
"The underlying purpose here is really marketing, and they do that by sponsoring symposia and hiring physicians to give lectures and prepare materials," said Wolfe, who directs the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases in Wichita, Kan.
Similar criticisms have dogged drugmakers' marketing of medicines for overactive bladder and restless legs syndrome.
Many of the grants go to educational programs for doctors that feature seminars on the latest treatments and discoveries.
Pfizer says it has no control over which experts are invited to the conferences it sponsors. Skeptics such as Wolfe are occasionally asked to attend.
The drug industry's grants also help fill out the budgets of nonprofit disease advocacy groups, which pay for educational programs and patient outreach and also fund some research.
"If we have a situation where we don't have that funding, medical education is going to come to a screeching halt, and it will impact the kind of care that patients will get," said Lynne Matallana, president of the National Fibromyalgia Association.
Matallana founded the group in 1997 after she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. A former advertising executive, Matallana said she visited 37 doctors before learning there was a name for the crushing pain she felt all over her body.
A decade later, her patient advocacy group is a $1.5 million-a-year operation that has successfully lobbied Congress for more research funding for fibromyalgia. Forty percent of the group's budget comes from corporate donations, such as the funds distributed by Pfizer and Eli Lilly.
Pfizer gave $2.2 million and Lilly gave $3.9 million in grants and donations related to fibromyalgia in the first three quarters of last year, the AP found. Those funds represented 4 percent of Pfizer's giving and about 9 percent of Eli Lilly's.
Eli Lilly, Pfizer and a handful of other companies began disclosing their grants only in the past two years, after coming under scrutiny from federal lawmakers.
The message in company TV commercials is clear. "Fibromyalgia is real," proclaimed one Lyrica ad. Researchers who've studied the condition for decades say it's not that simple.
Since the 1970s, Wolfe and a small group of specialists have debated the condition in the pages of medical journals. Depending on whom you ask, it is a disease, a syndrome, a set of symptoms or a behavior disorder.
The American College of Rheumatology estimates that between 6 million and 12 million people in the U.S. have fibromyalgia, more than 80 percent of them women. It's not clear how many cases are actually diagnosed, but Dr. Daniel Clauw of the University of Michigan said pharmaceutical industry market research shows roughly half are undiagnosed. People with fibromyalgia experience widespread muscle pain and other symptoms including fatigue, headache and depression.
After 30 years of studying the ailment, rheumatologist Dr. Don Goldenberg says fibromyalgia is still a "murky area."
"Doctors need labels and patients need labels," said Goldenberg, a professor of medicine at Tufts University. "In general, it's just more satisfying to tell people, 'You have X,' rather than, 'You have pain.'"
While Goldenberg continues to diagnose patients with fibromyalgia, some of his colleagues have stopped, saying the condition is a catchall covering a range of symptoms.
Dr. Nortin Hadler says telling people they have fibromyalgia can actually doom them to a life of suffering by reinforcing the idea that they have an incurable disease.
"It's been shown that if you are diagnosed with fibromyalgia, your chances for returning to a level of well-being that satisfies you are pretty dismal," said Hadler, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who has occasionally advised health insurers on how to deal with fibromyalgia.
Hadler said people labeled with fibromyalgia are indeed suffering, not from a medical disease but from a psychological condition. Instead of drugs, patients should receive therapy to help them "unlearn" their predicament, he said.
Research by the University of Michigan's Clauw suggests people with fibromyalgia experience pain differently because of abnormalities in their nervous system. Brain scans show unusual activity when the patients experience even minor pain, though there is no abnormality common to all.
Clauw's work, however, illustrates the knotty issues of drug company funding. He has done paid consulting work for the drugmakers, and he's received research funding from the National Fibromyalgia Research Association, which receives money from the drugmakers.
While Clauw acknowledges that Lyrica and Cymbalta do not work for everyone, he has little patience for experts who spend more time parsing definitions than helping patients.
"At the end of the day I don't care how you categorize this -- it's a legitimate condition and these people are suffering," Clauw said.
AP - 02/08/2009 17:36:46
By MATTHEW PERRONE
Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions -- including whether it's a real disease at all.
Key components of the industry-funded buzz over the pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia are grants -- more than $6 million donated by drugmakers Eli Lilly and Pfizer in the first three quarters of 2008 -- to nonprofit groups for medical conferences and educational campaigns, an Associated Press analysis found.
That's more than they gave for more accepted ailments such as diabetes and Alzheimer's. Among grants tied to specific diseases, fibromyalgia ranked third for each company, behind only cancer and AIDS for Pfizer and cancer and depression for Lilly.
Fibromyalgia draws skepticism for several reasons. The cause is unknown. There are no tests to confirm a diagnosis. Many patients also fit the criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome and other pain ailments.
Experts don't doubt the patients are in pain. They differ on what to call it and how to treat it.
Many doctors and patients say the drugmakers are educating the medical establishment about a misunderstood illness, much as they did with depression in the 1980s. Those with fibromyalgia have often had to fight perceptions that they are hypochondriacs, or even faking their pain.
But critics say the companies are hyping fibromyalgia along with their treatments, and that the grantmaking is a textbook example of how drugmakers unduly influence doctors and patients.
"I think the purpose of most pharmaceutical company efforts is to do a little disease-mongering and to have people use their drugs," said Dr. Frederick Wolfe, who was lead author of the guidelines defining fibromyalgia in 1990 but has since become one of its leading skeptics.
Whatever the motive, the push has paid off. Between the first quarter of 2007 and the fourth quarter of 2008, sales rose from $395 million to $702 million for Pfizer's Lyrica, and $442 million to $721 million for Lilly's Cymbalta.
Cymbalta, an antidepressant, won Food and Drug Administration approval as a treatment for fibromyalgia in June. Lyrica, originally approved for epileptic seizures, was approved for fibromyalgia a year earlier.
Drugmakers respond to skepticism by pointing out that fibromyalgia is recognized by medical societies, including the American College of Rheumatology.
"I think what we're seeing here is just the evolution of greater awareness about a condition that has generally been neglected or poorly managed," said Steve Romano, a Pfizer vice president who oversees its neuroscience division. "And it's mainly being facilitated by the fact the FDA has now approved effective compounds."
The FDA approved the drugs because they've been shown to reduce pain in fibromyalgia patients, though it's not clear how. Some patients say the drugs can help, but the side effects include nausea, weight gain and drowsiness.
Helen Arellanes of Los Angeles was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in September 2007 and later left her job to go on disability. She takes five medications for pain, including Lyrica and Cymbalta.
"I call it my fibromyalgia fog, because I'm so medicated I go through the day feeling like I'm not really there," Arellanes said. "But if for some reason I miss a dose of medication, I'm in so much pain."
A single mother of three, Arellanes sometimes struggles to afford all her medications. She said she is grateful that a local Pfizer sales representative occasionally gives her free samples of Lyrica "to carry me through the month."
The drugmakers' grant-making is dwarfed by advertisement spending. Eli Lilly spent roughly $128.4 million in the first three quarters of 2008 on ads to promote Cymbalta, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Pfizer Inc. spent more than $125 million advertising Lyrica.
But some say the grants' influence goes much further than dollar figures suggest. Such efforts steer attention to diseases, influencing patients and doctors and making diagnosis more frequent, they say.
"The underlying purpose here is really marketing, and they do that by sponsoring symposia and hiring physicians to give lectures and prepare materials," said Wolfe, who directs the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases in Wichita, Kan.
Similar criticisms have dogged drugmakers' marketing of medicines for overactive bladder and restless legs syndrome.
Many of the grants go to educational programs for doctors that feature seminars on the latest treatments and discoveries.
Pfizer says it has no control over which experts are invited to the conferences it sponsors. Skeptics such as Wolfe are occasionally asked to attend.
The drug industry's grants also help fill out the budgets of nonprofit disease advocacy groups, which pay for educational programs and patient outreach and also fund some research.
"If we have a situation where we don't have that funding, medical education is going to come to a screeching halt, and it will impact the kind of care that patients will get," said Lynne Matallana, president of the National Fibromyalgia Association.
Matallana founded the group in 1997 after she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. A former advertising executive, Matallana said she visited 37 doctors before learning there was a name for the crushing pain she felt all over her body.
A decade later, her patient advocacy group is a $1.5 million-a-year operation that has successfully lobbied Congress for more research funding for fibromyalgia. Forty percent of the group's budget comes from corporate donations, such as the funds distributed by Pfizer and Eli Lilly.
Pfizer gave $2.2 million and Lilly gave $3.9 million in grants and donations related to fibromyalgia in the first three quarters of last year, the AP found. Those funds represented 4 percent of Pfizer's giving and about 9 percent of Eli Lilly's.
Eli Lilly, Pfizer and a handful of other companies began disclosing their grants only in the past two years, after coming under scrutiny from federal lawmakers.
The message in company TV commercials is clear. "Fibromyalgia is real," proclaimed one Lyrica ad. Researchers who've studied the condition for decades say it's not that simple.
Since the 1970s, Wolfe and a small group of specialists have debated the condition in the pages of medical journals. Depending on whom you ask, it is a disease, a syndrome, a set of symptoms or a behavior disorder.
The American College of Rheumatology estimates that between 6 million and 12 million people in the U.S. have fibromyalgia, more than 80 percent of them women. It's not clear how many cases are actually diagnosed, but Dr. Daniel Clauw of the University of Michigan said pharmaceutical industry market research shows roughly half are undiagnosed. People with fibromyalgia experience widespread muscle pain and other symptoms including fatigue, headache and depression.
After 30 years of studying the ailment, rheumatologist Dr. Don Goldenberg says fibromyalgia is still a "murky area."
"Doctors need labels and patients need labels," said Goldenberg, a professor of medicine at Tufts University. "In general, it's just more satisfying to tell people, 'You have X,' rather than, 'You have pain.'"
While Goldenberg continues to diagnose patients with fibromyalgia, some of his colleagues have stopped, saying the condition is a catchall covering a range of symptoms.
Dr. Nortin Hadler says telling people they have fibromyalgia can actually doom them to a life of suffering by reinforcing the idea that they have an incurable disease.
"It's been shown that if you are diagnosed with fibromyalgia, your chances for returning to a level of well-being that satisfies you are pretty dismal," said Hadler, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who has occasionally advised health insurers on how to deal with fibromyalgia.
Hadler said people labeled with fibromyalgia are indeed suffering, not from a medical disease but from a psychological condition. Instead of drugs, patients should receive therapy to help them "unlearn" their predicament, he said.
Research by the University of Michigan's Clauw suggests people with fibromyalgia experience pain differently because of abnormalities in their nervous system. Brain scans show unusual activity when the patients experience even minor pain, though there is no abnormality common to all.
Clauw's work, however, illustrates the knotty issues of drug company funding. He has done paid consulting work for the drugmakers, and he's received research funding from the National Fibromyalgia Research Association, which receives money from the drugmakers.
While Clauw acknowledges that Lyrica and Cymbalta do not work for everyone, he has little patience for experts who spend more time parsing definitions than helping patients.
"At the end of the day I don't care how you categorize this -- it's a legitimate condition and these people are suffering," Clauw said.
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If you suffer with fibromyalgia,
you must get all caffeine out of your system,
and keep it out... It is poison.
you must get all caffeine out of your system,
and keep it out... It is poison.
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