Ross Walter Nutritionist and Naturopath health articles and blog

Modern medicine is JUST an experiment of using toxic chemicals into malnourished people

4/12/2020

Modern medicine is just an experiment of what happens when you put toxic chemicals into malnourished bodies...

Medications don't fix anything. They just trick the body into hiding your symptoms, to make you feel better. Take for instance pain-killing medications - they perform clever things to your biochemical pathways to stop the pain-causing neurotransmitters and/or the cellular receptors from responding to the neurotransmitters, so you don't FEEL the pain. Even though the root causes of the pain are still there, still triggering the pain, and still triggering the pain neurotransmitters...

Or cough medicines which stop you coughing. Never mind that the coughing is a natural mechanism to get the infected mucus and wastes out of your body! Hence you stay more infected and sicker for longer...

Or anti-inflammatory medications which reduce inflammation. Never mind that inflammation is your immune system's natural healing process, so you are in fact prolonging your injury, preventing healing and preventing your immune system from working, which in turn can lead to more infections and over time, cancer.

Or medications to reduce indigestion, reflux, or heartburn etc, by reducing the amount of stomach acid that your stomach produces, to reduce your symptoms. Never mind that your stomach is supposed to be acidic in order to digest your food and release all the nutrients that you eat! If you aren't digesting your foods, you won't be absorbing the nutrients from your foods, and you will quickly become deficient in a large number of nutrients, which in turn cause many more symptoms and conditions, which you may likely reach for more medications to try to hide.... and never actually fix anything. All the while, your health gets worse and worse.

Medications can't fix a poor diet. Medications can't correct nutrient deficiencies. What you need instead is to fix the root causes of your symptoms, which WILL give you long-term resolution and prevention of recurrence!

Sadly, this is not what doctors or the medical system do. They "treat" symptoms (really, they just "manage" symptoms) with medications or surgery.
I instead, as a Clinical Nutritionist, Naturopath and Herbalist, focus on finding all the root causes of all your symptoms and putting together a plan to treating and fixing those root causes, as well as using better and safer options to reduce symptoms and make you feel better, while fixing the causes.

Finding and fixing any nutrient deficiencies is also a very important aspect of what I do, which can be done through signs and symptoms and/or pathology testing. It is also interesting to note that most medications actually CAUSE many nutrient deficiencies, which is also something I check that your medications are doing...

Don't just hide your symptoms! Get rid of them forever, by finding and fixing the root causes. That is what I can help you with!

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reflux and heartburn medications make your health worse

26/9/2019

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This article is a great example of the medicine roundabout that I see very often in my clinical practice, and the difference between allopathic medicine (GPs and pharmaceutical medications), and what I do in Nutritional and Naturopathic treatments.

In allopathic medicine, patients are prescribed medications which may reduce some symptoms, but introduce or cause other symptoms in the form of side effects. These side effects cause long-term (ie, chronic) complications which can be very serious, which then need further medications being prescribed, which in turn cause more side effects etc etc... all because of one or more simple, preventable and very easily treatable factors are the real root causes. But of course no GP ever looks for the root causes, nor recommends nutrient supplements or lifestyle improvements which can prevent and reverse the whole cascade of issues I mention below.

One of the most common issues I see is a client having one or more digestive system symptoms. The symptoms can include some or all of the following:

- frequent burping
- reflux, indigestion, heartburn
- bloating and gas
- constipation or diarrhoea
- nausea after eating some foods.

As a result, many people with these symptoms will visit their GP, who will prescribe various medications to reduce symptoms, such as Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) medications like Nexium, Somac, Zantac and others. BTW, Zantac was recently stopped from production due to it containing a cancer-causing compound...

PPI medications reduce the stomach's ability to produce stomach acid and enzymes, in an attempt to reduce heartburn and reflux. But your body naturally needs stomach acid and enzymes to be produced to digest your food properly. Sure, PPIs can sometimes reduce the reflux or indigestion symptoms, but they don't work most of the time as people with the above symptoms generally have LOW stomach acid already, because of nutrient deficiencies which are causing the reflux and indigestion.

If your stomach cannot digest food properly, the undigested food will mostly not be absorbed into your body to be used, which will lead to many nutrient deficiencies including:

- iron
- vitamin B12
- folate
- magnesium
- calcium
- and zinc.

The longer you use PPI medications for, the worse your nutrient deficiencies will be. In addition, the undigested food makes its way past the small intestine and into the large intestine where there are trillions of digestive bacteria! There's nothing they like better than undigested carbohydrates and proteins to feast on! And they do! Your gut bacteria will ferment the carbohydrates into gas and alcohol (in the same way as making beer and wine!), and putrify the meat proteins to cause lots of GAS, which causes BLOATING, which causes PAIN, and dysbiosis (an imbalance of gut bacteria), constipation and diarrhoea, a foggy brain or headaches (from the alcohol produced), nausea, and other digestive symptoms - all of those listed above. Are these symptoms ringing any bells with you, or someone you know?!

The nutrient deficiencies that PPIs cause, will result in more severe complications over time, including:

- Degenerative brain conditions - dementia and Alzheimer's disease
- Loss of bone density, weak bones, fractures, oesteoporosis and osteopenia
- Acute and chronic kidney diseases, which can be very serious
- Increased incidences of digestive infections - gastroenteritis, food poisoning, Salmonella, Helicobacter pylori infection, C. diff., Campylobacter, and others
- Muscle wasting (especially if taking an anti-inflammatory or NSAID medication)
- Anaemia - iron deficiency and pernicious anaemias
- Increased heart related events - increased blood clots and stroke risk, and heart attacks
- Other digestive system or systemic conditions - SIBO, gastritis, stomach and digestive system cancers, and more.

And if you are relying on the medical system for your health, then you will be going through a lot of medical imaging and pathology tests for these complications, being prescribed more medications to reduce these additional symptoms, which then cause even more side effects, and worsening health, unfortunately. This is the medical roundabout - one medication causes more health issues, which means more medications and more health issues. You need to break this cycle!

Or you can get someone to find the root causes of your reflux and indigestion, or other health issues! That's what I do!

Treating the actual root causes makes far more sense. It means there is no dependence on medications, no side effects or further symptoms, a reduction in risk of all complications, a more permanent resolution to the symptoms, and you can get your health back!

If you are currently taking PPI medications, it can be risky to just stop taking them, especially if your root causes aren't investigated and treated first. If you get lots of burping, reflux, indigestion, bloating, digestive pains, or other digestive symptoms, I can help relieve these symptoms quickly! I can find and fix the root causes of these symptoms, and prevent further complications, especially of PPIs and other medications which don't actually fix the problem, but simply make your health worse.

Avoid the medicine roundabout, and improve your health!

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How your immune system works to keep you alive!

20/7/2018

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This article is about your immune system! You might not think much about your immune system or think that it does very much, but your immune system is on alert constantly to protect you from all known and unknown infections, injuries, damaged cells and more, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, for your entire life! Your immune system, quite literally, keeps you alive!

There are two main parts to your immune system:
1) Innate immune system - these cells protect you from all unknown infection-causing microbes, bacteria and viruses! They recognise what is "self" or safe and what isn't, and will attack and destroy any foreign invaders. This part of your immune system is how we have been able to survive for millenia without modern medicines or medical interventions! The innate immune system, when confronted by a new microbe or invader, learns from this and then trains the adaptive immune system for longer-term defence mechanisms.
2) Adaptive immune system - the adaptive immune system develops antibodies against each invader. Antibodies are then used by the immune system to more quickly respond to and stop infections in future!

Contrary to popular belief, newborn babies do have an immune system! They get this from the mother during development, then from being exposed to good bacteria during birth, and from breast milk which is high in immune system proteins and antibodies. Their immune system gets stronger each day to protect them!

Your immune system is affected by factors such as stress, a poor diet (ie, nutrient deficiencies or excesses), poor digestive system function, chemicals and toxins in foods and environment, poor sleep quality or quantity, and chronic (long-term) infections, medications (antibiotics, NSAIDs, anti-inflammatories, immunosuppressives, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, steroids, etc), and other factors. then it's not going to work as well as it should. Reduced immune system function can lead to longer and more severe infections, reduced or slow healing of wounds, inflammatory conditions, auto-immune conditions (where the immune system turns against your body to damage organs and tissues), and even cancer. Your immune system has several types of cells which find and destroy cancer cells, so when the immune system isn't working optimally, this can allow cancers to grow and spread.

Suppressing your symptoms and your immune system with medications (as listed above) may reduce your symptoms, but will increase the risk of further or more severe infections or other chronic conditions such as cancer.

Having a good immune system is incredibly important, not just to prevent those nasty head colds or flus in winter, but for your long-term health and survival! Your immune system can be affected and reduced by so many factors. If you suffer from frequent infections such as colds, flu, tonsillitis, sinusitis, UTIs, allergies or intolerances, any autoimmune conditions, cancer, or any chronic infection, then your immune system needs help!

This is where I can help! By investigating all possible causes of a poorly functioning immune system and treating the causes, you CAN have your health back!

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medications don't fix any health condition!

1/2/2018

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One of the services I provide for my clients is a Naturopathic review of their medications, and how their medications can actually be causing some (or a lot) of their symptoms and health conditions. Sadly, people simply are not told what their medications actually do, or what side effects they will get from them.

Despite their doctor's best intentions, I've seen clients on multiple anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medications at the same time which cause devastating side effects, or being on multiple medications for which there are known warnings not to be on those together, or being on medications which they should not be on because they also have heart conditions or liver or kidney damage.

Medications really should only be needed for a short term only, but doctors generally prescribe medications for the long term which becomes very dangerous for your health. Medications like antidepressants, antacids, painkillers, anti-inflammatories, and many more should only be prescribed temporarily, while addressing the true cause of the problem. Long term use of any medications can be very dangerous. For example:

- Proton Pump Inhibitors - prescribed for reflux, indigestion, GORD/GERD, heartburn. These stop the stomach producing stomach acid, but this then prevents your body digesting proteins and carbohydrates properly, causing digestive issues and being unable to absorb much of the nutrients from your foods, leading to many vitamin deficiencies, weak bones and fractures, mental health conditions and many more side effects.

- anti-depressants - block or prevent the breakdown of your hormones and neurotransmitters, so that you don't feel "down". Side effects include worsening of depression and anxiety, suicidal thoughts and suicides, sleep issues, weight gain, weak bones, heart disease, digestive conditions, eye conditions and more.

- anti-inflammatories - most health conditions and symptoms are caused by inflammation. But inflammation in the short term is NEEDED, as it is a normal part of the immune system function to repair damaged cells and tissues, and to promote healing. However, long-term inflammation is what leads to major diseases. So anti-inflammatories actually prevent the body from healing, so you will never recover while you are on them, and your risks of long-term health conditions will greatly increase, for heart disease, bone diseases, mental health conditions, digestive conditions, and liver and kidney damage.

- chemotherapy medications - used as an extreme form of anti-inflammatory for some conditions, or for cancer. Known to actually cause more cancer due to cancer cell resistance to the chemo drugs, and stronger and faster secondary cancer growths.

No medications fix the causes of any health condition. They simply mask or hide your symptoms, so it appears to you that nothing is wrong. But by not addressing the causes, the condition gets much worse over time, and more symptoms appear, for which you get prescribed more medications to hide those symptoms, which creates a vicious cycle of medication dependence and worsening health.

Most health conditions are simply caused by a combination of factors which includes: 1) a poor diet causing nutrient deficiencies, 2) poor digestive system function, 3) stress, 4) unhealthy lifestyle (alcohol, drugs, smoking, poor sleep, no exercise), 5) exposure to toxic chemicals and other environmental factors, and 6) your mindset and emotions.

This is why Nutritional Medicine and Naturopathy is becoming more popular and accepted - because practitioners (like me!) seek to identify all the causes of your personal health issues, and then treat those causes, and promote healing! We can also offer relief of symptoms with safe, effective and proven treatments too. This is the only way to reverse health issues!

If you have long-term health conditions, or have been on medications for a long time and have had enough of the side effects, please contact me for a health assessment and mediation review, and to see how I can help restore you back to health!

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Modern medicine is JUST an experiment of using toxic chemicals into malnourished people

reflux and heartburn medications make your health worse

How your immune system works to keep you alive!

medications don't fix any health condition!

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