FaceBook Post by Dr. Palevsky
A pair of studies suggests that the common painkiller acetaminophen -- better known as Tylenol in the U.S. -- may be fueling a worldwide increase in asthma. Read more here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38690295/
Dr Palevsky’s Comments: Of course acetaminophen use is linked to asthma and allergies. Children and adults with asthma and allergies have deficiencies in glutathione stores, which is well supported in the literature. Glutathione is a vital chemical in the body to help us detoxify and cleanse. Acetaminophen use, however, especially during times of stress and symptoms, forces our bodies to use up our stores of glutathione, so the metabolites of acetaminophen degradation don't destroy our livers. So, when we most need our stores of glutathione, to help us detoxify when we are stressed and having symptoms, we "use up and lose" our stores to make sure we don't destroy our livers at the hands of acetaminophen. In the presence of acetaminophen and, thus, lower stores of glutathione in our bodies, we can't properly detoxify and cleanse our bodies of waste. Therefore, we develop asthma and allergies because our bodies are too weak to perform the necessary steps to detoxify and cleanse. This is not rocket science.......
Some people have suggested that there are good strategies for replenishing the glutathione that is depleted when children are given acetaminophen, like N-acetylcysteine, ascorbate, alpha-lipoic acid, and proanthocyanidins. But, it's important to understand that there's no way to know whether these supplements can recover the damage done to the liver when acetaminophen is used. Saying so is like believing that finding the right amount of water to put out a fire is satisfactory enough because we can rest easy that we've found a way to put the fire out. Never mind that we created the fire in the first place.....Our job is to avoid injury and poisoning in kids, not to find a way to believe we can "fix it up" after the fact. Our knowledge of the recovery of liver cells with these supplements pales in comparison to the knowledge we have of the damage done to the liver cells after giving acetaminophen in the first place, especially in children who have allergies, asthma, and dozens of other chronic inflammatory conditions.
The bottom line is that the conventional thinking about fever and pain, and symptoms in general, is to suppress them at all costs. We are taught to fear all of these symptoms as something bad, and that at the drop of a hat, these symptoms will automatically lead to the worst-case scenario. I have come to learn in my practice, and in life, that the suppression of these symptoms is counter-intuitive, and destructive to the health and integrity of the body. What to do, instead, is something that requires a tolerance of fever, pain, and other minor symptoms, and the acceptance that the physiology behind symptoms is actually beneficial to our bodies. It also requires that we begin to learn how to support our bodies when symptoms occur, and begin to ride them out, and learn about the "old-wives tales" that our ancestors used to help us through our symptoms........
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