Guest guest Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 When the hints are there, but not sure how to interpret, you can rely on the Linking portion of the Test matrix. Take an area of concern the client has. ie there big toe and type it in to the search. Now take the highest number of relevance in the test matrix it gives you on the toe. Drag it over to the hold box and drop it in. Take the second area of concern they have, ie their shoulder pain, type that into the search. Now take the highest number you feel relevant from the test matrix on this. Drop it into the second hold box. Now on the new program there is a button that is to the right of these to link the two together. Put your test matrix back on the "main" test matrix information and then click that link button. What does it tell you now below your "go to number box" bottom right of page. You can also put your main panel on a different item like worms and then click the link button to see the possible links. You'll be surprised what this will tell you. If you don't have the link button yet, then just do this on one hold button at a time. Check that "hold" item to your choice of sub categories. Worms, virus, bio-warfare, etc. The machine gives you all kinds of help, we just have to find out where it is. Yours in health, Kathy jas_barnes <jas_barnes@...> wrote: Hi group,As a QX user it has struck me on several occasions when dealing with people where nothing obvious seems to stand out except occasionally a hormone, phenol, sugar or amino acid or whatever. When this happens I refer to the books I have and although I have been told they are pretty good they don't have the detail to explain what the significance could be. I realise we are lucky in that the QX is very sensitive but unless we understand the relevance of the hints we may lose the adantage the QX should give us in helping people with their health.It strikes me that it would be good if there was an online site loaded with this type of information per QX item. it would explain what the item was, what its significance might indicate, contraindications, if a remedy where it can be found eg diet, if a toxin what likley sources. It would also enable us to check out something quickly if in posession of another pc.Now if this already exists someone please let me know. If it does not I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be interested in subscribing to such a database for a moderate fee if anyone feels the inclination and has the knowledge to do something like this.Regards to all............................................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 This is a great idea! Anyone have the time to set it up.......? love Jayne xxx Thinking out loud Hi group, As a QX user it has struck me on several occasions when dealing with people where nothing obvious seems to stand out except occasionally a hormone, phenol, sugar or amino acid or whatever. When this happens I refer to the books I have and although I have been told they are pretty good they don't have the detail to explain what the significance could be. I realise we are lucky in that the QX is very sensitive but unless we understand the relevance of the hints we may lose the adantage the QX should give us in helping people with their health. It strikes me that it would be good if there was an online site loaded with this type of information per QX item. it would explain what the item was, what its significance might indicate, contraindications, if a remedy where it can be found eg diet, if a toxin what likley sources. It would also enable us to check out something quickly if in posession of another pc. Now if this already exists someone please let me know. If it does not I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be interested in subscribing to such a database for a moderate fee if anyone feels the inclination and has the knowledge to do something like this. Regards to all. ............................................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2005 Report Share Posted April 30, 2005 Okay, so my previously mentioned online guru, andrew, tells me that calcium loads up in the nerves and triggered by excess glutamate causing a cascade of calcium toxicity (for those with seizures). The article I posted also mentions calcium toxicity, as well. Interestingly, I know my daughters med's (depakene) works by blocking glutamines and is known to deplete calcium. It also does a lot of other things, depletes other nutrients/vitamins. These are the only two that I know *why* the meds are doing this. Too much calcium,supplementing calcium must not be good for those with seizures, then. I read eons ago something about sodium ion channels and epilepsy. I am wondering how calcium is related to sodium (if at all). What calcium ions have to do with sodium ions (if at all). How these apply to sugars, sugar control. (We know glutamines are the trigger for this calcium cascade). Why do people with seizures do this and others don't? What regulates calcium nerve loading? (magnesium???) What regulates the sodium ions? Is there a magnesium " regulation " disorder/deficiency/problem? Are there amino acids or enzymes responsible for this? Okay, this is what I'm going to be checking out. If anyone knows the answers to these things...please share info. Or if you have questions to add that would be worth looking into, please set me on the trail. Mindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 I would really be interested in the answers to these questions. Grace littlroses <littlroses@...> wrote: Okay, so my previously mentioned online guru, andrew, tells me that calcium loads up in the nerves and triggered by excess glutamate causing a cascade of calcium toxicity (for those with seizures). The article I posted also mentions calcium toxicity, as well. Interestingly, I know my daughters med's (depakene) works by blocking glutamines and is known to deplete calcium. It also does a lot of other things, depletes other nutrients/vitamins. These are the only two that I know *why* the meds are doing this. Too much calcium,supplementing calcium must not be good for those with seizures, then. I read eons ago something about sodium ion channels and epilepsy. I am wondering how calcium is related to sodium (if at all). What calcium ions have to do with sodium ions (if at all). How these apply to sugars, sugar control. (We know glutamines are the trigger for this calcium cascade). Why do people with seizures do this and others don't? What regulates calcium nerve loading? (magnesium???) What regulates the sodium ions? Is there a magnesium " regulation " disorder/deficiency/problem? Are there amino acids or enzymes responsible for this? Okay, this is what I'm going to be checking out. If anyone knows the answers to these things...please share info. Or if you have questions to add that would be worth looking into, please set me on the trail. Mindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 Remember the old junior high school frog's leg experiments? Sodium make the leg contract potassium makes it relax and calcium regulates the two of them. Now there is another relationship between magnesium and phosphorus and calcium as the work in balance as well. Calcium isn't always evil with epileptics; it is the imbalance of calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium as well as chlorides, bicarbonates, and sulfates that causes the problems. To further complicate things, calcium can also reduce iron but that isn't always a bad thing as excessive iron can be oxidative and that increases inflammatory processes which lower the seizure threshold. As for the amino acids, glycine, GABA and taurine have involvement as counterbalances to the excitatory amino acids. But, and it's a big but, those excitatory aren't all bad either. Aspartic acid, very excitatory is important in removing ammonia from the system and hyperammonemia can lower the seizure threshold as well. Zinc depletion, which some of the meds can do, will reduce the effectiveness of the neuroinhibitory amino acids. Honestly, it gets more complex from here. This is why most neurologists won't go down this path. Too hard to control all of these issues on a patient to patient basis. This is why we all have to do it ourselves. Mark Schauss, MBA, DB www.carbonbased.com Re: [ ] Thinking out loud I would really be interested in the answers to these questions. Grace littlroses <littlroses@...> wrote: Okay, so my previously mentioned online guru, andrew, tells me that calcium loads up in the nerves and triggered by excess glutamate causing a cascade of calcium toxicity (for those with seizures). The article I posted also mentions calcium toxicity, as well. Interestingly, I know my daughters med's (depakene) works by blocking glutamines and is known to deplete calcium. It also does a lot of other things, depletes other nutrients/vitamins. These are the only two that I know *why* the meds are doing this. Too much calcium,supplementing calcium must not be good for those with seizures, then. I read eons ago something about sodium ion channels and epilepsy. I am wondering how calcium is related to sodium (if at all). What calcium ions have to do with sodium ions (if at all). How these apply to sugars, sugar control. (We know glutamines are the trigger for this calcium cascade). Why do people with seizures do this and others don't? What regulates calcium nerve loading? (magnesium???) What regulates the sodium ions? Is there a magnesium " regulation " disorder/deficiency/problem? Are there amino acids or enzymes responsible for this? Okay, this is what I'm going to be checking out. If anyone knows the answers to these things...please share info. Or if you have questions to add that would be worth looking into, please set me on the trail. Mindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 Unfortunately, I was a slacker in science and math back then. I took biology, but my dad was U.S. army and juuuuust about the time we were getting into the frog thing, we packed up and moved to another locale where they had just finished off the frog thing. I thought I was pretty lucky then! Talk about kicking myself in the pants. I thought English and history were the way to go. LOL Thanks for explaining the sodium,potassium, calcium relationship in easy to understand terms. I've been trying to understand the inflammatory issues and prostaglandins. Sugar and grains are inflammatory, but of course, can't be the total problem. I guess a good question is, what's at work causing the inflammatory response? Virus? Heavy metals? All of the above? > Okay, so my previously mentioned online guru, andrew, tells me that > calcium loads up in the nerves and triggered by excess glutamate > causing a cascade of calcium toxicity (for those with seizures). > > The article I posted also mentions calcium toxicity, as well. > > Interestingly, I know my daughters med's (depakene) works by > blocking glutamines and is known to deplete calcium. It also does a > lot of other things, depletes other nutrients/vitamins. These are > the only two that I know *why* the meds are doing this. > > Too much calcium,supplementing calcium must not be good for those > with seizures, then. > > I read eons ago something about sodium ion channels and epilepsy. > > I am wondering how calcium is related to sodium (if at all). What > calcium ions have to do with sodium ions (if at all). How these > apply to sugars, sugar control. (We know glutamines are the trigger > for this calcium cascade). Why do people with seizures do this and > others don't? > > What regulates calcium nerve loading? (magnesium???) > > What regulates the sodium ions? > > Is there a magnesium " regulation " disorder/deficiency/problem? > > Are there amino acids or enzymes responsible for this? > > Okay, this is what I'm going to be checking out. If anyone knows > the answers to these things...please share info. Or if you have > questions to add that would be worth looking into, please set me on > the trail. > > Mindy > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 Mindy, You ask some really good and difficult to find snappy answers for, questions. All i can contribute at the moment is this link to an article on mineral toxicity. Zoe http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00056760.html > Okay, so my previously mentioned online guru, andrew, tells me that > calcium loads up in the nerves and triggered by excess glutamate > causing a cascade of calcium toxicity (for those with seizures). > > The article I posted also mentions calcium toxicity, as well. > > Interestingly, I know my daughters med's (depakene) works by > blocking glutamines and is known to deplete calcium. It also does a > lot of other things, depletes other nutrients/vitamins. These are > the only two that I know *why* the meds are doing this. > > Too much calcium,supplementing calcium must not be good for those > with seizures, then. > > I read eons ago something about sodium ion channels and epilepsy. > > I am wondering how calcium is related to sodium (if at all). What > calcium ions have to do with sodium ions (if at all). How these > apply to sugars, sugar control. (We know glutamines are the trigger > for this calcium cascade). Why do people with seizures do this and > others don't? > > What regulates calcium nerve loading? (magnesium???) > > What regulates the sodium ions? > > Is there a magnesium " regulation " disorder/deficiency/problem? > > Are there amino acids or enzymes responsible for this? > > Okay, this is what I'm going to be checking out. If anyone knows > the answers to these things...please share info. Or if you have > questions to add that would be worth looking into, please set me on > the trail. > > Mindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 Mindy, You ask some really good and difficult to find snappy answers for, questions. All i can contribute at the moment is this link to an article on mineral toxicity. Zoe http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00056760.html > Okay, so my previously mentioned online guru, andrew, tells me that > calcium loads up in the nerves and triggered by excess glutamate > causing a cascade of calcium toxicity (for those with seizures). > > The article I posted also mentions calcium toxicity, as well. > > Interestingly, I know my daughters med's (depakene) works by > blocking glutamines and is known to deplete calcium. It also does a > lot of other things, depletes other nutrients/vitamins. These are > the only two that I know *why* the meds are doing this. > > Too much calcium,supplementing calcium must not be good for those > with seizures, then. > > I read eons ago something about sodium ion channels and epilepsy. > > I am wondering how calcium is related to sodium (if at all). What > calcium ions have to do with sodium ions (if at all). How these > apply to sugars, sugar control. (We know glutamines are the trigger > for this calcium cascade). Why do people with seizures do this and > others don't? > > What regulates calcium nerve loading? (magnesium???) > > What regulates the sodium ions? > > Is there a magnesium " regulation " disorder/deficiency/problem? > > Are there amino acids or enzymes responsible for this? > > Okay, this is what I'm going to be checking out. If anyone knows > the answers to these things...please share info. Or if you have > questions to add that would be worth looking into, please set me on > the trail. > > Mindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Andre wrote: > > It helps me to dream of ways that science and technology could one day > fix A, or at least help make it much more manageable. I am not a > doctor, and some of this is probably in the far future, but I thought > it wouldn't hurt to discuss the topic since having hope is important. > I also enjoy science and tech and how they may lead to something for achalasia. I also like hope but I know that false hope in this context is can be damaging. > > 1) Stem cells. Possibly the ultimate solution? > The problem here is first that it could be many years away if it can even be done for achalasia. In achalasia there is ongoing destruction of nerves. Can the stem cells produce nerve cells in an environment that is destroying them? If it can will the nerves survive the destructive process or for how long. > True, even the massive opposition to stem cell research from some > quarters pales into insignificance compared to the medical and > technical obstacles, but we've all probably read the articles about > stem cells already demonstrating some neuron-like abilities in tests. > The opposition is to fetal stem cells, not stem cells, and the political debate was about government funding of fetal stem cell research not about banning fetal stem cell research and certainly not about banning stem cell research. Neural stem cells for the treatment of disorders of the enteric nervous system: Strategies and challenges http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.20975/full That study ends with statements that stem cell therapy may be over rated but that it appears to offer hope. So, we have some hope but we need to remember that it is not a promise. It should be noted that this stem cell research was done at: Enteric Neuromuscular Disorders and Pain Laboratory, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. Some people don't think we do stem cell research in the US. Not that you said that. Also, this research relates to achalasia. Some people don't think scientist are interested in doing research for achalasia. Not that you said any such thing either. > 2) A bionic E, fully peristaltic, even though it is a mechanical piece > of kit. > That much work would probably be equivalent to having an esophagectomy. I think in that case I would rather just have a gastric pull-up. > > 4) An implanted device to electically stimulate the muscles of the > real LES - a clump of artificial neurons. I gather the problem is more > mechanical than electrical, in the sense that electric currents close > muscles, not open them, but perhaps the implanted bio-neurons could be > made to secrete the chemicals needed to open the (non-HM) LES. This > feels like a very remote possibility, even by the standards of this list. > For those that like images: Parallel inhibitory and excitatory innervation of the esophageal smooth muscle. http://www.nature.com/gimo/contents/pt1/fig_tab/gimo3_F5.html Which is part of: Physiology of esophageal motility http://www.nature.com/gimo/contents/pt1/full/gimo3.html The neurons in question are like the green postganglionic neuron in the image. The innervation of the esophagus is actually much more complicated than that image but the images is good for this discussion. Doing what you suggest looks simple on that image, just replace the short green neuron. There are lots of these microscopic little neurons though. Not that you necessarily have to replace all of them, but you would have to distribute the chemicals around enough of the LES to be effective. Some how you would have to control it and somehow you would have to pass chemicals through it. > Any others? > There is work on growing organs such as the esophagus from one's own cells. Again, I see problems with this kind of thing being connected up the nerves. If it can not be innervated then it is just an inactive tube. You would still have to have your esophagus removed to do that so it may just make more sense to have a gastric pull-up. I think there is hope long down the road to come. The problem I see is that some people would put off treatment that exists today in hope that some new treatment will be here tomorrow. In the meantime they may be suffering and doing damage to their esophagi needlessly. Lets be hopeful but not give in to false hope. Sometimes the best hope now is on things you can actually do today. notan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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