NeedHelpWithMom Posted September 2020
What is the worst ‘new age’ advice that you have heard? I am not ridiculing anyone’s beliefs but some practices are ridiculous.
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I sometimes think about how wealthy certain people have become from telling others really crazy advice.
This isn’t really anything new. People have peddled snake oil since the beginning of time. They prey on gullible, vulnerable people who are looking for ‘miracle’ cures.
Self help books, seminars, workshops and the like are big business! Oh, and the latest, ‘life coach’. Do they even have degrees for any of this? Not always.
I know a few life coaches that don’t have psychology degrees, or any other degree in the medical field. They are getting paid a lot of money. They do blogs, workshops, etc.
Yes, some are legit and good but many aren’t.
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Great points!
This is why we do have to speak to the doctor about our individual circumstances. Just because something is right for one person doesn’t make it right for another.
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1.essential oils which have induced anaphylaxes, and other adverse allergic reactions.
2. CBD oil, which kills the effects of drugs that are metabolized through the P450 system. In short, CBD messes with the effectiveness (efficacy) of all medications that are processed through the Cytochrome p450 system.
The worst cases we've seen are patients who families have forced them to breathe diffused essential oils, Simultaneously while using CBD products.
Those patients mostly experienced repeated allergic reactions that they were told were just the body "detoxing." Benadryl would resolve the allergic reactions, but wouldn't work as normally, if CBD was in the body's system.
We had a family that refused to understand they were harming their mother by forcing her to breathe diffused "essential oils." The mother would become agitated every time after her family visited, because the family would bring her essential oils that they told her to hide and use within a diffuser. Every time that diffuser was running, the mother couldn't breathe and she would experience adverse neurological reactions. The family refused to stop, and refused to understand that allergic reactions grow worse with every encounter with whatever is inducing the allergic reactions. Their mother ended up with severely damaged lungs but, the family continued to insist the "essential oils" were helping her.
So true about infomercials! It’s a lot of bunk.
I can see where we can have a Vitamin D deficiency. So many of us spend a lot of time indoors.
Do you find things run in cycles? As soon as one things fades away, another trend pops up. Then sooner or later it all gets recycled!
We always have to check with the doctor about anything to take. My mom has Parkinson’s disease. Its can be difficult to treat.
When you say marijuana, do you mean CBD? The CBD products don’t get you high. I haven’t researched any of it for a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
I know what you mean though. Lots of people feel that it cures everything!
That’s what I don’t like. If it is an excessive amount.
A person would need a Spreadsheet to keep all those supplements organized.
Thank you so much. I will look it up.
I'll check my 2 herbal suppliers later and let you know later if they offer pure peppermint oil.
I just looked it up online at Walmart.
It says it contains chemicals that can cause cancer. Whew, scary.
Thanks for this information. I have been wondering about peppermint oil. Now that you say it does work, I am going to get some.
My mom takes B12 too. Plus calcium and cod liver oil. The last time she had a bone density test she had great results.
With all of the falls she never once broke a bone. Lots of bruises and scrapes though.
I have never been a big milk drinker so I have crappy bones. I have steel rods holding my arm together after an open compound fracture with bones in my arm due to a bicycle accident that I had years ago.
There was debris in the road. I didn’t see it. Down I went. Thankfully a man driving behind me stopped his car, called 911 and waited with me until the ambulance arrived.
I was in complete shock and told him that I was fine! He said, “I saw the whole thing. You are in shock. You’re not fine.”
Well, the shock wore off in the ambulance and I told the driver to stop driving so fast because my arm was killing me and I was screaming when he hit bumps in the road. New Orleans has crappy roads with pot holes.
The driver said, I am trying to get you to the hospital, lady! Sorry about the potholes. LOL
I had surgery and later on I did months of aggressive physical therapy. My orthopedic surgeon told me to incorporate dairy in my diet so my bones would heal.
I asked my surgeon about supplements because I don’t like milk all that much. He told me he preferred that I have any dairy even if wasn’t milk, such as cheese, yogurt, etc. or even chocolate milk.
I think a modest amount of supplements are fine but some people take a ton of all kinds of stuff.
Yeah, some doctors do support certain supplements for specific reasons.
Yes, mint is therapeutic. I like mint tea too.
Interesting about asthma. I have asthma. I use an inhaler. I have been hospitalized with attacks of asthma. I was on oxygen and the breathing machine.
Plus they sent me home with a nebulizer to help me breathe.
Crazy, right? 😂 LOL
In fact the surgeon wanted to give me a B-12 injection when I had my stroke, but I was only kept overnight and wasn't admitted, and I didn't want to pay the $25 cost or whatever it was since I could just take B-12 and eat more B vitamin foods when I was released.
I've also been told to take calcium supplements.
This kind of advice is one of the reasons I'm particular about which doctors I see.
I was introduced to 100% pure peppermint oil to help with my cough. And I can swear by it. I sniff/inhale the fume of the oil through my nose. It warms and calms my throat and lungs and cuts down my cough by 90%. The effectiveness is short-lived though because as I breathe in and out, the fume goes right out with my breaths, so I need to inhale the oil every 15 minutes or so. I don't mind though because I love the smell of peppermint oil. It's better than coughing my head off all day long.
With the peppermint oil, I don't have to take the cough med that puts me to sleep and dehydrates me. I can drive and go about my day, and come in contact with people without coughing at them.
My cousin who has asthma also uses peppermint oil and she claims it helps her enough that she doesn't need her inhaler.
I’m referring to meditation which is multi cultural and goes way back. Also, yoga, music and art therapy, etc.
These things are extremely helpful to people in many aspects of our lives.
Although, having said that, my friend that told me music would help my mom with Parkinson’s disease drove me nuts and I am a huge music lover!
My mom enjoyed music when she could hear and it. It’s soothing for a person and can calm nerves and some say even pain. That I agree with but my friend thought it could help with her issues with mobility. Um, no. It can’t do that.
It helps in indirect ways. It helped motivate my mom in physical therapy. Mom worked hard in rehab and home health. Really hard! She wanted to improve because the falls would terrify her and they hurt! So she made an effort to improve but being in her 90’s would get exhausted.
One day I told her physical therapist that she and my dad loved to dance to Frank Sinatra when they were dating. He said, I can work up a routine set to Sinatra. That was so sweet of him. Of course we had to blast the music so mom could hear it! Hahaha
We live in a big music town! We have volunteer musicians that play for hospital and hospice patients in facilities and they absolutely benefit from listening to them. I’m just saying that it only soothes. It isn’t anything more. It can’t take away issues from a neurological disorder brought on by Parkinson’s disease.
So what is your overall take on supplements in general? It’s confusing to me. My doctor has never told me to take any supplements.
If we eat nutritious food do we really need a bazillion supplements? A lot of people don’t have funds for expensive products.
Do a lot of people have deficiencies? Or do the infomercials play it up as being a more serious issue than it probably is?
I have never ordered anything from a television commercial. I suppose that makes me unusual.
Infomercials make a lot of money so obviously lots of people order these products.
Ahhh, yes. The television doctors who want good ratings. They become super stars that make tons of money! Hey, I am not opposed to people making money. Not at all. More power to them if it’s done in ethical ways but misleading others is sad.
These newer introductions of products are certain techniques to be used are sometimes so bizarre and the worst part is people are paying big bucks to hear what is often bunk! It’s popular to do these ‘workshops or seminars.’
Geeeez, I am not familiar with placing rosemary oil on our skin. Sounds awful though.
I totally agree. I can’t stomach it either. Sometimes I feel like the entire world has become a huge infomercial! Drives me crazy!
I am like you. I love public television and radio but I don’t watch those programs either.
We always got that line when my alternative medicine friends would serve up some of their "healthier" foods and beverages and all the rest of us felt ill effects - "you'd feel better if you just stick with it". Yeah, no thanks.