THE FOLLOWING IS A PREVIEW of Dr. Nathan’s Chapter in the forthcoming e-book, Insider Secrets For Treating Fibromyalgia: 12 Top Experts, edited by Deirdre Rawlings, N.D, Ph.D.
“Overview of Successful Treatment for Fibromyalgia and Exciting New Treatment Ideas and Options.”
In this chapter, I will first provide the reader with my overview of how to successfully treat fibromyalgia. Then, I would like to introduce some new ideas and treatment options which promise to add a great deal to what we can already provide.
I have now treated well over 4,000 patients with fibromyalgia, and I am hopeful that this experience will enable me to teach both professionals and patients how to improve their successes. In my recent book, “On Hope and Healing: For Those Who Have Fallen Through the Medical Cracks,” I provide a great deal more detail for each concept reviewed here, so I encourage the reader to learn as much as possible. The more you know, the more you can become proactive for your treatment, and the better questions you will ask.
Basic Principles
Fibromyalgia is not a simple disorder. I believe that it is the result of a wide range of various deficiencies and imbalances and toxicities. The possible combination of these imbalances is such that there is no single method, no single approach that applies to every patient. Each patient is biochemically unique. The clues, or hints, as to which biochemical imbalances apply to the individual patient can be found in a detailed history. While testing is useful, there is no substitute for an in-depth review of exactly how and when the symptoms appeared, and how the illness progressed, and changed over time. Carefully scrutinizing the current symptoms is essential to know where we can begin to unravel these clues.
Over the years, I have found that certain imbalances are much more common than others in the causing or contributing to fibromyalgia. Some years ago, I stratified these into what we came to call the Big Six and the Little Six. For my patients, this became a straightforward way for us to approach diagnosis and treatment. The Big Six just refers to the six most common imbalances, many of which are noted and discussed by the authors contributing to this book:
Let’s dig in . . . .
“Overview of Successful Treatment for Fibromyalgia and Exciting New Treatment Ideas and Options.”
"You are already perfect…and there is room for improvement."
-- Suzuki Roshi
In this chapter, I will first provide the reader with my overview of how to successfully treat fibromyalgia. Then, I would like to introduce some new ideas and treatment options which promise to add a great deal to what we can already provide.
I have now treated well over 4,000 patients with fibromyalgia, and I am hopeful that this experience will enable me to teach both professionals and patients how to improve their successes. In my recent book, “On Hope and Healing: For Those Who Have Fallen Through the Medical Cracks,” I provide a great deal more detail for each concept reviewed here, so I encourage the reader to learn as much as possible. The more you know, the more you can become proactive for your treatment, and the better questions you will ask.
Basic Principles
Fibromyalgia is not a simple disorder. I believe that it is the result of a wide range of various deficiencies and imbalances and toxicities. The possible combination of these imbalances is such that there is no single method, no single approach that applies to every patient. Each patient is biochemically unique. The clues, or hints, as to which biochemical imbalances apply to the individual patient can be found in a detailed history. While testing is useful, there is no substitute for an in-depth review of exactly how and when the symptoms appeared, and how the illness progressed, and changed over time. Carefully scrutinizing the current symptoms is essential to know where we can begin to unravel these clues.
Over the years, I have found that certain imbalances are much more common than others in the causing or contributing to fibromyalgia. Some years ago, I stratified these into what we came to call the Big Six and the Little Six. For my patients, this became a straightforward way for us to approach diagnosis and treatment. The Big Six just refers to the six most common imbalances, many of which are noted and discussed by the authors contributing to this book:
1. Adrenal deficienciesWhen a patient relates their story, it may be clear that one or more of these factors do not apply to them, and we can push those ideas onto a back burner. We can then proceed to immediately investigate the ones that are the most likely suspects from the patient’s history. When we do this, a large percentage of patients with fibromyalgia will improve, and many will be cured. Over the years, I have compared my treatment outcomes with Dr. Teitelbaum, since our approach is similar. We have both noted that about half of our patients, following this system, will be cured, and that most of the rest will get better, ranging from a little better, to almost well. Unfortunately, we still do not know everything we need to about all of the causative factors, so there are some patients who have not improved, despite all of our best efforts. With each passing year, however, we learn more and more, and find we can help additional patients to recover. So there is, indeed, hope for fibromyalgia patients that they can recover their health, often completely. The second most common group of factors that I have found that add another big piece to solving the fibromyalgia puzzle, I have come to call the Little Six. These simply refer to the six next most common contributing elements to diagnosis and treatment:
2. Magnesium deficiency
3. Thyroid deficiencies
4. Deficiency of the sex hormones
5. Food Allergy
6. Intestinal dysbiosis, which merely refers to overgrowth of toxic yeast and bacterial species in the gut.
1. Hypoglycemia.Lastly, I would like to bring to the reader’s attention a new technology which has helped us to realize that there may be another component to the causes of fibromyalgia; namely that of Cervical-Trauma Fibromyalgia. Quite a few of our patients tell us that their fibromyalgia began following damage to their neck (cervical area), usually as a whiplash-type injury. Carolyn McMakin, DC, has done some exciting research showing that these patients are left with residual inflammation of the spinal cord, which can be successfully treated with the use of Frequency Specific Microcurrent, to which we will devote yet another portion of this chapter.
2. Dental toxicities: Mercury toxicity, imbalanced electrical potentials of the teeth, root canals, and cavitations, amongst others.
3. Mold toxicity.
4. Chronic infections: Chronic Lyme disease with the co-infections Bartonella and Babesia; Chronic viral infections, particularly EBV (Epstein-Barr Virus), CMV (Cytomegalovirus), and HHV6 (Human herpes virus 6); Chronic Mycoplasma infection; and Chronic Chlamydia pneumonia infections. We will devote a separate area in this chapter to the newly-discovered virus XMRV as well.
5. Amino acid deficiencies which present as deficiencies in our ability to make neurotransmitters.
6. Methylation deficiencies: This one is so important and so new to our understanding that I will devote a separate section to this area.
Let’s dig in . . . .
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