Sentences with phrase «cause of disease rather»

However, it also seems clear that at least at times there are situations in which these white blood cells are there when they shouldn't be and that they are the cause of the disease rather than part of a normal response to a disease process.

This means that I focus on getting to the root cause of disease rather than just treating the symptoms.

By addressing the cause of disease rather than the symptoms, long lasting relief is often achieved.»

She believes we should utilize natural medicines to treat the root cause of disease rather than just treating symptoms, as symptoms are a message of imbalance sent from the body and will persist until they are properly addressed.

This falls under the umbrella of Functional Medicine which looks at the cause of disease rather than just at the effect of disease by treating the cause rather than just the symptoms.

Austin, TX About Blog An expert in the field of acne, Esthetician Alissa has a functional medicine approach to treating acne, a method that addresses the underlying causes of the disease rather than simply treating the symptoms.

Austin, TX About Blog An expert in the field of acne, Esthetician Alissa has a functional medicine approach to treating acne, a method that addresses the underlying causes of the disease rather than simply treating the symptoms.

Austin, TX About Blog An expert in the field of acne, Esthetician Alissa has a functional medicine approach to treating acne, a method that addresses the underlying causes of the disease rather than simply treating the symptoms.

Austin, TX About Blog An expert in the field of acne, Esthetician Alissa has a functional medicine approach to treating acne, a method that addresses the underlying causes of the disease rather than simply treating the symptoms.

Not exact matches

(Though it's important to note that the treatment, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America's Radicava, is mightily expensive and only treats symptom progression rather than the root cause of the disease.)

In the early 1990s Lane and Humboldt State University ecologist Richard Brown began to suspect some of the spirochetes they saw in ticks were not causing classic Lyme disease but rather other related infections entirely.

Using animal models of precancerous polyps in the bowel, Chung and his team determined that certain types of immune cells within a chronically inflamed intestine can become rewired, causing them — paradoxically — to contribute to disease development rather than protect against it.

«Our study increases awareness that patients may benefit from referral to specialized care centers to correctly diagnose a specific cause for spinal cord disease rather than lumping patients into a category prematurely as having spinal cord inflammation of unknown cause,» Dr. Keegan says.

Roughly 15 % of people suffer relentless, long - term itch, often caused by diseases and medications; terminally ill cancer patients, for example, often experience such severe whole - body itch in response to morphine that many choose to live in pain rather than take the medication.

Scientists have uncovered some of the genetic basis for weight - related diseases, such as the discovery of a gene that appears to cause energy from food to be stored as fat rather than be burned.

The approach of targeting a host response required by a pathogen to cause disease rather than targeting the microbial pathogen is gaining wide support in the medical community.»

FSHD is an unusual genetic disorder because, unlike most genetic diseases, it is not caused by the loss of a functional gene, but rather by the modification of an existing gene, through a genetic mutation.

Rather than illness being caused by disease, Native Americans viewed health as the state of being in balance with the environment.

subunit vaccine - a vaccine that uses one or more parts of a disease - causing organism, rather than the whole, to stimulate an immune response.

The variation in symptom constellation that occurs in ME / CFS could be due to genetic variation in individuals, rather than differences in underlying cause of the disease.

Such discoveries will ultimately point toward rational treatments that address the causes of serious psychiatric disease, rather than just alleviate the symptoms.

Borrelia, rather, induces milder inflammatory responses and has mastered evasion of host immunity so as to cause moderate disease without being recognized and eliminated.

In a life table model, assuming that these observations arose from a causal relation, we estimated the benefits of cessation to be substantial; the benefits on all cause mortality seem likely to be mainly due to reduced progression of cancer rather than prevention of cardiorespiratory disease, but no studies reported cancer specific death rates to confirm this.

What's more, the drugs that do exist are far from perfect, often treating the symptoms rather than the root causes of disease.

· Changing nature of disease means that infections with drug - resistant tuberculosis will be increasingly caused by person - to - person infection, rather than non-resistant strains acquiring resistance.

Why it works «Rather than providing a Band - Aid solution for symptoms, practitioners try to get to the root cause of the disease,» explains Melinda Ring, MD, medical director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

He understands and treats the body as one integrated system rather than a collection of independent organs, in order to identify and address the root causes of disease.

Anyways, this article should not be called, «What really causes tooth decay», because unfortunately you did not discuss tooth decay at all but rather used some half informed examples of periodontal disease (as I mentioned, a completely different disease pathway and pathogen).

Soon after qualifying, Dr. Lipman became aware of the limitations of his medical training: taught to focus on the disease rather than the patient, he found himself treating symptoms rather than the root causes of illness.

A central theme of IFNA ™ training is learning to identify «root causes» of disease in a methodical and systematic fashion rather than the mundane prescription of medical nutrition protocols based on a diagnosis.

What's more, the evidence suggests that there are certain lifestyle changes that might help, and there are other types of treatments that address specific symptoms (rather than the underlying cause of the disease) that may make life a little easier for people with Alzheimer's.

Our healthcare system is reactive and is designed to suppress symptoms rather than find the underlying cause of diseases.

His mission is to transform the traditional medical paradigm in the United States into one in which the root cause of disease is treated, rather than the symptoms.

The Atkins diet is like throwing gasoline on the fire by increasing rather than decreasing the consumptions of foods that are the root cause of the majority of our major chronic diseases.

As patients, we want to believe that the medicine our doctors give us is just that, medicine — something that treats the root cause of disease and makes us healthier, rather than covering up our symptoms while the underlying problem continues to worsen.

She says, «Rather than treating symptoms with ever - increasing quantities of pills and procedures, a lifestyle medicine - first approach focuses on identifying and eradicating the root causes of disease.»

The studies that I found on google scholar that talk about omega 6 inflammatory response and the ratio of Omega 6/3 actually recommended a 2 - 3:1 not 1:1 ratio, also they were very clear not to decrease omega 6 intake but rather increase omega 3 intake because the studies showed that rather than omega 6 causing inflammation omega 3 reduced inflammation because the studies were done on people with autoimmune diseases or cancer, not an otherwise healthy person.

At the end of the day, acne is a disease caused by diet and lifestyle rather than poor hygiene.

It's an entire medical speciality dedicated to finding and treating underlying causes and prevention of serious chronic disease rather than disease symptoms.

It's a whole medical specialty dedicated to finding and treating underlying causes and prevention of serious chronic disease rather than disease symptoms.

Functional Medicine allows physicians to identify and treat the root causes of disease, rather than just covering up symptoms with prescriptions, and therefore to make a lasting positive difference in their patients» lives.

Inflammation doesn't cause disease, rather, poor lifestyle choices create inflammation, which over time leads to breakdown of our bodies.

Functional nutrition is a healthcare approach that focuses on identifying the causes of health issues rather than treating the symptoms of disease with medicine.

Rather than seeking the root cause of the disease, herbal treatment of fibromyalgia can be «hit or miss, «too.

The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption of vegetables oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly of vitamin C, needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls, and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.52 These once protected us against the kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.

Cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease but rather a potent antioxidant weapon against free radicals in the blood, and a repair substance that helps heal arterial damage (although the arterial plaques themselves contain very little cholesterol.)

It's an entire medical specialty dedicated to finding and treating underlying causes and prevention of serious chronic diseases, rather than disease symptoms.

In conclusion, it must be noted that allopathic medicine treats the symptoms rather than the root cause of the disease, which is usually caused by wrong eating habits leading to an accumulation of toxins within the system.

Rather than simply wanting to treat the symptoms of her condition, Anne became deeply interested in detecting and treating the root cause of the disease.

Therefore, the goal of the naturopath is to discover the underlying cause of illness, rather than merely focusing on the patient's symptoms or disease.