Restless Leg Syndrome

Restless leg syndrome is a sign of calcium, magnesium or potassium need with a possible digestive dysfunction that causes a decreased absorption of minerals. Vitamin E and folic acid ma be needed as a co-factor.

Other Indications
1. Vitamin E need
2. B Vitamin need

Reference: Weatherby, D. (2004). Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. Jacksonville, OR: Bear Mountain Publishing

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Night Sweats

Night sweats may be an indication of an infection or other pathology, which should be ruled out. A common functional cause of night sweats include a need for liver and kidney support and a deficiency in riboflavin.

Reference: Weatherby, D. (2004). Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. Jacksonville, OR: Bear Mountain Publishing

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Cigars / Pipes

Much of the emphasis on the harmful effects of tobacco have centers on the cigarettes, but much less on cigars and pipes. It has been proved beyond a doubt that smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, strokes, and other fatal diseases. Cigars and pipes can also cause the above diseases but they are especially linked to throat and mouth cancer, a major concern. Cigars and pipes are also a source of nicotine, an additive substance. Nicotine acts like am injection of adrenaline, increasing pulse rate,

and blood pressure, which makes the heart work faster and harder, so that the heart actually needs more oxygen. Smoking cigars or a pipe will result in increased levels of nicotine in the blood and the problems associated with its additive qualities. Research on addiction indicated that nicotine works much like heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. When nictotime was give to volunteer intravenously (into veins), many of them cold not tell the difference between the effect of nicotine and that of cocaine. Nicotine produces pleasurable sensations and physical dependency by affecting the brain and spinal cord.


It is important that tobacco use (both smoking and chewing) has associated health risks and its use will prevent you from attaciong your highest health potential.

Reference: Weatherby, D. (2004). Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. Jacksonville, OR: Bear Mountain Publishing.

Part 6: 125-145 Reasons Why Sugar is Ruining Your Health by Nancy Appleton, PhD

126. Sugar increases the chances of getting irritable bowl syndrome.

127. Sugar can affect central reward systems.

129. Sugar can cause cancer of the rectum

130. Sugar can cause endometrial cancer.

131. Sugar can cause renal (kidney) cell cancer.

132. Sugar can cause liver tumors.

133. Sugar can increase inflammatory markers in the bloodstreams of overweight people.

134. Sugar plays a role in the cause and the continuation of acne.

135. Sugar can ruin the sex life of both men and women by turning off the gene that controls the sex hormones.

136. Sugar can cause fatigue, moodiness, nervousness, and depression.

137. Sugar can make many essential nutrients less available to cells.

138. Sugar can increase uric acid in blood.

139. Sugar can lead to higher C-peptide concentrations.

140. Sugar causes inflammation.

141. Sugar can cause diverticulitis, a small bulging sac pushing outward from the colon wall that is inflamed.

142. Sugar can decrease testosterone production.

143. Sugar impairs spatial memory.

144. Sugar can cause cataracts.

145. Sugar is associated with higher rates of chronic bronchitis in adults.

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Whole Body or Limp Jerk as Falling Asleep

This is a sign of calcium, magnesium, or potassium need with a possible digestive dysfunction that causes a decreased absorption of minerals. Vitamin E may be needed as a co-factor. Also may need Vitamin B.

Reference: Weatherby, D. (2004). Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. Jacksonville, OR: Bear Mountain Publishing

Part 5: 101-125 Reasons Why Sugar is Ruining Your Health by Nancy Appleton, PhD

101. Sugar can cut off oxygen to the brain when given to people intravenously.

102. Sugar is a risk factor for lung cancer.

103. Sugar increases the risk of polio.

104. Sugar can cause epileptic seizures.

105. Sugar can increase systolic blood pressure (pressure when the heart is contracting).

106. Sugar can induce cell death.

107. Sugar can increase the amount of food that you eat.

108. Sugar can cause antisocial behavior in juvenile delinquents.

109. Sugar increases the risk of breast cancer.

110. Sugar can lead to prostate cancer.

111. Sugar dehydrates newborns.

112. Sugar can cause women to give birth to babies with low birth weight.

113. Sugar is associated with a worse outcome of schizophrenia.

114. Sugar can raise homocysteine levels in the bloodstream.

115. Sugar can cause asthma.

116. Sugar increases neural tube defects in embryos when it is consumed by pregnant women.

117. Sugar can cause metabolic syndrome.

118. Sugar can increase the risk of stomach cancer.

119. Sugar can cause brain decay in pre-diabetic and diabetic women.

120. Sugar causes constipation.

121. Sugar water, when given to children shortly after birth, results in those children preferring sugar water to regular water throughout childhood.

122. Sugar can contribute to mild memory loss.

123. Sugar induces salt and water retention.

124. Sugar can cause laryngeal cancer.

125. Sugar is a risk factor in small intestine cancer.

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Can Hear Heart Beat on Pillow At Night

Being able to hear one’s pulse beat on the pillow at night is a sign of circulatory stress. Circulation of the blood through the arteries, veins, capillaries is dependent on the health of these vessels. Bioflavonoids are essential nutrients for the health of the linings of blood vessels. Clients who are deficient in calcium and / or Vitamin B1 may also experience this symptom.

Reference: Weatherby, D. (2004). Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. Jacksonville, OR: Bear Mountain Publishing

Part 4: 76-100 Reasons Why Sugar is Ruining Your Health by Nancy Appleton, PhD

76.  Sugar can cause dyspepsia (indigestion).

77.  Sugar can increase the risk of developing gout.

78.  Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in the blood much higher than complex carbohydrates in a glucose tolerance test can.

79.  Sugar reduces learning capacity.

80.  Sugar can cause two blood proteins – albumin and lipoproteins – to function less
effectively, which may reduce the body’s ability to handle fat and cholesterol.

81.  Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.

82.  Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness, which causes blood clots.

83.  Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance – some hormones become underactive and others become overactive.

84.  Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones.

85.  Sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress.

86.  Sugar can lead to biliary tract cancer.

87.  Sugar increases the risk of pregnant adolescents delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.

88.  Sugar can lead to a substantial decrease the in the length of pregnancy among adolescents.

89.  Sugar slows food’s travel time through the gastrointestinal tract.

90.  Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stool and bacterial enzymes in the colon, which can modify bile to produce cancer-causing compounds and colon cancer.

91.  Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men.

92.  Sugar combines with and destroys phosphatase, a digestive enzyme, which makes digestion more difficult.

93.  Sugar can be a risk factor for gallbladder cancer.

94.  Sugar is an addictive substance.

95.  Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.

96.  Sugar can aggravate premenstrual syndrome (PMS).

97.  Sugar can decrease emotional stability.

98.  Sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese people.

99.  Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit disorder (ADD).

100. Sugar can slow the ability of the adrenal glands to function

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