Dr Khalsa's Prescription For Pain
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Dr Dharma Singh Khalsa and journalist Cameron Stauth,
authors of the best-seller Brain Longevity (1997), want
us to learn how to experience pain without suffering.
Written in the first-person voice of Dr Khalsa, who
teaches and works in Arizona, the book discusses methods
for gaining control of rather than giving in to pain.
Like Brain Longevity, which is now available in
paperback, their new book The Pain Cure, is also
published by Warner Books.
"Pain is in the brain," Dr Khalsa notes. "That doesn't
mean it's in your mind. We can close the gates on pain by
following The Pain Cure's four strategies."
Dr Khalsa's four levels of handling chronic pain involve
nutritional therapy, physical therapy, medications, and
mental and spiritual control.
Since acute pain is a symptom and chronic pain a disease,
the patient with acute pain should promptly consult a
doctor so that therapy begins before the problem becomes
ingrained.
Brain Longevity shows us how we can work to improve
memory and diminish the effects of age-associated memory
loss, keeping our minds youthful, creative, and dynamic.
Brain Longevity offers a four-step plan based on both
Eastern and Western medical traditions, including the
latest research on brain chemistry.
It reveals how the right diet, exercise, meditation, and
supplements can revitalize and regenerate your mind and
memory.
Most of all, it is the only program to use Dr Khalsa's
own findings on cortisol, an adrenal hormone produced
both in reaction to stress and as part of the ageing
process, a substance proven to be toxic to human brain
cells.
In Brain Longevity one learns how cortisol accelerates
the ageing of the mind -- and how to reverse this
condition
Dr Khalsa underlines the importance of serotonin, L-
tryptophan, acupuncture, exercise, homeopathic remedies,
cognitive therapy, and stress reduction.
He inveighs against doctors who are afraid to give a
patient a sufficient amount of a painkiller because they
fear professional investigation, making the patient
addicted, or unwittingly causing death. Regarding his
patients as thinking and feeling individuals, Khalsa
seeks to help them humanely and, perhaps more important,
to show them how to improve their conditions by
themselves.
Two years ago, Warner Brothers issued 100,000 copies of
Brain Longevity -- a very impressive figure for a book by
a then little known physician. The book became a big hit
particularly with those seeking to restore faded powers.
Along with his friend Dr Andrew Weil's Eight Weeks to
Optimum Health, anesthesiologist-gerontologist Khalsa's
book (written with journalist Stauth) told us how to tone
up a sagging mind and stave off that curse of long life,
Alzheimer's disease.
Like fellow physician Weil, Dr Khalsa proffers a program
-- brain-longevity therapy. He targets a particular cause
of the deterioration that his scheme addresses. Too much
of the hormone cortisol, produced by the body in response
to stress and linked to brain damage, causes memory loss
and lassitude in particular, he argues.
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