No one likes to live with pain but is ibuprofen killing you? We're going to talk
about nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories over-the-counter medicines, what you can
do naturally to help pain so that you don't burn out your liver and kidneys.
This is Dr. Jason West, coming at you with a hundred and two years of healing.
We're going to talk about ibuprofen, is it killing you?
So what is ibuprofen or is
ibuprofen killing you? What are over-the-counter medicines? Are they safe?
How does ibuprofen work? This is what this video is about and after watching
the video, you'll understand what ibuprofen is, what does it do,
the difference between ibuprofen, aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and is
there a natural way that helps with pain. Now over-the-counter medicines are drugs
so you can buy without prescriptions and some over-the-counter medicines relieve
aches, pains, and itches, some prevent disease like tooth decay and athlete's
foot and others are helped manage recurring problems like migraines and in
the United States the Food and Drug Administration decides whether medicine
is safe enough to sell over the counter and taking over-the-counter medicine
still has some risks, some interact with medicines, some interact with supplements
with foods and drinks, some of those really bother your stomach, they can make
it easier to bleed, others can cause problems with people with certain
medical conditions and if you're pregnant, you absolutely want to talk to
your health care provider before taking any of those over-the-counter medicines.
Now it's important to take medicines correctly and be careful in giving them
to children, more medicines do not necessarily mean better and you should
never take over-the-counter medicines longer or in higher doses than the label
recommends and if your symptoms don't go away, it's a clearest message that it's
time to see your doctor. Some of the most common over-the-counter medicines
include nicorette gum, preparation-h, nodos, aspirin, extends, tylenol, aleve,
acetaminophen. So what is ibuprofen? Ibuprofen is a medication in the
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory family, it's used for treating pain and fever
and inflammation and this can include things like painful menstrual periods,
migraines, urethral arthritis. About 60% of people improve
with any given NSAID. Now NSAIDs have some really neat effects, they also have
some unwanted effects or also side effects and this includes heartburn, it
can have a rash and compared to other NSAIDs, ibuprofen may have fewer side
effects such as gastrointestinal bleeding, it increases the risk of heart
failures, kidney failure and liver failure. Now low doses, it does not appear
to increase the risk of heart attack however, high doses it may and so
ibuprofen can also result in worsen asthma. Well it's unclear what it does in
early pregnancy, it appears to be harmful in late pregnancy and therefore is not
recommended and like other NSAIDs, it works by inhibiting the
production of prostaglandins by decreasing the activity of the enzyme
cycle oxygen. Ibuprofen might be a weaker anti-inflammatory than other
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, it was discovered in 1961 by Stuart
Adams and John Nicholson and was marketed as brufen. Now it's
available under the trade names including advil and multum, it was first
marketed in 1969 in the United Kingdom, in the United States in 1974 and it's on
the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines. What is the
difference between ibuprofen and aspirin and other non sorrel anti-inflammatories?
Aspirins really rough on your GI system, this is really not safe for kids,
ibuprofen is less hard on the system, naproxen is an anti-inflammatory, most
used for arthritis and tylenol typically is used for headaches, not
specifically for arthritis. So when we talk about some alternatives to
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, you can do things like this.. My favorite
thing to recommend for pain management for migraines and arthritis believe it
or not is really simple and that's water. People that don't get enough water are
like the ten men on the Wizard of Oz, they don't have enough oil and oil as
your water. If you decrease sugar and decrease your anti-inflammatory foods, it
acts like a natural inset without the harm effects on your liver and your
kidneys. One of my favorite supplements to recommend for that is curcumin,
tumeric and the magic mineral for pain management is magnesium. The other
consideration for chronic pain management are alternatives to Tylenol
is a digestive formula, I like using digestive from
Natures NX, there's some ultimate Omega or essential fatty acids you need about
four to six thousand milligrams of essential fatty acids and if you combine
essential fatty acids with a proteolytic enzyme or digestive enzyme, I have found
that you can literally mimic aspirin, tylenol, acetaminophen effects without
having the detriment effects to your liver and your kidneys. Also, about 5,000
units of vitamin D3 and my clinical experience really helps to give an
alternative to tylenol and high doses of vitamin B are really really effective.
Now what can you do for people to have chronic pain patterns that you don't
want to take in a prescription or you don't want to have a surgical
intervention? There's something called regenerative injection therapy where you
can actually get the body to heal from abuse joints, from bone-on-bone arthritis
and my clinical experience, we've seen amazing outcomes, you can see that on our
video blog, called the Daily Dose of Vitamin H, and also something called
neural therapy. Now why neural therapy is so important
in the considerations of tylenol alternatives is because your body was a
computer and you called up tech support which said the body isn't working right,
it has a chronic pain or a chronic nerve problem or arthritis problem, tech
support may say turn everything off and turn it back on.
What neural therapy does is, it helps to reboot this system, you can take a little
tiny glycol ice ester of para amino benzoic acid also known as propane, if
you inject that in the body, the nerves open, close and reset, it's a very
effective way to take care of chronic pain, if we take care of the pain, you may
not need a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory. At our very least, we
want to help to avoid liver and kidney impact.
We just finished the video on
ibuprofen and the effects that it has on your body as well as alternative
treatment considerations instead of using ibuprofen.
This is Dr. West, we'll see you tomorrow.