Mineral Therapy for Arthritis

Montana son creates "Medicine Springs Mineral Therapy" to help his mother with arthritis

"Medicine Springs Mineral Therapy" was spawned from a necessity.

Brandon Price's mother Brenda had painful arthritis and could not close her hands. On a vacation, Brenda was sitting in a geothermal mineral hot spring and noticed she could close her hands and the pain was gone.

It wasn't a cure, but provided welcome relief.

Excited about how these natural mineral springs provided relief, she mentioned on her return that she wished she could put that water in her hot tub and bathtub.

As a former high school science teacher in Brandon thought this was something he could do. Based in Helena, Montana, Brandon and his wife, Julie, took chemical analysis of the most healing natural springs to be found around in the world, removed the water, separated the compounds, isolated the reactions, and packaged it.

They believe this is an opportunity to help others the way this helped Brandon's mom. They didn't intend to sell originally, but after giving it away—at Race for the Cure and to several Wounded Warriors—and seeing the results, they knew they needed others to try it.

Mineral packs by Medicine Springs are formulated to help alleviate symptoms of arthritis, fibromyalgia, joint and muscle pain, various skin ailments (like eczema, psoriasis, and acne), or those who are athletic—really anyone who wants to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of a hot soak or bath.

The minerals in the hot springs they selected came from around the world, including Alaska, Canada, Costa Rica, Iceland, Japan, Montana, Peru, and Wyoming.

These mineral packs mimic the chemical makeup of some of the world's most famous 'healing springs' found around the world, including Bicarbonates, Boron, Calcium, Lithium, Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, and Sulfur.

You can see a short video with Brandon and Julie talking about Medicine Springs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBPNbmH7IqQ.

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Pain Management Webinar: "The Role Diet & Hydration Play in Health & Wellness"

Topical BioMedics Hosts April Pain Management Webinar 

Topical BioMedics is hosting its free monthly pain management webinar on Tuesday, April 14^th, featuring the topic "The Role Diet & Hydration Play in Health & Wellness." The webinar, which is free and open to the public, will be streamed live from 12pm to 1pm, then archived and accessible on demand 24/7.  

RHINEBECK, NY, April 10—Topical BioMedics, Inc., announces its April Pain Management Webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 14^th, from 12pm – 1pm, streamed live and then archived and accessible on demand 24/7.  Registration is free and open to the public by clicking on the following link: http://bit.ly/PMW_Diet. Comments and questions are invited "real time" during the webinar, and questions may also be submitted in advance by emailing pmartin@topicalbiomedics.com. 

The topic for the April webinar is "The Role Diet & Hydration Play in Health & Wellness."  The session will be hosted by Lou Paradise, company president, chief of research, and pain management expert.

"Many people are unaware of the importance of diet and hydration to health, wellness, and pain management," says Mr. Paradise.  "Proper hydration is vital to good health, but not all beverages are created equal.  In fact, some actually cause the body to become dehydrated.  Also, certain foods can cause inflammation, which contributes to pain issues.  Moreover, a poor diet can contribute to diabetes, heart and respiratory problems as well as compromise the immune system." 

During the webinar, participants will learn to make healthy choices:  what to eat and drink, what to avoid, and why.  This will enable individuals to take a more proactive role in their health, and discover how changing their diet can affect the way they feel.

Topical BioMedics' Pain Management Workshop series was launched in February 2015, and takes place the second Tuesday of every month.  Topics covered will include discussions on pain and the body's healing chemistries, inflammation and the immune system, and how lifestyle factors such as exercise, hydration, and nutrition affect our health.    In addition, specific conditions and ailments will be addressed, including:  diabetes; fibromyalgia; arthritis; carpal tunnel; sports injuries; Plantar fasciitis, neuropathy, and more.  Future workshops will also feature guest speakers from various health modalities, including chiropractic care, acupuncture, and nutrition. 

For more information, please call Patricia Martin, Marketing Director, at 845-871-4900 ext. 1113 or email pmartin@topicalbiomedics.com.

ABOUT LOU PARADISE

Pain management specialist Lou Paradise is president and chief of research of Topical BioMedics, Inc., a Certified B Corp headquartered in Rhinebeck, NY. Mr. Paradise is an accomplished researcher with over four decades of work dedicated to how the body heals itself and how pain can guide us to the correct treatment protocol. He is also a decorated US Marine Corps combat veteran serving two tours in Vietnam as a helicopter combat/medivac/rescue crew chief. He frequently serves as an expert speaker on the use of natural medicines for pain relief, and how a patient-centered sustainable healthcare model can reverse and prevent the massive abuse of Rx opioid painkillers for unresolved pain, and other pressing social issues including what we can do to stop and reverse the trend of our over-medicated society.

A member of the American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists, Mr. Paradise conducts pain management seminars and participates in addressing compliance issues related to regulated natural medicines.  Mr. Paradise invented Topricin Pain Relief and Healing Cream to safely and effectively address the injuries he sustained as a result of the physical demands of flying hundreds of helicopter combat/rescue mission in Vietnam. The product has been designated as "The 21^st Century standard of care for pain management" by Dr. Woodson Merrill, executive director, Center for Health & Healing.  As a complement to primary care, Topricin bridges the gap between natural medicines and the conventional medical community.
 
Mr. Paradise regularly addresses clinical audiences on the use of his company's proprietary topical healing technologies that addresses the cause of the pain at the cellular level. The products effectively treat acute and chronic pain associated with arthritis, lower back, nerve and foot pain as well as trauma injury (including post-surgical trauma), diabetic and chemo-induced neuropathy, and are known to reduce or eliminate the need for chemical pain pills and measurably improve clinical outcomes. He is also fluent on other aspects of health, wellness, and healing. Mr. Paradise is especially sensitive to health challenges of children, the elderly and fellow veterans.

ABOUT TOPICAL BIOMEDICS

Topical BioMedics is a research and development leader in topical patented natural biomedicines for pain relief. The company's flagship product, Topricin® Pain Relief and Healing Cream, was introduced in 1994 and is now a leading natural therapeutic brand. A patented combination biomedicine formula, Topricin has been awarded additional patents for the treatment of pain associated with fibromyalgia and neuropathy. 

For over two-decades the company has assisted hundreds of thousands of people suffering with pain and those addicted to painkillers achieve fully restored and robust, healthy living. Lou Paradise, president and chief of research, is a dedicated man on a mission to make sure every person knows all their options, so as to reduce or eliminate the need for OTC chemical pain pills and the hazardous side effects they produce. This includes the reversing the massive addiction to opioid Rx painkillers in the U.S., an epidemic that is ruining lives and families and is undermining the very fabric of our country.  It is possible to reverse these trends, end suffering and restore hope and quality of life.

The Topricin family of natural healing products also includes Topricin Foot Therapy Cream, specially formulated to treat painful foot and ankle issues and conditions, and Topricin for Children, which received the Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval (with 5% of sales donated to a pediatric cancer foundation). Made in the U.S.A., all Topricin products are federally-regulated over-the-counter medicines with no known side effects, no parabens, petroleum, or other harsh chemicals, odorless non-irritating and wonderfully moisturizing to the skin
Topical BioMedics also offers TopTrack, an app for on-the-go pain tracking and monitoring.   TopTrack is available free of charge for iPad via the App Store, and will roll out on additional devices in the coming months. http://bit.ly/1rIQD89 .  TopTrack is a great tool that allows a patient to monitor their pain, and downloadable so they can share the data with their doctor.

Topricin is available in independent pharmacies, natural food and co-op stores nationwide, including Whole Foods, Sprouts, Pharmaca, The Vitamin Shoppe, Fred Meyer, Wegmans, CVS (Foot Care Section), Walgreens (Diabetic Section), and other fine retailers, as well as directly from the company.
For more information visit http://www.topricin.com 

Doctor gives tips on how to live better and happier

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Who doesn't want a life filled with thriving positivity and high-life satisfaction? Do you seek meaning and purpose in life with a healthy balance between work and life, and positive friendships and relationships?

Dr. Marsha W. Snyder explains how to do this in her new book, Positive Health: Flourishing Lives, Wellbeing in Doctors.

With a focus on solving the epidemic of ill-being in the medical profession, often beginning in the first year of medical school, Positive Health is a must-read for all professionals, student-professionals and administrators in the medical field.

"The addition of a Positive Health curriculum in medical school and as continuing medical education for doctors, will eliminate the 40 to 60-percent rate of ill-being in doctors worldwide and will encourage doctors to teach positive health to their patients, resulting in a thriving population," said Snyder.

Increasing positive health in doctors and healthcare personnel will lead to increased employee and patient satisfaction, decreased cost of care, fewer employee sick days, decreased staff turnover, more efficient and effective healthcare teams, and decreased medical errors, among numerous other benefits.

Positive Health: Flourishing Lives, Wellbeing in Doctors
By: Dr. Marsha W. Snyder
ISBN: 978-1-45259-830-7
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and WestBow Press

About the author

Dr. Marsha W. Snyder is a trailblazer. A doctor of medicine, with a Masters degree in Applied Positive Psychology, she is a leader and teacher in Positive Health, Physicians' health, medical education curricula and leadership skills. Due to impactful personal and professional experience, she has devoted her career to helping individuals and organizations realize their potential to deliver compassionate, cost-effective, error-free care. Dr. Snyder has worked with medical schools to advance faculty, student and population thriving and wellbeing. She lives in Bethlehem, PA.

Developer created Topricin to help his own pain

Necessity is still the mother of invention.  Ask Lou Paradise, the developer of a topical cream called Topricin that soothes and relaxes tired and sore muscles as we rest.

In 1965, Lou Paradise found himself pain ridden with severe bilateral Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS).The condition was caused by injuries he sustained as a Marine Corps helicopter medivac crew chief during the Vietnam War.  The physical demands of conducting hundreds of rescue missions of military personnel and Vietnamese citizens was too much for his body.

People afflicted with CTS suffer from burning, tingling, throbbing pain—in Lou’s case from fingers to elbow. He knew that “neither surgery nor pain medications were the right answer.”

Having an extensive background in physiology and natural medicine, Lou considered becoming a medical doctor with a focus on emergency care. In 1965--following two tours of active combat duty—he spent time in Hong Kong. There he met British- and Chinese-trained MDs, who introduced him to the potency of such traditional natural medicines as acupuncture, herbal medicine, and homeopathy—which are now known as complimentary and alternative medical (CAM) practices. Lou was impressed by their powerful healing potential and delved deeper into his studies.

When Lou’s CTS was at its worst, he was lucky to get two or three hours of sleep, and had to rest sitting up in a chair to maintain circulation in his arms, hands, and fingers in order to offset the excruciating pain. Desperate for relief, Lou began to self-experiment by taking oral herbal medicines, which had little effect. Next he took single-ingredient homeopathic medicines but again had very little relief from his misery. Then he deduced that maybe a combination of homeopathic medicines delivered in a cream base and applied to the specific site of the pain might be the answer. This had never been done before.

Blessed with a strong intuition, Lou experimented with select combinations of homeopathic medicines from the 3,000 different medicines available. Low and behold, he began to feel measurable improvement and in just a few weeks was able to get four hours of sleep, then five, then six. This is crucial to the healing process since the body does its primary repair while we are resting. Lou had no further need for oral pain relief medications, and was able to sleep in his own bed once more.

Lou Paradise

The prototype Topricin® formula was born! And after more than 25 years, Topricin has made it possible for Lou to be pain-free, symptom-free, and medication-free, enjoying a complete restoration of full function, mobility, and range of motion.

“Sleep is crucial to the healing process, since the body does its primary repair while we are resting,” he says. He has been pain-free since 1981.

When others learned about his discovery, he gave medication to them, and they did well, too. In 1992, he put his ideas into motion and two years later started his company. He called the ointment Topricin. In 2009, he adjusted the formula and created two new products: Topricin Foot Therapy Cream, specifically formulated to treat and help heal foot and ankle issues; and Topricin Junior, created to address the safety issues and concerns of parents and doctors in pediatric pain relief.

He also saw how his product was helping patients with fibromyalgia. More than five million people — about 90 percent of them women — suffer from this syndrome, which is characterized by chronic, widespread pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons; multiple “tender points”; fatigue; and sleep disturbances.

The causes of fibromyalgia are unknown, but there are probably a number of factors involved. Many people associate the development of this condition with a physically or emotionally stressful or traumatic event, such as an automobile accident. Some connect it to repetitive injuries. Others link it to an illness. For others, fibromyalgia seems to occur spontaneously.

Medications, particularly antibiotics, throw off the bacterial balance in the digestive tract, which alternative practitioners believe is a root cause of many chronic health conditions. “This out-of-balance condition puts the body into a toxic state,” Paradise says, “so reducing or eliminating pain meds and antibiotics is key.”

That’s where his ointment comes in. As a topical cream, it eliminates the need for pain medicines. “We’re not just treating the pain, we’re looking at the causes of the pain and offering pain relief based on healing, not just deadening symptoms,” he says.

His proprietary concoction contains, among other elements, homeopathic arnica and Echinacea. It also contains four types of venom derivatives — which are not poisons, but highly concentrated digestive juices that help to excite the enzymes that promote healing. These ingredients are suspended in purified water and natural oil emulsions that protect and moisturize the skin, rather than in petroleum and paraben bases, which are linked to other health concerns.

“Our product helps detoxify the blood and get the body back in biochemical balance,” Paradise says. “We engineer things to work with the body, not against it.”

A passionate educator and health/ wellness advocate, Lou says, “I am humbled by the fact that my own pain lead me to discover and fulfill my life’s mission. I am dedicated to continuing my efforts to restore hope and promote safe, natural healing that works in harmony with the body’s miraculous ability to heal itself. ”

Read another story at http://cdn.topricin.com/downloads/FIBRO_HUDSON_VALLEY_MAG.pdf

For more information contact http://www.topricin.com/

A Testimonial

I’ve had excruciating pain in my thigh and hip. I tried Topricin for two months on my thigh. It has helped to relax and given me relief from pain. Before going to bed,  I rub it in and, as I do, it massages my hurting muscle.  As I sleep my leg relaxes and I find relief. My wife has found similar relief using Topricin Foot Therapy Cream on her ankle.   – John Fisher

Vulvar pain linked to fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Millions of women suffer from unexplained vulvar pain so severe it can make intercourse, exercise and even sitting unbearable.

New research now shows that women with this painful vaginal condition known as vulvodynia are two to three times more likely to also have one or more other chronic pain conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia (musculoskeletal pain) and interstitial cystitis (bladder pain).

These increasingly prevalent chronic pain conditions are known to be underdiagnosed – and the new data sheds more light on how they may also be related, according the University of Michigan Health System study that was published in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

“Millions of people in the U.S. have chronic pain. This report stresses the need to further study relationships between these types of disorders to help understand common patterns and shared features,” says lead author Barbara D. Reed, M.D., M.S.P.H., professor of family medicine at the U-M Medical School.

“Chronic pain conditions like these can seriously hamper quality of life and it’s imperative that we understand the commonality among them. Results we see in any studies related to one of the conditions, such as regarding etiology, physiology, or treatment, may be relevant to any of others.”

Other studies show that chronic pain conditions are much more prevalent than previously estimated, and there has been growing interest in understanding the patterns of co-occurrence, Reed says.

“Women who have these disorders often see physicians but are not given a diagnosis or are given an erroneous diagnosis and continue to suffer without being treated properly,” Reed says. “Until their symptoms have a name, it can be really discouraging because patients begin thinking it’s all in their head.

“Chronic pain is starting to get a lot more attention, with more research being done on all of these disorders, as well as combinations of these disorders. I think the identification and treatment of these conditions will continue to improve.”

Authors used data from the six-month follow-up survey of the Michigan Woman to Woman study, a population-based cohort of 2,500 adult women in southeast Michigan. An original study found that more than 25 percent of surveyed women in the metro Detroit area have experienced ongoing vulvar pain at some point in their lives but only 2 percent ever sought treatment for their pain.

Additional Authors: Besides Reed, authors include Siobán D. Harlow, Ph.D., Ananda Sen, Ph.D., Rayna M. Edwards, MPH, Di Chen, MPH, and Hope K. Haefner, M.D.

Why Dr. Ray Strand joined ARIIX

Dr. Ray Strand, author of five books including Healthy for Life, has joined with ARIIX of Bountiful, Utah in promoting their nutritionals.  He will be serving as the company’s medical advisor.  

Famous for his low glycemic food plan, he extols the virtue of eating low glycemic foods combined with exercise and supplemented with vitamins and minerals as a way to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

ARIIX products, he says, surpass his criteria for cellular nutrition.  Cellular nutrition provides

all the essential nutrients to the body or cell at their optimal or advanced levels. 

He explained that RDA, the recommended dietary allowance of vitamins and other nutritionals, was created as the minimal amount required for acute deficiency diseases like pellagra, scurvy or rickets.  But research shows you need to have much greater levels than the RDA to obtain the health benefits that are shown in the medical literature.  He calls these greater amounts optimal or advanced levels, which he says ARIIX products have.

Multi-vitamins, on-the-other-hand, do not meet these requirements.  “You would have to look long and hard to find any study that shows a multiple vitamin has any health benefits,” he said. While 70 percent of the U.S. population in the US claims to take nutritional supplements, the majority are taking a multi-vitamin which doesn't have any health benefit.  

Before associating with ARIIX, Dr. Strand looked at their manufacturing process. Because the nutritionals market is largely unregulated, he said most of the companies that produce nutritional supplements in the U.S. today really don't follow any manufacturing standards. It was important to him that ARIIX meet high manufacturing standards.  

When companies claim they follow food grade manufacturing standards, only 30 percent of the contents in a tablet need to be itemized on the label.  The rest may be fillers.  

Dr. Strand found that the ARIIX manufacturing plant was FDA registered.  They follow pharmaceutical food manufacturing practices in producing their products.  This means they purchase pharmaceutical grade raw products and then manufacture much like a pharmaceutical company manufactures their drugs.  To meet pharmaceutical standards a hundred percent of what is in the capsule is stated on the label.  A hundred percent of ARIIX products are listed on the labels.

In addition, ARIIX follows what is called USP guidelines or standards.  Following USP standards guarantees that the tablets or capsules dissolve so the body gets the maximum benefit from the ingredients.  In his studies he found that only three of nine pills or capsules on the market dissolve. “If your pill or capsule doesn't dissolve it really doesn't matter what is in it,” he said.  “It's not going to do any good.”   So he was impressed that ARIIX follows USP guidelines.

Another thing that excited him about the ARIIX manufacturing plant was that it has been approved to do OCD or over the counter drugs.  To get this approval a manufacturing plant has to follow quality processes. Their facility can and does manufacture over the counter drugs, he said.   

Finally, third party endorsement is important to support product claims.  He said he was excited to find that ARIIX uses NSF to provide third party certification of products.  NSF certification is the most respected third party testing in the industry.

Dr. Strand was asked how he could join ARIIX when Lyle MacWilliam, the author of the NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements, reviewed their products and only gave them a 3.5 star rating. Dr. Strand was involved in developing the mathematical scale MacWilliam uses in evaluating products.

Dr. Strand found, however, that MacWilliam had not talked to ARIIX and got all his information from the labels on the products. Many of the formulas are proprietary, so only the ingredients are listed, not the percentages. MacWilliam rated these at zero. It became understandable why ARIIX got only 3.5 stars. If he would have included these ingredients, his results would have been more accurate.

“This is a five star product if not five and a half,” said Strand. “It became very evident to me that ARIIX products are the best in the market place and I wanted to be part of ARIIX.” 

Dr. Strand graduated from the University of Colorado medical school in 1971. He says that for the first 23 years of his practice he told his patients that “supplements and vitamins do nothing but create expensive urine.”  Then his wife who suffers from chronic fatigue fibromyalgia started taking supplements and her health improved.

He started to study the medical literature to see what benefits his patients could receive if they took high quality balanced supplements. That was the start of his career in nutritional medicine.  

More information about Dr. Strand is available on his website http://www.healthconceptsint.com/.