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Strange Symptoms is available in eBook
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The symptoms, our body’s signals of diseases and conditions, are fascinating. This book contains unusual symptoms, strange food cravings, vitamin deficiency and overdose symptoms. Also a list of foods that keeps your body healthy as well as easy, whole body detoxification methods. The main purpose of this book is to urge you to pay attention to the signals that your body is sending you.
The meaning of the word symptom in medicine: any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease.
Subjective symptoms are what you feel such as headache, nausea, anxiety, abdominal cramps etc.
Objective symptoms are what your doctor can observe such as abnormal heart or lung sounds, thyroid gland enlargement, palpable tumors etc.
Symptoms are clear and simple, such as half sided blinding headache; sensitivity to light with nausea is most likely migraine headache. Or sudden pain under the right ribs which refers to the back and accompanied by nausea is most likely a gallbladder problem.
Other conditions signaled by more complex symptoms, yet still easy to diagnose, such as increased appetite with weight loss, nervousness, faster than usual heart rate, increased sweating, tremor of the fingers and tongue with heat intolerance. These symptoms are usually the signs of hyperthyroidism, but still easy to diagnose the cause.
Symptoms can be unusual and even wacky at times. It seems as if the body is a little confused and sending signal which needs some interpretation.
You might ask, “What on earth is my earlobe has to do with the condition of my arteries”, or “if I have frequent hangnails do I really have vitamin C deficiency?”
Well, most of the bizarre symptoms are not proven scientifically and a result of careful observations by people who paid attention to their own bodies, or by doctors who made the connection between symptom and disease. However, some of the unusual symptoms are proven by studies and tests. For example, an extensive study was completed in the US and China regarding the presence of a wrinkle on the earlobe and its connection to atherosclerosis. They found that 90-95% of the people who had a wrinkle on their earlobe had ischemia, (an inadequate supply of blood to a part of the body, caused by partial or total blockage of an artery) caused by atherosclerosis (deposits plaques form on the inner surfaces of the arteries obstructing blood flow). If the earlobe is not getting enough blood, the rest of the body is not getting enough either.
Symptoms, the signals from our bodies fascinate me.
Review by James Lowrance on the previous edition of Bizarre Symptoms:
"I sat in amazement reading this book because I found many unusual symptoms related to health disorders and nutritional deficiencies, that I had never been aware of. It was fascinating to know that symptoms of illnesses can manifest in practically every area of the body, including in the earlobes and the eyelids. I also found the descriptions by author - Erika M. Szabo ND, regarding food cravings that can reveal health conditions and deficiencies to be extremely interesting. I really enjoyed this book, which was well-researched and with symptoms lists nicely formatted for easy reading."
"I sat in amazement reading this book because I found many unusual symptoms related to health disorders and nutritional deficiencies, that I had never been aware of. It was fascinating to know that symptoms of illnesses can manifest in practically every area of the body, including in the earlobes and the eyelids. I also found the descriptions by author - Erika M. Szabo ND, regarding food cravings that can reveal health conditions and deficiencies to be extremely interesting. I really enjoyed this book, which was well-researched and with symptoms lists nicely formatted for easy reading."
