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Dr. Lowe How to Prepare Patient-to-Patient Fibromyalgia Research Foundation
The Metabolic Treatment |
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Impaired metabolism affects different people in different ways, resulting in a variety of symptoms. Doctors usually give people with different symptoms different diagnoses. For example, the most prominent symptoms of some people are chronic widespread aches and pains. These people's doctors are likely to give them the diagnosis of "fibromyalgia." The main symptoms of other people are lethargy and fatigue. Their doctors may diagnose their symptoms as "chronic fatigue syndrome." Still other people may have depression, and others poor concentration and memory. The entire lists of potential symptoms and signs are too long to include here. I have included the most common symptoms and signs on other pages at drlowe.com. Few conventional doctors search out and correct the underlying metabolism-impeding factors I mentioned above. Instead, they prescribe one or more drugs, hoping to relieve the patients' troubling symptoms. The diagnoses the doctors give the patients are simply labels that justify the doctors prescribing particular patented medicines that drugs companies are promoting at the time. But I believe that most sets of symptoms—diagnosed as different disorders—have a common underlying cause. That cause is abnormally low metabolism (called "hypometabolism"). A part of the treatment approach I created and coined, "metabolic rehab," is to identify factors that are slowing a patient's metabolism. After the patient and I identify the factors, they, their primary doctors, I (or all of us together) engineer a treatment regimen to eliminate, correct, or control the factors. The patient may have to tweak his or her treatment regimen one or more times. This tweaking is intended to enable the patient to find his or her individual route to recovering normal metabolism. If the patient succeeds at finding this route, he or she is freed from symptoms and signs of low metabolism. Hypometabolism may be the basis of your health problems. If so, my colleagues and I have provided as much free information as possible on drlowe.com (contained in roughly three-hundred pages) to help you learn which factors may be slowing your metabolism and how to control with the aim of recovering your health. A final word, in case you are new to drlowe.com: My research group at the Fibromyalgia Research Foundation have determined the main cause of fibromyalgia. If you meet the criteria for fibromyalgia, chances are you don't have to suffer from it any long. I encourage you to read about fibromyalgia on drlowe.com. Thank you for visiting drlowe.com. I sincerely hope you find it helpful. —Dr. John C. Lowe
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