ALS means Amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis and is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It is a rapidly
progressive, invariably fatal neurological disease that attacks the neuron nerve
cells which are responsible for controlling voluntary muscles. Motor neurons are
nerve cells located in the brain, brainstem, and spinal cord that serve as
controlling units and vital communication links between the nervous system and
the voluntary muscles of the body. Messages from motor neurons in the brain are
transmitted to motor neurons in the spinal cord which are known as lower motor
neurons, and from them to particular muscles. In the disease ALS, both the upper
motor neurons and the lower motor neurons degenerate or die, and stop sending
messages to muscles. Not able to function, the muscles gradually weaken, waste
away, and twitch. Over time the ability of the brain to start and control
voluntary movement is lost.
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| The ALS disease causes muscle weakness and atrophy throughout
the body by degeneration of both the upper and lower motor neurons. Not able to
function, the muscles weaken and atrophy. Affected persons may lose the ability
to initiate and control all of their voluntary movement, although bladder and
bowel sphincters and the muscles responsible for eye movement are normally, but
not always, able to function..
Cognitive function is also normally spared for most patients although some 5%
also have frontotemporal dementia. A higher proportion of patients 30%-50% also
may have smaller cognitive changes that might go unnoticed but are often
revealed by detailed neuropsychological testing. Sensory nerves and the
autonomic nervous system, which controls functions like sweating, are generally
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Eventually most people with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are not able
to stand, walk, or get in or out of bed on their own. And they use their hands
and arms, or communicate. In the later stages of the disease, people have
difficulty breathing as the muscles of their respiratory system also weaken.
Although respiratory support can help problems with breathing and prolong the
person's life, it does not affect the progression of ALS. Most people with Lou
Gehrig's disease die from respiratory failure, normally within three to five
years from the onset of symptoms. The median survival time from onset to death
ranges from 20 to 48 months, however 10% to 20% of ALS patients have a survival
longer than 10 years. The world's most recognized person with ALS is Stephen
Hawking who has lived with the disease for more than 40 years, but his is a very
unusual case.
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Doctor's Comments about Drugs
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"The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once
from the disease and once from the medicine." William Osler, M.D.
"The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs
physicians superstitiously give in order to effect a cure." Charles E.
Page, M.D.
"If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea,
it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity."
O.W. Holmes, (Prof. of Medicine Harvard University)
"Every drug increases and complicates the patients
condition." Robert Henderson, M.D.
"In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By
taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further
embarrassed and harder to cure." Elmer Lee, M.D.
"The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and
medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious
effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system will be
abandoned." Charles Armbruster, M.D.
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