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Interview With Amadeo Furlan

11/27/2014

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Amadeo Furlan is a man with many talents. He’s worked as a corporate manager, consultant, trainer, and today spends his time learning, discussing, and promoting new scientific research in the world of alternative medicine. His main goal is to provide the public with credible information about how they can maintain a mental and physical well-being. 


What sparked your interest in alternative medicine? 

After working for 38 years for corporate companies, I needed a change. I wanted to stand for something different. In 1988 I had the pleasure of meeting a professor (prof. Dalla Dea) who introduced me to the world of Neuro Linguistic Programming and helped me discover how the mind is affected by words. It was a love at first sight. Even though, at that time, I had to set the study of alternative medicine aside for a few years because of business, I continued to study on my own.

Why did you continue to study?


It was fascinating to me. I wanted to understand more about how the mind and body talk to each other, about how negative thoughts can lead to physical disease, and how the frequencies of our words inevitably affect our entire body. With every study I read, I came closer and closer to the realization that the mind, emotions, and body are all connected. They are one in the same.  

How did you continue after this realization?


As I continued to move around the world, I began focusing on the questions concerning psychosomatic illnesses. Psychosomatic illnesses are illnesses that arise from mental or emotional disturbances. I wanted to know where these illnesses came from and what different methods could be done to help people them.

Why psychosomatic illness?

Medicine today is increasingly taking a more holistic approach. Doctors now have the knowledge that people are individuals who must be seen as such, and not according to generic standardized protocols. The world is opening up to new horizons, and new forms of knowledge and awareness. Today, we feel a stronger inner drive which pushes us to discover, to observe nature, to read what others say and be able to find balance in what we have forgotten and lost. We are in a psychological revolution.

How did you make sense of all these studies with a past working in corporate business?

I had a lot of help! First I worked with with Paolo Spoladore and later with Doc. Raffaele Migliorini to understand these insights. My references have been more meaningful and reliable in my career in the medical world than I can say as my insights needed support from biological and medical scientists. 

Do you miss the corporate world at all?


It’s been 16 years since I left that life and I must say that I do not miss it at all. It was 22 years of intense, high level and influential experiences but I am no longer a part of that.

Where do you see this information going?


Where this knowledge and research will end up is a mystery to me. I still feel like I’m in kindergarden as far as studying this medicine goes! Of course, kindergarden is the place where children learn to figure things out, where they begin the path of confrontation, and where their creativity is channeled and implemented, so it’s not so bad. 

What do you hope for the future of alternative medicine? 


I hope that we identify our path. That by sharing these studies, we can collaborate to find the road to a vital, grateful, and joyful life and that we can provide insights for future generations by offering effective tools to prevent all forms of physical, psychological, and spiritual disharmony.

What part to you hope this blog will play in creating this ideal future? 

I didn’t make this blog to create an illusion that I can teach something to the world. It would be foolish and prideful to think that I could do any of this on my own. It’s really thanks to others feedback, actions, thoughts, and simply put, healthy and humble comparison, that I believe we can collaborate to empower the afflicted and the depressed and the sick to find the turning point in their life. I hope that this blog creates a community where we all can contribute for the good of all to make every person feel healthy again.


Thank you. 
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Stress

11/24/2014

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Hans Selye was the first clinician to use the term “stress,” which was originally drawn from the word “strain” used to describe tearing or effort in physics. In 1936, following a number of experiments, Selye came to identify the phenomenon of stress as a morbid condition, produced in laboratory animals by noxious stimuli. It is characterized by pathophysiologic changes such as hypertrophy of the adrenal cortex, atrophy of the thymus and lymphatic organs and occurrence of bleeding ulcers of the stomach. More generally, stress can be considered a set of chain reactions, triggered by an external stimulus (stressor), which is expressed in behavioral and other organic ways.

From the behavioral point of view there are changes in attitude of the individual as they try to remove the stressor; from the biological point of view the activation of the autonomic nervous system and neuroendocrine puts the individual in a state of "alert" (increased heart rate, blood pressure, of breathing) in order to respond to the external stimulus. Stressful events or stressors have various stimuli that commonly affect individuals. They are classified into biological (infections), physical (exposure to heat, cold, trauma), psychosocial (unemployment, separation, bereavement etc.) and intrapsychic (fears, internal conflicts etc.) stressors. The chain mechanisms involving the Central Nervous System (CNS), the Immune System (SI) and the Neuro Endocrine System (SNE) are varied, and proven by numerous scientific experimental and clinical studies (Cafiero, Prota, Marenzi et al. 2006 ).
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Hypothalamic, pituitary and thymus hormones that regulate the immune response in the presence of stressful events can get potenziarsi or depressed in these situations. The big news, as demonstrated in the last few years, is represented by the discovery that the supporting cells of the CNS (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and microglia) express an activity similar to that of immune cells by releasing cytokines directly into the blood by microglial cells. 


Defined as allostasis, this is the reason our body is able to tolerate altered homeostasis for short periods of time. That said, the longer you remain in this organic discordant or “heroic" condition, the more be negative consequences there will be, including:
  1. increase in cortisol blood;
  2. reduction of white blood cells and alteration of leukocyte formula;
  3. reduction of CD4 lymphocytes responsible for immune defenses;
  4. reduction of natural killer lymphocytes;
  5. blastizzazione reduction index, or the ability of lymphocytes to react to extraneous stimuli new to the body;
  6. reduction of the production of IFN-γ, IL-1, IFN-β;
  7. increased antibody titers of latent viruses (herpes simplex 1 and 2, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus etc.);
  8. reduction of the nerve cells of the hippocampus;
  9. increased blood pressure;
  10. increased heart rate.

As you can see, stress can be harmful. It can also be beneficial. Some tension comparable to muscle tone is even necessary to be able to provide efficient performance. Since stress is a custom condition, it is not easy to understand when we are in danger with regards to the response capacity of our body through triggering events. Many researchers in the field of endocrinology and neuropsychiatry are looking for indicators of stress in order to develop a tool that allows us to understand our stress tolerance levels.

Homeostasis, explained by Steven Rose (1997), is the tendency of the body to work to regulate its own internal environment. It is the constant tuning between the biological and the social. Being endowed with great plasticity during development, the body plays an active role in determining its own destiny as it is constantly changing homeostasis. Introducing this concept of dynamic Darwinism, Rose found that the body is active instead of passive as it changes in relation to its sociological environment.
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This autopoiesis is a construction of the self, characteristic of humans and very important when we face heroic situations. We must have a perception of what we are sacrificing at the time in order to support that particular operational situation. Once we grasp this perception, we have two possibilities: either to quickly return to the status quo and avoid getting sick, or to understand that our body is able to support our failed choices because it can change its homeostasis.

Keystone of stress control is the hippocampus, a small formation located in the basal ganglia brain that stores memories in preconceived or engrams neural representation of the external environment as a result of previous experience. In this way, the hippocampus is able to assess the real events with predetermined theoretical models. After running this test, the hippocampus triggers a cascade neuroendocrine, activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. In doing so, this highly efficient brain structure operates in two ways: by controlling the outside world and, in certain situations, becoming a center of neuroendocrine activation. This neuroendocrine cascade in turn affects the behavior of helper T cells, directors of the immune response. The helper T cells are divided into two classes, Th1 and Th2. The balance between these two classes defines the balance of the immune system similar to the yin-yang model of Chinese medicine. An example of this is the opposition between polarities of the same process.

A condition of chronic stress, creating an imbalance in favor of Th1, can favor the appearance of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis for the nervous system, Crohn's disease, and uveitis for the intestine to the eye.

An opposite polarization; however, can lead to an excess of antibody response, in particular towards allergens. With an overproduction of immunoglobulin type E (IgE) it is believed that allergies and SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus, immune complex autoimmune disease) can be attributed to excessive Th2 bias circuit.
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The Future Of Your Health is Calling, Act Now.

11/13/2014

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There are over 7 million human beings currently on planet Earth. But how many of them know what their level of health is? Do you know what is yours?

How much time do we stop to think about our health and the health of the people we love?

Do we adopt the right habits for our health?

Of course we already know many beneficial things to do for our body such as physical activity, getting enough sleep, the importance of freeing ourselves of negative emotions, and other things.

But the question I ask myself is: “How can I balance my health with my daily life? Is there ever enough time?” The answer is everywhere, just look at the people around us…they show unmistakable signs of stress and physical fatigue, mentally and spiritually. As a matter a fact, we feel more and more tired, especially the young people at the start of their working career. Continuing through life with more and more responsibility, our health is often sacrificed to keep up with our job, our family, our life.

Don’t you agree? We may want to live a healthy life, but how do we reverse societal trends and change for the better?

Even in this case the answer is obvious. By maintaining a balanced diet, everyone can achieve a state of optimum health. The importance of healthy food and healthy thought should not be overlooked. When we eat physically, psychologically and spiritually healthy "food" we can maintain normal functions in all parts of our body; the normal heart function, brain function, function of the nervous system, and immune system and blood pressure functions.
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Today, scientists come to us suggesting foods or nutraceuticals able to drastically reduce our tiredness and fatigue, bringing pharmacological benefits to our body that are contained in plants and food. This; however, is not a natural way of living a healthy life.

My intent is to give you more information and greater awareness of what you can do naturally to live a healthy life full of energy.

Send me an email request and I will gladly send you valuable information and exclusive of the perfect combination and portentous made of ingredients, the purest that exist in nature, to finally take care of your health, day after day, improving your effectiveness psycho physics.
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If you really care about yourself and the people you love, act now. Send me an email and we can set up an appointment via Skype or phone to discuss what you really need to know to maintain an optimal health. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss. 

Do not hesitate, now is the time to act. Please contact me through the contact tab on this page or write me an email at: amadeofurlan@alice.it

I will send you an exclusive video on nutraceutical products that will revolutionize the market in the coming years.
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    Amadeo Furlan is a doctor who studies how psychological positive and negative thoughts effect our life. Here, he shares the latest scientific studies, products, and ideologies to help people live a healthier, happier life.

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