Having “Active” Asthma Increases Your Chances of COPD/Emphysema By Over 1700%. (Yes 17 Times…)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15249443
“Managing” Your Asthma Is Therefore NOT OK…
You doctors have inferred to you that there is only ONE way to deal with asthma symptoms. And that way is to “manage” them using a mixture of chemicals and regular measuring using a peak flow meter. This is a better approach than NOT managing them. It is not the only way.
When drug companies first introduced “relief” drugs – it was followed by huge increases in the death rate from asthma. This is the real basis of the introduction of “preventer” medications – whose goal is to help you need LESS of of the reliever medications (you know why).
So “management” is taken to mean that you use your preventer medications regularly and at sufficient dose that you don’t need to use relief medications – but you still need to “keep it handy”.
But – research tells us that if you have ACTIVE ASTHMA (which we will define in a moment) – you have 1700% greater chances of getting COPD or emphysema. I don’t know about you – but my doctor never, ever, even slightly hinted to me that active asthma would have this effect on my future.
What is “Active Asthma”??
This medical research on the strong link between asthma and COPD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514018/ – defines “Active Asthma” – if they reported that at least one of the following occurred during the past 12 months:
- talked to a doctor or other health professional about [his/her] asthma,
- took asthma medication,
- or experienced any symptoms of asthma.
If they did not have “active asthma”, in this study they were classified as having “inactive asthma”. (Not asymptomatic asthma, or symptom-free asthma that you or I would have used?)
So – with the definition where if you have symptoms or are taking asthma medications or even talk to your doctor about asthma – you are in the group that is 17 times more likely to get emphysema or COPD. As well as that you are 10 times more likely to get CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. (Which is not that nice either…)
The only rational choice is to “grow out of asthma” – so that you do not have symptoms, do not have to talk to your doctor about it, and you are taking no medications… This is what I did.
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