"Print this out and take it to your doctor and ask for assistance with "getting on this page" of what might be causing your problems" (essentially) is the ending message at this wonderfully informative piece I found online by Dr. Laurence Badgley, a long-ago graduate of a prestigious medical school in the US.

That is SO in line with the Lumigrate You model and what my intentions were with the information at Lumigrate.... providing a whole WEBSITE of substantial, valid, progressive information which is complementary (yet diverse) for the public to find.  Health care has changed dramatically with the increasing numbers of medical consumers who utilize computers as a tool for learning.  

Ultimately, in reality, nobody cares more about your health than YOU do -- YOU are the one who has to be 24/7 in your body dealing with things. For some, that includes advocates who are close family or friends.  Sometimes professional advocates/educators/navigators are part of the team as well, that's part of what I do as a health care advisor.  By providing appropriate information electronically or in print, patient/consumers can propel and help guide the direction of not just THEIR health care, but all the other patients/consumers following them through the providers 'door'.

The shift going on which I designed and started Lumigrate to be part of in 2009 in the US and beyond, has to do with going from the 'typical' conventional 'allopathic' medicine we've historically had (and our parents and grandparents), which increasingly sent patients for diagnostics and gave them procedures and medications which are effective symptom-solvers, to finding/changing the underlying reasons for wellness to have gone to unwellness.

I've provided the beginnings of this marvelous piece by Dr Badgley, and I highly encourage you to follow the link and read or skim the entire article. I believe this doctor is proving a BIG PIECE of what fibromyalgia is about -- I don't think he has really gotten to the 'cause', that I'd call the 'core of the onion, but he has gotten to one of the key layers right near the core through having strong knowledge and abilities for being a health detective. I believe what he is educating about is a big symptom which, if it can be kept 'in check', can functionally restore people with fibromyalgia's structural issues.

He refers to the infections with people with FM -- but only UTI; what about bronchitis and the ever-present/ongoing sinus issues which people with FM typically have? That's an example of what I found missing in this VERY GOOD piece.  The 'grand pooh bah' about fibromyalgia and fatigue, Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, approaches things so much from the hormone standpoint (adrenals, thyroid, stress/psychological) and, to my knowledge, has not covered as much about the structural issues of the body in his marketing and educational materials (aka books, website, appearances on television or in person -- we spoke at the same conference in 2009.  The conference was a very intimate one, with an equal number of providers with expertise in chronic pain as those who have it, and he stayed to the very last person with pain had asked questions of him and I happened to see and overhear him telling an inquiring woman about heel lifts.  I remember thinking "he knows more about heel lifts and the pelvis/lower extremities than most providers I know who specialize in those things, I wish we could just bottle what he knows somehow.")  So this is an excellent 'complementary piece', since I've included Dr Teitelbaum since 2009 in the forums at Lumigrate.com. 

I also had the UTI issues Dr. Badgley discusses when you read this piece; they started within years of when, at age 15, a chiropractor pointed out the way my pant leg was worn out on one side and not the other and started adjusting my pelvis, which would just go right back out again. I had tell-tale signs in my teens of CFS/FM ahead -- wiggy blood sugar (very high then very low) and orthostatic hypotension which, believe it or not, the MDs I was going to didn't suspect or test for, and I had no idea OH existed! That was back in the days when I believed doctors would figure things out for you and then you did what they told you, rather than the collaborative approach with the patient in the central, key position as we've created the YOU Model to represent at Lumigrate. 

As I got into the 'hormone cascade' issues with fibromyalgia in my 30s and 40s, the #1 thing which has helped me with that aspect of things is supplementing hormones (in a biologically identical way, and I prefer the method of 'physiologic' dosing for myself, but have information on Lumigrate ALSO from MDs who subscribe to the 'hyperphysiologic' or 'supraphysiologic' dosing that is also used for 'anti-aging'.  I'd only known of the hyperphysiologic type for many years so have about 4x the personal experience as with the newer-to-me physiologic, but aspects of the hyperphysiologic theory had always not 'agreed with me'; I've learned to listen to that little 'voice in my gut' called 'intuition', as I believe if a person is tapped into that, it is 'their truth/answer'.  

Lumigrate is a 'funnel' for people to get a palate of concepts to learn from, then the next step is to form your own opinions and take action if you wish to! (Which includes emailing/printing and educating others about concepts, which can include your team of providers surrounding YOU.)  

www.fibromyalgiacauseandcure.com/cms/book/export/html/1

In order to entice you into following the link, here the very first part of what you will see (plus some awesome graphics!) ...........