MANAGEMENT OF ACID INDIGESTION DISORDERS

 

J C MEEROFF, MD, Ph.D and S. MEEROFF South Florida Institute of Integrative Medicine, USA

 

“There are no closed questions, but men closed on the questions”                  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.”    William J Mayo

“The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.”         Barry Marshall

“If you spend your life competing with businessmen, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers”      Marilyn Monroe

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”      Albert Einstein

“Not every problem can be solved by science alone.”      JC Meeroff

“Often we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one that has been open for us.”            Hellen Keller

 

AUTO BREWERY SYNDROME

 

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION WITHOUT CONSUMING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: NOT A RARE AILMENT ANY. MORE

J C MEEROFF, MD, PhD and S. MEEROFF South Florida Institute of Integrative Medicine, USA

 

“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness”   Seneca the Young

 

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."  Winston Churchill

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.             ”F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver”       William James

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." ~ George Bernard Shaw

EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF COVID-19

 

THE EMOTIONAL EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

 

J.C MEEROFF MD, PhD         Clinical Associate Prof of Medicine, FAU 

SUSANA MEEROFF                Director of Health Services and Administration,

                    South Florida Institute of Integrative Medicine

 

 

"Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history…One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy."                Norman Borlaug

“The world is ill-prepared to respond to a severe influenza pandemic or to any similarly global, sustained and threatening public-health emergency”          World Health Organization statement.

“Adopting the right attitude can convert negative stress into a positive on”         Hans Seyle

“The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution”              Seneca the Younger

“Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.”                        Erich Fromm

 

THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP

 

DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP (DPR) IN THE MODERN WORLD

J.C MEEROFF MD, PhD         Clinical Associate Prof of Medicine, FAU 

SUSANA MEEROFF                Director of Health Services and Administration,

                    South Florida Institute of Integrative Medicine

 

 

“People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt”. Seneca the Young

“Always treat the patient not the laboratory numbers”.  Prof Dame Sheila P V Sherlock

“There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues”.   William Osler

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."  Hippocrates

“In a pathetic society a bad doctor is one who if you are not sick, makes you sick”. J.C. Meeroff 

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”     Erich Fromm

"There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood"       Santiago Ramon y Cajal

 

MERITOCRACY IS GOOD

 

 MERITOCRACY AND THE POPULIST WORLD

J C MEEROFF MD, PhD and S. MEEROFF BA

South Florida Institute of Integrative Medicine, USA

 

“If a man who has not been a socialist before 25 has no heart. If he remains one after 25 he has no head". King Oscar II of Sweden

"Misfortune is the test of a person's merit”. Seneca the younger

“Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit”.     PJ O’Rourke

“Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.” Eric Reis

"It is the practice of all tyrants to rely on a natural but thoughtless feeling of the peoples, to dominate them". Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

BACK TO THE FUTURE

THEORETICAL APPROACH TO THE ARRIVING INFECTIOUS PANDEMICS

Jose C. Meeroff Clinical Associate Professor of Integrated Medical Sciences; Director Florida Institute for Integrative Medicine and

Daniel E. Meeroff Professor and Associate Chair Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatics Engineering

A FEW QUOTATIONS FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO THE ISSUE

ü “Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance”  Hans Seyle

ü “You should work to live, not live to work”  Hans Seyle

ü “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed”  Charles Darwin

ü “It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent, it is the one that is the most adaptable to change”   Charles Darwin

ü “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving” Albert Einstein

ü “Every scientist becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men.”  Albert Einstein

ü “When in doubt, attack”  George S Patton

ü “Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable”   George S. Patton

ü “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”.  Seneca  the Younger

ü “It does not matter who does this job or that as long as there is someone to do it”   Ervin Laszlo

ü “ Progress cannot lie in more and bigger; it must be redefined, and that means having a new system of values”    Ervin Laszlo

ü “If you are not ready to beat the enemy because your opponent is stronger than you are, first join and cooperate with them to learn how they operate and function, and later try to defeat them”  JC Meeroff

ü “Complexity is relatively simple when you understand it”   JC Meeroff

INTRODUCTION

For the last centuries our civilization has been living under a contemporary cybernetic bureaucratic industrial paradigm with the aim of conquering nature, subduing it, exploiting it, raping it, and destroying it ( E. Fromm). A bureaucratic structure is based on fixed role assignments, and explicit work descriptions.  It decreases society’s ability to adapt to changes and give preference to preserve the structure/organization rather than to protect the individuals (Hirst). Bureaucracy is antinatural since it  undermines creativity, inhibits risk taking, and crushes innovation.

SOCIETY AFTER COVID-19

LESSONS FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A TENTATIVE BLUEPRINT TO PRESERVE HUMAN LIFE ON EARTH

Presented by the Meeroff family

Susana B. Director of Administration and Health Services 

                 

Myrna L. Adjunct Professor of Music, Executive Director at South Florida Chamber Ensemble

Daniel E. Professor and Associate Chair Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatics Engineering

Diego H. Director, College Relations and Marketing at Palm Beach State College

Jamie G. Research Scientist/Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center and

Jose C. Clinical Associate Professor of Integrated Medical Sciences; Director Florida Institute for Integrative Medicine

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity” Seneca, the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), 4 BC-65 AC, Roman Stoic philosopher.

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it”.  Robert Swan, b 1959 History greatest explorer.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein,1879-1955, Human greatest genius.

THE CONTEMPORARY PRAGMATIC MODEL OF HEALTH AND DISEASE

“A PRAGMATIC MODEL OF HEALTH AND DISEASE UNDER THE INTEGRATIVE PARADIGM

 J.C. Meeroff, MD. PhD Clinical Associate Prof of Medicine UM and FAU

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”  Hippocrates of Cos
"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction, the world will have a generation of idiots." Attributed to Albert Einstein

INTRODUCTION

Life and living are very complicated issues for which we do not have straightforward answers. We know that modern Homo Sapiens have consciousness and with consciousness come uncertainties and anxieties originated by the fact that we still don’t know the purpose and meaning of life (Lanza 2016). We also recognize that the pattern of diseases changes from generation to generation: some diseases disappear while new ones emerge and others occur in a different manner. In general terms, our current situation is that we suffer more from slow accumulation of damage rather than from acute attacks of strong external agents (Sapolsky 1994). We also recognize that when confronting a disease, the body has mechanisms to heal itself and to return to “normality”. This alleged spontaneous healing is assumed to be synchronized via the subconscious mind, while the conscious mind seems to interfere with self-healing mechanisms (Weil 2000).

WELLNESS AND UNWELLNESS

Wellness and unwellness in a capsule

INTRODUCTION

Disease (unwellness) represents a deviation from the biological, psychological, social and spiritual dynamic balance that characterized health (wellness). Disease is a multi factorial process that occurs when the individual is incapable of coping with imposed demands. Those demands (stressors) can be physical such as excessive exposure to noise; chemical such as getting infected with toxins released by invasive bacteria; psychological such as anxiety caused by learning new skills and/or social such as poor integration to a new community.

THE SIMPLE SECRETS OF LONGEVITY

THE SIMPLE SECRETS OF LONGEVITY

In current times there is no reason to follow John Derek’s dictum "Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse".

The current generation don’t believe in age and they believe in long and productive lives. They are right: there is no reason other than our own fault for destroying our organisms and die to soon.

The following are simple recommendation to assit you living a long and productive life without disease.

*Do not be exposed to tobacco products (primary or secondary smoking)
*Reduce the consumption of alcoholic beverages
*Keep your body weight around or below the recommended standards
*Exercise regularly
*Eat a balanced diet and add nutritional supplements if the diet is deficient
*Relax and meditate to combat distress
*Enjoy your work
*Sleep a minimum of 6 hours a day
*Keep safe and sound sexual activities
*Love earth and the people living on it