I am very grateful and honored to be nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. I accepted the challenge and will donate. Please check out the video...it's pretty funny especially at the end!
http://youtu.be/CqZhSNPqNF4
ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease is a degenerative disease of the motor neurons and patients suffer a slow death as they slowly get paralyzed when motor neurons and brain fail to communicate resulting in decreased muscle function or complete loss. The diaphragm can also be paralyzed leading to death by suffocation. Although still many unknowns, it is thought that there is an auto-immune component to ALS, where the immune system attacks the motor neurons.
With naturopathic medicine, we work to get to the root cause of why the body is attacking the motor neurons and use natural methods decrease the auto-immunity with a goal of slowing the progression of the disease. There is hope for this condition and please feel free to contact me.
Since the Ice bucket challenge started in the beginning of August 2014, It has raised $79.7 million as of today, Aug 25th, 2014. This campaign has gone viral over facebook and other social media. Once you are nominated for the Ice Bucket Challenge, you can either accept or donate $100. However by accepting the Ice Bucket Challenge we still encourage you to donate.
I personally nominate Dominic Chan Nick Unsworth Satomi Hinata Sarika Arora Carreiro and Corina Gill to take up the Ice Bucket Challenge and carry it forward.
For more information on donating check out:
http://www.alsa.org/fight-als/ice-bucket-challenge.html
For more information on Dr. Emily Chan ND check out:
http://www.modernintegrativemedicine.com/
http://www.facebook.com/modernintegrativemedicine