Diseases Multiple Sclerosis: January 2009

Narcolepsy Treatments

Most commonly, Narcolepsy presents itself as an illness called EDS ? Excessive Daytime Sleepiness. This is the persistent feeling being tired, lacking real energy and wanting to sleep. The sufferer has to make concerted efforts to remain awake, but even if he or she is able to do so, it is often only to achieve a semi-wakeful state that onlookers often describe as ?trance like? or as if the individual is ?on auto pilot?.

At unfortunate moments, the feeling can be so strong that it appears to anyone looking on that the sufferer may be drunk. Typically, people suffering from Narcolepsy and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness need to have a period of sleep before attempting and specific task. Failing to prepare in this manner can result in a sudden attack of sleep while performing said task.

EDS is regularly treated with stimulants, such as Ritalin, in America. This drug helps to stimulate the central nervous system to keep the individual alert and awake. Other newer drugs are in development that work as similar ?wake promoters?. The second main characteristic of narcolepsy is cataplexy, the sudden loss of control over the muscles in your body. This can vary in severity from individual to individual, and most good doctors suggest that if the symptoms are not severe enough, treatment should simply be avoided.

The drugs commonly used to treat this problem are those in the antidepressant range. Cataplexy is not directly linked to depression, but the side effects of these drugs happen to affect the neurological pathways that themselves cause cataplexy. These drugs are usually either tricyclic agents, or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, SSRIs.

Paralysis during sleep and hallucinations can also be left without treatment from drugs unless they are particularly severe or extreme. As they typically only occur during the night, they cause less of a problem to the sufferer. Regardless, the treatments for cataplexy will usually also reduce the severity of these two auxiliary symptoms. Strong advice comes from other sufferers of narcolepsy ? take naps! There is good clinical evidence that taking some frequent naps during the day will help offset the symptoms of EDS and cataplexy. Many claim that simply sleeping for a few minutes at a time before performing a task can guard against a sleep attack happening during that task.

Kathy Adams writes health related articles. Get more information about Narcolepsy symptoms and treatments at http://www.rare-disorders.com/narcolepsy.html

How The Sun Is Absolutely Crucial To Your Health

Dermatologists tell you to hide from it and modern living would lead us to believe we can do just fine by living in caves ? offices, homes and automobiles. But our genetic roots tell us we should be naked and in a climate where we can be so. That is our origins ? and what was the norm for 99.99999999 +% of our history. Should we believe dermatologists and modern lifestyle or our genes and history? The answer is obvious but few live by its wisdom.

This discussion of vitamin D will provide incredible and surprising proof of the Wysong philosophy and give you a fundamental ingredient for your health success.

Seeing the complexity of vitamin D, even if you don't understand it, will make the point that our need for vitamin D is no accident and proves our inextricable link to nature. (For those not technically savvy, just let your eyes glaze over during the hard parts and move on. This is critical information for your health, so stick with it.) Please see http://www.wysong.net/images/vitamind.jpg

The Sun Vitamin Vitamin D (actually a hormone) is manufactured in the skin by the action of ultraviolet light from the sun striking a precholesterol molecule (7-dehydrocholesterol). This converted cholesterol molecule (provitamin D) is further modified (hydroxylated) in the liver and kidney creating the active 1,25 dihydroxycholecalciferol molecule (1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D3=calcitriol). The UV-B wavelength that produces vitamin D from the sun (282 nm) does not significantly penetrate glass. So regardless of windows, when we are inside we can pretty much figure vitamin D is not being generated. Clothing of course further seals our fate as does sun screen with SPF above 8 (reduces vitamin D production by 95%). Living in the northern half of the country (even above 30 degrees latitude, the Florida panhandle) also dooms people to inadequate sun for almost nine months of the year. If you are dark-skinned you will need as much as ten times the amount of sun as a fair skinned person to produce adequate levels of vitamin D. It?s unnatural enough when fair skinned people live in latitudes requiring clothes, dark skinned people are really fish out of water there and suffer severe consequences as a result.

Food sources of the vitamin include cod liver oil, sardines, salmon, tuna, mackerel, liver, egg yolk, butter, dark green vegetables, algae, mushrooms, phytoplankton and fortified milk. (Plant source vitamin D is the D2 form known as ergocalciferol [ercalciol and is not as active as the animal sources.) But in the main, food sources provide inadequate levels unless they are eaten raw (the triene structure in vitamin D is degraded by acid and light-catalyzed isomerization) and in sufficient quantity ? most of us do not do that. Our by and large hairless bodies (forcing us to wear unnatural clothes and dwell in artificially heated environs) and the fact that there is no negative feedback shutting down production of vitamin D in the skin, strongly argues that we are intended to be in the sun, not dependent upon food scientists to fortify milk.

Older folks have decreased ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin, have poorer digestive efficiency and decreased liver and kidney function to convert vitamin D into the active forms. There is a reason the elderly go south and feel better doing so. They might not know exactly why other than not wanting to shovel snow, but ole sol does. Also, those people with malabsorption problems, Crohn's disease, cystic fibrosis, pancreatic, liver and kidney disease or deficiency, or who have had part of the digestive system removed are at increased risk of vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D requires precholesterol and is fat soluble and thus low fat diets and low cholesterol diets put elderly people already deficient at even greater peril.

Some forms of artificial light can produce vitamin D in the skin. Tanning salons (not recommended because you do not ? and neither does anyone else ? really know what you are being exposed to) can produce vitamin D in the skin if the highest UV-B:UV-A ratio is used.

As little as 15-30 minutes of skin exposure (as much as you can bare without getting arrested) to midday sun three times per week is believed sufficient to meet vitamin D needs. The vitamin is fat soluble and is stored in the blood and adipose tissue to create some reserve, but daily sun-synthesized vitamin D is believed optimal.

Pregnant and nursing moms who do not get out in the sun, or have an improper diet, are poor sources of vitamin D for their infants. Not only will the baby's bone health be affected but just about every other health parameter will be as well.

The Master Hormone Vitamin D is arguably the most important hormone in the entire body. We are taught in grade school that vitamin D enhances the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from the intestinal tract, and that drinking fortified milk will prevent rickets. But bone health is only a small part of the story. Research has now accumulated demonstrating that our link to the sun and the vitamin D it produces touches virtually every aspect of physiology.

Vitamin D affects:
> Both autocrine and paracrine (in and out) cellular functions
> Gene expression
> Cell growth
> Immunity
> Energy metabolism
> Muscle strength and coordination
> D receptors which have now been found in the gut, bone, brain, breast, prostate and lymphocytes
> Neuronal calcium metabolism
> Neurotransmitter production
> Apoptosis (cell death) signaling neoplastic colon, breast and prostate cells to stop growing
> Inhibition of G1S cell cycle checkpoint and the increased expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p21 and p27 in cancers
> Reduction of C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukins (IL-6), markers of inflammation such as in atherosclerosis (vascular diseases) and arthritic conditions
> Brain development

In short, virtually no aspect of anatomy, physiology and biochemistry escapes the influence of vitamin D. Our link to the sun is complete and absolute!

This solves a mystery vexing me for years. When I would go south in the winter I would undergo an almost miraculous transformation in health. No sickness, great sleep, incredible energy and high spirits. I could intensify my workouts and lift more weight, and on the same day play two-on-two beach volleyball for hours (not an easy sport for sure), roller blade miles to the beach and to the grocery and back carrying 50 lbs. and still do a full day?s workload of research, reading, writing and exchange with the office. Back home all these wonders would reverse. Was it the warmth, the oxygen-rich air coming off the ocean, the break from the normal work routine? Well now I know. I am a vitamin D-hungry guy. Give me enough vitamin D, and I am almost twice the person I am without it. You might be too. Read on.

Choices Have Consequences Ignore Mother Nature and pay the price. We are designed to be out-of-doors with the skin exposed to the sun. If we don't do that, one (note, I said just one) of the possible consequences is vitamin D deficiency. Here are the health consequences of too little Vitamin D discovered so far ? all documented in the clinical and scientific references that follow:
> Psoriasis
> Immune suppression/increased infection
> Thyroid dysfunction
> Blood clotting abnormalities
> Rickets
> Osteomalacia
> Osteoporosis
> Deafness
> Insomnia
> Vision loss
> Kidney disease
> Liver disease
> Muscle pain (an early signal of deficiency)
> Schizophrenia, chronic fatigue and depression
> Autism
> Colon, breast, prostate and 14 other cancers (including melanoma!), following a latitude (vitamin D deficiency) gradient
> Infertility
> Type I diabetes (insulin dependent)
> Obesity
> Lupus erythematosis
> Grave's disease
> Ankylosing spondylitis
> Bone pain (reduced D decreases calcium absorption, which stimulates parathyroid hormone, which in turn increases phosphate excretion in the urine, resulting in decreased calcium phosphate in collagen in the peri- and endosteum, resulting in hydration, swelling and bone pain)
> Rheumatoid arthritis
> Muscular sclerosis
> Periodontal disease
> Hypertension
> Cardiovascular disease (increases in winter and higher latitude)
> Decreased glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity

I'm sure that only begins the list. Since vitamin D affects everything, you can pretty well figure that if you are ill or not feeling well it is related to vitamin D deficiency at least in part because well over 95% of the population in the U.S. is deficient.

Toxicity

Let me preface this section as I do every topic where I address toxicity. Anything can be toxic, even water and oxygen, in sufficient dose. The dose makes the poison.

If you are worried about getting cancer from the sun, put your thinking cap on. Believe nature before you believe a dermatologist. Certainly don't get sunburned. Evidence suggests that cancer may be related to those who get sun burned and are vitamin D deficient to begin. Don't stay in the sun longer than you should because you have SPF 460 slathered on. Acclimatize to the sun. Wear clothes. Protect skin that cannot be covered with nontoxic sun blocks (Wysong Reflector?).

With regard to melanoma, consider that the most common places for it to appear are on the backs of men and inner thighs of women. Not on the back of the hands and the face which are most exposed to the sun. Melanoma does not decrease with the use of sunscreen. Some studies show that increased sun exposure actually decreases the risk of melanoma.

No, the sun is not toxic; it is life and health-giving in appropriate dose.

There has never been a report of Vitamin D toxicity from sun exposure. So that is the best and safest source. But not everyone can get enough sun so supplements are the next best thing. It is possible to get too much but the margin of safety is immense. The government has set the minimum standard at 400 IU per day. But a person would need to take 42,000 capsules containing 1000 IU each to have a 50% chance of dying if he were as sensitive to vitamin D as the most sensitive animal studied. One man got sick from taking 156,000 IU per day for two years and recovered. One researcher, tired of all the naysayers claiming Vitamin D is so toxic, offered a reward to anyone who could show any toxicity whatsoever to vitamin D at 40,000 units per day. No takers so far.

With that said, certain conditions could increase the risk of toxicity. This would include those with Williams Syndrome (a genetic defect in vitamin D metabolism), sarcoidosis, hyperparathyroidism, some cancers, adrenal insufficiency and people on certain drugs such as thiazide diuretics. Symptoms of overdosage include vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, polyuria (increased urination), polydypsia (increased thirst), nervousness, confusion, pruritis, calcinosis (deposition of calcium in tissues) and arrhythmia. Most cases involved those who were taking more than 50,000 IU per day for years. In infants 10,000 IU per day for 4 months and 200,000 IU per day for two weeks has caused toxicity. Why adults would be receiving such large doses is beyond me. Remember, the government standard is 400 IU per day.

If concerned about toxicity of oral supplements, consult with a nutritionally savvy physician. Blood tests that measure vitamin D, calcium and the parathyroid are useful for this purpose. Ideal levels for calcitriol (25-hydroxyvitamin D) range between 30-50 ng/ml depending on the expert. It is known that less than 35 ng/ml will decrease the rate of calcium absorption from the gut so at that level you are questionably deficient. Sunshine alone can cause blood levels of 80 ng/ml. People who work outside or live by the equator have about 50 ng/ml. So I would doubt those laboratories that say levels as low as 8 ng/ml are normal. If serum calcium is measured above the normal range of 8.5-10.5 mg/dl, particularly in the above-12 age group, this may indicate vitamin D toxicity as well.

I hate to give you the impression that health is achieved by the numbers so to speak. No laboratory ever denies nor proves good health when the body tells you contrary. But I would be remiss in not mentioning the caveats here and the means you can use to be more certain where you stand. My feeling ? in the absence of some weird medical or genetic circumstance ? is that if you are not getting out in the sun almost daily and not eating appropriate vitamin D-rich foods or taking supplements, you are at high risk for the myriad diseases that can result.

Supplementation Opinions vary on oral supplemental doses of vitamin D. The government has recently ratcheted up recommendations from the previous 40 IU to 200 IU for those less than 50 years of age, 400 IU for those over 50 and 600 IU for those over 70. That's the most conservative. Those most knowledgeable in the field say 1000 IU per day for infants and 2000 IU per day for adults with no lab tests and no sun. Next in line are those who say 3000-5000 IU per day (6-10,000 of plant form vitamin D2, ergocalciferol) for adults is best, 4000 IU being the most common dose I see suggested. Keep in mind that young whites get about 20,000 IU from a few minutes of full body sun exposure. Some practitioners get aggressive and give what are known as Stoss dosages of 100,000 IU every 4 months in the elderly, to prevent osteoporosis for example.

Cod liver oil is the most concentrated natural source of vitamin D. One tablespoon contains about 1200 IU. Finding that difficult to consume in order to achieve 4000 IU per day and lacking certainty as to the purity and stability of commercial products, we developed our own concentrated supplement tested free of mercury and other organic toxins, mixed with omega-3 fish and flax seed oils, GLA containing borage oil, all properly stabilized with Wysong Oxherphol? antioxidant. That is what I now take during the fall, winter and early spring when I cannot get the best vitamin D source of all, the sun.

Regulatory agencies governing pet foods set the minimum at 500 IU/Kg of food on a dry matter basis and the upper limit at 5000 IU (i.e. if your pet eats 1 pound of dry food per day it should get approximately 250 - 2500 IU of vitamin D per day, conservatively). Since you cannot know for sure what is in a commercial pet food, don't be fooled, the rotation advised in the Optimal Health Program ? is advised. At least periodically (3 times per week) giving1000 IU capsules (may be opened and mixed with food) is a good insurance policy.

What you do about vitamin D is unlike what you might do about other supplements. This is something you should take very seriously since vitamin D status is, so-to-speak, a marker for how well we are living in tune with nature. Living in tune with nature and according to the way we are genetically designed is fundamental to the Wysong health philosophy I continually preach. Low vitamin D means you are doing things wrong. Like the little canaries in the cages miners would take with them down into the caves to signal by their death that toxic air was present and the miners better skedaddle out of there, our illnesses are the warning signs in more cases than we have previously imagined that we are not living right. Our cave-like modern living is a bane to good health.

The solution is to return to our roots. Roots firmly planted where our health can flower in the sun.

Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary clinician and surgeon, college instructor in human anatomy, physiology and the origin of life, inventor of numerous medical, surgical, nutritional, athletic and fitness products and devices, research director for the present company by his name and founder of the philanthropic Wysong Institute. He is author of The Creation-Evolution Controversy now in its eleventh printing, a new two volume set on philosophy for living, several books on nutrition, prevention and health for people and animals and over 15 years of monthly health newsletters. He may be contacted at Wysong@Wysong.net and a free subscription to his e-Health Letter is available at http://www.wysong.net.

Parkinson's Disease: 7 Symptoms You Should Know

Parkinson's disease affects millions of people through out the world everyday. This affliction affects not only the people who are actually diagnosed with it, but also their family and friends. While research is being conducted everyday into a possible cure, it is important to understand Parkinson's disease symptoms and how they affect the daily life of the individuals who live with this illness everyday.

1- To understand Parkinson's disease, you must first have to have at least a minimal understanding of what the disease is and what it does to the human body. This is a chronic illness that takes place when the neurons or the brain cells begin to deteriorate. This results in an insufficient amount of dopamine to be produced. Dopamine controls muscle activity. The result is Parkinson's disease symptoms such as walking difficulties, coordination issues and uncontrollable shaking.

2- Generally, Parkinson's affects one-half of the body initially. The condition can then travel to the opposite side of the body. When this occurs, the patient essentially has no voluntary muscle control. The result is stiff muscles, poor balance and coordination along with the possibility of tremors.

3- The muscle issues that are associatated with Parkinson's disease symptoms can affect the face as well as the larger muscles of the body. As this disease progresses you may notice that a Parkinson's patient is not able to show the same signs of emotion that they used to. This is because the muscles of the face are not as easily controlled. This lack of muscle coordination will lead to not being able smile, swallow or speak as they used to.

4- Other tasks that may seem mundane and ordinary all of a sudden become very difficult. Parkinson's disease symptoms also include the loss of fine motor skills, writing, brushing teeth and buttoning a shirt become almost impossible as the fingers begin to lose their flexibility and control.

5- Walking is, of course another factor of daily life that can, and usually is, interrupted with the onset of Parkinson's disease. Because of the lack of muscle control, a foot may drag along as opposed to being raised during stepping. The ability to navigate through a narrow doorway or hallway because impaired as the lose of balance becomes an issue.

6- It is important to note that while these Parkinson's disease symptoms are common, not every patient will experience all of them. While some patients may only have an occasional balance issue, others will experience symptoms that run the gamut from the barely noticeable, to the absolutely debilitating.

7- If you are caring for someone who has this issue and is experiencing Parkinson's disease symptoms, it is important to accompany them to their doctor's appointments. Ask questions, read up on this condition. The best thing that you can do for them is to arm yourself with the knowledge of what they may be experiencing.

Visit http://about-parkinsons-disease.net or http://parkinsons-disease-online.info to learn more about chelation therapy for parkinsons disease and what is parkinsons disease.

Muscle Cramps

Muscles, the storehouse of energy in a living body, contract to help in the movement of different parts of the body. The general body composition consists largely of voluntary muscles. It is called voluntary because its contraction and movement is consciously controlled by the living being. Sometimes, these voluntary muscles contract involuntarily and refuse to relax and return to normalcy. This is called a Muscle Cramp. Muscle Cramps are forceful contractions that sustain for sometime and reappear, often till the muscles relax. Cramps can happen to any voluntary muscle, mostly bending or curling the affected muscle.

Muscle Cramps come from the vigorous use of muscles. Cramp can result when a muscle or group of muscles that acts together in the movement of a certain part of the body forcefully become involuntary. For instance, athletes often complain of Muscle Cramps in calf muscles. But when it affects the feet, the group of muscles in the fingers too gets cramps.

Muscle Cramps occur due to various reasons. These can be dehydration or excessive loss of body fluid due to vigorous exercise or activities of the muscle; or a muscle fatigue caused mostly from a long rest period for muscles in one position or exertion of muscles leading to injury. It may also happen from some kinds of muscle disease. It is not always necessary for the cramps to attack 'over activated' muscles. Muscle Cramps can attack even when the muscles are at rest or dormant for a very long time. For instance, sitting in the same position for a very long time can cause muscle fatigue and may later become a cramp. Most of the cramps come especially at night, like the cramps in the calf muscle. This last for some time till the bend muscles flex and relax.

Muscle spasm and Muscle Cramp may seem to be the same. But a Muscle Cramp, unlike a muscle spasm, affects only a certain muscle. The affected muscle bulges or rolls and hurts till it gets its normal shape. Cramps can thus affect anyone, anytime and anywhere. Muscle Cramps affect pregnant women too. Hence as a precaution, their diet is supplemented with calcium and magnesium. Cramps can be kept at bay through exercises, especially stretch exercises, a nutritious balanced diet and proper water intake.

Muscles provides detailed information about muscles, build muscles, muscle cramps, muscle diseases and more. Muscles is the sister site of Best Treadmills.

Is Your Liver Working Like It Should?

So many people that are concerned with improving their health over look the health of their liver. The liver is called LIVE ?R for a reason. The liver is involved with digestion and assimilation. It processes nutrients to give life to your body and to repair diseased and damaged tissue. It removes toxins and eliminates pathogen from getting into the blood that flow to all of your body cells.

Over 27,000 people every year die from chronic liver diseases and Cirrhosis. People with diabetes have a high number of deaths from liver deterioration. Over 60,000 people die from liver failure. It is estimated that 9,000 die from Chronic Hepatitis C and over 12,000 from liver cancer. Over 25 million people create some form of liver and gallbladder disease every year.

Liver disease is the Seventh killer of American people.

Don?t dismiss the health of your liver as you layout your plans to improve your health. Most people have some from of liver weakness and don?t even know it until it too late. Why not learn what you can do to treat your liver right so it can give you good LIFE.

Here is a list of symptoms that you will have when your liver is not working like it should.

Frequent headache not related to stress, eyestrain, or shoulder muscle tension
Frequent menstrual problems
Blurry vision or red eyes
Constant bitter taste in mouth
Excessive anger, depression or moodiness
Tenderness in the liver area ? just under your right rib cage
Acne, psoriasis, eczema, rashes, and other skin problems
Weakness in your muscles and joint areas

Any one of these symptoms can be an indication that you have liver weakness. If you have two ? three of them for sure you have some liver weakness.

So what can you do if you feel that you have some liver weakness?

The first area to work on is to examine the types of fats and oils you eat and make the changes that will give you better liver health.

Saturated fats, such as found in butter, meat, lard, and other oils are highly susceptible to oxygen damage through the process called oxidation. When these fats are oxidized they become rancid and form free radicals.

But Saturated fats are not the only fats that can be oxidized. Even unsaturated fats, the good oils, can be oxidized. Still it is better to eat most of our fats unsaturated since saturated fats are associated with heart conditions.

All fats can become oxidize outside the body by using them to fry your food or inside your body though the natural oxidation processes.

Liver cells are highly susceptible to free radicals. These free radicals are destructive to liver cell walls and weaken the health of the liver over time.

Also, Scientists have found that 17% of the oxygen you breathe and have available in your body becomes a free radical. These free radicals, again, attack and destroy liver cells.

To counter eating free radicals and the free radicals that are created in your body, you need to take anti-oxidant supplements and eat fruits and vegetables. The yellow and red colored fruits and vegetables are the highest in anti-oxidants. Of course it is best to also limit eating fried food and not use oils that have been sitting around to long.

Rudy Silva is a Natural Nutritionist. To get the latest information and tips on liver health go to: http://www.liverdamageprevention.for--you.com

Treatment Pharmaceutical or Holistic?

All treatment based on pharmaceutical products proceeds from the study and treatment of symptoms, categorised pretty much in isolation as evidence of separate diseases.

Western medicine has built a vast repertory of observed symptoms, and a vast array of unnatural products tailored by chemical companies to prevent these symptoms from manifesting. We even have comparatively simple conditions, like heartburn, being labelled as diseases to bring them within the scope of the prescription drugs industry.

The word ?cure? is a misnomer when applied to drugs and disease. Drugs suppress symptoms, which are the body's way of ridding itself of underlying illness. This drives the problem deeper into the tissues for the cells to cope with in some other way, which leads to big trouble at a later date. Drugs may offer a quick fix, but the price paid in side effects and long-term illness is enormous, affecting both quality and length of life.

Published ?causes of death? statistics are many and varied. You will never find among them a figure for the thousands of people whose lifespan and quality of life are slowly destroyed by pharmaceutical drugs. When their lives end, cause of death is simply recorded as the ?disease? they were being treated for, or one of its ?side effects?.

What Holistic Really Means

While modern western medicine excels at treating emergencies and injury, it has lost the plot completely when it comes to treating illness and disease. All disease manifestations are the result of the same basic dis-ease condition of the body. In reality, before the rise of drugs, many natural treatments were used successfully for centuries to set the body's chemistry to rights.

These methods were intended to restore the body?s correct pH, supply the nutrients required to correct the underlying imbalance in the body tissues, return the body to proper health, and so enable it to deal with whatever symptoms were present.

The diseases mindset obscures the fact that all symptoms are manifestations of an underlying defective condition of the whole body caused by -

? Inadequate nutrition resulting in a weakened body structure (at both tissue and cellular levels) and decreased immune function; and

? External factors such as toxins and stress.

It is true that the body has countless ways of manifesting sickness. The reason diseases seem so many and varied is because -

? Each body breaks down at its weakest link - and in each individual that weakest link will be determined by heredity (genetic factors) and nutrition (eating habits);

? Each individual experiences toxins or stresses peculiar to his or her own lifestyle (e.g. cigarette smoke, asbestos fibers, timber treatment chemicals or whatever). These toxins and stresses can produce different effects on the system.

When one realises that our categorized diseases are simply varied manifestations of an imbalance in the body chemistry, it becomes easier to understand what holistic medicine and treatment is about.

Body pH and Organic Nutrients

Body pH is the indicator of the acid-alkaline condition of the blood. It is the most important single factor to be corrected before healing can proceed. This can be achieved in a number of ways, but primarily by avoiding acid-producing foods, correcting mineral deficiencies, and supplying the correct balance of healthy foods.

The following foods are the worst culprits in producing acid reactions in the body and are the cause of much illness and disease in the western world: white flour, white sugar, common salt, soft drinks, artificial colorings and flavourings, over-consumption of red meat and animal fats, hydrogenated fats, deep-fried fats, alcohol, and cigarette smoking.

Consider the average western diet and you will realise why illness and disease are rampant killers in the west, where many people's daily food consumption comprises almost exclusively the above products. Consider also that in many third-world countries the introduction of the western diet has been followed by a rising incidence of western disease.

Rebuilding and Healing

The holistic approach to healing starts by avoiding all foods that produce acid conditions in the body. Many of these foods are so lacking in nutritive value that they deplete the body?s vitamins, minerals and enzymes. The body has to dig into its own store to find the elements necessary for digestion, and very often, because of the poor state of our food today, that store has reached rock bottom.

In supplying what our bodies really need for the rebuilding and healing processes, the prime consideration is usability. Minerals are the body?s ground-floor building blocks and recent research now shows that mineral supplements MUST be supplied in a form the body can utilise. This is not found in pulverized rock, or in colloidal minerals. In both of these, the particle size is simply too large for our cells to utilise efficiently. The maximum our cells can derive from these sources is about 3%. The unused residue of these minerals is dumped somewhere in the system, where it adds to the burden the body is already carrying.

What our cells really need is organic (i.e. angstrom sized) minerals - because these are what the body was designed to use. The organic, angstrom particle size is actually 10,000 times smaller than a micron.

Minerals in plants and fruits are naturally angstrom sized, and this is the reason why so many of today's natural plant formulations are helping people with health problems.

You will notice that all of these natural products have one element in common ? they are not the end product of our modern agricultural systems. This is because the depleted nature of our agricultural soils can no longer provide the minerals and trace minerals our bodies need in the quality and proportions they were designed for. Without a single exception, all of these new products are derived either from the sea, or from virgin soils that still retain their life-giving nutrients.

This is a huge lesson that we need to learn, and learn quickly. Unnatural chemicals are destroying our world, and they are destroying us.

Patricia Howitt is the Editor and chief writer for Health News NZ, a website she started in 1996 to provide information and help on alternative health. As well as pursuing her legal career in the NZ Government, she was for 7 years part-time sole charge in the only health store in her local town and played a significant role in her rural community?s fight to preserve its small hospital from being axed by bureaucracy. Webmistress: http://www.healthnews-nz.com/ http://marketing.the-junglequeen.com/ http://www.webfeet.biz

EnerChi Art A New and Ancient Form of Healing

Ener-Chi Art is based on one of the most ancient systems of healing and rejuvenation. A primary function of this art is to restore a balanced flow of life force energy, or Chi, throughout the body.

Ener-Chi Art consists of inspired artwork that is imbued with light-encoded energies. It involves a series of paintings, each of which is activated with specific light rays. There is a painting for each organ and system of the body. For example, if one looks at the painting that corresponds to the heart -- even for only about a minute -- very profound changes occur in the life energy field corresponding to that organ. The flow of Chi becomes fully restored, and any thought forms or emotional imbalances that have been locked in the cellular structure of that organ are systematically transmuted and released.

A second series of paintings is designed to heal the Earth and her environment. There are six paintings in this category, each one related to a specific planetary issue. For example, one is meant to heal and awaken energies in the mountain and rock structures of the planet; another one has a similar effect on the rivers, lakes and seas.

How It Works

Nurturing the Body, Mind, and Spirit

If healing is to be complete, lasting and purposeful it must occur simultaneously on all levels of body, mind, and spirit. Foremost, it must take place at the very causal stages of imbalance where the seeds of dissonance first begin to sprout and later manifest themselves as discomfort, emotional distress, or disease. It is no longer sufficient to keep applying remedies that merely pacify the symptoms of dissatisfaction, emotional upset and physical illness. Our collective obsession with only fixing symptoms or solving problems, without regard to what is causing them, has led to enormous difficulties in almost every area of living. Yet, at the same time, we are at the threshold of a global transformation, where the original causes of any kind of malady that may be affecting an individual, or a society, are undeniably pushed to the surface, demanding our urgent attention. But this does not need to involve a struggle.

Most of us have already gone through various difficulties in life, and worked through a lot of karmic issues. Although we may not always recognize this, we have reached a point where we only deserve the very best in life. To be able to move forward and release the limitations we still feel are holding us back, we now have an opportunity to use one of the wonderful gifts that has recently been given from the spiritual realms. We have been blessed with a new system of enhancing health and well-being -- a new way to nurture our body, mind and soul. We have called it Ener-Chi Art.

What Is Ener-Chi Art?

Ener-Chi Art consists of inspired artwork that has been imbued with light-encoded energies. It involves a series of 23 paintings related to the body, and 6 paintings related to the environment, each of which is activated with specific light rays. There is a painting for each part of the body, including every organ and system. If you look, for example, at the painting that corresponds to the heart for about half of a minute, very profound changes begin to occur in that organ. The flow of Chi (vital energy or life force) becomes fully restored and any negative thought form, emotional imbalance, or karmic residue that may have lodged there, and possibly caused physical abnormalities, is systematically transmuted.

How Does It Work and What Does It Do?.

Each part of the body, including each one of its trillions of cells, has its own auric field. The aura of the body, which is comprised of the numerous auras of its individual parts, goes beyond physical parameters, yet it influences physical life more than anything else. Our aura also affects the atmosphere of the Earth with specific encodements, both positive and negative. Thus, negative thoughts and beliefs, emotional trauma, and other experiential episodes get caught up in the ionosphere of the Earth, possibly triggering major global disturbances that affect the population, wildlife, and climate of the planet as a whole.

The effect of Ener-Chi Art spirals out from our light body to the universe. It cleanses the aura as well as the physical and mental bodies, and balances the Chi force throughout the body. Similar to the process of osmosis, it transports energy in and out of the body without any disruption. This effect occurs instantly and can be verified through a simple muscle testing procedure applied both before and after viewing the Ener-Chi Art pictures. It can also be made visible to the eye by taking auric photographs of the body.

Additionally, Ener-Chi Art has a uniquely beneficial effect on the genetic blueprint of the body -- the DNA. Research has shown that only a fraction of our DNA is currently active. Ener-Chi Art is designed to activate the codes within the DNA structure that are linked with total immunity to disease and full use of the body's enormous, but so far untapped, potential.

Ener-Chi Art is so unique because it addresses the original causes of all other possible causes that are responsible for the physical, mental and emotional problems prevalent in our lives today, including those that are of karmic origin. It assists in raising the body's frequencies and loosening its density, so that one will be able to live and function in higher dimensions than is currently possible. Direct access to these realms will remove fear from life and replace it with the powerful love energies that are capable of accomplishing almost anything without effort or struggle.

The Importance of Chi-Balancing

Ener-Chi Art has been given to us at a time when humankind is dividing itself into two major groups: one that is ready to move out of the prison of polarity where good and bad, right and wrong, love and fear, etc., are opposites, controlling individual and collective life; and the other that continues to rely on problems and negativity as the principal tool to learn life's lessons. Current fundamental personal and planetary changes literally force us to make a choice. Ener-Chi Art has been brought into existence to assist us in this process, making the transition smooth, easy and enjoyable.

As we became increasingly aware of the profound nature of this artwork, we were given further information about the implications that would result from spreading Ener-Chi Art to the general population. As more and more people begin to clean up their auric fields and energy circuits, and go through profound healing events, the Earth's own energy field also begins to heal and permits light energies of higher frequencies to penetrate the myriad life forms on the planet. This gradually loosens up the density of matter of all living and non-living things, and allows us to increasingly rely on mere thought energy to accomplish our life's goals and purpose. This also removes fears, struggles, and strife that most of us have become so accustomed to.

Most ancient systems of health and healing are based on the belief that the balanced flow of Chi is the key determinant for a healthy body and mind. Negative thoughts, poor diet and nutrition, accumulation of toxins in the body, karmic influences, stress and a polluted environment, among other factors, can upset the balanced flow of Chi through the subtle energy ducts (meridians) and their tiny sub-pathways in the body. Whenever a group of cells, an organ or system receives either too little or too much Chi, normal bodily functions become disrupted and physical problems begin to manifest themselves, affecting the well-being of both the body and the mind.

Children who are born with physical or mental defects suffer a Chi imbalance that is mainly related to karmic influences from former life times, although the condition itself may serve as a means to undo the knots of karma and, at the same time, help to teach others about compassion and unconditional love. Health problems that are acquired later in life may or may not originate from karmic causes, but are equally related to either stagnant or excessive flow of Chi.

Since Chi is a universal commodity that exists inside and outside our body, an imbalance anywhere is directly linked with an imbalanced flow of Chi. If there were a method to instantly balance Chi and maintain proper Chi flow through the body, it would imply that even karmic influences and weaknesses on the level of the soul are in the process of being transmuted. Otherwise, the former Chi imbalance would recur within a short period of time -- a common experience among people who are helped by a healer, but for a little while only. There is no other known system that is capable of balancing Chi so quickly and long-lasting as Ener-Chi Art; an effect that can be verified by a simple do-it-yourself testing procedure.

It's A Time For Miracles

Ener-Chi Art is not to be used as a quick fix method for curing physical ailments. It is meant for a much higher purpose, and is of a more energetic nature, than a physical manifestation. Ener-Chi Art enables the body to go through a profound energy exchange, a symbiotic process of healing the temple within, in concert with healing the temple without. Its true purpose is of a higher frequency nature, laying a pathway to a new level of existence for everyone.

At a time when the main emphasis has been on fixing physical problems, it may be useful to understand that any symptom of disease originates in a misconception of who we really are, which has major fear-generating effects on the level of the soul. In this sense, the presence of physical problems literally forces a person to attend to his/her own internal needs and indicates that some aspects of the soul still require healing. The bottom line is that the body simply cannot be healed unless the soul is healed first. Hence, the attempt to cure diseases without attending to their root causes -- on the level of the soul -- is expressed in the fact that 90 percent of all diseases today are of a chronic nature, which means they defy treatment. The first series of 23 Ener-Chi Art paintings is designed to heal all the wounds of the soul, from both the past and the present. Once soul healing has taken place, the stage has been set for the healing of the related physical imbalances or diseases.

Although the present use of Ener-Chi Art is focused on the nurturing of our body, mind and soul, we believe there will be future applications related to the healing, cleansing and restoration of our planetary environment -- our rivers, the air we breathe, and our vegetable and mineral kingdoms. It is encouraging to know that in response to the most profound problems the world has ever faced, we are given simple and effective ways to resolve them, once and for all. In this sense, our collective future looks very hopeful and bright. We are fast moving into an era when miracles will be the most common and unquestioned natural phenomena on this planet.

NOTE: The thumbnail photos of the Ener-Chi Art paintings included on this web site are for illustrative purposes only, and do NOT carry any of the beneficial energetics of the activated photographic prints.

Andres Mortiz has authored 7 very important books in the alternative health field. They are: It's Time to Come Alive, Lifting the Veil of Duality, The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, Cancer Is Not A Disease!, Simple Steps to Total Health, Heart Disease No More! and Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation - The ener-chi art are also original creations by Andres Mortiz.

You can view paintings and books by Andres Mortiz at =>http://www.drclarkuniversity.org or http://www.drhuldaclark.org

Treatment Pharmaceutical or Holistic?

All treatment based on pharmaceutical products proceeds from the study and treatment of symptoms, categorised pretty much in isolation as evidence of separate diseases.

What Holistic Really Means

The diseases mindset obscures the fact that all symptoms are manifestations of an underlying defective condition of the whole body caused by -

? Inadequate nutrition resulting in a weakened body structure (at both tissue and cellular levels) and decreased immune function; and

? External factors such as toxins and stress.

It is true that the body has countless ways of manifesting sickness. The reason diseases seem so many and varied is because -

? Each body breaks down at its weakest link - and in each individual that weakest link will be determined by heredity (genetic factors) and nutrition (eating habits);

When one realises that our categorized diseases are simply varied manifestations of an imbalance in the body chemistry, it becomes easier to understand what holistic medicine and treatment is about.

Body pH and Organic Nutrients

Rebuilding and Healing

Minerals in plants and fruits are naturally angstrom sized, and this is the reason why so many of today's natural plant formulations are helping people with health problems.

This is a huge lesson that we need to learn, and learn quickly. Unnatural chemicals are destroying our world, and they are destroying us.

There is a Cure For All Diseases and They Really Don't Want You to Know About It

What they do is suppress information and block those who have alternative methods of healing from making those methods public knowledge. So many of the terminal, ?non curable? diseases are being cured as a matter of course in other countries. Those that are being cured in this country are doing it by their own research and help from books and web sites such as www.drclarkuniversity.org and books such as The Cure For All Diseases by Dr. Hulda Clark. Or Natural Cures They Don?t Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeaux, who also reference Dr. Clark?s books, such as the one above and her book The Cure For All Cancers.

The powers that be in this country have tried to put Dr. Clark out of business, and they did she has to practice in Mexico, and they tried to shut her down there too, but fortunately for the those who do know about her and her research, they were unsuccessful.

Kevin Trudeaux, author of Natural Cures They Don?t Want You To Know About called for a federal and state investigation of the New York Consumer Protection Board as a result of the recent arrest of its Executive Deputy Director for felony possession of crack cocaine coupled with the erratic conduct of the agency under her control.

Mr. Trudeau said his attorneys will be contacting the New York Attorney General to ask for a full investigation of the agency's conduct under the apparent control of Caroline Quartararo, who was arrested on an Albany, NY, street two weeks ago for possession of crack cocaine.

In September 2005, a federal judge determined the CPB had violated Mr. Trudeau's First Amendment rights by attempting to coerce television stations into refusing to air advertisements for his best selling book, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About.

This is what they do. They put up web sites that offer false information in an attempt to challenge the credibility of anyone who offers any kind of solution that is not officially backed by the pharmaceuticals, AMA, FTC or FDA. If they can?t make a profit you don?t get the information. And the fact that the information may save your life is not the bottom line that our government and its regulating bodies look at. Or, they do what they?re doing to Kevin Trudeau, trying to block the information getting to the public by attempting to coerce television stations from airing the advertisement.

Dr. Hulda Clark and Kevin Trudeaux, and others including Sang Whang, who is an engineer, scientist, and inventor all have established the cause of many of these diseases and have had remarkable results in curing them.

According to Dr.Clark:

The Cause for many years we have all believed that cancer is different from other diseases. We believed that cancer behaves like a fire, in that you can't stop it once it has started. Therefore, you have to cut it out or radiate it to death or chemically destroy every cancerous cell in the body since it can never become normal again. NOTHING COULD BE MORE WRONG! And we have believed that cancers of different types such as leukemia or breast cancer have different causes. Wrong again! In this book, ?The Cure For All Cancers? you will see that all cancers are alike. They are all caused by a parasite. A single parasite! It is the human intestinal fluke. And if you kill this parasite, the cancer stops immediately. The tissue becomes normal again. In order to get cancer, you must have this parasite.

How can the human intestinal fluke cause cancer? This parasite typically lives in the intestine where it might do little harm, causing only colitis, Crohn's disease, or irritable bowel syndrome, or perhaps nothing at all. But if it invades a different organ, like the uterus or the kidneys or liver, it does a great deal of harm. If it establishes itself in the liver, it causes cancer! It only establishes itself in the liver in some people. These people have isopropyl alcohol in their bodies.

All cancer patients have both isopropyl alcohol and the intestinal fluke in their livers. The solvent, isopropyl alcohol, is responsible for letting the fluke establish itself in the liver. In order to get cancer, you must have both the parasite and isopropyl alcohol in your body. From the book The Cure for all Cancers. Page 1. To see more information on this book and other books by Dr. Hulda Clark go to www.drclarkuniversity.org ? click on books and products and then on the University book store.

As Dr. Clark espouses and Kevin Trudeaux, so does Sang Whang. Disease and aging are due to a build up of toxins and the inability to remove the acidic waste products. Dr. Clark and Kevin Trudeaux both approach the problem of disease by eliminating the toxins. Making sure there is no isopropyl alcohol in the system, for example.

Sang Whang who has been working on reverse aging says: ? At the turn of the century, man began to fly. Today, we have already landed on the moon. Isn't it reasonable to expect Science today should discover the technology to reverse aging? Well, Science Has!

When Americans think of health, we think of diets and exercise. Diet and exercise help our body to dispose of acidic waste products. However, as we know, diet and exercise are sometimes difficult to stay with and not as effective as time-honored methods practiced through the centuries in Asia. Until now, Americans do it the hard way while Asians do it the simple and easy way. Science has made it simpler and easier to remove acidic waste products that have accumulated within our body. Sang Whang has created a product called Alkalife. AlkaLife is a patented alkaline concentrate. Mixing 2 drops of AlkaLife solution in an 8-oz. glass of water changes the ordinary drinking water to high pH alkaline drinking water. With AlkaLife, we can get alkaline water without any expensive alkaline water maker. A 1.2 oz. bottle can be carried conveniently in a pocket or purse. In order to get the health benefits, one should drink 5 glasses of high pH alkaline water a day distributed as evenly as possible. By carrying an AlkaLife? bottle around, one can drink alkaline water anytime and anywhere.

Product benefits

The foods that we eat give us energy by oxidizing, afterwards they become acidic wastes. Since our body cannot get rid of all the wastes it produces, they get accumulated somewhere in our body. This accumulation of non-disposed acidic wastes is what causes aging. Some examples of solidified acidic wastes are cholesterol, fatty acid, uric acid kidney stone, urates, sulfates, and phosphates. The best way to neutralize and get these wastes out of our body is to drink alkaline water. Sang Whang?s book reverse aging and his Alkaline and bicarbolife product can also be found at www.drclarkuniversity.org click on books and products then on the university book store and then on Alkalife-Reverse Aging.

Michele Michaels been involved with alternative health for many years, and has watched friends beat cancer and other terminal forms of Illness. She now activly tries to get the word out - that there are other ways to heal other than the traditional medical paths available to us. And many can and do work together with trditional medicine.

The 10 Biggest Mistakes That Sabotage Your Healing

All of us are in need of healing. Perhaps we are mourning the loss of a relationship, or a loss of a loved one (animal or human). Or the loss of our health. Or the loss of a job, or status. Or the loss of a belief, or trust, or faith. Or peace of mind. Any loss will put us in a state of uneasiness or dis-ease.

Dis-ease as the name says is the lack of ease or the absence of well-being, to be more accurate. When we lose our well-being, in any which form it comes, physically, emotionally, psychologically, or spiritually, we grieve. There is loss and we grieve this loss.

Here are the 10 biggest mistakes that sabotage our healing from whatever dis-ease we may be having in life.

1.We don?t acknowledge you are in need of healing

Except for when things are really bad, as with a physical disease that may or may not be fatal, many times, we are not even aware that we need healing. We become the notorious ?walking-wounded? hurting everyone else we meet.

2.We don?t take time for ourselves

We pretend that nothing has happened or we suppress our hurt and live life as if nothing happened. We don?t acknowledge that we need time out to recoup and make a plan of action.

3.We don?t make a plan

When we are aware that we need healing, we seek and follow the advice of others and many times we don?t even know exactly what we need to do to feel better. We don?t write our objectives and we plan a strategy to reconnect with our perfection.

4.We don?t live in the present

We regret what we did in the past and become anxious about the future, creating greater stress for our mind and body. We forget to live in the present, not knowing that a good present will determine an outstanding future.

5.We don?t forgive

We hold eternal grudges about people, events, and circumstances, including ourselves, thus preventing peace of mind and freedom.

6.We think in the negative

Our mind chatters negativism, as usual, thus deepening our struggles. We don?t realize the importance of positive thinking to better our life.

7.We don?t shut the nay-sayers

Especially when we have critical or chronic illnesses, we keep hearing from other that we will never get well, and worse, that we will die. We keep listening to and trusting them implicitly, not understanding that no one knows us better than we do.

8.We don?t do spiritual work

Just when we need to go deep into our spirituality, we forgo our evolutionary process and delve into the physicality of life. We pray for the wrong outcomes.

9.We don?t wish for perfection

We wish for everything but not for the perfection of the solution to our problems, thus creating even worse case scenarios for ourselves.

10.We don?t expect miracles

We forget that miracles happen every day and many times we give in just when it is our turn to manifest them. We give up hope.

So what are you ready to do to correct them?

? Maria Moratto 2006

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Treatment Pharmaceutical or Holistic?

All treatment based on pharmaceutical products proceeds from the study and treatment of symptoms, categorised pretty much in isolation as evidence of separate diseases.

What Holistic Really Means

The diseases mindset obscures the fact that all symptoms are manifestations of an underlying defective condition of the whole body caused by -

? Inadequate nutrition resulting in a weakened body structure (at both tissue and cellular levels) and decreased immune function; and

? External factors such as toxins and stress.

It is true that the body has countless ways of manifesting sickness. The reason diseases seem so many and varied is because -

? Each body breaks down at its weakest link - and in each individual that weakest link will be determined by heredity (genetic factors) and nutrition (eating habits);

When one realises that our categorized diseases are simply varied manifestations of an imbalance in the body chemistry, it becomes easier to understand what holistic medicine and treatment is about.

Body pH and Organic Nutrients

Rebuilding and Healing

Minerals in plants and fruits are naturally angstrom sized, and this is the reason why so many of today's natural plant formulations are helping people with health problems.

This is a huge lesson that we need to learn, and learn quickly. Unnatural chemicals are destroying our world, and they are destroying us.

Treatment Pharmaceutical or Holistic?

All treatment based on pharmaceutical products proceeds from the study and treatment of symptoms, categorised pretty much in isolation as evidence of separate diseases.

What Holistic Really Means

The diseases mindset obscures the fact that all symptoms are manifestations of an underlying defective condition of the whole body caused by -

? Inadequate nutrition resulting in a weakened body structure (at both tissue and cellular levels) and decreased immune function; and

? External factors such as toxins and stress.

It is true that the body has countless ways of manifesting sickness. The reason diseases seem so many and varied is because -

? Each body breaks down at its weakest link - and in each individual that weakest link will be determined by heredity (genetic factors) and nutrition (eating habits);

When one realises that our categorized diseases are simply varied manifestations of an imbalance in the body chemistry, it becomes easier to understand what holistic medicine and treatment is about.

Body pH and Organic Nutrients

Rebuilding and Healing

Minerals in plants and fruits are naturally angstrom sized, and this is the reason why so many of today's natural plant formulations are helping people with health problems.

This is a huge lesson that we need to learn, and learn quickly. Unnatural chemicals are destroying our world, and they are destroying us.

Mesothelioma and Asbestos

Mesothelioma is an uncommon form of cancer, commonly linked with prior exposure to asbestos. In this disease, cancerous cells grow in the protective lining (mesothelium) covering the internal organs of the body. This disease is commonly located in the outer lining of the chest cavity and lungs (pleura). It can also be found in the lining of the abdominal cavity (peritoneum), or the sac that envelops the heart (pericardium). People who contract this disease have invariably worked on jobs that put them in close contact with asbestos.

One of the characteristics of mesothelioma is that symptoms can appear very late, sometimes 50 years following first contact with asbestos. Symptoms of pleural mesothelioma, the disease?s most common form, include discomfort in the chest and difficulty in breathing. Symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma, another form of the disease, include weight loss, abdominal swelling and pain. Blood clotting, bowel obstruction and fever are other symptoms of this type of mesothelioma. If the malignancy has spread to other body parts, then symptoms may include pain, face swelling and difficulty in swallowing food. However, it is important to remember that these symptoms are not exclusive to this disease; they can happen with other less severe conditions as well.

Over the past two decades, the rate of mesothelioma cases has gone up. Still, in the larger picture, it is a relatively rare cancer. The percentage of cases largely depends on the populations? exposure to asbestos. In the United States, it has been reported that that frequency may have hit the highest point at 15 per million in 2004. This trend is thought to continue in other parts of the world. Interestingly, mesothelioma is more common in men than women. The risk of this disease augments with age, but a person of any age or gender can be affected. About one-fifth to one-third of all mesothelioma cases are peritoneal.

Mesothelioma Asbestos provides detailed information on Mesothelioma and Asbestos, Mesothelioma Asbestos Diseases, Mesothelioma Asbestos Treatment, Asbestos Mesothelioma Cancer and more. Mesothelioma Asbestos is affiliated with Mesothelioma Diagnosis Support.

Healing Your Body

Are you ready to be healthy and full of vibrant energy? Would you like some ideas about how to heal your body?

During many years as a psychotherapist, I discovered fascinating insights into the emotional causes of disease and accidents. I have also developed powerful processes that have helped people heal themselves and maintain their health and safety.

For example, Sunny, a young man in his early twenties, was diabetic from the time he was twelve years old. When he came to see me he was almost daily going into diabetic shock. I have a favorite saying, ?Close your eyes and see clearly.? So I said, ?Sunny, close your eyes and imagine that you are really small and traveling inside your body to the place where you store all your tension.? It was no surprise to either one of us when Sunny ended up in front of his pancreas. He said, ?My God, what a mess. There?s a lot of junk in there.?

In the course of his counseling sessions, Sunny became aware of and overcame all the negative emotional issues that were ?stored? in his pancreas. By the eighth and final session, Sunny reported that he was feeling great and his pancreas looked very healthy. He said, ?It?s amazing, Helene, I?m taking less than one-half of the amount of insulin I needed when I first came to see you. I realize that I almost killed myself by way of diabetic shock because I couldn?t cope with all the emotional pain with my family and a broken relationship.?

Another example of the connection between the mind, the emotions, and the body is thirty-five-year-old Cindy. She had no relief from her constant vaginal yeast infections no matter how much she treated the condition with the medication from her doctor. In her counseling process, Cindy found out that her yeast infections were actually serving her by preventing her from being sexual. When confronted with the idea, Cindy admitted to herself that she was afraid to be in another sexual relationship because she always got too emotionally involved, and then felt deeply hurt if it ended. Cindy?s infection cleared up when she trusted herself to avoid another relationship until she was confident that she would not be devastated if it did not last.

Tom, a forty-three-year-old businessman, finally came into the office when his wife threatened to leave him. However, he was still resistant and insisted that he was fine, he had no problems. Meeting him on his level and at his comfort zone, I said, ?Tom, let?s be logical. You are telling me that your childhood was fine, and that you have no issues to resolve. The reality is that you are struggling with your career, having serious problems with your wife and daughters, and you have been warned about the beginnings of heart problems.?

?Let?s take the analogy of an automobile. If your car isn?t running properly do you believe that nothing is wrong or do you open up the hood and fix it? Obviously, Tom, your life is not running well, which means you have to deal with the issues in your unconscious that are causing you problems. In a sense you need to pick up your hood.?

Tom realized that I had a point. He finally loosened his tie, and was willing to regress back to his childhood. To his surprise, he uncovered an incredible amount of pain. Tom had succeeded in blocking his painful childhood; but because of his denial, he was heading for disaster. It was amazing to see this logical, machine-like person transform into a feeling human being as he expressed his fears, his deep hurts, shame, anger, and grief. As a result, Tom began to feel so good about himself that he began to watch his diet, exercise more and improve his relationships with his family. I will never forget when he happily told me about the wonderful report he had received from his doctor.

The case of Sarah is another example of how important it is to listen to your body and constructively express your feelings. Sarah, a forty-seven-year-old woman, was suffering from recurring cancer. Previously, the doctors had succeeded in removing a malignant tumor from her throat and Sarah seemed to be doing well. However, six months ago they discovered a growth in her back.

During the first counseling session, Sarah was able to express her anger, shame, and fears?something she never did. She was a people pleaser, someone who always had a smile on her face. Sarah always tried to make everyone happy, even if she hurt herself in the process. When Sarah returned the following week, she told me that she was able to cut her pain medication in half. After another session, in which she released intensive emotional pain, she was totally free of physical pain.

Needless to say, Sarah was very optimistic about her recovery. However, Sarah called me one day very upset. She was feeling pain in her throat where the first tumor was removed. I reassured her that the doctors succeeded in removing the growth, the symptom, but the emotional cause was still not resolved. In the next session, after Sarah released her issues about being afraid to speak up, about communicating how she really felt, the pain in her throat disappeared.

I have noticed that certain emotions will be blocked in specific areas of the body. For example, clients often realize that they are angry when they have upper or lower back pain, headaches, tightness in the base of the skull, or jaw pain. I often find fear blocked in the abdominal areas, sadness stuffed in the sinuses, or the sides of the back of the neck. The feeling of responsibility causes tension in the shoulders. Hurt and deep sadness often explains the tightness in the center of the chest or in the heart.

I have also found the body to be very literal. Some examples are: tension in the throat deals with the fear of speaking; problems in the eyes relate to not wanting to see something; hearing problems often correspond to the desire not to hear.

It may be hard to believe, but I have discovered that our unresolved emotions can also cause our accidents. In fact, every time a client had an injury, they were always able to uncover the reason it happened. For example, Tonya, a very attractive twenty-one-year-old, had a scar on her forehead from a serious car accident.

I said, ?Tonya, imagine that you are up in the sky and looking down at the collision. Now tell the Tonya in the car why she had that accident.? She replied, ?Tonya, you had that accident because you felt guilty about having so much more than your family members and your friends. You are prettier, smarter, and more successful, and you don?t appreciate all that you have.?

We are all very powerful beings. We have the ability to create our illness or accidents as well as our health and safety. In order to be healthy and full of vibrant energy, we need to understand that our physical bodies are expressing our thoughts and feelings. When we listen to what our bodies are telling us, when we constructively express our emotions and resolve our issues, we can take an active part in healing ourselves and experience optimum safety, health, and happiness.

(Excerpts from the booklet, e-book & tape, ?Healing Your Body?)

?1997 by Helene Rothschild, MS, MA, MFT, Marriage, Family, Therapist, author and speaker. www.helenerothschild.com

HELENE ROTHSCHILD, MS, MA, MFT, is a Marriage, Family Therapist, intuitive counselor, author, teacher, workshop facilitator, and speaker.

She offers empowering telephone, internet, and in-person healing sessions for all issues including: healing your body, relationships, career, prosperity, weight loss and parenting. Helene developed her own unique process, HART: Holistic and Rapid Transformation, which goes right to the core. She teaches HART classes and independent studies.

She is the author of Personal Success ~ an interactive online self-help program, many articles (free articles) and over 85 inspirational and self-help books, booklets, e-books, tapes, posters, and cards--close to a million have been sold worldwide.

Helene has appeared numerous times in the media (including international CNN), and hosted her own local radio and television shows.

All of her educational materials, classes and services support her mission of helping people to feel more loving, peaceful, fulfilled, healthy, happy, and empowered.

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Will Drinking Tea Lower Your Cholesterol?

These days cholesterol is creating havoc, as death toll due to this disease is ever rising. Majority of the American population is said to have high level cholesterol and this makes them to suffer from its related diseases. By seeing this sudden increase many companies are now in a hurry to produce the drug that can reduce the cholesterol level significantly. And some how they are successful too but what they never highlight is the side effects attached to it. Firstly if we talk about cholesterol, it is a fatty, lipid and waxy substance circulating in the bloodstream. It not only provides the protective coating to the arteries but also produces sex hormones and many fatty acids required by the body.

But once this fat exceeds its limit it becomes the real threat. Nowadays cholesterol reductions medications are selling are like hot cakes in the American market but still many people are unaware of its side effects. Among this whole list of medications the new way which has grown immensely is the tea. According to the experts tea can also help in reducing the cholesterol level in the body. But concrete conclusion is still not out. Many experts feel it do but many discard this theory by calling it as a fluke. They feel that tea cannot reduce cholesterol but yes can curb the raising the cholesterol. However this theory too is not supported by any evidences.

According to the myth, tea can reduce cholesterol level in the body as it breaks down the complex and concentrated plaque on the arteries. But not an ordinary tea, only green and herbal tea has this feature. They tend to have some special herbs and shrubs which not only break down the piled up cholesterol but also curtail the cholesterol growth. But this process tends to take time as it is very lethargy and tedious process. In this the person has to drink green tea for certain amount of time and at fixed frequency. Mainly 35 cups of green tea and that too per week is necessary in order to break down the cholesterol.

Black tea too is of very good use in terms of reducing high cholesterol as it burn the concentrated fat. Being in natural state it has many benefits attached to it. But what make people reluctant in drinking it, is the bitter taste of it. That?s why despite being so beneficial people still avoid and go in for pills and drugs which are accompanied with array of side effects. So your health is in your hands and takes a wise step in order to have happy and healthy living.

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EnerChi Art A New and Ancient Form of Healing

Ener-Chi Art is based on one of the most ancient systems of healing and rejuvenation. A primary function of this art is to restore a balanced flow of life force energy, or Chi, throughout the body.

How It Works

Nurturing the Body, Mind, and Spirit

What Is Ener-Chi Art?

How Does It Work and What Does It Do?.

The Importance of Chi-Balancing

It's A Time For Miracles

You can view paintings and books by Andres Mortiz at =>http://www.drclarkuniversity.org or http://www.drhuldaclark.org

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