Innate Healer

Part of healing of ourselves is to reach out to those who are less fortunate than we are.  Studies showed that helping others instill a peaceful happy feeling in the helper which is very health reaffirming.  Here is a chance for us to help someone in need without sacrificing too much.

I found a website about this organization, Kiva,  that help people in third world countries to raise fund for their businesses.  I feel this is a great way to help those who are willing to help themselves.  The stories of many of these entrepreneurs are touching.  They are mothers and fathers struggling to put food on the family table. The fund they asked for is minimal.  You get repay back for the money you loan out after a period according to the specified loan term.

How about giving someone in real need a business loan? - you can loan as little as $25 USD to a specific individual, e.g.loan to Viviane and her printing business in the Congo, or to Yoyoh in Indonesia who sells firewood. Wherever you are, use Kiva to give people a hand up not a hand out.

http://www.kiva.org/app.php

Volunteering and Healthy Aging: What we know

The role of altruism in healing

Almost daily, news about the cozy financial relationships between medical doctors and the pharmaceutical companies continue to reinforce my believe that arrangements such as these will not be beneficial to patients.  If you have watched some of videos I posted in the past, Prescription For Disaster and We Became Silent, you’d know the revolving doors between the FDA officials and drugs makers.  Many high ranking FDA officials are usually coming from the industry and oftentimes return to the drug industry after working at the FDA.  Talk about having the fox to guard the chickens!

We need to learn the powerful benefits of wholefoods and natural solutions, and get ourselves out of the “disease care” system all together.

New York Times March 21, 2007

Next time you put that corn chip in your mouth, think about this study commissioned by Greenpeace.  Reserchers in France found rats fed GM (Genetic Modified) corn resulted in liver and kidney damages. Make sure your corn chips are not made by GM corn. Look for brands made of organic corn instead of commercial brands made possibly with GMO (Genetic Modified Organism) corn.  There is no way we can tell if any commercial brands corn chips contain GMO corn.

Scientific American March 13, 2007

The Future of Food

Too much to ask?  Yet we know such good health is possible because Weston A. Price, a dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, documented and photographed whole villages throughout the world where this was a reality generation after generation! The photographs Dr. Price took during his journeys in the 1930’s and 40’s, the descriptions of what he found and his conclusions, are preserved in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, he documented the foods that allow people of every race and every climate to experience their birthright — radiant health and wholeness. Unfortunately, this compendium of ancestral wisdom is all but unknown to today’s medical community and modern parents.  To advocate for our child’s right to be as healthy as he can be, parents must take the responsibility to educate themselves in the ways that optimal nutrition and radiant health are possible for our children.  To prepare for the future of our children, we have to start before conception to insure nutrition adequacy for both mothers and fathers.  We will have to become your children’s nutritionist and health advocate. 

The Weston Price Foundation is founded to support people who want to learn about our ancestor’s diet wisdom and regain our birthright as a healthy and free people. Their web site, www.westonaprice.org, is a wealth of nutrition and health information.  It is my belief that we can safeguard our health only with the consumption of wholesome foods produced and prepared the traditional ways observed by Dr. Price.

Weston Price Foundation link

1. What is diabetes?  Diabetes is actually a metabolic disorder, not a disease.  It is caused by the way we eat.  That is why it can only be reversed by diet—the proper whole-food diet that our ancestors used to eat.

2. What foods cause diabetes?  Most commercially prepared foods contain diabetes-causing ingredients: refined sugar, refined flours, trans fatty acid, synthetic vitamin additives, and chemical additives. Do you know that white flour contains a diabetes-promoting contaminant called alloxan? Alloxan is a drug used to create diabetic mice in the laboratory.  It is also used as a bleaching agent in white flour. It can destroy beta cells in the pancreas. Eating commercial refined flour products which contain all of these harmful ingredients are a sure way to increase your risk for diabetes.  3. Can I treat diabetes without drugs?  Absolutely!  Studies after studies have proven that nutrition and exercise can reverse diabetes. Incorporate powerful, disease-fighting foods and herbs into every meal will improve your odds, free-range animal protein, organic vegetables, cinnamon, Gymnema, coleus and fish oil are just a few to start.  Few people know many foods actually stabilize your blood sugar swings as well as sensitize insulin receptors without drugs.  4. If nutrition makes such a difference, why aren’t diabetes doctors know about it and diabetes organizations doing more to promote nutrition to alleviate the mass sufferings?  These so-called “disease groups” are more interested in managing diabetes (i.e. keeping patients sick) than actually curing it. The money is found in managing diseases rather than curing them.  Healthy people won’t go to doctors or need any drugs.  Most of these groups are actually supported by the drug companies that stand to make billions by selling their drugs.  The financial conflicts of interest is mind numbing that diabetes groups accept millions of dollars each year from pharmaceutical and junk food companies that sell insulin and other drugs. The American Diabetes Association took millions from the world’s manufacturers of candy and sodas!  Ostensibly, the ADA claimed that they endorsed only the non-sugar products of these companies. 5. Can diabetes be linked to other diseases?   The same harmful ingredients found in processed foods that cause diabetes also contribute to other diseases such as cancer, heart disease, depression, esthma, and arthritis. They also link to gallstones, appendicitis, poor digestion and periodontal diseases, and accelerated aging and many other degenerative diseases.  In fact, there is a common link for all chronic degenerative diseases to the way we have been eating in the last 100 years in the western world.  6. Should type 2 diabetic use insulin?  It is absolutely harmful for type 2 diabetic to use insulin. Their problem is due to insulin resistance. They usually can produce plenty of insulin, but have problem at the cellular receptors level.  Their receptors won’t respond to insulin.  By overwhelming  the system with increased exogenous insulin may help control blood sugar for a short time, but will cause the severe complications to accelerate because insulin is a damaging chemical to the vasculature. It is important to know how simple dietary changes  can eliminated insulin injections for majority of diabetics and quickly restore insulin receptor sensitivity with dietary change and exercise. Diabetics should avoid all starchy carbohydrates and even fruits until their blood sugar and insulin are under control.  For type 1 diabetics, the avoidance of starchy carbs and fruits is forever in order for them to attain tight blood glucose control and avoid complications. 7. What vitamins, minerals and herbs are beneficial for diabetics?  B complex, vitamin C and all fat soluble vitamins are important for proper function of the body.  The one trace mineral that’s almost always missing from the diets of diabetics is Chromium. Chromium is a co-factor in glucose tolerance factor which is important for the proper functioning of insulin. Other important minerals are selenium, vanadium, magnesium, zinc and potassium.  Many of these minerals are lacking in processed and commercially grown foods, Trace minerals are in general very low in our chemical farmed produce.  Herbs such as cinnamon, Gymnema, coleus, and Siberian ginseng have blood glucose normalizing property. 8. Should diabetics take fish oil? It is absolutely essential for diabetics to take omega-3 fatty acids.  These fatty acids are important for proper insulin receptor functions.  Take about 1000mg of DHA and EPA combined on a daily basis to insure adequacy.  Normally eating fatty cold-water ocean fish is a good way to obtain omega-3 fat, however, this source is contaminated with mercury and other heavy metals, caution should be exercised to limit eating of sea food to once a week at most.  Cod liver oil is probably the best form of fish oil since it delivers a good dose of vitamin D and vitamin A. Both are important for the immune systems as well many other metabolic functions of the body.  Choose fish oil with their mercury removed.  If you’re currently suffering from type 1 or 2 diabetes or other blood sugar disorders such as hypoglycemia, Syndrome X, insulin resistance or hyperinsulinemia that can lead to diabetes, don’t despair.  These conditions are not diseases. Diabetes is not a disease.  It can be reversed by proper dietary changes and other healthy lifestyle modifications. Imagine a life without insulin shots, insulin pumps and without lancing fingertips every day to monitor your blood glucose level. Imagine not having to spend tens of thousands of dollars on insulin, diabetes drugs, and diabetic supplies. Imagine having healthy vision and functioning fingers and legs and toes that stay attached to your body.  Envision never have to be attach to a kidney dialysis machine. Imagine a long healthy productive life.  The feeling of a healthy long life is much greater than the taste of refined processed foods in your mouth.  Think about that.

Links to articles for more info:

Bleaching in flour linked to diabetes 

Our Public Health Groups: All Fall Down

Effects of exercise and diet on chronic diseases

The cost of diabetes care

Treating diabetes with whole food article from Weston Price Foundation

There are tremendous amount of information on the Google/Youtube video about natural healing.  Here is a very interesting presentation given by Jerry Brunetti, a man who survived terminal cancer by turning to natural healing modalities and whole foods.  There are videos on the science and politics of cancer and Laetrile and its effects on cancer. There are lots of tools for you to arm yourselves with information.  Preventing cancer is the key to health, but learning how to reverse it after diagnosis is the key to survival.

I don’t understand why there are so much fear with using foods, nutrients and herbs to support the body during a health crisis.  Most of these substances are just plain foods.  Yet, we have no problem subjecting ourselves and our loved ones to man-made drugs which are, for the most part, very dangerous poisons, invasive surgeries and unnecessary procedures.

If we would let go of our fears, natural healing have much to offer.  All we need to do is to open our mind and learn. 

Food as Medicine Talk by Jerry Bruneti

Cancer Warrior Dr. Judah Folkman NOVA video

A World Without Cancer–The story of vitamin B17

The science and Politics of Cancer

A few days ago, I wrote about the anti-anemia drugs rx for cancer patients can actually cause heart problems in them. Consumers spent 10 billion dollars last year for these drugs.  Now FDA issued a black box warning on them.

If these drug were nutrients or any unpatentable natural substances, the FDA will not just slap a warning label on them.  They will be ban from the market immediately.  No expert panel required.

The old addage goes, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.”  How many times we continue to be fooled by the drug companies with their useless, metabolic poisons before we wake up to the fact?  Drugs don’t cure diseases.  Drugs stop normal metabolic pathways by poisoning enzyme systems. Results are temporary covering of symptoms and eventual side-effects which are usually worse than the cure.  Then more drugs are used to cover the side effects, and on and on we go.  

The only way to heal the body is by supporting the immune system.  Only real food nutrients can do that.  Cancer is a metabolic imbalance caused by many factors, malnutrition is one.  90% of our food is processed.  Meaning foods that have their enzymes deactivated, their vitality removed, life force stripped, became food-like products that our body cannot recognize.  Preservatives are added to inhibit all enzymes still might be left in these foods.  There we have our mummified foods that can sit on the shelf  forever. 

Enzymes are the life force, living mechanism of foods. Enzymes are the chains that bind vitamins and minerals together in a living process. When enzyme is dead, the food is dead.  These preservatives continue to do their dirty work in our body, inhibiting our enzymes in the gut and the rest of the body.  The immune cells function by way of their enzymes!!  Stoping wondering why we get cancer. If we continue to consume enzyme inhibiting poisons from processed foods, when our immune systems ran into trouble, dump more metabolic poisons–drugs–into our body will not get us any where.  We have to return to eating real foods. Living foods with lots of active food enzymes to help our body function the way it should.  Healing is a normal body function, we do it everyday if we consume all the needed nutrients–from foods, relationships, freedom, healthy environment–we need, our body can heal itself.

New York Times March 9 2007 Registration required

The “Soft drink” or soda market is still a multi-billion-dollar industry. However, it has been suffering a slump in sales lately. In order to shore up profit.  Pepsi and Coca Cola are introducing a madeover versions of these toxic brews.  They are adding synthetic vitamins and some minerals in diet sodas to make them into “health food!” Oh, pleeeeeease,  I am speechless.

Synthetic vitamins are themselves toxic, add on top, neurotoxic, artificial sweeteners, our brain will be totally defenseless.  DON’T buy into these marketing ploys.  Drink pure or natural mineral water!  If you want something sweet, I have this recipe that might do the trick:

Add 6 oz. of organic green tea to 2 oz. of natural, preferably organic and fresh, fruit juice, raspberries, blueberries, orange or grapefruit are great,  a few drops of stevia to taste. You have this delicious reduced calorie drink that is full of anti-oxidants and phytonutrients.  I used to give a similar mix to my kids when they were little, and they loved it. I used half juice and half green tea without the stevia.

Let’s focus on eating real foods, not man-made food-like products.

New York Times March 7, 2007 Registration required

Many of us know trans fat is toxic and we should avoid it. Trans fat is found in all partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and deep-fried foods such as french fries and donuts. 
New York City agrees and go about getting rid of ALL trans fat in the restaurant business.  

I am amazed at how a good intention can so easily be used against consumers. The fight to get rid of trans fat has led bakers in NYC to abandon butter.  Butter contains a natural form of trans fatty acid called conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA.  CLA is a product of bacterial action in the stomach of ruminant animals such as cows and sheep.  CLA is found in the meat and milk and has been found to confer numerous health benefits such as cardio-protection and anti-carcinogenesis.  We don’t know too much about CLA because it is a naturally occurring substance and don’t have too much commercial value to marketers.  CLA has been used as supplements for weight loss aides. It is found in higher quantity in grass-fed animals and products; it is very low in factory farm animals and products.  I think it might be due to the totally different bacterial populations in the grass-fed free-ranged animals and the factory-farmed animals.  I might say, healthy vs. sick animals. 

Don’t be fooled by junk food makers and their marketers, they are only looking for ways to market their so-called trans-free margarine, contains interesterified-fat,  which is just as bad or worse than the regular margarine.   Interesterified-fat is another new-fangled invention of men to prolong shelf life and increase profit; that translate into harming your health.  

What should you do?  Stick with organic butter and avoid all man-made butter substitutes.

New York Times, March 7, 2007 Registration required

Here is a great way to get rid of your depressed feeling. It will only take you a few minutes to prove its effectiveness.  It is a technique call Emotional Freedom Technique, EFT.  I have been using it myself for a few years and taught many of my patients to quickly resolving some of the emotional related symptoms.  It is effective for getting ride of headache, insomnia, sweet cravings, stage fright, performance anxiety, breathing difficulties. 

EFT is developed by Gary Craig, who is not a health professional, but an engineer.  I greatly admire him for his contribution in developing the technique which has been proven extremely effective for many emotional and physical problems. He shares this technique freely.  His website offers many free tips on applying this technique.  You can order his videos for a very reasonble cost to learn more about the technique.  However it is a very easy to learn method that you can master in a very short time.  Watch the vedios to learn about depression tapping and others.  There are many other tapping sequences for anger management, self-acceptance, foregiveness, quit smoking and stress in YouTube.com and tapping.com. EFT offers a great way to get rid of any negative feelings that come up easily and quickly.  In our stress-filled culture, EFT offers a breath of fresh air.

Introduction to EFT Tapping video

The Science of EFT video

Tapping Away Depression video

EFT Tapping for Self Acceptance video

www.emofree.com

www.tapping.com