In this video, you will learn 5 steps to heal a herniated disc, a disc bulge or lower back pain.
1. Diet
The collagen diet is ideal to heal and repair a damaged disc and tissue. You can find collagen in bone broth liquid, which when consumed on a regular basis is the best dietary thing you can do to heal and repair. Eating bone broth protein 2-3 times a day is a must.
You will also want to get more antioxidants through foods such as blueberries. The perfect breakfast would be a smoothie with blueberries, some collagen powder or bone broth protein powder, coconut milk, and anti-inflammatory herbs such as ginger root. Then follow up with a lunch and dinner of a soup or stew made with bone broth protein.
2. Supplements
Collagen or bone broth protein powder for essential amino acids
Omega 3 fish oils
MSM Sulfur containing supplement for joint repair
Anti-inflammatory herbs such as turmeric for damaged tissue
3. Egoscue
If you have poor posture, it will put extra stress on that disc and cause a herniated disc.This form of physical therapy assigns you a specific set of exercises and stretches to restore your posture and is crucial to healing this type of injury.
4. Prolotherapy (PRP)
Platelet Rich Plasma Injections are important to repair damaged tissue. When you injure your low back, ligaments can become lax and your muscles may spasm while trying to make up for it, which can actually be the root cause of your pain.
5. Corrective Chiropractic Care
Corrective Chiropractic is essential to retrain your body and get correct spinal curvatures back. Since 90% of chiropractors would do a correction that could possibly cause ligaments to become more loose, it is crucial to find someone in your area who specifically practices corrective chiropractic care.
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Fasting is great for your health; however, if it is done wrong, it can be dangerous and have long-term side effects. There are several ways you can fast. You can perform a full day fast where you only eat dinner, only juices, or only water. You can do this kind of full day fast for up to three days, but after that period of time, it can be really hard on your body.
There’s a new type of fasting called intermittent fasting, which is where you are only fasting for a period of the day for about 4-8 hours. You can do this fast anywhere from 30-90 days. Intermittent fasting is really beneficial for allowing your body to rest, helping with leaky gut syndrome. In addition, intermittent fasting supports your hormones, benefits with weight loss, and heals your body through detoxification, if performed the right way.
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is probably one of the top “chronic” conditions that I see today in my work in the clinics. I have some guesses about why it is so common right now:
processed food easily available
fast food also easily available
many people appear to be addicted to sugar
lack of exercise
people are over-stressed (some working 80 hours per week)
bad economy (some people not working)
food pantries stocked with macaroni and cheese etc.
With diabetes, the pancreas stops producing insulin and your body is not able to properly use the insulin which is present in the body. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the body cells develop resistance to insulin and fail to use it properly. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is more common amongst overweight and obese adults over 40 years of age. The disorder can also be referred to as non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) or adult-onset diabetes mellitus. If it is left untreated, NIDDM can lead to a series of other serious illnesses such as blindness, nerve damage, kidney failure, heart disease, erectile dysfunction (in men).
Some common symptoms include:
excessive thirst
increased appetite
tiredness
frequent urination
unexplained loss of weight
blurred vision, skin irritation/infection, constant weakness and loss of strength
slow or delayed healing of cuts, wounds
dizziness or blacking out
For quite some time I have had a big interest in seeing people improve their health by utilizing all their possible solutions. Many people report side effects and/or complications from some of the medications prescribed to help with this condition, such as, diarrhea, increased appetite, lack of energy, mood swings etc. There are easy ways to achieve your wellness goals that may not necessarily involve a pill or a needle.
Would you be open to learning about these?
Exercise
Swimming
Walking (20 – 30 minutes daily)
Jogging
Running
Cycling
Dancing
Aerobics and Water Aerobics
Stretching
Strength Training
Any movement is good. It should be consistent and you should feel your heart rate increase.
Biofeedback
Hydration
At least 64 ounces of water daily
Essential Oils
Grapefruit Essential Oil
Dill Essential Oil
Cinnamon Essential Oil
Coriander Essential Oil
Ylang Ylang Essential Oil
Clary Sage Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Geranium Essential Oil
Massage
Relaxation Techniques
Deep Breathing
Mindfulness (Take mindful walks)
Nutrition, Supplements and Herbs
Greek clover
Chromium
Garlic
Green Tea
Parslane Seeds
Ginsing
Mango Tree Leaves
Cayenne Pepper
Bitter Gourd
Chitosan
Garcinia cambogia (hydroxycitric acid)
Chromium
Pyruvate
Germander
Momordica charantia (Chinese bitter melon)
Sauropus androgynus (sweet leaf bush)
Chitosan
Aristolochic acid
Magnesium
Vanadium
Citrus Pardisi
Neem Tree Leaves
Indian GooseberryString
Bean Pod Tea
Curry Leaves
Asparagus
Blueberries
Red Grapefruit
Coenzyme Q10
Beans
Fish
Cranberries
Apple Peel
Brewer’s yeast
Buckwheat
Broccoli and other related greens
Cinnamon
Banaba
Vitamin C
Cloves
Coffee
Okra
Peas
Fenugreek seeds
Saw Palmetto
Aloe
Sage
Huckleberry
Gymnema
Zinc
Watermelons
Oatmeal
Methi
Jambul
A person suffering from diabetes should have limited amount of carbohydrates and fats along with moderate amount of protein in the diet. High-fiber diet like vegetables, whole wheat products, oats, whole legumes prove to be more beneficial. Let’s look at what all should be had and what all should be avoided.
Avoid products made from refined wheat flours.
Eat as much salad as possible, but without rich, creamy, high-fat salad dressing.
Fruits can be taken as recommended by dietitian; avoid juices.
Consume fruits a couple hours before or after meals.
Prefer oats porridge along with milk in breakfast.
In case you cannot have coffee/tea/milk without sugar, substitute it with honey.
Avoid whole milk, egg yolk, red meats, and high-fat foods.
Avoid visible fats like ghee, oil, butter in your daily diet.
Include anti-diabetes foods in your diet, like bitter gourd, string beans, onion, garlic, cucumber, etc.
Restrict intake of meat and salt in your diet. It will help control body weight and diabetes.
No restriction on soy and fish for patients suffering from diabetes.
Avoid white bread, potatoes, sweets, rice, and sugary foods.
Preventative Measures
Here are some prevent measures to keep diabetes at bay:
Exercise on a regular basis. It keeps the person fit and assists in controlling diabetes. Jogging, brisk walking, swimming, or light exercising can be beneficial.
Never walk bare feet as it can result in injury, which might take ages to heal.
Never miss meal after insulin or oral hypoglycemic drug.
Unless recommended by your physician, do not alter the dosage of your anti-diabetes medication.
Make a fixed-time schedule for your meals, and try not to deviate from it, if possible.
Avoid rich, starchy, oily food as it is difficult to digest.
Do not consume heavy meals. Instead, distribute your meals in smaller courses across the day.
Try not to take stress, it will worsen the situation.
Check blood glucose levels frequently.
Please consider contacting us for more information and encouragement to attain your wellness goals.
Nobody ever said when I grow up I want to be an addict. SO how is it that people become so good at it?
Addiction is considered a brain disease because drugs change the brain—they change its structure and how it works. These brain changes can be long-lasting, and can lead to the harmful behaviors seen in people who abuse drugs. It is really important to have people around who are not afraid to be honest with the addicted person. When the people close to the addicted person do not help him or her look at the reality of the situation, they are really helpless to the disease.
The initial decision to take drugs is typically voluntary. However, with continued use, a person’s ability to exert self-control can become seriously impaired; this impairment in self-control is the hallmark of addiction.
Brain imaging studies of people with addiction show physical changes in areas of the brain that are critical to judgment, decision making, learning and memory, and behavior control.
Scientists believe that these changes alter the way the brain works and may help explain the compulsive and destructive behaviors of addiction.
One of the brain areas still maturing during adolescence is the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain that enables us to assess situations, make sound decisions, and keep our emotions and desires under control.
The fact that this critical part of an adolescent’s brain is still a work in progress puts them at increased risk for making poor decisions (such as trying drugs or continuing to take them).
Also, introducing drugs during this period of development may cause brain changes that have profound and long-lasting consequences.
Addictive drugs provide a shortcut to the brain’s reward system by flooding the nucleus accumbens with dopamine. The hippocampus lays down memories of this rapid sense of satisfaction, and the amygdala creates a conditioned response to certain stimuli. Stressors or something associated with substance use can trip the mental machinery of relapse.
Changes in the reward system alone cannot explain why addiction persists. As Mark Twain said of his tobacco habit, quitting is easy; he had done it often. Many addicts go through long periods without taking the drug, but they risk relapse even after years of abstinence, when the dopamine reward circuit has had plenty of time to recuperate. They are victims of conditioned learning, which creates habitual responses.
Drug-induced changes in the links between brain cells establish associations between the drug experience and the circumstances in which it occurred. These implicit memories can be retrieved when addicts are exposed to any reminder of those circumstances — moods, situations, people, places, or the substance itself. A heroin addict may be in danger of relapse when she sees a hypodermic needle, an alcoholic when he passes a bar where he used to drink or when he meets a former drinking companion. Any addict may resume the habit on falling into a mood in which he used to turn to the drug. A single small dose of the drug itself is one of the most powerful reminders — “It’s the first drink that gets you drunk,” as they say in Alcoholics Anonymous.
Internal or external stress is another cause of relapse. The nucleus accumbens sends signals to the amygdala and hippocampus, which register and consolidate memories that evoke strong feelings. When asked why they relapse, addicts may say, “My job was not going well,” or even, “The traffic was so heavy that day.” These answers suggest that they are hypersensitive to stress, either congenitally or as a result of past addiction. Levels of corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH), the brain chemical that regulates the stress hormone system, often rise in addicts just before a relapse, while the amygdala becomes more active. Mice bred without receptors for CRH are less susceptible to drug addiction.
In the last few years, research has suggested that addiction involves many of the same brain pathways that govern learning and memory. Addiction alters the strength of connections at the synapses (junctions) of nerve cells, especially those that use the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate. Underlying these changes are drug-induced activation and suppression of genes within nerve cells, another process scientists are beginning to explore.
How to Get Clean and Sober
Detox Safely.
Change – People, Places and Things.
Find a Good Recovery Group (I recommend a 12 Step Recovery Group). Go to meetings: 90 Meetings in 90 days.
Make one of the meetings your home group.
Find a Sponsor.
Work the 12 Steps in order with your Sponsor. Choose a sponsor of your same sex with at least 5 years clean time who has worked the steps all the way through at least once. (Preferable has been a sponsor before)
Learn how to teach your brain to break cycles and think differently.
Understand your triggers and decrease your stressors.
Practice kindness towards yourself as well as others.
Eat healthy.
Exercise.
Rest.
Don’t be afraid of natural remedies for ailments and get educated about how to use them.
There is a lot of research that shows that certain frequencies are healing. Bruce Tainio, of Tainio Technology (an independent division of Eastern State University in Cheny, Washington), using the world’s first frequency monitor, which he had designed and built, determined that the average, daytime frequency of the human body is 62-68 MHz. (A healthy body frequency is 62-72 MHz.) He conducted studies to prove this. Each of our organ systems have their own frequencies.
When a person’s frequency drops the immune system is compromised. If the frequency drops to 58 MHz, cold and flu symptoms may appear. At 55 MHz, diseases like candida can take hold. At 52 MHz, one might contract Epstein-Barr. And, at 42 MHz, according to these studies, cancer is a real possibility. Death is said to begin at 25 MHz. More factors with healing involve the types of foods consumed. While eating live foods promotes frequency and energy, many foods lower frequency levels. Appropriate amounts of physical activity improve frequency and removing toxins that do not belong (detox therapies) also serves to increase energy. Some bad news for coffee lovers is that merely holding a cup of coffee lowers your body’s frequency 8 MHz; drinking that cup lowers your body’s frequency by 14 MHz. It can take three days to recover and bring the body’s frequency back up to 62 – 68 MHz. If you drink coffee daily, your body’s frequency will constantly be in the lower ranges (the range of illnesses), unless you do something to raise these levels.
Just like certain devices Essential Oils have certain frequencies and energy. The highest energy level that I know of is rose oil.
Fact: It takes as much as 12,000 rose blossoms to distill 5 ml of CPTG essential rose oil.
Measured MHz Levels (Energy) of the Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil
Rose is 320 MHz
Lavender is 118 MHz
Peppermint is 78 MHz
Using ESSENTIAL OILS is probably the EASIEST way to increase a person’s frequency on a daily basis. Part of what I have been studying over the past years involves nutrition and how important it is to feed our bodies nutrients and enzymes that are “alive”. Both of my parents had cancer and I looked a great deal into nutrition as a means to restore them to health. One of the main reasons to try to incorporate organic foods into our eating routines is because they are alive.
Here is another interesting fact: One ounce of Clove Oil (as an antioxidant) is equivalent to:
450 pounds of carrots
120 quarts of blueberries
48 gallons of beet juice.
The therapeutic grade of the oil used is very important. There are many different grades of essential oils out in the market system. There are some that have cut corners and even though once were considered therapeutic, now are no longer in the same ball park as others who remain pure therapeutic grade. Some companies inject chemicals into the water during the distillation to increase the amount produced but creates an oil that has been contaminated. Often times you can tell by smelling the oils that there is a difference. I have a friend with multiple chemical sensitivity who reacts to certain oil brands. doTERRA is the only brand allowed to call itself CPTG (Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade). I have witnessed my friend use doTERRA without having the same reactions that she has to other brands. For people with dropping MHz levels, using the purest oil available is essential.
In my reading and research on these areas I have also found that there are other factors that can impact the use of essential oils. Studies show that negative thoughts lower the frequency of
Essential Oils by 12 MHz while positive thoughts raised their frequencies 10 MHz. Prayer raises frequency levels by 15 MHz. Studies also show that at 528 Hz, DNA repair can begin.
Love has a Huge Impact on Wellness
Love has a huge impact on wellness. Loving thoughts are important. Below is a short video about a study done by Dr. Masaru Emoto that describes how water has a memory and the impact of different thoughts communicated to these structures. “Masaru Emoto was born in Yokohama, Japan in July 1943 and a graduate of the Yokohama Municipal University’s department of humanities and sciences with a focus on International Relations. In 1986 he established the IHM Corporation in Tokyo. In October of 1992 he received certification from the Open International University as a Doctor of Alternative Medicine. Subsequently he was introduced to the concept of micro cluster water in the US and Magnetic Resonance Analysis technology. He undertook extensive research of water around the planet not so much as a scientific researcher, but more from the perspective of an original thinker. At length he realized that it was in the frozen crystal form that water showed us its true nature through. Mr. Emoto has been visually documenting these molecular changes in water by means of his photographic techniques. He freezes droplets of water and then examines them under a dark field microscope that has photographic capabilities. Water from clear mountain springs and streams had beautifully formed crystalline structures, while the crystals of polluted or stagnant water were deformed and distorted. Distilled water exposed to classical music took delicate, symmetrical crystalline shapes. When the words “thank you” were taped to a bottle of distilled water, the frozen crystals had a similar shape to the crystals formed by water that had been exposed to Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”- music composed out of gratitude to the man it was named for. When water samples were bombarded with heavy metal music or labeled with negative words, or when negative thoughts and emotions were focused intentionally upon them, such as “Adolf Hitler”, the water did not form crystals at all and displayed chaotic, fragmented structures. When water was treated with aromatic floral oils, the water crystals tended to mimic the shape of the original flower.
Sometimes, when we cannot see the immediate results of our affirmations and or prayers, we think we have failed. But, as we learn through Masaru Emoto’s photographs, that thought of failure itself becomes represented in the physical objects that surround us. Now that we have seen this, perhaps we can begin to realize that even when immediate results are invisible to the unaided human eye, they are still there. When we love our own bodies, they respond. For our own bodies at birth are more than 60 percent water, and the percentage of water in our bodies remains high throughout life (depending upon weight and body type). The earth’s surface is more than 60 percent water as well. And now we have seen before our eyes that water is far from inanimate, but is actually alive and responsive to our every thought and emotion. Perhaps, having seen this, we can begin to really understand the awesome power that we possess, through choosing our thoughts and intentions, to heal ourselves and the earth. If only we believe.”
There is a plethora of scientific evidence that supports the benefits of maintaining a healthy thought life. Scripture, for those who believe, backs up what scientists are discovering about our thoughts. Here is another short video with Dr. Caroline Leaf. She speaks a lot on toxic thoughts, toxic love and how we are designed or hardwired for love…
Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils are able to:
create an environment detrimental to pathogens (viruses, bacteria, etc)
create an environment of clear communication between all cells and all systems
create an environment detrimental to cancer growth
erase (deprogram) misinformation in our cells
reprogram misinformation in our cells so they function and replicate properly
When CPTG Essential Oils are combined with loving thoughts, prayer, live foods and appropriate physical activity, amazing things can happen.
Optimism is defined on google.com “as hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something.” Dictionary.com defines it as:
“adispositionortendencytolookonthemorefavorablesideof events or conditionsandtoexpectthemostfavorableoutcome.
Most people have hear the description of the difference between the optimist and the pessimist. The optimist sees the glass as half full and the pessimist sees it as half empty. Well, today there is an abundance of research that shows that those with “adispositionortendencytolookonthemorefavorablesideof events or conditionsandtoexpectthemostfavorableoutcome” are physically healthier. And the research doesn’t stop there. We are now seeing that optimism or a positive thought pattern is important in building resiliency. An individual overcome hurdles and attains goals quicker and more often when using positive self-talk and self-thought. Research shows that optimistic people tend to have less stress, better health, achieve better results and have more joy.
Many who abuse drugs or alcohol neglect important components of daily health, wreaking havoc on both emotional and physical well being.
It is important to repair the psychological and physical damage of chemical dependency as well as the damaged mind-body connection.
Exercise in chemical dependency treatment serves many purposes, but there are some primary benefits one can get from exercise during substance abuse treatment and recovery.
Exercise relieves and reduces stress.
Exercise naturally and positively alters your brain chemistry.
Exercise is meditation in motion.
Exercise improves your outlook.
In addition, regular exercise fosters improved:
Sleep
Greater energy
Enhanced feelings of well being
All of these improvements make life much more manageable and enjoyable and recovery that much more possible and sustainable.
Aerobic exercises, have been proved to reduce anxiety and depression. These include:
Jogging
Swimming
Cycling
Walking
Gardening
Dancing
These improvements in mood are proposed to be caused by:
Exercise-induced increase in blood circulation to the BRAIN
This physiologic influence is probably mediated by the communication of the HPA axis with several regions of the brain, including:
the limbic system, which controls motivation and mood
the amygdala, which generates fear in response to stress
hippocampus, which plays an important part in memory formation as well as in mood and motivation.
Well, today there is an abundance of research that shows that those with “
