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Are you a mosquito magnet

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

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Everyone around you at the outdoor music concert did NOT get mosquito bites, but you sure did! Why you? Do vampire mosquito’s really do exist or is something making you a “mosquito magnet?”

Maybe mosquito larvae were hatched near a nuclear reactor which bred vampire mosquito – but probably not. It’s most logical that something within you is drawing those pesky bugs to your blood.

The sum total of your body chemistry is attracting them or put simply, you have “yummy blood!” Sugar in your blood makes it desirable to mosquito’s and is a sign you DON’T want to ignore.

Over consuming sugar puts a stress on your insulin production – because insulin deals with sugar in blood and takes it to different places to be used as energy. Low energy, fatigue and craving coffee often accompany being a mosquito magnet.

Remember also that there are only 3 food groups- fat, protein and carbs. Consuming too many is as bad ad having a sweet tooth because your body breaks them down the same and insulting is required.  Remember too, that alcohol is a carb too!

You may not show positive on a blood test for diabetes, but being a mosquito magnet is an even more sensitive sign you may need to reduce your carbs/sugar consumption.

Here are 3 main ways to become LESS of a magnet to mosquito’s:

Sweat! The more you sweat, your body’s metabolism can rid itself of excess sugar and other toxins and utilize nutrients for faster healing. Be sure to wash it off your skin as soon as possible- sweat is full of internal toxins and could promote acne or a rash.

Move more. Have you heard that sitting is the “new smoking?” People who sit 8 hours a day or more are more likely to be overweight, have diabetes or pre-diabetes, be constipated, have sciatica and back pain and have a heart attack.

Keep hydrated. This keeps you more physically active, dilutes your blood sugar concentration, helps you stay alkaline and revs up your metabolism.

When you do these three things, even if there were vampire mosquito’s, you would be less attractive to them.

Remember, when your body works right, you life works!brucecb

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The Holistic “Acid Trip”

12 Friday Jul 2013

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If you think acid tripping only happens by drug overdose then get ready to take an enlightened health trip right now!

The journey begins by asking yourself this question: What has more intelligence – what’s out there or what’s in here, the body? Your answer will provide the fuel for what you do after reading this.

During my year of gross anatomy, we gratefully learned from the donated bodies of many homeless people. I recalled wondering if when these people had realized how truely amazing, perfectly designed and intricately synced their bodies were, could they have produced a different life?

Because everyone- you, your worst nemisis, the neighbor who kicks the dog, the person who lied to you- all contain immense applied wisdom within. Our living healthy depends on if we KNOW and apply this.

The body is an application of all the knowledge there is. Chemistry, geology, botany, sociology, spirituality, physics, econimics and engineering are all be evidenced in the human body.

Nothing comes close to the amazing body- not raw food, scientifically formulated pharmaceuticals, supplements (even the magic berry from ancient lands), healing cold laser, an amazing soft touch chiropractic adjustment, the ancient wisdom of acupuncture or a life saving surgery.

I’ve used them all and help people with most of these, but remind people as well, to access their inner wisdom for long lasting health and well being.

We search high and low for “it” and will pay any price for THE ONE THING that will put an end to our suffering. We jump from solution to possible solution, listening to one guru and then the next, to find that magic cure for our pains.

When the absolute worst thing, most acid producing, health robbing thing we can do can’t be fixed by anyone but us.

When we do ANYTHING in OVERDOSE we cause acidity in our body. This includes over eating, over exercising, over sleeping, over living (lack of sleep), over drinking, over worrying and anything else done in over abundance or in excess.

So, stop. Breath in and out. You are already enough. Unwanted symtoms are your amazing body’s way of telling you to stop.

Be who you were designed to be. Human.

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The Barbie-thin Bodacious Bod

12 Friday Jul 2013

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You can buy the Barbie- luscious bodacious bod at Walmart for about $10. But the cost of getting, keeping and creating a similar one in human form may be the most expensive thing you buy.

The cost of being thin and beautiful includes many things- healthy food, exercise, living an active lifestyle, flattering clothes, make-up, hair care, holistic healthcare when needed, etc.

Are you observing, like I am, that being thin is costing more these days? For example, walking outdoors is no longer enough- we need gym memberships and the latest workout DVD or website membership.

And there is more too- hair extensions, multiple toned hair, ear jewelry, nose & navel jewelry, botox, tummy tucks, face-lifts, cheek implants, boob jobs, spanx, shoes to go with every outfit, mineral make-up and the list drones on.

My concern is that the “beautiful and thin at any cost” attitude is costing us money and time that could and possibily should be, invested elsewhere. I believe the greatest cost of beauty is the opportunity cost of peace of mind.

For peace of mind eludes a life filled with a packed schedule, unending “wants” to fill available finances, never good enough thinking and an endless to do list. I know because that’s been my life.

The cost of getting more beautiful or covering up what I think isn’t beautiul is more than I’m NOW willing to pay. I’m still pursuing a healthy lifestyle and the natural beauty that accompanies it, but I’m stopping the pursuit of beauty.

And I’ve never felt more beautiful.

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The Quick, Sick route to Health

10 Wednesday Jul 2013

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I just read that 60% of pain prescription users say they got these drugs from friends or relatives.  

Here’s what this means: They are not under a doctor’s care, they may not take it correctly for their issue, and they are self-prescribing.  AND, here’s what this REALLY means: they have no idea about how to be healthy. 

Most drugs- over the counter or prescriptions, are self-prescribed.  If we all knew how the body worked and had daily doses of continual learning about how it works- this might be okay once in a while.  The biggest problem is that people don’t know how to get healthy and they want pain-relief or solutions to their problems QUICK!

They really think a pill is the solution.  I’ve always said that the worst thing about medicine is that is works.  No wonder some doctors and people laugh when you tell them you’re going the holistic route!  Drugs work better on pain.  Drugs work faster to normalize blood.  Drugs are quick.  

Health takes a lifetime, so quick is non-healthy.  This is worth repeating and has long lasting effects and affects your next hour’s actions probably so I’m saying it again.  QUICK fixes are UNHEALTHY.  Period.

Health is more than a blood value, a thyroid level, eating broccoli or running a marathon.  Health may include all those things but it can’t be defined by them alone.  

The worst health problem we have is how we define health. For until we really look at it, understand it, talk about it on all the radio & T.V. shows and in schools and in doctor’s offices and churches and places people gather, well, we’ll still take the quick, sick route to health.  Image 

The “Toilet Papering” Rush

04 Thursday Jul 2013

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I LOVED the excitement as a teen which came when I toilet papered a friends yard! This thrill was my drug to drown out the fears and anxieties of my youthful insecurities.

Thirty years later, I am a “reforming” adrenalin junkie not because I don’t still love the superhuman effects of it but because I’ve experienced firsthand and observed in my patients, the results of daily high doses of this drug.

Sugar cravings, tight shoulders, hair falling out, insulin resistance, thyroid issues, even heart disease and cancer – all have the common “hometown” of stress-induced adrenalin and cortisol produced body dysfunction.

I am reforming – really I am. I usually drive the speed limit, hug my kids and husband daily, exercise most days, read holy scriptures and love eating vegetables. But still, I take on too much, work to make EVERYONE happy and struggle to fit in my own self-care.

The alluring thrill and numbing affect of adrenalin beckons me still, to try and be a superwoman – because that is the ONLY way to do all the noble, fun, children supportive, family vacations, service giving, socializing and sensory teasing activities of this high speed, high tech and non-stop modern world.

There is a price that must be paid when mere mortals act in the superhuman role. We unknowingly sacrifice good health and peace of mind for the momentary awesomeness of juggling the millions of modern day thrills, wants and needs.

Our human fix for this “price we pay” often make us even worse. (Ie: Pills, caffeine, no time for sleep or exercise)

For, you surely must see, the bad guy in our personal superhero movie isn’t “out there” but it’s “in here” – it’s us.

The kryptonite that derails our health is the choice we all have of constantly keeping busy. This kryptonite-induced buzz creates a NUMBNESS to the quiet promptings your body always sends you to care for your human needs.

Heeding these innate promptings will help you continue producing those “golden eggs” and will put you in touch with living more divine, superhuman and God-like than just about anything you can do.

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