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What is your circadium rhythm? Part 1

13 Tuesday Aug 2013

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Your body runs by a 24 hour cycle in which certain organs automatically turns on and off in two-hour intervals.   Knowing about this system will help you organize your daily activities to feel your best!

nrm1000_059a_i1The time most people are asleep, between 11pm and 5am, is when your gallbladder, liver and lungs are healing from the previous day’s activities. When you don’t sleep during this time, you may experience sluggishness or weakness in these three organs.

Did you realize that each of your organs control certain emotional and mental functions too?

brain-gearssmFor example, your gallbladder is the key organ in decision making. When it is surgically removed or clogged or functioning low, your decision making ability will be lessened.  Even without the gallbladder organ, the gallbladder “energy” is still still present, so when the gallbladder function is most high, during 11pm and 1am, rest is needed to help its highest function and healing. 

purple eyesYour Liver controls your eyes, nails and movement of energy and vitality.  If you have ridges on your nails or weak eyes, strengthening your liver function should be a crucial step.  The liver controls long-term planning and goal setting so tonifying your liver will also help you fine tune these mental processes. 

When the liver is weak or clogged, irritability and menstrual problems are the most common symptoms.  One of the first ways to help you liver is to make sure you’re asleep from 1am to 3am when it’s rejuvenating. 

heart-and-lungs-190x155If you have allergies, asthma or smoke, then your Lungs health should be a priority to you.  The mental function of the lungs is creating new thoughts and things and i supports the skin, hair and immune system.  Your lungs should be resting between 3am and 5am.

In Oriental healthcare, we recommend that you rise and rest with the sun as much as you can. This isn’t always possible, but is one lifestyle recommendation that increases natural healing and your vitality.  This also means during winter, you can sleep more and during summer months, you should be more active.

SunRiseStudies have shown that having less than six hours of sleep, or lack of restful sleep can negatively affect your health, especially of the gallbladder, liver and lungs.

Soft touch adjusting and no needle acupuncture treatments can help increase healing nerve and energy flow to those three organs which will assist you in restoring your natural circadian rhythm and natural health!

Remember, When Your Body Works, Your Life Works!

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Are you a junk food junkie?

11 Sunday Aug 2013

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junk-foodFood can dull the pain of life– for a while, just like drugs.  Food makes us what we are- physically and emotionally, but some food is more chemical than natural and is not good for us.

For my first thirty years, I was a junkie for junk food because I ate food high in calories and low in nutrients with lots of synthetic chemicals. I felt terrible, but blamed my husband and family.  I looked terrible but blamed my kids. I had lupus, abnormal breast tissue and bi-polar but blamed my genes.

Then, I went to a natural doctor (who I discovered later was a Chiropractor and Oriental Medicine doctor) who taught me step by step, that I could control my health, my emotions and even as low as I was, I COULD control my reactions to life. Now, 16 years later, I don’t have perfect health, but take no medications, love my life most days and help people just like I was helped! 

6a00d83451f44f69e200e54f3769478833-800wi (1)Exactly what is “Junk food?” It is anything that has added color, flavor and nutrients (enriched).

They have been stripped of all those and their purpose is to have a long shelf life so the producers can make a profit off them.

Here is a list of the worst junk food you can eat: soda’s (including diet soda), white flour foods (including pasta’s), candy, and anything in a box.

Here are four main reasons why some of you still buy it, although you already know junk food is bad for you:

1- They think junk food is cheaper to buy.

2- They’re use to the taste and enjoy it more than natural food.

3- They’re addicted to it and don’t want to stop.

4- It’s easy to get and is quick to eat.

Consider these solutions to each reason if you related to the above answers.

Vibrant Produce1- Healthy food really is less expensive. A bag of chips at the dollar store costs about $2, where as two mango’s cost $2. Which one do you buy?

At first glance, the bag of chips looks like more food, but if you were to eat that whole bag, you may still be hungry because it was empty calories and you’ll need to buy more food.  If you ate the two mango’s, you’d be more satisfied because they contain nutrients that are easily broken down by the body as energy.  You’d most likely be satisfied and not need any more food.

Additionally, eating junk food creates havoc on your health (obesity, vitamin deficienceies, heart disease and more) and you’ll end up spending more money on medical bills and devote more time fixing the bad results of eating the cheap junk food.

junk-food-junky2- If you’ve been eating high sugar and carbohydrate foods, your taste buds have been distorted.  You won’t like vegetables and some fruits.  They’ll taste bland or gushy and bad.  Start by eating the vegetables first at dinner, when you’re the most hungry and your taste buds will gradually return to normal.  No one like broccoli after a bowl of pasta or rice!

3- Bad food makes you feel bad.  Let’s say you’ve heard that junk food is bad for you and you get that it’s costly in the long run, but you still really like that soda, crackers, bread or candy!  Because these are harmful to your body, they’ll make you feel bad.  The question is, are you listening and do you relate that feeling to the junk food?  

When I look at my past favorite of “hot tamale cinnamon candy” – I think how tired, and sluggish and slow in my brain I felt after eating it and the craving quickly leaves. 

running4women-launch-r4w-virtualrun-race-series-id1011_header4- Eating healthy takes less time, in the long run. Junk food is bagged and ready to go at every convenience store and fast food drive through’s assist us with dinners prepared in 10 minutes or less. They pack on the weight fast too!

Think of that next time you don’t think you’ve got time to eat something good.  It takes about 20 minutes to burn 100 calories if you talk a walk, so that extra 500 calories just cost you an hour and 40 minutes of time to burn the extra weight!

Good nutritious food can be just as quick but they do require some planning on your part.  Consider preparing a salad or carrots or extra chicken pieces on the weekend in preparation for the quick lunch grab as you leave in the morning.

In case you need a little more convincing, these bad affects of bad food may encourage you to take that baby step today, toward eating more nutritiously.

lost_weight1. Bad face day.  Sugar and trans fats and starches cause you to get inflamed and produce glycation which causes wrinkles and deactivates antioxidants which are anti-aging.

2. Tight clothes: Sodium and chemicals in the junk food cause bloating, obesity and flatulance! (embarrassing 3 ways)  Buying a new “Fat wardrobe” is not cheap.  And the emotional tole of buying a size up is devestating to your self-confidence!

3. Constipation and irritable bowel syndrome.  White bread, white rice, and other “white” foods have no enzymes to break that “fake food” down so they get stuck in your colon and the belly begins to get bigger and bigger with all that “fecal material or poop” stuck in your colon!

4. Crazy hormones: Sugar and white foods cause insulin to spike then d

11039529_xxlrop- and your emotions follow that pattern- depression then anxiety over and over again. Caffeine drinks cause the roller coaster emotions too.  These things also lessen libido as a result of hormone imbalances. There is no bio-identical hormone that can counter the effects of eating junk food.

Researchers at Harvard University expect that by the year 2050, 42% of all citizens will be obese.   Fast food junkies gain at least 6 extra pounds of weight each year and with that comes heart disease, diabetes and cancer.  This is a health problem. 

If you need more help than just reading this, give us or a trusted natural healthcare doctor a call.  Addictions come in all forms but will lead to so many problems down the road.

Remember, When Your Body Works, Your Life Works!

Read more? 

Researchers at Penn State University have found that poor eating habits can actually worsen a person’s mood, especially among women who are concerned about how they eat, according to PsychCentral.com.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/7-surprising-ways-junk-food-miserable-164600488.html

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Is soda sapping your stamina?

08 Thursday Aug 2013

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May a RED BULL run me over and a MONSTER in my closet eat me while I sleep bottle_soda_Tbut DR PEPPER just can’t convince me that “energy for life” comes in a bottle or can.

Even though the total amount of soda pop sold in the U..S is equal to every American drinking 3 quarts per week, I’m holding out for a better way to endure a stress-filled day.

Almost every week a new soda/energy drink study warns of another health risk linked to soft drinks.  I know and see educated people still downing these things as if keeping their eyes open that day depended on just one more drink.

In fact, soda pop and alcoholic beverages have a lot in common.  Alcohol is often referred to as a hard drink where soda is called a soft drink. Additionally, many soda’s contain some alcohol.  In the US, soft drinks are allowed by law to contain up to 0.5% alcohol.  It’s no wonder that soda’s have been linked to kidney and liver damage, heart attacks, strokes, as well as elevated blood pressure.

sodaWhat could it be, in that can that causes such a stir among fans as well as foes of the “fizzy pop?”  

Is it the carbon dioxide (stuff we breath out) or the high fructose corn syrup (linked to obesity and high blood pressure) or the sugar substitutes (known neuro-toxins)  or it could be the caffeine (a stimulant) or phosphoric acid (bone de-mineralizer) or the other preservatives not required to list?

Regardless of exactly what it is IN a “cola” that causes the “internal medical alert button” in health advocates to go off, three facts are clear:

obesity1-225x3001. Between the years of 1977 to 2002, Americans doubled their consumption of soda, while the obesity rate during that same time doubled too.  Those who “just have to have their Coke” most always have their BMI fall in the overweight range (25-29.9) and in the obese range (over 30 with morbidly obese over 40). 

2. Those people who are healthiest (BMI, cholesterol, fitness levels, stress tests, etc.)  DO NOT drink soda on a regular basis.  It may be that people who have unhealthy lifestyles also tend to drink soda, but regardless if “unhealth” or soda came first doesn’t matter here – drinking soda regularly is not a habit of the healthy.

3.  Those who drink soda daily, drink less water daily.  Drinking adequate water and staying hydrated is one of the top habits of those who have the physical and mental stamina to resist illness, infection, disease, fatigue and stress.  

Family-Fun-on-BeachLife can be tough, but those who maintain their stamina can endure and still live healthy, happy and active for as long as they can.  

Remember, When Your Body Works, Your Life Works!

Alternatives to soda: Bionade, Oogave, Kombucha, Water with lemon/lime/orange, ice herb tea

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1.  The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently put out guidelines limiting the sale of sugary snacks and drinks in school, so it’s up to parents to monitor their children’s sugar consumption at home. http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/sugary-drinks-break-kids-8217-habit-183300199.html

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink

3. Read more: http://www.ehow.com/about_5403658_definition-stamina.html#ixzz2bNtrty4t

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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 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 

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