Wellness

In under 20 minutes, enjoy a summary of the information that has taken me 54 years of chronic pain to learn about. The experience has cost me $10,000's to accumulate and years of my life. Everybody says this, but how many have had more than 20 Doses of surgical grade anesthesia to vouch for it !!!

Introduction

-- 1/30/2024 - Website in draft... I don't recall when I wrote this. It must have been sometime around 2018 or so... it's the eve before my 54th birtday and a voice in my head said "wellness coach" . When I went to create a site to consider what it might feel like, i found this one titled "wellness", having forgotten it was started. I don't recall clearly when I sarted writing so much. Oh wait... Yes I do. It was when Bank of America tried to poop on my. I swapped out my Programming past time and switched to Writing like a Tsunami.

I was born in 1970 and I've spent my entire life battling annoying chronic wellness issues ranging from seasonal allergies to food allergies along with 17 outpatient surgical procedures. The bulk of those procedures were orthopedic. I have not battled major diseases or cancer, but I've spent years and $1000s upon $1000s on "wellness" and healing related 'stuff'.

Summary

- 20+ arthroscopic/orthopedic/general surgery procedures
- 20+ doses of procedural/operational grade anesthesia
- 20+ doses of procedural/operational grade antibiotics
- 20+ doses of low grade antibiotics for sinus related issue
- Childhood: A collection of childhood issues in mouth and body
- Adult: Autoimmune, Leaky Gut, Alopecia, Calcium mishandling to a massive degree, poor cartilage integrity, parasitic imbalances, and much more >>> Chronic pain from age 25 to 49 and still persisting more on than off due to various issues.

For a google doc which details all this, click here . I tried to make it entertaining. As a result of my experience, I have some things to share about wellness related healing -- or trying to heal, anyway...

General Information

Breathing, Drinking, Eating, Sleeping, and Exercise

Breathing: If you don't breath for four minutes or so, you'll loose consciousness and then you'll start the death process. Learning to breath well and properly is something most of us in a western world did not get as children. A course on breathing can take as little as 10 minutes from a master and a lifetime to master. Yogi's and Martial Artists are breath experts. So are dancers and performers and many athletes. Learn breathing from a master breather if you can find one. There is something very magical about breathing and the breath if you get into it. I am not a master breather but I seek the benefits from it during layman's yoga and at other times when I recognize a situation where I can use it for benefit.
Drinking (Hydration): If you don't drink anything for a few days most will start to die. The organs start to fail. Drinking clean water in appropriate amounts for your body weight is important. Half your body weight in liquid ounces is a standard suggestion. Research into water has been suppressed since the 1950's. Turns out there's a lot more to water than what most realize. Water has a fourth phase, which is a structured phase. See Gerald Pollack's research and podcasts on this. He explains the history of the suppression. He explains how water climbs trees. He explains how water in our blood may power itself (ie, the heart is not the pump it's been said to be). In my opinion, his research also may explain blood and chi as well as their stagnation as found in the Ancient Asian arts related to acupuncture.
Eating: If most don't eat for a few weeks, they will die. That said, there do appear to be a few folks on the planet who have shown we can get energy from other means (Airetarians). For the most part, it seems to me food for humans was meant to be a primary source of energy and we've turned it into a primary source of lust. Everything most do is about taste and that is about lust. Not a big deal, just acknowledge it. It also seems to me the human body was clearly designed to consume non-meat items, but the body is very flexible and it can adapt to all kinds of situations. It can adapt to meat with some training and it can often consume the meat for decades. Most will have problems later in life process red meats and then other meats may become problematic. I believe many of the fats and items that some feel are lacking in the vegetarian diet are due to a loss of items intended to be consumed like hemp. We've really screwed the pooch with pour diets. It's all for fun, but it comes at a cost later in life. If you are more than 10% overweight, getting down within a 10% range would be critical to assessing other health issues. Above that, the body is making too many adjustment to properly diagnose much of anything.
Sleeping: I don't know if you can die from lack of sleep, but you can sure go crazy. Good sleep can cure most things. New research has identifed cells in the brain that become active in sleep. They are the janitors. AS it turns, out they seem to work at one speed only and it takes them a full 8-9 hours to thoroughly clean out the brain from a prior days work.
Exercise: Moderate exercise, like walking for 30 minutes a few times a week with a slightly elevated heart rate does wonders. Just do something.

The Body

The body is a dashboard

I've come to view the body as a dashboard for all kinds of things. Sometimes the areas that act up are directly related to issues. Other times, the areas that act up are acting up solely to get your attention on your body, but it may be for items that are at the other end of your body or inside instead of outside or visa versa. Sometimes, your body may start acting up when you have emotional or mental issues you aren't dealing with. The idea of trying to directly treat areas of the body that are ailing has very limited use. Alopecia is the loss of hair, typically due to something that is totally non skin related. Trying to treat the skin for alopecia is like trying to make a screaming baby with a wet diaper happy by handing it a few blades of grass to play with.

The body / subconscious / something outside of your conscious awareness can speak through muscle testing

The body itself is conscious, has a consciousness that is yet to be clearly named or labelled,speaks on behalf of the subconscious or a field related to your world. Muscle testing is a natural equivalent to galvanic skin response testing (aka lie detector testing). Muscle testing can be used to dialogue with the body.

As a Mechanical Engineer with a Master's in Business who was raised in a fully Western paradigm in a Military family with no exposure to alternative ideologies, if someone had told me about this before I experienced it I'd have laughed and thought they were crazy.

In 2000, I was seeing an acupuncturist about allergies. I was not very familiar with acupuncture or anything related acupuncture and allergies. She laid me on a massage table. She had be bend my elbow at 90 degrees and she positioned my fist over my forehead. She put little glass viles with liquid in my hand and pushed down while telling me to moderately resist her force. She indicated I would not be able to stay strong when we found something I was allergic to. That did not compute mentally for me until about 5 viles in when I got smacked in the face by my own hand when I couldn't resist her light downward force. After about 20 viles there were about 4-5 that I went weak on. That was my first experience with muscle testing. Many people do it standing up with arms out or other ways where someone who wants to mentally try to fight the weak muscle feeling will try to "recruit muscles", but a person familiar with leading you through this process will work around that. Muscle testing is an Art. It can be done with others and by yourself. It is an imperfect intuitive tool that can come in very handy. It falls into the same realm as pendulums for those with that experience.

The body is always in transition and it houses millions of other beings...

"You" certainly are not your body as every cell in your body is new as of 7 years ago or less. Your body is host to literally millions of other living organisms. It's kind of creepy if you think of it that way, but that's what it is, in a nut shell. For this reason alone you can simply outgrow allergies and grow into them, although there are other ways to grow in and out of them to. There are also other ways to deal with them, like organ detoxification and energy adjustments from those with the know how.

"Alternate" Service Providers

Chiropractic

In 1995 I threw my sacroiliac joint in a bending and twisting motion (shoveling concrete). I did not know what that joint was or where it was. I thought I had pulled a muscle. Nine months later I was still having issues and someone looked at me and said I needed to see a Chiropractor. I had no idea what that was but he was sure they could help. I went. In a period of about 2 minutes he "fixed" my issue. When I walked in I couldn't bend over and touch my knees. Two minutes later I could touch my toes with no pain. I thought he was god.

Unfortunately, right after fixing my issue, he started into a conversation about "nutritional supplements" and some kind of long visit protocol without any kind of appropriate dialogue and he scared me away from that idea of supplements in a way that I didn't get back to it for 20 years.

If you have the right problems, Chiropractors have the right solutions. Many people might prefer a chiropractor over a GP for semi-annual or annual care. Chiropractic, in my opinion, should almost always be accompanied with massage or yoga for the best bang for your buck. Chiropractors understand alignment. They get things aligned, but the muscles have memory and you need to wipe that out before and/or after an adjustment. Three to five trips to a chiropractor might only be 1 to 3 if you do light yoga or have a massage mixed in right before or after the first adjustment. In my opinion, if whatever alignment issues you deal with can't be corrected in 1 to 4 visits, you either 1) have other issues going on or 2) you are wasting money on chiropractic while not doing other things that are free that can help yourself.

Many Chiropractors are knowledgeable with Nutrition now as well. A subset of Chiropractors are very unethical, and that has not helped the industry as a whole. If you start dealing with a Chiropractor who wants to sell you on an expensive program, generally speaking, walk away or seek out a few others to get their opinion first.

Massage Therapy

In 1999 I got my first professional massage. It was someone from my meditation group. When I got off the table she asked if I wanted to know what she found and it was more like I had gone to a mind reader than a massage therapist. I don't know how much of her read was from my body itself or from intuition, which I've come to become more familiar with with time. I've had massage therapists who just focus on the body and the muscles and others with magical hands that seem to reach inside my body and adjust things. To avoid the cost of massage therapy, I try to stay loose with light Hatha Yoga, but if I get too bound up, I will pay for a massage. Often times if I'm that bad off , I will need two or three to get to a reset point. I try to work with massage therapists that focus more on therapeutic massage than salon or spa massages (someone who works on people with medical issues more).

Acupuncture

In 1999 I was introduced to Acupuncture via my meditation group. Trying to get an "explanation" of acupuncture was tough. Best to just experience it. The points themselves belong to "channels". Channels are named by an organ the channel passes through. Best to think of the points themselves as words or options in a language that the Acupuncturist speaks with the body. While there are some points known to do certain things, the more experienced the Acupuncturist becomes the more they can use the points like a language. There are hundreds of different "systems" which use the points. There are systems where the entire body can be modeled from the shoulder to the hand or in the ear or on the foot, thus the location of the points used to affect the body don't necessarily have any correlation. An experienced acupuncturist can treat almost any ailment that does not qualify for the ER or a Trauma doctor. My first choice for a GP, internal medicine, dermatology or anything other than ER or Trauma is an Acupuncturist. Acupuncture has become accepted by most Commercial Insurance companies. More importantly, Acupuncture is an approved modality for Worker's Compensation. Worker's Compensation Adjusters seek the lowest cost solution for pain, and the fact the pay for Acupuncture says a lot.

In 2014 I had some very bad issues come up from a handful of surgeries and nutrition malfunction that left me with auto-immune issues, leaky gut, alopecia and more. I started a regular routine with an Acupuncturist who was also trained in Clinical Nutrition and Herbs. I eventually became his business coach and office manager. I've processed hundreds of insurance claims and worker's comp claims for his patients and I've been passively involved in a few thousand patient consults as a result of this work.

Orthobionomy and/or Feldenkreiss

I was introduced to Orthobionomy in 2015. I had had some hip surgery that had removed impingement but my body programming just wasn't getting better. I was referred to a massage therapist who had integrated Orthobionomy into his work. For lack of a better short description, the subconscious has muscle memory programs. They use simple moves , with the addition of tension or compression, and this can be used to reset the mental programming with a position. Prior to seeing this person, I was not able to walk a mile. After a visit or two I was walking three miles nearly pain free. Feldenkreiss is a similar idea and I got experience with that in 2018.

Osteopaths and Functional Medicine Doctors

I do not have any experience with Osteopaths. It's my understanding they may be a crossover between MD's and Nutritionists and chiropractors. They would tend to offer more natural solutions for issues than an MD. Functional Medicine Doctors are MDs who are starting to use and prescribe food and herbs and other more natural solutions for ailments then GPs.

Rolfing and/or Pilates,

I have minimal experience with Rolfers. I also don't have any experience with those who teach Pilates for wellness.

Food and Nutrition as Medicine

Our earliest philosophers spoke of food being medicine and the sickness being a product of inadequate nutrition. Those quotes have been attacked in strange ways recently in the digital age. It seems some PhD and MD's needed to get funding, so they started claiming no such quotes ever existed? Mis-information is the key for trying to keep control of the Pharmaceutical nightmare that has been born of bad science by many unethical folks.

There is not a single pharmaceutical that has been created out of thin air. There is no magic whiteboard where they dream up pharmaceutical ideas. All pharmaceutical ideas are derived from food and animals. That information is then manipulated and modified into something synthetic that can be manufactured easier and patented.

Here are the problems in simple form.

1. Most things in and from nature are far more "complex" than an active ingredient or a few. There are subtle factors and co-factors that are often overlooked for true efficacy. The story of the marketing of Vitamin C in the 1930's is a classic example of this.
2. Anything that is to be sold has to have a shelf life. To have a shelf life additives are required. There are no shelf preserving additives that are natural and good for the body. All of those have to be filtered out by the liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the skin, and all other detoxification organs.
3. Find a pharmaceutical that doesn't have potential side-affects that are equal or worse than the condition
4. The placebo effect alone has nearly destroyed all science related to pharmaceuticals. They can't explain it, and that becomes very relevant in a world where intention and consciousness seems to driving healing as much or more than biological components.

If you are familiar with the Baby Jesus story and the three wise-men, there is in interesting fact in plain view that most are clueless to.

The three wise men gave gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Mir. Do you know what are Frankincense and Mir? The are products of the Boswelia Tree and they were and still are used for healing. And other parts of the tree are used too. In fact, go into any Whole Foods or comparable, and go to their herbal section and you will see something marked as Boswelia there. . Think about the value of those natural products back then? They were viewed as comparable in importance and value as Gold...

Nutritional Supplements - A Practitioners Introduction...

Advancement in food understanding started in the 1870s or so. Major progress with vitamin understanding started to evolve in the 1930s and that is when whole food supplements and fractional vitamins started to become more formally understood and marketed. There was a pretty significant push by a British nutritionist who started to recognize the fact that many illness were in fact just the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies.

Nutritional Supplements came on the seen He as practicing acupuncture for a decade before he ever thought about supplements. In the late 1990's and early 2000's he noticed it was taking more treatments to restore health to people. He was seemingly getting worse at his trade. As he started to look into things he found nutrition and it was like an giant worm-hole opened up. As a result of becoming his office manager, I went to about 50 hours of seminars on clinical nutrition. What struck me most was the similarity between his "discovery" of supplements and food supply issues and those of many other Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths and Dentists who all also watched as the polluted and diluted food supply started really showing accelerated affects in the 1990s and 2000's. As has been very well documented now, the mass farming techniques and lack of soil management have left us with beautiful food that is empty of nutrients. You'd have to each something like five cups of factory farmed spinach now to get the same amount of nutrients you'd get from a cup of spinach sold in the 1980s. It looks like food, but there's nothing under the hood.

Nutritional Supplements and Herbs - My indoctrination...

Basic Nutritional Supplements

As indicated in the Chiropractic section, the first person who presented supplements to me was a Chiropractors in 1996 who did it without any consideration for my ignorance, and he scared me off.

In 2014, during or after surgeries 10 through 16 I got Alopecia. I lost a quarter size chunk of hair from my head and another from my beard within a few days. I was also having strange issues with skin not healing, and as it turned out I had leaky gut and other auto-immune conditions.

That's when I found the Acupuncturist who did muscle testing who also had a background in Clinical Nutrition and Herbs.

My very first experience with clinical nutrition was not good. He gave me some products which caused a Herxheimer reaction which are flu like symptoms and he didn't tell me that might happen nor give me the remedy that could correct it quickly (benedryl is a good item to do that if needed).

There is a supplement vendor that has a 100 years history that makes a simple suggestion for baseline supplements that all the practitioners who came to supplements after watching a decline in patient health seem to agree on. A daily regimen of 1) a whole food supplement 2) trace minerals and 3) a fatty acid will work wonders. Think of a whole food supplement as being food shrunk down without water and fiber. Trace minerals make sure you get the fuel required to make acid to break down food (as well as other things). The fatty acid feeds the brain and other cells that use it for fuel. Some people feel taking at least one day off from supplements (and food in general) a week is exceptional. Also, when you are sick you may not want to take these supplements or regular food, as it may provide fuel for the critters. Some belive starving away a sickness is a good solution, but in truth , it depends what it is.

I sought help from a Clinical Nutrition expert and became his Business Coach/Office manager.

Organic Food and GMO's

Most will find this information shocking. Older folks can be extremely confused by it.

The FDA has NOT provided the oversight of commercial aggriculture that most would expect. The FDA seemingly has been co-opted by the Chemical Companies and Corporate farm owners who benefit the most from producing pretty food that is void of nutritional content. I don't know exactly when this co-opting took place, but a clear look at history indicates there were battles over safe food and processed food starting in the early 1900s, so this in fact may have been a slow down hill slide for over 100 years. It is clear however, that things got dramatically worse in the 1990s with the advent of a GMO soy product.

Organic Food is food that has not been treated with chemicals before, during or after harvest. Before means the soil wasn't pre-treated with something that might be absorbed during the growing process. A change to an Organic Diet is showing to eliminate 80% of low grade chronic issues being experienced by families that should be otherwise healthy. See Secret Ingredients the movie for this information.

GMOs are "genetically modified organisms". There are two different groups of GMOs to consider. The first is the cross breading of plants by farmers and food scientists. This might be done to increase sugar content. The modern day grapefruit, for example, is far sweeter now than it was 2-30 years ago when most were so tart they were barely edible. These are not necessarily bad, except when you start to focus on the reasons for the cross breading, many of which are related to increased sugar content. The second type of GMO is a synthetic product created for a specific reason in a lab by manipulating genes. These raise TWO concerns: 1) the synthetic nature of the genetic manipulation seems to be showing issues related to human health separate from the reason for the manipulation and 2) The reason for the manipulation is the simpler issue in most cases to rectify with human health issues, as is the case with GMO soy and GMO Corn.

GMO Soy

Follow the logic. Soy Beans go in many many things. They are a feed for farm animals. They are a filler in processed meats. They produce oil. They are a filler in a lot of things. They grow low to the ground and keeping weeds away was a problem. If they sprayed for weeds they would also kill the soy bean plants. Imagine creating a soy bean plant that was immune to weed killer, wouldn't that be great?

Thus, a genetic version of the Soy Bean was patented by Monsanto in the 1990s. The genetic manipulation made soy bean plant resistant to "glyhphosate". Glyphosate is the active ingredient in weed killers, most notably "Round Up". As a result, farmers started spraying a lot more weed killer on their soy plants. As a result, we all started consuming a lot more glyhphosate, because the plants and the beans were consuming it as part of their growth process (and not dying).

Is the human consumption of weed killer a good idea? No.

Should the FDA have prevented this? Yes

Monsanto produced studies which showed there were no human cell receptors for glyphosate, and thus they and the FDA deemed it "safe".

Problem., Glyphosate was first patented by Monsanto as an anti-biotic and pipe cleaner, and it's it's anti-biotic qualities that are damaging to the human system. Basically, when a human consumes glyphosate, it affects (kills) a bacteria in the gut which provide the lining between the stomach and the blood stream. Once that bacteria is dead, the barrier between the gut and the blood stream is damaged and all kinds of things that are not supposed to get into the blood stream get in causing auto-immune issues. The condition itself is known as "leaky gut".

With what has been shared, is there anything inherently bad with Soy GMO product? No (although in fact there is science which shows there is, but outside this scope).

With what has been shared, is the glyphosate that is getting into the human body directly affecting human cells? No.

With what has been shared, is there a problem with consuming glyphosate? Hell yes...

Monsanto, farmers and the entire medical system benefited in numerous ways from this product.

1. The farmers are NOT allowed to use seeds from a prior crop for a subsquent year. Meaning Monsanto just "created" an annual revenue stream which did not exist prior.
2. The farmers themselves get far higher crop yields with less work.
3. The medical system saw a dramatic uptick of patients with low grade chronic issues, which meant an uptick in the subscription of pharmaceuticals and the sale of OTC medications for things like indgestion, gas, bloating and all kinds of more serious issues associated with this

Ethically, is this okay? Most will say hell no.

Legally is this okay? Most who learn this will say hell no.

We (the United States) are just getting around to addressing this after 20 years. Other countries like Russia and many in Europe outlawed these items in the late 1990s as soon as this all came to light. The US Media machine keeps us all focused on the Kardashians and the latest dog or cat issue to keep the attention away from things like this.

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