We learn in basic science class that everything in the world goes toward breaking down. Think about your car abandoned in a field or even parked in the garage and not moved at all for one year. The tires begin to show signs of rot and loose air and get a flat side. The working parts all begin to deteriorate. Your house would be about the same. A house that is not in use by anyone breaks down and eventually disappears. I was looking at a website for a book called "the world without us". It goes through in great detail, the process of the earth reclaiming itself if it was suddenly and completely unpopulated by humans.
The first effect would be the breaking down of all the things we have built and are familiar with in day to day life. The illustrations show the action of big bugs and small bugs like fungi and bacteria that nature enlists to reduce and return all things to a state of future usefulness.
We are often given an explanation of disease and degenerative conditions as being part of the aging process. This is a rather euphemistic way of saying you are breaking down faster than you are rebuilding. The problem with ending the explanation here is that the whole point of breaking down becomes absolutely pointless.
In the natural world, bugs and other processes break down everything for a reason. The reason is that it is an essential part of the cycle of rebuilding. The key is that the breaking down part of the effort doesn't overtake and overwhelm the rebuilding part.
Your body is part of the natural world and has the same processes built in to it. What is so often stated as a final judgement--"you're getting old"--is a poor understanding of the beginning of the life cycle. Having raw materials available to rebuild is foundational to new life.
Degeneration of human tissue is an essential part of regeneration of fresh life. Your body is constantly breaking down. It is also constantly building up and creating replacement parts out of the raw materials. The next stage of life is only as good as the raw materials available to rebuild with.
To build genuine replacement parts, you have to use the best materials possible to start with. This is the real problem with the typical explanation of aging. We use bad raw materials, products we falsely label as food, and expect to rebuild our body each day with something that can't be broken down into useful raw materials. This process goes on for years and decades and we blame the years and decades.
Don't let it happen to you. You are designed to regenerate at a faster rate than you degenerate for your life time. If this isn't working out for you correctly, come in and see how to reverse the old age trend and rebuild health.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Electrical brilliance
If the light switch in your bedroom isn't working, you do what every smart person does--you flick the switch about a 1,000 times to see if that will help. It never does, so the next logical step is to call out, "Hey, the light isn't working," and, if anyone hears this, they will come to where you are and flick the switch about three times to verify that this is correct information.
Once everyone is satisfied, someone heads to the main electrical box to see if the problem is there. Often it is a safety feature of the breaker and when it is reset, the light in the bedroom comes on and everything works again.
This is a good system. There are local controls for electricity in each room and there is a master control in one place for every room. It is a good illustration of how the electrical system in your body works also.
We have local nerve controls that exit at each of the vertebra in the spine. There are symptoms that the control may not be working very well. Muscle pain or weakness and tingling can indicate this. And like the need to flick a switch about a thousand times, we often repeat a motion that confirms, "yes, this nerve is not doing what it is supposed to do because this doesn't feel right."
Like a well organized electrical system in your house, your body also has a well organized electrical system with not only a local control, but also a master control area for muscles and general body alignment. This central point is accessed best at one very special point in the body, the first spinal bone or atlas.
The atlas is positioned exactly where the brain stem and the spinal cord actually connect and so much of the body is affected when it is mal-positioned. Like a breaker that is causing an interference in a good electrical system, the atlas can cause an interference in an otherwise good working nervous system.
The check for atlas misalignment is simple, the adjustment is easy and does not cause a popping or need a twist, and the results can "turn on the lights" just like resetting a breaker to the proper position. Find out if you need to have your atlas adjusted to help clear pain away.
Once everyone is satisfied, someone heads to the main electrical box to see if the problem is there. Often it is a safety feature of the breaker and when it is reset, the light in the bedroom comes on and everything works again.
This is a good system. There are local controls for electricity in each room and there is a master control in one place for every room. It is a good illustration of how the electrical system in your body works also.
We have local nerve controls that exit at each of the vertebra in the spine. There are symptoms that the control may not be working very well. Muscle pain or weakness and tingling can indicate this. And like the need to flick a switch about a thousand times, we often repeat a motion that confirms, "yes, this nerve is not doing what it is supposed to do because this doesn't feel right."
Like a well organized electrical system in your house, your body also has a well organized electrical system with not only a local control, but also a master control area for muscles and general body alignment. This central point is accessed best at one very special point in the body, the first spinal bone or atlas.
The atlas is positioned exactly where the brain stem and the spinal cord actually connect and so much of the body is affected when it is mal-positioned. Like a breaker that is causing an interference in a good electrical system, the atlas can cause an interference in an otherwise good working nervous system.
The check for atlas misalignment is simple, the adjustment is easy and does not cause a popping or need a twist, and the results can "turn on the lights" just like resetting a breaker to the proper position. Find out if you need to have your atlas adjusted to help clear pain away.
The WHY and HOW
Inquisitive children ask WHY. Inquisitive adults ask HOW. The truthfullness of the answer to WHY leads to an effective HOW. For example, a child asks why we eat, why we poop, why the body works the way it does. If the answer to the WHY is true, then the question HOW can I best feed my body will be most effective and the outcome will be what you want it to be.
In our work we use the WHY as a standard of truth to the HOW. When you are trying to learn HOW to feed your body correctly it is most important to know WHY your body works the way it does. WHY your body works the way it does is a standard of truth. Our patients learn the WHY first. Then HOW should I feed it to best care for it becomes so much easier. A person who knows WHY is less likely to fall prey to wrong information about HOW to feed the body.
There has been so much bad information in the last 50 years regarding what to eat. We are seeing dire consequences of these marketed chemical products erroneously called food. People are sick and getting sicker simply because they didn't know what the body does with real food.
When you know WHY you need real food, you can learn HOW to best to feed your body. We give you the tools to be able to see past phony foods and gimmicks to the real right and need you have to be fed. You can know enough not to be fooled. Dr. Stacey Lang
In our work we use the WHY as a standard of truth to the HOW. When you are trying to learn HOW to feed your body correctly it is most important to know WHY your body works the way it does. WHY your body works the way it does is a standard of truth. Our patients learn the WHY first. Then HOW should I feed it to best care for it becomes so much easier. A person who knows WHY is less likely to fall prey to wrong information about HOW to feed the body.
There has been so much bad information in the last 50 years regarding what to eat. We are seeing dire consequences of these marketed chemical products erroneously called food. People are sick and getting sicker simply because they didn't know what the body does with real food.
When you know WHY you need real food, you can learn HOW to best to feed your body. We give you the tools to be able to see past phony foods and gimmicks to the real right and need you have to be fed. You can know enough not to be fooled. Dr. Stacey Lang
Monday, October 15, 2007
Antibiotics
Pencils and penicillin, camp and campylobacter. Back to school often means back to the doctor as well and one of the problems you may be faced with when you are sick, is whether antibiotics are needed or not.
The value of antibiotics is immense. We have enjoyed such relief and lifesaving benefits from them. But a real concern over the emergence of dangerous antibiotic resistance strains of bacteria due to improper use is important to consider.
Antibiotic resistance is not new. Penicillin was mass produced by drug companies in 1943, and less than a decade later, resistant organisms were isolated in hospitals, and then in the general public.
In order to slow this dangerous trend towards losing the ability to combat bacterial infections with antibiotics, it is important to know when they are needed, and how to help yourself need less of them.
Antibiotics are often prescribed for children suffering with ear pain. For middle ear infections, the number of prescriptions written rose from 15million in 1985 to 23.6 million in 1992. Many physicians are convinced that the use of antibiotics to treat otitis media (middle ear infections) can be reduced. In 2002, a hearing on the problems of antibiotic resistance was presented to the California state assembly and physicians were asked to speak about the severity of the problem and the options that are available to help patients who are sick but don’t need antibiotics.
Pediatricians were especially adamant about antibiotic abuse. Dr. Quynh Kieu stated that “95% of otitis media cases in children do not need antibiotics to be resolved”. Kieu, along with the other physicians in attendance expressed a need for alternative treatment to address the discomfort felt by children suffering from otitis media.
If you have been involved in trying to improve your life with a holistic approach to health, you have probably considered the pitfalls of antibiotic use and misuse. If you are just starting out on a holistic path to wellness, you may need more information about how to decrease your susceptibility to infection and improve your healing time when you do get sick.
Properly washing your hands with simple soap and water is still the single best way to limit the spread of disease from person to person and food to person. A good daily routine to follow is to wash your hands when you arrive at school or work, before you eat, after you finish eating, and before you leave school or work. Sing the “Happy Birthday To Me” song to ensure you have given the mechanics of hand washing enough time to get rid of harmful disease causing pathogens. (You may want to sing silently to your self to limit the spread of rumors about you as well!)
Thoroughly wash all fruits and veggies before you eat them. Even packaged, pre-washed salad mixes should be washed by you before eating. Not only are you washing away pathogens, but also harmful chemicals and pesticides. Reducing these in your foods helps to reduce the stress on your body to eliminate them. Any reduction of stress to your body will help your immune system work more efficiently to handle the “bugs” you do come in contact with.
Approximately 55% of antibiotics used in the United States are given to food animals. It would be nearly impossible to eliminate this source completely from your diet, so try to reduce the load somewhat. Changing to organic diary products is an easy and readily available source of antibiotic-free food for you and your children.
The value of antibiotics is immense. We have enjoyed such relief and lifesaving benefits from them. But a real concern over the emergence of dangerous antibiotic resistance strains of bacteria due to improper use is important to consider.
Antibiotic resistance is not new. Penicillin was mass produced by drug companies in 1943, and less than a decade later, resistant organisms were isolated in hospitals, and then in the general public.
In order to slow this dangerous trend towards losing the ability to combat bacterial infections with antibiotics, it is important to know when they are needed, and how to help yourself need less of them.
Antibiotics are often prescribed for children suffering with ear pain. For middle ear infections, the number of prescriptions written rose from 15million in 1985 to 23.6 million in 1992. Many physicians are convinced that the use of antibiotics to treat otitis media (middle ear infections) can be reduced. In 2002, a hearing on the problems of antibiotic resistance was presented to the California state assembly and physicians were asked to speak about the severity of the problem and the options that are available to help patients who are sick but don’t need antibiotics.
Pediatricians were especially adamant about antibiotic abuse. Dr. Quynh Kieu stated that “95% of otitis media cases in children do not need antibiotics to be resolved”. Kieu, along with the other physicians in attendance expressed a need for alternative treatment to address the discomfort felt by children suffering from otitis media.
If you have been involved in trying to improve your life with a holistic approach to health, you have probably considered the pitfalls of antibiotic use and misuse. If you are just starting out on a holistic path to wellness, you may need more information about how to decrease your susceptibility to infection and improve your healing time when you do get sick.
Properly washing your hands with simple soap and water is still the single best way to limit the spread of disease from person to person and food to person. A good daily routine to follow is to wash your hands when you arrive at school or work, before you eat, after you finish eating, and before you leave school or work. Sing the “Happy Birthday To Me” song to ensure you have given the mechanics of hand washing enough time to get rid of harmful disease causing pathogens. (You may want to sing silently to your self to limit the spread of rumors about you as well!)
Thoroughly wash all fruits and veggies before you eat them. Even packaged, pre-washed salad mixes should be washed by you before eating. Not only are you washing away pathogens, but also harmful chemicals and pesticides. Reducing these in your foods helps to reduce the stress on your body to eliminate them. Any reduction of stress to your body will help your immune system work more efficiently to handle the “bugs” you do come in contact with.
Approximately 55% of antibiotics used in the United States are given to food animals. It would be nearly impossible to eliminate this source completely from your diet, so try to reduce the load somewhat. Changing to organic diary products is an easy and readily available source of antibiotic-free food for you and your children.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Hormone Connection--excerpt from upcoming talk
You will have to attend my Seminar on Hormones and the human body (at First Security Trust Bank in Florence on August 18th, 2007) to hear the rest!
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What an intriguing topic hormones is! How many people here are completely confused by the information available on hormones? How many people here are completely confused by how their body is behaving presumably because of hormones?
Is it reasonable to expect that anything you don't understand will cause you to feel afraid of it? How many of you experience fear because of the symptoms you are experiencing?
The greatest asset of the education I have received is related to the understanding of how the human body works. My great passion is to pass this information on to the people in my practice and anyone else who will listen—knowing how your body works is your greatest tool to loving and appreciating yourself and being able to take care of yourself.
There are no maps to the territory of hormone replacement therapy. All we have to go on is clinical experience or guessing. The only way to actually have a map to know what to do to help your body back to health is to use the maps we do have. The best way to know is to use what we do know as the basis for what to do next. By going back to basic, NORMAL, physiology it is possible to then honor and support how the body actually works instead of guessing your way through unknown territory and using female patients experimentally.
The cycling woman has a number of different phases she passes through during a typical cycle of approximately 28 days. The beginning of the cycle is called the follicular phase.
We begin by using a natural health approach. To change the body you have to change the situation. But changing the situation doesn't mean declaring war on the body. Wellness is in you—in fact it is your birthright. To wait for disease to happen, then declare WAR on it is like turning out the light, then getting donations to fight the darkness. BETTER TO JUST TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON!
So we always start by just supporting your natural right to health, because at any age and in virtually any condition the body can come through and regenerate a healthier self. As we get older, we are designed to change—but we are not designed to fall apart.
I cringe when I hear Doctors quoted in my office who have said to patients, “what do you expect? You're getting older!”
In a natural health practice, we are not doing something to you, we are doing something with you. You don't drop your body off on Tuesday with a pick-up receipt for Friday. “Here's my body doc—fix it and I'll be back for it when you are done!”
Natural health correction is a participation sport, you must be willing to participate and make some changes—mental and physical. You are receiving messages via symptoms from your body that it is doing the best it can under the current situation, and in order to help it do better and make the symptoms go away, you will probably need to make a few changes in the current situation.
The first situation to change is energy. You must increase the energy available to the body. Nothing happens without energy. If you first improve energy pathways you will enable the body to use the tools such as hormone replacement therapies that you are giving it.
What is the source your body gets energy from? Food. Does anybody here feel guilty when you eat? Has anyone ever explained the energy pathway of food to you? No wonder the hormone system is so confusing to you. Feeling guilty about eating, but needing to know how complicated systems work in the body is the equivalent of wanting to drive somewhere, but being unable to put gas in the car until you understand how the entire engine system works!
We are not going to go into a detailed discussion about food today (that's another full day entirely), and when we talk in depth about food, we need to talk about how badly food is being changed today, but let's start our talk about hormones by a basic understanding about the one most important thing your body needs to be able to make hormones...
Call 859.331.2800 to make your reservations for my lecture. The cost is 15$ for an individual, 25$ for a pair. Call or email if you would like to be informed of our upcoming lectures and events by email or snail mail. visit NWHIC.com for details and more about us.
...
What an intriguing topic hormones is! How many people here are completely confused by the information available on hormones? How many people here are completely confused by how their body is behaving presumably because of hormones?
Is it reasonable to expect that anything you don't understand will cause you to feel afraid of it? How many of you experience fear because of the symptoms you are experiencing?
The greatest asset of the education I have received is related to the understanding of how the human body works. My great passion is to pass this information on to the people in my practice and anyone else who will listen—knowing how your body works is your greatest tool to loving and appreciating yourself and being able to take care of yourself.
There are no maps to the territory of hormone replacement therapy. All we have to go on is clinical experience or guessing. The only way to actually have a map to know what to do to help your body back to health is to use the maps we do have. The best way to know is to use what we do know as the basis for what to do next. By going back to basic, NORMAL, physiology it is possible to then honor and support how the body actually works instead of guessing your way through unknown territory and using female patients experimentally.
The cycling woman has a number of different phases she passes through during a typical cycle of approximately 28 days. The beginning of the cycle is called the follicular phase.
We begin by using a natural health approach. To change the body you have to change the situation. But changing the situation doesn't mean declaring war on the body. Wellness is in you—in fact it is your birthright. To wait for disease to happen, then declare WAR on it is like turning out the light, then getting donations to fight the darkness. BETTER TO JUST TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON!
So we always start by just supporting your natural right to health, because at any age and in virtually any condition the body can come through and regenerate a healthier self. As we get older, we are designed to change—but we are not designed to fall apart.
I cringe when I hear Doctors quoted in my office who have said to patients, “what do you expect? You're getting older!”
In a natural health practice, we are not doing something to you, we are doing something with you. You don't drop your body off on Tuesday with a pick-up receipt for Friday. “Here's my body doc—fix it and I'll be back for it when you are done!”
Natural health correction is a participation sport, you must be willing to participate and make some changes—mental and physical. You are receiving messages via symptoms from your body that it is doing the best it can under the current situation, and in order to help it do better and make the symptoms go away, you will probably need to make a few changes in the current situation.
The first situation to change is energy. You must increase the energy available to the body. Nothing happens without energy. If you first improve energy pathways you will enable the body to use the tools such as hormone replacement therapies that you are giving it.
What is the source your body gets energy from? Food. Does anybody here feel guilty when you eat? Has anyone ever explained the energy pathway of food to you? No wonder the hormone system is so confusing to you. Feeling guilty about eating, but needing to know how complicated systems work in the body is the equivalent of wanting to drive somewhere, but being unable to put gas in the car until you understand how the entire engine system works!
We are not going to go into a detailed discussion about food today (that's another full day entirely), and when we talk in depth about food, we need to talk about how badly food is being changed today, but let's start our talk about hormones by a basic understanding about the one most important thing your body needs to be able to make hormones...
Call 859.331.2800 to make your reservations for my lecture. The cost is 15$ for an individual, 25$ for a pair. Call or email if you would like to be informed of our upcoming lectures and events by email or snail mail. visit NWHIC.com for details and more about us.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Hormones--a little information for y'all
(Entry taken directly from my lecture notes for this month's Weston A. Price meeting--Northern KY chapter) Visit nwhic.com or call 859.331.2800 for more information on how you can be involved in this wonderful organization.
What is a hormone?
Hormones are biochemical messengers that exert profound and specific metabolic influences throughout the body.
The endocrine system produces a multitude of hormones that work together as a synergistic whole.
The gastro-intestinal tract is a key producer of brain hormones. We now know that all currently known brain hormones are also produced in the GI tract.
Hormones are very tightly controlled by body because they are so powerful. Tiny amounts of hormones are released directly into the bloodstream and exert profound effects on body processes. Hormones are not food. Hormones are not nutritional supplements. Hormones are not like vitamins or minerals. Hormones are not herbs and hormones are not nutriceutical products. Hormones are chemicals that cause cellular changes that enter the deepest internal workings of your body cells and effect the growth and development of human tissue and the necessary physiological changes that will be needed to support the cellular changes.
Hormones levels in the body are measured in parts per billion or nanograms and parts per trillion or picograms. One part per billion is like putting a pinch of salt in 10 tons of potato chips. One part trillion is like putting one drop of water in a train that is 660 tank cars long stretching out over six miles of track!
Hormones work with nerves as the body’s control system . Together they coordinate all adaptation to the world around as well as integrating every physical, mental, and emotional function.
They govern, among other things:
All metabolism--this is the building up, and the breaking down of the body and the extraction of energy from food.
Development and reproduction. The ability not only to desire sex, but to be successful is under hormonal control.
Mental, emotional and behavioral processes. The way you act, think and feel is a hormonal function.
Growth, repair and maintenance. A single hormone can function in many ways. For example, testosterone is the great building hormone for muscle and strength, but only in very small amounts. Testosterone is actually a catabolic hormone which will cause a breakdown of body tissue in improper amounts.
Many of the processes of fetal development including brain and nerve tissue.
Where are we exposed to hormones?
Until recently, all human exposure to hormones was simply to those we made in our own body, termed endogenous hormones, and those that naturally occur in plants termed phyto-hormones.
In the last 60 years, 87,000 new man-made chemicals have been introduced into our food, water and air.
Many, many of these 87,000 chemicals are now known to be hormone disruptors.
One category of this special class of hormones is termed Xeno-hormones or Xeno-estrogens.
Xeno comes from the greek word for foreign.
Estrogen is a female hormone.
Today we have 10’s of thousands of xenoestrogens which easily enter the human body, attach themselves to receptor ports on cells and start overriding the normal hormone controls of all biochemical processes.
Unlike normal hormones, a Xeno-hormone is forever. Your human hormones are produced in very small amounts with opposing hormones to control and prevent abnormal and destructive cellular events.
For example, progesterone is an opposer to estrogen but is no match for the powerful xenon-hormones. Normal hormones are easily metabolized and then broken down by the liver. Xeno-hormones bind permanently to the cell receptor site, accumulating in fat tissue, and ultimately disrupting normal biological processes.
Such normal processes under hormonal control include:
The proper amount of acid to digest food--not too much acid, not too little acid. Gastrin is the group of hormones that actually control normal and appropriate acid production. Nexium and other meds seem to be necessary now to perform this vital role.
Normal sleep and waking pattern. Melatonin is the “sleep” hormone. It is interestingly, also an estrogen opposing hormone, easily used up by xenon-estrogen overload. Lunesta and other sleep aids seem to be absolutely necessary today.
Sugar handling is done by normal insulin production. Insulin is a hormone. We have an explosion of diabetic disease and pre-diabetic disease that is out of control and shows no sign of slowing down.
Normal reproductive interest and capability. Pre 40 infertility clinics and post 40 sexual performance are common parts of our lives today.
Depression is affecting nearly everyone. Mood is definitely under hormone regulation--seratonin receptor sites are the target for SSRI medication .
And don’t even get me started on PMS!!
Just exactly how harmful are the consequences of these hormone disrupters?
…to pregnant women
…to children
…to adults
No one knows for sure.
…to normal intelligence
…to behavior
…to the health of future offspring?
No one knows for sure.
…the cumulative affect of many pollutants building up in the body over time?
No one knows for sure.
What is a hormone?
Hormones are biochemical messengers that exert profound and specific metabolic influences throughout the body.
The endocrine system produces a multitude of hormones that work together as a synergistic whole.
The gastro-intestinal tract is a key producer of brain hormones. We now know that all currently known brain hormones are also produced in the GI tract.
Hormones are very tightly controlled by body because they are so powerful. Tiny amounts of hormones are released directly into the bloodstream and exert profound effects on body processes. Hormones are not food. Hormones are not nutritional supplements. Hormones are not like vitamins or minerals. Hormones are not herbs and hormones are not nutriceutical products. Hormones are chemicals that cause cellular changes that enter the deepest internal workings of your body cells and effect the growth and development of human tissue and the necessary physiological changes that will be needed to support the cellular changes.
Hormones levels in the body are measured in parts per billion or nanograms and parts per trillion or picograms. One part per billion is like putting a pinch of salt in 10 tons of potato chips. One part trillion is like putting one drop of water in a train that is 660 tank cars long stretching out over six miles of track!
Hormones work with nerves as the body’s control system . Together they coordinate all adaptation to the world around as well as integrating every physical, mental, and emotional function.
They govern, among other things:
All metabolism--this is the building up, and the breaking down of the body and the extraction of energy from food.
Development and reproduction. The ability not only to desire sex, but to be successful is under hormonal control.
Mental, emotional and behavioral processes. The way you act, think and feel is a hormonal function.
Growth, repair and maintenance. A single hormone can function in many ways. For example, testosterone is the great building hormone for muscle and strength, but only in very small amounts. Testosterone is actually a catabolic hormone which will cause a breakdown of body tissue in improper amounts.
Many of the processes of fetal development including brain and nerve tissue.
Where are we exposed to hormones?
Until recently, all human exposure to hormones was simply to those we made in our own body, termed endogenous hormones, and those that naturally occur in plants termed phyto-hormones.
In the last 60 years, 87,000 new man-made chemicals have been introduced into our food, water and air.
Many, many of these 87,000 chemicals are now known to be hormone disruptors.
One category of this special class of hormones is termed Xeno-hormones or Xeno-estrogens.
Xeno comes from the greek word for foreign.
Estrogen is a female hormone.
Today we have 10’s of thousands of xenoestrogens which easily enter the human body, attach themselves to receptor ports on cells and start overriding the normal hormone controls of all biochemical processes.
Unlike normal hormones, a Xeno-hormone is forever. Your human hormones are produced in very small amounts with opposing hormones to control and prevent abnormal and destructive cellular events.
For example, progesterone is an opposer to estrogen but is no match for the powerful xenon-hormones. Normal hormones are easily metabolized and then broken down by the liver. Xeno-hormones bind permanently to the cell receptor site, accumulating in fat tissue, and ultimately disrupting normal biological processes.
Such normal processes under hormonal control include:
The proper amount of acid to digest food--not too much acid, not too little acid. Gastrin is the group of hormones that actually control normal and appropriate acid production. Nexium and other meds seem to be necessary now to perform this vital role.
Normal sleep and waking pattern. Melatonin is the “sleep” hormone. It is interestingly, also an estrogen opposing hormone, easily used up by xenon-estrogen overload. Lunesta and other sleep aids seem to be absolutely necessary today.
Sugar handling is done by normal insulin production. Insulin is a hormone. We have an explosion of diabetic disease and pre-diabetic disease that is out of control and shows no sign of slowing down.
Normal reproductive interest and capability. Pre 40 infertility clinics and post 40 sexual performance are common parts of our lives today.
Depression is affecting nearly everyone. Mood is definitely under hormone regulation--seratonin receptor sites are the target for SSRI medication .
And don’t even get me started on PMS!!
Just exactly how harmful are the consequences of these hormone disrupters?
…to pregnant women
…to children
…to adults
No one knows for sure.
…to normal intelligence
…to behavior
…to the health of future offspring?
No one knows for sure.
…the cumulative affect of many pollutants building up in the body over time?
No one knows for sure.
WOW!
Our shop-hop was a fantastic success! We had so much fun and have the folks at Kroger, Healthy Alternatives and Wild Oats to thank. Kroger greeted us with a very informative tour and gave us all HUGE tote bags filled to the brim with awesome free stuff! (Thanks Kroger!) Healthy Alternatives sent us on a scavenger hunt and awarded over 50 dollars in gift certificates to the lucky winners. Wild Oats cooked up quite a scrumptious organic feast for the hoppers (most had seconds of that divine spinach-strawberry salad with poppy seed dressing).
We all learned so much about organic foods. We can't wait for the next shop-hop (date TBA) this fall. Call us at 859.331.2800 for more information or to make your reservations. Bring a friend or make a new one, and get out there and shop with us!
Check out our website nwhic.com for photos of this event (go to "calendar" and scroll down for the link).
We all learned so much about organic foods. We can't wait for the next shop-hop (date TBA) this fall. Call us at 859.331.2800 for more information or to make your reservations. Bring a friend or make a new one, and get out there and shop with us!
Check out our website nwhic.com for photos of this event (go to "calendar" and scroll down for the link).
Friday, May 4, 2007
Shop-Hop in NKY/ Cincinnati area!
Join us for an
Organic Shop-Hop
on May 19th!
NATURAL WAY CHIROPRACTIC & STACEY LANG, DC
Call 859.331.2800 or email info@nwhic.com for details
Paid registration due by May 10th.
Itinerary:
9:00 AM: We will meet at Natural Way Chiropractic for treats and beverages. There, we will coordinate with carpoolers and get a chance to become acquainted with one another.
9:30 AM: We will begin our journey at the Silverlake Kroger where we will be hearing from the buyer of organics and sampling several of the healthy options offered at our fine Kroger stores locally.
10:30 AM: We will continue on to Healthy Alternatives in Florence where we will participate in a scavenger hunt for prizes, and sample some of their products.
12:00 PM: We will tour Findlay Market in Cincinnati, taking time to shop and sample, and to take in the sights and smells of farm fresh food and the Garden Festival.
1:30 PM: We will complete our journey at Wild Oats with a cooking demonstration and lunch, accompanied by a tour of the store.
Details
Organic Shop-Hop
on May 19th!
NATURAL WAY CHIROPRACTIC & STACEY LANG, DC
Call 859.331.2800 or email info@nwhic.com for details
Paid registration due by May 10th.
Itinerary:
9:00 AM: We will meet at Natural Way Chiropractic for treats and beverages. There, we will coordinate with carpoolers and get a chance to become acquainted with one another.
9:30 AM: We will begin our journey at the Silverlake Kroger where we will be hearing from the buyer of organics and sampling several of the healthy options offered at our fine Kroger stores locally.
10:30 AM: We will continue on to Healthy Alternatives in Florence where we will participate in a scavenger hunt for prizes, and sample some of their products.
12:00 PM: We will tour Findlay Market in Cincinnati, taking time to shop and sample, and to take in the sights and smells of farm fresh food and the Garden Festival.
1:30 PM: We will complete our journey at Wild Oats with a cooking demonstration and lunch, accompanied by a tour of the store.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Bones: Your Mineral Warehouse
Today it seems that every woman is concerned about bone health. Recently, on a commercial for a popular osteoporosis medicine, the actress stated that one morning a month was plenty for setting aside time to take something for bone health. If you choose your foods with bone health in mind, you may not have to set aside any time to think about it at all.
What is the # 1 reason you have bones? Would you answer "To hold you up and help you move"? That is actually the # 2 reason.
The primary reason for the bones in your body is to provide a massive warehouse of calcium and other minerals to support life. There is more calcium in the body than all other minerals combined. When blood calcium levels go up, your body can immediately store the extra in this bony warehouse. When blood calcium levels drop, your body can go right to that warehouse and liberate calcium to stabilize the blood.
Calcium supplements are sold more than any other mineral, but there is so much more involved in getting calcium from the gut to the bones than simply taking a supplement. Calcium is absorbed and stored in a 3-part process:
The first step is to put good calcium and mineral rich foods in your body. Minerals come from the earth. Your best source of nutrition is from nutritious foods grown and produced in earth that is fertile and not laden with chemical pesticides and other artificial soil support.
When calcium enters the stomach, it can either be absorbed, or not. The key ingredient to absorption is stomach acid. A person using acid-blockers and antacids may be unable to absorb the minerals they need. Many people believe that because they have to take antacids, they have too much stomach acid already--this has been shown quite often not to be the case.
Once the calcium has been absorbed by the GI tract, vitamin D steps in and puts the calcium into the blood. Like a truck delivering and receiving goods at the warehouse --Vitamin D is responsible for transportation in both directions. When calcium is needed in the blood, it will activate the transportation. If there is none available in gut from food, it will take it from the body tissue to get what the blood needs.
The third part of the process is almost always missed in any discussion of bone health, and that is the role that fats play. You cannot transport calcium into body tissue without essential fatty acids. They do the work of the final step. Specific fats, known as Omega 3 fatty acids, particularly those found in cod liver oil, are important in building strong bones. Cod liver oil also has vitamin D needed to transport calcium.
Your diet should include all the nutrition you need for good bone health. If it does, then you can think about your summer holiday, rather than worrying about osteoporosis, or taking medication.
nwhic.com
What is the # 1 reason you have bones? Would you answer "To hold you up and help you move"? That is actually the # 2 reason.
The primary reason for the bones in your body is to provide a massive warehouse of calcium and other minerals to support life. There is more calcium in the body than all other minerals combined. When blood calcium levels go up, your body can immediately store the extra in this bony warehouse. When blood calcium levels drop, your body can go right to that warehouse and liberate calcium to stabilize the blood.
Calcium supplements are sold more than any other mineral, but there is so much more involved in getting calcium from the gut to the bones than simply taking a supplement. Calcium is absorbed and stored in a 3-part process:
The first step is to put good calcium and mineral rich foods in your body. Minerals come from the earth. Your best source of nutrition is from nutritious foods grown and produced in earth that is fertile and not laden with chemical pesticides and other artificial soil support.
When calcium enters the stomach, it can either be absorbed, or not. The key ingredient to absorption is stomach acid. A person using acid-blockers and antacids may be unable to absorb the minerals they need. Many people believe that because they have to take antacids, they have too much stomach acid already--this has been shown quite often not to be the case.
Once the calcium has been absorbed by the GI tract, vitamin D steps in and puts the calcium into the blood. Like a truck delivering and receiving goods at the warehouse --Vitamin D is responsible for transportation in both directions. When calcium is needed in the blood, it will activate the transportation. If there is none available in gut from food, it will take it from the body tissue to get what the blood needs.
The third part of the process is almost always missed in any discussion of bone health, and that is the role that fats play. You cannot transport calcium into body tissue without essential fatty acids. They do the work of the final step. Specific fats, known as Omega 3 fatty acids, particularly those found in cod liver oil, are important in building strong bones. Cod liver oil also has vitamin D needed to transport calcium.
Your diet should include all the nutrition you need for good bone health. If it does, then you can think about your summer holiday, rather than worrying about osteoporosis, or taking medication.
nwhic.com
nutrition 101 - organic foods
From the nutrition 101 lunch talk on 4/12/2007 at my office:
Food, whether liquid or solid, is the source of all nutrients required by the body to perform it’s many biochemical processes, and, without these required nutrients, the chemical processes are unable to come to fruition. Since nutritional deficiencies are normally not life-threatening at first and take time to manifest themselves, most people tend to ignore subtle warning signs. As a result, existing deficiencies may eventually manifest themselves in varying degrees of illness through a pattern of symptoms, depending on the state of the persons health…
…However, body processes may become so unbalanced that the standard potency of food is insufficient, or the food available lacks the required nutrients and minerals. As a result of today’s use of poor food and food manufacturing choices the use of whole-food concentrates over an adequate amount of time is often necessary to correct the resulting deficiencies, promote healing, and return the body to a state of homeostasis.
Two present day examples of commercially-produced foods that lack the nutrients found in their organic counterparts include the tomato and spinach. One study revealed that commercially-produced tomatoes contain 1 mg of iron and 0-5 mg of vitamin C, while organically-grown tomatoes have 1,938 mg of iron and 125-250 mg of vitamin C. Commercially produced spinach contains 49 mg of iron: its organic equivalent contains 1,584 mg.
We are often asked by those who want to begin buying organic foods where is a good starting point. Since pesticides are fat soluble which means they are stored in fat and fatty foods, an excellent beginning to health with organic foods is in the choices of foods that are primarily fat. (Pesticides are being shown as a primary source of chemical obesity because of their horrible effect on normal fat metabolism).
Dairy products are a good start. Organic butter is an excellent and important fat choice. Good for spreading on breads and using at low temperatures for cooking. Olive oil is another fat to use in the home. Very good for low to low-medium temperatures as well as dipping. We use coconut oil for cooking at medium to medium high temps. It is an excellent oil for health and will support digestion and heart health well. We also include in our daily diet a cod liver oil supplement (Carlson’s or Nordic Naturals), as directed on the bottle. With this daily intake of fats, you have all the essential and non-essential fats in your diet as you need. (An allergy to shell fish may mean you cannot take Cod liver oil. There are other foods that can provide these essential fatty acids if this is the case).
Nuts and nut butters are also an important place to make a switch to organic, again because of the high fat content.
The body is a self-healing mechanism. It is capable of healing, repairing, and reconstructing itself when provided with adequate amounts of good water, air and proper food.
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Food, whether liquid or solid, is the source of all nutrients required by the body to perform it’s many biochemical processes, and, without these required nutrients, the chemical processes are unable to come to fruition. Since nutritional deficiencies are normally not life-threatening at first and take time to manifest themselves, most people tend to ignore subtle warning signs. As a result, existing deficiencies may eventually manifest themselves in varying degrees of illness through a pattern of symptoms, depending on the state of the persons health…
…However, body processes may become so unbalanced that the standard potency of food is insufficient, or the food available lacks the required nutrients and minerals. As a result of today’s use of poor food and food manufacturing choices the use of whole-food concentrates over an adequate amount of time is often necessary to correct the resulting deficiencies, promote healing, and return the body to a state of homeostasis.
Two present day examples of commercially-produced foods that lack the nutrients found in their organic counterparts include the tomato and spinach. One study revealed that commercially-produced tomatoes contain 1 mg of iron and 0-5 mg of vitamin C, while organically-grown tomatoes have 1,938 mg of iron and 125-250 mg of vitamin C. Commercially produced spinach contains 49 mg of iron: its organic equivalent contains 1,584 mg.
We are often asked by those who want to begin buying organic foods where is a good starting point. Since pesticides are fat soluble which means they are stored in fat and fatty foods, an excellent beginning to health with organic foods is in the choices of foods that are primarily fat. (Pesticides are being shown as a primary source of chemical obesity because of their horrible effect on normal fat metabolism).
Dairy products are a good start. Organic butter is an excellent and important fat choice. Good for spreading on breads and using at low temperatures for cooking. Olive oil is another fat to use in the home. Very good for low to low-medium temperatures as well as dipping. We use coconut oil for cooking at medium to medium high temps. It is an excellent oil for health and will support digestion and heart health well. We also include in our daily diet a cod liver oil supplement (Carlson’s or Nordic Naturals), as directed on the bottle. With this daily intake of fats, you have all the essential and non-essential fats in your diet as you need. (An allergy to shell fish may mean you cannot take Cod liver oil. There are other foods that can provide these essential fatty acids if this is the case).
Nuts and nut butters are also an important place to make a switch to organic, again because of the high fat content.
The body is a self-healing mechanism. It is capable of healing, repairing, and reconstructing itself when provided with adequate amounts of good water, air and proper food.
http://nwhic.com/
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