Moving for health

Yoga! Don’t “pooh pooh” this issue so quickly as “New Age” or “Asian with foreign words”.   I copied some of these stretches as a child from my mother (born in 1912), not Asian, who hadn’t yet visited Asia.
More and more of these classes are opening up here. The foreign word which may be before before the word, “yoga”, refers to a particular style.
Iyengar, named after BKS Iyengar, is my favorite. This yoga uses props: belt, blocks, cushion, to help you move your body in correct postural alignment.  I enjoy moving toward a beautiful pose that I don’t expect to ever reach. Iyengar (1918 to 2014) used movement to strengthen his own body.  He had many physical challenges after surviving the 1918 worldwide flu which killed so many.  In 2004 he was named one of the most significant people of the century by TIME magazine.
Yoga helps people stay connected to their bodies. Yoga teachers know most of us in this culture aren’t in touch with our bodies.  So all yoga is in a sense, restorative.

More classes are opening up all the time.  I took an an amazing class at Jamestown Beach with some 40 other people at sunrise on the longest day of the year!

Be well!

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The others

Nowadays people with some physical symptom(s) may find many contradictions or confusion as they wind around in the medical world. There are a bunch of MDs, themselves, who have not continued to follow what they learned in medical school. They or their families are dealing with issues that are different (newer) because of the environment, or maybe new technology helping them to see causative factors. or they believe there are emotional issues involved. Here’s a very small list of those who are still with us:

Jacob Teitelbaum, MD. had to drop out of med school with chronic fatigue. He actually was homeless for a time. Later he focussed on chronic fatigue while completing medical school.

Russell Blaylock, MD. has been a neurosurgeon. He is now doing studies to prevent Parkinson’s disease. After one parent died from Parkinson’s the other parent got the same diagnosis and also died from it.

Richard Becker, MD. Is on several TV stations regularly. He’s a cancer survivor who has done much for himself and others with nutrition. His wife does some cooking and sharing recipes there.

Mark Hyman, MD. Teaching yoga didn’t prevent him from being bedridden at 35 years old from mercury poisoning. He had gotten a diagnosis of depression. Heavy metal testing, detoxification, and rebuilding the body with nutrition are his specialties. He has a best selling cookbook.

Nancy Lonsdorf, MD. She studied in India for a few years after med school. She has integrated Ayurveda (ancient Indian healing) and Transcendental Meditation into her practice. She is online for some consultations. She has written books about women’s health.

Stephen Sinatra, MD, an integrative cardiologist, was forced to look at the effects of the electronic world when his son wound up hospitalized and close to death. Whoever heard of a such a thing? With a “cable guy”, he’s the coauthor of Earthing which has really telling pictures.

Rudolph Ballantine, MD is the author of Radical Healing. He says his helping to start 6 detox centres in major cities didn’t do so well. I think the book is lovely if you want to look at natural healing. He is teaching permaculture in North Carolina.

Mark Breiner, DDS has a whole body dentistry center in Connecticut. His book, Whole Body Dentistry reveals his professional evolution into an integrative dentist. His experiences with children were tearful. He went through the Connecticut state court system to be able to advertise his mercury-free office. His son, a naturopath works there with him. I personally delivered copies of this book to various peninsula public libraries from DAMS.

Deepak Chopra, MD began as an endocrinology and internal medicine practitioner. Born in India he met and became a follower of the Maharishi and began doing Transcendental Meditation. He speaks openly about, “chakras”. the ancient vortexes of energy the ancients knew about. They are each associated with an endocrine gland.

Mehmet Oz, MD is a cardiothoracic surgeon and a TV, magazine, and internet personality. In his presentations he pulls in some factors of the various folk medicines in this country. His wife is a Reiki (form of energy healing) Master.

Stephanie Cave, MD. Not one, but two of her children were injured by vaccines. Her pediatric practice is not usual.

Sherry A Rogers, MD says her medical practice didn’t come from being smarter than some others, but rather from being sicker, given over 30 diagnoses! Her book is Detoxify or Die. !

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Libraries here

There are all kinds of libraries in this town.  Personal
libraries cover the walls of the living rooms and more.
Metaphysical and holistic topics fill the U.R.🌞.

The public libraries offer many activities:  concerts, computers classes & tutoring, and even dental amalgam mercury education (from the DAMS group) has been displayed.  I found the book, It’s All in Your Head, there which helped me understand mercury poisoning from mercury dental fillings.

The William & Mary library hopefully still has the more than 30 pounds of info about dental mercury given to them after the 2010 Mercury Expo by the DAMS group.

Maybe you’ve seen one of the littlefreelibrary.org collections outside.  I took a few children to one in my neighborhood.  There are plenty of topics there for adults too.  Taped to the back wall of 1 of them was the newsletter from the National Vaccine Information Center, the non-profit sharing info about vaccine ingredients and injuries, and applying for $compensation$.  Hmm!

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WAPF continues

Who was Weston A Price?  He was a Canadian dentist primarily known for investigating the relationships between teeth, nutrition, and overall health. He died in 1948.

Why is there now a growing non-profit, (WAPF), named after him?  Rates of chronic illness are soaring in this country.  WAPF is on a mission to help educate, restore our diets, and provide resources to get nutrient dense foods – vital to our health.

List of some topics from more recent quarterly journals:

Genetically Modified Foods,

Thimerosal and the Brain,

Glyphosate (in 4 different journals),

Raw Milk,

Feminine Hygiene Products (glyphosate in tampons!)

Adrenals-Heart Connection

Legislative Updates

Book Reviews

Healthy Baby Gallery

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WAPF

The Weston A Price Foundation (WAPF) has monthly potluck discussions at Health Synergy in Gloucester. Not enough interest here for meetings – yet.

This group does not appear to me to be ”mainstream”. I see it as a growing “other stream” of people waking up. We are living with or in our environments which are perpetuating our national health rank of #35 or #37 according to the World Health Organization(WHO). (The WHO is a specialized agency of the United Nations helping countries to move towards healthy or healthier functioning.)

The WAPF quarterly journal addresses such issues as: developing children in USA eating food saturated with glyphosate & high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) & wheat (with 40% more gluten than when I was a kid). Holistic dentistry, forms of energy healing, legislation about labelling products, and or banning various substances, are some of the other usual categories.

After having her Pastor at church condemn eating high fructose corn syrup, one of our members took a walk down the aisle of cereals at her neighborhood grocery store. It was difficult to find something without HFCS. Then she thought about how many times glyphosate is sprayed on corn. Another member who has worked in agriculture has explained that.

The older members of this group feel disconcerted about others our age using so much medication (8-14 substances!)

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Little women

Not the novel or the book with this title. I’m calling attention to the hundreds of thousands of women in this country who are working or have worked in general dental offices. They get exposed to many toxins, like mercury. They are not routinely tested for any build-up of toxic metals.

Louisa May Alcott who wrote the book, Little Women, in the 19th century, did suffer chronic health problems from mercury poisoning. She did some volunteering in the Civil War, got sick, and was treated with calomel, a form of mercury.

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Biofield basics

We are electrical beings, although we usually don’t think of ourselves this way. We are all born with a natural pacemaker. The laws of physics tell us then, that we must have an electromagnetic field. This is currently termed the biofield. Older writings spoke of the aura.

Biofield therapies are being used by more and more people in the United States. There is now an Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine giving introductory rationale for use, training information, accreditation information of some 60 modalities.

The term “biofield” was originated in 1992 at a National Institutes of Health meeting. Through interior development folks can relieve pain and help heal traumas interacting with a client’s energy field.

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