I met someone yesterday, that was convinced that everyone around them has a candida over growth. While I do agree this is more than likely a widespread issue that a lot of people have. In my opinion it is not a catch all for every disease, and once eradicated, it still begs the question of what allowed it to be overgrown in the first place.
This made me think. As an American if I have a headache I would take a aspirin. If I had heart burn I would take tums. If diarrhea was a problem, I would use beptopismol. Seems like there are a lot of medicines for any symptom. It also seems like a lot of these drugs are over the counter drugs and are allowed to buy them as needed. There fore we as individuals, step into the role of being a Doctor. While eventually we do take ourselves to a Doctor. It is almost unheard of to hear someone exclaim, its my health. Instead a lot of time, you hear, they better make me better. Or they better figure out what is wrong. Even though if it could be figured out with over the counter medicines we would not see a Dr. Theres a part of me that part of this attraction is taking responsibility for yourself. No one wants to be made to feel like a liability.
The person that I had met, was no exception. He was literally mad at the food industry and the medical association. He felt he had been lead wrongly by these industries and by anyone he had come in contact with from the medical field. I have to say, I agree, but I also understand how it came to be and I don't think the magic pill of candida is going to save the day. I'm not a fool and if he is right, I am going to go through Candida elimination. After all it is only a couple of months and my health is years.
It's made me come to the table with renewed energy. I know many people who treat themselves poorly right now. When I say that, I mean with taking antibiotics, eating high sugar containing food, do not get proper rest, live with a large amounts of stress and etc. The question I have is "if everyone is an expert on themselves then why are so many people missing the mark?" I hear from people who you know are out of shape, and yet they'll tell you that there health isn't that bad. People, if you waist measurement is larger than your hip measurement then that is not healthy.
I don't know where the confusion has come from. I do know we are heavily commercialized. I know it is natural to want to be a hero, especially your own. I just for the life of me can't figure out when we stopped listening to truth and started to make up our own.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Health and MS
Are the two possible, or isn't this a oxymoronic comment. I think they are possible. I'm a firm believer that ms is a symptom of many underlying conditions. For some it might be toxic overload, others poor nutrition, others stress, others childhood hardships, still others it might be a energy problem, but somehow the body has lost connection with itself. In a simple explanation the body is heating itself, and lets face it, that's not natural. Something that starts the body going down a negative path when it comes to health. For people with MS the body begins to influence the nervous system negatively. Why the nervous system for these folks. is beyond me. For people with hasimotos, hyper, hypo thyroid, it is the thyroid that is attacked. People with fibermyalgia, the nerves again. IBS folks of course the digestive system. Rheumatoid arthritis the joints. It all seems over welming but it all seems manageable if viewed the right way.
So how does one stop the body from eating itself? I don't know the answer to that question but it seems to me a simple way would be to return the body as much as possible to the way it was when you were born. Another words, hit reset. Obviously easier said then done and lets face it. Most of us have lived for a few years, lol. This is why, with kids, with supportive parents, you hear about children getting cleared of autoimmune diseases. Not in huge amounts, and not all the time. This is not a path for a lot of people. the support system has to be there for the person. If your a kid, parents have to take it on as a change in their lifestyle. After all the disconnected was probably manifested out of the lifestyle of the parent. I've often said children are an extension of their parents. Hopefully this resonates with parents who read this and they understand what it means for a kid to live without the modern influences around us.
Lately with my MS, I have been spending a lot of time in my brain. The power of my brain and the connection it has to the earth has been forefront in my thinking. Yesterday I learned a new word and it was an interesting concept. It was called being "grounded" and what it meant was that we were meant to be connected to the earth. In modern society we often have a tire, a road, or the bottom of a shoe between us and the earth. Grounded was an idea of plugging into an outlet, and utilizing the grounding rod outside every house or building. Another way to look at it was, grounding a bed, a floor, a person, the same way that electrical outlets were grounded. Some recommendations I heard were, take off your shoes, connect with the earth and thus ground your body and mind. Taking advantage of the enormous power that is earth. Lets face it, we all live on a planet, but most of our existence is in a town, or in a house, or in a country. Before there was MS, before there were autoimmune diseases, a lot of a humans perspective was seeing the planet for what it was. A sunset, a sunrise, the curvature at the horizon, eating from rain and sun (which by the way, is a planet and star). Do you hear our star referred to as that a lot, or is it a sun? Perhaps grounding is on to something that would bring us closer to a cosmetic perspective.
I believe it is possible to return to somewhere you once were. I believe that what we are experiencing right now, was manifested by us years, days, and moments ago. My future is without MS. My future is eating in ways that my body and cells want. My future will be closer to the ocean, my future will be spent with someone who feels the same. My future is exciting. It is fun and does not require a lot of work on my part. All of that work has been done. Out of the universe I have come here, and that is no easy task. I should celebrate, so should everyone here, we came together and this existence will conclude with us returning. Therefore in our existence being labeled with MS and having health are possible. The trick is only letting go of your MS and like I said, doing everything you can to return to being a new born :-).
So how does one stop the body from eating itself? I don't know the answer to that question but it seems to me a simple way would be to return the body as much as possible to the way it was when you were born. Another words, hit reset. Obviously easier said then done and lets face it. Most of us have lived for a few years, lol. This is why, with kids, with supportive parents, you hear about children getting cleared of autoimmune diseases. Not in huge amounts, and not all the time. This is not a path for a lot of people. the support system has to be there for the person. If your a kid, parents have to take it on as a change in their lifestyle. After all the disconnected was probably manifested out of the lifestyle of the parent. I've often said children are an extension of their parents. Hopefully this resonates with parents who read this and they understand what it means for a kid to live without the modern influences around us.
Lately with my MS, I have been spending a lot of time in my brain. The power of my brain and the connection it has to the earth has been forefront in my thinking. Yesterday I learned a new word and it was an interesting concept. It was called being "grounded" and what it meant was that we were meant to be connected to the earth. In modern society we often have a tire, a road, or the bottom of a shoe between us and the earth. Grounded was an idea of plugging into an outlet, and utilizing the grounding rod outside every house or building. Another way to look at it was, grounding a bed, a floor, a person, the same way that electrical outlets were grounded. Some recommendations I heard were, take off your shoes, connect with the earth and thus ground your body and mind. Taking advantage of the enormous power that is earth. Lets face it, we all live on a planet, but most of our existence is in a town, or in a house, or in a country. Before there was MS, before there were autoimmune diseases, a lot of a humans perspective was seeing the planet for what it was. A sunset, a sunrise, the curvature at the horizon, eating from rain and sun (which by the way, is a planet and star). Do you hear our star referred to as that a lot, or is it a sun? Perhaps grounding is on to something that would bring us closer to a cosmetic perspective.
I believe it is possible to return to somewhere you once were. I believe that what we are experiencing right now, was manifested by us years, days, and moments ago. My future is without MS. My future is eating in ways that my body and cells want. My future will be closer to the ocean, my future will be spent with someone who feels the same. My future is exciting. It is fun and does not require a lot of work on my part. All of that work has been done. Out of the universe I have come here, and that is no easy task. I should celebrate, so should everyone here, we came together and this existence will conclude with us returning. Therefore in our existence being labeled with MS and having health are possible. The trick is only letting go of your MS and like I said, doing everything you can to return to being a new born :-).
Saturday, May 18, 2013
It seems like only yesterday, that I couldn't figure out what was happening with my health. Not that I know a lot more today, but I can honestly say I have some thoughts on where to look. I've learned over the last year, that there is a lot of time spent guessing. Last January (2011) there was a guess of low testosterone, wrong foods, misalignment of my vertebrae, too much smoking, too much coffee, too much sugar, and the list could go on. Back then I joked around a lot that I didn't know what was wrong with me, but I have become an expert on what I don't have. STD''s for example (don't get me wrong that is always great to hear), not suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, not an active TB carrier, no high blood pressure, vision is okay, no cavaties and this list goes on too. I use to laugh a lot and think, "well it must be in my head, because according to the medical world, I'm fine". Now a days my outlook on the whole process is different. I know I didn't get here in 1 day and I know it will take me longer than 1 day to get back to health. The good new is it is happening, that the journey has been started. Albeit always a work in progress that is under constant tweaking.
I do want to say one thing, to any DR reading this. The DR's that I know personally and professionally are great people. They are very intelligent people who do amazing things. For some reason that industry is not preoccupied with preventive medicine, but they are experts at sustaining life and helping you live. I will and have always, ran to them at any time I can't find an answer to what ails me. That hasn't changed and I will run to them again at the first inkling of something that I can't figure out. I like to think, in the mean time, health is my responsibility. I do not want to bore them with figuring out how to make me healthy. That is my job and rightfully so. I firmly believe we should all be experts about ourselves. That being said, anytime and any information that I can acquire from the medical field I will always listen. I am not stupid enough to think that information is only known by one person and I am constantly rethinking what I thought I knew.
Which brings me up to what I think I know now. I've learned a lot about myself and look at life, health and love completely differently then I use to. To me now, this is a process. There is not one time where you get to a point and say, "there that's good, everything is perfect" . It is a moving target that is impossible to hit all the time. Maybe you might hit the target once and then it will surely be moving. You can see those moments in your life when you look back and think, "I really liked that time" or "that time felt very good", but it isn't something you can say it is still happening right now. The same is true about health. You can look back and think, at that time I was healthy. You can look back and think "I was in the best shape of my life". Or you might say "my muscles were super big then", but the bottom line is you can't say that is how it is today or that is how it will be forever. It is constantly changing and constantly being tweaked. The same is true with love. We all have our first love, for most of us that love or lover is with someone else and we are with somebody else or looking for someone else. For the lucky ones who are with a love they've had for a long time. It is constantly being tweaked and I think many people will agree, the most successful lovers learn how to change and stay together at the same time.
This is how health should be looked at. You can replace health with health of your body, health of your love, or health of your life. The point is that it is a process. It is a journey that will not have an end until you leave this life. You'd be a fool not to reflect on how great a moment is and then do this again. Most of us have multiple loves in our life and we start to realize that there are many people in our life that we love. Some of them may be romantic, some family, some friends but looking at life as a process you realize you will love more people in the future and you love many people from your past. If we switch to a nutritional conversation. The outline is simple. Provide to the body those things that it needs. Take away from the body the things that are getting in the way of being healthy. Obstacles. Through this process your body wants to be health. Your cells of your body know what to do, the best thing we can do is understand that and try to get out of the way as much as possible. Love, Health or Life.
I do want to say one thing, to any DR reading this. The DR's that I know personally and professionally are great people. They are very intelligent people who do amazing things. For some reason that industry is not preoccupied with preventive medicine, but they are experts at sustaining life and helping you live. I will and have always, ran to them at any time I can't find an answer to what ails me. That hasn't changed and I will run to them again at the first inkling of something that I can't figure out. I like to think, in the mean time, health is my responsibility. I do not want to bore them with figuring out how to make me healthy. That is my job and rightfully so. I firmly believe we should all be experts about ourselves. That being said, anytime and any information that I can acquire from the medical field I will always listen. I am not stupid enough to think that information is only known by one person and I am constantly rethinking what I thought I knew.
Which brings me up to what I think I know now. I've learned a lot about myself and look at life, health and love completely differently then I use to. To me now, this is a process. There is not one time where you get to a point and say, "there that's good, everything is perfect" . It is a moving target that is impossible to hit all the time. Maybe you might hit the target once and then it will surely be moving. You can see those moments in your life when you look back and think, "I really liked that time" or "that time felt very good", but it isn't something you can say it is still happening right now. The same is true about health. You can look back and think, at that time I was healthy. You can look back and think "I was in the best shape of my life". Or you might say "my muscles were super big then", but the bottom line is you can't say that is how it is today or that is how it will be forever. It is constantly changing and constantly being tweaked. The same is true with love. We all have our first love, for most of us that love or lover is with someone else and we are with somebody else or looking for someone else. For the lucky ones who are with a love they've had for a long time. It is constantly being tweaked and I think many people will agree, the most successful lovers learn how to change and stay together at the same time.
This is how health should be looked at. You can replace health with health of your body, health of your love, or health of your life. The point is that it is a process. It is a journey that will not have an end until you leave this life. You'd be a fool not to reflect on how great a moment is and then do this again. Most of us have multiple loves in our life and we start to realize that there are many people in our life that we love. Some of them may be romantic, some family, some friends but looking at life as a process you realize you will love more people in the future and you love many people from your past. If we switch to a nutritional conversation. The outline is simple. Provide to the body those things that it needs. Take away from the body the things that are getting in the way of being healthy. Obstacles. Through this process your body wants to be health. Your cells of your body know what to do, the best thing we can do is understand that and try to get out of the way as much as possible. Love, Health or Life.
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