Archive for December, 2011


Autism

The following comments are my interpretation. I am no expert, but this is the gist as I understood it:

The symposium speaker, Ken Andes, was fascinating. He has had phenomenal success with autistic kids in his practice. Out of the hundreds of cases he has treated, according to Ken, none have failed to show progress. I would suspect the progress is directly related to patient and parent compliance, however.

http://naturalchinesemedicine.com/

So in a nutshell, our treatment philosophy is to restore homeostasis and the capacity for self-healing to the body.  We do this through three approaches:

  1. Detoxify the body of harmful substances (chemicals, metals, cellular waste, etc.)
  2. Support the body with the nutrients that it needs to repair itself but are lacking
  3. Correct the communication grids within the body so that proper physiological function can take place.  The body is naturally programmed to heal itself.  If this communication grid is corrected, disease will not occur and only health will remain.

Theoretically, and most likely, Ken says, these kids (1 in 86 in his area of NY!) are suffering from heavy metal mercury poisoning. Vaccines aren’t the cause, just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Unfortunately, often the mothers are toxic before birth (fillings, injections, etc.) and the baby gets the mercury through the placenta. And no, this mercury isn’t from eating fish.

So why doesn’t mercury show up in their systems? Most likely it is at a cellular level, not in the connective tissue. Also, we don’t have any good tests for heavy metals. Hair analysis doesn’t show positive unless the body is actually actively excreting the mercury. In the absence of good minerals, the body hangs on to anything it might need.

Ken Andes has had good luck giving them organically bound minerals (Standard Process).

Introduced in 1935

Organically Bound Minerals contains a natural blend and proportion of minerals from alfalfa and kelp.

  • Encourages healthy enzyme functioning
  • Promotes healthy connective tissue
  • Helps maintain proper cellular energy production
  • Provides antioxidants
  • Contains trace amounts of naturally occurring potassium, from kelp and alfalfa
  • Provides naturally occurring minerals that help maintain a healthy water balance
  • Supports nervous system health Iodine assists with proper thyroid function†
Gluten Free
Vegetarian
Iodine 225 mcg 150%
Dried Alfalfa (whole plant) Juice 275 mg
Kelp 85 mg

 combined with heart support. Usually the kids muscle test for heart first and for Cyruta Plus (Standard Process).

http://www.standardprocess.com/display/StandardProcessCatalog.spi?ID=57

These are all whole food supplements. Some of the products have wheat, and those obviously aren’t suitable for gluten sensitive people. Standard Process products have been around since 1928.

Sometimes it’s the gut that needs support first – he always muscle tests. But Ken says the heart eats first, and that it is much more than just a pump (1983 research – the heart is an endocrine organ). The heart gets stronger and then, in a cascade effect, the gut is next. Since the gut is responsible for making 90% of the neurotransmitters, as it heals, so does the blood/brain barrier. The blood/brain barrier is very selective and does not let much pass through it without the correct pathways being open – allowing the transfer of mercury across the barrier. The toxins go into the liver (but only when the liver is ready to handle them) which empties into the gut. Cholacol II is a bentonite clay product:

Cholacol II Promotes Natural Intestinal Cleansing

The entire gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a muscular tube lined with mucous membranes and is approximately nine meters (29.5 feet) in length. All of the nutrients we ingest are digested and absorbed in this canal. Solids and liquids are taken in through the mouth, and travel down the esophagus and into the stomach where the first stage of digestion takes place. The contents of the stomach are then emptied into the small intestine, the longest portion of the GI tract. The small intestine accounts for nearly seven meters

(23 feet) of the entire nine-meter digestive tract. It is here that further digestion occurs and the majority of food absorption takes place. Material that passes through the small intestine and into the large intestine is then passed out of the body as waste. Bentonite, also known as montmorillonite, is a colloidal, hydrated aluminum silicate with highly adsorptive properties. The bentonite in Cholacol II works like a magnet to help carry waste materials through the intestines for proper elimination. Bile salts contribute further to intestinal cleansing by helping break down fats. Collinsonia root has been used for centuries by the Chinese as a “bowel tonic” to help keep the intestines clean and functioning properly.†

How Cholacol II Keeps You Healthy

Promotes intestinal health

The ingredients found in Cholacol II work together to help cleanse the intestines. Collinsonia root helps keep mucous membranes that line the GI tract in good working order. Bile salts contribute to the breakdown of fats in the intestines. Bentonite attracts and helps carry waste materials through the intestines for appropriate elimination.†

Encourages regularity

The combined cleansing and emulsifying properties of the ingredients in Cholacol II help keep the intestines free of the debris that can cause some types of irregularity.†

The body knows it needs minerals, so it hangs on to even the bad ones (mercury) until it gets good quality replacements. Then, and only then, does it let it go. None of this is treating a disease – it is just encouraging the body to heal itself with proper nutrition.

Ken says you really have to separate the kids from their cell phones, computers and video games. These EMF components act like magnets for metals and the body won’t let go unless you get rid of them, at least temporarily. And often the kids are addicted to them, so it isn’t easy.

What a mess. But the kids Ken has worked with have had amazing success. He doesn’t mention mercury, usually, because the parents are already beating themselves up enough. And he doesn’t set a time frame, but often twelve weeks is a minimum for progress.

This isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon that can take years. And of course, diet is important. But autistic kids will only eat certain things. And even getting them to take supplements is tricky. I learned a lot more than this, of course. The room full – hundreds of chiriopractors/massage therapists/medical practitioners was mesmerized for more than an hour while Ken spoke. He is an incredible speaker, and very believable.

Ken is pretty disgusted with the powers that be. When they say there are no published studies, it only means not in their approved medical publications.

Vaccines are now being made without mercury, “just in case” but there are years of vaccines out there in storage that still have it. So, when your doctor says they are no longer putting mercury in vaccines, it’s true. But it’s also lawyerese: The vaccine could still have mercury in it. And many do: too many have been made and sold already. Why was mercury ever in vaccines to begin with? Google it, but as I understand it, thimersol/mercury was used as a stabilizer in such small amounts…they never dreamed it could have the effect it has. This wasn’t a malicious act, but the ongoing denial is sad.

Ken isn’t a big conspiracy theory guy, but what he does believe that what is going on is wrong. We (nutritional testers) are actually making sick people well, and that’s a good thing. We aren’t treating the symptoms like modern medicines do. The big pharmaceuticals are getting sued left and right…it is starting to fall apart. Because right is right, but too many people believe in the system. Doctors went into their fields to help people. They aren’t the bad guys – they just don’t know.

Bryzinki’scancer treatment was fought for 14 years…big drug companies have all the clout.  Cancer is big money.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Burzynski#2010_film.2C_Burzynski_-_Cancer_is_Serious_Business

Do your own research, and let me know what you think.

I went to a UNS (Ulan Nutritional System) symposium in Clearwater, Florida early December. The theme was nutrition, nutrition, nutrition and kids, kids, kids! The point was really hammered home, and my next blog will be about autism and muscle testing/muscle kinesiology. Then, sports injuries and healthy pregnancies. I learned a lot.

White sugar, closeup, cube, cubes, seven, sugar, sweet, white, photo

Could nutrition be the answer for our problems? It seems too simple. Could white sugar and flour be responsible for many of our diseases and ills? I never thought so.

White Bread

The more interested I have become in Nutritional Response Testing (muscle testing), the more I have learned about the human body and disease. I’ve been clearing the cobwebs off my biochemistry, microbiology, anatomy and environmental health background. It is exciting to hope that we have a place to start – that we can reverse many of the health concerns and declines through diet and supplements.

Me, with Taylor, on a downhill slide....

For years I’ve taken vitamins, antioxidants and tried to eat right. Yet I still had cancer (twice), joint issues, stomach trouble and a racing heart. I could feel myself declining, and it was scary to me that I couldn’t do anything about it. I changed my lifestyle completely:

                                            1) Retiring from a job I loved that was slowly killing me

2) Eating better

3) Getting more exercise

                                            4) Being stress free (Having fun, only doing things I loved, etc.)

Yet I still didn’t feel great. I just couldn’t get on top of things.

Tough to get on top...

I didn’t eat badly. Really, I didn’t. One cup of coffee in the morning, one glass of red wine at night. I love salads and vegetables more than fruit…I like fish and grass-fed beef and free range chicken and eggs. I switched to olive oil and butter, and tried to eat whole grain breads and pasta. Last summer I took a healthy gourmet cooking class. White sugar was out of my house. So why is my weight still creeping up and why did I feel just okay?

Muscle testing showed my heart needed support, and also that I had parasites and titanium in my system. I had tried muscle testing before, but no one had placed me on a long-term program with bi-weekly monitoring. The biggest point that was hammered home:

                                        1) Diet, diet, diet. Supplements can only do so much. Diet is the other 70%. Eat protein for breakfast. Cut out white sugar. Completely. I had it out of the house, but not totally out of my diet, especially at restaurants.

                                         2) Keep a food log…pay attention to how I feel and how I am sleeping. Look back over the last 4 days of food when I have issues.

Getting back on top...

Within weeks of taking the whole food supplements that I tested for, I felt better.

Now, months later, the trend continues.

I’m taking Standard Process whole food supplements to help my body heal itself. No covering up the symptoms anymore. I have more energy. My heart is stronger. I even ran my Mom’s little dog, Ruffy, around her complex without getting short of breath, and no, I haven’t been working out per-se. My heart has stopped the up-in-the-throat beating that was so annoying and scary. (But a stress test on the treadmill was fine….)

The white dog in front is Ruffy. At 14, he can still run around the building with me! I ran with him in June and I could only run for a minute, period.

All I know is that if I can feel this much better this fast, maybe there is hope! And if we can get kids and pregnant moms to eat better, future generations should get healthier and healthier.

Pilots look down the road, not right in front of them....

Wrapped pictures, a few decorations...I'm ready!!

What does it take to be happy? Gratitude for what I have seems to work the best. Being with people I love is the most important part of the Christmas holidays for me.

Colt and I had this puzzle together in record time!!

A girlfriend of mine who doesn’t celebrate Christmas was telling me how the whole Santa Claus, presents and celebrating Jesus’ birth at the wrong time of the year just doesn’t work for her. I get it, really I do. The media and “Buy, buy, buy more” mentality is way overdone.

But I loved the Lego set the boys bought me!!

I think that the Christmas holiday, for me, is just a cool way to make winter more bearable and to remember how lucky I am. I don’t need the presents, and I already believe deeply in God, but I love the songs and the lights and the decorations and the season of giving. It makes me happy!

My perfect tree....

This was such a laid back Christmas. I didn’t get everything out…just enough to be festive. The guys used the bucket truck to decorate outside, and picked up a beautiful tree I bought at the Christmas bazaar. I wrapped all my canvases, and put out my favorite decorations.

I was fast enough to get a candid picture of Kevin on Christmas morn...

But not Colt!!

My friends all baked goodies for Colt because they know I’m trying not to eat sugar. (I can’t bake without tasting…sad but true.)

We had Kevin’s parents over for Christmas day, and Kevin’s turkey and stuffing, rolls and mashed potatoes were awesome!! (Pecans, sausage, celery, onions, sage…etc.) I made a spinach salad and fruit salad and deviled some eggs. We just took life easy, talking and eating and enjoying everything life has given us…like the roof over our heads and food on our table.

Then we drove them back to their house and went to see the new Mission Impossible movie as long as we were in the big city of The Dalles! Colt went to a bonfire with friends. Life is good, and I am just happy to see another birthday and Christmas. Now that I’ve had a life-changing illness (yes, the big C) every birthday and holiday is even more special.

Only 1068 pieces!!

Colt found the pieces for me...a true role reversal!!

Memories of Christmas’ past…shades of It’s a Wonderful Life or Scrooge’s The ghosts of Christmas past!!

For my Barbie!!

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