Monday, August 22, 2011


TOP FIVE REASONS FOR MASSAGE THERAPY FOR AUTOIMMUNE CONDITIONS:

1. RELAXES BODY AND MIND.


The body is a busy place living in a busy place. Living with a chronic pain condition can catapult you into simple survival each moment to the next. While living, working,walking taking sitting singing and all else consider this:

At the end of a day your body feels already feels overworked and exhausted... aside from the intense management of carrying the companion of pain.Your muscles are sore from all the work  and living,IN ADDITION to the chronic pain of a deterioating condition.

Massage helps relax you, your mind and heart as well stretch your muscles and increase energy and blood flow to restricted  pained areas. Gives your bones a break from the stress too.There are different types of massage techniques applied not only to your skin but to underlying tissues as well.

When your body is relaxed you will rest well that night and begin the next day new and refreshed

2.  HELPS RELIEVE PAIN.

 RA is a painful painful bully and goes commandeering territory as it will.  Massage relaxes us from the tension of the incessant pain.Never mind prolonged sitting, standing, carrying ANY objects and other lifes happenings. Other painful conditons apply here too...

A massage helps alleviate the PAIN.

When you are in pain your muscles contract. You are in your daily life with your muscles contract and stiffening just to get your body to the next task.Pain commands the front seat in your mind riding shotgun every inch of the way. This intensity makes it difficult to move in any other rider.Pain is painful.Period.A massage really really helps to alleviate the pain, promote realxation and reset your body and mind.

3. PROMOTES OXYGEN AND CIRCULATION.

A massage therapist manipulates body tissues. Manipulates blood vessels as well promoting energy and circulation via flow and oxygen movement.
The blood (red blood cells) carries oxygen. More Please : )
4. INDUCES RELAXATION AND SLEEPINESS.



Touch is healing, soothing, relaxing and necessary for healing. Pain steals all the forementioned. 
Massage therapists are brilliant centered beautiful healers willing to help you help your body heal.More sleep, less pain,more healing. More PLEASE.

5. FLEXIBILITY.

Massage RELAXES tense and knotted muscles. Tense and tight + restriction and contracted muscles= pain upon pain.
A warm massage is the best remedy here.

HEAL YOU with a MASSAGE TODAY.






Tuesday, March 29, 2011

RA FIRE PATHS

When our immune system is incredibly overworked and under paid, its residence, the GI tract, is in constant disaster reaction making the primary function of digestion move aside for the immediate attention of the very dangerous fires which travel the rest of the body.


  During these years of suffering,learning,researching,experimenting,healing and focusing... I have notice particular paths from particular consumption. 
Once I noticed this, I would try again and the results, for me, were incredibly empowering.
As I see my friends flare, their quest for freedom of the painful moment taps my experience reflex.
A recent chat with a friend prompts me share relative tidbits of helpful information  that helped her immediately.I shared my experience with her, encouraged her to notice her RA fire starters and it helped her make a difference immediately.
Since the mass of theories and remedies are often so overwhelming, our eyes read and read, only to skip most of the content in desperate search of at least one single piece on information to help us help ourselves right now.


Here are only three relevant pieces of information to help you right now:


THREE DIRECT PATHS OF FIRE in RA

  DAIRY, CORN,  & CONFECTIONERS CHOCOLATE


 DAIRY


reason : reactive: unable to digest dairy- ALLERGIC REACTION


CHEESE in most vicious order : SOFT CHEESE

Without a doubt, one on the most immediate and fierce causes of a vicious flare is  soft cheese. Particularily soft cheese, of the  cow dairy kind.
The softer more tastier the cheese, the worse the flare.
Within hours of consuming soft cheese, my wrists would flare so bad I scanned my memory for a fall or something that could have broken that wrist! 
IT WAS ... YES...the soft comforting yummy  cheese!

As soon as I learned the path was predictable, tested it time and time again, the soft cheese made a fire parade to my wrists and hands so vicious I noted its direct path.


Recommendation: LIMIT to STOP All DAIRY-Try goats milk cheese and sheeps milk cheese 


CORN and CORN Products
reason : reactive: unable to digest- ALLERGIC REACTION


POPCORN

Popcorn is a favorite snack...and for people suffering from chronic conditions and pain 24 hours a day a little salt and butter comfort in a popcorn bowl with a cozy movie is a yummy distraction.Movie nights become the social life of the painfully confined.


WHOA!! POPCORN would SHUT DOWN my hips and knees with in hours via an excruciating entrance.Literally, I would feel like the lower half of my body had been crushed at the hips and the knees felt snapped. NO GO. Not even an UP. This fire path ripped thru my core joints every time I ate popcorn.
The paths are many, but this one was most often when I ate popcorn. I stopped. I walked.

Recommendation: LIMIT to STOP ALL CORN and CORN PRODUCTS- Snack on nuts and seeds and try gluten free lentil chips.




CONFECTIONERS CHOCOLATE
reason : reactive: unable to digest entire concoction of ingredients -ALLERGIC REACTION


Every single time I enjoyed simple store bought cheat in a chocolate bar - the next morning I would wake up with my hands curled up in a painful ball only to be coached out with many milligrams of ibuprofen and HOT water.






ALL these products fall under the processed food category: we do not digest any less than real food.
RA needs real food, real nutriition to heal. If your food is not real, your food cannot heal.
No if's ,ands or buts.


Recommendation: LIMIT to STOP All Confectioners Chocolate and Candy.
When you must and cannot resist- choose simple fine dark organic chocolate sans heaps of additives.




"Take your healing path seriously and change something today. One little change today will bring a big change tomorrow." 
- Honnor Moore




Sunday, February 13, 2011

MY RA - RIGHT TO THE POINT.


With So MUCH information flying thru your cyber space I have decided to maintain a minimal and direct presence. I will provide information based on my experience and keep it to the straight and narrow.
This life is a one shot deal. It is so beautiful and ugly at the same time. I have seen lived both. You or I have no time to waste cleaning up the cyber litter of "theories" and "treatments' toted about by many who have never lived this kind of dark despair.
I am not a doctor, but I am the carrier of this strife...so there-in lies my expertise.




RIGHT TO THE POINT.


Determined by intensive diagnostics in another country,preparation for major surgical procedure began as we learned and confirmed this:
MY RA was caused by a systemic bone infection, found in my stomach, originating AND traced back to my jaw, which housed infected AND necrotic (dead) bone and tissue from a few root canals and  ( apparently removed) mercury fillings still hidden under gold crowns.
Included in the discovery, found only upon surgery, was a piece of a dental instrument called an endodontic file embedded in my tooth, directly impeding on my liver meridian literally channeling the most devastating biologic poison into my poison control centre. This means the toxic brew locked in my jaw was travelling throughout my body in various ways, shredding my carnal suit.
I have learned and confirmed this: READ CAREFULLY:
MOST CHRONIC ILLNESSES BEGIN IN YOUR MOUTH.
If you have a chronic degenerative condition, rheumatoid arthritis or another autoimmune disease,start at the top and forensic down. I did. 
The cause of my RA was something I knew intuitively at the very beginning of this nightmare and disease. When I called the dentist at first sound of the word "wheelchair" they would not return my calls or even talk to me about the possibility of relating dental work to this kind of illness. In fact, looking back, any conventional dental procedure from then on made the disease more fierce. Not one doctor agreed when I mentioned my intuition.
NO ONE IN MY MEDICAL ARENA WOULD LISTEN TO ME.  Not my dentists. Not my GP, not my Rheumatologist. No one.
 My life rewound at the very moment my doctor showed me what was removed from my jaw:
RA became a pinball, identified itself and revealed its path through my pinball machine.
Dental treatment, a root canal  done twice that would never heal.Re-occurring strep throat, rheumatic fever, re -occurring pleurisy, asthma heart pain, heart trouble"angina" GI train wreck,ovarian rupture, JOINT DETERIORATION and devastating existence.
Acutely apparent was every single thing I ate, drank,swallowed, breathed was literally became my autoimmune deadly poison,travelling to my stomach where my immune system did its very best to protect the rest of me best it can.There is no a soul on this earth that can no tell me my immune system is too powerful and that is why it is shredding my body.
While I continue procedures of many kinds to remove the damage in my jaw and body, and embrace  regeneration therapies, I know this... I was right. 13 years and a whole body ago.
Google : root canals and autoimmune disease. Google: root canals cover up. Google; jawbone infection and cavitation.
I am not saying everyone has a piece of dental instrument left in the jaw like I did, but I am saying my RA was caused by a bone infection that started as a result of dental procedures.
SEEK out a BIOLOGICAL DENTIST as soon as possible. They will test you and see what lies in the structure of your face, top of your digestive track ( aka immune system)
 I have the proof in my possession.
Trace back to the start for your answers my RA friends,  my other condition friends...ask yourself what may have caused your agony. Leave the mental nonsense of "the professionals" that your self sabotage and self hatred out of the equation.God knows, suffering is enough without someone telling you you hate yourself so therefore you have permitted your body to turn on you.
Back to the start- at the top. work your way down.  Get busy.Get better. I am and Victory is in clear view.
Godspeed to you.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

You FEEL what YOU EAT.


For many of us, we will deal with aches and pains, injuries and conditions that interfere with our daily movement, exercise and even our mental stamina. Some of us exist in but a glimpse of the" in between " excruciating days, months and even years and try to relentlessly push through the pain fog day after day without even knowing there are some health guerrillas right in our food storage keeping pace with the sabotage.
Some obvious and not so obvious bullies in our kitchen can actually be 'causing' painful conditions to run the gamut... and dare I say even some in our supplement line up!

To some these obvious triggers that can set off explosive reactions,sensitivities and inflammatory responses of many kinds that attack our immune system are WHEAT, GLUTEN, DAIRY, WHEY, SOY and SUGAR. 
To others, they are not so obvious. The sensitivity can be layered under many other culprits...hiding in the lurks quite happy to go denied or undetected. All of these meanies are in processed food. Some  are even in fruits and veggies and yes... even in the healthy whole grain bread you loved in the morning.
Sensitivities can show up as fatigue,pain and inflammation,gas,bloating confusion,dehydration to mention just a few conditions.. INCLUDING WEIGHT GAIN.All taking their bite of out your internal health, GI tract and depriving your cellular health.
Be aware that consider 90 % of illness happens in our digestive track...and even higher percentage is stemming from the start of digestion: our mouth.
That means our unaware consumptions of the tiniest amount of offenders go quietly or undetected until they hit the small intestine then all **** gets sorted out...or not.

For someone with an inflammatory immune response,the inflammation and the destruction it brings starts in the inside of the battle ground, and the swelling, like waves presents around the body.If you are swelling in a joint, your intestines are also inflamed. If you have skin  lesions or eczema etc... this too, is an indicator your consumption and absorption is hurting you on the inside.
 The deeper the layer, the harder to detect, but once detected, rescue and  recovery sets itself up just as fast for a brilliant result.

Once we are aware of our bodies defense patterns, many reactions can be sidestepped by avoiding the offending party and substituting with natural option. We  have to become part detective, part scientist and part genius within our own skin.

So, the next time you are is struggling with the onset of pain, inflammation, or worried about the creeping weight gain taking over, take a peek at your diet the hours and days before. Start to eliminate white from your diet to start. White anything. You may notice a HUGE difference when you hit the gym.

For arthritis, an inflammatory condition, is of course, the Paleo Diet. ( see below)









My life depends my nourishment, Literally.When I cheat- I cheat with understanding and knowledge... and preparation for the hit...cheat with the least of the heavy hitters. I do enjoy kettle chips now and then,  and yes... I pick my battles carefully... every know and then. : ) 
Be well. Live well and Love yourself well.
Everyday. All the time. On time. And you will heal a little more each day.