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“My aging bones have helped me recognize that progress in yoga is not measured by the mastery of complicated arm balances but by the ability to move through the world with kindness, wisdom, generosity, and an open heart.”
–Carol Krucoff, author of “Standing Strong”
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“About three weeks ago, I had injured myself quite a bit while playing recreational softball. By the end of the second inning, I had pulled each groin muscle and severely scraped both my right arm and right leg. That night and the next day, the muscle pain was so excruciating that I could hardly walk. The scraped areas where the skin had been removed created a stinging, burning sensation that pulsated up and down both my arm and leg. Dr. Jane Goldberg, Owner of La Casa Day Spa suggested I try energy healing immediately as the pain got progressively worse as the day went on. I used the Cem Tech device and the results were unbelievable. After 15 minutes of holding a tiny diode in the same spot, centrally located between my groin and knee, I stood up and was able to effortlessly and painlessly walk around again. It was like night and day. I repeated the process once more and the relief this energy healing provided lasted the rest of day and into night. I used it two more times the following day and shortly thereafter, the pain had significantly lessened and my body seemed to have healed the skin wounds much faster as well. It was astonishing to feel how much pain was instantly reduced after one use of the Cem Tech. As I was holding the diode on my body for the first time, I will admit I was skeptical as I have never used healing technology like this before and was in so much pain that I didn’t think anything would be able to make the pain go away (aside from time). Cem Tech and energy healing is an amazing process and one that more people should utilize as ingesting synthetic pain relievers does such harm to the body. I am happy to say I did not have to take one Advil while healing from this situation and one week later, I felt 100% better.”
-Kristin C.
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The Dark Side of Love: The Positive Role of Negative Feelings
Deceits of the Mind
Because People Are Dying
Princess Diana: Modern-Day Moon-Goddess
Psychotherapeutic
Treatment of Cancer Patients
InSPArations: If you can do it at a spa you can do it at home
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& AOL Healthy Living.
I am also a featured writer on Natural News!
I also have started my own blog on the darker side of life (and death). Visit my blog to learn more about the criminal mind, psychopathy, the criminal justice system, murder and forgiveness. This blog has arisen out of my personal
experience of the murder of my beloved brother.
Check out my blogs & articles on:
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THE MAKING OF A MURDERER
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Click on the link below to read my previous Musings to understand the real meaning of cancer medical diagnoses and treatments.
When I was growing up, cancer was relatively rare. First it climbed to affecting 1 out of 3 Americans. Now it is hitting 1 out of 2. But all may not be as it seems with the statistics of prevalence and “cure” of cancer through western medicine.
All past Musings from 20th Street
are posted on
La Casa’s Website
Here are links to particularly informative ones:
learn how to live longer by lengthening your telomeres through Tesla technology
learn the importance of collagen and stretching for over-all health
learn about gut brilliance and gut stupidity
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Chris Christie’s Decision
(not the one about whether or not to run for President – the other decision)
and its relevance to all of us
and
other issues related to weight
My Last Musings discussed Angelina Jolie’s (in my mind, ill-advised) decision to have a prophylactic double mastectomy. In this Musings, I stay with the celebrity theme, and question New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s February decision to have Lap-Band surgery to bring his weight down.
It has traditionally been thought that bariatric surgery works because of the diminished size of the stomach. The operation is performed on people who have lost the ability to control their own eating habits. The surgery makes decisions for them, imposing upon them eating habits that are radically different than those they were employing before the surgery: Smaller meals, more frequent meals, less junk and fried foods. (Sweets, for instance, in any volume, make many post-surgery patients sick.)
Recent research, however, suggests that the reason for the effectiveness of the surgery in weight loss is NOT because of the smaller stomach. Rather, it is now suggested that weight loss occurs because of the change in the gut flora that the operation induces. According to a Harvard University study, it appears that the gut ecosystem of obese people changes after gastric bypass to more closely resemble that of normal-weight people. The scientists weren’t sure whether the changed microbe population was a cause or effect of weight loss. Thus, they did an experiment with mice. They gave gastric bypass surgery to a group of mice that had been specially bred to carry no gut bacteria at all. They then implanted new gut flora into the mice. The mice quickly lost weight. The suggestion is that the adjustment of the intestinal flora was the effect that was responsible for the weight loss, not the gastric bypass surgery.
The question begs to be asked: Might solely adjusting the gut flora of humans have the same effect of weight loss? The scientists who conducted the study believe there is a good possibility for this. Author of the study, Lee Kaplan, says that: “Adjusting people’s microbe levels, without surgery, might one day give doctors an entirely new way to treat the critical problem of obesity.” He further states: “We’re learning that the story is more complicated than just how much you exercise and how much you eat.”
There is, too, an additional factor in weight loss that has been studied in relation to bariatric surgery. It is the 1999 discovery of the the hormone ghrelin, commonly referred to as the “hunger hormone.” Ghrelin is released primarily from cells in the stomach, and then it travels to the brain. There, it interacts with both the hypothalamus (the brain’s physiological eating center) and the brain’s pleasure centers to arouse hunger. What is seen in the bariatric surgery is that the production of ghrelin decreases, and this, too, contributes to a decrease in appetite.
Thus, the next question: Might there be a way to diminish this hormone short of the radical step of surgery? Again, research suggests yes. In experiments, people who got injections of ghrelin before a buffet meal ate 30% more than a group of eaters not given extra ghrelin.
It would be useful to find a more natural alternative than bariatric surgery for severe weight loss, as there are considerable downsides to the surgery: Fewer nutrients are absorbed; vomiting and nausea are common post-surgical effects; subsequent infections can occur. Roughly 30% of patients develop conditions due to malnutrition, such as anemia and osteoporosis. And, most importantly, bariatric surgery is usually only the first of many surgeries, as the new trimmed-down body is “flabby, baggy and saggy,” as one of the recipients described his post-bariatric body. As Lawrence Reed, MD, a New York City plastic surgeon says, “Post-bariatric surgery is a very important part of rehabilitation.”
Readers of past Musings will remember that I covered the issue of gut flora in a Musings posted onMay 6th, 2013,
entitled The Two Best Brains You Have (after the one in your head). Here is a quote from that Musings:
We are born 90% human, 10% microbes. By the time most of us die, we will have reversed the proportion of human to microbes, and we will have become 90% microbial. One might be tempted to say that at the time of our death, we are more microbial than human.
If you missed that Musings, or want to re-read it, click
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And, there is recent very exciting news about gut health, microbes, and a major illness. A new study reports that the lack of diversity among friendly microbes in the gut may be a contributing factor in autism. This study is the first comprehensive bacterial analysis of the intestinal environments of autistic children. Researchers have already established that gut microflora plays a critical role in a long list of essential biological processes–not just weight maintenance and digestion, as suggested in this Musings, but also in: Immune defense, mood regulation, heart health, and more. Authors of this autism study note that three bacterial groups have been identified as lacking in ASD patients: Prevotella, Coprococcus, and Veillonellaceae. This research fits in nicely with the observation that many children on the autism spectrum have GI problems, including reports of feeling better on a gluten-free, casein-free diet. A growing body of evidence suggests that when these problems are adequately addressed, when the gut flora is improved, autistic behaviors among these children improve dramatically.
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About the Colon
(and weight)
The ideal pH in the colon is between 6.7 and 6.9. This is a slightly acidic environment, as 7 is neutral. The colon needs to be slightly acidic, as this both inhibits the growth of undesirable bacteria, such as E coli and S almonella, and also promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria, such as
Lactobacillus. One of the acids produced by Lactobacillus is butyrate. Butyrate is the primary energy source for the cells that line the intestinal wall. Butyrate functions as an anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, and there is, as well, some evidence that it inhibits cancer cells. Related to its effect on weight, it promotes a feeling of satiety. You feel full and satisfied, and thus are less inclined to over-eat.
Butyrate can be found in most health food stores. Dr. David Williams, who has written on this topic, especially recommends the brand Nutricology.
Colonics are always good to cleanse the colon, which in turn, allows for the production of good bacteria.
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About Water (and weight)
Being overweight is a major health hazard — potentially the greatest one facing the country today (in spite of the U.S. recently moving to second place behind Mexico, down a notch from our former esteemed first place position on the planet, in the race to having the largest per capita number of overweight people). According to the Centers for Disease Control, being overweight or obese increases risks for coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, uterine, breast and colon cancers, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, liver and gallbladder disease, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, and infertility.
A couple of years ago, I interviewed an Indian Swami for my first show on MNN TV. He had some interesting things to say about water and hunger. He suggested that if you want to lose weight, the easiest and most effective policy to institute in your eating habits is to drink a glass of water 20 minutes before eating. Click here to see my interview with the Swami.
Related to Swami’s idea are the following facts about water, weight and wellness:
In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
Even mild dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 30%.
One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters.
Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
Drinking five glasses of water daily decreases your risk of colon cancer by 45%; breast cancer risk is reduced by 79%; bladder cancer goes down by 50%.
Water has been shown to improve cognitive functioning in school children. When they drink water, they think better. Most children arrive at school in a state of mild dehydration. Think about this: we could give all children a placebo pill which they could take with a glass of WATER, and their grades would improve, with or without the placebo effect. OK. Leave out the sugar pill. Just give them water.
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Up-Date on Fecal Transplants
I have talked in a past Musings about the unusual procedure of fecal transplants wherein gut infections and other gut disturbances are treated by implanting the intestines with healthy bacteria from healthy family member-donors’ fecal matter. As a result of several physicians becoming interested in performing this procedure, the ever-watchful FDA has tried to claim human excrement as a drug. The FDA said the stools were unregulated drugs, and would require investigational new drug applications, and thus, would have to be taken through the extraordinarily expensive approval process before doctors could continue to perform the procedure. In June, as a result of embarrassing publicity, the FDA said they won’t enforce the regulation after all.
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Calendar Quirks
Since we have just passed the Jewish new year, I thought it would be interesting to look at some interesting comparisons between the Jewish calendar, based on a lunar cycle, and our American secular calendar, based on a solar calendar. In order to keep the holidays in sync with solar seasons, the Jewish calendar makes adjustments, keeping the important holidays Passover, in the spring, and Sukkot, in the fall. While it is not uncommon for the calendar to add a month during these leap years or for the holidays to be “early” or “late,” what is different this year is the extreme “earliness” in relation to the secular calendar.
This year, also, we have the quirk of the first night of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving falling on the same day! This is the first time that’s happened since President Lincoln originally established Thanksgiving in 1863, and it is also the last time it’ll happen until the year 79,811. After this year, Hanukkah and Thanksgiving Day won’t overlap for another 77,798 years!
The reason is because the Jewish calendar is very slowly getting out of sync with the solar calendar, at a rate of 4 days per 1000 years (not bad for a many centuries old calendar)! This means that while presently Hanukkah can be as early as 11/28, over the years the calendar will drift forward, such that the earliest Hanukkah can be is 11/29. Perhaps at some distant future time the rabbis will again need to come together and recalibrate the calendar for another 5 thousand years. Until then we can all enjoy the special nature of this extraordinary new year.
May the new year of 5774 be filled with the blessings of good health, happiness, and prosperity for you and your family!
from my friend Art Savitt: Thanks Art
for the interesting information
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BIO-COLONIC!
The Bio-Colonic is performed while the client lies atop the Bio-Mat. Specific to the Bio-Mat’s usefulness in the colonic, the exposure to far infrared waves and negative ions increases enzymatic activity in the digestive tract, as well as breaking down trapped fat, waste, cellulite, and other toxic substances!
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La Casa Day Spa
La Casa was created out of the experience one woman had with her mother. Long before holistic medicine became a household word, Dr. Jane Goldberg spent the 1970s seeking alternative cancer therapies with her mother, who had been diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. Following sound principles of holistic health, Jane’s mother was able to reverse her cancer condition entirely, moving from her wheelchair to joyfully playing tennis again. This experience inspired Jane to specialize in her pyschoanalytic practice to work with cancer patients, and to fulfill the need for a holistic healing center in NYC. Jane and La Casa’s manager since its inception, Gregg Lalley, invite you to partake of the restorative and profoundly cleansing therapies that have brought La Casa world-wide recognition.
Think of your body as part of the earth;
think of the earth as part of your soul.
Respectfully submitted by:
Jane G. Goldberg, Ph. D.
– Licensed Psychologist
– Certified Psychoanalyst
– Stone Carrier-Medicine Woman of the Nemehah Band and Native American Traditional Organization
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