tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46817945837437305742024-03-19T05:24:51.404-07:00Campise Chiropractor FresnoDr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-55706149758615794842018-11-27T05:22:00.000-08:002018-11-27T05:25:40.465-08:00Guest Article: 5 Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Improve Your Health<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN">You don't need to completely overhaul your
lifestyle to improve your health. In fact, trying to make drastic changes all
at once is often a recipe for failure. If you want to make significant,
long-lasting improvements to your wellness, the best way to start is through a
series of small changes that are easy to implement.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_k1tfd3c51lh8"></a><span lang="EN">1. Start your day with a walk<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN">Exposing yourself to <a href="https://www.alexfergus.com/blog/how-to-improve-your-sleep-with-morning-sunlight"><span style="color: #1155cc;">morning sunlight</span></a> regulates your body's
circadian rhythm so you sleep better at night and feel more alert during the
day. Head outside for a brief 10-15 minute walk when you wake up, skipping the
sunglasses and sunscreen to maximize the benefits. If you plan to be outdoors
longer than this, go ahead and take the sunblock with you. While exposure to
sunlight is crucial to your health, getting a sunburn is not. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">If you tend to make a lot of unhealthy
purchases at the grocery store, stop going. You can order your groceries online
instead. Some stores, such as Walmart and Kroger, let you pick up at the store,
while other services <a href="https://www.doughroller.net/budgeting/7-grocery-delivery-services-that-can-save-you-time-and-money/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">deliver groceries</span></a> (or meals) to your door.
Either way, you'll find it <a href="https://thefoodoasis.com/three-ways-using-a-fresh-food-delivery-service-can-help-you-lose-weight/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">easier to stick to</span></a> your nutrition plan and
avoid impulse purchases. Another benefit of ordering online is that you can
better plan you meal strategy for the week. As an added bonus, you’ll save
money and time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">A high-fiber diet isn't only beneficial to
senior citizens. Everyone needs fiber in their diet for proper digestion. Without
adequate fiber intake, you could experience constipation and increase your risk
of colon cancer. The <a href="https://www.cookinglight.com/eating-smart/nutrition-101/what-is-a-high-fiber-diet"><span style="color: #1155cc;">best sources</span></a> of fiber are vegetables, fruits,
whole grains, nuts and legumes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Everyone knows they ought to floss, but
according to Colgate, only <a href="https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/basics/brushing-and-flossing/ada-10-survey-finds-shortcomings-in-americans-dental-health-habits"><span style="color: #1155cc;">four in 10</span></a> Americans actually floss every day.
Flossing does more than keep your teeth pearly white; it helps prevent oral
disease and infection that, in turn, harm your overall health. <a href="https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2014/12/22/mind-your-mouth-how-oral-health-affects-overall-health"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Periodontal disease</span></a>, which is triggered by
poor oral hygiene, is a known risk factor for stroke and other heart
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<span lang="EN">An optimistic outlook doesn't just make you
pleasant to be around. Adopting a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2017/11/19/brain-science-reveals-the-striking-power-of-optimism/#51e9a07f71aa"><span style="color: #1155cc;">positive mindset</span></a> reduces your stress, lowers
your risk of depression and helps you live longer. To encourage your mind to
think positively, make a habit of expressing gratitude and recounting the good
things that happen each day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">If you've been telling yourself that it's too
hard or too expensive to improve your health, hopefully these tips show you
that's not true. Not only are these suggestions so simple that anyone could do
them, but most of them cost absolutely nothing! Implement these changes one at
a time and by the end of the year, you'll notice real changes to your
well-being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alkaline water and the alkaline diet fad.</div>
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No, it is not.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why do some people drink alkaline water?</strong></div>
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There is a popular thought that if you drink alkaline water, it will make your body alkaline. Most people who have ailments have bodies that are too acidic. So some think therefore that the cure for illness is to make your body more alkaline and they think that alkaline water is the easiest way to do this. Many drink alkaline water who are not sick but are hoping to prevent future ailments, but it doesn’t work.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Does alkaline water make the body more alkaline?</strong></div>
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No. If anything it makes the body more acidic. Alkaline water is a stress on your stomach. Stress makes the body more acidic.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is alkaline water bad for the stomach?</strong></div>
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Yes. The body in general is supposed to be on the alkaline side, but one organ that likes to be acidic is the stomach. You may have heard of ‘stomach acid.” The stomach makes acid to digest your food. If you drink alkaline water, the stomach becomes alkaline, then has to work much harder to create an acid environment at your next meal. Of course too much stomach acid is a problem too, but that’s usually caused by a bacterial infection or a hiatal hernia, neither of which is caused by eating acidic foods or beverages, or from being overall too acidic. Alkaline water could make the symptoms of an over-acid stomach feel better during a flare-up, but it won’t fix the underlying cause of the over-acid stomach.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">What if I drink alkaline water between meals so that it doesn’t interfere with digestion?</strong></div>
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This is still bad. The stomach consists of cells called epithelial tissue similar to skin cells. Women who learn how to treat their face to prevent wrinkles know that “beauty” washes are usually acidic, not alkaline. Those who have tanned an animal skin know that the way to clean the underlying fat from the animal skin before tanning it is to soak the skin in alkaline water to “eat” the fat away. But they know to be very careful not to leave the skin in the alkaline wash too long or else the entire hide will begin to dissolve as the alkaline water literally eats the hide into mush! And of course to condition the hide so that it is “tanned,” becoming a strong yet soft leather that lasts a long time, they soak it in an acid wash consisting of tannic acid. Bottom line: acid is generally good for epithelial cells, alkaline generally breaks down and destroys epithelial cells. Drinking alkaline water over time can tear down the stomach lining.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">So what about an alkaline diet?</strong></div>
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One interesting part of an alkaline diet is that things like citris, which are acidic foods, make your body more alkaline. And things like pasta, which are more neutral pH, make your body more acidic. In general fruits and vegetables and greens make you more alkaline, and refined foods, sugars, and animal products make you more acidic. So yes, an “alkaline” diet is good for you. But it doesn’t mean that you are eating foods that are alkaline.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">How do acidic citris foods make the body more alkaline?</strong></div>
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Because they are full of minerals. Once digested, the minerals are released and they make you more alkaline than the acid made you acidic.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">But I can’t eat citrus because it gives me acid reflux, if they make me more alkaline, why does it seem to cause my stomach and throat to burn?</strong></div>
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Because the minerals aren’t released until after you digest the citrus. So the acid in the citrus irritates you.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">But I thought that in some cases of acid reflux, the stomach is actually low in acid and taking an acid supplement can make it feel better?</strong></div>
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True. But only if you aren’t too acidic in your body. Even though the stomach likes lots of acid, if the body has too much acid, then adding more acid to the stomach will irritate things.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">And so if my body has high acid and my stomach has low acid, but I can’t take an acid supplement because it burns me, and I can’t digest vegetables or greens well because my stomach acid is low and I get lots of gas and bloating, how can I possibly correct my acidic body?</strong></div>
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With minerals, especially calcium. Calcium is the main way that the body stays alkaline. Greens and vegetables have high calcium levels, a better source than even milk. But you can’t absorb calcium without enough vitamin D in the blood. D comes from sunshine or supplements. See my articles on vitamin D <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://campise-chiropractor-fresno.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0216cd18b9eb5ee7e10ba3702&id=7c282bfcd4&e=085bde29b4" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://campise-chiropractor-fresno.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0216cd18b9eb5ee7e10ba3702&id=e19cec59f2&e=085bde29b4" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://campise-chiropractor-fresno.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0216cd18b9eb5ee7e10ba3702&id=fd8a4f04e4&e=085bde29b4" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://campise-chiropractor-fresno.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0216cd18b9eb5ee7e10ba3702&id=0246c57600&e=085bde29b4" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://campise-chiropractor-fresno.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0216cd18b9eb5ee7e10ba3702&id=91d528f191&e=085bde29b4" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://campise-chiropractor-fresno.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=0216cd18b9eb5ee7e10ba3702&id=04cbe58459&e=085bde29b4" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a></strong>. But to answer your question about an acid body that reacts to acid foods even though they should make you alkaline, get your vitamin D levels up to 80 ng/ml and take a calcium supplement until the symptoms go away. After 3-6 months, if your acid reflux is gone and you are eating lots of veggies and greens, you won’t need the calcium supplement anymore, just the D.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">So what’s the bottom line?</strong></div>
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1) Don’t drink alkaline water, if anything, add some lemon juice to your water to make the water acidic yet alkalizing once digested.</div>
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2) To alkalize your body eat greens and veggies, and take vitamin D (take calcium as needed for severe cases).</div>
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3) Avoid processed foods and eat animal products in moderation.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">What if I do all this and I still have indigestion or acid reflux or bloating?</strong></div>
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Vitamin D when chronically low is linked to cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, dementia, pregnancy complications, autism, and autoimmune diseases. All of these diseases are also linked to too much acid in the body. The body acid does not cause these diseases. Low vitamin D causes low calcium which causes high body acid.</div>
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So the following will largely prevent all modern disease, no alkaline water or diet tricks needed:</div>
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2) Take lots of vitamin D.</div>
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I recently had my first personal experience with vertigo, and oh my, it is a frightening experience! I have a new appreciation for the emotional severity of this condition, to say the least.</div>
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Those who suffer from vertigo know what I’m talking about. I used to place vertigo lower on the list of really bad conditions, I mean, there is no pain involved (unless you get injured from falling, or end up vomiting repeatedly), so how bad could it really be? Let me tell you, it is very bad.</div>
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I’m specifically talking about the type of vertigo I recently experienced: Benign positional vertigo (BPV). I woke up and felt fine. Then I got out of bed and immediately felt the room tumbling backwards and I sat/fell back onto my bed. I was moderately nauseous. The dizziness and nauseousness passed within 30 seconds, but as I sat there on my bed, I had an overwhelming feeling that it was going to happen again at any moment. So after several minutes, I slowly stood up and slowly walked into the bathroom, being careful not to move my neck or head anymore than absolutely necessary. As I carefully sat on the toilet, I felt a mild wave of nausea and dizziness. I thought that maybe if I just slowly kept getting ready for work, it would go away. No such luck. The more I moved around, the more easily I became dizzy and nauseous.</div>
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My saving grace was that in 2015 I had learned from my trips to Michigan what causes BPV and how to fix it. So, I knew exactly what was going on with me and that it was curable. Had I not known any of this, I would have been in a panic. But I was dreading the treatment, because it involves causing the vertigo to happen repeatedly for 30-60 minutes!</div>
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Dreading the treatment, and still hoping it would just go away without it, I decided to head to work. I had Roshannah drive me there, to prevent a wreck should the vertigo suddenly take me over while driving! The car ride was very difficult, even the slightest acceleration or brake made me mildly nauseous and on the edge of dizziness. As I’m writing this I’m realizing that I keep saying that it was “mild” or on the “edge” of a problem. I’m realizing that the reason it was actually so “very bad” was because of the fear. The one episode where the floor quickly moved as I fell backward into bed was so frightening that any hint that it could happen again was terrible.</div>
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Finally at the office, I realized that this wasn’t going to go away, it had to be treated. And by this point I realized that it was specifically forward head nodding that would set it off. There was no way I could treat patients all day without looking down at the table. So I had Roshannah call and cancel my morning appointments to give me time to attempt to treat my condition. If unsuccessful, I would have to cancel the rest of the day as well.</div>
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Before I go on with the story, let me say that dizziness and nausea can be signs of very serious, even deadly conditions. The reason I knew I was not having a medical emergency was because I had none of the following symptoms:</div>
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A new, different or severe headache</div>
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Trouble speaking</div>
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Falling or difficulty walking (I had this once, but it immediately subsided once I stopped forward head motion)</div>
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Any of the above symptoms mixed with sudden vertigo can be a sign of a stroke or other life threatening condition that may need immediate medical attention, so go to the emergency room right away if you have the above symptoms mixed with vertigo.</div>
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I did have falling or difficulty walking, but only right after nodding my head forward, which I was being careful not to do.</div>
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So when none of the above symptoms are present and the vertigo only happens when the head is in a specific position, this is BPV and is only an emergency if you cannot walk at all or if you can’t stop vomiting.</div>
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As Roshannah called the morning patients to reschedule them, I knew I had about 90 minutes to properly diagnose and treat my condition if I was going to expect to treat patients in the late morning, afternoon and evening. So I needed to act quickly. Despite this time crunch, I spent a long time studying pictures of inner ear drawings. My inner voice’s excuse for dragging my feet was that I wanted to be sure I knew exactly which of the three canals was involved and which treatment to perform. But really, I was stalling, because I did not want to experience the dizziness and near vomiting nausea again.</div>
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Time was getting thin, so I bit the bullet and began the treatment.</div>
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Because only forward head nodding caused the symptoms, I knew it was the superior vestibular semicircular canal. But I didn’t know if the stone that had formed was stuck in the front, back, or top of this canal. I took a guess that it was at the top, and decided I wanted to move the stone forward first, then down, slightly back, and then hopefully out the drain. So I decided to lie face down on the treatment table with neck in neutral so that gravity would pull the stone where I wanted it to go. This was the equivalent of nodding my head forward 90 degrees, a scary prospect since 10 degrees had caused dizziness and near vomiting.</div>
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To avoid falling over, I jumped onto the table into the face down position as fast as possible (it’s hard to fall if you are already lying down, right?) Successfully face down, the dizziness began, but it only lasted about 10 seconds (which seemed like 10 minutes), then it was completely gone! But it was like the calm before the storm because I knew that this meant the stone had left the motion sensing hairs of the canal and was now free falling in the canal fluid. It would hit the hairs again once it fell far enough and hit the “bottom.”</div>
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So did the stone hit the hairs and stop, or did it bounce? I waited in fearful anticipation to find out. Three minutes later, nothing more had happened, so I assumed the stone was settled into it’s new position. So I reached my arm up to the face cradle of the adjusting table I was lying on, careful not to move my head suddenly, and slowly tilted the face cradle up about an inch. Instantly it felt like the room was spinning. But only for about 10 seconds, then it stopped. Again, about 60 seconds later, the dizziness started as the stone settled into it’s new position along the path of the canal.</div>
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I repeated this about 4 more times until the face cradle was at the maximum vertical angle. My head was pretty close to vertical so I decided to quickly lift my head the rest of the way to vertical. Luckily this time the dizziness was milder. Once things calmed again in this vertical head position, I was able to stand up and look at the computer screen images of the inner ear canals again while cautiously not moving the position of my head. It looked like the stone should be on the ledge of the exit hole and all I needed to do was slowly tilt my head backwards until about at a 45 degree angle. So I carefully sat on the table with the face cradle still lifted up, I leaned back keeping the top of my head upright. With my body face up on the table with my chin tucked to my chest, I now leaned my head back a bit onto the face cradle. Luckily only a mild dizziness for 10 seconds, then 60 seconds break, then 10 seconds dizzy. So it was still not out.</div>
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I then began to lower the face cradle backward an inch at a time. After about two times, the dizziness stopped no matter how far down I moved my head! So I laid there for about 5 minutes getting up my courage to stand up again. Gambling on my expertise, I held my breath and jumped up off the table… nothing! So I quickly looked down… nothing! It was gone! What a relief!</div>
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I did feel slightly off, almost like a shadow of dizziness lingered for about three days after. But no more vertigo and it has been about two months now, so I’ll keep you posted.</div>
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The procedure took about 60 minutes (yes I know, the times don’t add up, but most of the time was waiting to make sure the stone had reached “bottom” and not just bounced, as well as getting up the courage to cause the vertigo again), but it seems to have been curative. If anyone has recurring vertigo, they should not wait until it comes back. I believe you should come in and let me turn your head in all positions until we “set it off” so that we can locate the stone and figure out which canal it is in and which head direction treatment is needed to get the stone to permanently go away.</div>
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This treatment is called the Epley maneuver, but if it doesn’t make it stay away permanently, then it isn’t being performed correctly. Either the wrong canal is being treated or it is being done too quickly or the stone was assumed to be in the wrong part of the canal. Because I had no one to help me get into some of the positions that would have been needed if the stone were located elsewhere, I got lucky. I made the assumption that it was at the apex of the canal, hoping I was right. Because had it been on the back side of the canal, I may not have been able to treat it myself.</div>
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All modern diseases (heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune disease) have one thing in common: inflammation. And yes, inflammation is largely due to toxins in the body. Avoiding inflammation goes a long way toward preventing all modern diseases. And so keeping our body levels of toxins as low as possible helps keep us healthy.</div>
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The human body detoxifies and cleanses itself naturally, as it has for 250,000 years since our days on the African Savannah. In fact, all animals since the dawn of multicellular life on earth have naturally detoxified their bodies.</div>
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Because we need to take specific steps to make up for the fact that we don’t live in “Eden” anymore.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">You mean because there are more types and numbers of toxins today than ever before?</em></strong></div>
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True, but no, this isn’t why many of us need to “go on a cleanse.”</div>
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I am going to tell you the safest and most effective way to “go on a cleanse,” but first let me describe the real reason why we have this toxic problem today.</div>
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There are two proverbial elephants when it comes to creating toxic humans, one sitting in your kitchen (or favorite restaurant), and the other casting a smothering shadow: 1) bad oils, and 2) clothing. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Huh? </em>Yes, clothing.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">A) Bad oils: a three fold problem</strong></div>
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a) Bad oils directly cause inflammation.</div>
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b) Bad oils are the number one toxin by shear amount and by enduring tenacity. They stick with you, stored in the brain, nerves, and organs, causing low grade inflammation for years. It takes 45 days to get half of them out of the body once ingested, and another 45 days to get the next 25% out, and so on.</div>
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c) Bad oils sludge up the liver and gall bladder, slowing down the liver’s ability to make bile, and the gall bladder’s ability to release bile into the intestines. Bile contains the strongest known antioxidant (extinguisher of toxin induced fires), called biliruben.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why do we care about bile, is it just because it is a strong antioxidant?</strong></div>
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Yes, that helps a lot, but the following are perhaps even more important:</div>
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1) bile carries neutralized toxins out from the liver to be eliminated by the colon</div>
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2) bile is essential for proper digestion and absorption of dietary nutrients by the intestine such as omega 3, and vitamins A, D, E, and K, (omega 3 is a strong natural anti-inflammatory)</div>
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3) bile neutralizes the acids from the stomach so the intestine does not get burned, inflamed, and leaky</div>
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4) bile kills toxic microbes so they don’t take up residence in the gut</div>
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5) bile stimulates the colon after each meal, preventing constipation</div>
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In summary, bad oils directly cause inflammation, but they also cause sluggish liver bile, leading to poor digestion and acidic irritation, setting off food allergies and leaky gut, causing body-wide inflammation, allowing microscopic toxin producing factories to establish in the colon (pathogenic bacteria), and constipation (anything less than 3 BM’s daily is not enough, and of course loose stool is just as worrisome) allowing the stool to putrify in the colon between bowel movements. The colon veins can’t help but absorb these toxins from the bowels which get sent directly to the already sluggish liver.</div>
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I think you get the picture, they are called “bad” oils for a reason.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">So what are bad oils?</strong></div>
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Bad oils are found in: fried foods, roasted nuts, peanut butter, solid-veggie-oil-butter-alternatives, shortning, many packaged foods, coffee (a roasted nut), and oxidized or old veggie oils. Once you open a bottle of oil, the air begins to oxidize it, you have about 10-14 days to use it before it goes bad. Coconut oil lasts a bit longer, up to 60 days. The most susceptible to oxidation is fish oil unless it is processed and packaged well. This is why I recommend Nordic Naturals brand fish oil, they take multiple precautions against oxidation and verifies it with third party testing. The most insidious place bad oils are found are in restaurant foods because often it is cooked with bad oils.</div>
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So obviously it is nearly impossible to avoid bad oils completely, but for every ounce of bad oil you avoid, you get that much closer to “Eden” where your body naturally stays healthy. Start with the biggies like avoiding French fries and fried chips. Make time to go to the grocery and eat at home or pack your lunch more. Those of us with health conditions early in life are actually a bit lucky in that we are forced to eat better sooner because if we don’t eat right, we feel worse.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">B) Clothing</strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Huh?</em> Yes, clothing. It blocks the sun from reaching your naked skin.</div>
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On the African Savannah we had hours of direct sun exposure daily without wearing clothes, sunscreen, or hats. The human skin lacks thick fur for a reason, it has unique properties found in no other animal and it wants lots of sun. Together with sunlight, the skin becomes an efficient toxin filter and microbe killer. Within the first few millimeters of the surface of the skin runs capillary beds that can hold up to 25% of the blood in our body when dilated. Ultraviolet light from the sun penetrates into these capillaries and destroys toxins and microbes, effectively cleansing our blood!</div>
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On top of this, sunshine creates vitamin D in our skin for calcium regulation. In modern times, without high levels of sunshine or D in the blood, we cannot absorb the calcium from our food well, so we instead steal it from our bones. The problem with this is that calcium from the bones tends to get “stuck” in the arteries and soft internal organs such as the liver and gall bladder, creating gall stones and thicker, more sluggish bile. Add bad oils to this recipe and you get a real problem.</div>
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So you see, the two elephants of bad oils and clothing are a dynamic duo. Together they lead to toxin induced inflammation and then to pain and dysfunction and ultimately disease. But specifically they lead to 7 distinct problems that need to all be addressed by an effective cleanse:</div>
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1) liver/gall bladder sluggishness,</div>
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2) stomach acid imbalances,</div>
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3) small intestine stress,</div>
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4) colon dybiosis,</div>
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5) adrenal/thyroid imbalance,</div>
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6) fat burning dysfunction,</div>
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7) social addictions to bad oils, processed sugar, etc.</div>
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At my clinic, I perform specific tests that tell me whether a person needs one or more of the following cleanses. Often a person only needs one or two, but sometimes six or all seven.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">1) Liver/Gall Bladder De-Sludging</strong></div>
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Poor Bile production leads to:</div>
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c) a lack of greenish tint to the stool (bile is green)</div>
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d) light tan stools are a sure sign of low bile (dark brown with a slight green tint is normal)</div>
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e) stool that floats in the toilet or oil droplets (stool should sink)</div>
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If any of these are present, you may need this cleanse:</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beta-TCP: </strong>Take 6 tablets in the middle of each meal daily for 10 days (one large bottle). Repeat if a-e are not fixed. Also, stop eating bad oils, eat more green leafy veggies, check your blood for vitamin D levels (see my article on vitamin supplements for optimal health), and get more mid day sun to your skin tolerance (see my article on <a href="http://campise-chiropractor-fresno.com/sunbathe-for-health/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;">sunbathing</a>)</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">2) Stomach Acid Balancing</strong></div>
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The liver and gall bladder release bile into the intestine after the naturally acidic contents of the stomach are released. Bile neutralizes the acid, making it alkaline for the second phase of digestion. When bile is deficient, the acid from the stomach can burn the intestine. To compensate for low bile release, the stomach produces less acid. This leads to poor meal liquifying, causing food to sit in the stomach longer, and allowing pathogenic bacteria to survive, like H. Pylori, the leading cause of acid reflux and ulcers. Yes, that’s right, acid reflux is often caused by too little acid being produced.</div>
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The other downside of too little acid production in the stomach is that strong acid is required to stimulate more bile production from the liver and gall bladder. So sometimes, even after cleaning out the biliary system, the stomach needs a jump start in order to jump start bile production. It’s called the stomach acid challenge. If after your third bottle of Beta-TCP you still don’t have healthy a-e above, then you’ll need to do this:<br />
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Betaine Plus HP: </strong>take 2 tablets <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">in the middle of each meal</em>, increase by two capsules each meal until you notice a burning, warming, or tingling in the stomach or on the skin over the stomach. This means you have found the amount that is just a little bit too much, so back down the dose by two at your next meal. That is the specific amount you need to reset your stomach/liver signaling. Continue taking that amount until you notice it burns again, then back off by two, staying at the new dose each meal until it burns again. Continue in this fashion until just two capsules burn, then you are done.</div>
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Some patients find that they need up to 20 capsules in the middle of a meal before it burns. Don’t worry, it won’t take long before you can wean down and then stop. Usually only a few weeks is needed to complete the process and you will find your digestion is stronger like it used to be when you were younger.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">3) Clean the gunk out of the Small Intestine</strong></div>
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If upon firm digital pressure you have any tenderness on the front edge of your rib cage right above your abdomen where your abdominal muscles attach to your ribs, then you need this cleanse. This is because these are lymphatic reflexes to the intestines that become tender when the intestine is sludged up. The tenderness could be anywhere from the far right, up to the lower sternum, to the far left edge of your rib cage.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cholacol II: </strong>take 4 tabs, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">15 min before each meal </em>for 7-14 days. This scrubs the intestinal villi clean so that they can absorb your micronutrients better. The cause of gunk in the small intestine is usually gluten containing foods like bread and pasta. When the bottom portion of the villi are covered in gluten residue, you can still usually absorb your calories but you can’t burn them well because the micronutrients needed to burn the calories get stuck in the gunk.<br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">4) Fix the Colon Microflora</strong></div>
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Often times just fixing the liver bile production by avoiding bad oils and doing the above Beta-TCP cleanse will automatically fix the colon microflora. But if not, you might find tenderness upon firm digital pressure over the outside edge of your thigh anywhere from your hip down to your knee on either the right or left thigh. If so then you will need to do this step.</div>
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This has two parts:</div>
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a) kill off any bad flora with <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">A.D.P.</strong> : take 4 x 3 daily for 40 days. This is emulsified oregano oil, a natural herbal extract that can kill most unwanted intestinal microbes. These are in most foods, especially restaurant food, but often only take up residence when your stomach acid and bile are disrupted.</div>
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b) Recollinate with good flora with <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">BioDoph-7-plus</strong>: take 3 caps daily for 7 days then 1 daily for 3 more weeks. Only do this after you are completely done with the 40 days of A.D.P. But be sure to do this step immediately after the A.D.P. is finished, don’t delay or other bad bugs could start to come back as quickly as 24 hours after stopping the A.D.P. if you don’t immediately start putting good bacteria back in with the BioDoph-7-plus.</div>
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There are three stages of adrenal dysfunction. If you are in stage one or two, then eating a better diet, avoiding bad oils, getting more sunshine and vitamin D, cleaning out the liver, intestine, and colon, and jump starting the stomach will be enough to heal your adrenals in most cases. If you are in stage three however, you will need to take an additional step.</div>
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You will have any number of symptoms (fatigue, moodiness, headache, foggy brain, etc.) that goes away for a short time right after eating a meal or snack. Or you will have strong sugar cravings or will tend to be hungry all the time that doesn’t go away after completing steps 1-4 above.</div>
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To fix stage three adrenal dysfunction, in addition to eating a healthier diet void of bad oils, you will need to do the following for 3-6 weeks, or until low adrenal symptoms go away:</div>
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a) stop all foods and drinks with added sugar, stop all caffeine and alcohol, stop all fruit juice, and limit fruit to 1-2 pieces daily. Sugar can be considered a poison of sorts for the adrenal glands.</div>
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This will allow your adrenals to heal and it will jump start your metabolism. By fixing the adrenals, you will fix 80% of all thyroid dysfunction. If you are on thyroid medication or have been diagnosed with a thyroid disease, then healing the adrenals will not be enough to fix your thyroid. Instead you will require personalized treatment from a health practitioner because each severe thyroid case is unique.</div>
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If you are in stage three adrenal dysfunction and you skip step 5 in order to get to step 6 faster, you will get worse! And step 6 won’t work. Don’t do it!</div>
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Otherwise, if you don’t have low adrenal symptoms, you can skip five and start here instead. But to truly fix the adrenals you have to complete this step also. The adrenals won’t be completely fixed until your fat metabolism is fixed. When you can’t burn fat well, you rely on sugar metabolism which makes you crave sugar which tears down your adrenals again.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nutriclear shakes:</strong> 2-4 scoops mixed in 16 ounces of distilled water for breakfast, another one for lunch, then eat a regular healthy dinner. If you get hungry between shakes, then take another shake. Take as many shakes as you need until not hungry. DO NOT MIX ANYTHING INTO THE SHAKE. If you put berries or juice or almond milk or anything else into the shake, it won’t work.<br />
Once you can eat 2 shakes during the day without being hungry until dinner time comes, you can go down to one shake for breakfast, a healthy meal for lunch, and a healthy meal for dinner. Do this for 10 more days. Then stop the shakes. As long as you feel as good off the shakes as you did on them, you are done. If any symptoms return, then repeat this step as many times as needed.</div>
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The cure for this is to follow the above 6 steps over a few months and in doing so feel amazing. Eating bad oils and processed sugars will make you feel not so good again. Soon you won’t want to eat bad foods because you will become addicted to feeling truly good instead of being addicted to the short term high that comes from bad oils and processed sugars.</div>
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The more friends and family you can persuade to do this cleanse with you, the better your chances at staying away from bad oils and processed foods in the future.</div>
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Additionally, you need to be on a small number of vitamin supplements daily for life in order to achieve optimal health. Stay tuned for my next article on this topic. For a sneak peak, you can read my article on <a href="http://campise-chiropractor-fresno.com/kids-vits" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;">vitamin supplements for kids</a>.</div>
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So you’ve done the three week test and the results show that you have a Leaky Gut. And you did the GABA test and you may have a Leaky Brain. Now what?</div>
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Here are the top 7 things you can do, best done with the help of a health practitioner:</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">1)</b> Don’t eat grains or dairy. Stay 100% away from all grains and dairy for at least 6 months. The Leaky Gut and your symptoms will never heal if you keep irritating your gut with these foods. Once the Leaky Gut is healed, some people can get away with small amounts of these foods without flare-ups, but they are living dangerously.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">2) </b>Lower your microbial counts to normal. Most of the time there is chronic low grade infections or “dysbiosis” in the bladder, vagina, gut, or sinuses because of the immune system spending too much energy attacking your food instead of your bacteria and yeast colonies. Because these aren’t full blown infections that an MD would diagnose, you likely don’t need prescription antibiotics for this (ask your MD). But you may need more gentle herbal remedies with anti-microbial activities to help your immune system kill some of the microbial numbers off. Emulsified oregano oil is a good one to use. But be warned, as it kills off microbes, the microbes release toxins that can make you feel worse at first. So to avoid this, it’s best to do number 3 below first. Sometimes just fixing the liver and biliary system (gall bladder) is enough to correct the dysbiosis.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">3)</b> Fix your liver. Sometimes the reason the gluten and dairy became so irritating in the first place was because your gall bladder wasn’t releasing enough bile into the small intestine. Bile buffers the acid released by the stomach so it doesn’t burn the small intestine. Without enough bile, the resulting acid burns can open the door to food sensitivity and can lead to Leaky Gut. See my next newsletter on Cleansing for details on fixing the liver and bilary system. Bile also keeps the gut microbes in check, so fixing the liver can sometimes fix the dysbiosis automatically without needing to use the herbs in number 2 above.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">4) </b>Balance your autonomic nervous system. This consists of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). The SNS is the fight/flight system. It diverts blood and energy away from the gut in favor of the arms and legs muscles. The PNS is the rest/digest system. It brings blood to the gut. Stress triggers the SNS, taking blood away from the gut. The SNS also releases adrenaline and cortisol from the adrenal glands. These in chronically high amounts can be damaging to the gut. You have to take control over the stress in your life or at least learn how to stay calm and relaxed in spite of stress if you are going to be successful at healing your gut. There are many ways to lower the effect stress has on your body, here are a few that have helped me the most:</div>
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F.A.S.T. from NET (<a href="http://www.firstaidstresstool.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;">http://www.firstaidstresstool.com</a>/),</div>
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Centering Prayer (<a href="http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/category/category/centering-prayer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;">http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/category/category/centering-prayer</a>),</div>
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Ki development (<a href="http://www.kionline.org/uploads/1/4/8/8/14880468/jailkibook_fall06.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f7d3d; text-decoration: none;">http://www.kionline.org/uploads/1/4/8/8/14880468/jailkibook_fall06.pdf</a>).</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">5)</b> In many cases avoiding added sugars and sugar alternatives is required if there are issues with dysbiosis or blood sugar handling issues. Also, in some cases, avoiding animal flesh for a period of time is needed if the stomach digestion is weak. A plant based protein powder like from rice or peas may be necessary. See the cleansing article for more information about the product we use for this called Nutriclear. It has pea protein plus nutrients specific for healing leaky gut like L-glutamine and methylfolate.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">6)</b> If your stomach in not producing enough digestive juices to break down your food properly, this will irritate your lower gut. For this reason you may need to do the “Stomach Acid Balancing” described in the next article, “Cleansing.” It consists of taking a specific digestive aid temporarily to jump start your digestion back to normal.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">7)</b> Foods that are slimy tend to help heal the gut. Examples are okra and nopales cactus. Just don’t fry the okra. Nopales can be found at ethnic supermarkets, at least in Fresno. To speed up the healing you can eat 1-2 servings daily of these types of food.</div>
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And lastly, be patient. It is a long road but it is doable. Once you are feeling better (3-24 weeks) keep going for another 2-3 months before adding back in grains or dairy, or sugar or meat if you had to stop these. Usually once you feel good, the healing is only 80% completed. You need to allow time for 100% healing of the Leaky Gut before easing up on the diet otherwise you risk having a major flare-up and losing ground.</div>
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Once you have fixed the Leaky Gut, you may need to do the rest of the tips in the “Cleansing” article (to come) for good measure.</div>
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Leaky Brain refers to a malfunction in what’s called the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB). The BBB consists of specialized cells that form a chemical and physical barrier between the blood and the brain. It keeps toxins and microbes that might be present in the blood from coming in contact with the brain cells.</div>
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Just as the gut could be said to be a barrier between your food and the bloodstream, the BBB is a barrier between the bloodstream and the brain.</div>
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The BBB can microscopically break down similar to the gut. Just like a Leaky Gut allows undigested foods to enter the bloodstream, a Leaky Brain allows toxins, microbes, or other unwanted substances to affect or even damage the brain.</div>
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What are the symptoms of a Leaky Brain?</div>
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Poor memory, foggy thinking, fatigue, moodiness, insomnia, random aches and pains, to name a few.</div>
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<strong style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;">How do I know if I have a Leaky Brain?</strong></div>
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It’s hard to know, but one way is with the GABA test. GABA is a neurotransmitter made in the brain that helps calm the brain. GABA does not cross the BBB. There are over-the-counter supplements containing GABA that people take to help them relax. But since GABA doesn’t cross the BBB, it actually shouldn’t work because it shouldn’t be able to reach your brain. So one test for a Leaky Brain is to take a GABA pill three times a day and see if you notice any calming effects. If you do, we assume that the only way it could have worked is if your BBB was damaged enough to let the GABA reach your brain.</div>
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A Leaky Gut causes a Leaky Brain. Why? Because when undigested whole food particles, microbes, and toxins are entering the bloodstream via the microscopic holes in the gut, they end up damaging the BBB too. Over time, the damage to the BBB turns into a Leaky Brain.</div>
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Fix the Leaky Gut and usually the Leaky Brain goes away automatically because the source of the inflammation and irritation to the BBB has been corrected. In the next article “Leaky Gut 2” I will write about how to fix a Leaky Gut.</div>
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What do autoimmune diseases, digestive distress, chronic body pain and inflammation, headaches, insomnia, anxiety, depression, foggy brain, poor memory, chronic recurring infections, and fatigue have in common? Often the common denominator is something called “Leaky Gut.”<br /><br /><b>What is Leaky Gut?</b><br /><br />It's microscopic holes in the intestinal lining that allow undigested food particles to enter the blood stream. Leaky Gut happens when your intestines have become so inflamed that the intestinal lining can't repair fast enough the daily damage sustained from your food passing through.<br /><br /><b>Why is this bad?</b><br /><br />When whole food proteins enter the bloodstream via a leaky gut, the immune system identifies these as foreign proteins and assumes they must be pathogens. It then begins to attack your food. Talk about a waste of energy! When this goes on long enough it can lead to the immune system attacking your own body tissues and an autoimmune disease ensues.<br /><br />The immune system kills pathogens when it finds them. It finds them by looking for the foreign proteins that make up the structure of the pathogens. Food comes from foreign plants and animals and so has foreign proteins in their cellular structure. The gut is supposed to break these proteins down into the building blocks called amino acids. The body then uses these amino acids to build uniquely human proteins to repair our own cells. When the immune system is busy attacking your food and your own body, it often can get distracted from it's real job, fighting foreign microbes.<br /><br />The biggest side effect of too much immune activity (attacking food and self) is lots of unnecessary inflammation. Inflammation leads to the symptoms listed above: headaches, pain, insomnia, foggy brain, and so on.<br /><br /><b>So what causes the inflammation in the gut that leads to the leaky gut in the first place?</b><br /><br />Almost always, gluten from bread and pasta products and casein from dairy products is the culprit. Gluten and casein are proteins that irritate the gut in some people. Depending on how sensitive you are and depending on the amount of these products you eat daily, you could develop a Leaky Gut from eating dairy and wheat laden foods.<br /><br /><b>Is it possible to have Leaky Gut but not have an autoimmune disease?</b><br /><br />Yes. Some people never get an autoimmune disease from Leaky Gut, they just feel unhealthy in some way: tired, depressed, achy, and so on. Having an inflamed intestine doesn't always cause abdominal pain or discomfort, it may not even cause indigestion. But the inflammatory chemicals released by the immune system in your gut spill into the blood circulation causing low grade chronic inflammation anywhere in the body. If it's in your brain, then you may not have any symptoms other than just “feeling not quite right.”<br /><br /><b>I only have wrist pain, but otherwise I feel fine. Can this be from Leaky Gut?</b><br />
<br />In the case of localized pain, as in a single wrist, usually physical dysfunction causes this, not Leaky Gut. That being said, Leaky Gut will increase the amount of inflammation in a physical injury site, delaying its recovery. So even if there is a known injury, let's say a fall where the wrist is sprained, but the wrist doesn't heal in the usual six weeks time, this could be a sign of delayed healing due to excess inflammation from a Leaky Gut.<br /><br /><b>How do I know if I have Leaky Gut or not?</b><br /><br />Blood tests can diagnose you with gluten or casein intolerances but they are not 100% accurate. Stool tests can identify certain markers for Leaky Gut, but sometimes they are absent even though you have it. The best way to know if you have Leaky Gut is to avoid all dairy and all grains for three weeks. I call this the three week test. Keep a symptom journal each day for a week before during and after the 3 week test. Then continue tracking symptoms while reintroducing these foods one at a time. If you have substantially less symptoms (at least a 25% improvement) by the end of the three weeks off, and then they return after reintroducing them, you likely have Leaky Gut. At a minimum you have an allergy to wheat or dairy.<br /><br /><b>Could it be only gluten or only dairy that I need to avoid? </b><br /><br />Yes, but generally those who are sensitive to one are sensitive to the other at least slightly, and so it's best to avoid both for 6-12 months while your gut heals.<br /><br />More on this in part 2…. stay tuned!<br />Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-11819451338180654742016-11-14T23:44:00.002-08:002016-11-14T23:44:46.903-08:00Shoulder, elbow, and wrist pain: the missing link<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anyone who suffers from chronic shoulder, elbow, or wrist pain knows how it makes you feel: it’s like you’ve lost half your body. <br /><br />Often certain positions will allow you to avoid pain, but move just a fraction of an inch the wrong way and the pain returns. After days of babying the joint the pain can subside, only to forget and use the arm for something you shouldn’t and the pain returns. <br /><br />The maddening part is that there often isn’t any one major injury to point to as the cause. The medical doctor says that it was caused by over use: just take pain relievers and anti-inflammatory drugs or cortisone shots and then wait. He might say to wear joint braces while you sleep or during repetitive tasks. But often nothing seems to make it go away. <br /><br />Medical imaging of the joint usually shows that nothing is wrong. Years later imaging may show a small tear or an inflamed nerve, “requiring” surgical intervention. Often even this doesn’t really completely make it go away. The nagging pain keeps you from sleeping at night. You start to think that maybe this is just what happens when you get old.<br /><br />Not so fast. You don’t have to live this way.<br /><br />The missing link 99% of the time is an irritated nerve in the neck from a jammed facet joint, or more commonly from a bulging disc called a hidden cervical disc (HCD). It’s called “Hidden” because most of the time there is no neck pain, just arm pain. Sometimes medical imaging of the neck will find the bad disc, but often it is missed on the imaging because they only scan you when you are lying down in a neutral posture. Were they to scan your neck while in varying positions, while lift, pulling, pushing, walking, or bending, they might see it encroaching on the nerve space.<br /><br />The astute practitioner will be able to find a pattern of weakness upon examination in the muscles around your affected joints and trace it back to the specific nerve in the neck that is being affected. A surgeon may want to do surgery if he can find something on the imaging. But with correct chiropractic treatment to the neck, the nerve irritation can be alleviated after a series of treatments. Often the muscle strength will return before the pain is gone, which is a sign that the treatment is beginning to work.<br /><br />Sometimes, additionally, the weak muscles will need to have specific digital pressure where they attach to the bone in order to speed up their recovery. The treatment to the neck is generally painless, but if needed, the treatment to the shoulder muscles can be sharply painful, but the treatment pain subsides immediately along with improved range of motion.<br /><br />Once the nerve is freed up to function normally, then the muscles around the affected joint can enable the joint to track correctly during daily activities. Now that the proper function is returned, movement begins to make it feel better rather than worse.<br /><br />When the pain has been there for years, often there can be layers of stuck emotional tension built up that needs to be released with the NET and homeopathic treatments (netmindbody.com). And if your diet isn’t perfect, then anti-inflammatory supplements may be needed temporarily to speed up the healing.<br /><br />To recap:<br /><br />Shoulder, elbow, and wrist problems are almost always caused by a hidden neck problem. Fix the neck and the arm problem goes away. Surgery is almost never needed when proper chiropractic neck treatment is given.Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-28635226451359135752016-11-04T00:50:00.000-07:002016-11-04T00:50:01.291-07:00Kids Vits<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Firstly, focus on a whole food diet void of junk food. Junk food can be rated on a scale from slightly bad to very bad, but any processed food can be considered junk food. Sugar and fried foods are very bad for you foods, brown rice and noodles are slightly bad for you foods. So put most of your efforts into keeping your kids away from the worst offenders. But if they have any health conditions like asthma, allergies, chronic ear infections, acne, and so on, then a completely strict whole food diet is a necessary step in the healing of these conditions. (Inhalers, medications, and antibiotics don't heal these conditions, they only put out the fire until the next flare-up.) Cutting out all junk foods and eating only whole unprocessed foods can often clear up such conditions for good. If you think this is too difficult, then find a support group. There are hundreds of them full of parents in your situation, many of whom have been successful. You can flatten the learning curve by getting or reading the advice of these parents. Many of these groups can be found online.<br /><br />If your kids don't eat a completely whole food, non-processed diet, then they certainly will need to take supplements to make up some of the difference. But even if your kids eat a “perfect” diet, they will still need the following supplements.<br /><br />1) Vitamin D: This comes from sunshine close to noon on bare skin without sunscreen or, from wild fatty fish. If your kid is eating wild salmon 2x daily or is sunbathing in the nude for 20-40 minutes at noon each day, then no Vitamin D supplement is needed. Otherwise, in general here's how much D they need:<br /><br />Age 0-2 = 1,000 iu daily<br />Age 2-12 = 2,000 iu daily<br />Age 13-18 = 3,000 – 4,000 iu daily depending on body size<br /><br />For extra credit: Before vaccines (should you chose to use them) and during cold and flu season they can take a double dose daily for 7 days to boost the immune system. When taking extra D, give some extra vitamin A with it. If the child is eating mostly whole foods including lots of and a wide variety of greens and veggies, then they get plenty of A from these during the off season. But when you double the D to boost their immunity, give them vitamin A at 50% the level of D. So for a 4 year old getting a vaccine next week, increase both his D to 4,000 and add in 2,000 iu of A for 7 days prior to the vaccine. Or if he is exposed to a friend with a bad flu, do the same thing except do it for 7 days after the exposure. And of course, if your child comes down with the flu, increase to these levels during the course of the bug.<br /><br />Breast Feeding moms: Vitamin D typically is not part of human breast milk. But not because it's naturally absent, but because the mom has low levels of vitamin D. Studies show that the mom has to have blood levels around 60 ng/ml in order to have enough vitamin D in the breast milk. They also show that unless mom is taking 8,000 iu daily of a vitamin D supplement, she won't reach the necessary levels for D to spill over into the milk. I recommend that mom's take a minimum of 8,000 iu of Vitamin D daily throughout the entire pregnancy and nursing years. And, to be completely responsible, she needs to check her blood levels of D twice yearly to make sure that she is in the 60-80 ng/ml range.<br /><br />2) Omega 3: This comes from wild fatty fish, some seeds like flax and chia, and certain animal tissues from wild game. So again, no one eats this twice daily. So instead we all need to take an omega 3 supplement for optimal health. The most important time to supplement with this is when we are in the womb and developing through childhood.<br /><br />Age 0-2 = 300 mg<br />Age 2-12 = 600 mg<br />Age 12-18 = 900-2000 depending on body size.<br /><br />Warning!!!: DO NOT TAKE RANCID OMEGA 3 OIL! Many brands on the market are partially rancid, taking rancid omega 3 is worse than taking no omega 3. The solution is to make sure you give your kids high quality omega 3 supplements. In my experience, Nordic Naturals brand is never rancid. You can find these at my office or at most health food stores or even on Amazon.com.<br /><br />Extra credit: Omega 3, like vitamin D and A, can be increased for 7 days before or after known immune stressing events like vaccines and illnesses. Vitamin D and A help to increase the immune action of the body, while omega 3 helps to keep the immune action from going up too high. Allergies are an example of an immune system that in some ways is over active. Omega 3 deficiency (along with junk food) is often the culprit in childhood seasonal allergies.<br /><br />Pregnant and nursing moms: Omega 3 is essential for the developing fetus and nursing infant. Mom's need to take 2,000 mg of omega 3 daily during pregnancy and breast feeding years to make sure that baby gets enough from mom.<br /><br />3) Iodine: This is rarely deficient in the American junk food diet simply because salt sold in the US has iodine added to it. But just because you aren't “deficient” in a nutrient doesn't mean that you have “sufficient” levels of the nutrient for optimal health and performance. Also, just because you ingest your daily minimum of iodine, doesn't mean that it is doing its job once inside the body. There are three toxins, bromide, flouride, and chlorine that interfere with your body's ability to utilize iodine. One or more of these three toxins are found in our water, our dental products, and just about anything made from petroleum or plastic in the case of bromide. It's impossible, and in the case of plastics even undesirable, to avoid these toxins completely, so the antidote is to ingest higher amounts of iodine. Iodine cannot build up to toxic levels in the body so it's difficult to overdose with it.<br /><br />Ages 0-2 = 50 mcg daily<br />Ages 2-12 = 100 mcg daily<br />Ages 12-18 = 150 to 300 mcg daily depending on body size<br /><br />Extra Credit: Similar to D, A, and omega 3, iodine helps the immune system to kill microbes. Iodine by itself is an antiseptic as you know. Before, during, or after a known immune exposure or event like a vaccine or flu, increase the daily dosage of iodine up to 100 times the doses listed above. The way you can tell you have dosed them high enough is that their mucus is thinner, even watery. Thick mucus, either in the lung, sinus, throat, or even stool, is usually a sign of a need for temporary high doses of iodine. Iodine stimulates the mucus thinning enzyme call mucinase. It's the same enzyme that the drug “Mucinex” stimulates. Iodine works better and usually corrects the cause of the thick mucus in the first place. Thick mucus can also be a result of a dairy sensitivity or dairy allergy. Cutting out the dairy for 2 weeks will correct the thick mucus issue if it is the cause. But if no dairy allergy, then increase iodine intake for overly thick mucus.<br /><br />But don't use the red iodine that you can paint on your skin. This can burn the skin in some kids. And it is not intended to be used orally. Instead use “Liquid Iodine” by Biotics. I carry this at my office but sometimes you can find it illegally on Amazon.com. It is a food grade iodine that is safe and effective for kids and adults, can be used internally or topically. 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<br />Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-91773101626944029912016-11-04T00:42:00.004-07:002016-11-04T00:42:58.283-07:00One failure of chiropractors<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">**Note to chiropractors: In keeping with the study referenced below, in this article I will refer to the body of the vertebra when discussing vertebral segment rotation, not to the spinous process like we were taught in school.**</span></div>
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<br />A chiropractor is a specialist in the treatment of spinal dysfunction. If the joints within your spine are not moving correctly, a chiropractor should be the expert of choice. The spine is the main focus of his study.<br /><br />Yet, strangely, there is a fundamental mistake being made by most chiropractors when they treat the neck for vertebral motion dysfunction.<br /><br />According to this published review, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16949947, the cervical spine normally moves in what’s called a coupled way. This means that not only do cervical vertebrae tilt in the direction of head tilt, but they rotate simultaneously. But they don’t rotate randomly, they rotate in a very specific direction.<br /><br />For example, when you tilt your head to the right, the vertebrae also rotate to the right at the same time. When tilting left, they rotate left. They never rotate away from the side of tilt. You could say they always go the same direction. This is called “coupled motion” since the two motions always occur together.<br /><br />But for those of you who have been to a chiropractor before, you might remember how he “popped” your neck. As you are lying on your back, facing up, the chiropractor takes your head and neck, he puts your right ear toward your right shoulder, and then he rotates your head to the left as he “pops” it. Remember? Close your eyes and picture what position your head is in when he treats your neck. Head toward the shoulder and then the chin toward the opposite shoulder. Yes? Hmm.<br /><br />Those having received lots of neck treatments might learn that the treatment relieves pain but often only for a short time. So some patients learn how to “pop” their own necks (not advisable). What do they do? They mimic what the chiropractor did: tilt the ear toward the shoulder and twist the chin to the opposite side. If you don’t do this (which you shouldn’t), you may have seen other people doing it, using a hand on the chin to twist the neck into that unnatural position until it pops.<br /><br />But the neck naturally rotates to the same side, not the opposite, as mentioned in the above paper. So the chiropractor essentially treats the neck in a way that is completely opposite to normal motion. This has been called “uncoupled motion,” because it’s inducing an unnatural pairing of motions.<br /><br />Okay, fine, it’s backwards, who cares? Well, sadly, there aren’t enough good studies to know for sure much of anything about “alternative” treatments like chiropractic. So we’ll have to look at it from a philosophical and a clinical perspective.<br /><br />During a chiropractic treatment of the neck, there are at least two things going on. One is the cavitation of the joint, this is what makes the “pop” sound. Another is the resetting of the tone of the muscles surrounding the joint, this is what makes the neck tension go away. Both have benefits to the patient.<br /><br />Chiropractors could argue that the popping of the joint using an uncoupled versus coupled motion makes little difference to the joint itself, and they might have a point. But it’s harder to argue for this when discussing the resetting of the muscles around the joint because this “resetting” is accomplished through neurological pathways from the joint and muscle stretch receptors firing into the spinal cord and up to the brain. <br /><br />These neurological signals from the treatment stimulate spinal cord reflexes, and brain relay centers, all of which help regulate the tone and sensitivity of the neck muscles. In this way, the chiropractic treatment of the neck could be said to be “teaching” the muscles something, usually to be more relaxed, if not more responsive to head motion (hopefully in a good way).<br /><br />If one goal of the treatment is “teaching” the neck muscles how to move normally again, then why would the chiropractor “pop” your neck by using uncoupled motion? You are right, it makes no sense. It would make more sense to treat the neck using coupled motion.<br /><br />Clinically I have noticed that those patients with the worst neck dysfunction, in general, tend to be the ones who have had the most chiropractic treatments to their necks in the past. This could be a coincidence, perhaps those with bad necks go to the chiropractor the most because they need it the most?<br /><br />I think that the uncoupled chiropractic treatment can be somewhat helpful to the joints of the neck in the short run, but over time these uncoupled motion treatments begin to confuse the nervous system causing long term joint dysfunction. In other words, the joints aren’t tracking correctly, over time causing joint inflammation and perhaps degeneration. To be fair, it may have been a physical injury, like a car accident, that caused the abnormal neck motion in the first place, and perhaps the chiropractic uncoupled motion treatment didn’t cause it. But it seems to at least have not fixed the motion either.<br /><br />I do see plenty of patients who have never seen a chiropractor before, and many of them also have poor neck motion (almost always having a clear history of neck trauma). But they tend to need fewer coupled neck treatments to correct the issue than those patients with a long history of chiropractic uncoupled neck treatments. Like a lot less.<br /><br />The sad state of affairs is that to the best of my knowledge, every chiropractic college teaches only the uncoupled neck treatments. Of course they don’t call them that, nor do they acknowledge such a thing exists. And certainly there isn’t tons of scientific knowledge on this topic, but there isn’t a ton of it on most everything else chiropractic does either. A lack of scientific studies has never stopped the colleges from theorizing before.<br /><br />There used to be a post-graduate program that taught chiropractors how to perform coupled neck treatments. The post-grad teachers asked some of the undergrad chiropractic colleges to allow them to teach this better method to the undergrad students, but the colleges refused, essentially saying that there was nothing wrong with the old way of doing it.<br /><br />From what I’ve heard, this post-grad school has now stopped teaching the correct coupled motion neck treatments even to post-grad students. Unfortunately, for a chiropractor to change his neck treatments from uncoupled to coupled, it’s not as simple as just reading this article. It’s like learning how to ride a bike. You can’t learn it by reading about it, you have to fail at it over and over until you get it right. Most established chiropractors don’t want to go through the effort, and even if they did, they need a teacher to help them just like they did when they first learned the traditional uncoupled treatments at school.<br /><br />There are perhaps some ways around this. The chiropractor could use a mechanical device like an “activator,” making sure to position the head in lateral flexion together with chin rotation to the same side when using it, or keeping the head in neutral. He could employ any of the hundreds of “non-force” chiropractic treatments. Or he could stick to any neck treatments he already knows how to do where the head is in a neutral position. But bad habits die hard.<br /><br />I have been fortunate enough to have learned coupled motion neck treatments from one of the best. Unfortunately he is a dying breed, and he doesn’t teach anymore. The results I have observed from using coupled neck treatments compared to the traditional uncoupled treatments are profound. <br /><br />The human neck is unique among all animal necks on the planet. It allows us to walk upright, and some might argue that the specialized human neck allows us to have a human brain in the first place. When the neck segments move correctly, our standing posture improves effortlessly, and all the other joints of the body are allowed to align and move properly too. Clinically, I see improved posture and walking motion immediately after resetting patients’ necks with coupled motion treatments. I see this every day at my clinic. I never saw this when I was using uncoupled treatments at the chiropractic college.<br /><br />At best, I would say that an uncoupled neck treatment takes pain out of the neck for a time. At worst, it creates never ending spinal dysfunction, or at least perpetuates the dysfunction that was already there. By contrast, a coupled neck treatment at worst relieves neck pain, and at best allows us to be more fully human.<br /></div>
<br />Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-16220172134474970602016-08-25T03:27:00.004-07:002016-08-25T03:27:31.724-07:00Really? My “bone on bone” joint can be pain free without surgery?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1472120088664_3323" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;">That's right, just because a radiologist (who has never examined you in person) writes a report stating that one of your joints has lost most or all of its cartilage and is then regurgitated to you by your primary doctor or surgeon as being “bone on bone,” doesn't mean that surgery is a necessity. And no, I don't mean just live on pain meds the rest of your life. I mean, it's possible to fix the cause of your joint dysfunction. Really? Hmm... How's that possible? Are you sure?<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Even though I routinely help people get out of “bone on bone” joint pain in my practice, I never was 100% sure that I could help a new case each time he/she came to me. At least not until I read Stu Mittleman's book, “Slow Burn.”<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />In his book he tells his personal story about how he damaged his knee ligaments requiring surgery at the age of approximately 25. After the successful surgery, and after his physical rehab, he asked his surgeon when he would be able to start running again? His surgeon laughed at him and told him that he had no cartilage left in that knee and it was in fact bone on bone. He told him that he would never be able to run again without significant knee pain.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Stu didn't like that answer so he found a doctor like me who found out why his cartilage wore out and then helped him fix these underlying causes. After 6 months, Stu was able to run again without pain! And not only that, he went on to become a world class ultra-marathon champion!!! All without knee pain! Now that is impressive!<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />No, Stu's cartilage did not regenerate..... So if his cartilage did not regenerate, then how did he get his knee to be pain-free? Well, it was unique to his situation, just as each patient I treat has a unique situation along with a unique treatment process. But I'll give you the basic formula.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Before I do, I want to say that once I read this story of Stu Mittleman's, I realized that if he can run hundreds of thousands of miles over his lifetime on a knee that's bone on bone with no pain, then it is definitely highly possible for anyone to get out of pain without joint surgery, especially since they likely don't strive to be a long distance runner, but instead just want to walk around the house or at the grocery store without pain.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Plus, my success rate at helping bone on bone cases has gone up to nearly 100% since my advanced training in 2015 in Michigan and my subsequent implementation of cox flexion distraction treatment tables.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So with all the stars aligning, I thought it was time to write this article for you guys and for your friends and family who may be needlessly suffering and contemplating surgery, or who have had a failed joint surgery.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />First let's briefly go over what causes a knee to wear out in the first place:<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />1) Weak muscles surrounding the joint, causing the joint to track poorly, causing the two cartilage surfaces of the joint to bump into each other every time you move the joint, over time wearing out the cartilage.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />2) Low level body-wide chronic inflammation, including in the joint that's wearing out. This inflammation swells the cartilage slightly so that the two surfaces bump into each other even more, wearing them out even faster.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So now that we know generally what causes the joint to wear out, all we have to do is fix numbers 1 and 2 above and, believe it or not, the pain goes away! So in other words, it's the grinding and internal bumping of the two cartilage surfaces into each other, during normal daily movements, combined with inflammation that causes the pain. If we can somehow get rid of the inflammation and help the joint to track properly by increasing the strength of the surrounding muscles, we're golden.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />That's it!<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Of course I could write a whole book on the specifics of what causes the joint's muscles to be weak (there are 100's of causes) and what causes the body to be inflamed (again, hundreds of causes). But let me just say what is NOT the cause of the muscle weaknesses around your bone on bone joint: wait for it...... weak muscles. Huh?<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Except in very very rare conditions (like Myasthenia Gravis, which you don't have or your doctor would have told you by now), the only cause of a truly weak muscle is having it in a cast for 6 weeks. I call this primary atrophy, or “small muscle.” The cure for this is physical therapy, aka exercise. But unless you've been in a cast over that joint for 6 weeks, you don't have primary atrophy, and therefore, physical therapy won't fix the underlying cause of the muscle weaknesses around your joint. And, more likely, the physical therapy will wear out the joint faster because it's not tracking right during your physical therapy exercises.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So, pretty much in virtually all cases, the “muscle weakness” is actually due to poor nerve or poor nervous system function. The nerves and nervous system tell the muscle when to contract, how hard to contract, and when not to contract. In other words the muscle is stupid because it has no brain, instead your brain directs and coordinates the muscles via the nerves. So a weak, or more accurately, dysfunctional muscular system, is really a dysfunctional nervous system. You have to fix the nervous system, including the peripheral nerves that supply the muscles to that joint, in order to enable the muscles to do their job of moving the joint without it grinding the two surfaces of cartilage together.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />This is what I specialize in. Once the nervous system coordinates the muscles correctly again so that the joint tracks right, the pain goes away.... as long as there is no body-wide inflammation.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />The most common causes of body-wide inflammation are: bad oils in the diet, especially trans-fats and rancid oils, too many omega 6 oils, deficiency of omega 3 oils, hidden food sensitivities, too much sugar feeding yeast or other dysbiotic organisms in your gut, or liver congestion from all of the above. </span><span id="yiv9201986149yui_3_16_0_1_1472073192347_2337" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;"></span><span id="yiv9201986149yui_3_16_0_1_1472073192347_2336" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;">And, sadly, all too often, there is a body-wide inflammation as a side effect of prescription medications. </span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1472120088664_3333" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px;">But never fear, I've got plenty of simple and natural things to fix these things too. Stay tuned for more on this.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So in summary, if you have a joint that is painful and your doctor says it is bone on bone and needs surgery, you would do well to come see me so I can diagnose why your nervous system can't control the joint's muscles correctly. I find this out by combining the specific information you give me about the history of your condition with the information I glean from physically examining your neuromuscular system using mostly traditional neurological tests (that neurologists rarely use anymore because they have become overly reliant on radiologist reports from your MRI or x-rays). Your history and examination (and MRI findings if available) must correlate to make a solid diagnosis. Once this is accomplished, the treatment can be rather straight forward.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Please forward this to anyone you know who has joint pain.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Best Wishes!<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.</span>Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-588809333991829372016-07-05T02:46:00.001-07:002016-07-05T02:46:16.100-07:00Dentistry Part 2: What was underneath my crown, and other updates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So upon cutting off my “permanent” crown (that had been installed less than 2 months prior), a small amount of tooth decay was found in the underlying tooth! This could mean only one of three things: 1) the last dentist did not see the decay and so left it there accidentally, 2) the last dentist did not sterilize things well before gluing on the crown and so decay developed in the last two months due to operator error, or 3) … well, I just refuse to believe the third possibility.<br />
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Needless to say, the decay is now gone and a thorough sterilization took place before the new metal-free, perfectly fitting, crown was installed (did I mention same day?).<br />
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Another eye opening story:<br />
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Of course my new first hand understanding of how many dental mishaps are going on out there has led me to investigate the tougher cases at my clinic with a new eye for possible dental causes. So I found a patient who wasn't getting better fully and it turns out, after George Goodheart inspired testing at my office, that two of her teeth may be the culprit to her ill health. So I referred her to a great dentist (yes, the one who fixed my crown), asking her to let me know when she makes an appointment with him so that I can attend.<br />
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Two weeks later, I'm at her dental visit waiting for the doctor when she confesses that she went to her usual dentist the day before just to get his opinion. According to him, she needs three root canals! Yikes! I know that the dentist who's about to walk in doesn't do root canals, instead he extracts the tooth and implants a non-metal post. Three seems like a lot. Well, anyway, the doctor walks in and after introducing himself to my patient, he proceeds to do the exam and look at the x-rays. He explains that she does have severe decay on three teeth but that he can save them! She will need crowns on them, but she can avoid implants or worse, root canals. What a wonderful thing! And why can't the other dentist save her teeth? Not sure. But perhaps one of the three reasons listed above?<br />
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Root canals are not only unpleasant, but they kill the tooth, allowing bacteria to take up residence in the tooth pores, slowly excreting toxins into your body. Not a good idea.<br />
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And yet another personal dental lesson:<br />
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A family member of mine recently had a tooth extracted and a post implanted. She heard about my story and decided to switch dentists in order to get her fake tooth/crown put onto the post with the CNC machine so it would be a one day process. Her implanted post (by a different dentist) was a two step process: 1) extract the old tooth (which who knows, maybe it could have been saved?) and on the same visit implant some pig bone into the hole and sew it up, then 2) four months later cut open a hole in the socket and implant the post. The next step was to wait 2 more months, then put the crown on the post. So out of curiosity, we asked one-day-crown doctor, “What is your process for post implants?” Well, we were both surprised to find out that there is a nicer alternative. They do same day implants! And they use a vegan mineral patch instead of a pig bone! Amazing. Of course you then wait four months before having the same day crown put on. So overall 2 months faster for the post, only one surgery instead of two, and who knows how much less time making the crown. Oh well, now we know.<br />
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But I think the biggest miracle so far was the fact that one of my patients was actually laughing on several occasions during her dental exam with Dr. “One Day Crown.” This patient has severe dental phobia due to being slapped by her childhood dentist while crying and calling for her parents. She was having a panic attack because of an allergic reaction to the norepinephrine that is in the novacaine shots they give us to numb things. Back then they didn't know about this reaction some people have. She was not only slapped but strapped into the dental chair and knocked with other drugs. The fact that she was laughing during her recent visit with Dr. ODC and walked out having had a rather easy emotional time of things truly was a miracle. I have to admit, he makes me laugh too.<br />
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One last FYI:<br />
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If you too have a racing heart or other feelings of anxiety, you may have an epinephrine allergy. You can ask your dentist to use novacaine that doesn't have epinephrine in it so that you won't have this reaction.<br />
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Please contact with me with comments, questions, requests for a dentist referral, or for a George Goodheart inspired exam at my office to see if your teeth might need a better dentist.<br />
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Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-87094250932538010052016-06-29T01:53:00.003-07:002016-06-29T01:53:49.494-07:00My Dental Nightmare... Before you get another dental crown. A must read! <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv5396836773templateContainer" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467189642169_17794" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: #fafafa; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; max-width: 600px !important; overflow-x: auto; padding: 0px; width: 100%px; word-break: break-word;"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467189642169_17793" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; width: 600px;">
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />I'm happy to report that I am currently doing very well dentally. However this was not the case for the past 7 months!</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />It all started last June when a molar that had an old filling in it cracked in half! And of course, my dentist was out of town. There was no pain, but both halves were still attached and I couldn't chew on that side without food packing into the crack, spreading the tooth pieces apart. It was difficult to clean as you can imagine. I was at that time flying to Michigan every 2 weeks to help my chiropractor friend who had broken his back, so I had to get the tooth patched up before my plane left to go back to Michigan.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />He did an amazing job extracting the broken piece and then patching the tooth. He said it needed a crown, but he wanted to wait 3 months to make sure the root wasn't infected.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />After 3 months I returned to the new dentist and he started the crown prep.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />(I could have gone to my dentist at this point, but this new guy had done such a good job with the temporary patch, and he got me in right away for the emergency cracked tooth, I figured the least I could do was to let him do the crown),</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Follow your gut instinct. It usually keeps us out of trouble</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />I had never had a crown before so I didn't know what to expect, though he did explain things as he went.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Let's take a time out here with a short FYI on Dental Crowns:<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />A dental crown is a tooth-shaped "cap" that is placed over a tooth to cover the tooth to restore its shape and size, strength, and improve its appearance.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />The crowns, when cemented into place, fully encase the entire visible portion of a tooth that lies at and above the gum line.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />A dental crown may be needed in the following situations:</h4>
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* To protect a weak tooth (for instance, from decay) from breaking or to hold together parts of a cracked tooth.</h4>
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* To restore an already broken tooth or a tooth that has been severely worn down.</h4>
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* To cover and support a tooth with a large filling when there isn't a lot of tooth left.</h4>
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* To hold a dental bridge in place.</h4>
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* To cover mis shaped or severely discolored teeth.</h4>
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* To cover a dental implant.</h4>
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* To make a cosmetic modification.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Crowns can be made of:</h4>
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All metal</h4>
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Zirconia</h4>
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Porcelain fused to metal (PFM)</h4>
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Porcelain fused to zirconia</h4>
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All ceramic</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So he ground down the tooth, put some liquid rubbery stuff on it, had me bite down for 2 minutes as the rubber hardened into a mold of my bite, then sent the mold away to a crown-making company. He put on a temporary crown and sent me home. A few days later he called me back to put the permanent crown on. He gave me a shot to numb the tooth, pulled off the temporary and put on the permanent.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />It was the wrong color.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So he put the temp back on, sent me home to wait for a new crown with the right color to be made. A few days later he brought me back in, tried the 2<sup style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">nd</sup>new crown, but when I closed my teeth, it broke. So he took another mold, and sent me home to wait.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />In the meantime, the temporary crown didn't feel right... it came loose, so I went in to get it re-glued. Then the 3<sup style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">rd</sup> new crown came in, this time it was lined with metal underneath to make it stronger. This one too cracked the corner when I bit down.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />More waiting, more loose temps, a broken temp, more jaw pain, headache, fatigue from the bacteria that must have been trying to get in the irritated gum around the tooth stub.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Several permanent crowns were not snug enough next to the adjacent teeth and had to be remade (the dental floss didn't “snap.”)</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />A patient of mine is a retired dental assistant. I told her the story in the middle of the process and she said I should count myself lucky because in her experience many dentists will just leave a permanent crown that isn't right, then you get problems with it down the road and end up needing a root canal because of the crown not being right all that time.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Finally, after countless shots and office visits, and 5 months later, the final permanent crown was glued in place.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />I should have been relieved, but the tooth and gum were very sore still. So I patiently waited for the soreness to subside, because now there was no reason for it to be a problem. 6 weeks later it was still substantially sore. I figured out that if I flossed it after EACH meal and snack, it didn't hurt so much.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So I made an appointment with my original dentist (the one who had been on vacation) to have him examine the crown to see if it looked okay.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />He has a dental camera and video screen that he used so I could see what he was seeing. The crown had a slight gap on about 10% of the line between it and the adjacent tooth. He said I was packing food between the teeth causing microbial growth and irritation of the gum and tooth.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />He also used an electrical meter to test if there was any electrical current coming off the tooth. He explained that a battery consists of metal and an acid or electrolyte solution that interact together. He said that any metal in the mouth, surrounded by the electrolyte solution called saliva, can sometimes give off an electrical current. He said his wife had once had an electrical current of -4 mV coming off her crown that was causing chest pain and left sided facial droop. Once her metal lined crown was replaced with a non metal crown, her chest pain and facial droop went away!</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />As he spoke, I remembered having a “potato” clock as a child. It was a clock with four metal probes, each attached to the clock by electrical wire. You just cut a potato in half, put two of the probes into each half of the potato, and the clock would turn on. It would run until the potato dehydrated which was usually weeks later. You could also use an apple or a lemon.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So he tested my new crown (that had a metal underlayer) and it had an electrical current coming off it of -32 mV!</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Yikes!</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />He was surprised I didn't have migraines or anxiety or other really bad symptoms.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So needless to say, he said I needed a new crown! I had mixed feelings, as you might expect. As I sat there, like a deer in the headlights, he kept talking. I wasn't really hearing what he was saying, then off in the corner of my brain I heard him say,</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />“So it's a one day procedure...,” I was confused.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />I asked him how it was possible to redo the crown in one day?</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Now he looked confused and asked me if I didn't know about their in-office crown making machine?</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />It turns out that they have a laser scanner that digitally puts a 3D picture of your tooth stub and surrounding teeth into the computer, the computer generates a suggested new crown, the dentist tweaks the 3D crown so it looks just perfect, then a machine in the back room (a CNC machine) cuts an exact replica out of a “blank tooth” of the computer generated model of the crown that you need!</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Again, mixed emotions.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Anger that I didn't know about this and do this the first time, saving me 7 months of misery; joy that I'm gonna finally get my life back once he fixes this, and fear about how much this is gonna cost.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />This has got to cost 3 times the price of the crown I just had put in, right?</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Nope. Same price!!!</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />So I immediately scheduled for him to redo the crown. It took about 4 hours, but was completed same day. Immediately I felt like the rain cloud that had been over my head for the past two months was gone (was this from getting rid of the -32 mVs?). I had two other visits with him the next week to “readjust” the new crown so my bite was just right (no extra charge and no shots needed for this.) And about a week after, the crown feels like a normal tooth again!</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />And just because you like your dentist, trust your dentist, and hate starting with a new doctor or dentist, i strongly consider going to a dentist who has a CNC crown making machine with a laser scanner so you can get your crown done right and done the same day.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />The thing to try and keep in front of your mind is that if you have had some very bad experiences, dentists have evolved, not only themselves but their equipment.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Also, there's little reason to use metal lined crowns nowadays. Remember that most crowns today, though white on top, have a lining of metal underneath. And, it's not worth getting a crown that isn't perfect, because it can increase your risk for needing a root canal later on.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />If your dentist is using metal crowns or not using a CNC machine to do same day crowns, likely they will have good sounding reasons why they do what they do and why metal is harmless and so forth.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />I'm not a dentist, so I guess I don't know for sure who is right, but all I can do is share my experience with you.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Now that I know about this, I have begun to find a few of my patients with lingering health issues who may need their metal crowns replaced. I'll keep you posted with their progress.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />If you live in the Fresno area, I'd be happy to share the name of the same-day-crown dentist above so that you can have a consultation with him if you are interested, just let me know.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />These are 50% mercury by weight. The mercury is relatively stable while in the filling, but when removing it from the tooth, the grinding process puts lots of mercury vapors into the air. If you breath this in, you are getting poisoned more than you were before removing it. So please, don't put any new metal fillings into your mouth or your kids' mouths, and be very careful when choosing a dentist to remove metal fillings. I can refer you to safe removal dentists if you want.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />These are not a good idea.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />They can sometimes harbor toxic anaerobic bacteria in them, slowly releasing their poisons into your body, causing a mild background inflammation. The underlying ever-present component of all modern diseases (cancer, heart disease, autoimmune disease, mood disorders, digestive disorders, chronic pain) is inflammation. Toxins are one cause of inflammation.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />The alternative is a dental implant.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />These are more costly but my pay off in the long run if your health is better as you age, as a result of the implant vs. the root canal. Again, don't just go anywhere for a dental implant. Educate yourself. Again I can give you referrals if you wish.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />But most importantly, lets get you to the best dentist possible who can help keep your teeth and crowns and fillings healthy so you never need a root canal.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Honestly, if you are living right, and you need a root canal, it's your dentist's fault because he either didn't do the right dental corrective procedures with the right dental materials, or he didn't educated you on how to protect you teeth properly.</h4>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />And, lets get you to the best alternative doctor (like me) so that you can learn how to eat the best diet, avoid the common exercise pitfalls, and take safe and effective supplements to prevent gum and tooth disease from the inside out.</h4>
<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Looking Forward!<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Yours in health,<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Dr.Campise : )<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />559 930 1034</td></tr>
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pauwikshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17273959505342265605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-4294932357121650592015-08-17T14:23:00.003-07:002015-08-17T14:23:36.699-07:00Rough draft 1st chapter new book: diet This is a rough draft of the first chapter of a new book. Please give feedback, especially any questions you'd like answered about food and general diet that aren't covered so far here. Thanks!<br />
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Optimal Health Diet:<br />(Assuming your digestion is great.)<br /><br />Eat lots of veggies and greens with each meal, <br />eat good quality protein at eat meal.<br />Eat whole fruit or raw nuts/seeds between meals if you want a snack<br /><br />Drink half body weight in oz of filtered water daily, but drink it mostly between meals. Don't drink more than 4oz of fluids at a meal, this stresses the stomach by diluting digestive juices, prolonging food time in the stomach before it empties into the small intestine.<br />If you weigh 150 pounds then drink about 75 oz of water per day.<br />Don't count caffeinated beverages since their diuretic effect causes excessive fluid loss through the kidneys. Dryer climates necessitate more fluid intake, humid climates less.<br /><br />Don't eat transfats. They are found in fried foods, roasted nuts including peanut butter, vegetable spreads (fake butter) like margarine, most baked goods that are packaged and don't need refrigerating like muffins and cookies crackers and chips.<br /><br />Cook with coconut oil to avoid creating transfats in your kitchen. Butter is okay if you don't brown it, olive oil is okay if fresh and cooked on low heat. It's best to just steam or bake things without oil. You can drizzle uncooked oils over your food once on your plate for taste.<br />Olive oil oxidizes quickly, so best to buy small bottles and use it all within 10 days of opening it. If it tastes different than the day you opened it, it's starting to go bad.<br /><br />Quality meats are fresh meats from wild or grain free animals. Organic or conventional is up to you, the Organic label doesn't necessarily stand for the high quality it used to now that the government regulators have sold out to big corporate farming practices. It's best to know your farmers and find out how they feed and treat their animals.<br /><br />If you are too busy to find a smart, health conscious, and ethical livestock farmer, one alternative source of quality protein would be vegetable source protein powder. Just eat lots of veggies and greens, then take enough protein shake to cover your protein needs. Or, maybe you can find a source of well fed chickens to buy eggs from. Just don't fry them in oils that turn to transfats.<br />Babies need 1 gram of protein per pound of weight per day. Children need about 1/2 gram protein per pound per day, adults need about 1/3 gram protein per pound per day, and pregnant or breastfeeding moms need about 2/3 gram of protein per pound per day. Of course the more physically active you are the more you need, so athletes can need double or triple these numbers.<br />Eggs have about 6 grams of protein each. Veggies and greens tend to have 2-3 grams of protein per half cup serving. Don't use soy sourced protein products. Rice, pea, hemp seed, acacia would be safer than soy. See Dr. Brownstein's book Soy Deception for more info on avoiding soy. Most don't need to be religious about avoiding soy, but eating it as your main source of protein is not recommended.<br /><br />Keep your saturated, omega 3, and omega 6 fats balanced, and keep transfats at zero.<br />It's a big involved topic, but here's some tips.<br />Use high quality fish oil capsules to keep omega 3 levels optimal. Unless you have a source of fresh wild small fish like sardines, anchovies, trout, or similar, to eat daily, you'll need to take a couple capsules of fish oil daily. See chapter on Dr. C's daily supplements for healthy longevity.<br />Don't eat roasted nuts or seeds regularly. Fresh raw nuts/seeds are safe, but in moderation. Most are high in omega 6, not bad by itself, but if you get more 6 than 3 (fish oil) then you will tend to have more inflammation than otherwise. Theoretically you could eat lots of raw nuts if counterbalanced with extra fish oil capsules.<br />Saturated fats usually implies animal fats. Meats and milks from grain fed animals are highest in saturated fats. Even farm raised salmon is high in saturated and omega 6 fats because they are generally fed grains. Saturated fats are not bad, but too many in relation to the amount of omega 3 fats in your body causes inflammation.<br />We cannot make omega 3 in our bodies, but we can make saturated fats. We turn carbs into saturated fats when we overeat them, especially refined carbs from grains, like breads and pastas.<br />If you are overweight, most of your fat is likely saturated or omega 6 fat. And much of it could be transfats! So you have a long way to go to get your fats balanced, let alone losing weight. See chapter on weight loss.<br /><br />Animal meats that are not grain fed will have less saturated fat and more omega 3 and 6 fats. This is good for you, but mostly if you eat the meat raw. Omega 3 and 6 fats turn to transfats when overlooked, saturated fats do not. I'm not suggesting that you eat raw meat but just making a point. Grass fed meats are a double edged sword. Less saturated fat but more likely to get transfats when cooking. So best to cook grass fed meats at lower temperatures. Increase the cooking time some to make up for this. And of course the least cooked the less transfats.<br /><br />As far as digestible animal proteins, the smaller the animal the easier it tends to be to digest.<br /><br />There are good sources of non fish omega 3, from algae oil. Flax seed or hemp seed oil can be used too, but extra steps are required by the body to utilize these oils.<br /><br />Taking a poor quality fish oil is WORSE than not taking a fish oil at all. DO NOT try to save money buying cheap fish oil, you are shooting yourself in the foot. If you are too poor to buy high quality fish oil, don't take any. Or just take high quality fish oil every other day or every third day, whatever you can afford. Take nothing on days between.<br /><br />Avoid foods with added sugar like desserts and soda, and in general, don't drink fruit juice. Sugar is usually made of 50% glucose and 50% fructose. Fruit juice has lots of fructose as well. Fructose is thought to be the cause of 75% of heart disease. It also contributes to developing diabetes, obesity, and gout. See Dr Robert Lustig's you tube videos and his 60 Minutes episode on the toxicity of sugar. He runs a child obesity clinic at UCSF. He says that he recommends that kids do 5 things to lose weight like playing outside and refraining from video games, but he says that the one variable that makes or breaks their success is fruit juice. If they drink it, they stay fat, if the don't drink it they lose weight.<br /><br />Put some effort into rotating families of foods or at least eating a wide variety of families. For instance, if you eat steamed kale with your eggs for breakfast, cabbage rolls with mustard greens for lunch, and broccoli and turnips as sides for dinner, you are only eating one family of vegetables: brassicas. Just like a poodle and a Great Dane are both the same species, broccoli all the above vegetables mentioned were "bred" by farmers over the years from cabbages.<br />Plant families tend to have similar nutrient profiles and similar toxin profiles. All plants have small amounts of toxins that aim to prevent animals from overindulging in eating them into extinction. Generally animals nibble on plants before moving onto other types of plants. This ensures no one toxin builds up in their system, and the plants can recover from the damage sustained from the animal foraging.<br /><br />Cooking vegetables breaks down some of the plant toxins, but it also breaks down some of the vitamins. So cooking vegetables mild to moderately is a good idea generally. Eating 10-25% of your vegetables raw and cooking the rest might be wise. Green smoothies can be a great way to get more raw veggies into your diet. See chapter on green smoothies.<br /><br />But eating a wide variety of families is also wise. <br /><br />List of plant families:<br /><br />Brassica,: kale, cabbage, mustard, turnip, radish, <br />Spinach: chard, beets,<br />Melon: squash, <br />Asparagus<br />Artichoke<br />Okra<br />Cactus<br />Lettuce, sunflower, dandelion <br />Mushroom<br />Ginger<br />Onion, garlic, chives, leeks<br />Carrot, anise, celery, parsley, dill, cumin, caraway, fennel, parsnip<br />Pea, beans, soy, clover, peanut<br />Nightshade, tomato, eggplant, potato, yam, peppers<br />Sweet potato<br />Coconut<br />Olive<br />Rose: Apple, pear, plum, peach, nectarine, almond, apricot, strawberry, cherry, raspberry blackberry boysenberry cranberry <br />Avocado<br />Blueberry<br />Mint<br />Rice<br />Wheat<br />Corn<br />Aloe<br />Amaranth<br />Borage<br />Walnut<br />Brazil nut<br />Macadamia<br />Chestnuts <br />Breadfruit<br />Pine nut<br />
As you can see, most of what we eat is only in a few food familys: wheat, corn, rice, soy, brassica, nightshade, rose, onion for the most part. The idea is not to be over concerned about this but to just count how many groups you tend to eat and see if you can expand your groups a little bit each month. Perhaps avoid or minimize some of the groups that find their way into everything we eat, like wheat, corn and soy.<br />
visit website at www.drjohnusa.com or call office in Fresno: 559 930-1034 for a consultation on your health issues. Please post comments on here or on facebook page drjohn campise so everyone can benefit from your suggestions.<br />
<br />Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-21484857265343400822015-07-12T16:55:00.003-07:002015-07-12T16:57:00.484-07:00Where oh where has my happiness gone?<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; }a:link { }</style>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Happiness
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DNA codes for positive and negative emotions that correlate with
survival probabilities.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In
general, negative emotions due to poor survival circumstances
motivate us to take actions to acquire something better, and positive
emotions due to rich circumstances allow for either lazy
actions (to keep things the same) or extra-curricular actions like
playing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Either way, happiness is pretty much guaranteed since there
is a low level of happiness that creeps in during the actions taken
(triggered by negative emotions) to improve one's life (felt as
hopeful anticipation).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Lack
of food, shelter, sleep, and friendship all
lead to negative emotions and tend to motivate us to attempt to acquire them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In
modern USA, 99% have plenty of calories, shelter, sleep, and
friendship. Yet depression, anxiety, or just general unhappiness is
rampant. Now there's droves of people trying to "find"
happiness. So what's gone wrong? Have the old DNA rules on how to be
happy been broken?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The
DNA programming is not broken, we just missed an ingredient. Who can
guess which required ingredient is almost necessarily missing from a
modern lifestyle? </span></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">One
major ingredient needed to turn on human happy genes: copious amounts
of midday unfiltered sunlight shining directly on bare skin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here
is a good presentation to get started learning more about why we
can't be healthy and happy without lots of direct skin sun exposure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://youtu.be/1zBBmh8xQhM?list=FLU9_mV_3DLoijkSmjeI-kzQ"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">https://youtu.be/1zBBmh8xQhM?list=FLU9_mV_3DLoijkSmjeI-kzQ</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I
have a full body artificial sun lamp in my clinic. So far I am 2 for
2 using this on people with severe anxiety/depression who were
unresponsive to medication. I thought the light therapy would help by
maybe 30%, but instead was surprised to find 99% resolution after 4-8
weeks of every other day full body bare skin light therapy sessions. Only 2-4 sessions monthly seem to be needed to
maintain improvements in these two cases.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's
been recently shown that endorphins, molecules of happiness, are
created in the skin from direct sun exposure. And,
serotonin/melatonin cycles are created and maintained by sunlight
exposure. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">See this research discussion link, look about 4/5 of the way down:
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2290997/" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2290997/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Modern
human unhappiness is an artifact of an ubiquitous sub-clinical
illness caused by lack of direct sunlight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Simply
procure food, shelter, sleep, friends, and lots of sunlight and you
will have happiness whether you want it or not. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Correction:
Provide lots of sunlight and have happiness whether you already have
basic needs met, or are expecting to acquire them in the future through work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Are you at all unhappy in your life? Read my blog article...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://campisechiropractorfresno.blogspot.com/2013/05/sunbathe-for-health-human-body-needs.html">http://campisechiropractorfresno.blogspot.com/2013/05/sunbathe-for-health-human-body-needs.html </a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">about how to sunbathe so you can fix yourself, or come into the clinic and use our light therapy bed. Then spread the word to your friends and family so that they too can be happier. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Isn't too much
happiness a bad thing because we wouldn't lift a finger to feed
ourselves if we were in constant bliss?</span></div>
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is no such thing as too much happiness, because it just leads to
play. Play fosters creativity and generally leads to invention of new
stuff to make our lives even more fun. Play is so fun that we invent
machines to grow food for us so that we have more time to play. These
actions are motivated and achieved by lots of happiness and the drive
to have even more happiness. It's wrong to assume that a person who
works to get more happiness is always motivated by unhappiness.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Just imagine what our world would be like today had we known about the essential qualities of direct sunlight exposure 100 years ago and took action! We could have eradicated war, poverty, disease, old age, and even having to work for a living by now. Instead we would all be playing for a living!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I don't buy the old idea that we are here to suffer and develop character through hardship. I say we are here to develop character by creating better ways for people to enjoy life through camaraderee with others. But just like in an airplane, "in case of loss of cabin pressure, put your oxygen mask on first before helping your loved ones with theirs." Take responsibility for your own happiness and get optimal levels of light. Then spread the word.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">We will soon have a new light therapy bed, this one is all red light. Most people feel slightly stoned after 20 minutes under these red lights, they make you feel that good. When I use the red light bed, I literally feel like I'm eating a depleted nutrient through my skin!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">We are in the process of lowering our prices so you all can use the light therapy more. We should have the discounted price schedule out soon. </span></span></div>
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Antibiotics have
perhaps done more to save lives than any other single invention ever.</div>
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But antibiotics have
several down sides:</div>
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1) They are based on
fungal toxins which means that your liver has to work hard to break
them down so that they don't build up in your system and damage your
other organs, nerves, or brain. In this way they are similar to
chemotherapy in that they are very toxic. The idea is to take just
enough toxin to kill the cancer or infection, but not so much that
they kill you.</div>
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2) Chronic use of
antibiotics can have long term consequences on your immune system,
liver, and intestinal health.</div>
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3) Antibiotics kill
good intestinal flora along with the infection. If the intestinal
flora (probiotics) are not replaced immediately following treatment,
other major problems can develop down the road (it is not standard
medical protocol to give patients probiotic supplements after
antibiotic use, go figure). Such things as yeast infections, acid
reflux, ulcers, irritable bowel, constipation, excess gas, and even
more bacterial infections are more likely to occur after killing good
bowel flora from antibiotic use.</div>
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4) Bacteria evolve
quickly. Antibiotics never kill all the bacteria in an infection, a
few are left over, and usually the ones with the best genes for
tolerating antibiotics. Over time, bacteria can become resistant to
antibiotics, putting us right back to where we were before we
invented them.</div>
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5) Antibiotics don't
work for viral infections like colds, flus, chicken pox, shingles,
ebola, etc.</div>
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Bacterial toxins
can turn off, slow down, or otherwise interfere with your immune
system. Toxins also damage tissues as the bacteria burrow deeper
inside you. </div>
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A new treatment aims
to simply absorb the toxins excreted from bacteria. Robbed of the effects of their secretions by this new
treatment, bacteria don't stand a chance against an animal's immune
system.</div>
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Small natural fat
particles called liposomes were injected into mice who had sepsis, an
infection so bad that it had spread into the blood and circulatory
system. The liposomes quickly absorbed the bacterial toxins, allowing
the mice's immune systems to stop the infections.</div>
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It seems to me that
if this turns out to work in humans as well as it does in mice, it
could be a huge deal for not only antibiotic resistant bacterial
infections, but it may also be able to be used to combat viral
infections. </div>
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If viral toxins were quickly absorbed by this new
treatment, your immune system would have a much better chance to kill
the virus before it killed you, in the case of ebola. Or at the
least, taking this new treatment at the first sign of the flu might
actually prevent flu symptoms while your body finished fighting off
the virus.</div>
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Another possible
huge benefit (in my opinion) could be for stopping Lyme's disease
symptoms and halting further damage from the Lyme's toxins. Lyme's is
known for causing widespread joint, muscle, and nerve pain due to the
effects of the spirochetal toxins. Spirochetes are a type of
bacteria, but antibiotics don't work very well for Lyme's because
they bore deep into the tendons, joints, and other connective tissues where blood vessels are sparse. With few blood vessels, it is hard for the antibiotics to reach the spirchetes. </div>
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But, since all the symptoms of Lyme's are due to the toxins released by the
spirochete, liposomal injections could theoretically stop all the
symptoms. Without pain, the person could begin to sleep deeply again
and strengthen their body until the infection could be wiped out or at
least held at bay by the immune system.</div>
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Liposomes are naturally occurring fat soluble microscopic organelles inside our cells that we use for absorbing certain toxins and fats and then burning them up. The researchers are of course artificially manufacturing the liposomes for injection into the mice, but from what I know about such things, the liposomes should not pose any harm to the animal or person. </div>
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Here's the link to
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Have you ever wondered why medicine has
been able to achieve such feats as successful organ transplants and
laser vision correction, but they still haven't been able to cure the
common cold?
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We all know that microscopic viruses
are contracted into your body before you catch a cold. But this is
only half the story. Have you ever wondered why sometimes one or two
members of a household won't catch the cold that everyone else came
down with? Certainly everyone in the house was exposed to the virus.</div>
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The other half of the equation:</div>
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<li>Why do most people get colds and flus in the winter? It's not
because it's colder. In India, the cold and flu season hits during
the monsoons and it is anything but cold outside. But the one thing
in common with winter in the US and the monsoons in India is that
there is no UVB from the sun reaching the surface to make vitamin D
in people's skin. Vitamin D is needed in high amounts in order for
the immune system to work properly. During the summer months, most
people have enough vitamin D from the sun that they don't get colds.<br />
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<li><b>Solution:</b> Take enough vitamin D to get your
blood levels of vitamin D up to 60-80 ng/ml. <b>(My office can
order your vitamin D blood test at a cash discount; be sure to check
your levels every spring and fall.)</b> To reach optimal
levels, supplements can range from 2,000 to 20,000 iu of D3 per day.
On average it takes about 8,000 iu daily. It depends on your weight
and body fat percentage. The more you weigh and the more fat you
have, the more vitamin D you will need to take. But the only way to
know for sure is to test your blood. Studies clearly show that ALL
Americans who do not supplement with D are low in it during the
winter. The other option besides taking a D supplement is to
regularly receive light therapy like we have at my clinic.<b>
(Call our office and talk to Erin to schedule a free introductory
light therapy session: 559-930-1034)</b><br />
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</ul>
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<li>The immune system heavily depends on its front line defense:
mucus. Most cold and flu viruses are transmitted through the
membranes in our lungs, throats, sinuses, eyes, and nose. These
tissues secrete a thin mucus that coats them as a protective barrier
against microbes. The microbes get stuck in the mucus and are either
expelled along with the mucus or are immediately killed by natural
antimicrobial agents in the mucus. One of these antimicrobial agents
is iodine. Iodine insufficiency weakens your front line defense
because you can't produce effective mucus without enough iodine.<br />
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<b>Solution 1:</b> Take
extra iodine during cold and flu season. Take between 1.5 and 12 mg
of iodine daily. Note: 1 mg = 1000 mcg (Contrary to allopathic
belief, iodine is very safe since we just pee out any excess. But,
if you have an autoimmune thyroid condition such as Hoshimoto's or
Graves disease, then you should be supervised by a health care
professional while taking iodine.) Unless you eat seafood three
meals a day, 7 days a week, then you need to supplement with iodine.
We need so much extra iodine in modern times because our exposure to
bromide, chlorine, and fluoride is off the charts and interferes
with iodine in the body. The cure for these toxins is to take lots
of iodine. Have you noticed that chlorine dries out your skin, eyes,
and burns your nose? Dry skin and membranes means there are millions
of microscopic cracks for air-born viruses to get into your body.
Iodine helps heal these chlorine caused cracks.</div>
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<li><b>Solution 2: Is there chlorine in your shower water?
Get a shower head filter from the hardware store. They take out 95%
of the chlorine, cost less than $50, and last about 6 months. Refill
filter cartridges can be less than $20.</b><br />
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<li>Have you ever caught a cold or flu but you weren't even
around anyone who was sick? This is a case of a virus allergy. You
were exposed to a small number of a virus that was left in the air
several minutes after someone who is now gone had sneezed. Normally
such a small amount of a virus would not cause you to get sick, but
in your case, your immune system freaked out. Your immune system
ramped up its huge armies to fight, even though the enemy was the
equivalent of a group of rowdy junior high kids. Too late, you have
to go through the entire cold or flu cycle until your immune system
is satisfied that the coast is clear. The reason for a virus allergy
is an over-active immune system, which is the same reason for any
allergy.<br />
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<b>Solution 1: </b>Omega
3 oil supplement. Omega 3, generally from fish oil, is needed for
overall total health. One of its jobs is to keep the immune system
from getting out of control. This is why omega 3 supplements can
help people with autoimmune and allergy problems so much, because
these are conditions of an over-active immune system. Take 600 to
1200 mg of omega 3 daily during the summer and take 1200 to 1800 mg
daily during the winter or up to 2400 mg if you think you coming
down with a cold.</div>
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<li><b>Solution 2:</b> Stay away from fried foods (like
french fries), margarine, and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.
These are full of something called trans-fats which counter-act
omega 3 oils. Trans-fats actually contribute to allergies (including
virus allergies) and autoimmune issues.<br />
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<li>Don't shoot your immune system in the foot! Eating sugar,
(meaning desserts, candy, soda, fruit juice, and almost all
beverages you find at a mini-mart) can lower your immune system
dramatically for several hours or even days after consuming it. 99%
of the time when a patient of mine gets a cold or flu, when I ask
them if they had a lot of dessert or candy within 5 days of getting
sick, they say yes. Desserts taste really good, but colds and flus
are just not worth it to me. The only time I eat desserts in the
winter is to be polite to the host of a party, and I take a small
piece and eat just a few bites if possible. Then I rave about how
good it is and then when no one is looking I put the rest in the
trash. When asked to have seconds I say that I'd love to but I'm
really full! And I never eat candy. I'll take the candy and say I'm
saving it for later, then throw it out later.<br />
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<li><b>Solution: </b>Just say no to sugar. Colds and
flus are not worth it. Eat fresh fruit instead.
<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n">http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n</a>
watch this 60 minutes video called “Is sugar toxic?” (Ignore the
drug commercials.)<br />
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<li>A slow bowel is a toxic bowel. Toxins lower the immune system
worse than sugar does. Do whatever it takes to have at least two
bowel movements daily, optimally three.<br />
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<li><b>Solution:</b> Have regular bowel movements:
Drink plenty of water (45-75 ounces daily). Go easy on the starches:
bread, rice, pasta, and white potato can turn to a sticky glue in
the intestine, feeding yeast, and slowing the bowels. When in a
pinch, take magnesium mineral tablets for a natural laxative. George
Goodhart, the father of Applied Kinesiology and muscle testing in
general, once said that colds and flus are caused by a toxic bowel
and that the cure is an enema!<br />
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</ul>
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<li>Lack of sleep lowers the immune system and allows viruses to
take hold and cause illness much more readily.<br />
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<li><b>Solution:</b> Get extra sleep. If you know
you've been exposed to a virus, sleep an extra 90 minutes each night
for the next three to five nights. This gives your body the extra
rest it needs to re-cooperate from the stress of having to deal with
the virus quickly before it has a chance to multiply, causing
illness.<br />
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<li>Stress lowers the immune system. Even just hearing bad news
can lower your immune system.<br />
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<li><b>Solution</b>: Keep a positive attitude and stay
away from negative news and negative people. There is good and bad
to everything. Make sure that at least half your thoughts during the
day are about how good things are in your life. If more than 75% of
your thoughts are about how bad things are right now, then you are
less likely to fight off a virus without getting ill during the
process. I no longer watch the news or read the paper. If something
big happens, someone else is sure to tell me. I also don't watch
rated R movies. The extra violence is very stressful for the little
kid brain inside us that controls our immune system. It's not worth
it. Movies without excessive violence and with happy endings that
make you feel good can actually strengthen the immune system.<br />
</li>
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<b>Let's make this a cold and flu free season from here on
out!</b><br />
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<b>For more health related information or to read past
newsletters, go to my website or
blog:<br /><a href="http://www.campise-chiropractor-fresno.com/" target="_blank">www.drjohnusa.com</a></b><a href="http://campisechiropractorfresno.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://campisechiropractorfresno.blogspot.com/</a><b><br /></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Salt
can lower blood pressure???</b></span></div>
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Do you know anyone
who is on a low salt diet who still has high blood pressure?</div>
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I do. Lots of them.
In fact, I've seen several patients lower their blood pressure by
increasing their salt intake. Huh?</div>
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It is true that too
much salt causes high blood pressure, but did you know that too
little salt can cause high blood pressure too? Well, it can. Just
like any other nutrient, too much can be harmful, but too little can
be even more harmful.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dr.
Campise's Salt-for-Health Protocol</b></span></div>
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Check your
blood pressure seated after resting for 15 minutes. Measure the
circumferences of your ankles. Record these measurements.</div>
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Put 1 tsp of
raw salt in a ziplock baggie. Add salt like you would normally do to
your food during the day, but from the baggie. Then at the end of
the day, measure the salt that is left in the baggie and subtract
this from 1 tsp to get the amount of salt you are adding to your
food on a daily basis.</div>
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The next day
put the amount of salt you used the prior day plus ¼ tsp into a
baggie. Try to use all of this on your food throughout the day, if
there is salt left over at the end of the day, put it in water and
drink the rest.</div>
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On the
following day, remeasure your blood pressure and ankle
circumferences in the <i>exact</i> same way as the day before. If
your blood pressure goes up and/or if your ankles got larger, this
means you got too much salt, so back off until numbers come down to
optimal. HOWEVER, if your blood pressure went down, and/or your
ankles got smaller, this means you were low in salt and you needed
the extra salt that you added.</div>
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If you needed
the salt, then keep increasing it by ¼ tsp per day until the blood
pressure or ankles increase in amount/size again, then back off the
salt slightly from there. In this trial and error way you can find
the optimal salt level for you.</div>
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Over the next
few weeks continue to monitor your ankles and blood pressure because
once your body gets saturated with salt, you may need to decrease it
again. Or if you start a workout routine or the weather gets hot and
you are sweating more, you may need to increase it more.</div>
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<b>That's it!</b></div>
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Info:</b></div>
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Of course too little
salt can also cause<b> low</b> blood pressure.<br />
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Generally
the way it works is:<br />
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5) Way too much salt causes high blood
pressure<br />
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4) A little too much salt causes slightly high blood
pressure<br />
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3) The right amount of salt allows for normal blood
pressure<br />
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2) Slightly to moderately low salt causes low blood
pressure<br />
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1) Severely low salt can cause high blood
pressure.<br />
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0) Extremely low salt can cause death.</div>
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So as you can see,
if you go from severely low salt intake to slightly low salt intake,
you can lower your blood pressure dramatically. <br />
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But
paradoxically, this is achieved by <i>increasing</i> your salt
intake.</div>
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<b>Beware:</b></div>
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If you were
borderline high blood pressure because of slightly too much salt
intake, your doctor might say to cut out salt from your diet.<br />
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So
let's say you do cut it out. But if you end up cutting out so much
that now you are severely low in salt, you will go from
borderline-high blood pressure to high blood pressure. <br />
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All
because you cut out too much salt.<br />
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So now your MD puts you on
a high blood pressure medication, which brings your blood pressure
down to normal.</div>
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Then you read my
article on salt and decide to experiment by adding some salt back
into your diet. If you add just enough salt to get into the slightly
low salt range..., can you see the problem?<br />
<br />
That's right, your
blood pressure can plummet to dangerously low levels because of the
additive effect of the slightly low salt and the blood pressure
medication.<br />
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In other words, by increasing your salt, you may
no longer need blood pressure medication, but because you are still
taking it, you may get light headed and risk passing out or losing
your balance when you stand up.<br />
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You can see how this is
especially problematic in the elderly. Overdosed blood pressure
medicine is the cause of way too much injury to the elderly due to
low-blood-pressure-induced falling.</div>
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So when
experimenting with salt, please monitor your blood pressure closely
and at the first sign of it going down, stop increasing the salt and
ask your MD to lower the dose of your blood pressure medication or to
take you off it.<br />
<br />
Yes, some people are needlessly on high blood
pressure medication when all they needed was a little <b>more</b>
salt in their diet!</div>
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The best salt to
use:</div>
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Raw salt is best
because it still has lots of trace minerals in it.<br />
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Most table
salts have been bleached and processed to take out the good trace
minerals in order to achieve a white attractive uniform looking salt
product.<br />
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My favorite brand of raw salt is <i>Real Salt</i>.
It comes from an ancient sea bed mine in Utah. <br />
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Other good
salts include <i>Celtic Sea Salt</i>, and <i>Himalayan</i> pink
salt. But beware: plain old “sea salt” is not raw salt.</div>
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<b>Other common
causes of high blood pressure:</b><br />
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1) Smoking<br />
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2)
Obesity<br />
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3) Chronic stress<br />
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4) Lack of exercise<br />
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So try out some raw
salt and let me know!</div>
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Looking forward!</div>
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Yours in health,</div>
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Dr. Campise :)</div>
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www.drjohnusa.com<br />
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559 930 1034<br />
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<br />Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-31881259417382025502013-10-23T08:35:00.001-07:002016-11-08T00:18:41.530-08:00The Best Liver/Gall Bladder Cleanse<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">We've
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<br />
Have you noticed that no matter how much lotion you use, you can never go without the lotion for even one day without your dry skin coming right back?<br />
<br />
Lotion just covers up the symptoms, it doesn't fix the problem.<br />
<br />
Dr. Campise's Miracle Soft Skin Recipe<br />
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1) After showering, dry off, then spray Liquid Iodine over the skin and<br />
gently pat in until dry. (Use potassium iodide from Biotics Research,<br />
it is a clear liquid. We carry this at the office. Do not use the<br />
purple/red stuff from the drug store!)<br />
<br />
2) Then rub organic virgin coconut oil into the skin until absorbed as<br />
you would a lotion. (You can buy this at Whole Foods or any health food<br />
store, it comes in pint jars and is sold for cooking purposes)<br />
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That's it!<br />
<br />
Just a few weeks of doing this daily will create long lasting soft and<br />
moist skin, though weekly maintenance may be required.<br />
<br />
More Info<br />
<br />
Dry skin is one of the signs of a thyroid imbalance. Even if your blood<br />
work says your thyroid is normal, it may not be.<br />
<br />
To check your thyroid function you can measure your oral temperature<br />
when you first wake up in the morning before you get out of bed. If<br />
your temperature is below 98.8 or above 99.2 then you have a thyroid<br />
problem that needs to be addressed in order to permanently correct your<br />
dry skin. (Menstrating women need to check their temperature on day 2<br />
of menses, but everyone else can check any day of the month.)<br />
<br />
If your temperature is 98.8 to 99.2, then your thyroid probably isn't<br />
the problem but there is likely a nutritional component to your dry<br />
skin.<br />
<br />
The two most common nutrient deficiencies that lead to dry skin are in<br />
healthy fats and a mineral called iodine. Both can be absorbed directly<br />
by the skin.<br />
<br />
Iodine is a necessary nutrient for the thyroid and is often all<br />
someone's thyroid may need to correct the body temperature when their<br />
thyroid is mildly out of balance. But iodine is also required by the<br />
skin itself in order to maintain softness.<br />
<br />
Coconut oil is a healthy saturated fat. Saturated fats like those found<br />
in coconut oil help the skin to retain moisture.<br />
<br />
Coconut oil and iodine both have anti-yeast and anti-bacterial<br />
properties.<br />
<br />
Sometimes severe dry skin will have a yeast infection on the skin which<br />
this recipe will take care of in most cases.<br />
<br />
Other things to watch out for:<br />
<br />
Chlorine robs the skin of iodine, and as you might already know,<br />
contributes to dry skin.<br />
<br />
If your tap water is chlorinated, then you need to put a filter on your<br />
shower head. They cost about $25 at most hardware stores and last about<br />
6 months before needing to be changed.<br />
<br />
If you swim or hot tub frequently in chlorinated or brominated water,<br />
you may need to apply the iodine topically after each pool exposure.<br />
Some of my patients who swim a lot take higher doses of iodine<br />
internally that seem to combat the drying effects of chlorine on the<br />
skin.<br />
<br />
Antibacterial soaps are harsh and often dry out the skin. These soaps<br />
should not be used.<br />
<br />
Bleach, rubbing alcohol, and other harsh cleansers should not touch the<br />
skin regularly, they quickly dry out the skin. Gloves should be used<br />
when handling automotive fluids, hair dyes and perms, and so on.<br />
<br />
Clothes detergents and softeners are not completely washed out of the<br />
clothes in the washer. Their residues are absorbed from the clothes<br />
into your skin. Some people are unknowingly allergic or sensitive to<br />
certain brands of these, causing skin issues including dryness.<br />
<br />
If you wouldn't put it in your mouth, you shouldn't put it on your<br />
skin. The skin will absorb any liquid that touches it.<br />
<br />
What else can I do?<br />
<br />
If this doesn't correct the dry skin and your temperature is still off,<br />
then you will need to see someone like me to evaluate your thyroid in<br />
depth.<br />
<br />
If your temperature is normal and you tried the two steps above for a<br />
few weeks and your skin is still dry, you may have a hormone imbalance<br />
that we could evaluate and correct. Proper levels of estrogen and<br />
progesterone are required for healthy skin too.<br />
<br />
So try it out and let me know what you think!<br />
<br />
Looking forward!<br />
<br />
Yours in health,<br />
<br />
Dr. Campise :)Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-67187822220597141852013-05-29T22:11:00.001-07:002016-11-08T00:29:56.303-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
Recently I attended a weekend retreat in Three Rivers, California. It was a beginners retreat for those interested in learning about and<br />
practicing Centering Prayer from the christian contemplative tradition.<br />
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Synopsis of how to do it:<br />
<br />
1) Find 20 minutes once or twice per day to set aside from your<br />
routine.<br />
<br />
2) Pick a "sacred word' to use during the silence such as "peace,"<br />
"thank you," or "Jesus."<br />
<br />
3) Set a timer for 20 minutes (there are cool iphone aps for this:<br />
search "meditation timer").<br />
<br />
4) Sit up straight but in a comfortable position, close your eyes, and<br />
silently say your sacred word as a symbol of your consent to allow<br />
God's presence and action in your life.<br />
<br />
5) When you find yourself engaged in your thoughts, gently return to<br />
your sacred word.<br />
<br />
6) When the timer goes off at the end, sit with your eyes closed for a<br />
few moments, then gently return to your day.<br />
<br />
More Info<br />
<br />
The contemplatives were individuals or groups throughout christian<br />
history who sought to experience and learn about God directly, in<br />
addition to just thinking about or reading about God.<br />
<br />
They realized that our thoughts and actions cannot by themselves lead<br />
us closer to God, but rather God is already inside us. And in fact, our<br />
usually incessant thoughts and actions can often distract us from God's<br />
continual presence.<br />
<br />
Many contemplatives practiced a type of meditation whereby they would<br />
stop everything for a few minutes each day and just acknowledge and be<br />
with God. This included temporarily moving their attention away from<br />
their continuous internal stream of thoughts for the purpose of giving<br />
God 100% of their attention. In other words, they sat in deep silence,<br />
resting in God.<br />
<br />
At the retreat, we practiced sitting in silence several times over the<br />
weekend. Each time we sat for 20 minutes. The first thing I noticed was<br />
how many thoughts and ideas filled my head constantly during the 20<br />
minutes. The harder I tried to get rid of them, the more intense the<br />
thoughts became.<br />
<br />
As the weekend progressed they taught us that thoughts were an integral<br />
part of this silent prayer experience, so it's okay to let them be<br />
there, to acknowledge them with thanks, but just don't “engage” in the<br />
thoughts that come during this time. These instructions helped me to<br />
relax more and so the 20 minutes meditations became more enjoyable and<br />
more restful for me.<br />
<br />
Other things to watch for:<br />
<br />
From my chiropractor's perspective, I saw that the difficulty each<br />
participant (including me) described in keeping their attention focused<br />
on the inner silence of God's presence was a mild form of Attention<br />
Deficit Disorder (ADD). By practicing this difficult task of focusing<br />
on nothing except silence, my mental strength is improving. I'm getting<br />
more centered and less distractable.<br />
<br />
How easily is your mind distracted by what other people say or do<br />
around you? Can you stay focused easily? Can you observe and listen to<br />
what others do and say around you in a silent pause before returning to<br />
your previous task? Or do you often find yourself being led by your<br />
surroundings, rather than staying centered?<br />
<br />
Besides the positive spiritual benefits reported by people who keep a<br />
regular meditation practice, centering prayer can also sharpen and calm<br />
your mind. Having a healthy, nimble, relaxed mind has profound positive<br />
effects on your overall physical health.<br />
What else can I do?<br />
<br />
To learn more about Centering Prayer go to :<br />
http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/<br />
Father Thomas Keating helped found modern day Contemplative Prayer and<br />
he has several books, tapes, and videos for you to learn how to deepen<br />
your spiritual life as well as better understand the human condition in<br />
which we all find ourselves.<br />
<br />
So try it out and let me know what you think!<br />
<br />
Looking forward!<br />
<br />
Yours in health,<br />
<br />
Dr. Campise :)Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-86404944446023946922013-05-29T22:09:00.001-07:002016-11-08T00:31:20.770-08:00Sunbathe for HealthSunbathe for health! <br />
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The human body needs direct sunshine and lots of it for optimal health. Our ancestors lived outdoors without clothes for 80-90% of human history. For the last 10-20% of our history we wore clothes, but we still worked outdoors. Not until the industrial revolution did we begin to work mostly indoors.<br />
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Dr. Campise's Recommendation for sunbathing:<br />
1. Sunbathe 3-4 days per week for between 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your skin type.<br />
2. The best time is at solar noon, which in Fresno, CA right now is about 1 pm. But anytime between noon and 2 pm will work fine.<br />
3. Wear as little clothes as possible, but cover your face with a hat. Don't wear sunscreen while sunbathing. Lie flat to get the most amount of rays.<br />
4. The goal is to turn slightly pink, but don't burn.<br />
5. Refrain from a shower for at least an hour afterward to allow the vitamin D to soak through the skin into the blood. Only use soap on private areas so you don't wash off the natural skin oils containing the vitamin D you just made from your sunbath.<br />
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That's it!<br />
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Most people notice immediate positive changes in mood, energy, sleep, and pain levels.<br />
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Benefits of sunbathing:<br />
1. Ultraviolet (UVB) rays make Vitamin D in the oils on your skin (helps prevent cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, colds/flus, and pain).<br />
2. Sunshine is like natural Prosac, raising serotonin levels, elevating mood and feelings of wellbeing.<br />
3. Resets day/night cycle so you sleep deeper and repair your body at night by raising nighttime melatonin levels.<br />
4. Infrared rays penetrate deep into your body, relieving pain and lowering inflammation.<br />
5. Naturally lowers cholesterol levels.<br />
6. Increases motivation for exercise and physical activity.<br />
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Other things to watch out for:<br />
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If your skin begins to get dry or wrinkled right away from the extra sun exposure, this is a sign that you are low in certain nurtrients. Vitamin A is destroyed in the skin by ultraviolet light, so you may need to take extra vitamin A either in a supplement or from eating more red and orange vegetables. I recommend between 5,000 and 20,000 iu daily of Vitamin A. It can also be a sign of a need for more good fats including omega 3 oils like fish oil. If you aren't already taking omega 3 oils, you need to be. I recommend 1200 to 2400 mg daily of total omega 3. Lastly, dry skin from sunbathing can be a sign of low vitamin C intake. 3,000-6,000 mg of vitamin C daily can help prevent skin aging from the sun.<br />
Beware that getting sun exposure during the morning or late afternoon will not have the same benefits because there is no UVB during these times. Also, recent evidence suggests that sunscreen itself is toxic and creates more damage to your skin than moderate sun exposure does. The best sun protection is a tan!<br />
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So try it out and let me know your results!<br />
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Looking forward!<br />
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Yours in health,<br />
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Gluten-Free Flour Power</h1>
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Living Without's guide to choosing and using
gluten-free flours.</h2>
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From beans and grains to tubers and seeds, there’s a rich and
wonderful array of delicious and nutritious flours waiting for you.<br />
Keep in mind that baking gluten-free requires using a mix of
flours. If you’re new to gluten-free baking, start with our
<a href="http://www.livingwithout.com/issues/4_1/gluten_free_flour-1073-1.html?ET=livingwithout:p125336:280966a:&st=pmail&s=p_tuesdaytip043013&t=B_TL_P#flour">standard
blends</a> or purchase an all-purpose commercial blend at your local
natural food store. Once you’re comfortable with the nuances of a
basic gluten-free blend, try introducing new flour varieties slowly
into your repertoire. In time, you’ll be able to customize recipes
to your individual preferences.<br />
Knowing the properties and uses for alternative flours sets you on
track for selecting the ones best suited for each baking application.
As you learn how to use these flours, you can remake your favorite
foods without compromising taste and texture. In fact, you can add
essential vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber to your baked goods,
fortifying your diet in flavorful ways.<br />
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<b>Beans and Legumes</b></h5>
<b>Bean flours</b> are high in protein, fiber and
calcium. Varieties include chickpea (garbanzo), bean (navy, pinto and
red) and soy. Garfava flour is a blend of flours made from garbanzo,
fava beans and Romano beans. These flours work well with foods, such
as breads, pizza and spice cakes. Try mixing them with tapioca flour,
cornstarch and sorghum flour for a hearty, nutritious blend that
lends structure and texture to your baking. Store them at room
temperature or in the refrigerator.<br />
<b>How to use:</b>
Add up to 30 percent of a total flour blend. A small amount (¼ to ½
cup) added to pie crust or wraps makes these items more elastic and
easier to roll out.<br />
<b>Watch out for:</b> Certain bean
flours, particularly garfava and chickpea, impart an aftertaste that
some people find unpleasant. Offset the taste by using less than 30
percent in a flour blend in recipes that contain brown sugar,
molasses, chocolate or spices. Bean flours are not well suited to
delicately flavored goods, like sugar cookies and biscotti.<br />
<b>Pea Flour and Green Pea Flour</b>, the newest
additions to the line-up of gluten-free flours, have many benefits
similar to bean flours but without the strong aftertaste. High
protein content lends structure to baked goods without adding any
distinct flavor. Store at room temperature or in the
refrigerator.<br />
<b>How to use:</b> Add up to 30 percent
pea flour to a basic gluten-free blend. <br />
<b>Watch out for:</b>
Green pea flour imparts a green hue to the final baked product, great
for Easter or St. Patrick’s Day but not suitable for bakery items
you want to be white. Too much produces goods that have a starchy
taste.<br />
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<b>Amaranth</b> An ancient food used by the Aztecs, this
flour is made from the seeds of the broad-leafed amaranth plant.
Amaranth seeds are also puffed into kernels for breakfast cereals.
High in protein, calcium and iron, amaranth flour adds structure to
gluten-free baked goods and helps them brown more quickly. To store,
refrigerate in an airtight container.<br />
<b>How to use:</b>
Works well in recipes that contain brown sugar or maple syrup.
Because of its distinct taste, use it sparingly, about 10 to 20
percent of a flour blend or no more than ½ cup per recipe.<br />
<b>Watch
out for:</b> If too much is used, baked goods may have a bitter
aftertaste and may brown too quickly.<br />
<b>Corn Flour</b> Milled from corn kernels, this is
finely ground cornmeal that comes in yellow and white varieties. One
form of corn flour is masa harina (milled from hominy) used in making
corn tortillas. If corn flour isn’t available, you can make your
own by grinding cornmeal into a fine powder in a food processor. High
in fiber with a slightly nutty taste, corn flour is a good source of
fiber, riboflavin, niacin, folate, iron and thiamin. To store,
refrigerate in an airtight container.<br />
<b>How to use:</b>
Blend with other gluten-free flours, preferably rice and sorghum,
buckwheat or amaranth for hearty baked items. Use it for tortillas,
waffles, pancakes, breads and desserts. Great for cornbread and as
part of a breading for deep-fried foods<br />
<b>Watch out for:</b>
Don’t confuse U.S.-made corn flour with the so-called “corn
flour” (really cornstarch) used in Great Britain.<br />
<b>Corn Starch</b> A flavorless white powder that
lightens baked goods to make them more airy. It is highly refined and
has little nutritional value. Store in a sealed container in a dry
location.<br />
<b>How to use:</b> Can be used in place of
arrowroot or potato starch. It makes a transparent thickener for
gravies, soups and sauces. It’s an important part of many
all-purpose gluten-free flour blends. <br />
<b>Watch out for:</b>
The British term for “corn flour” is really cornstarch.<br />
<b>Cornmeal </b>Larger particle sized than corn flour,
cornmeal lends excellent texture to foods and has a nutty, slightly
sweet taste. Cornmeal comes in yellow and white varieties and in
fine, medium and coarse grinds. Great for cornmeal cakes, breading,
cornbread, Johnny cakes, Indian pudding and Anadama bread. Select
finer grinds for baking and for polenta. Use coarse meal for
breading. High in fiber, iron, thiamin, niacin, B-6, magnesium,
phosphorus and potassium. Refrigerate to extend shelf life.
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<b>How to use:</b> Blend with corn flour or a
gluten-free flour blend. In most recipes, it should be no more than
25 percent of the flours used. However, some cornbread recipes call
for just cornmeal. <br />
<b>Watch out for:</b> Select the
grind appropriate for your recipes. Using too much cornmeal or a
grind that’s too coarse produces a gritty texture.<br />
<b>Millet</b> An ancient food, possibly the first cereal
grain used for domestic purposes. It imparts a light beige or yellow
color to foods. Easy to-digest millet flour creates light baked goods
with a distinctive mildly sweet, nut-like flavor. High in protein and
fiber and rich in nutrients, millet adds structure to gluten-free
baked items. It is excellent for flat breads, breads, pizza and other
items containing yeast. Store in the refrigerator or freezer in a
tightly sealed container.<br />
<b>How to use:</b> For best
results, use no more than 25 percent millet flour in any flour
blend.<br />
<b>Watch out for:</b> Short shelf life. Millet
can quickly become rancid and bitter.<br />
<b>Oat Flour and Oats</b> High in fiber, protein and
nutrition, oats add taste, texture and structure to cookies, breads
and other baked goods. If oat flour is not available, you can make it
by grinding raw oats in a clean coffee grinder or food processor.
Quinoa flakes can be substituted for whole oats in most recipes.
Store in a tightly sealed container in a cool, dry place or freeze to
extend the shelf life. <br />
<b>How to use:</b> In most
recipes, oat flour should be less than 30 percent of a flour
blend.<br />
<b>Watch out for:</b> Most oats grown in the
United States and Canada are rotated with wheat crops, making cross
contamination a major concern for people with gluten intolerance.
Select oats that are marked “gluten free.” People with celiac
disease should consult their physician before using oats.<br />
<b>Rice Flour</b> Most often used gluten-free flour.
It’s available as brown rice (higher in fiber), sweet rice (short
grain with a higher starch content) and white rice. The texture
varies depending on how it’s milled—fine, medium or coarse. Fine
grind is used for cookies, biscotti and other delicate baked goods.
Medium grind, the most readily available, is suitable for most other
baking. Coarse grind is best for cereal and coatings. Finer grinds
produce the best texture in baking. Easy to digest and blend, white
rice flour has a bland taste. Brown rice flour is slightly nutty.
Brown rice flour should be stored in the refrigerator.<br />
<b>How
to use:</b> Relatively heavy and dense, rice flour works best in
recipes when it’s combined with other flours, especially those that
are high in protein to balance texture and build structure.
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<b>Watch out for:</b> Too much rice flour (unless it's
super-fine grind) can produce a grainy taste and texture and can make
baked goods crumbly.<br />
<b>Sorghum Flour</b> Also called milo or jowar flour,
some believe this flour tastes similar to wheat. Available in red and
white varieties, it has a slightly sweet taste and imparts a
whole-wheat appearance to baked goods. Sorghum flour is high in
protein, imparting all-important structure to gluten-free baked
goods. It’s also high in fiber, phosphorous, potassium, B vitamins
and protein, and is a great choice for pancakes, breads, muffins and
cookies. Sorghum flour is ideal for darker-colored, heavier baked
goods, like brown bread or ginger cookies. Store in an airtight
container at room temperature or in the refrigerator. <br />
<b>How
to use:</b> Should be no more than 25 to 30 percent of any
gluten-free flour blend. <br />
<b>Watch out for:</b>
Darker in color than many other flours, it’s not a good choice for
baked goods that should look white.<br />
<b>Teff Flour</b> Milled from one of the world’s
smallest grains, teff is a key source of nutrition in Ethiopia. It’s
available in dark and light varieties. High in protein, fiber and
calcium, teff imparts a mild, nutty taste to cookies, cakes, quick
breads, pancakes and waffles. Combine teff flour with Montina in an
all-purpose flour blend to produce high-fiber bread with a
whole-wheat taste. Refrigerate for longer shelf life.<br />
<b>How
to use:</b> Should be no more than 25 percent of any flour
blend.<br />
<b>Watch out for:</b> Too much can overpower
delicate recipes.<br />
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<b>Grasses</b></h5>
<b>Buckwheat</b> Despite its name, buckwheat is not a
wheat. It is a fruit from the poly-gonaceae family, which also
includes rhubarb and sorrel. Buckwheat has a strong, robust flavor
that combines well with other gluten-free flours. A great source of
balanced protein and eight essential amino acids, this flour is high
in fiber and B vitamins. It’s available in light, medium and dark
varieties. Light buckwheat flour is usually preferred for baking.
Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator to extend shelf
life.<br />
<b>How to use:</b> For breads and rolls, use up to
1 cup per recipe to impart a taste and texture that comes close to
whole wheat. Use less when baking delicate cookies or pies.<br />
<b>Watch
out for:</b> Too much can overpower a baked product.<br />
<b>Montina Flour</b> is made from perennial Indian rice
grass, a dietary staple of Native Americans before the introduction
of maize. Recently rediscovered and now grown in the western United
States, this protein-rich, fiber-rich flour has a wheat-like taste
and hearty texture. Blend with an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend
to add fiber, nutrition and protein to baked goods. It’s an
excellent choice for use in dark baked goods, like spice cakes and
gingerbread. Refrigerate in a tightly covered container. <br />
<b>How
to use:</b> Add up to 30 percent Montina flour to your flour
blend to produce bread with a whole-wheat taste and texture. <br />
<b>Watch
out for:</b> Too much can overpower other flavors. Its
whole-wheat appearance may not suit delicate, light cookies, cakes or
sandwich breads.<br />
<b>Wild Rice Flour</b> is not made from rice but a wild
aquatic grass originally grown in lakes, particularly in the
Minnesota area. Wild rice is now produced in man-made paddies and,
therefore, it’s more plentiful. Rich in folate, wild rice has a
long shelf life because it is dried and slightly fermented. This
flour’s very dark brown to black color adds a rich hue to pastries
and other baked items. It has a hearty, interesting flavor and
texture. It's best used as part of a flour blend for pancakes,
muffins, scones and cookies. Use it to thicken casseroles, sauces,
gravies and stews.<br />
<b>How to use:</b> Add up to 25
percent to a basic flour blend. <br />
<b>Watch out for:</b>
Like Montina flour, wild rice flour imparts a distinct flavor and
adds a dark appearance to baked goods. Not suited for delicate
pastries, such as sugar cookies, white cakes or biscotti.<br />
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<b>Nuts</b></h5>
<b>Almond Flour</b> and <b>Almond Meal</b>
impart a sweet, nutty flavor to baked goods. High in protein, fiber,
vitamin E and healthy fat. Make your own almond flour by finely
grinding blanched nuts in a clean coffee grinder. Don’t over-grind;
almond flour can turn into almond butter very quickly. Leaving the
skin on the almonds will darken the flour and the final baked
product. Almond flour adds structure and texture to cakes, cookies
and cupcakes. It is popular for Passover baking. Almond flour can be
substituted for oats in oatmeal cookies for people who cannot eat
oats. <br />
<b>How to use: </b>Add up to 25 percent to a
basic flour blend or use up to 50 percent or more in cakes leavened
with eggs.<br />
<b>Watch out for: </b>Not suitable for people
allergic to nuts. Because of its high fat content, almond flour and
meal can go rancid quickly. Store in a tightly sealed container in
the refrigerator or freezer and use within a few months.<br />
<b>Chestnut Flour</b> Made from ground chestnuts, this
flour imparts a nutty, earthy flavor to baked goods. High in fiber
and low in protein, it is used widely by Italian bakers and cooks in
everything from pasta (tagliatelle and gnocchi) to cakes, pancakes,
breads and muffins. Because chestnut flour is low in protein, it
should be combined with a high-protein flour, such as bean, amaranth
or soy flour, to ensure baked goods hold together. Store in an
airtight container at room temperature. <br />
<b>How to
use: </b>Add up to 20 percent to a basic flour blend.
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<b>Watch out for:</b> Too much chestnut flour can
impart an unpleasant earthy taste. Don’t confuse chestnut flour
with water chestnut flour, a starchy white powder with different
baking properties.<br />
<b>Coconut Flour </b>A low-carb, high-fiber flour with
the subtle, sweet fragrance of coconut. Usually well tolerated by
people who have multiple allergies. People on low-carb diets often
bake with 100 percent coconut flour. <br />
<b>How to use:</b>
For best results, add up to 15 percent to a flour blend.<br />
<b>Watch
out for:</b> Too much can create a very dense end product. If
using 100 percent coconut flour, recipes usually call for extra eggs
to create height and airiness.<br />
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<b>Seeds</b></h5>
<b>Flaxseed Meal</b> is high in fiber and omega-3 fatty
acids. Make your own flaxmeal by grinding flaxseeds in a clean coffee
grinder. (Whole flaxseeds are not digestible.) Store in the
refrigerator or freezer.<br />
<b>How to use:</b> Add 2 to 3 tablespoons per recipe for
baked goods or sprinkle on yogurt or cereal for a nutritional boost.
A mixture of flaxseed meal and warm water is used as an egg replacer
in vegan and egg-free baking. (See <a href="http://www.livingwithout.com/resources/substitutions.html#eggs">Substitution
Solutions</a> for egg replacement options.)<br />
<b>Watch out for:
</b>Flaxmeal produces a flecked appearance in bakery items. Too
much flaxseed or flaxmeal can have a cathartic effect on some people.
Introduce it into your diet slowly.<br />
<b>Salba</b> Also called chia, salba seeds come from the
Salvia hispanica plant. Hundreds of years ago, Aztec warriors would
tie a bag of these seeds to their belts to sustain them during their
conquests. The seeds were so important in Aztec culture that they
were used as money. Considered a super food due to high levels of
multiple nutrients and protein, salba is flavorless. Unlike flax,
salba seeds do not have to be ground in order to be digested.<br />
<b>How
to use:</b> Can be added by the tablespoonful to everything from
yogurt to baked goods. A mixture of 1 tablespoon salba and 3
tablespoons warm water (let stand, stirring occasionally, about 10
minutes until thick) can replace one egg in vegan and egg-free
baking. <br />
<b>Watch out for: </b>High in fiber, salba can
be cathartic to some digestive systems. Introduce it slowly into your
diet.<br />
<b>Hemp Flour</b> A protein-rich whole-grain flour that
imparts a nutty flavor to breads, muffins, cookies and pancakes. It
is an excellent source of protein containing all essential amino
acids and is very high in dietary fiber.<br />
<b>How to use: </b>Add
¼ to ¨÷ cup to a basic flour blend.<b><br />Watch out for:</b>
Too much produces a gritty texture and an unpleasant earthy taste.<br />
<b>Mesquite Flour </b>Ground from the pods of mesquite
trees, this pleasantly sweet flour is rich in calcium, magnesium,
potassium, iron and zinc. Combine it with other gluten-free flours to
add a molasses-type flavor to baked goods. Best added to darker
bakery items, such as brownies or gingerbread. <br />
<b>How
to use:</b> Add up to 25 percent to a basic flour blend. <br />
<b>Watch
out for:</b> Too much imparts a distinctive taste that can
compete with other flavors in a recipe.<br />
<b>Quinoa</b> Milled from a grain that’s native to the
Andes Mountains, quinoa is a seed that has a delicate, nutty flavor
that’s similar to wild rice. This flour is easy to digest. Quinoa
contains high levels of calcium, protein, complex carbohydrates,
phosphorous, iron, fiber and B vitamins. Quinoa flakes are an
excellent replacement for oats in cookies, breads, cakes and rolls
and a delicious addition to granola. Store in the refrigerator or
freezer. <br />
<b>How to use: </b>Mix with other
flours, up to 25 percent of total blend, to increase the nutritional
value of baked goods. <br />
<b>Watch out for: </b>Too much
can overpower the flavor of bakery items. Whole quinoa should be
rinsed first to remove the bitter-tasting natural oil that sometimes
lingers on domestic varieties.<br />
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<b>Tubers and Roots</b></h5>
<b>Potato Flour</b> Made from dehydrated potatoes, this
fine yellow-white powder is high in fiber and protein. It can be used
in place of xanthan gum or guar gum in gluten-free baking. It lends a
soft, chewy mouth-feel to baked goods, homemade pasta, breads and
pizza crust. <br />
<b>How to use: </b>Add 2 to 4 tablespoons
per recipe. Reduce or eliminate the gum ingredients accordingly.
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<b>Watch out for:</b> A little goes a long way. Too
much potato flour will create a gummy product. Don't confuse potato
flour with potato starch, which is used in much larger
quantities in recipes and has different baking properties.<br />
<b>Potato Starch</b> Made from the starch of dehydrated
potatoes, this white powder is often used as a one-for-one
substitution for cornstarch in recipes. It has excellent baking
qualities, particularly when combined with eggs. Contains no protein
or fat.<br />
<b>How to use: </b>Gluten-free recipes often
call for ½ to ¾ cup potato starch as part of a flour blend. <br />
<b>Watch
out for:</b> Potato starch tends to clump, so it should be
stirred for accurate measuring. Don't confuse it with potato flour,
which is used in much smaller quantities and has different baking
properties.<br />
<b>Root Flours</b> (Arrowroot, Sweet Potato Tapioca)
Made from root plants, these flours/starches are usually well
tolerated by food-allergic people, even those with multiple
allergies. Their high nutritional properties enhance baking
performance and give bakery goods a chewy texture and increased
browning capabilities. Arrowroot flour is pleasant-tasting and
versatile, good for making breads and bagels. Sweet potato flour,
which has a yellow-orange hue, imparts its color to baked items
and has a taste that complements recipes containing chocolate,
molasses, spices and such. Tapioca flour (also called tapioca
starch), is made from the cassava (manioc) plant. It's a good choice
in breads, tortillas and pasta. <br />
<b>How to use:</b> Root
and tuber starches should be part of a flour blend, up to 25 percent.
Arrowroot starch and tapioca flour/starch are also used as a
thickener in gravies and other sauces. <br />
<b>Watch
out for:</b> Too much of any of these flours can produce a gummy
result.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="flour"></a><b>Basic Flour Combo</b><br />
For a
basic flour mix that works nicely for all-purpose use, <a href="http://www.livingwithout.com/resources/substitutions.html">click
here</a>. While there, check out our recipes for simple flour blends
that provide high protein and high fiber. Turn to "<a href="http://www.livingwithout.com/issues/4_1/gluten_free_baking-1076-1.html">Ask
the Chefs</a>," for a formula for blending alternative flours.<br />
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Yours in Health,<br />
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Dr. Campise : )Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-29063215566732969862013-04-22T21:09:00.001-07:002016-11-08T00:36:16.441-08:00To sunbathe or hide in cave?<style type="text/css">P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><b>We need to sunbathe for health!</b></span><br />
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The
human body needs direct sunshine and lots of it for optimal health. Our
ancestors lived outdoors without clothes for 80-90% of human history.
For the last 10-20% of our history we wore clothes, but we still worked outdoors. Not
until the industrial revolution did we begin to work mostly indoors. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Dr. Campise's Recommendation for sunbathing:</b></span><br />
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Sunbathe 3-4 days per week for between 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your skin type.</div>
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The best time is at solar noon, which in Fresno, CA right now is about 1 pm. But anytime between noon and 2 pm will work fine.</div>
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Wear
as little clothes as possible, but cover your face with a hat. Don't
wear sunscreen while sunbathing. Lie flat to get the most amount of
rays.</div>
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The goal is to turn slightly pink, but don't burn.</div>
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<li>Refrain
from a shower for at least an hour afterward to allow the vitamin D to
soak through the skin into the blood. Only use soap on private areas so
you don't wash off the natural skin oils containing the vitamin D you
just made from your sunbath.</li>
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That's it!<br />
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Most people notice immediate positive changes in mood, energy, sleep, and pain levels.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>More Info</b></span><br />
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Benefits of sunbathing:<br />
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Ultraviolet
(UVB) rays make Vitamin D in the oils on your skin (helps prevent
cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, colds/flus, and pain).</div>
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Sunshine is like natural Prosac, raising serotonin levels, elevating mood and feelings of wellbeing.</div>
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Resets day/night cycle so you sleep deeper and repair your body at night by raising nighttime melatonin levels.</div>
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Infrared rays penetrate deep into your body, relieving pain and lowering inflammation.</div>
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Naturally lowers cholesterol levels.</div>
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<li>Increases motivation for exercise and physical activity.</li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Other things to watch out for</span></b>:<br />
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If
your skin begins to get dry or wrinkled right away from the extra sun
exposure, this is a sign that you are low in certain nurtrients. Vitamin
A is destroyed in the skin by ultraviolet light, so you may need to
take extra vitamin A either in a supplement or from eating more red and
orange vegetables. I recommend between 5,000 and 20,000 iu daily of
Vitamin A. It can also be a sign of a need for more good fats including
omega 3 oils like fish oil. If you aren't already taking omega 3 oils,
you need to be. I recommend 1200 to 2400 mg daily of total omega 3.
Lastly, dry skin from sunbathing can be a sign of low vitamin C intake.
3,000-6,000 mg of vitamin C daily can help prevent skin aging from the
sun.<br />
Beware that getting sun exposure during the morning or late
afternoon will not have the same benefits because there is no UVB during
these times. Also, recent evidence suggests that sunscreen itself is
toxic and creates more damage to your skin than moderate sun exposure
does. The best sun protection is a tan!<br />
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So try it out and let me know your results!<br />
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Looking forward!<br />
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Yours in health,<br />
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Dr. Campise :)Dr. John B. Campise, D.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255637270840314049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681794583743730574.post-74975134904393233512010-09-19T14:13:00.000-07:002010-09-19T15:36:23.088-07:00Attitude<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=johbcamwelcon-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1401923119&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>Attitude: The Primary Factor<br />
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