We have plenty of reasons to go crazy. . .
Dear Mr. President, I voted for you. I hadn’t voted in ages, but I fell in love with your charisma, your speeches, your intelligence, and your bright youthful appeal. But you heaped money on the very bankers who got the country into this economic mess. Unemployment is up and health care reform has fizzled. Pick better people to advise you. . . Meanwhile, a recent study found that fish oil helps prevent mental illness. Could we give fish oil capsules to some bankers, White House advisers, and congress people? They may not only live longer, have fewer heart attacks, but also make better decisions.
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If my beloved Flamenco teacher had not passed away suddenly last summer, I may still be clapping my hands and stamping my feet, and unfortunately, injuring my hip joints and knees. Usually I feel stiffness and aches in rainy weather. That’s normal, I thought. With humid weather, barometric pressure drops and joints and bones swell. Over several years the movement of my left hip became limited: It was harder to reach my left foot, impossible to lift my leg to my chest. My chiropractor told me my hip joint was “bone on bone” and someday, when I could no longer stand the pain, it would require hip replacement surgery. Who has money for that? Twenty thousand or so? I did not want to know, as a recent MRI showed, that I had acute arthritis in the left hip joint and the right one was going too. BOOOOH!
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I am happy and feel great after my first PRP injection. I am very positive about the experience. This is my personal running commentary to inform you of an extremely successful treatment for injury and arthritis, including my natural health advice, to reduce discomfort and speed healing. Platelet Rich Plasma PRP injections have been used for some thirty years in operating rooms and on the battle field to speed and increase natural healing of wounds. Blood is taken from the patient, whirled in a centrifuge to separate the platelets, which contain growth factors, and the platelets are re-injected into the wound site. It cuts healing time to a fraction because the body uses its own building materials to heal torn ligaments, worn out cartilage and many other injuries.
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Do you have chronic joint pain? An Injury?
Orthopedic surgery, sports medicine, osteoarthritis — You may think you don’t need help. You may not be an athlete. But anyone over 40, anyone who smokes or has a compromised immune system, anyone who exercises regularly, runs, dances or plays tennis can benefit from the cutting edge work now being done in orthopedic medicine. You will be reading about my experiences with Dr. Alan Lazar in Plantation, Florida, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale in a running commentary on my treatments. He uses PRP injections, using a patient’s own blood, fat and growth factors from bone marrow in order to heal damaged joints and cartilage. PRP injections, used for over 30 years to speed healing after surgery and more recently in Sports Medicine treatments, are now being used experimentally to improve everyday injuries, osteoarthritis, muscle and ligament tears, and nervous system diseases.
See this video.
I am experimenting with natural ways to ease joint and muscle pain. Outside of the New York medical orbit, I find all sorts of non-surgical, non-drug ways to deal with osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, injury pain, and poor joint mobility. Lots of people want to avoid joint-replacement surgery—athletes, post-menopausal women, the elderly. The risk of infection, badly fitting parts, the need for re-operation due to complications in 1 out of 4 operations, not to mention the COST of joint-replacement are enough to warrant research into natural methods. They may replace surgery for some people or at least provide a stop-gap treatment to delay surgery to the age of 62 or 65 when Medicare kicks in.
Lots of people following WWII and those living in third world countries have had poor nutrition before and after birth. As a dancer, yoga enthusiast my ligaments became quite flexible, which allows the joints to move around too freely. Eventually, with inadequate nutrition and wear and tear and reduced estrogen, cartilage wears down. Some MDs inject an acid at the joints to make the ligament tighter–less flexible–in order to reduce joint movement and wear.
At a recent outdoor fair held at the wonderful Fruit and Spice Park in The Redlands south of Miami, I met Mike Weise, who with his wife handcrafts very strong natural magnets into attractive jewelry. Man-made magnets lose power over time. His magnetite (AKA loadstone mined in South Africa, Sweden and Italy) are so strong I cannot wear my bracelet while typing. It shuts down my computer! It may be draining the battery! My bracelet is made with small beads strung on metal wire with a clasp made from four magnets touching. It works!
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I spend so much time and energy studying and using herbs I tend to ignore vitamins. My diet is rather clean and healthy–mostly fruits, vegetables and nutritious high fiber foods so I don’t supplement. This article may help you to keep pill-taking straight. I recommend taking water soluble vitamins like C and B together. With vitamin D3 (2,000 iu daily) add an acidic food like tea or orange. Take 2,000 mgs calcium and 1/2 as much magnesium with D3, fruit and tea. Usually my breakfast. Other than D and calcium, I am lazy about vitamins. Herbs I take daily tend to be cleansing: Trifala guggul to eliminate digestive impurities and dissolve/prevent masses. At night, herbs to ease joint discomforts like hyuralonic acid and MSM. See the section at this website devoted to “Flesh and Bone” health.
This Amazon Short is a bestseller. Feed Your Tiger can get you through the holidays—-the feasting, family, and fast foods while waiting in the airport. It’s only 49 cents and you can get it digital.
Have you noticed how some of your friends resemble bears, dragons, tigers or cranes? They each have favorite foods and a special relationship to eating. Bears enjoy sweet foods and sweet words. Dragons overeat and overwork especially when nervous or depressed. Tigers love dietary adventures, Asian dishes and wines. This entertaining Amazon Short previews my new healthy lifestyle book Feed Your Tiger: The Asian Secret to Permanent Weight Loss and Vibrant Health and recommends Asian-inspired foods and high-energy supplements to keep the Bears, Dragons, Tigers and Cranes in your life happy and healthy.
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Are you planning time in Manhattan for the holidays? Here is something you can’t miss–The Rubin Museum. See their schedule of films, live concerts and the current Himalayan art collection shows.
“Blessings” for the Holiday Season
The Rubin Museum of Art is pleased to present two screenings of Victress Hitchcock’s new documentary Blessings. Narrated by Richard Gere, Hitchcock’s film examines the role of women in Tibetan Buddhism, in particular the nuns of the Nangchen tradition as they slowly rebuild their spiritual lives, which were disrupted by the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.
The Red Book Exhibition Extended!
Following the laudatory review in Saturday’s New York Times, RMA has responded by extending The Red Book of C.G. Jung to February 15. The Red Book Dialogues now included onstage conversations featuring Mad Men creator Matt Weiner and composer and vocal innovator Meredith Monk.
Memberships can be purchased online, at the Admissions Desk, or by calling the Membership Office at 212.620.5000 x315.
from : Better Nutrition magazine, June 1, 2007 By Nicole Brechka:
Chinese medicine expert Letha Hadady, D.Ac, has spent years traveling throughout Asia and studying the region’s unique approach to wellness. Her newest book, Feed Your Tiger, has an intriguing title-and a unique solution for America’s obesity epidemic. Read on to learn more about this Asian-inspired weight-loss plan and Hadady’s favorite healing remedies.
How is Feed Your Tiger different from other weight-loss books?
Feed Your Tiger encourages self-discovery. We each have a special relationship to food. Most people have an emotional attachment: They may eat dairy foods, meats or cookies in order to feel happy. Eventually, their shape, mood swings and eating habits may cause them to resemble “dragons,” “bears,” “tigers” or “cranes”—the four types of eaters outlined in my book, which addresses common addictions to foods in a non-judgmental way. For example, bear types crave sweets; dragons can’t get enough salty and fried foods; tigers like spices and stimulants, and (end to be nervous eaters; and those in the crane group live on junk foods, or become wrapped up in work and skip meals. Each type has advantages and disadvantages. With Feed Your Tiger, I show how to identify and enhance your true nature. If we fail to nourish ourselves properly, we inevitably fall into illness and depression.
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I have been honoring my need for rest, warmth and comfort as the weather is colder and days shorter. Winter is a time to nourish your dreams and imagination. Nerve-soothing oils such as sesame are rejuvenating. Apply it to your skin all over and inside the nose. Allow the rich proteins to soften your complexion and penetrate your senses with renewed vitality for 15 minutes. Then wash with warm water. If you have acne or a ruddy complexion, another fine oil to use is Argana, made from a Moroccan tree bark. It feels more cooling than sesame and is also rejuvenating. Increase warming spices such as ginger, pepper, clove, cinnamon and hing (asafoetida for bloating) unless you have an ulcer. The tastes to stress in winter, according to Ayurveda, are warming, salty and sweet, less bitter. Bitter (coffee and black tea) increase nervousness and pain.
I have been greatly enjoying adding Peruvian maca powder to my morning mild green tea or warm water. It tastes a bit like yam, a comforting root vegetable that grows high in the Andes. It stimulates the pituitary to enhance the functioning of the entire endocrine system–for enhanced energy, breath, adrenal strength, and libido. It is hormone-balancing for men and women. People in Peru eat the cooked root with meat and potatoes and also use it as an aphrodisiac. It is also said to reduce menopausal complaints. I find it comforting and mood-lifting.
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