The following video is an interesting introduction to the attempts to validate acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Qi Gong (also spelled Chi Gung), distance healing, and Tai Chi through quantum physics. The speaker, Dr. Lo hopes to answer the skeptics and provide scientific explanations for “energy healing” methods.
Quantum Healing with Dr. Lo
The following brief video discusses the use of magnetic insoles to relieve diabetic neuropathy symptoms in the feet. At the end of the video there is a website listed as a source for magnetic insoles. The insoles on that website probably work quite well. Personally, I recommend the “Neo-Flex” insoles that are available through:
Therion professional magnetic therapy product solutions
FOOT PAIN: Ch7 ABC News Reports: Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
The following video is a great scene from the television show “Malcolm In The Middle” that originally aired a few years ago. If holiday shopping is driving you crazy, perhaps this clip will help you relieve stress through the fantasy of acting out parking lot rage. But please… enjoy it as a fantasy only!
Holiday Stress
The following video is a trailer for a DVD documentary on remarkably similar programs set up separately by an American cardiologist and a French cancer specialist. These programs are using meditation, exercise, and diet to help patients recover from cancer, heart disease, and other health conditions, as well as to help patients undergoing conventional medical treatments such as chemotherapy resist the negative side-effects of those treatments.
The Healing Within – Trailer
I recommend The Healing Within to anyone who is suffering from a serious illness.
The following is a video of an excellent presentation by Dr. Dean Ornish on the remarkable healing effects that come from simply living a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and other natural wonders
One objection I sometimes hear from people is that eating a healthy diet is too expensive these days. Granted, buying all organic produce and free-range meat can be expensive, but most of the people who use cost as a reason for not eating well are choosing to eat fast food and highly processed food products rather than opting for MUCH healthier foods that cost the same or less.
Depending on where you live, some of the price comparisons in the following video may not be completely accurate, but the basic concept holds true: with a little effort, you can make healthy food choices that cost the same or less than junk food and fast food that many people try to justify eating on the basis of cost.
Fat Loss Flipcast – Cost of Healthy Eating
Stay tuned to my blog for more on healthy lifestyle.
Herbal Medicine Cabinet
The above video gives some great information on some basics of herbal medicine, including aloe vera, ginger, slippery elm, elderberry, and feverfew.
Natural Hypertension Treatment
The above video discusses a new FDA-cleared device, called the Resperate that is showing results in lowering blood pressure that are equivalent or superior to blood pressure medications. While the device has elements of biofeedback and uses musical tones matched to the users breathing pattern, the bottom line is that blood pressure can be improved with deep breathing, particularly when combined with proper diet, and aerobic exercise.
The Resperate is particularly effective when used in combination with other blood pressure control measures. By itself, it shows modest benefits, but it can be the extra help some people need to be able to correct their hypertension.
I think the device is probably very effective for those who use it as instructed and as part of an overall blood pressure control program, but even if you don’t want to spend the money on the machine, you can still get very good results in controlling your blood pressure simply by taking time to do deep breathing exercises.
Different recommendations exist for how to do such exercises, but in my experience, there’s no need to make it very complicated. Simply breathe in slowly and as deeply as you can, pause for a moment holding your breath, and then exhale slowly and as fully as possible. Some will say to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth, but this can be problematic for people with sinus problems, so my recommendation is to do what feels comfortable.
The most important thing is to do the exercises regularly, preferably at least 10 minutes once or twice per day. The Resperate is recommended to be used for 15 minutes at a time at least 3 to 4 times per week. I think it might produce even better results with more frequent use as I’ve suggested for deep breathing in general. At a retail price of $290.00, it is a bit pricey, but if it helps keep people on their deep breathing program and helps lower their blood pressure long-term, it’s not a bad investment in my opinion.
The following videos are parts one and two (of two) from a public lecture given by Dr. Raymond Lam at a conference of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms.
Dr. Lam describes Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and the less severe mild seasonal depression sometimes called the “winter blahs”. He goes on to explain the basics of using light therapy to combat SAD and the winter blahs. Light therapy is remarkably effective, and works better than anti-depressant medications for many people – and does not have the dangerous side-effects that are sometimes associated with the medications.
SAD and Light Therapy — Part 1
SAD and Light Therapy — Part 2
SSRI – Birth of Modern Psychiatry
The above video explains how the pharmaceutical industry has largely “medicalized” many normal emotional states through the promotion of SSRI (Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor) drugs. While some people do benefit from such medications, for many, they produce severe side-effects and/or create personality changes that can be disturbing to the people taking the drugs and the people who know them.
In my opinion, SSRI drugs should be reserved for use in people who have difficulty functioning in day to day life and who have already unsuccessfully tried natural methods of controlling depression and anxiety (such as exercise, omega 3 fatty acids, 5-HTP, meditation, Emotional Freedom Technique, etc.).
The only other cases where SSRIs are justified, in my opinion, are in cases where there are signs of severe mental illness, such as in people who view videos like the one above and feel that the video is out of sync with the audio portion of the presentation. This is a very serious condition indeed, and generally requires institutionalization and often electro-convulsive therapy for any hope at all of recovery (I am of course joking, and although there were some technical issues with the above video, I thought that the information was worth sharing despite the technical issues).
