19 October 2008
Varicose Veins
25/10/08 07:00 Filed in: Varicose Veins
I was asked what to do about varicose veins. I thought that this topic might be useful for others, so I am answering it here and forwarding it on to several friends.
Varicose veins occur when the walls of the veins are unable to stretch and return to their original size – when the veins are not elastic enough.
Vein walls are made mostly of collagen. Collagen gives strength and elasticity to all connective tissues. The body makes collagen from one thing: Vitamin C. If your wife is having problems with varicose veins, she needs much more vitamin C.
Getting enough for her needs from food would be practically impossible. However, vitamin C works much better in the presence of bioflavinoids and other plant chemicals found in natural sources of vitamin C. Actually collagen gives strength to connective tissues. Bioflavinoids are the precusors of elastin which gives the elasticity.
Bioflavinoids are found in abundance in citrus skins. However, the thin outermost skin (the colored part) is very bitter and is often sprayed with chemicals. I suggest to you what I do:
Peel the outermost skin off of oranges (lemons, limes, grapefruit), leaving all the white inner skin. Cut the fruit with white skin into chunks. Remove most of the seeds. Put it in a blender with some orange juice, a few ice cubes, and about a teaspoon of Vitamin C powder (ascorbic acid). Grind it up and drink it during the next 5-15 minutes while very fresh.
If there is a problem with over-acidity in the body, mix the vitamin C powder with an equal quantity of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). Add a little water, stir and allow to fizz. Now you have sodium ascorbate, a neutral salt of ascorbic acid which delivers vitamin C but is not acidic. Do not mix these powders directly into the pulpy juices or the fizzing will overflow your container!
Buckwheat sprouts (planted in soil, sprouted into little plants, and eaten as salad greens) are the highest source of the bioflavinoid, rutin. If you are up to the sprouting endeavor, I recommend these as well.
Also, since vitamins C and B complex are synergistic, take a good B complex with the C drink. B vitamins are the precursors of the chemicals in the nerve synapses. When these are used up, one nerve firing will not cause the next nerve to fire. When you are low in B vitamins, you may notice that you tend to "lose the thought" (duh, what was I saying?). This nervous exhaustion is a symptom of B vitamin deficiency. If you have this problem, take this drink with vitamin B complex. About 20-30 minutes later, you will be able to think clearly again. Brewer's yeast is rich in several B vitamins and can be added to the drink. However, so many people have problems with excess yeast in their bodies (Candida albicans). In such cases, eating yeast is not a good idea.
Increasing your dosage of vitamin C and bioflavinoids will make your skin more elastic. This will help you to stay looking young. Your tendons and ligaments will strengthen as well. It will take some time to work, but this dietary addition will solve the varicose vein problem (and improve the health in many other ways). In my opinion, drinking more water, taking more vitamin C, and getting adequate exercise are the most important factors needed for improving health.
Since B and C vitamins are water soluble, your body cannot store them well. Thus you need to eat them daily. If you manage to take too much vitamin C, the overdose symptom is diarrhea. This is not a big problem. If you get loose stools, just reduce your vitamin C dosage a bit.
--Dr. Robert Frost
Neck Flexors and Gaits: Attaining Chosen Goals
24/10/08 07:59 Filed in: Muscle Testing and Gait
As an Applied Kinesiologist for many years, I've been noticing and considering the relationship between specific weak-testing muscles/systems and psychological conditions. I've noted generally that those with weak extensors have difficulty separating themselves from others/other things. The can't push people or things away. Those with predominantly weak-testing flexors have difficulty holding onto things. They have difficulty pulling something or someone in near to themselves.
Even more interesting: Those with weak-testing neck flexors have difficulty pushing their personal will through opposition. They are not so able to stand their own ground, defend their own position, and exert their own choice against/through the resistance of others or outer conditions. Neck flexors must be strong to "butt heads" - an important male dominance behavior - not only in the animal kingdom! Weak-testing neck flexors make someone a easy "pushover".
When the gaits are out, especially the front (anterior) gait, one has difficulty "stepping forward", out of current conditions toward desired conditions. A reminder: To test the front gaits, test anterior deltoid first. If weak, strengthen it. Then test the lower abdominals by raising a single straight leg (lying supine) and pushing it down. If weak, strengthen it. Then test one anterior deltoid and the opposite lower ab simultaneously. If the individual muscles test strong, but weak when tested together, the gait mechanism is "out". The AK technique for strengthening the gaits is massage of points around the ball of the foot. I recommend putting this weakness in circuit and doing a complete balance for it. The protocol of doing various cross crawl movements, rubbing the points, and again doing the cross crawl movements can be well given as homework for the client to do themselves.
A child with gait problems runs with discoordination and is often made fun of by the other kids. He or she may then decide that sports are not for him/her and concentrate exclusively upon mental studies. This can disturb their self-image and lower the quality of their whole life experience. Correcting the gaits can make a great improvement in the quality of life.
I had a 45 year old patient in the medical clinic where I worked in Basel, Switzerland. He was an extreme dyslexic with both mental difficulties and physical discoordination. He wore special pants because he often wet his pants uncontrollably. His wife made fun of him and his personal image was "am Arsch" (German for "on his butt" - really down). When he lifted an arm, all leg muscles on both sides tested weak. When he lifted a leg, all arm muscles tested weak on both sides. He always wanted to learn to swim, but the simultaneous coordination of arms and legs needed was beyond his capacity. With concentration, he was able to learn to do various cross crawl movements. He went to the swimming pool, did cross crawl, rubbed his feet and again did cross crawls. He then got in the water and learned to swim in one hour. He returned to me with a look of great pride in his eyes (like a child who says, "Look, Mommy, at what I can do!") and told me of his success. The best part, he said, was that he had control of his prior problem and could now correct it "with my own hands".
When someone has strong neck flexors but the gaits are out, they can defend their position and exert their personal will against resistance well, but may have difficulty making and following through on long-term plans/goals.
Balancing the neck flexors and gaits can have very long-reaching, generalizing effects upon their ability to set, move forward toward, and achieve goals... and thereby upon their image of themselves as a functional, successful human being.
--Dr. Robert Frost
Author of Applied Kinesiology
Neuromuscular Stretching Technique
23/10/08 07:00 Filed in: Applied Kinesiology Neuromuscular Techniques
Here is another great technique to apply in your Applied Kinesiology sessions:
The basic principle: Stretch a muscle to its maximum. Fix it there so it can't return toward relaxation. Isometrically contract the very muscle you are stretching against fixed resistance. Use only about 25% of the muscle's strength of contraction. Breathe deeply the whole time. After some time, relax and stretch the muscle further. Repeat the process.
--Dr. Robert Frost
Cranial Bones At Birth
22/10/08 09:00 Filed in: Applied Kinesiology Treatments
When after 36 hours of labor my daughter was born, her little head was shaped like a rocket nose cone. As her mother was being attended, I held my daughter under the warmer, met her gaze, and held the top of her head in my palm. The weight of her head pressed the pointed top of her head into my hand. I felt the bones shift and her head become more round. I told her mother. The doctors laughed and scoffed, saying that the cranium is a fixed structure and never changes. I asked them if they really believed that my daughter would live her life as a conehead. Their learning completely blocked the truth of their experience... and their vision. Amazing and sad but true.
--Dr. Robert Frost
AK Treatments
20/10/08 08:12 Filed in: Applied Kinesiology Treatments
The neighbors teenage daughter had three girlfriends visiting. One very sturdy girl has had hip problems. She told me that she her right leg was longer and that this has caused her constant pain (with her daily running) for over a year. I tested all the hip and upper leg muscles I could remember. Gluteus medius, Rectus femoris, Psoas, Piriformis, lower Abdominals tested weak. Hamstrings and Gluteus maximus tested very strong. I turned on all the weak-testing muscles with NL points (I haven't memorized the NE points yet!). Her pain was gone. I had her run around the pool, bend and stretch. Her pain in the bumm (middle of Gluteus maximus) returned. I suspected, as always, that the tight painful muscle was a reactor muscle so I spindle cell weakened it by pinching the muscle belly together, parallel to the muscle fibers, directly over the area that hurt. She was lying on her belly, so I had her next pull her leg forwards towards the ground (activating the opponents to Gluteus maximus: lower Abdominals, Rectus femoris, hip flexors). Presto, her pain was gone and couldn't be found through movement or stretching.
Next, her skinny friend asked if I could do something about her "shin splints". I tested the lower leg muscles and found only peroneus longus and brevis, the peroneus muscle that everts the foot (moves the pointed foot toward the little toe side) weak-testing. I strengthened it with NLs. Then I used a fast vibratory massage on the muscular attachments of muscles to the shin bone where she was having her shin-splint pains. This "origin-insertion" technique was the first muscle-strengthening technique discovered by George Goodheart (the founder of applied kinesiology). See: http://www.joyousworld.com/health/ak/oi.html
Her shin-splint pains were gone.
The girls asked me how to increase their stretch. They are all dancers and want to do the splits. I showed them the technique of stretching a muscle to the maximum, fixing it in place, and gently tightening the maximally stretched muscle while breathing. (Hypertone-X, proprioceptive-integrative technique?). This increased their range of motion swiftly.
-Dr. Robert Frost
Applied Kinesiologist
Applied Kinesiology and Voodoo
19/10/08 12:18 Filed in: Spirituality
Bell's theorem is absolutely fascinating. It is derived only from mathematical logic. As long as our rules of logic are correct, Bell's theorem must also be correct. Although thus "proven", what it implies is unclear.
Actually, the validity of Bell’s theorem implies that one of three basic assumptions is wrong:
1. Logic is valid.
2. "Reality" is something that exists separate from observation.
3. Information cannot travel instantaneously from one point to another; cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
Logic is likely valid. If not, we need a whole new mathematics and philosophy.
If number 2 is the invalid culprit, then the world we perceive is only that way because of our perception of it. What we call reality only comes into existence as a result of our perception. This sounds like the Toltec belief: That the world we perceive is a creation of our minds. Their awakened members contend that when they move their assemblage points, they perceive totally different realities.
If number 3 is wrong, then information can travel faster than light as assumed above. Perhaps it can’t. But if it can’t, then number two is incorrect which means that our world is much less "objective" and "real" than most imagine! It would be more accurate to state that the world as you know it comes into existence as a result of your act your observation.
Either answer is very mysterious and wonderful. Could it be that parts of the universe are in constant contact with one another instantaneously, no matter how distant from one another? This sounds like a scientific proof of the unity of all existence. Or perhaps reality as we experience it has no existence in and of itself. It is generated by our personal and social acts of observation. Whichever one of these two (or perhaps both) is the case, we are in a far more amazing universe than most imagine."
This is quoted from the webpage
http://joyousworld.com/qabalah/pages/bigpicture.html
There, about 2/3 the way through the huge page, is the story of Bell's theorem and a photo of the man who derived it.
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Concerning "spirit" in blood, I made a fascinating discovery. A friend, a medical doctor at the dinner table, had a small cut on her finger. I gathered a bit of her blood on a tissue and placed it in a little plastic bag. Another friend, a man at the table, volunteered for an experiment. First, I did meridian diagnostics on the doctor with the cut. Then I energy balanced the volunteered man so all his meridians were in balance. Then had him place the bag with the blood under his belt near his skin. Next I did meridian diagnostics on him. With the little packet of blood upon his body, he had the precise energy imbalances that the doctor had. The presence of her blood near his body put him into her energy imbalanced state.
The next part sounds a bit like voodoo! I energy balanced him while the little packet of blood was upon his body. He was put into balance. Then I went back to the doctor and found that she too was in complete energy balance. I balanced him to her blood and she was put into balance with no direct contact whatsoever.
--Dr. Robert Frost