May
17

FIBROMYALGIA

doclind on May 17th, 2011

Fibromyalgia is one of the BIG topics these days. This is a life altering condition for anyone who has symptoms and health problems even close to this.

fi•bro•my•al•gi•a is a disorder related to aching muscles, sleep disorder, and fatigue, associated with abnormal levels of the brain chemicals that transmit nerve signals (neurotransmitters)

Fibromyalgia is known by muscular pain and fatigue. Fibromyalgia means “pain in the muscles and the fibrous tissues” (the ligaments and tendons). There are no laboratory tests that confirm fibromyalgia; instead, the diagnosis depends mostly on a person’s report or complaints and feelings. Pain is the most common symptom of fibromaylgia. It occurs throughout the body although it may start in one region, such as the neck and shoulders, and spread to other areas over a period of time.

Most of the time people with fibromyalgia-type problems, women mostly, are told that everything they experience is “all in your head”. They are offered Diazepam for tension and fatigue, or Prozac, Zoloft, or Paxil for depression. What are you going to do after years on these drugs?

In other words, after the drugs don’t work. Are drugs supposed to be taken long-term? Does it mean that the more drugs you take the healthier you are?

There are some very advanced procedures and protocols to use to improve a person’s health. I hope you find out the things you can do to improve yours.

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May
16

Chiropractor Injures Back

doclind on May 16th, 2011

I was doing some ‘minor’ yard work last weekend, didn’t notice anything at the time but I felt something not quite right. Slept well that night but later the next day became a little stiff in the low back. Went to work Monday morning and the pain got a little worse. So, against my better judgment I had a massage (my back was quite irritated by then and I suspected it shouldn’t be aggravated; there is a time for everything, this wasn’t the time). I couldn’t get off the table.

I lay there trying to move. It took me several minutes before I lifted myself up. I walked down the hall of the clinic very slowly and went into another room where I had my assistant do ‘a little work’ on it. I couldn’t move again.

A few years ago I fell 4 feet and landed on concrete, breaking two of my vertebrae. That was painful. I took the week off of work, called several chiropractor friends and my friend the orthopedic surgeon for advice. The orthopedist did not have advice that was helpful but I followed my fellow chiropractor’s advice and was back to work in one week.

So, laying in agony on the table I called my chiropractor friend who happened to be in his car about 15 minutes away. He came over and spent 45 minutes with me, advised me to cancel the afternoon and the next day appointments. I spent that afternoon in his clinic as he worked on me, then the next day, and the next, all week, helping me recuperate a disc problem. Amazing! These are the only two times in 22 years that I have cancelled because ill-health. I only missed one afternoon and one morning.

I had many thoughts about this event. Here’s is what I’ve learned:

1. You cannot think correctly when you have a physical problem. All these people in our country who do incomprehensible things may have very faulty thinking patterns because they are not well physically and mentally, or they are on drugs, prescription or non. If you have a physical problem you have a brain problem.

2. All the inflammatory chemicals from an injury reach the brain and change brain chemistry. Add medications on top of that and you really have an unbalanced biochemistry. The inflammation has to reduce. Yes, you may have to take anti-inflammatory ‘substances’, and I took several compounds; one was NEUROFLAM to reduce the neurological inflammation; the other was an adrenal support because my adrenal system was going through the roof.

3. I know how people feel. Pain sucks, but listen, pain is a friend, gentle or violent. It is a way, like all your other symptoms, that something is not right in your body and mind. YOU CANNOT IGNORE YOUR SYMPTOMS OR COVER THEM UP, without your body re-calibrating itself to a secondary level of functioning. Use your symptoms to get well and stay well. It’s easier now than when you really have to attend to your health).

4. My first thought in any mishap is not turn to medicine, unless, of course I have shattered a bone (twice), am unconscious, or my wife makes the decision (she is a nurse at the hospital). My first thought is: “something is wrong, what needs to happen to get this functioning again. Unfortunately, there are many things people do that drag their health down every day and then they come into my clinic and want a ‘magic cure’. Life as I know it doesn’t work that way. When you deal with the body there are many systems that are affected with health, healing, injury, and disease. My recent back issue involves my nervous system, my adrenal system, my mental and emotional systems, my respiration, my cardiovascular…I won’t name them all, but everything in the body.

5. I don’t know everything. In fact, the more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know anything. Not to say don’t learn. I am using the most recent methods to understand what is wrong with the body and what it needs to become well again. What a long pursuit. When it comes to the human body and mind I am humbled.

6. A physical condition makes you realize what is really important in life. I know the economy is down and people are down, and on and on. But you have it better than anyone in the history of the world, don’t you? I mean, just 80 years ago they didn’t have toilet paper. 200 years ago people were living in log homes without running water, without electricity, without a corner grocery store. Count your blessings and carry and attitude of gratitude. There must be one thing you are thankful for.

Here’s a sobering thought: in 40 years or 69 years, or 6 months from now you will be dead. Most likely, another 10 years after you are gone no one will remember you. Your life is what you have right now, this moment. It isn’t what you have tomorrow or what you lived 10 minutes ago. It is right now. If it isn’t the way you think it should be then do something about it — and you really know what that would be. If it is just like you thought it should be then be grateful and then help someone else do the same.

We are all in this thing together, going down different paths that lead to the same place.

Back Pain Salem OR

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May
14

Lipitor and Your Cholesterol

doclind on May 14th, 2011

Before you get misty-eyed about the statin drugs you are thinking about taking to lower cholesterol here are a few things you need to be informed about:

CHOLESTEROL
Only 20% of your cholesterol comes from foods you eat; 80% is made by your body. Cholesterol is needed to make adrenocortical and sex hormones like progesterone and testosterone. Cholesterol is the structure of cell membranes

LIPITOR is the largest selling drug
Some of the 60 adverse effects of Lipitor are abdominal pain, abnormal heartbeat, back pain, chest pain, constipation, decreased sex drive, diarrhea, distorted facial muscles, fatigue, headache, increased muscle movements, joint pain, lack of coordination, leg cramps, muscle aching or weakness, tingling of extremities and unstable emotions — Physicians’ Desk Reference

FRAMINGHAM STUDY
The study done to promote the lowering of cholesterol to prevent heart disease, when examined, does not show the relationship of cholesterol levels above 240mg/dL to heart disease.

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
The new guidelines written by the AHA to lower cholesterol levels with statin drugs were written by 9 top cholesterol experts of which at least 6 received consulting fees, speaking fees, research money, or other support from the makers of the most widely used anti-cholesterol drugs..

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION
In 2008, new guidelines for managing cholesterol levels in children were released. 15 million children as young as 8 years old are now being prescribed anti-cholesterol drugs. If only 10% of those children were prescribed Lipitor, it would generate $2.5 Billion in sales per year. Two of the experts on the committee have lucrative financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

MAKING SENSE
Cholesterol is important in the body for making hormones and cell structure. There have been links between low cholesterol levels and brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia—lack of cell structure in brain and diminished nerve conduction.

Cholesterol is important!

Before you think you want to lower your cholesterol think about all the millions of biochemical equations that have to be balanced in your body. When you lower one side of the equation you have to balance it SOMEWHERE ELSE! There is a reason your cholesterol (and anything else in your body) is out of balance. It takes the wisdom of your body to figure it all out. The mind of mankind cannot come close to doing this.

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May
14

Victims and Owners

doclind on May 14th, 2011

Spirit — (spir’it) n. 1. A person’s mind or feelings or animating principle as distinct from his body; shall be with you in spirit.
— Oxford American Dictionary

Spirit is the low flame inside you just waiting for life to be pumped into it. The pump is inside you. You can pump it anytime you want. It doesn’t have anything to do with outside circumstance or people. You can pump it anytime you want.

A deep breath of oxygen will improve any circumstance. Inspire means breathe in. But if you never do this your spirit will suffocate and become stagnant. It will smolder inside a still personality.

I learned a valuable lesson about people from a man who pays $150,000 a year to get his inspiration so this may be worth at least $100. Here’s what he said; “there are victims and there are owners and you are one or the other.”

Victims sees things beyond their own control: it’s the weather, my job, those people, the economy, my childhood, my boss, my sister, my dad, the president…

Victimization can often last a lifetime. But it’s only a habit. Victims think themselves into it. When it’s understood, it can be replaced.

Owners reinvent themselves as they go in an ever-expanding circle of compassion, vision, and courage. Owners give all of themselves into what they’re doing, every moment.

There are people who travel up and down Interstate 5 and stop at hospital Emergency Rooms. If they tell the ER staff they’re in pain they have to be offered a medication — by law. They get what they need and then travel to the next Emergency Room, up and down Oregon and beyond. Victims or owners?

You have no idea what people go through; you can just observe them and their actions. Many people are stuck in their own reality. Their spirit is chained to an anchor and they remain a victim their entire life. And, they can pass this trait off to their children — if the children adopt this habit.

What happened to you in the past is still with you and affects your body, mind, and spirit today. Are you and your spirit stuck?

So who do you really want to be? Your “being” is what we’re talking about. If you want you can change your being by changing your spirit.

Here’s an example.

Dan M. had been in a number of times when I had him read a chart with words on it. He said he couldn’t read. I asked why. He said he never could read well and his wife confirmed.

This is what she said:
“Dan never learned how to read correctly. He memorized words and could only read with that limited ability. Because of trauma in Dan’s life his mind shut down and he could not go beyond that time of pain on his own.

Dr Lind allowed Dan to be able to take his first step beyond that painful childhood. One night I woke up to a strange sound: Dan was verbalizing syllables and doing pronunciations in his sleep! He was reading in his sleep!

We are amazed at the techniques Dr Lind is using. We are anxious to see what develops with continued care. Sometimes I don’t know how to handle my changed husband.”

Here’s a person with a stifled spirit — one that was stuck.

It gets better. Now this man, who couldn’t and didn’t read much his whole life, is reading about a book a week! Today he is an OWNER.

What would you do if you were released from something in your past? Not only will you respond differently, the people around you will change or be changed because you’ve changed your point on the web.

Follow?

How do we do this? Every thought, feeling, and emotion that you have ever had is located somewhere inside you. When it is elicited you feel it. If there were a way to ‘re-set’ that specific event that created the emotion then it should be cleared from you—not the event or the memory of it if you had one—but the ‘charge’, or the emotion that has caused a ‘victimization’ or a hold on you.

Just like what happened to Dan.

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May
11

CHILDREN’S HEALTH!

doclind on May 11th, 2011

There is probably nothing more important for your child’s growth and development than what they eat. Of course your kids and grandkids are the best around. I wouldn’t expect anything less. I’m going to let you in on even more of the secret: the 6-step plan for raising healthy, smart kids. Here is a summary:

Step 1: Take the one supplement that will help them grow and become smart
Step 2: Follow the two-step eating plan
Step 3: Eliminate polyunsaturated fatty acids
Step 4: Maximize exposure to natural light like sunlight while reducing exposure to unnatural light
Step 5: Drink a good source of natural water
Step 6: Wellness adjustment

Step 1. This supplement is not anything you find in the store; read their ingredients. We have carried this natural, power-packed nutritional supplement for years: Mighty Mins. Studies done on this supplement determined that it helped produce higher learning, comprehension, growth, and development.

Step 2. The Two-step eating plan:

1. Eat a serving of meat, fish, poultry, eggs, or cheese three times daily — that is, 21 times per week, without fail. That means no meal ever consists of predominantly carbs. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs or cheese for breakfast, and for lunch, and dinner.
2. Drink no sweet beverages — ever! Never drink soft drinks, juice, fruit drinks, or sport drinks — ever; never, never, never! Essentially, that means that water is the beverage of choice — always.

Step 3. The oxidative damage done by polyunsaturated oils (PUFA’s; both omega 6 and omega 3) is cumulative. If you minimize that oxidative/catabolic destruction during childhood, that young person will avoid the diseases that are now considered quite ordinary among all people age 20 years and older. PUFU’s include salad dressings, margarine, mayonnaise, deep fried foods, and all foods fried/grilled in oil.

Step 4. Natural light, entering the eyes, regulates hormonal and biochemical systems related to mineral control, and vitamin D on the skin, and for the many biochemical systems. It cannot be emphasized enough. For children still developing their structural and hormonal systems, sunlight provides the energy of life itself.

How many children spend a minimum of 23½ hours daily in the dark, or under fluorescent lights, or under yellow incandescent lights, or in front of a TV or computer monitor? Many children rarely see the light of day. That deficiency is as tragic as it is easy to remedy — push the kids outside.

Every minute he spends watching TV or playing video games is a minute his teeth are rotting, and his bones are getting weaker.

Artificial light: weakens children structurally, weakens their performance academically, and distorts the development of their hormonal system.

Step 5. Natural Water. By natural water we mean water from a well or spring, water that has not been heated, distilled, chlorinated, fluoridated, softened, or finely filtered, and, that has not been polluted with pharmaceutical, industrial, or agricultural toxins.

Step 6. The sixth step would be a child wellness adjustment. It would improve their nerve function, reduce emotional traumas or emotional scars, remove allergies, remove toxins, and reduce electromagnetic interferences.

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May
11

Lipitor and Cholesterol – An Alternative View

doclind on May 11th, 2011

FATTY ACID METABOLISM

Contrary to popular opinion, fatty acids are a very necessary part of your metabolic systems. They are high or low because of imbalances in your body.

For example, if you have been processing high sugar for a long time you will eventually become insulin resistant where your cells can no longer handle the high amount of sugar. Your cells resist the compound of insulin and sugar. So what happens? The sugar still has to be processed.

If the natural process isn’t happening, the wisdom of the body shunts sugar into the FATTY ACID PATHWAY. If you can’t use or store sugar in muscle tissue (why exercise is so important), your body has to store it in molecules of cholesterol and triglycerides and it has special places to store it, like around the abdomen. We don’t like where our body stores it but it is a perfect DEFAULT SYSTEM for dealing with an ongoing assault.

Bringing down cholesterol markers because they are ‘too high’ is not normal biochemistry or physiology. Your body needs cholesterol in every cell of your body. Cholesterol is the skeletal structure; the frame of the cell. Especially in the brain. Your brain has a lot of cholesterol and when you take cholesterol-lowering drugs you are reducing this cholesterol in your brain and nervous system where it is vital for its function.

Cholesterol is an important hormone precursor. You need it to form many hormones in your body.
High Cholesterol and Triglyceride Levels Are Not Because of a STATIN DRUG Deficiency

If your fatty acid markers are ‘abnormal’ you should be concerned about finding out WHY they are that way.

Your diet may need to change. Your exercise habits may need to change. You may need to get on a strict nutraceutical program to help restore normal physiology again.

Some side effects of Lipitor, a common statin drug:

Muscle and Liver problems. LIPITOR can cause serious muscle problems that can lead to kidney problems, including kidney failure.
Other common side effects are headaches, muscle pain, and joint pain loss of appetite, back pain, and constipation. Serious side effects of Lipitor are unexplained muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness.

The FUNCTIONAL point of this is to find out what’s going on and fixing the metabolic problem because if there is one imbalanced biochemical equation there are going to be others.

High cholesterol and high triglyceride levels are an important functional finding. If you can change these markers now your body will function better and you won’t have side effects.

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May
11

Osteoporosis – Alternative View

doclind on May 11th, 2011

Bone Strengthening Drugs – The FDA admitted that bone strengthening drugs such as Fosamax, Boniva, and Actonel cause esophageal cancer. Eight people have died.

The drugs were known to cause esophagitis, and inflammation of the lining of the esophagus or the throat which is why patients were told to remain upright for a half-hour after taking the drugs. The inflammation is a precursor to cancer.

2 Billion prescriptions have been written for bone-strengthening drugs since 1995

My Take: Anything that causes inflammation is dangerous—drugs are one of them. Drugs interact with many normal biochemical reactions in the body. That is why there are always side effects of medications. Always. Inflammation is just one.

There are many things to do naturally to strengthen bone and avoid osteoporosis:

• Exercise
• Diet and Nutrition
• Balancing copper and zinc
• Sunlight

Have you ever seen a cow with weak bones? Cows do not get osteoporosis if they eat grass as they do naturally.

You get more calcium eating dark green vegetables; so stop fretting about osteoporosis and start eating healthier foods.

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May
10

Inflammation is a Silent Killer

doclind on May 10th, 2011

One of the books I am reading is called INFLAMMATION NATION. You already know this but what you eat is creating inflammation which is the breeding of a host of diseases:

• Arthritis
• Heart disease
• Obesity
• Eczema
• Lupus
• Alzheimer’s

These are all linked to the inflammatory process of your diet.

You don’t need to read the book, you already know what to do: eat the diet I have been talking to you about. You will eat foods that will help prevent, treat, and reverse the effects of this secret epidemic in as few as seven days!

Overcooking Causes Inflammation

One of the most damaging cooking techniques is to OVER-COOK animal products—MEATS. DON’T DO IT!

Overcooking meat devastates the protein, destroys at least 8 vital amino acids, and breaks down fats into free fatty acids and trans isomers. Women who eat meat cooked more than rare to medium have an amazing 400% increased risk of breast cancer. (Journal of the National Cancer Institute)

It is not the meat that is the culprit it is the heat-destroyed meat. Also, if you eat meat that is fried with Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acid (PUFA) oils…no wonder cancer is everywhere!

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May
8

FLU Questions and Answers

doclind on May 8th, 2011

I’m still getting flu questions and it’s way past the flu season even though the CDC hasn’t brought it out in the media lately. They do this every September and October. It will come around again same time next year.

Even so, the flu doesn’t go away. A flu vaccine cannot fight the flu or flu-like symptoms. The flu strains of bacteria mutate so by the time ‘the flu hits’ any old vaccine—even if prepared six months ago—cannot match the new developed strains.

The common denominator of a secondary infection like the flu is the HOST—YOU! If you are run down, have poor nutrition, are sleep-deprived, have a faulty nerve and immune system, are allergy sensitive, become hypothermic, you will pick a secondary infection just like that.

What to do if you begin having flu symptoms:

1. Use a homeopathic remedy. We test to find a specific homeopathic for a specific flu strain. How amazing is that? If you clearly test positive for a specific homeopathic then with great probability it will help your body rid the flu.

2. Get adjusted with a specific flu antigen like a bacteria, virus, yeast, mold, fungus. What? Yes, really. You hold a glass vial filled with a specific antigen and the subtle energies will resonate.

3. Improve your immune system. There are specific nutritional protocols to follow to turn your immune system around. We will get into this later but your immune system is divided into several parts: Th1, Th2, Th17. These are the T cells and B cells and they function in coordination with each other. You have to balance the sides that are unbalanced.

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May
8

MINDFUL EATING

doclind on May 8th, 2011

MINDFUL EATING

If you were to let your body choose your food, what would you eat? Would you go for five meals of chips, cheese, and salsa—the ultimate nacho? Or would you go for the colorful vegetable smorgasbord and a little meat on the side?

Sometimes we treat a meal as an errand to do on the way to work, to pick up for lunch, or grab for dinner.

Do you remember the last time you really thought about food? I watch Survivorman every once in awhile. Here’s a guy who’s out in the middle of nowhere and he has to survive for a week before he’s rescued. Sometimes he’ll go days without eating and then he’ll find a grub or a tiny worm, he calls “protein good enough to survive”. But when he catches fish or an animal—no matter what it is; rat, mouse, or squirrel—he becomes ecstatic. He laughs like a child, his eyes roll upwards and he can’t help but tell his audience how good the food is and what it is going to do for him. One thing for sure is that he is grateful for his food. That’s the first big lesson—being grateful. When we are grateful of our food we become mindful of it. Thankfully we don’t have to eat rodents.

Why is it important to NOT eat when you’re upset? When you are stressed or upset your body and mind cannot process the foods you eat. It’s the wrong time even if it’s the best food you have. If you are upset your digestion is upset—bad deal. Wait until you calm down to eat.

When you are mindful of the food you are about to eat your body can process and utilize the food and turn it into energy and heal what needs healing.

10 ideas for Mindful Eating:

1. Grow some foods and take care of them
2. Make out a grocery list at home when you have time to think about foods
3. Purchase your foods locally
4. Purchase living, clean, colorful foods—ones that have a short shelf life and don’t come from a box, can, or package
5. Eat meals with family members at a table where you have to look at each other
6. Choose a smaller portion than you think you want
7. Look at your food before you eat
8. Chew your food s-l-o-w-l-y
9. Think about what your food will do for you: heal and repair and provide energy
10. Sit for at least 30 minutes while eating

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