| "We doctors need to change our thinking of medicine. We still think the same way we did 100 year ago. The root of the whole field hasn't changed. We need to completely change the root of medicine in the modern world." TRIBAL RECIPES: TO PREVENT HEART ATTACK, STROKE, HELP CIRCULATION RECIPE: 1 c Sulfur 1 c Calcium 1 c Magnesium 1 c Sodium (Sea Salt) 1 lb Sour Sop Fruit crushed 1 lb Sapsadilla Fruit crushed Pour into a bathtub. Fill 1/4 tub with warm water. Let soak for 30 minutes. Fill remaining tub with warm water (warmer the better). Add oils or perfumes to make it smell better. Sit in tub for at least 30-60 minutes 3-4 x week. Will see and feel major difference in 1 month if done consistently. CREATIVITY RECIPE: 1 serving Spinach 1 serving Salmon 1/2 - 1 fresh Mango This recipe greatly aids in increasing creativity, focus, calms the mind because it enhances the development of the neurons in the brain. STRESS RECIPE: Raw Nuts (Almonds, Brazilian, peanuts) The key food for stressed people is raw nuts. The crunch and vibration of nuts helps develops electronic pattern in the brain helping it go to another level. They're good for digestion, and the right kind of protein for the brain and body to utilize properly. Stress comes from lack of circulation in the brain, lack of forgiveness, fear, insecure of oneself, low self esteem, feel they can't please anyone or accomplish anything, lack of understanding themselves. If they really understood themselves or God, they wouldn't be stressed in the first place. Unusual forms of laughter: Getting into yourself (laughing at a deeper place within) helps stress levels Appreciation of ones actions and accomplishments helps to discharge stress and fear. Going blood into micro cells of the brain. Stress comes from these cells not being fed that much so they can't process things properly. HEALTHY HOME & CHILDREN Add anything with copper and brass into your rooms will help both anger, stress, and any infections heal quickly by giving out healing energy. The more natural elements in home the better. Be careful using rock, granite, and marble, many have toxins they release into the air. Most bricks are made with a chemical that discharges toxins into the air. When painting your walls, make sure to use non toxic paints to avoid toxic fumes discharged in other paints, especially in babies and children's room which is a major contributor to Down's syndrome, cerebral palsy, mentally handicapped, ADD, ADHD. ANGER RECIPE The best recipe for anger is to forgive whether you believe in God or not. Unforgiveness is the # 1 reason for anger. Search through your whole life including your childhood, do micro-forgiveness for every little thing that upset you, even Susie stealing your pencil in first grade. Forgive forgive FORGIVE!!! Stay away from acid forming foods like coffee, chocolate, sugar, and red meat. Eat Ph balanced foods that alkalize the body. Eat heavy dose of fruits, vegetables and nuts. Sleep 7-8 hours solid uninterrupted sleep to clean out the gallbladder and liver. Don't heavy meals past 5 pm so food will be digested before bedtime. Stop smoking, alcohol, coffee. Scrub your whole body and scalp in the shower or tub everyday to close the neuron spaces in the brain so they will connect better and increase production of neurons. |
CAFFEINE Caffeine stunts or slows down growth in children, hinders brain development, making it more liquid which creates more forms of mental problems and very disturbed, unable to process properly, memorize, handle stress. A heavy dose of caffeine before and during pregnancy leads to a lot of undeveloped organs and brains problems. For the regular coffee drinkers, lack of memory, high blood pressure, aging quickly, trigger anger, women will less reproductive because it eggs won't fertilize properly and less relaxed. ALCOHOL Beer, wine, liquor, any form of alcohol will lead to Alzeimers, extreme aging, weakens the immune system opening you up to diseases, memory loss, inability to focus, inability to process or handle stress, will be angry all the time, eyesight problems, cirrhosis of the liver and organs, less creative, speeds up aging, imbalance in one's weight, impairs judgement and coordination due to lack of functioning neurons in the brain, especially the right side of the brain (suppresses singing and laughter section in the brain) which is why depression is triggered easily. Alcohol destroys organs and reduces drastically production of neurons in the brain which leads to cerebral palsy and autism. This is definitely the case if you drank between the ages of 10 to 30 years will have severe consequences because the brain and neurons are still being developed. And it doesn't take several drinks before the damage is done. Even if they only drank alcohol once, the brain immediately begins losing mass capability needed for neurons to develop properly. Smaller mass = less neurons = less brain function + weak immune system. ANGER Anger is a killer in every way to the body. It blocks the neurons from working and flowing properly, thus, blocking the proper way to process information, send information to the body and cells, fight invaders, keep the immune system strong, and a multitude of other complications. Yes, the Bible says it's ok to be angry FOR JUST CAUSES, but NOT to STAY angry for very long or THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES. That's why Jesus taught so much on forgiveness. Unless you forgive, whether it's yourself you're mad at or another, you will not be able to let go of anger. Anger is ALWAYS about you being angry at you first, the other person is only bringing it out in you, but it was there the whole time. Anger is always about unforgiveness, wanting to be in control, get revenge, or that you're afraid you can't handle the situation. EVEN TO BE ANGRY FOR ONE MINUTE DOES DAMAGE TO THE BRAIN THAT TAKE DAYS TO UNDO. TO STAY ANGRY WILL LEAD YOU TO SICKNESS AND AN EARLY DEATH. Anger is about unsolved situations, or situations that you either haven't resolved or don't know how to. Anger blocks the neurons from reproducing properly, thus resulting in inability to solve problems, blocks creativity, speeds up aging, leads to bitterness, diseases and cancers, high blood pressure, gum disease, destroys the electronics in the body which ends up lowering the immune system throwing everything out of whack, is a major contributor to diabetes, and especially damages woman's reproductive organs creating Down's syndrome and mentally handicapped children. CARRYING PURSES OR BAGS One of the problems in the modern world is people carrying heavy bags, purses, briefcases, laptops, etc. What it does is throws the electronics off in the body, accelerating aging, throwing posture off, triggering headaches, back pain, and other pains through out the body. It takes a fingerprint of that pattern of posture and then your stuck and can not reverse it. HIGH HEELS Another problem is high heels. Aside from causing pour posture and pain, it stops a lot of blood flow to the brain making women more ditsy, can not focus, cause headaches, cause menstrual cycles to be stopped or shortened, interferes with reproduction abilities like fertility. If they do have kids, the kids are deformed or have abnormalities of a wide spectrum. YOU NEED TO BE TAUGHT HOW TO LOVE People don't know how to love because they weren't taught how to love. Everything must be taught, but in the modern world, no one teaches you these things. In the tribal world, we're taught about everything in life, like how to understand certain things and be grateful for every little thing, no matter what. If all you have is a plate of beans, be grateful you have a plate and some beans. I see ungrateful people all over the modern world because they haven't been taught how to be grateful and appreciate anything. You have to start with appreciating yourself first. Be grateful of who you are rather than being upset with who you're not. If you can learn how to be grateful and appreciate the little things God has given you, you won't be angry, depressed, or unhealthy. If you want to be happy, lean first how to be grateful and appreciate everything in your life. Then learn how to truly love someone, really love them. Not just say I do if they meet all my needs. Love the good, the bad, and the ugly in them. In the modern world you love someone until they don't meet your needs, then you dump them and move on the next one. What you don't realize, is that there's always going to be some junk with each person. There is no one that is perfect out there. When you look inside yourself, you'll realize YOU'RE the problem, not them. Change yourself, then things will change around you. What used to bother you won't anymore. You'll be able to be with the worst person in the world and it won't bother you if you know how to handle yourself and be love rather than always needing to be loved in the way you expect. |
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| STRESS I see people in the modern world are not able to handle stress or process problems properly. One has to be taught how to handle stress and solve problems, which leads to quitting when things get tough, divorce, unhappiness, unloving themselves or others, unproductive, unable to forgive, depression, anger, and drastic aging. Stress comes from unforgiveness and not accepting. You Stress comes from unforgiveness and not accepting. You stress, taught how to be in a relationship, taught how to must be taught how to forgive, taught how to handle age, taught how to stay young, taught how to appreciate, taught how to be grateful, taught how to accept death, taught how to live. Once your taught, then you won't have stress. Stress comes from not trusting yourself and not knowing how to deal with the situation. It is all in your own mind and reveals your relationship with yourself. IT leads to diabetes, is a cousin to anger, aging quickly, inability to solve problems, destroys the electronics in the body which lowers the immune system so one is apt to get cancer, diseases, or autoimmune disorders. FLYING OR DRIVING DO NOT FLY BABIES IN AIRCRAFT OR LONG CAR RIDES. Driving kids in cars or planes, they are breathing in toxic fumes that hinder brain development and lead to deformations, anger, inability to deal with stress or solve problems. Flying in airplanes creates a lot of spaces or liquids in the brain that reduces production of neurons in the brain as well as too much exposure with the micro waves in the air, not to mention the unhealthy air quality. ________________________ |
| DOC'S MEDICAL RESEARCH |
Dead twice! Once as a baby, another time for over 14 days!!! Chief Dr. McCaulay Jagolvfacquesalliezgdklvkfa is known as a praying Bushman Healing Doctor around the world. He is a research neurosurgeon who grew up as the Chief of a primitive tribe in Australia of Bushmen who have never seen a white person to this day. His father was the first one sent out into the modern world with millions of dollars in diamonds and gold nuggets to see what the modern world was like and to protect the tribe on the outside from evil. He met his wife, a Christian Dutch lady of royalty from Holland, quickly fell in love, and married. Their son, McCaulay, was kidnapped at the age of 11 for 93 days and held for ransom. After his rescue, his mother sent him to Queen Elizabeth School in London with other royalty to be protected. McCaulay grew up between two diabolical worlds; The peaceful way of his primitive tribe where hewas taught to center himself so that nothing scared him, and the Christian ways of his mother in the modern world. His goal as a child was to help people in the modern world since he saw us as scared, angry, confused, ungrateful, and having no faith. "In my tribe I was taught to center myself as a young boy so I wouldn't have that fear and anger. I was taught to solve problems in real life situations, like they used to blindfold me and led me miles in the jungle. Then they would leave me there and I would have to make my way back only through the smells and sounds I remembered. "Another exercise they used to do to me in my tribe is take me out to a lake in the jungle, tie my hands and feet, and blindfold me. Then they would throw me in the lake and I would have to untie myself and make it all the way back into the tribe by myself. Once I was experienced at it, usually several weeks later, they would then tie me to a type of rock that has a lot of iron ore in it that glowed under water so I could see where I was. I would have to untie myself and make it all the way back to the tribe alone. This lesson taught me how to deal with fear through a realistic practical exercise." With his education at Oxford University and London School of Medicine, he has taken on the most difficult medical cases in the world and helped people medically through the development the unusual ways of healing by combining the modern medicine, with his tribal bushman medicine, with strong Christian ways of healing and through healing prayers. From inoperable tumors disappearing, to bringing the dead back to life through trigger points igniting the heart and brain, combined with his prayers, he is the most dynamic and unusual man in the world. McCaulay has died twice, once as an infant when he bleed to death, and 29 years later when he was in a diamond cave when the cave collapsed, killing he and all of his bodyguards and burying him in several feet of sand. The last thing he saw before dying was a bright light coming down from heaven. On the 14th day, rain flooded into the caves where it revived the Chief and he swam out to safety. This was a miracle when you consider that it hadn't rained in that region for over 100 years. His life's story has been written about in Barbara Buchli's "Voice in the Wind, the incredible story about a Diamond Chief, an Artist, and the Most Powerful Mural in the World." Please help us get this story published, turned into a screenplay, and onto bookshelves and into movie theaters! We are looking for a publisher, a screenplay writer, or $110,000 to have the director (who has already read the script and wants to produce it) turn it into a Major Motion Picture Trilogy. Help us by becoming part of this book becoming a major production that will touch the lives of many and bring them into a true relationship with Jesus and God. |
| Dr. McCauley's Messages "Australian Bushman Healing Doctor" |
Quotes to Quote the Chief by: "Keep the Faith" "In the modern world, people don't know how to be happy with themselves. They are very angry and ungrateful. They don't appreciate anything." "Anger is a killer." "Leave angry people alone and feed them with a long spoon! They're only looking for a fight. Most people like staying in their mess, they don't want help or advice." "Forgive, forgive, FORGIVE!" "No one in the modern world knows how to forgive, especially how to forgive themselves." Chic Chic Chic!!! (I love you today, tomorrow & forever) "You have to be taught how to love and forgive, how to deal with stress and problems." "The key to happiness is in forgiveness. If you don't forgive it will kill you." "The elders in my tribe always said that the modern world was going to destroy itself from within, especially America, ever since I was a little boy they saw this. They said there will be wars in this country against each other that will tear the country apart. The only people who will exist in the future are those who are mobile." "It's important to micro forgive every day. Micro forgiveness is going all the way back to childhood, taking every small offence and forgiving everything and everyone, especially yourself. This must be done daily, for there are layers of forgiving." "Anger comes from not forgiving. Depression comes from not forgiving. Fear comes from not forgiving yourself. Sickness comes from not forgiving. Most sickness is rooted in unforgiveness. The hardest person to forgive is yourself." "There will be small third world country that is going to acquire unusual power very quickly because of their heavy Christian belief." "The way people view money and possessions is going to be changing. It won't have the power and control over them the way it does now." "They made a huge mistake raising the oil prices which they will regret forever. They're going to have to drink their own oil." "We're going to see miracles much much more from now on" "We Doctors need to change the whole concept of medicine. We can't blame the government for lack of health care, we need to change how we do medicine. For example, we were trained to run a gamut of expensive unnecessary tests. Make the change and embrace the responsibility of the medical profession. It's not free health care and money that is going to solve the problem we have in the U.S, it's the doctor's responsibility to change how we look we look at things." "Modern medicine is going to disappear because of the financial greed, personal desire to be worshipped, and the socialized medical plan in the health care plan will limit, restrict, and control doctors, pushing them out of the medical field. No one has any love for medicine or people anymore. Only tribal and spiritual ways of healing will care. The key is prevention." |
EASY WAYS TO PREVENT MOST MEDICAL PROBLEMS: CHOOSE to be happy SING out loud as much as possible LAUGH at least 10 times a day LISTEN to natural sounds of nature BOTTLED WATER DO NOT drink bottled water that has been left in a car or frozen. The heat & freezing reacts with the chemicals in the plastic of the bottle which releases dioxin into the water. Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue. Pass this on to all the women in your life. Use glass bottles instead of plastic! LET EVERYONE KNOW! This information is also being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. PREGNANCY If a woman wants a baby boy, put a large dose of laughter and eat a diet high in potassium and salt on a regular basis. A woman has to very careful of her surroundings 6 months prior to pregnancy, from stress levels, to lead in her make up, to cell phones, microwaves, car fumes, airplanes, food, and caffeine intakes will determine the health and mental state of the baby as well as the baby's intelligence level. We are living is so many toxins in our world today that defects are more common than uncommon now, just some of them you can't see until the kid is grown. BIRTH CONTROL You cannot interfere with a woman's menstrual cycle without creating serious problems down the road mentally and physically. The body was created so perfectly by God that when you interfere with the natural cycle or put chemicals in your bodies, it throws off the chemicals in the brain which creates a number of problems. Millions of babies that have spinal bifida, ADD, ADHD, and other health problems are all from the consequences from birth control even though doctors don't admit it because they don't understand. * AMALGAM FILLINGS Aka "Silver fillings" are the most toxic thing you could put in your body. Dentists, FDA, and the ADA will deny it, but in countries around the world like Sweden, Germany and Britain they are well aware of its dangers and are illegal to put in children or pregnant women because it is one of the leading causes of Autism in babies, as well as Alzeimers, fibromyalgia, insomnia, sore throats, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, multiple sclerosis, allergies, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, acne, rheumatoid arthritis, sinusitis, chronic fatigue, heart attacks, systemic candidiasis, chemical sensitivities, gum disease, miscarriages, pulminary infections, not to mention stopping the production and proper chemical reactions of neurons in the brain and throwing off the electromagnetic energy of the body, thus leading to autoimmune disorders of every type because the immune system and the brain aren't working properly. If you're sick, check out removing your fillings first and see if there's a difference. Make sure to do a preremoval program consisting of heavy dose of chlorella before removal. Then afterwards, take either DMSA with ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid), these must be used together to effectively pull mercury from the tissues and brain, or use a combination of B1, B5, Activated Charcoal, 1 bunch organic fresh Cilantro per day, NAC, ALA, Chlorella (Yaeyama from Vitacost, stay away from Chinese herbs as there is no quality control), zinc, heavy dose of Vitamin C, and lots of water to flush system out. Don't start out taking too much or you will end up sicker than before removal. Make sure that your dentist follows proper _____protocol for toxic metal removal:_____ 1. Provides air through your nose only so you don't breath toxic mercury vapors released with removal 2. All removal must be done with lots of cold water to keep mercury from heating up and releasing fumes 3. A high volume evacuator tip be kept near the tooth at all times to suck up the vapors 4. Bits of mercury be vacuumed up immediately or allow you to rinse constantly to keep pieces from being swallowed. 5. Some may use a rubber dam for protection If you have fillings, stay away from microwaves, computers, cell phones, anything that will trigger the mercury to be released through electric discharges. Mercury is released when you drink anything hot, or chew food. A person with 8 fillings has approximately 6 grams of mercury in their body, a concentration sufficient to shut down a school chemistry lab and call a toxic clean up crew. |
| DANGERS of CELL PHONES!!! click on photos for videos Doctors are now seeing an increase in brain damage in cell phone users. Within 2 minutes it cooks the inner tissue of the ear and into body. The form of radiation is great enough to slow down brain functions, inhibit chemical reactions, decrease production of the neurons, cooks brain tissue, slows down formation of cells, stops blood flow in the brain which will make you feel giddy, lightheaded, headaches, can't focus, or off balance if you've been on the phone a long time, which will cause strokes or slowly killing you. Doctors are seeing more and more cases coming into the hospital related to cell phone problems from strokes and heart attacks triggered by the phone, to headaches, inability to process things properly, inability to handle stress, and a large number of cases of tumors have been reported. Studying the brain, it's impossible for the brain and body to work effectively with exposure that type of radiation and those amounts. I see kids with the cell phones, and I try to warn their parents that those kids will be messed up sooner than the adults because kids brains are still developing so the radiation does much more damage to it. You can already see it in the fact that they can't process things properly, they react in anger outbursts and fits of rage. Just wait, this is something that will mess up this generation more than any other single thing out there. The generation born from kids who use cell phones will all have a form of brain damage. Mark my words, it's already prevalent. |
Aspartame & Nutrasweet Is VERY Dangerous! Click on Photos Overwhelming Evidence it Causes Brain Tumors 60 minutes Part 1 & 2 What Soft Drinks do to You |
| Swine Flu Facts, Truths & Lies |
Women are designed biologically to only have sex with one partner AND ONE PARTNER ONLY FOR LIFE unless she wants to open herself up to a variety of diseases, infections, and mental illnesses. Once she sleeps with the first man, his sperm connects and coats her cells with his 'fingerprint' strengthening her immune system and protecting her from a wide variety of diseases and viruses. BUT if she then sleeps with another man, the next man's sperm is seen as an intruder, creating infection and diseases, thus weakening her immune system and opening her up for all sorts of mental and physical problems. Women who sleep with a lot of men ALMOST ALWAYS age quickly, usually go mental later in life from the inability to process things, handle stress, forgive themselves for being a tramp, and ALMOST usually struggle with a wide variety of health issues. So go ahead, think that you can sleep with as many people as you want, but you will one say wake up and I GUARANTEE YOU'RE GONNA REGRET IT! God didn't make mistakes. One YOU'RE GONNA REGRET IT! God didn't make mistakes. One woman for one man. Anything else WILL have serious woman for one man. Anything else WILL have serious woman for one man. Anything else WILL have serious CREATING NEW NEURONS (FOR COMA, CEREBRAL PALSY, DEPRESSED) Do lots of singing and playing of music, even when just asking them basic things like "What is your name?" Music is one of the greatest stimulators to the brain, which is why we learn faster through music. CIGARETTES Destroys the lungs, creates lots of wrinkles in face, increases aging drastically, increases anger, strains the heart because it rots the heart valves quickly, impairs ability to solve problems and deal with stress, stunts growth, stops reproduction of neurons in brain, if the mother smokes before and during pregnancy it creates lots of problems in undeveloped baby like diabetes, undeveloped neurons leading to mentally handicapped children. Coming Soon... FEAR UNFORGIVENESS DEPRESSION HAPPINESS |
| HEALTH WATCH WORLD RENOWN RESEARCH NEUROSURGEON'S LATEST CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH: "The Truths Doctors Don't Want You to Know" |
FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY IS THE #1 DEFICIENCY
Folic acid deficiency is one of the most common types of nutritional deficiency and it can cause megaloblastic anemia, which is
characterized by a reduced number of red blood cells. This disease can cause weakness, fatigue, headache, irritability, difficulty
concentrating and shortness of breath.
Folic acid deficiency can occur in a number of situations. Like low dietary intake and diminished absorption can cause
decrease supply of folic acid. Conditions such as pregnancy or cancer can result in an increased rate of cell division and
metabolism, thus increasing the body’s demand of folic acid, which if not met can cause deficiency. It may also be caused as a
side effect of various medications.
Symptoms of folic acid deficiency may include:
Folic acid is a vitamin that many people have deficiency of, especially among women. If you fall into the following category of
people than you may be deficient of folic acid:
Folic acid is an important vitamin during pregnancy that can lower the risk of birth defect in the brain and spinal cord of the child.
Most people should be able to get an adequate amount of folic acid from their diet. However, alcoholics and pregnant women
can require more than normal, and should consider taking a multivitamin tablet for it. It is recommended that a pregnant woman
consumes about 600 mg of folic acid everyday, in order to ensure their child’s safety.
Folic acid foods are cereals, spinach, broccoli, orange juice, nuts, and most meats such as pork. Foods high in folic acid:
Food Folic Acid μg/Serving
Dietary Folate Equivalents*(DFE)
Leafy green vegetables, such as lettuce, green beans, peas, egg yolks, baker's yeast, liver, are also high in folic acid.
Moderate amounts are in fruits such as orange juice, pineapple juice, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, grapefruit juice, banana,
raspberry, grapefruit, strawberry and vegetables such as beets, corn, tomato juice, vegetable juice, broccoli, brussels sprouts,
romaine lettuce and bok choy.
Folic acid is one of the b vitamins (b9) and is an essential vitamin that is used for many bodily functions. In terms of folic acid
foods, it can most easily be found in leafy green vegetables, such as asparagus, varying types of lettuce, green beans, peas,
spinach, kale, sunflowers, and several other less common foods. Many cereals are also known as great folic acid foods
because they are fortified with it in order to help them meet a certain daily requirement.
Folic acid is essential to prevent anemia and for red blood cell growth. It is also important in the process of cell division and cell
growth. Unlike some vitamins, folic acid is needed by both children and adults, therefore it is important to make sure that your
diet contains the minimum daily requirement.
Folic acid is especially important for pregnant women, as deficiencies have been proven to lead to neural tube defects, such as
spina bifida and skull and brain malformations. This is one of the reasons that prenatal vitamins are so important for pregnant
women, as they often contain a healthy dose of folic acid. Also, there are many folic acid foods that are created specifically for
pregnant women. You’ll often find cereals and other products labeled specifically for women, as the daily recommended dose
for a pregnant woman is between six hundred and eight hundred micrograms, which is nearly double the normal dose.
There are also studies that show folic acid (b9) as a useful vitamin for decreasing the risk for heart conditions, such as heart
attack or stroke. This has to do with the fact that homocysteine, an amino acid, can clog and damage arteries when present in
abnormal doses. Folic acid and folic acid foods work to decrease the amount of this amino acid in the blood, which in turn
lowers the risk of heart problems.
Another interesting study shows that folic acid can reduce the risk for cancer because of the manner in which it repairs cells and
DNA. Although the study is complex, the fact that folic acid is essential for cell growth might shed some insight into this reaction.
This does not mean that you should take more than the daily recommended dose of folic acid, just that you should monitor how
much you are getting from your diet.
Folic acid is useful in increasing and maintaining cognitive function and memory. Folic acid is also useful for improving and
maintaining fertility in both men and women. If you are having trouble getting pregnant, then you might do well to have a look at
your folic acid intake.
If your diet lacks in leafy greens or vegetables, then you might be at risk for a folic acid deficiency. The problem with finding a
deficiency is that there aren’t very many symptoms that go along with the condition, but you can usually use signs of fatigue as
an indicator. Compare your diet with the list of folic acid foods in this report and you’ll have a good idea of whether you are
getting enough folic acid in your diet. When in doubt, you can always get blood tests in order to find out for certain.
Folic acid deficiency is one of the most common types of nutritional deficiency and it can cause megaloblastic anemia, which is
characterized by a reduced number of red blood cells. This disease can cause weakness, fatigue, headache, irritability, difficulty
concentrating and shortness of breath.
Folic acid deficiency can occur in a number of situations. Like low dietary intake and diminished absorption can cause
decrease supply of folic acid. Conditions such as pregnancy or cancer can result in an increased rate of cell division and
metabolism, thus increasing the body’s demand of folic acid, which if not met can cause deficiency. It may also be caused as a
side effect of various medications.
Symptoms of folic acid deficiency may include:
- Megaloblastic anemia, in which red blood cells become large and uneven in size
- Weakness
- Irritability
- Lack of energy
- Loss of Appetite
- Paleness
- Sore, red tongue
- Mild mental symptoms, such as forgetfulness and confusion
- Diarrhea
Folic acid is a vitamin that many people have deficiency of, especially among women. If you fall into the following category of
people than you may be deficient of folic acid:
- People who are 55 years of age or older
- Women who are either pregnant or breastfeeding
- Women who use oral contraceptive
- Those who abuse alcohol or other drugs
- People with inadequate calorie or nutritional dietary intake
- People who have more than normal nutritional requirements
- People with chronic wasting illness, AIDS/HIV
- People who have recently endured some type of injury
- People who have been suffering from stress for an extended period of time
Folic acid is an important vitamin during pregnancy that can lower the risk of birth defect in the brain and spinal cord of the child.
Most people should be able to get an adequate amount of folic acid from their diet. However, alcoholics and pregnant women
can require more than normal, and should consider taking a multivitamin tablet for it. It is recommended that a pregnant woman
consumes about 600 mg of folic acid everyday, in order to ensure their child’s safety.
Folic acid foods are cereals, spinach, broccoli, orange juice, nuts, and most meats such as pork. Foods high in folic acid:
Food Folic Acid μg/Serving
Dietary Folate Equivalents*(DFE)
- Ready-to-eat breakfast cereal 100 – 400/serving; read labels
- Enriched wheat tortilla 98 / one 8” tortilla
- Whole wheat tortilla 24 / one 8” tortilla
- Enriched white bread 39 / slice
- Enriched pasta, cooked 92 / half cup
- Whole wheat bread 14 / slice
- Whole wheat pasta 23 / half cup
- Lentils, cooked 180 / cup
- Black-eyed peas, dried, cooked 105 / half cup
- Pinto beans or chickpeas, cooked 140 – 145 / half cup
- Sunflower seeds, dry-roasted 152 / half cup
- Okra, cooked 37 / half cup
- Orange juice 60-100 / cup
- Spinach, raw 58 / cup
- Asparagus 110 / 5 spears
- Collards, frozen 88 / half cup
- Grapefruit/pineapple juice 23 / cup
Leafy green vegetables, such as lettuce, green beans, peas, egg yolks, baker's yeast, liver, are also high in folic acid.
Moderate amounts are in fruits such as orange juice, pineapple juice, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, grapefruit juice, banana,
raspberry, grapefruit, strawberry and vegetables such as beets, corn, tomato juice, vegetable juice, broccoli, brussels sprouts,
romaine lettuce and bok choy.
Folic acid is one of the b vitamins (b9) and is an essential vitamin that is used for many bodily functions. In terms of folic acid
foods, it can most easily be found in leafy green vegetables, such as asparagus, varying types of lettuce, green beans, peas,
spinach, kale, sunflowers, and several other less common foods. Many cereals are also known as great folic acid foods
because they are fortified with it in order to help them meet a certain daily requirement.
Folic acid is essential to prevent anemia and for red blood cell growth. It is also important in the process of cell division and cell
growth. Unlike some vitamins, folic acid is needed by both children and adults, therefore it is important to make sure that your
diet contains the minimum daily requirement.
Folic acid is especially important for pregnant women, as deficiencies have been proven to lead to neural tube defects, such as
spina bifida and skull and brain malformations. This is one of the reasons that prenatal vitamins are so important for pregnant
women, as they often contain a healthy dose of folic acid. Also, there are many folic acid foods that are created specifically for
pregnant women. You’ll often find cereals and other products labeled specifically for women, as the daily recommended dose
for a pregnant woman is between six hundred and eight hundred micrograms, which is nearly double the normal dose.
There are also studies that show folic acid (b9) as a useful vitamin for decreasing the risk for heart conditions, such as heart
attack or stroke. This has to do with the fact that homocysteine, an amino acid, can clog and damage arteries when present in
abnormal doses. Folic acid and folic acid foods work to decrease the amount of this amino acid in the blood, which in turn
lowers the risk of heart problems.
Another interesting study shows that folic acid can reduce the risk for cancer because of the manner in which it repairs cells and
DNA. Although the study is complex, the fact that folic acid is essential for cell growth might shed some insight into this reaction.
This does not mean that you should take more than the daily recommended dose of folic acid, just that you should monitor how
much you are getting from your diet.
Folic acid is useful in increasing and maintaining cognitive function and memory. Folic acid is also useful for improving and
maintaining fertility in both men and women. If you are having trouble getting pregnant, then you might do well to have a look at
your folic acid intake.
If your diet lacks in leafy greens or vegetables, then you might be at risk for a folic acid deficiency. The problem with finding a
deficiency is that there aren’t very many symptoms that go along with the condition, but you can usually use signs of fatigue as
an indicator. Compare your diet with the list of folic acid foods in this report and you’ll have a good idea of whether you are
getting enough folic acid in your diet. When in doubt, you can always get blood tests in order to find out for certain.
How To Fix Knee Pain
Dr. Bookspan's methods to fix injuries and improve training are used by
military and top rehab centers around the world, thus nicknamed "The St.
Jude of the Joints" by Harvard School of Medicine clinicians. Knee pain is
easy to fix. Here's How:
Knee Pain Fix #1 - How To Keep Cartilage Healthy
A common habit that pressures and eventually injures knees is letting
your body weight sag inward on your knees and the arches of your feet.
The result is an increased inward angle of your leg at the knee. Knock-
kneed position is often a posture that you can control, using leg muscles
to hold knees in position.
Letting ankles and knees sway inward is a bad habit that damages
knees.
It is not a "condition," it is something you can control using your own
muscles
to hold your ankles and knees straight.
Letting your weight fall inward on your knee joint, instead of holding your
weight up on your leg muscles strains and wears the cartilage on the
side of the knee, and stresses the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Stretched ligaments don't hold your bones in line, allowing them to rub
and grind at unhealthy angles. Letting knees sway inward also interferes
with normal thigh muscle use and how your kneecap moves when you
walk. When you let your weight slump on your knee joints instead of using
your thigh muscles, the kneecap can start to move slightly sideways
instead of up and down each time you move your knee to walk. This rubs
the cartilage on the inside of your kneecap. The friction can eventually
break down and wear away the cartilage. This is called degenerative
change.
Many people are told to accept the degeneration as aging, along with all
the pain and disability that accompany it. They may be told they are flat-
footed, or have a problem called pronation (which roughly means turning
inward) or "knock-knees." But often, the cause is avoidable. Letting the
foot and knee roll inward is easily corrected by using your leg muscles to
hold your body weight, instead of letting body weight sag onto the joints of
your ankle and knee. It is the same as not letting your shoulders round
forward. It is simple standing straight.
Just like tires that are crooked, knees that tilt inward will wear out too
soon. The cure for tire wear is not to stop driving (give up activity) or
change the tire (wear orthotics or have surgery). It is simple to check why
the tire is crooked and fix that.
Alignment work is the same for bad knee and foot posture. Learn how to
hold your leg in healthy straight position by using your muscles, not just
letting your weight sway and slump onto your knee joints.
Look in a mirror. See if your kneecaps face inward or your arches flatten
downward. Notice if it from letting your body weight sag at the knee and/or
flatten the arch of your foot. Straighten your stance by using leg muscles
to lift your weight off your arch, gently, without rolling too far to the outside
of the soles. Like any new habit it may feel strange at first. It should not
hurt to stand straight. Don't force. Many people are given orthotics or told
to never walk barefoot. This is usually unnecessary. Your own muscles
can place you as correctly (or more) than using an artificial shim or
orthotic. Practice correcting your own leg position until you can walk with
healthy, straight, comfortable leg positioning that keeps weight on your
leg muscles, not on the cartilage and joints of your knee.
Many people are told that turning ankles in and letting arches sag cannot
be fixed or that if you try to hold straight you will cause harm. Think of a
beginning skater. They let their ankles sag inward until they learn to hold
their feet and ankles straight in healthy position. It is just practice in
holding position, not something that cannot be changed. Another myth is
that you need"supportive" shoes or boots to hold your ankles. You can
hold your own position using your own muscles. By relying on a shoe, you
can atrophy your muscles, making you less able to stabilize and balance.
All over the so-called third world, mountain guides walk the uneven paths
in flip-flops.
Knee Pain Fix #2 – Check for Duck Feet
Walking with feet turned out can contribute to knee pain, tightness of the
foot and leg, to hip and heel pain, and predisposes to bunion because
you push off each step on the side of the big toe, pushing the toe inward.
"Duck-foot" can result from letting weight fall inward, from tight Achilles
tendon, tight side of the leg (ilio-tibial band or IT band), tight bottom of the
foot (plantar fascia), even tight big toe (hallux rigidus) that doesn't bend
and allow normal foot motion.
Turning out when you walk wears on the knees, just like tires that are
crooked.
To fix tire wear, you don't stop driving or change the tires, and you don’t
just keep driving that way. You check why they are crooked and fix that.
Alignment work is the same for bad knee and foot posture – learn how to
hold them straight by using your muscles, not just letting them sway and
slump.
Find the source of your turned out position, sometimes nothing more than
bad habit. Use your muscles to walk straight. This keeps body weight on
your muscles and off the joints of the hip, ankles, foot, and knee. There
are some who say that straightening bad ankle and knee posture will just
cause pain in the hip. If you only turn feet in without correcting the source
of the problem, the rest of the leg turns in with it, making more stress.
There is no need for that. Keep your entire leg position healthy and there
will be less pain, not more.
Knee Pain Fix #3 – How To Keep Knees From Hurting When Bending,
Exercising, and On the Stairs
Many people don't "lift with the legs" to prevent back pain, because it hurts
their knees. Bending knees properly should not hurt, but help heal and
strengthen. A major cause of knee arthritis is weak thighs. Goo bending
will save your back and exercise your legs in healthy ways at the same
time:
Healthy squatting for daily life strengthens legs, hips, and knees. Bad
squatting can hurt. It is no mystery. Instead of thinking of squats as an
exercise to "do" 10 times, use it for real life. Real built in exercise, back
pain prevention, and knee strengthening.
Bad bending, with knees forward, shifts weight to the knees Good
bending with knees back and heels down puts weight on your muscles,
and off your knees. It's good exercise, and healthy for your back and
knees.
How to bend using a half-squat: Bend both knees with both heels down
on the floor. Don't let your heels come up when squatting. Keep both
knees far enough back when you bend that you can see your toes. Check
if you bend by letting your knees come forward. Body weight is shifted to
the knee joint. Instead, whenever you bend or lift, even to pick up a towel,
keep heels down and knees back, over the ankle. Shift your weight to the
heel, off the toes.
Feel the difference in thigh and hip muscle use. Done right, pressure
should disappear from the knee. Don't let your back arch; keep hip slightly
tucked. Use a mirror to practice healthy knee position. Or put the front of
your knees against a bench or other object to train yourself to keep them
from slouching forward.
Avoid a lot of squatting on the balls of your feet (heels up). Toe-squatting
shifts your weight forward onto your knee joint. Instead, to sit or crouch in
a full squat to rest, to do chores, keep your heels down on the floor. Heel
down squatting is a customary sitting posture in much of the world. This
reduces pressure on the knees and is a great stretch for your Achilles
tendon. Keep knees and feet facing the same direction so the knee does
not twist. Keep your knees over your feet, not drooping inward.
Go up and down gently, a small amount at first. Done properly, it should
feel like exercise for the thighs and hips, not pain in the knees. Stand flat
on your whole foot, rocking weight back more to the heel.
Another healthy way to bend for things during real daily life is the lunge,
with one leg in front and one in back. With healthy knee position you can
bend without knee pain and have a daily habit that strengthens knees
rather than hurt them. Keep the front knee over the ankle, with your body
weight toward your heel, not sliding forward to the front of your foot.
Shifting forward transfers your body weight through your knee joint,
instead of keeping it on your leg muscles.
Bend properly using the lunge for all the many dozens of times you bend
to reach things every day. Keep front knee back toward the ankle (left) not
forward (right). Using the lunge strengthens legs, hip, and knees. Keep
your body weight evenly between the front and back leg. Bend both knees
to dip straight down, and up again, gently.
Use good bending, shown in the left hand drawing above. Done properly,
it should feel like exercise for the thighs and hips, not pain in the knees.
Instead of thinking of lunges as an exercise to "do" 10 times, just use it
for real life. Real built in exercise, back pain prevention, and knee
strengthening. Imagine how many times you bend for everything during a
real day. Imagine doing that many bends in damaging ways. No wonder
things hurt. Now bend right and get real exercise and pain prevention. No
gyms, therapy, or pills needed.
When going up stairs, keep your weight back toward the heel of the foot
that is stepping up. Most people don't step this way because their leg
muscles are too weak. They throw their weight forward, stepping up onto
the toe. This transmits body weight onto the knee joint in a vicious cycle of
weakness and pain. Keep weight back and knee pain will disappear.
Retrain your bending habits to help your back and knees at the same
time, and give you free leg exercise too. You can become more mobile
and strong while reducing your knee pain, by using your muscles instead
of throwing your body weight on your knee joint.
Knee Pain Fix #4 – Your Own Body's Shock Absorption
Do you walk, run, exercise, jump, and step heavily, letting each foot flop
down without muscle use to decelerate? Shock transmits to the joints of
your ankle, knee, hip, back and neck, and can strain your calf muscle and
Achilles tendon.
Instead, when going down steps or a hill, for example, use muscles to
step down lightly. Use the leg still on the upper step to decelerate.
Instead of just falling onto the lower step, keep weight on the upper leg to
lower yourself lightly, then add shock absorption from the leg that steps
down. Bend the knee and use thigh muscles as you touch the ground.
You will get free leg exercise, burn more calories, and reduce shock and
wear on the knee.
Use the same principles for normal walking and running. Use it for
exercise classes using a step bench or balance platform. It's no mystery
when people hurt "even though they are doing their exercises" when they
are slouching, flopping, slamming, and straining knees and Achilles
tendons, and calling that an exercise class.
Knee Pain Fix #5 – Don't "Lock-out" the Joint with Hyperextension
Some people stand and move while "locking" the knee out straight, even
pressing it backward. This posture is sometimes called "splay-legs," or
"splayed knee" and makes the leg look more crescent-shaped than
straight. It puts body weight onto the joint while pressing the joint slightly
out of place, putting damaging forces on the cartilage. Many people push
their knees into hyperextension when standing and walking. Others
"bang" the joint into straight position in exercise and aerobic boxing
classes. This locked out position is sometimes taught in yoga and dance
classes. It is unnecessary and injurious over the long run. Pain is
commonly felt after long sitting or upon waking. Instead, stand and move
without locking the joint straight.
"Locking" the knee out straight, or pushing it back in hyperextension
damages the joint. Stand, walk, and move without banging the joint
straight.
Knee Pain Fix #6 - Good Range of Motion Without Twisting
Your knee joint is shaped to bend and straighten. Unlike your shoulder or
hip it is not supposed to "swivel" or twist much. Check and see if you twist
your knees without knowing it. One common way to twist your knee is to
plant your foot, then turn your body in a different direction without also
moving the foot. People often do this going down stairs where the stairs
turn. Or when changing direction in sports and running. Some people
even do this walking and running, by stepping down, then letting the heel
swing to the side while the foot stays planted on the ground.
Twisting can wear away at the cushiony cartilage in your knee, called the
meniscus. You can strain or tear your meniscus (and cruciate ligaments)
suddenly from a big twist, or gradually by letting your weight fall inward, or
by moving with your feet and knees pointing in different directions. The leg
bones twist, step after step, day after day, year after year.
People often injure their knee by twisting deliberately, doing common but
bad stretches. They are stretching, but it is not a healthy or needed
stretch. Twisting stretches the ligaments that hold the knee together.
Overstretched ligaments can make the joint unstable, allowing the bones
to rub and grind. That hurts and also slowly injures the joint.
Your knee joint is not shaped to bend and twist to the side at the same
time. That can overstretch the joint and make it too loose, so that it rubs
and wears out sooner than it should.
Knee Pain Fix #7 - Ilio-tibial Band or "I.T. Band"
Your I.T. band is a fibrous band that attaches from the side of your hip
(your ilium, which is the top of your hip bone) to the side of your knee (tibia
bone). That's why it's called "ilio-tibial." Tight I.T. bands can yank on the
side of your knee, leading to knee pain, and even change the way you
walk. When a tight band pulls and rotates your leg to the outside, it can
add to walking "duck-footed" with your feet and legs turned out instead of
facing straight forward, which leads to other pain and problems.
A commonly taught stretch for your I.T. band is done standing sideways at
arms-length from a wall, crossing the opposite leg in front of the leg
nearest the wall and leaning toward the wall. A more effective stretch is
done lying down: Lie face up on a floor or bed, or wherever you're
comfortable and flat, with legs wide. Cross one ankle on top of the other
with both legs far to one side. Keep both legs straight and make sure you
lie flat with both hips touching the floor. Hold for a comfortable stretch - at
least for a few breaths - then switch sides.
The most common IT band stretch is the standing stretch (left) but a more
effective stretch is done lying down (right). A properly done IT stretch will
feel good and help your knee, hip, and other things
Knee Pain Fix #8 - Stop Bad Shoes and Medicines That Cause Pain
Hard, "supportive" shoes are a frequent cause of knee pain, documented
in studies to contribute to knee arthritis. No need for shoe "straight
jackets." Soft, flexible shoes that let your feet breathe and stretch when
walking are healthier for your feet, knees, and hip. Expensive, engineered
shoes are not needed, and may even be causing pain. Your own
muscles can be the support needed, as explained above.
Many medicines are known to cause body aches - statin drugs, anti-
anxiety drugs, cholesterol drugs, stomach acid drugs, and more. Stop the
causes of poor health instead of taking medicines that cause new
problems. If your diet is poor so you take cholesterol and heart
medicines, it is likely your diet is too poor for you to feel good or be
healthy. Use my free web site DrBookspan.com for many articles on
getting healthy again, come take classes, plus almost 800 articles on my
Fitness Fixer™ Index.
Vitamin D is needed for pain free living. Better than taking pills and
vitamins, get active again in healthy ways out in the sunshine.
Knee Pain Fix #9 - Knee Pain That Does Not Come From Your Knee -
And Why Some People Are Told Stretching Fixes Knee Pain
Your quadriceps muscles are attached around your knee. Sometimes,
people have tight thigh muscles (quadriceps). When these tight people try
to lunge, or stretch their quadriceps, or do activities that need to lengthen
the quadriceps like running, the tight muscles pull and yank instead of
stretch on the place where they attach - around the knee. People are
given stretches in rehab or PT and told that stretching fixes knee pain.
They never really had knee pain - there was nothing wrong with their
knee, so it is a of misleading idea. These same people will often not use
the lunge to bend properly because they think it is hurting their knee. It
may be that the tight quads were the problem, and lunging (gently and not
so hard that it yanks the tight muscles) is what they needed.
Knee Pain Fix #10 - Not All Pain is Orthopedic. Pain From Your
Medicines:
Common prescription medicines cause much back pain. The pain is not
a rare effect as previously thought. Are you on medicines for lowering
cholesterol? Sleeping medicines? Drugs for depression and anxiety?
Irritable bowel drugs, stomach acid drugs (a large contributor to
osteoporosis and thinning bones, too) drugs to concentrate, to help wake
up, to calm you, for allergies. Increasingly, drugs are found to make more
pain as side effect, even drugs you are taking for pain. Trying to stop them
causes rebound and withdrawal pain - good for drug companies to keep
you on them, but bad for you and your health.
Stretches and exercises do not fix this kind of pain. In a worsening cycle,
side effects are "treated" with yet more drugs with effects that lessen and
degrade your health. That is not "side effects" and that is not health care.
Many of these drugs are not needed. Some, like stomach acid drugs,
cause the problem in the first place. Others have even more serious
consequences.
A top health priority is to stop the need for these drugs so that you can
lessen, then stop the need to take them. If you are in pain, so don't
exercise, then get cholesterol and other health problems from not
moving, can't sleep, then take cholesterol and sleeping medicines that
cause dependence and more pain, use the healthy principles in my free
summary articles and all my books so that you can move again, and be
healthfully tired at the end of the day and sleep well at night. Not exercise
is good medicine. Healthy exercise as healthy medicine will stop the pain
and need for medicines that cause more problems.
When you reach for anti-inflammatory medicines and pills (even foods)
remember that most back pain from bad habits is not inflammatory in
nature, and may be why all those pills aren't working. Change the bad
habits that are the cause. Reduce inflammatory foods for all the
conditions with inflammatory components like heart disease. More on
this is in the books.
Body Weight and Knee Pain
Some people are told they have knee pain because they are overweight.
When I check them, I often find they stand, bend, and walk with weight
poorly distributed on the joint. When we change that, the pain diminishes.
I have seen patients, some greatly overweight, who say that retraining gait
and stance stopped their knee pain, so that they can go out and walk and
exercise for the first time. People who are not overweight, but walk with
poor mechanics, poor positioning, or poor shock absorption can put
more weight on their knee joint than a heavier person who walks in a
healthy manner.
Exercises and Knee Pain
Like weight loss alone, strengthening alone doesn't fix knee pain that
comes from poor mechanics. Plenty of muscular people have pain. They
may do knee exercises, but strengthening is not what changes leg
posture or bad walking and moving habits. Many people are not strong
enough to bend properly, so they bend with weight on their joints instead
of their muscles. The best exercise is to bend properly for all the many
dozens of times you bend for things every day. Use the squat and lunge
described in #3 above to strengthen while you retrain healthy ways to
move for all your regular life activities. It will strengthen and retrain your
knees, save your back, and give you free, built-in, real life (functional)
exercise all day.
Letting your knees, hip, and ankle joints to sag under your weight instead
of using supporting muscles to stand in healthy position loses the benefit
of any rehab exercise, and slowly wears joints. Keep knees in healthy
positioning during walking, standing, lifting, and moving for better
healthier, exercise. You'll get exercise and free knee rehab without going
to the gym.
How Long Does It Take To Stop Knee Pain?
If your pain comes from mal-positioning your knees, hips, ankles, and
legs, you should feel the pain stop or lessen when you reposition to
healthier ways. If you're not feeling better right away, check what you are
doing compared to what is presented above. Are you over compensating?
Are you pushing too hard the other way? Are you walking heavily instead
of lightly? Are you tightening or clenching any muscles? Are you doing
bad exercises that lean on or twist the knees? Are you going back to bad
movement habits during the day? Check my free article on Bad Exercises,
this one on bad stretches, and this one showing better health and
understanding what abdominal muscles really do with The Ab Revolution.
All show better movement that helps the whole body including knees.
Make sure there is not something else contributing to your pain.
For SMARTER PROGRESS Fixing Your Knee Pain and Keeping it Away:
All methods here are intended to decrease pain and improve function
starting as soon as you begin using them. Each technique should make
an obvious positive change right then. If it does not make sense or help,
you may not be applying it as intended (you are doing it wrong). Do not do
anything that makes more or new pain.
For healthy knees during all movement activities:
Dr. Bookspan's methods to fix injuries and improve training are used by
military and top rehab centers around the world, thus nicknamed "The St.
Jude of the Joints" by Harvard School of Medicine clinicians. Knee pain is
easy to fix. Here's How:
Knee Pain Fix #1 - How To Keep Cartilage Healthy
A common habit that pressures and eventually injures knees is letting
your body weight sag inward on your knees and the arches of your feet.
The result is an increased inward angle of your leg at the knee. Knock-
kneed position is often a posture that you can control, using leg muscles
to hold knees in position.
Letting ankles and knees sway inward is a bad habit that damages
knees.
It is not a "condition," it is something you can control using your own
muscles
to hold your ankles and knees straight.
Letting your weight fall inward on your knee joint, instead of holding your
weight up on your leg muscles strains and wears the cartilage on the
side of the knee, and stresses the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Stretched ligaments don't hold your bones in line, allowing them to rub
and grind at unhealthy angles. Letting knees sway inward also interferes
with normal thigh muscle use and how your kneecap moves when you
walk. When you let your weight slump on your knee joints instead of using
your thigh muscles, the kneecap can start to move slightly sideways
instead of up and down each time you move your knee to walk. This rubs
the cartilage on the inside of your kneecap. The friction can eventually
break down and wear away the cartilage. This is called degenerative
change.
Many people are told to accept the degeneration as aging, along with all
the pain and disability that accompany it. They may be told they are flat-
footed, or have a problem called pronation (which roughly means turning
inward) or "knock-knees." But often, the cause is avoidable. Letting the
foot and knee roll inward is easily corrected by using your leg muscles to
hold your body weight, instead of letting body weight sag onto the joints of
your ankle and knee. It is the same as not letting your shoulders round
forward. It is simple standing straight.
Just like tires that are crooked, knees that tilt inward will wear out too
soon. The cure for tire wear is not to stop driving (give up activity) or
change the tire (wear orthotics or have surgery). It is simple to check why
the tire is crooked and fix that.
Alignment work is the same for bad knee and foot posture. Learn how to
hold your leg in healthy straight position by using your muscles, not just
letting your weight sway and slump onto your knee joints.
Look in a mirror. See if your kneecaps face inward or your arches flatten
downward. Notice if it from letting your body weight sag at the knee and/or
flatten the arch of your foot. Straighten your stance by using leg muscles
to lift your weight off your arch, gently, without rolling too far to the outside
of the soles. Like any new habit it may feel strange at first. It should not
hurt to stand straight. Don't force. Many people are given orthotics or told
to never walk barefoot. This is usually unnecessary. Your own muscles
can place you as correctly (or more) than using an artificial shim or
orthotic. Practice correcting your own leg position until you can walk with
healthy, straight, comfortable leg positioning that keeps weight on your
leg muscles, not on the cartilage and joints of your knee.
Many people are told that turning ankles in and letting arches sag cannot
be fixed or that if you try to hold straight you will cause harm. Think of a
beginning skater. They let their ankles sag inward until they learn to hold
their feet and ankles straight in healthy position. It is just practice in
holding position, not something that cannot be changed. Another myth is
that you need"supportive" shoes or boots to hold your ankles. You can
hold your own position using your own muscles. By relying on a shoe, you
can atrophy your muscles, making you less able to stabilize and balance.
All over the so-called third world, mountain guides walk the uneven paths
in flip-flops.
Knee Pain Fix #2 – Check for Duck Feet
Walking with feet turned out can contribute to knee pain, tightness of the
foot and leg, to hip and heel pain, and predisposes to bunion because
you push off each step on the side of the big toe, pushing the toe inward.
"Duck-foot" can result from letting weight fall inward, from tight Achilles
tendon, tight side of the leg (ilio-tibial band or IT band), tight bottom of the
foot (plantar fascia), even tight big toe (hallux rigidus) that doesn't bend
and allow normal foot motion.
Turning out when you walk wears on the knees, just like tires that are
crooked.
To fix tire wear, you don't stop driving or change the tires, and you don’t
just keep driving that way. You check why they are crooked and fix that.
Alignment work is the same for bad knee and foot posture – learn how to
hold them straight by using your muscles, not just letting them sway and
slump.
Find the source of your turned out position, sometimes nothing more than
bad habit. Use your muscles to walk straight. This keeps body weight on
your muscles and off the joints of the hip, ankles, foot, and knee. There
are some who say that straightening bad ankle and knee posture will just
cause pain in the hip. If you only turn feet in without correcting the source
of the problem, the rest of the leg turns in with it, making more stress.
There is no need for that. Keep your entire leg position healthy and there
will be less pain, not more.
Knee Pain Fix #3 – How To Keep Knees From Hurting When Bending,
Exercising, and On the Stairs
Many people don't "lift with the legs" to prevent back pain, because it hurts
their knees. Bending knees properly should not hurt, but help heal and
strengthen. A major cause of knee arthritis is weak thighs. Goo bending
will save your back and exercise your legs in healthy ways at the same
time:
Healthy squatting for daily life strengthens legs, hips, and knees. Bad
squatting can hurt. It is no mystery. Instead of thinking of squats as an
exercise to "do" 10 times, use it for real life. Real built in exercise, back
pain prevention, and knee strengthening.
Bad bending, with knees forward, shifts weight to the knees Good
bending with knees back and heels down puts weight on your muscles,
and off your knees. It's good exercise, and healthy for your back and
knees.
How to bend using a half-squat: Bend both knees with both heels down
on the floor. Don't let your heels come up when squatting. Keep both
knees far enough back when you bend that you can see your toes. Check
if you bend by letting your knees come forward. Body weight is shifted to
the knee joint. Instead, whenever you bend or lift, even to pick up a towel,
keep heels down and knees back, over the ankle. Shift your weight to the
heel, off the toes.
Feel the difference in thigh and hip muscle use. Done right, pressure
should disappear from the knee. Don't let your back arch; keep hip slightly
tucked. Use a mirror to practice healthy knee position. Or put the front of
your knees against a bench or other object to train yourself to keep them
from slouching forward.
Avoid a lot of squatting on the balls of your feet (heels up). Toe-squatting
shifts your weight forward onto your knee joint. Instead, to sit or crouch in
a full squat to rest, to do chores, keep your heels down on the floor. Heel
down squatting is a customary sitting posture in much of the world. This
reduces pressure on the knees and is a great stretch for your Achilles
tendon. Keep knees and feet facing the same direction so the knee does
not twist. Keep your knees over your feet, not drooping inward.
Go up and down gently, a small amount at first. Done properly, it should
feel like exercise for the thighs and hips, not pain in the knees. Stand flat
on your whole foot, rocking weight back more to the heel.
Another healthy way to bend for things during real daily life is the lunge,
with one leg in front and one in back. With healthy knee position you can
bend without knee pain and have a daily habit that strengthens knees
rather than hurt them. Keep the front knee over the ankle, with your body
weight toward your heel, not sliding forward to the front of your foot.
Shifting forward transfers your body weight through your knee joint,
instead of keeping it on your leg muscles.
Bend properly using the lunge for all the many dozens of times you bend
to reach things every day. Keep front knee back toward the ankle (left) not
forward (right). Using the lunge strengthens legs, hip, and knees. Keep
your body weight evenly between the front and back leg. Bend both knees
to dip straight down, and up again, gently.
Use good bending, shown in the left hand drawing above. Done properly,
it should feel like exercise for the thighs and hips, not pain in the knees.
Instead of thinking of lunges as an exercise to "do" 10 times, just use it
for real life. Real built in exercise, back pain prevention, and knee
strengthening. Imagine how many times you bend for everything during a
real day. Imagine doing that many bends in damaging ways. No wonder
things hurt. Now bend right and get real exercise and pain prevention. No
gyms, therapy, or pills needed.
When going up stairs, keep your weight back toward the heel of the foot
that is stepping up. Most people don't step this way because their leg
muscles are too weak. They throw their weight forward, stepping up onto
the toe. This transmits body weight onto the knee joint in a vicious cycle of
weakness and pain. Keep weight back and knee pain will disappear.
Retrain your bending habits to help your back and knees at the same
time, and give you free leg exercise too. You can become more mobile
and strong while reducing your knee pain, by using your muscles instead
of throwing your body weight on your knee joint.
Knee Pain Fix #4 – Your Own Body's Shock Absorption
Do you walk, run, exercise, jump, and step heavily, letting each foot flop
down without muscle use to decelerate? Shock transmits to the joints of
your ankle, knee, hip, back and neck, and can strain your calf muscle and
Achilles tendon.
Instead, when going down steps or a hill, for example, use muscles to
step down lightly. Use the leg still on the upper step to decelerate.
Instead of just falling onto the lower step, keep weight on the upper leg to
lower yourself lightly, then add shock absorption from the leg that steps
down. Bend the knee and use thigh muscles as you touch the ground.
You will get free leg exercise, burn more calories, and reduce shock and
wear on the knee.
Use the same principles for normal walking and running. Use it for
exercise classes using a step bench or balance platform. It's no mystery
when people hurt "even though they are doing their exercises" when they
are slouching, flopping, slamming, and straining knees and Achilles
tendons, and calling that an exercise class.
Knee Pain Fix #5 – Don't "Lock-out" the Joint with Hyperextension
Some people stand and move while "locking" the knee out straight, even
pressing it backward. This posture is sometimes called "splay-legs," or
"splayed knee" and makes the leg look more crescent-shaped than
straight. It puts body weight onto the joint while pressing the joint slightly
out of place, putting damaging forces on the cartilage. Many people push
their knees into hyperextension when standing and walking. Others
"bang" the joint into straight position in exercise and aerobic boxing
classes. This locked out position is sometimes taught in yoga and dance
classes. It is unnecessary and injurious over the long run. Pain is
commonly felt after long sitting or upon waking. Instead, stand and move
without locking the joint straight.
"Locking" the knee out straight, or pushing it back in hyperextension
damages the joint. Stand, walk, and move without banging the joint
straight.
Knee Pain Fix #6 - Good Range of Motion Without Twisting
Your knee joint is shaped to bend and straighten. Unlike your shoulder or
hip it is not supposed to "swivel" or twist much. Check and see if you twist
your knees without knowing it. One common way to twist your knee is to
plant your foot, then turn your body in a different direction without also
moving the foot. People often do this going down stairs where the stairs
turn. Or when changing direction in sports and running. Some people
even do this walking and running, by stepping down, then letting the heel
swing to the side while the foot stays planted on the ground.
Twisting can wear away at the cushiony cartilage in your knee, called the
meniscus. You can strain or tear your meniscus (and cruciate ligaments)
suddenly from a big twist, or gradually by letting your weight fall inward, or
by moving with your feet and knees pointing in different directions. The leg
bones twist, step after step, day after day, year after year.
People often injure their knee by twisting deliberately, doing common but
bad stretches. They are stretching, but it is not a healthy or needed
stretch. Twisting stretches the ligaments that hold the knee together.
Overstretched ligaments can make the joint unstable, allowing the bones
to rub and grind. That hurts and also slowly injures the joint.
Your knee joint is not shaped to bend and twist to the side at the same
time. That can overstretch the joint and make it too loose, so that it rubs
and wears out sooner than it should.
Knee Pain Fix #7 - Ilio-tibial Band or "I.T. Band"
Your I.T. band is a fibrous band that attaches from the side of your hip
(your ilium, which is the top of your hip bone) to the side of your knee (tibia
bone). That's why it's called "ilio-tibial." Tight I.T. bands can yank on the
side of your knee, leading to knee pain, and even change the way you
walk. When a tight band pulls and rotates your leg to the outside, it can
add to walking "duck-footed" with your feet and legs turned out instead of
facing straight forward, which leads to other pain and problems.
A commonly taught stretch for your I.T. band is done standing sideways at
arms-length from a wall, crossing the opposite leg in front of the leg
nearest the wall and leaning toward the wall. A more effective stretch is
done lying down: Lie face up on a floor or bed, or wherever you're
comfortable and flat, with legs wide. Cross one ankle on top of the other
with both legs far to one side. Keep both legs straight and make sure you
lie flat with both hips touching the floor. Hold for a comfortable stretch - at
least for a few breaths - then switch sides.
The most common IT band stretch is the standing stretch (left) but a more
effective stretch is done lying down (right). A properly done IT stretch will
feel good and help your knee, hip, and other things
Knee Pain Fix #8 - Stop Bad Shoes and Medicines That Cause Pain
Hard, "supportive" shoes are a frequent cause of knee pain, documented
in studies to contribute to knee arthritis. No need for shoe "straight
jackets." Soft, flexible shoes that let your feet breathe and stretch when
walking are healthier for your feet, knees, and hip. Expensive, engineered
shoes are not needed, and may even be causing pain. Your own
muscles can be the support needed, as explained above.
Many medicines are known to cause body aches - statin drugs, anti-
anxiety drugs, cholesterol drugs, stomach acid drugs, and more. Stop the
causes of poor health instead of taking medicines that cause new
problems. If your diet is poor so you take cholesterol and heart
medicines, it is likely your diet is too poor for you to feel good or be
healthy. Use my free web site DrBookspan.com for many articles on
getting healthy again, come take classes, plus almost 800 articles on my
Fitness Fixer™ Index.
Vitamin D is needed for pain free living. Better than taking pills and
vitamins, get active again in healthy ways out in the sunshine.
Knee Pain Fix #9 - Knee Pain That Does Not Come From Your Knee -
And Why Some People Are Told Stretching Fixes Knee Pain
Your quadriceps muscles are attached around your knee. Sometimes,
people have tight thigh muscles (quadriceps). When these tight people try
to lunge, or stretch their quadriceps, or do activities that need to lengthen
the quadriceps like running, the tight muscles pull and yank instead of
stretch on the place where they attach - around the knee. People are
given stretches in rehab or PT and told that stretching fixes knee pain.
They never really had knee pain - there was nothing wrong with their
knee, so it is a of misleading idea. These same people will often not use
the lunge to bend properly because they think it is hurting their knee. It
may be that the tight quads were the problem, and lunging (gently and not
so hard that it yanks the tight muscles) is what they needed.
Knee Pain Fix #10 - Not All Pain is Orthopedic. Pain From Your
Medicines:
Common prescription medicines cause much back pain. The pain is not
a rare effect as previously thought. Are you on medicines for lowering
cholesterol? Sleeping medicines? Drugs for depression and anxiety?
Irritable bowel drugs, stomach acid drugs (a large contributor to
osteoporosis and thinning bones, too) drugs to concentrate, to help wake
up, to calm you, for allergies. Increasingly, drugs are found to make more
pain as side effect, even drugs you are taking for pain. Trying to stop them
causes rebound and withdrawal pain - good for drug companies to keep
you on them, but bad for you and your health.
Stretches and exercises do not fix this kind of pain. In a worsening cycle,
side effects are "treated" with yet more drugs with effects that lessen and
degrade your health. That is not "side effects" and that is not health care.
Many of these drugs are not needed. Some, like stomach acid drugs,
cause the problem in the first place. Others have even more serious
consequences.
A top health priority is to stop the need for these drugs so that you can
lessen, then stop the need to take them. If you are in pain, so don't
exercise, then get cholesterol and other health problems from not
moving, can't sleep, then take cholesterol and sleeping medicines that
cause dependence and more pain, use the healthy principles in my free
summary articles and all my books so that you can move again, and be
healthfully tired at the end of the day and sleep well at night. Not exercise
is good medicine. Healthy exercise as healthy medicine will stop the pain
and need for medicines that cause more problems.
When you reach for anti-inflammatory medicines and pills (even foods)
remember that most back pain from bad habits is not inflammatory in
nature, and may be why all those pills aren't working. Change the bad
habits that are the cause. Reduce inflammatory foods for all the
conditions with inflammatory components like heart disease. More on
this is in the books.
Body Weight and Knee Pain
Some people are told they have knee pain because they are overweight.
When I check them, I often find they stand, bend, and walk with weight
poorly distributed on the joint. When we change that, the pain diminishes.
I have seen patients, some greatly overweight, who say that retraining gait
and stance stopped their knee pain, so that they can go out and walk and
exercise for the first time. People who are not overweight, but walk with
poor mechanics, poor positioning, or poor shock absorption can put
more weight on their knee joint than a heavier person who walks in a
healthy manner.
Exercises and Knee Pain
Like weight loss alone, strengthening alone doesn't fix knee pain that
comes from poor mechanics. Plenty of muscular people have pain. They
may do knee exercises, but strengthening is not what changes leg
posture or bad walking and moving habits. Many people are not strong
enough to bend properly, so they bend with weight on their joints instead
of their muscles. The best exercise is to bend properly for all the many
dozens of times you bend for things every day. Use the squat and lunge
described in #3 above to strengthen while you retrain healthy ways to
move for all your regular life activities. It will strengthen and retrain your
knees, save your back, and give you free, built-in, real life (functional)
exercise all day.
Letting your knees, hip, and ankle joints to sag under your weight instead
of using supporting muscles to stand in healthy position loses the benefit
of any rehab exercise, and slowly wears joints. Keep knees in healthy
positioning during walking, standing, lifting, and moving for better
healthier, exercise. You'll get exercise and free knee rehab without going
to the gym.
How Long Does It Take To Stop Knee Pain?
If your pain comes from mal-positioning your knees, hips, ankles, and
legs, you should feel the pain stop or lessen when you reposition to
healthier ways. If you're not feeling better right away, check what you are
doing compared to what is presented above. Are you over compensating?
Are you pushing too hard the other way? Are you walking heavily instead
of lightly? Are you tightening or clenching any muscles? Are you doing
bad exercises that lean on or twist the knees? Are you going back to bad
movement habits during the day? Check my free article on Bad Exercises,
this one on bad stretches, and this one showing better health and
understanding what abdominal muscles really do with The Ab Revolution.
All show better movement that helps the whole body including knees.
Make sure there is not something else contributing to your pain.
For SMARTER PROGRESS Fixing Your Knee Pain and Keeping it Away:
All methods here are intended to decrease pain and improve function
starting as soon as you begin using them. Each technique should make
an obvious positive change right then. If it does not make sense or help,
you may not be applying it as intended (you are doing it wrong). Do not do
anything that makes more or new pain.
For healthy knees during all movement activities:
- Keep knees and feet facing forward when walking and running,
not tilted in or out. Keep the whole leg lined up, don't just yank one
segment straight, straining the rest. - Keep body weight distributed over the sole of your foot, not
pressing downward and inward to flatten your arches. - When stepping up stairs or an incline, put your whole foot down,
not just toes. Press through your heel and keep your knee back
more over the heel than forward toward your toes. Then your thigh
and hip muscles lift you, not just your knee joint. - When stepping down, step toe first, bend your knee gently and
lightly on contact for shock absorption, and step down fully and
lightly with your weight held up on the leg on the upper step. Don't
clomp down with a straight knee. - Notice if you let your weight crash down with each step. Walk, run,
jump, and land lightly with shock absorption, instead of stomping.
It's better for balance too. Maintain normal heel to toe roll.
Stepping lightly doesn't mean walking on your toes. - Watch other people’s gait and movement habits. It helps remind
you to avoid unhealthy habits - knees swaying inward
unsupported by muscles, feet and knees twisting in opposite
directions with each step, stomping without shock absorption.
People may move that way because it's easier than using
muscular effort, but it is not healthy. - Notice injurious knee positioning for "fitness and health" moves in
fitness magazines - Notice your own habits.
- Check if you take medicines that cause pain. Stop the need for
these medicines through healthier habits, rather than harming
your health more through these medicines and their side effects. - Check for other causes of pain - infection, Lyme disease, medical
conditions, and so on, - Use principles learned to identify and eliminate the cause of your
own pain. - Don't "do knee exercises" 10 times then go back to harmful use
and positioning habits that cause the pain. Fitness as a lifestyle
means the healthy ways you move all day. - Do send me photos and success stories showing the principles
in action. Prizes for best ones. - If you stop hurting your knees with bad bending and bad
movement and standing habits, and bad exercises, then a major
source of pain will stop. It is not the exercises that fix things, it's
you.
| Facial Masks for a Younger Face: Horseradish and Lemon Mask Apply horseradish root to the skin to bleach discolorations and age spots. Lemon juice sloughs away the top layer of dead skin cells, leaving skin fresh and rejuvenated. Combine two parts freshly-shredded horseradish to one part lemon juice and white vinegar and mix into a paste. Apply paste to age spots for 10 minutes, then rinse with warm water. “These are like chemical peels,” plastic surgeon Dr. Drew Ordon says. “These are fruit acid peels with acetic acid in there. Do this for a month and you will definitely see a change.” Papaya Skin Treatment Papaya fruit is high in antioxidants that help regenerate collagen. When rubbed on the face, enzymes in the peeled papaya skin help exfoliate dead cells and smooth the appearance of skin. “Put this around the crow’s feet area, and it fills all of that in,” Kym says. “It helps build the collagen and plump that up a little bit.” Almond Oil Almond oil is a natural moisturizer rich in vitamin E with protein and is commonly found in treatments designed to lighten dark circles under eyes. Massage under eye area at night and sleep with it on. “It’s going to help moisturize and thicken that under eye skin so you don’t see the thinness." |
| Scar tissue Scar tissue is a mass of "emergency" tissue that develops in order to prevent an open wound or infection in the body. Many people have scar tissue which just won't go away. However, this is incorrect maintenance. A perfectly healthy body will push even the worst amount of scar tissue out of its system within three months. If your scar tissue is lasting longer than that, it's time you learn how to replace it with healthy, normal tissue. Scar tissue can exist in thin layers, which is how we see it on the surface of the skin, but in reality, it is a 3-dimensional blob of tissue embedded in your normal tissue. Over time, your body sloughs off layers of skin and, ideally, layers of scar tissue as well. Eventually, the blob of scar tissue has been "layered" out, and healthy normal tissue appears underneath. In unhealthy bodies, or bodies which do not eliminate properly, the blob of scar tissue remains in one place, unchanging, while the normal tissue moves around it and layers out of the body like normal. Improper elimination of scar tissue can be the result of many different causes or combinations of causes, including but not limited to: poor blood circulation, dehydration, toxic overload, lack of sleep and lack of relaxation or exercise. 1. Circulation. Make the scar tissue feel very unwelcome by constantly rubbing it and massaging it. If it itches or starts to itch, that's a healing itch, so only scratch it until it feels better, but don't allow it to bleed. Stimulate the gathering of white blood cells around the scar tissue to move it on out by getting in the habit of rubbing it constantly. 2. Hydration. Coke can have a drying effect on your body because the amount of water it takes to prevent certain toxins in the coke from sinking further into the cells is greater than the amount of coke you just drank. If you need your caffeine fix, drink coffee. Also, for hydrating your body, drink plenty of tap water. Tap water contains minerals from the ground which you cannot get from food, and electrolytes which help you absorb the water better. 3. Eliminate Toxins. A diet of lots of meat and fruit is an excellent diet for eliminating toxins. Avoid grains, and remember that meat has a very cleansing effect on your digestive tract as well as being easy to digest. This way, your body spends less time digesting the food and more energy on dealing with your scar tissue. Fruit is a natural cleanser and can actually make you sick if that is all you are eating for a few days straight, because it will induce huge "housecleaning" in your body to get rid of old sickness or tissue. Be sure to eat your fruit with plenty of meat. 4. Sleep and Relaxation. In order to kick out the scar tissue cells, your body must create new cells to replace them. The highest amount of cell reproduction occurs while you are asleep. Be sure and get a minimum of 8 hours of sleep every night and take plenty of peaceful, happy breaks throughout the day. But what exactly is a scar and why do we get them? A scar is a mark left in skin or organs by the healing of a wound or injury. It is the replacement of tissue by connective tissue. Connective tissue is made up of collagen, a fibrous protein commonly found in bones, ligaments and cartilage. It is also the result of the inflammation process present in healing. When the collagen used for tissue mending matures, it is referred to as scar tissue. It forms to fix the continuity of the tissue, but it is approximately 20 per cent weaker than the original tissue. And because of its different physical makeup, scar tissue presents as red or purple in the beginning stages. As it matures, it becomes white and glistening. The most commonly known scars are those seen on the skin from cuts or wounds, but scarring occurs with any tissue damage, inside and outside of the body. In fact, anything from a simple paper cut to micro-tears of muscle fibers from overstretching forms scar tissue. Every Scar Is Not Created Equal. Scar tissue is dependent on the individual, the nature and severity of the injury and complicating factors. When the edges of a cut or tear can be approximated through tape, staples or sutures, primary healing occurs. Because of the body's efficiency, this method results in minimal scarring due to the small amount of collagen required to repair the tissue. Secondary healing occurs when the wound's surface area is too large or involved for proper approximation. Healing time and collagen production are increased. This results in heightened scarring. When ample scarring occurs, a contracture or shortening of the connective tissue can occur. The result is tissue that cannot adequately lengthen, which can greatly reduce motion of the area. Usually lengthening can be restored with proper exercise or stretching of the area. Irreversible contractures, when fibrous tissue or bone replaces the connective tissue, can result in permanent loss of motion. Motion can only be restored by surgical intervention. Occasionally, these shortened or contracted areas will produce adhesions.An adhesion is a cross-link of the collagen-based connective tissue in a random pattern. It is usually treated with massage techniques and stretching protocols. Chronic inflammation however, can cause fibrotic adhesions, which can severely restrict motion. Fibrotic adhesions are very difficult to diminish. Sometimes chronic inflammation and abnormal healing can result in what is called proud flesh. This is the red, raised scarring from collagen formation that is disorganized. These scars are more likely to become damaged since normal healing will not occur over these elevated welt-like scars. Sometimes, surgical intervention may be necessary to remove the abnormal tissue to give way to proper healing. A scar that extends beyond the boundaries of the damaged area is referred to as a keloid. A keloid is excessive collagen forming in a random pattern, which may continue to grow for several years. Typically, keloids are best treated with corticosteroids rather than surgery. Corticosteroids are effective in reducing the keloid, but due to the imbalance of collagen, keloids often reoccur. Keloids are often referred to as hypertrophic scars, but in fact the two are somewhat different. Hypertrophic scars are also the result of collagen formation beyond the boundaries of the wound. However, the fibers are arranged in a circular pattern and are typically seen in second or third degree burns as a result of secondary healing. These scars are also seen with skin graft donor sites and are often a result when an infection complicates burn healing. These scars or small portions of a larger scar can be removed surgically so approximation can be attained or skin grafting can be performed. Who Is At Risk? We all scar. But the extent of scarring can be the result of many things. African American or Asian people, for example, are more prone to hypertrophic or keloid scarring. And over 85% of hypertrophic and keloid scars are seen in people under the age of 30 because of increased collagen production. Areas like the upper back, the shoulder, the buttocks and the bottom of the foot are more likely to develop hypertrophic scarring, whereas keloids are more common from your neck to your torso and from your shoulder to your elbow. Complications, such as infection, that impede healing can also increase the amount of scar tissue. Too much tension on a healing wound can also increase scar formation. Tension or excessive stretching can produce ongoing micro tears, which perpetuates the inflammation process. How To Minimize Scar TissueYour first step to minimize scarring is proper first aid, followed by consistent care during the entire healing process. Proper care of complicating factors such as infections or medical conditions, which affect healing, can assist in proper recovery. Alleviating the swelling associated with the inflammation process can limit the effects of scarring. Also, increasing circulation to allow necessary nutrients and cells into the area can minimize the size of scars. Massage before the collagen fibers mature can reduce overgrowth, thus decreasing hypertrophic scarring, but should only be performed by a trained therapist. Stretching should not be performed during healing so as to avoid further stress on the area. However, gentle, partial range of motion without pain is acceptable to maintain flexibility of the area. Once healing is complete, softening of the scar tissue by stretching and massage can greatly limit motion restrictions. Hypersensitive or painful scars may require desensitizing through tactile stimulation such as touching, brushing and pressure before stretching and massage can be tolerated. |
| AMAZING! It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish. All before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow learners. God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body! God's Pharmacy! Amazing! A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye. And science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes. Tomatoes have four chambers and are red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food. Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food. Walnuts look like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function. Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys. Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body. Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them). Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility. Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics. Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts. Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body. |