September 19th, 2010 -- Posted in Radio Show |
An Elbow shows off Renegadopathy
We took the opportunity today to give you an example of “Renegadopathy”, the coined term for the Renegade Doc’s approach to solving health problems.
We first reviewed other medical paradigms:
Allopathy (current MD approach) – go against symptoms.
Homeopathy (“similar”) – go with symptoms. An energy approach; the more dilute and less chemical, the more potent the remedy.
Naturopathy – using natural tools and approaches (water, heat, foods, herbs, etc.)
Osteopathy, Chiropractic (manipulative approaches) – align the structure allowing proper energy flow to allow proper chemical function.
Renegadopathy – using any and all of the above and more, such as massage or body work, to address the physical layer symptoms plus looking at the physical symptoms to begin to ask questions about deeper emotional and spiritual issues. The deeper issues reflect into the body as problems and by letting the symptoms open the questioning, root causes can begin to be addressed and lasting solutions can begin to be discovered.
We opened the case files (or a compendium thereof) of a tennis elbow problem to walk through the process. Looking at the past history reveals a previous cancer and we talk briefly about where cancer comes from and some of its solutions.
It’s interesting to note that since our bodies are a whole, unified organism, all of our dis-eases, be they sore elbows or cancer in this case, tend to point to the basic issues with which we struggle. With that in mind, medical treatment then becomes a search for deep answers and not just symptom relief.
Be sure to listen for all the details and to get a feel for how Renegadopathy works.
Until next time,
Go in Health,
Dr Jon
Renegade Doc
August 6th, 2010 -- Posted in Current Health Matters |
So far we have looked at the two main types of arthritis, Rheumatoid and Osteo, reviewed the usual therapies, outlined the “Renegadopathy™” approach, and given some specifics, using those principles, for treating Rheumatoid arthritis.
Let’s finish up this series by looking at some specifics for how to treat Osteoarthritis.
Even though Osteoarthritis is a “wear and tear” dis-ease, and hence one would think that treatment should be directed simply at less wear and tear, or toward a more mechanical solution such as joint replacement, the body is still a complete organism. Let’s approach it that way.
Again, put the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spritiual aspects in a pyramid in ascending order.
Physical.
Cartilage in joints has a poor blood supply and depend on pressure changes produced by joint movement for getting nutrients in and out. Consequently, joint health depends on a combination of movement and high nutrient density in the blood, especially minerals.
- Food. Eat highly nutrient dense foods: Vegetables, fruits (who’s surprised?), and nuts (high in minerals). This needs to start early in life and continue, especially if you do a repetitive, wear and tear activity.
- Nutrients. Obviously begin with a good multivitamin. Also, add calcium in a highly absorbable form. Calcium hydroxyapatite has been shown to actually replace calcium into bone. Other calcium forms may slow bone loss of calcium but won’t restore calcium levels in bone. The bony irregularities that define “degenerative disease” known as osteoarthritis result from the body trying to get enough calcium in places where it needs to be by taking it from bone, the storehouse. It then can’t get it back in properly so puts it in places, like around joints, causing the wear and tear. With calcium, to stay balanced, take an extra multimineral supplement as well.
- Herbs. Again, with a good herbal and/or some muscle testing, find the herbs that you can enjoy using that will also build and restore cartilage. Being complete plants, herbs are loaded with minerals.
- Oils. These are potent healers, adding nutrients and healing agents directly to the area needing help when applied to the skin since they are absorbed quickly. Some can also be taken orally for systemic effect. Examples for osteoarthritis include Douglas or white fir, spruce, pine, cypress, peppermint, marjoram, rosemary, basil and others.
- Homeopathy. Again, a specialty approach but the right remedy for you can be very helpful.
- Energy. Magnet therapy, resonant sound wave energy and light energy would all be useful.
- Exercise. You MUST have strong muscles around joints to support them and take some of the pressure off the cartilage. Start with gentle and, as tolerated, progress to more aggressive strengthening exercises. If necessary, begin in the water where gravity is not an issue. Do multiple repetitions with low weights. Find a good personal trainer to help.
- Detoxify. Clean out the junk. Homeopathic remedies, massage therapy, good water, sauna/sweating, exercise, and things like spirulina and cilantro all help.
- Again I would encourage you to do the MAR (Metabolic Assessment Regimen) to get a handle on where your body really is in terms of health status.
Mental.
Since you are trying to rebuild a tissue that is hard to rebuild, this is crucial. Visualize cartilage rebuilding, nutrients entering the cartilage you have and see new cartilage being laid down. See the calcium going back into your bones where it is supposed to be and the bones remodeling and reshaping to their proper shapes. See the muscles getting stronger and stronger.
Emotion.
Again, go deep. What is wearing you down? What burdens are too heavy for you to carry? What issues are preventing you from moving easily through life? Be honest, get naked with yourself. No excuses. Then let it all go and relax.
Spiritual.
Again, meditate, pray, BE still, listen to Father and get the answers you need for what the root causes are and what you need to do to become truly yourself.
That ends our discussion on arthritis. I trust it has been educational, helpful and has begun to open your mind to possibilities for not only healing of the body but, more importantly, of the emotion and spirit as well.
For more of the Renegade Doc and his wild ideas, visit me at my website at http://www.jonmoreshead.com. Contact information is listed there. You can schedule time for personal consultation if you like and discuss whatever issues for which you need help. On the sidebar here is a free e-book reviewing how I got to where I am – please feel free to read and enjoy that.
Go in Health!
Dr Jon
Renegade Doc
August 4th, 2010 -- Posted in Current Health Matters |
Finally! Here it is – the good stuff. How to treat arthritis, and today we will talk about Rheumatoid Arthritis, with “Renegadopathy™”.
After looking at how and what arthritis can be and laying out the general Renegade approach we are now getting down to specifics.
Based on what we laid out in the last post, think of Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual as making a pyramidal structure in ascending order. Then start at the bottom and work up through the layers.
Physical: Use all of the approaches available.
- Food (positive). Our bodies are designed to run on raw fruits and vegetables, primarily. That is where the immune system builders, the antioxidants, the cancer fighters, the detoxifiers, the health builders are. Keep it simple – eat lots of raw fruits and vegetables. Using food appropriately can balance your system pH (acid/alkaline state) which is crucial for becoming and staying healthy.
- Food (negative). Food allergy is a hidden cause of many (if not most dis-eases). I’m not talking about the sudden response like eating peanut oil and dying on the spot. Rather, food usually causes a delayed response – over two or three days after ingestion – so you never think about it and have a tough time connecting the dots. Symptoms can be joint problems, fatigue, headache, and most anything, especially chronic illness. Foods commonly causing allergy are corn, wheat, sugar, coffee, yeast, eggs, dairy and chocolate. One client years ago was allergic to beef (or the chemicals in beef) and his arthritis went away when he stopped eating beef. So here you need to avoid the common things, and rotate the diet. Add new foods and don’t eat the same thing multiple days in a row.
- Nutrients/Supplements. Find a good multivitamin (see sidebar) that lays a broad foundation of nutrition. You have got to provide the body with the right raw materials. The supplements help. You have got to give the immune system its proper nutrients so it can respond to the right signals in the right way. The supplements help. A combination of vitamin C, quercitin and licorice root has been shown by Dr. Russell Jaffe to offer a powerful, natural cortisone-like effect.
- Herbs/Botanicals. Really another form of food, but a complete plant with medicinal effect. For example, comfrey is a “slimy” herb and has effect on joints that need to be “slimy”. An herbal dictionary can be of help here. Approach the choice with the idea of something that can build health, not just have anti-inflammatory effects.
- Essential oils. These are the “blood” of herbs so contain all the benefit in a concentrated form. Hence they are even more powerful. Peppermint, wintergreen, oregano, thyme and others, alone or in combination, can have significant effect. Get those that have been cold-distilled and not destroyed by heat, such as those supplied by the Young Living company.
- Homeopathy. A much longer story, but remedies are available which can help significantly.
- Other subtle energy techniques. If the energy field is right, the chemistry will be right. Acupuncture, electrodermal screening, light and sound energy can all be used effectively. Takes a bit more learning to figure out the how of some of these and the whole concept is foreign to our Western mind.
Mental.
Start putting in your brain the image of normal, free moving, smoothly hinging joints. Draw the picture. Visualize. Feel it happening. It is a mindset thing, like the choice of botanicals, above. Your subconscious will begin to bring just the right agents, remedies, ideas, and motivation that will bring health.
Emotional.
Every dis-ease starts in the emotion/spirit. Some conflict or stress is held onto and grows and manifests in the body in some symptoms. Often there are typical ones for typical dis-eases. For arthritis, the emotion is usually the feeling of being unloved or criticized, of being resentful, or holding onto something that makes you “see red” (inflamed) or perhaps it is a fear of moving forward in life. When you “read” your body as the monitor, this is what it is telling you is going on at the deeper level. Louise Hay has some great books that talk about these issues.
Spiritual.
Turn the heat down, get still, get centered, follow a spiritual practice that connects you with the easy flow of Life, with the Creator of Life, with Father. Meditate, pray, sit and enjoy the sunset, be thankful for breath, breathe deeply and long, do yoga. BE still. Go deep. Ask yourself the tough questions, listen for the straight up, tough answers. Learn to forgive yourself and truly, deeply LOVE yourself.
When you come to my office and get on my massage table, or call on the phone for a consultation you now know what the session would look like. We would go through many, most and perhaps more of these approaches after discovering where you are, what you need and what works for you.
For any dis-ease I would also recommend you do the MAR (Metabolic Assessment Regimen) if for no other reason than to find out how your body is doing, overall, as a baseline. It is also a good yardstick, repeated annually, to measure your progress toward improved health.
Along the way, use some type of “energy diagnosis” to assist and direct therapy. The pendulum is pretty simple for anyone to use. Variations of muscle testing can also be effective and this type of technique tends to be a quicker way to get some answers. (This topic is the subject of another whole series.)
And don’t forget to exercise. For Rheumatoid arthritis it needs to be gentle and easy, moving the affected joints in warm water, for example. The unaffected joints need to be exercised also, in a manner enjoyed by you.
The bottom line in “Renegadopathy™” is to take the broad approach, realizing that everything works together, and aim to get in line, aligned, on board with your purpose, deep desires and what makes you “hum.” The modality to get you over your arthritis, or other dis-ease, is less important than your desire to be and belief that you can be well.
Next time we will talk about Osteoarthritis.
Go in Health!
Dr Jon
July 30th, 2010 -- Posted in Current Health Matters |
In the last couple of posts we have talked about the two main types of inflamed joints (“arthritis” – using that word means you are speaking Latin!):
I promised the “good stuff” in terms of treatment but first let’s spend time on this post laying out the therapy you would typically get from your medical doctor or rheumatologist so you will be up to speed and so the alternative therapies will make more sense.
As we begin, let’s realize that inflammation, for whatever reason, is the body’s means of healing. When there is a trauma, sprained ankle for example, or an immune response to a foreign agent, the body responds by sending in the “troops”.
Blood vessels dilate, bringing in a larger volume of blood. In that blood are white blood cells and chemicals specially designed to begin to heal whatever is causing the abnormality. The result of this activity visible to the eye on the outside is redness, increased heat, swelling, and pain.
Each of these is due to the increased volume of blood and the reactions occurring.
There is just one problem with this: pain feels uncomfortable.
Enter the allopath, the medical doctor.
Now “allopathy” means “against disease.” That is, whatever symptoms are seen in the body, do something to fight or minimize those symptoms.
An allopath does just that and today’s medical doctor is trained as an allopath.
This is opposed to other approaches such as naturopathy where the physician uses natural methods, or homeopathy where the physician uses remedies that will actually cause the same symptoms, or chiropractic/osteopathy that uses the body energy field to stimulate healing.
In each of these approaches one actually works with the symptoms and the body’s natural processes to restore final balance at some deeper level instead of just knocking back symptoms so one feels better.
And then there is “Renegadopathy,” the approach of Dr Jon, the Renegade Doc, who puts together all the various approaches and then some, but that will come later……..
So what does your allopathic, medical doctor do for arthritis?
For both types of arthritis they start with the use of an antiinflammatory (against inflammation) agent. This can be as simple as aspirin, a bit more complicated like Naprosyn, or a steroid such as cortisone, depending on the response or lack thereof.
Naprosyn type drugs cause small tears in the stomach lining allowing microscopically small pieces of less than completely digested food get into the blood stream. This sets up an immune system response or allergy which causes the body to generate – you guessed it – more inflammation!
It can also cause bleeding from the stomach, not a great idea for health.
Steroids are the stress chemical, your body’s answer to survive when under stress. It causes blood sugar, breathing rate and blood pressure to increase and digestion, urination and bowel function to decrease. These are all great things to happen when one needs to fight to survive, but when trying to heal? Over time steroids cause thinning of skin, easy bleeding and weak bones. Makes one wonder, doesn’t it?
With osteoarthritis, the next step is to do an “oil change.” Hyaluronic acid, a component of the lubricating fluid of joints, is injected in a series of three doses over a three week period.
If that doesn’t work then the next step is to eventually do a joint replacement, a major surgery with significant issues. In fairness, at times this can do a great job of helping people get functional again.
For rheumatoid arthritis, if the anti-inflammatories don’t do the job then the allopath goes to toxic metals like gold or platinum in an attempt to kill the inflammation producing cells.
Or maybe they will go directly to methotrexate, a drug used to fight cancer. Again, the idea is to kill the cells that are producing the inflammation.
There seems to be something out of line with using a drug that kills any and every cell in an attempt to shut down cells that are trying to heal you and cause a “side effect” of pain, especially when you don’t look at underlying causes of the pain producer in the first place.
Next time we will begin to look at the other approaches – I really promise!
Go in health,
Dr Jon
