Polio Client

What are some reccomendations for a client with a moderate case of Post- Polio. He has been using Kaiser machines and treadmills & stationary  bike at another gym. He is also a 3 yrs out of cardiac rehab. His Doc  ok’d him for exercise. Should most effected body parts be avoided in
strengh training. We are first looking at and changing diet. What  types of modalities should be used for optimal results?

What your client has been doing is typicall PT/OT. Most get his “state of the art” rehab, but it does very little to train the nervous system, inner unit and global systems. It actually detrains all of them! Here is what I would do in no particular order:

1.Polio is a virus that most get from contaminated food, usually from poop. It gets into the intestinal tract, sneaks its way out and attacks the bodies nervous system. The first thing I would do would be to run 2 lab tests with him. I would do the 401H from biohealth and the GI 2 from Diagnos techs. Why both? The both test for different kinds of bacteria and parasites. I use both with more chronic conditions. This will tell you what might be hiding inside that could be contributing to his poor health condition.  If he does not want to pay the money, well, you need to ask him how committed he is to really healing himself. There are many pieces to the healing puzzle. 

2. I would do a full NLC 2 assessment on him. From there, you can find out what you need to educate him on, in what order, etc. This will ensure full vitality over a 6-12 month period of time.

3. I would refer him out to a CHEK Level 3 or higher for a full assessment. His program needs to be developed from the inside out, not outside in. He needs to be taken back to the womb with infant development exercises. His nervous system needs to be reprogrammed. As well, this will tell you what to stretch and strengthened.

4. The lungs and diaphragm are usually affected. Cardiac rehab is great, but this is once again training from the outside in. His diet needs to be cleaned up, his breathing has to be assessed, atlas needs to be looked at, etc.

5. I would rec long term acupuncture. I have seen some great help with this in the clinic with clients who have polio, etc. There are 3 patterns in TCM that correlate with polio: wind/heat/damp invading the lungs, damp/heat in the LI/ST (yang ming) channels and LV/KD deficiency.

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com

 

Is Stress Making Your Pants Tight

Greetings!  Happy Holidays to all! This time of year it is great to spend time with your family, go holiday shopping, sit by the fire and just enjoy all the great food. At times though, I think we all find that this time of year can be stressful. Between eating at family gatherings, having less time to exercise, spending all that money and working less, the stress can just add up. In this newsletter, we are going to educate you on the various types of stress, how the affect the body and how to overcome them.

Is Stress Making Your Pants Tight?

Various kinds of stress: 1.Financial 2. Relationship 3. Food:too much or poor quality 4. Environmental 5. Stinking thinking Affects on the body:We all have what is called our Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which regulates the functions in our body that we don’t have to consciously think of (Ex. heart rate, sweating, etc.). Our ANS is broken up into our Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and Parasympathetic Nervous System (ANS). Our SNS is sometimes called our “fight or flight” system, because is regulates the body under times of any type of stress listed above. When we are in a sympathetic state or stressed state, most of the blood flow in the body rushes from the GI and reproductive systems and goes to the periphery of the body, brain and vision. This is so we can run, see and react. Our PNS is sometimes called our “rest and digest” system, because is regulates digestion, reproduction, rest and repair. When we are in a parasympathetic state, we are reading, eating, sleeping and repairing. Our goal is to use both, but use them in such a way that we balance them out during the day. Signs of SNS and PNS imbalance:1. Fatigue during the day: Our body begins to release repair hormones at night. From 10pm-2am our body repair physically and from 2am-6am our body repairs psychologically. 2. Chronic aches and pains: If we don’t get enough sleep, we cannot repair. As well, when you are always in a sympathetic state, this is a catabolic or tissue break down state. 3. Constipation: If we are always in a sympathetic state, most of our bodies energy goes away from the digestive system. This will essentially shut down our GI system. When is the last time you got in a fight or were running from a lion and had to go poop? 4. Chronic illness: Our immune system is most active and repairs mostly at night. As well, if we overload our body with the many stresses above, we overload our immune system, never giving it a chance to rest. 5. Hormone imbalances: When we are stressed, our body releases cortisol to fight inflammation and to adapt to the stress. After some time, we start to get low in cortisol, but our body has to keep on producing it. So what it does is it steals pregnenolone (precursor to cortisol, but also progesterone, DHEA, testosterone and estrogen) from your sex pathway in order to overproduce cortisol. So the end result is low testosterone, DHEA and progesterone levels. So if you have bad PMS, have a low sex drive or have issues with pregnancy, you might want to figure out what stresses are chasing you! 6. Weight gain: Our body has receptor sites for cortisol on the anterior part of our belly. Any time you are constantly stressed from any of the stresses above, cortisol and insulin levels go up. Cortisol is a fat storing hormone, as insulin is as well. Insulin is the key that opens the door in order to store exess sugar and fat. We have receptor sites for insulin on the sides of our belly. Ways to adapt to stress:1. Begin each day with some form of mind-body exercise. This can be yoga, tai chi, qi gong or any form of meditation. This helps to stimulate our parasympathetic nervous system. 2. Eat the right type of foods for YOUR body, eat right for you metabolic type and eat organic. 3. The only fluid our body is designed to drink is water. Start drinking more water and work your way up to half your bodyweight in ounces per day. 4. Start to acknowledge and identify the many stresses in your life. Don’t run away from them! You can do this by reading self help books or working with a CHEK Nutrition and Lifestyle coach (www.chekinstitute.com). 5. Start going to bed by 10pm and getting up no earlier than 6am. 6. Get your hormones tested (adrenal glands and hormones). This will provide you with answers, so you can treat the imbalances with bio-identical hormones and herbs. 7. Purchase the book How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy by Paul Chek. 8. Health is taking responsibility for oneself. We all need to start focusing more on ourselves and trying to stop getting our needs met through others. There is nothing better than self love. No one can heal us, the only person than can heal self, is self!

Psoriasis Client Help!

From my experiences, yes this is a sign of a fungal infection which you must eradicate. But what is causing it? Food, emotions, etc, that is why you must get to the bottom of! 

1. Start with the basic NLC foundation principles
2.  Do a food elimination diet for 3 months
3. After 3 months if a plateau, etc, you can add in an adrenal, gut or
   hormonal profile
4.  I would rec doing the 4R gut healing protocol
5. After 3 months if you still feel he might have a fungal issue, I rec
   doing the fungal diet for 6 months. I have clients do Phase 1 for 3 months
   and Phase 2 for 3 months. I have 100% results with this. Doing it for 2-12
   weeks is not enough to make a change.
6. You can add in a protocol, but I would do it only if you have done testing. It is a two month protocol of ADP (oregano oil), Candid Forte (many herbs that aid in destroying fungus), and Formula SF 722 (Castor bean oil). As well, I always put clients on about 6-10K mg of Cod liver oil.

 

But I can tell you from doing this with some bad cases of psoriasis that nutrition and food elimination are the key to their success!

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com

Client with Blephaspasm

There are many reasons on different levels as to why she might have this spasm above the eye. Here are some of my thoughts and you can do the rest from here: 

1. In TCM, this is typically due to wind getting into the body externally (from wind outside, sleeping with the window open, sleeping with a fan on the face, etc) or from it being stirred up internally. This can be do to a blood deficiency, heat in the blood, anger stirring up the LV, uprise of yang stirring up wind or qi obstruction stirring up wind). Along with working with someone, I would refer her to a TCM for some acupuncture or even better, herbs!
2. I have found that trigger points in certain neck muscles (SCM, suboccipitals, and the FHP muscles) as well as the muscles affecting the TMJ (muscles of mastication) can refer to the eye area. If they have trigger points from static=dynamic=muscle imbalance, there will be ischemia and nerve compression/entrapment. I have found that NMT works as well.
3. Using the basic NLC principles will help. But I have also found that people who have or do ingest a lot of foods with preservatives, colorings, aspartame, gluten, past dairy, salt and water with heavy metals can and will get spasms. Try to do a food elimination diet with her and in the future some type of detox program. Make sure it is at the right time.
4. The eyes are the flower of the Liver. So this makes sense with what I said in #1. But also they are correlated with anger. Anger is typically subconscious in most, but is conscious in others. Anger produces heat, which stirs up liver wind, which rises (yang) to the head (headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, etc) and eyes. As well, anger is usually the result of fear. If she is healing and beginning to focus on self and realizing the lack of sense of self she has, this might just be a symptom. There are five levels of pain: pressure, pain, itching/tickling, tingling and numbness. Most cannot feel their pain and when they start to heal, the can feel their thinkings again. So on another level, this may be a good sign.

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com

How to treat Trigeminal Neuralgia

Are you sure you mean vertigo or are you talking about TMJ? AS well, but
rare and very painful, it could be trigeminal neuralgia. These are just
some things to look into. The TMJ and neuralgia would be more painful, as
the vertigo would consist more of dizziness with sporadic headaches. TMJ can
be caused by MANY things, but the most common is forward head posture,
which: retrudes the mandible, puts more occlusal pressure on the back
molars, pulls the hyoid bone up, stretches the infrahyoid muscles, there can
be a medially pull of the L.pterygoid on the disc, etc. This can also cause
impingement of the trigeminal nerve through some of the muscles of
mastication (masseter, lat and med pterygoid, etc).Here is what I would do:

1. Get a full assessment by a CHEK Level 3 or 4. They will provide you
with a full upper quarter assessment to see what the issue is at hand.
2. Bell’s Palsy in TCM happens secondary to a external wind pathogen
getting in the body.

This can be a wind issue, related to
the LV. This can be due to heat, deficient or excesses.

a. Eye Lid Twitch – Eye Lid flickering, due to wind from either internal or
external wind.
Heart and Spleen Deficiency – Gui Pi Tang or Si Quan Da Bu Tang
Liver Wind – Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin
External Wind Invasion – Gui Gan Long Mu Tang

b. Liver

The liver’s main physiological functions and indicators are: (1) storing
blood; (2) creating unrestrained conditions for qi; (3) controlling the
tendons and the luster reflected in the nails; and (4) opening into the eye.

Storing Blood

The liver stores blood and regulates the volume of blood circulation
according to the needs of various tissues and organs. During rest the amount
of blood required by the body decreases and the surplus is stored in the
liver. During vigorous activity blood is released from the liver to increase
the volume of circulating blood. As Wang Bin’s Annotations on the Suwen
notes, “The liver stores blood, the heart circulates blood. When the body
moves blood circulates in the channels, when at rest it flows back to the
liver.” If the liver’s blood storage function is abnormal, there will be an
affect on normal body activities causing hemorrhagic diseases. For example,
if liver blood is deficient the following problems may appear: the symptoms
of vertigo, contracture of spasm of muscles and tendons, impairment of
flexion and extension of limbs or scanty menstruation and amenorrhea.

Promotion of Unrestrained Conditions for Qi

Liver qi possesses the function of regulation. It is responsible for the
ascending, descending, and harmony of bodily qi. If the body’s qi activity
is harmonious and its ascending and descending are normal then the internal
organs will continue their normal physiological activities. This function of
the liver involves the following aspects:

The liver harmonizes the emotions. Traditional Chinese medicine considers
that the normal or abnormal function of an unrestrained and free flowing qi
is directly related to emotional activities, and that the mental state is
not only dominated by the heart but also the liver. When qi activities are
normal, the body has a harmonious circulation of qi and blood, an easy mind
and happy emotions. If there is a dysfunction of qi’s free flow, it will
directly affect the individual’s emotional state. For example, liver qi
stagnation will give rise to stuffiness and fullness of the chest, unhappy
feelings, hypochondriasis, or even mental depression, crying, irregular
menstruation, etc. If there is hyperactivity of the liver qi, there may be
irritability, anger, insomnia, dream disturbed sleep, dizziness, vertigo, a
ringing in the ear (tinnitus), or deafness. Any sudden change in the normal
pattern of the emotions, especially great anger or mental depression, can
affect and free flowing and spreading function of liver qi resulting in the
pathological changes of liver qi stagnation.

Liver qi regulation can assist the ascending function of the spleen and the
descending function of the stomach. This also involves bile secretion. Bile
is necessary for the digestion of food and drink. If liver qi loses its
harmonious flowing activities, it will affect the digestive function of the
spleen and stomach and the excretion of bile, leading to the pathological
symptoms of jaundice and bitter taste. It is very common that patients with
stagnation of liver qi may not only have symptoms such as distension, pain
in the chest and hypochondriac regions, anxiety, and anger, but also
belching due to the failure of the stomach qi to descend and diarrhea caused
by the dysfunctional ascending of spleen qi. The former is known as “liver
qi affecting the stomach,” and the latter as “disharmonious conditions
between the liver and the spleen.”

Controlling the Tendons and the Luster Reflected in the Nails

The tendons, fascia, and ligaments of the body all rely on the nourishment
of liver blood. The movements of limbs and joints are not only the result of
tendon flexing but are also related to the strength or weakness of liver
blood. Only if liver blood is ample, can it nourish and supplement the
tendons to continue the normal movements of the limbs. If the liver blood is
insufficient and fails to nourish the tendons, the patient might experience
symptoms such as tremors of the hands or feet, numbness of the limbs, or
even difficulty in flexing and extending the limbs. If pathogenic heat
exhausts the body fluid leading to the consumption of blood, then this will
cause convulsion,, opisthotonos and lockjaw (trismus). As the Suwen notes,
“various kinds of wind diseases causing the eyes to state upwards,
twitching, dizziness, and vertigo, belong to the liver.”

It is said that, “Nails are the remains of the tendons,” The dryness or
moisture of the nails can reflect the sufficiency or insufficiency of liver
blood. When liver blood is plentiful the tendons are supple and the nails
appear hard and moist. If liver blood is insufficient and incapable of
nourishing the tendons, then the nails may be thin, soft, brittle, and pale.
The Suwen records, “The liver communicates with the tendons. The health of
the liver is reflected in the luster of the nails.”

Opening into the Eye

The essential qi of the five zang and six fu organs flows upwards to nourish
the eye. Thus those organs, especially the liver, have a close relationship
with the eye. The liver’s function of storing blood nourished the eye as its
channel travels upwards connecting to the eye system. In the Suwen it says,
“Liver qi is in communication with the eyes, so the eyes will be able to
distinguish the five colors.” Thus an abnormality of liver function can
affect the eyes. If the liver blood is insufficient, there will be a dryness
of the eyes, blurred vision, or night blindness. If pathogenic wind-heat
attacks the liver channel, redness, swelling and pain in the eyes will be
the symptoms. If the liver fire flares up, conjunctivitis may occur. If
liver yang is in preponderance, dizziness and vertigo occur. Liver wind
stirring up produces convulsions with the eyes staring upwards. 

Well here are my thoughts and what has worked very well for clients of mine.
The Trigeminal nerve is the 5th CN and supplies sensation to the face. There
are 3 divisions, the ophthalmic (V1), maxillary (V2) and madibular (V3).
Besides senation, they also innervate the massetar, temporalis, med/lat
pterydoid, tensor vali palatini, mylohyoid, digastric and tensor tympani.There are some schools of thought that believe that CN5 becomes impinged
when leaving the cranium or with TMJ issues. I would find a CHEK Level 3 or
higher to refer them to in order to get a full upper quarter assessment
from. This might help pin the tail in the donkey.

I have seen NMT help, as well as stress reduction techniques that you would
now as an NLC. From the west side of it, Trigeminal Neuralgia is created by
extreme stress. I have found this to be true, from lifestyle stress all the
way to parasitic stress.

But besides my exercise, rehab and nutritional programs, what has helped the
most is acupuncture, of course. I know I always go this route, but it works.
In TCM, we believe that Trigeminal Neuralgia is from an external invasion of
a wind cold, wind heat, toxic heat in the channels, and chronic qi (dull,
distending, wandering pain, that comes and goes with emotions) and blood
stagnation (fixed, stabbing, chronic pain). From my experience, people
typically create this with chronic stress, then sleeping with the windows
open or a fan on the face, then driving with the windows open on a very hot,
cold or windy day. So each one compounds the next and then you have
trigeminal neuralgia.

 

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com