2008 January « Holistic Health Blog

Heartbottom Syndrome

In Paul Chek’s book How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy, he talks about Heart Bottom Syndrome on pg. 163. What is this?

This is how it goes:

Inner unit: The ones you stated, plus the pelvic floor. As they are on the same neurological loop at the TVA (iliohypogastric and Ilioinguinal nerves T12-L1).
When one has leaky gut, visceroptosis (organs “falling down”), etc, the inner unit is shut off secondary to Davis Law and Hilton’s Law.
When the inner unit shuts off, you still have to subconsciously adapt to create stability. As stability precedes mobility.
I can’t remember who showed this, but 80% of the Glute max is phasic and 20% is tonic. The 20% tonic actually insert into the coccyx and sacrum. So, when you have leaky gut, etc, secondary to irradiation? (neurological overflow to get contraction more distally-EX. squeezing your hand and you get contraction and overflow to the elbow and shoulder OR what do you do when you have to go to the bathroom real bad? You squeeze your glutes to get overflow into the colon to turn it on). So what the body does is use the glute as a pelvic or inner unit stabilizer. But over time, the more you contract and use a tonic fiber, it will actually turn more into a phasic muscle fiber. Ex. runners loosing muscle mass and becoming more slow twitch.
So what happens over time is that you squeeze the glutes to get irradation to the colon and other muscles of the pelvis and inner unit.
This typically causes issues with Deep Longitudinal Subsystem and locking of the SIJ, etc.

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com

January 31, 2008 Posted by Josh and Jeanne Rubin | Digestion, Disease, Exercise, Nutrition | | No Comments Yet

Are you bloated most of the time? Do you fluctuate from diarrhea to constipation depending on what you eat? Do you feel like food sits in your stomach? Does your diet consist mostly of processed carbohydrates? Well if you said yes to any of these questions, gluten might be the culprit to your misery.

In this newsletter the question of what gluten is, what is it in, the signs and symptoms of intolerance and what to eat instead will be answered.

What is gluten?

What is gluten?: Gluten is an amorphous mixture of ergastric (i.e., non-living) proteins found combined with starch in the endosperm of some cereals, notably wheat, rye, and barley. It constitutes about 80% of the proteins contained in wheat, and is composed of the proteins gliadin and glutenin. Gluten is responsible for the elasticity of kneaded dough, which allows it to be leavened, as well as the “chewiness” of baked products like bagels. It is the glutenins (specifically, low molecular weight glutenins) that are especially critical to gluten quality.

What contains gluten?: Gluten is pretty much in every grain that you can think of eating except rice, buckwheat, corn, and oats (some think it does have it and other research shows that it does not). There are other grains that are gluten free, but most are very uncommon and most Americans do not eat them.

Who is intolerant to gluten?: Gluten intolerance is found most frequently in those with Irish, English, Scottish, Scandinavian, and other Northern European and Eastern European heritages. The latest research study published in the British Medical Journal in November of 1998 found previously unheard numbers of people suffering from celiac disease, the medical condition related to gluten intolerance. They found approximately one in 150 people with this condition. It is suspected the levels of sub-clinical gluten intolerance are much higher. Sub-clinical gluten intolerance and celiac occur less frequently in non-European populations.

There are many tests to figure out if you are gluten intolerant or have Celiac disease. The best test is to cut out breads, pasta’s and all grains for 90 days. After 90 days add a small of gluten back into your diet. If you present with signs and symptoms, then you are gluten intolerant.

What are the signs and symptoms of gluten intolerance?: The ultimate effect of this hidden wear and tear is the slow destruction of the healthy mucosa, or lining tissue of the small intestine. In some cases there may be symptoms in childhood such as allergies, asthma, reoccurring infections, a constant upset stomach or milk intolerance. Other symptoms are nasal and throat mucous, feeling of food sitting in stomach, bloating, gas, diarrhea with periodic constipation, mental fogginess, skin rashes and severe cases, as with Celiac disease there can be seizures, psychosis, violent behavior and withdrawal from self.

What are the effects on the body?:

Chronic gut inflammation, dysbiosis, leaky gut syndrome, skin rashes, mental fogginess, lactose intolerance, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies, food cravings, immune system dysfunction and much more!

What to do?: There are a couple things you can do. For one, cut all gluten out of your diet, as well as your family’s. Secondly, you can purchase most gluten free products (breads, rice pasta’s, bars, crackers, etc) from most health food stores these days. Thirdly, you can visit websites such as www.glutenfree-supermarket.com, www.glutenfreeda.com and www.foodchoices.com to order gluten free products online.

January 29, 2008 Posted by Josh and Jeanne Rubin | Digestion, Disease, Functional Medicine, Hormones, Mental/Emotional, Nutrition | celiac disease, free range eggs, goals, herpes, HPV, is gardasil safe, mental health screening and ADHD, personal trainer san diego, soy, What is endometriosis, what is gluten, what is stress | 2 Comments

HUMRIA for Rheumatoid Arthritis

HUMIRA is a medicine called a Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) blocker. HUMIRA is used in adults to reduce the signs and symptoms of:

moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults. HUMIRA can be used alone or with methotrexate or with certain other medicines. HUMIRA may prevent further damage to your bones and joints and may help your ability to perform daily activities.
psoriatic arthritis (PsA). HUMIRA can be used alone or with certain other medicines. HUMIRA may prevent further damage to your bones and joints and may help your ability to perform daily activities.
ankylosing spondylitis (AS)
moderate to severe Crohn’s disease (CD) in adults who have not responded well to conventional treatments. HUMIRA is also approved for these adults who have lost response or are unable to tolerate infliximab.

Important Safety Information you should know about HUMIRA^® (adalimumab).Serious infections, including tuberculosis (TB), have happened in patients receiving HUMIRA. Some patients have died from these infections.

Before starting HUMIRA:Tell your doctor if you think you have an infection, are being treated for an infection, have signs of an infection (such as a fever, cough, or flu-like symptoms), have any open cuts or sores on your body, get a lot of infections or have infections that keep coming back, have or had hepatitis B infection, take the medicine Kineret (anakinra), have TB or have been in close contact with someone who has TB. Your doctor should test you for TB before starting HUMIRA. If your doctor prescribes any medicine for the treatment of TB, you should start taking it before starting HUMIRA and take the full course of TB medicine prescribed.Also, tell your doctor if you have any numbness or tingling, or have a disease that affects your nervous system such as multiple sclerosis, have heart failure, are scheduled for any vaccines or major surgery, are pregnant, become pregnant, plan to become pregnant or are breastfeeding.

After starting HUMIRA:Call your doctor right away if you get an infection, any sign of an infection including a fever, cough, flu-like symptoms, or have any open cuts or sores on your body. HUMIRA can make you more likely to get infections or make any infection that you may have worse.

Do not start taking HUMIRA if you are allergic to the drug or anything in it. The needle cover of the prefilled syringe and the pen contain dry natural rubber. Tell your doctor if you have any allergies to rubber or latex.

Serious side effects of HUMIRA include:Serious infections, certain types of cancer (there have been cases of certain kinds of cancer in patients taking HUMIRA or other TNF blockers. Patients with more serious RA that have had the disease for a long time may have a higher chance for getting a kind of cancer called lymphoma), allergic reactions (signs of a serious allergic reaction include a skin rash, a swollen face, or trouble breathing), hepatitis B virus reactivation in patients who carry the virus in their blood, nervous system problems (signs and symptoms of a nervous system problem include: numbness or tingling, problems with your vision, weakness in your legs, and dizziness), blood problems (symptoms include a fever that does not go away, bruising or bleeding very easily, or looking very pale), new heart failure or worsening of heart failure you already have (symptoms include shortness of breath or swelling of your ankles or feet), and immune reactions including a lupus-like syndrome (symptoms include shortness of breath, joint pain, or a rash on your cheeks or arms that is sensitive to the sun). Call your doctor or get medical care right away if you develop any of the above symptoms. Your treatment with HUMIRA may be stopped.The most common side effects of HUMIRA are:

injection site reactions (redness, rash, swelling, itching or bruising)
upper respiratory infections (sinus infections)
headaches
rash
nausea

As for recommendations on how to work with someone with RA, well I have posted numerous times on this and other auto-immune diseases. I am sure someone can forward one to you. My best advice is to assess your client using you NLC assessments. Then from there you can formulate a year plan. Three major things that I have found to be a facilitator with RA are grains of any kind, chronic physiological and pathomorphological inflammation, and Klebsiella. Not saying that you should focus on any of these or all of them. Assessing your client will give you the answers of what you need to focus on.

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com

January 21, 2008 Posted by Josh and Jeanne Rubin | Disease | rheumatoid arthritis | 1 Comment

Proprioception training for knee injury

I have a client who has just had knee surgery. He has been nonweight bearing for 6 months. Any advice would help.

Some things that you might want to look into:

What kind of knee injury did he have and what kind of surgery did he have?
Does he have any other past or current clinical issues? Unless there was direct trauma to the knee, the injury was mostly likely caused by something else.
1. TMJ issue can shift the cranium one way and the jaw another. Which in the end will shift the body from there and everything below
2. Does he have any vision issues?
3. Does he have any atlas issues? He might be putting weight on one leg more than the other.
4. Does he have a hip hike?
5. Anything going on in the opposite hip, ankle or shoulder?
6. Does he have a rotoscoliosis?
7. Is one illium post rot and the other ant rot?
8. The GB and testes refer to the LE’s and knee?
9. A weak glute can create knee issues?
10. As for training, if he has been nonweight bearing, just standing will be enough proprioception to start out with. I have not assessed him, but starting him in Phase 1 would be best. Doing things on the total gym using a BAPS board would be great.