In-depth explanation of what I do to help you heal...
There is a new field in medicine called EPI-GENETICS which is defined as altering the activity of genes without changing the structure. I believe that the work I do with the methods I use, closely fits this definition since EPI is a prefix meaning 'upon', 'above' or 'beside'.
We can say that anything we give to our bodies fits and helps our GENETICS. We also know that genes have MUTATIONS due to multiple causes: mental stress, physical stress, poor diet, environmental toxins and chemicals, inner toxins from our altered metabolism.
After years of studying medicine, I reached the conclusion that the best approaches to prevent disease, to heal ailments, and best of all to promote ANTI-AGING are Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Nutrition, Herbs, and Homeopathy.
Let's briefly address each of them:
- NATUROPATHY- defined as a drugless system of healthcare making use of a wide variety of therapies such as heat, hydrotherapy, massage, and daily routines with the purpose of treating the whole person to stimulate and support the person's innate healing capacity otherwise known as our immune system.
The naturopathy philosophy is summarized in six principles:
- The healing power of nature
- First do no harm
- Identify and treat the cause
- Treat the whole person
- Prevention
- The physician as teacher
*Let me be your teacher and share with you my knowledge so that you can be in charge of your health and healing.
- AYURVEDA- in Sanskrit 'signs of life'. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi brought to the west from India, the expanding knowledge of 'Maharishi Ayurveda' (MAV). This system has kept the oral tradition for 5,000 years in India and in the western world since the 70’s. There is a different focus and explanations of Naturopathy, but they are intertwined and complimentary to the understanding of balance of basic constitutional energies called doshas in order to maintain health.
To keep in balance, we need to practice a mental technique called TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (tm.org). I was instructed in 1974 during my training in psychiatry which has helped to guide me in maintaining good health. One of the best skills I learned was the AYURVEDA PULSE DIAGNOSIS to direct me into where the imbalances are, the severity of them, and where I need to start the process of healing, supporting the doshas, nourishing the body, and to find which is the most prevalent cause of suffering- physical or mental?
For example, I had a client with several digestive complaints. My Ayurvedic Pulse Diagnosis told me to address the emotional aspect before anything else. In less than 24 hours, she felt much better and was in need of just a few supplements.
- NUTRITION- this is a very important approach because in today’s times, the food we ingest is devoid of nutrients. Foods are cultivated in depleted lands using fertilizers with only MPK (nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium) or Miracle Grow, but lacking all of the micro nutrients found in natural fertilizers such as manure. I think that since the early 50’s and 60’s, the industries of nutritional supplements has exploded to over 40 billion dollars per year.
To me, we have a variety of products to help assist in healing:
1. Far right- allopathy or synthetic drugs from pharmaceutical companies. Drugs that are either bought over the counter since their patents have expired and have been proven to not be so toxic or prescription drugs ordered only my MDs that have a lot of side effects.
2. Far left- all natural products 99% from cold pressed foods which maintain enzymatic freshness on average for 2 years such as those from www.StandardProcess.com. These products feed our bodies as whole food supplements. To be true dpi-genetics in foods.
3. In between and closer to the right, all SYNTHETIC vitamins and minerals are developed by pharmaceutical companies in response to the developing nutritional markets. All synthetic products need to be transformed into organic products or ionized elements so that our cells can utilize them. From 100% intake, only a decimal part would reach the cells.
4. In between and closer to the left, companies called NUTRACEUTICALS in which 80% are synthetic elements difficult to be utilized and only 20% nutritional supplements even when they have herbal substances to enrich them. This this why they are called Nutra from nutritional and Ceuticals from pharmaceuticals given the name Nutraceutical Revolution.
On the other hand, around 25 years ago Standard Process represented an Australian company developed by Professor Karry Bone called Medi-Herbs. It happens that the government of Australia requires that companies show the amounts of natural ingredients such as herbs in their products. Medi-Herb uses extracts of herbs making them very potent, almost as potent as allopathic or conventional drugs with almost NO side effects.
You can imagine the potential effect of 100% whole food supplements of Standard Process and herbal extracts by Medi-Herb in order to heal the body by unlocking the healing power of plants.
- HOMEOPATHY- this is a system of therapeutics founded by Samuel CF Hahnemann in the late 18th century in which diseases are treated by drugs which are capable of producing in healthy people, symptoms like those of the disease to be treated, but using the drug in minute dose.
Its motto is 'Like Cures Like' using the ARNDT SCHULZ LAW which states:
- Weak stimuli increase physiological activity (homeopathy)
- Moderate stimuli inhibit activity
- Strong stimuli abolish activity (allopathy)
This explains why allopathic medicine requires taking drugs most of your life with no cure for ailments since they abolish the natural healing processes. On the other hand, homeopathy helps with weak stimuli to increase physiological activity in order to help the immune system heal itself.
Homeopathy accomplishes for weak stimuli discovered by Dr. Hahnemann in his procedure of dilusion and succussion of the drug. For example, Quinine from Colombia and Peru was used in Europe to treat malaria fever. Hahnemann was healthy and experimented with Quinine thus he developed fever. He concluded if Quinine takes away fever in a patient, but gives fever to a healthy person, there is a correlation between the patient- the drug- being healthy. He used dilusion and succussion to make the homeopathic drugs less toxic and healing agents for the body so viola! he discovered the therapeutic system of homeopathy.
It is the minimum dose of homeopathy that heals. Interestingly enough, homeopathy works marvelously in mental and emotional ailments. It compliments all approaches of healing because it works at the level of the nucleus of the cell enhancing all the modalities of healing in all kinds of diseases.
A famous homeopath JT Kent stated "there are no diseases, only sick people'. Homeopathy uses 'repertorization' or tailor made drugs to place primary importance on the psyche, generalize less, and consider physical generals as secondary.
Practicing homeopathy uses the law of similars, the minimum dose, repertorizing to find the remedy, adding importance to mental and psychic aspects. By the way, very high potencies work the best for mental ailments. As a former MD psychiatrist, I feel very satisfied with the results I encounter with clients who have mental symptoms.
In conclusion, alternative medicine combining Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Nutrition, and Herbs along with Homeopathy is a four legged approach that a person with any kind of illness, can be resolved with patience and persistence in order to heal for good as long as the person can continue with self care healing.
Last, but not least, all of these alternative healing methods are the truest ANTI-AGING approach helping the EPI-genetics of any age. Any chronic illness can be treated with these approaches even if the person is taking drugs as they begin to be tapered down gradually as long as the person is educated on how to monitor their own healing process.
This is the alternative to the 'quick fix' of allopathic medicine or conventional drugs that may be a quick resolution, however, do not cure and may need to be taken for life.