Chapter 16 EXERCISE: MOVE OR DIE

Chapter 16 
EXERCISE: MOVE OR DIE

 No one likes to hear this, but it's true. If you don't move, you die. Exercise fundamentally changes every system and function in your body. 

   Circulation 

First and foremost, exercise is about circulation—and not just blood circulation, but every circulation system in the body. 

  Blood 

  Exercise definitely improves the flow of blood. Think what this means for a moment. Even if you eat healthy foods and partake of the most powerful supplements in the world, if that nutrition can't easily reach some part[1]  of your body because circulation is restricted, then that part will suffer, waste away, and become diseased. If the blockage is total, that part will die. Blood also brings oxygen to and removes carbon dioxide waste from every cell and organ in your body. Again, if circulation is restricted, the cell or organ slowly suffocates in its own waste. And finally, blood carries immune cells, and pH balancers into every part of your body. 

[1 This could be an organ, a group of cells within an organ, or even one single cell.]

(Lessons from the Miracle Doctors - 136 - Exercise: Move or Die)

Lymph

Back in Chapter 3, we talked about how your lymph is your body's sewer system, removing dead cells, waste, toxic matter, heavy metals, bacteria, etc. from body tissue. Unfortunately, the lymph system has no pump of its own. To a large degree, your body depends on muscle movement to press waste through the lymph system. If you don't move, your lymph is stagnant; you end up poisoning yourself; you die. (Keep in mind that this statement is both absolute and relative. In other words, it's definite that stagnant lymph will ultimately destroy your health, but the process
may take a number of years in some people.)

                Heart

The heart is a muscle and grows stronger with exercise.

           Blood Pressure

 Exercise lowers blood pressure
                
               Colon

Exercise is a key factor in promoting peristalsis and relieving constipation.

               Bones

Exercise increases bone density.

             Cancer

  As the New England Journal of Medicine reported in their May 1, 1997 issue, women who exercise regularly reduce their risk of breast cancer by 72%.

            Strength

  Strength is not just for showing off in the weight room. It is essential as we get older. People who exercise regularly are far less likely to fall and break bones. Not only because the exercise has
made them stronger, but also because the exercise gave them better balance and because the larger muscle mass cushions the bones better and protects them.

           Body Fat

  There's nothing more fundamental to losing body fat than exercise. Not, as many people think, because the exercise burns the fat off, but rather, because muscle burns fat even while you sleep.
The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn. Sixty to 70% of the energy your muscles burn (even while sleeping) is fat. Every pound of muscle that you have burns fat calories 24 hours

a day. Think about that. If you add four pounds of muscle to your body, every day you automatically burn an extra 200 calories or so, free of charge (plus another 200 calories from your exercise).

             Energy

  The Chinese call it Chi; the yogis of India call it Prana; here in the States, people call it Life Force. Whatever you call it, it can be seen, measured, photographed, felt, and manipulated. According
to Chinese medicine, restriction in its flow is the ultimate cause of all disease. Exercise stimulates and helps move this "energy" through blocked areas of the body.

             Biochemical Changes
   Exercise produces "happy" biochemicals called endorphins. Sometimes called "the runner's high," these endorphins drive away stress and depression and stimulate the immune system.

   In addition, exercise increases levels of human growth hormone (the youth hormone) in the body. Aerobic exercise can increase HGH levels by as much as 200%. Weight training can increase
HGH levels an astounding 400%.

          Strength Benefits

  Everyone thinks of strength training as a young person's activity, but in fact, the older you are, the more benefits it provides.

>As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, two 45-minute weight (strength) training sessions a week can improve bone density, muscle mass, strength, balance, and physical activity in older women (ages 50-70). 

>After one year of strength training, women emerged physiologically younger by 15-20 years than when they began. Other studies have demonstrated the same results for men who weight train.

>People in their 70s and 80s can experience strength gains of as much as 180% in a matter of just a few weeks.

    General Recommendations

  Actually, you need to cross-train for maximum benefit. You need to do aerobic exercise, weight training, and stretching.

>Aerobic exercise should be practiced every other day. By definition, aerobic exercise:

-Is continuous—non-stop.

-Lasts at least 12 minutes—preferably 20 minutes or more. The key is to exercise longer, not harder.

>Has a comfortable pace—not so fast that you can't talk during it if you want.

-Involves your leg muscles.

>Weight Training should also be practiced every other day. Alternate your days with aerobic exercise. You can go to a gym or use a machine at home. 

> Stretching should be done every day. It's invaluable as part of your aerobic and weight training sessions to prevent injuries. It's also great exercise on its own.             

-Lubricates your joints.

-Squeezes lymph through your body.

-Revitalizes the discs in your spine. Backbends, in particular, squeeze the discs like a sponge, so that when you release the stretch, the discs soak up water and fill up to their original size.

-Yoga is spectacular exercise in that it stretches every part of your body and is renowned for its ability to relieve stress and depression. I can't recommend it highly enough. 


Next: Chapter 17. It's All About Energy

Why still counting?

DON'T COUNT CALORIES

What your body actually does is make fat. Whether you like it or not, fat and cellulite are saving your life. These fat cells and cellulite are packing up the acids and taking it (as far away as possible) from your vital organs. The more acidic somebody gets the wider they get, because the acid has to be moved away from the organs. So the more acidic you get, the heavier you are going to get.

The longer you stay acidic, the longer you keep these fat cells and the colder they become. What do I mean by cold? They are lacking the life force because they are not alkaline and because they lack oxygen. They are acidic and anything that is acidic is lacking in oxygen. That is why fat is cold. As soon as you can start to remove the acid from your body you will see that the fat cells will leave and not come back.

Try to starve your body into health if you want to, but the only thing that you are going to cause is a drawing of the acid closer to those vital organs and then you are going to end up in trouble.

We know that acid gets stored in fat cells. That is scientifically proven. When all is said and done, any really good health practitioner, or person who knows about health, is going to turn to this philosophy because this is the philosophy of truth and this is what is going to lead us out of sickness as a nation. I would like to finish the overweight issue with an article that I read recently in a newspaper.

http://theinnozablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/gross-obesity-killing-population.html

http://theinnozablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/fat-bomb-ticking-away-in-australia.html

http://theinnozablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-dehydration-cause-obesity.html

Success Story: Maggie

Detoxifying Relieves Osteoarthritis
How a patient use detoxification to overcome a case of age-related osteoarthritis:

Maggie, 48-years-old, complained of pain in both her hips. Her orthopedic physician had diagnosed her with osteoarthritis, told her to stop exercising, and place her on anti-inflammatory medications. (Comment: that's the mistaken idea of mainstream medicine of using anti-drug to just mask the symptoms, not solving the real cause of the symptoms, sad for the patient and for the healing profession too) .The same doctor also said there was no other treatment for osteoarthritis and that Maggie could expect her condition to progressively grow worse. (Comment: it was the drugs, anti-inflammation drugs which cause her/any patient present conditions to grow worse). Maggie, not willing to accept this, came to us looking for another option.

In our initial exam, we found that, in addition to osteoarthritis, Maggie had chemical sensitives, seasonal allergies, and occasional PMS (premenstrual syndrome) symptoms. An examination of her blood using a darkfield microscope revealed a high level of red and yellow crystals, which correlate to joint pain.

Her white blood cells were overactive (signifying the body is engaging in fierce 'battle')something often seen in autoimmune conditions (when the immune system attack the body's own tissues. How many of you know that toxins can hide under body tissues and the body is getting rid of any trace of toxins prior to repair and recovery? So if you continue to take in more drugs/prescription drugs for that matter, you are worsening the present 'battle=ground'). We also saw increased numbers of basophils, an immune cell associated with allergic reactions (body cells dehydration also can produce allergic reactions), and eosinophils, which may indicate a parasite infestation. In addition, Maggie had an elevated level of Candida yeast.(please read post about candida yeast).

A blood test, which showed elevated levels of anti-Candida antibodies, confirmed the yeast infection. Maggie's blood test revealed several other factors that were contributing to her arthritis. Testing found low magnesium and high protein levels as well as a slightly elevated cholesterol count as 220 (normal reading is 135 to 200) and high triglyceride levels. (Avoid all "low fat, high protein milk" if you want to help your own body to function normal again. Pasteurization and homogenized milk is never going to solve your bone problems. Scientific evidences abound today to expose the "milk for calcium" scandal.

These results indicated that Maggie's diet would need to be improved dramatically.
An organic, mostly vegetarian diet, high in omega-3 oils, would decrease cholesterol and triglycerides and give her body higher levels of natural minerals, such as magnesium, needed to help reverse the arthritis. Elevated levels of Epstein Barr antibodies were also detected, indicating a past (and possibly present) infection with this virus.

A 24-hour urinalysis revealed that Maggie's creatinine clearance was low at 41 (normal range is 80-110). The creatinine clearance test shows the patients level of kidneys were under-functioning. The urinalysis also showed some heavy metal toxicity, with high levels of aluminum and copper. Canned drinks also contribute to metal toxicity.

A food allergy (IgG ELISA) test revealed a multitude of food sensitivities. Maggie was allergic to barley, buckwheat, rice, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, lettuce, onion, squash, string beans, tomatoes, cantaloupe, grapefruit, oranges, peaches, pineapple, plums, kidney beans, lentils, peanuts (highly sensitivity), black pepper, chocolate, and licorice. (Comment: Why? Because Maggie's body's bio-chemistry & bio-physiology had been long changed and altered from the natural normal state to one which is highly toxins saturated through her years of wrong choice of food and drinks. All natural food mentioned above have their own inherent properties to rid toxin, hence Maggie's manifested allergic reaction upon 'eating' them.)

Odd as it may sound, Maggie was actually delighted that we had run so many tests while investigating the source of her hip pain, particularly since her conventional physician had simply X-rayed her hips and put her on medications. What these tests told us was that her joint degeneration had multiple causes (cascaded effects) that needed to be addressed in treatment, including food allergies, heavy metal toxicities, and past or present viral infections, among other factors.

Our initial treatment was designed to detoxify her colon and large intestine. We started Maggie on a cleansing product (developed by Serafina Corsello, M.D., for information on Dr Corsello's formulation, contact : Global Nutrition,175 E, Main Street, Huntington,New York 11743;tel:888-461-0949) called FiberMax, a combination of apple pectin, flax-seed powder, and psyllium (fiber sources for intestinal cleansing), along with herbal cleansers such as red clover, dandelion, yellow-dock, burdock root, fenugreek seed, ginger, and cascara sagrada bark.

We also started Maggie on supplements of the "good fats, including flax-seed oil and powder along with omega-3 from both vegetable and fish oils. Once inside the human body, omega-3 and omega-6 are converted to prostaglandins, hormone-like substances that regulate many metabolic functions, particularly inflammatory processes.

Maggie began a rotational diet to alleviate her food allergies - total avoidance of her most highly allergenic foods and eating lower-level allergenic foods only once every four days. We too monitor her water intake to get her well hydrated throughout the treatment.

As extra support, we gave her C-Bioplex, a multivitamin/ mineral formula along with extra vitamin E(400 International Units, IU). She also took an acidophilus (beneficial intestinal bacteria) supplement to help address the yeast candida infection. We gave her another Corsello formula, Super Garlic Glutathione, to help support her liver function (one capsule per day). Specifically to support Maggie's hip joints, we gave her Dr. Corsello's Bone Plus Formula (two capsules twice daily), containing calcium, magnesium, boron, and vitamin D, along with micro-crystalline calcium (one capsule daily) and glucosamine sulfate (500 mg, three times daily).

After two(2) weeks on this dietary and supplement program, Maggie reported that her joint pain had improved to some degree. We advised her to begin an exercise program, being careful to avoid any exercises that put direct stress on her joints. No jogging or running, but just walking. She began a yoga stretching and breathing program and she started swimming at her local swimming pool once a week. She also started getting weekly chiropractic adjustments and massage therapy.

After two more weeks, she reported that her hip pain had definitely lessened.

A stool analysis (faeces test) (from Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory)revealed
that Maggie had a parasite infection, including Giardia lamblia. The test also indicated that her liver's ability to detoxify the body was compromised. We were already addressing her liver function with gluttathione supplements. To further alleviate her allergies, we started her on a special desensitization program. We prepared a vial of her allergenic substances in dilution which she was instructed to inject every other day. This is different from getting a conventional allergy shot - it is an individualized treatment to address the patient's specific allergies.

After six(6) months , we repeated the initial tests. The darkfield test showed reduced levels of red and yellow crystals (associated with joint pain), the movement and number of her white blood cells now appeared normal, and the visible yeast forms were greatly reduced. We began at this point to deal with her parasite infection, using homeopathic preparations as well as herbal preparations containing the anti-parasitic substances Artemisia annua and citrus seed extract.

After five days, Maggie called to say that both her hips were very tender to the touch and that other joints in her body were also sore. This exacerbation of symptoms is not unusual while going through a detoxification program. It's a sign, in fact, that the program is working positively and that the body is trying to rid itself of toxins.

To deal with these uncomfortable symptoms, we encouraged Maggie to see a colon therapist for colonics to help speed the cleansing of containing yellow-dock root, escarole, kale, and other bitters, along with carrots and ginger to aid in the removal of toxins.

Two weeks later, Maggie said that the exacerbation of symptoms was completely resolved. In fact, she said that her yoga stretches seemed easier now and that she could move her joints more easily now than before the parasite cleanse. Recently, after a year and a half on our program, Maggie reported that all symptoms of her osteoarthritis were completely gone.