Your Health and the Day’s Rhythms : An Energy Science Application
Your health is directly tied to the rhythms of Momma Nature herself If we disregard this fact our health invariably will suffer The cumulative effect of ignoring our relationship with these rhythms is dis-ease It has been shown that shift workers do not experience good health long term The money may be good but the price paid over a lifetime is not good Now matter science research is showing this to be the case
I was reviewing an article about circadian rhythm published in October 2011 from a research unit at the University of Georgia The article discussed how mice with circadian rhythm dysfunctional cycles had poor organ vessels and hence this jeopardized the success of the organ transplant to healthy mice "Arteries of mice with circadian clock dysfunction became thick and diseased within a few weeks of being transplanted to healthy mice. Arteries transplanted from healthy mice to the mutant mice remained healthy."
"But the fact is the time at which you do the organ transplant may influence overall success," said Dr Rudic, "and if you have a donor who has a sleep disorder or is a night shift worker, it may affect it as well."
Vessels Affected by Lifestyle
What is implied in this seemingly innocuous study on mouse transplants is that the mindbody is tuning in all the time to our lifestyle choices What was apparent to the researchers was that the "Our research shows it's the clock within the blood vessel that is key to conferring the disease response in this case," said Dr. Bo Cheng, GHSU postdoctoral fellow and the study's first author."
This is a rather startling mindbody statement from a matter science researcher and implies the transition that the Western matter science medical model is undergoing Signs of hope are emerging from the matter science realm indicating that the mind is in every cell of the body, that is mind and body are intimately spliced You cannot separate them The body is in the mind and the mind is in the body
Matter Science Suppport For Lifestyle Medicine
Through it's research the matter science or molecular way of thinking about the mindbody is giving way to a more encompassing mindbody connection that has been the energy science model of understanding the true mindbody interaction for thousands of years "The clock is expressed not only in the brain but everywhere in the body and can function autonomously in different areas," Rudic said.
In 1997 an Australian researcher became involved in lifestyle choices for health and wrote a book in 2007 advocating Lifestyle Medicine as a new specialty Leave it to the Aussies! This kind of thinking is truly at the heart of making dynamic changes for the better in our chronic disease challenge
In the midst of such lifestyle choices has to be the identification of health measures around proper timing of the day's activities The energy science view is as follows:
Between 6am and 10am is a Kapha time heavy, cold, slow/dull time; ? heavy breakfast
Between 10am and 2pm is a Pitta time hot,sharp/penetrating time; best for day's big meal
Between 2pm and 6pm is a Vata time cold, light, mobile; good for activity
Between 6pm and 10pm is a Kapha time heavy,cold,slow/dull time; good for winding down
Between 10pm and 2am is a Pitta time hot, sharp/penetrating time; body detox time
Between 2am and 6am is a Vata time cold, light, mobile; emotional detox time
Take Home Message - Make Energy Science Lifestyle Choices for Guidance
Lastly the authors concluded that if you're unhealthy and there is an unhealthy organ then it results in even more profound result "We believe that bad clock function worsens when it intersects with disease, so if you are eating a high-fat diet or if you undergoing a serious surgery like a transplant, and you have a bad clock, disease may occur and may occur quickly," Rudic said.
Who says that the energy science of Ayurveda has the answers to what are good lifestyle choices to make? The matter science medical model research seems to continue to support the energy science recommendationsss
Until next week To Health as a Skill Love DrBill
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10 Ways to Improve IBS
From an energy science point of view IBS(irritable bowel syndrome) pain occurs because of an imbalance in the GIT(gastrointestinal tract) From our previous blogs it's apparent that the imbalance in the mindbody occurs due to imbalance of qualities beginning in the GIT This is particularly important for those who have associated conditions such as GERD, IC, chronic prostatitis and fibromyalgia
So the key is correct the imbalance in order to get your life back before IBS changed it and turned into a shambles
The Precious Gift
One of the keys to help improve health is to develop a healthy GIT which will go a long way toward improving your feeling of well being But what does it mean to have a healthy digestive system?
Again from an energy science view it means that you have a strong digestive fire which is defined molecularly as all the digestive enzyme systems from the mouth to the anus including all the organisms that help with digestion, the so called probiotic population
In fact it is said that all we need for great health is a good digestive fire! It is indeed a fortunate person born with a strong digestive fire and is able to maintain it through her/his lifetime It is a precious gift that Momma Nature gives us With such a strong digestion like we had when we children, teenagers, and young adults we could eat anything and we thought it wouldn't effect us In part that is true but over time it catches up with us and the fire begins to deteriorate
It's unfortunate that the matter science view of the human physiology does not have such a concept but that's the way it goes
10 Things to Improve Digestive Fire
We have written many times about the importance of appropriate nutritional formats for individual mindbody makeups as well as incompatible food combinations Observance of these is foundational to help improve or maintain the power of your digestive fire
But other things that we can do to enhance digestive strength: http://bit.ly/aE1DIQ
1 Tongue scraping in the morning stimulates digestive enzyme system
2 Use of herbs such as fresh ginger, fresh basil, tumeric, cardamom, fennel, cumin, coriander in your cooking
3 5 interrogatives of eating: When to eat the biggest meal of the day
4 Try not eating meals late at night Best is to use fruit for snacks or late night eating
5 Don't eat when emotionally upset
6 Only eat when you're hungry
7 Ice is not nice Don't use ice anytime because it cools off the digestion
9 No snacks If need to snack use fresh seasonal fruit
10 Drink milk separately from meals
So there you have it How to begin improving your digestive fire Overwhelming? Just try one a week and before you know it you'll begin feeling better and bowel activity will begin to normalize(regular bowel movements daily for those who are constipated)
Until next week Your humble servant in healing Love Dr Bill
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Oh Nuts! 3 Nut Alternatives
Pain of any kind can be amplified by the routine use of nuts of any kind and this includes their butters!! Peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter
Why?
Unlike the matter science(MS) nutritional information that fatty acids are good and bad, the energy science(ES) of Ayurveda states that all nuts are inflammatory due to these molecular fatty acids regardless of the "good or bad nature of them" The reason for this is that the post digestive(small bowel) effect is heating therefore inflammation provoking
The sweet taste of many foods covers the acidic nature of the foods itself and this is true of the nut category This is why the ES nutritional information trumps the MS guesswork around nutrition and is why the anecdotal information of the MS nutritional realm is at times confusing hence flares of pain and then no flares
What gives? This also explains why various inflammatory conditions are are actually related such as IC, fibromyalgia, IBS, chronic fatigue syndrome(CFS), GERD, prostatitis(did you know that PSA is a marker for inflammation?), and CPPS(chronic pelvic pain syndrome)
As an aside this sweet taste of nuts in general make them a great choice for building tissue since the sweet taste is anabolic
OK Then What Can I Use for Nuts?
Sorry to blow your day if you crave the mixed nuts but there is certainly a favorite guideline of mine and that is "There are no hard guidelines in the ES realms"
Know that if you use the foods that are provoking that you increase the likelihood of a pain That use of inflammatory foods will keep you up at the ceiling of the curve below rather than allowing your mindbody to do the rebalancing as the curve progresses to the right(BTW the ascent from the left shows how we gradually get sick over decades by our own choices(Oh shoot, you didn't have to say that did you?)
Journey to Balance
Soaked and peeled almonds(this is very important! or you can use slivered almonds from the bulk section of the grocery store if they have one ) are very helpful for their nutritive benefit but also for their cooling effect Turns out that the skin of the almond holds enzymes that in and of themselves are inflammatory Almonds are not actually nuts but in the end who cares
Charole seen in the picture above (actually seeds like sunflower) is another nut choice It's a very small nut found in very few stores in the US(I know because Ive looked; let me know if you have a source that you would share with the community) and is heating but due to the size and its energetics is acceptable and does not provoke Pitta(more about this energy pattern in future blog posts)
And of course coconut because it's COOLING! The general energy science principle is this: Plants that grow in hot climates are there for a very specific reason Their job is to make the environment cold(well cooler) and so Momma Nature is always taking care of balancing herself
What about nut milks? Almond Breeze is made from blanched and peeled almonds so a great drink Coconut milk also is a very nutritious drink and both these "nut" milks make great date shakes More about that in the future
3 Nut Alternatives
Here are three options for substitution without provoking inflammation or the Pitta energy pattern in the physiology
Use the above three recommendations and make your own nut butters from the slivered almonds
Sunflower seeds can be used by anyone anywhere anytime Sooo.. sunflower butter sold at Trader Joe's is an excellent proprietary product and the best tasting sunflower butter on the planet Have tasted many and this by far is the closest to peanut butter with a nice sweet taste Mmm good!
Give yourself "permission" to have a few nuts every once and a while if the craving is too great The ES reminds us that food cravings are a result of imbalanced digestion so the faster we can improve our digestion the better it will be
Well enough for now Until next time To Health as a Skill Love DrBill
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