TOP 4 Ways to Defy Poor Health

How to defy poor health & limiting ideas.

     Some of the best healing stories I've ever heard come from defiant patients. In a scenario where defiance was an asset, I enjoyed reading an article written by a practicing physician, Dr. Annie Brewster, who defied her doctor's orders when she was diagnosed with 'probable MS' and was recommended to start 'disease modifying therapy' immediately. She took both paths of managing the 'probable' and ultimately ended up rejecting the medication path altogether because it simply took too much out of her. (1) What I appreciate most from her experience, is that she learned a lot from being on the patient side of things. That the 'right' thing to do is based on a multitude of factors that only the patient can fully assess from the whole context of their lives.

     Whether educated in a facet in the medical field or not, our understanding of healing and managing illness is minuscule until we have to fight our way through it. Our assumptions of trust can easily follow the most elaborate architecture of hospital buildings, pharmaceutical 'cutting-edge' developments and those associated within. But for an independent mind willing to leverage the digital age of informational access, you will end up at a common thread understanding as I did, the money it takes to buy that prestige, doesn't come from effectively healing people. Beyond weighing the "potential side-effects" along side the "potential benefits" here is a life-preserver of healing philosophies that won't let you drown.

TOP 4 ways to defy poor health:

1.) KNOW YOUR DOCTOR'S LIMITS. Maybe all they can do is recommend drugs (even when they prefer homeopathic remedies) because the scope of their license and malpractice insurance forbids anything else. And naturally an ego can't help but desire to do something rather than nothing.

2.) ACCEPTING SYMPTOMS, NOT MINIMIZING. Perhaps your doctor, friends or partner has never been a patient with the debilitating side of losing autonomy, and therefore it can seem like those on your side minimize the experience. You are the only one with the power to do that, advocate your needs and they will too.

3.) CARING FOR THE EMOTIONAL BURDEN. Because treatments are specific to the physical side of the injury, your doctor has no access whatever to the whole context of the emotional trauma you face or how you shoulder the emotional burden of managing pain. Increase your own psychological tool set with tools such as Goalistics.com.

4.) INCREASE YOUR WORKING KNOWLEDGE. The process of increasing your personal working knowledge on healing alternatives is therapeutic in itself. It creates hope by giving you new answers to how your body works.

(1) Brewster, A. (2012, August 31). Patient Angst: When You Just Have To Say ‘No’ To The Doctor. CommonHealth RSS. Retrieved June 23, 2014, from http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/08/patient-angst-when-you-just-have-to-say-no-to-the-doctor

How the Quatum Era is Shifting The Way We View Healing

Emerging research is shifting the way we view healing.

Because much of our systems are guided by dualism, herd-mentality, and corporate interests emerging discoveries can take forever to surface and gain acceptance. BUT, what if were standard practice to teach healing processes as a part of grade school studies? What if you were 10 and learned concepts like:

A.) You are energy. The frequency you operate at is very specific. The combination of your pH+ level, the quality of your thoughts, your functionality, energy level, stress level, etc. all combine to make up your unique frequency.

B.) The era of Newtonian physics (which began in the late 1600's) would have us believe that the body is merely mechanical and that parts can be discarded or replaced. But the last eight decades of emerging quantum era science shows us that everything is interconnected at the quantum level.

C.) What this means for healing: The physical, energetic and emotional inter-workings of the body are far more intertwined than we've previously imagined. This is why a soldier can return home unharmed physically, but sustained psychological damages results in a cascade of post battle depression, PTSD symptoms, and exhausted adrenals resulting in inflammatory issues and pain.


The study of emotional injuries, psychology and neuroscience are relatively new. We barely have a centuries' worth of research and we've learned more in the last three decades than we have in the preceding seventy years due to technology. A few well proven discoveries worth noting:

1.) Socioeconomic levels correlate to intellectual capacity: Poverty can reduce your working IQ by 13 points from the various emotion burdens of not being able to participate in one's community or be able to contribute.
2.) Adult relationship capacity correlates to early childhood learned attachment style: The early childhood interaction between parent and child forms the foundation of the adult's subconscious view towards how one can depend upon and trust others. 
3.) Intrinsic motivation trumps all: People who are motivated by personal factors generally find life, work and relationships more fulfilling, hence a movement within the workplace to engage and inspire employees as a new form of increasing productivity and overall satisfaction.


All that to say, our clinic likes to look ahead at how things may shift, how doctors might collaborate in the future and how the whole person may be assessed and treated emotionally just as much as physically. We hope education can make room in health classes for the reality of facing injury and how to recover. Because unfortunately, its a steep learning curve as an adult.

Why Whiplash is a Sneaky Bastard (The Physics & Damage)

There's a few important things at risk, (like your brain stem, no big deal.)

The research on the physics of how whiplash happens is slightly terrifying. With speeds as low as 8mph the sudden force of being hit may only be 2G, but with appropriate calculations, your neck ultimately absorbs a whip-like force of 5G for .25 of a second. (1) This is called 'magnification of acceleration' and unfortunately most people in a low speed accident will write-off any symptoms as non-related simply because they associate injury with higher speeds. 

Our clinic notices how many cases in which we treat neck pain, and more often than we'd like to admit, there's a low speed rear-ending accident in that patient's past that was never assessed. We hate to see patients spend money out of their own pocket to treat these issues when it should have been covered by PIP under your car insurance. But the longer anyone waits to submit that claim, the higher the risk of it being rejected. 

(1) Shapiro, A.; Teasell, R.; Steenhuis, R.: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Following Whiplash. In: Spine: State of the Art Reviews. Vol. 7, No. 3. September 1993. pp. 455-469 

Pain Relief CBD Cannabis Strains Isolated from THC Psychoactive Strains

Therapeutic satisfaction & effects of pharmaceutical grade CBD strain cannabis.

As the prohibition on cannabis in the US is slowly lifted, researchers are providing more insights into therapeutic grade strains as a new regulated industry emerges. In the forefront of this research, the CBD strain (the therapeutic benefits) are able to be isolated from the THC (the high) and many new products are emerging from this.  Among the top most known benefit of CBD is pain relief, reduced inflammation, its neuro-protective, relieves anxiety, suppresses muscle spasms, and is antibacterial. All this without the pharmaceutical side-effects. (1)

Based upon recent studies in the Netherlands, medicinal use of several different strains are showing a high satisfaction rate of 86% for pain relief, and revealing the difference of which strains have the fewest side effects. (2) Apparently a sense of dejection, anxiety and appetite increase vary between the three strains and are lowest with CBD.

(1) Gevirtz, C. (2009, June 1). CONTROLLING PAIN: Cannabinoids An emerging role in pain management?. CONTROLLING PAIN: Cannabinoids An emerging role in pain management?. Retrieved June 23, 2014, from http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/journalarticle?Article_ID=863277

(2) Brunt, T., Genugten, M. v., Höner-Snoeken, K., de Velde, M. v., & Niesink, R. (2014, June 1). Therapeutic satisfaction and subjective effects of different strains of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis.. . Retrieved June 23, 2014, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24747979