Archived News of the Week

Interpreting Body Talk

Your body is a wonderful machine. It takes care of you in many, many ways, most of the time without you even knowing about it. It repairs you on a moment to moment basis. With the help of your liver and lymph, it cleanses you as best it can. Depending on the kind of fuel you feed it, it keeps your joints and skeletal system well-oiled and ready to run after that wooly mammoth or to brave the Mother Ship on Pearl (Whole Foods). This is not rocket science. How well your body works from moment to moment depends on the simplest things: How are you feeding it? How are you maintaining it?

To use the car analogy: "Just as your car needs clean gas, clean oil, and a clean air filter to function properly, your body needs "clean" food." If you pour in the wrong kind of oil (you eat too many bad Omega 6's, for example) or gas that is loaded with "fillers" (you eat sugar and junk food) or if your exhaust system is clogged up (you are constipated or suffer with chronic infections anywhere in the body) your car will give you obvious and immediate signs of system breakdown like bucking, smoking, smelling, shimmying, making funny noises, pulling to the left, and, finally, the dreaded "check engine" light will appear on your dash. And, instead of just blinking, it will stay on. At this point, you will probably take your car to the car doctor.

Your body will let you know when something is wrong, too. Here are some clues that your "check engine" light is blinking which will give you a chance to change a few things. Or maybe it's on permanently and at this point (i.e. symptoms that won't go away) you will probably take your poor body to a body doctor - like me, maybe. Don't disconnect your body's check engine light! Pay attention to what your wonderful body is trying to tell you. There are no accidents.

1 - You are prone to migraines. Or any kind of headache. I find that headaches are often a sign of dehydration and, often, a dozen or so Min-Tran for a few days will do the trick, but your headache could be coming from a subtle sensitivity to MSG or maybe from eating some of the additive crap that is routinely put in processed foods, like hydrolyzed anything, autolyzed yeast, maltodextrin, food dyes and the many weird names for sugar that the food manufacturers try to sucker-punch us with. If you think you may be additive sensitive, let me know. I have vials with which to test you.

2 - Do you have inflammation or edema anywhere? Do you seem to retain water easily? Are your ankles chronically swollen? Check out your consumption of animal protein, dairy or wheat. Also, refined sugars can blow you up like the Baron Harkonnen in the movie, Dune. Are you eating processed foods which contain tons of sodium? Salt is not a bad guy, especially the good salts like Himalayan pink or Celtic gray. It's the awful poisonous sodium/salt that food manufacturers put in the fast foods and into the boxes, cans, jars, bags or wrappers that I implore you not to buy or eat anymore.

3 - Are you dizzy or have tinnitus? It's probably an inner ear thing - not the inoperable brain tumor that you find yourself immediately diagnosing. However, your faulty equilibrium and ear noises can often be traced right back to diet. Check MSG, aspartame, nitrites and nitrates, chocolate, caffeine and concentrated sweets. Monitor your dizzy spells and tinnitus. Is it mostly after you have eaten certain foods? Remember, anything can cause anything. I found one patient sensitive to brown rice and broccoli but that is probably because he ate it every day of his life. There are no hard, fast rules with this stuff.

4 - How is your digestion? Constipation, diarrhea, stomach pains or tightness, acid reflux or burning or any kind of irritable bowel situation is often the result of food that is toxic for you. Check dairy, gluten, artificial sweeteners, sugar, any kind of GMO foods. As you know, I can test you for the foods you might be sensitive to, and also for any kind of dysbiosis (bugs in your gut and elsewhere) that may be causing the problem. I often find hiatal hernias with food sensitivities which can appear as heart burn, a full feeling just under your left ribs or the sensation that food's not going down as well as it could. Come in for an adjustment for that.

5 - Are you tired? Especially after you eat? Junk food will make you tired, as will other foods which may sound healthy but are foods that you just may be sensitive to. Start eating organic foods and your body won't be trying to "digest" all the pesticides that you are feeding it. I can test you for excess chemicals, inhalants, pesticides and heavy metals.

6 - Any brain fog? Is your vision weird for no reason? Especially after you eat? Have you had any tap water? Did you - OMG - get a flu shot? Did you just put NutraSweet in your Vic's double Americano? Did you take a toxic pharmaceutical? Did the dentist put a "silver" filling in your mouth? Did you get stuck in traffic on I25 in Denver? Are you on anti-depressants, anti-anxiety or ADHA drugs?

7 - Are you depressed? Has your get up and go got up and went? You find yourself not wanting to get up in the morning, you sleep poorly, nothing is fun anymore, you don't want to go to work, your kids are too noisy or too much to deal with. You basically don't want to (or, worse case scenario - are unable to) do the normal activities of daily living. Instead of reaching for the anti-depressant, start watching what you eat. If you eat CAFO animals (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) you can bet they are depressed and if you eat them their tissues will hold that depressed energy and pass it right on to you. If you eat pesticides and insecticides that make insects die, what do you think these foods will do to you? Maybe you won't die (now), but it might make you sick and depressed. Do me a favor. Try cleaning up your diet big-time for one month and see if you feel better. I can help you with that.

8 - Are you prone to rashes? How about eczema or psoriasis? Or those painful little canker sores in your mouth? I find that rashes are often from fungus, molds and yeast, viruses, additives, sugar, gluten, GMO corn or GMO soy. (e.g. I used to get tons of canker sores when I ate gluten. And I have to be careful now with how much citrus I eat or I will sprout, almost instantly, one of those painful little buggers.) Also processed foods with all of their additives can make you break out. Medications can do it, too. Watch aspirin, cough syrups, antihistamines and NSAIDS. Actually, virtually anything can cause a rash and since your skin is one of your biggest detox systems, many people will show toxicity through skin issues, like rashes.

No statement or content in this web site shall be construed as offering diagnosis, cure, mitigation or prevention of any disease. Anyone having questions regarding the content of this site should contact their own health care provider for verification.