Poor Auto- Immune function is the #1 cause. 

 Stress is a significant drain on the immune system. There are many forms of stress. Emotional stress can be caused by the thoughts and feelings that we accumulate throughout our lives;  worry, fear, anger, anxiety. Low self esteem or a glass half full view of life will contribute to creating an inner turmoil, which makes healthy digestion impossible.

Our relationships  can produce stressful results to our systems.  Another source of stress is poor diet and lack of  nutrition. Energy and blood circulation becomes constrained and can cause obstructions throughout the gastrointestinal system. In order to function normally again, these constraints must be removed. Acupuncture opens the blockages and restores optimal energy and blood flow.

Herbal therapies will boost immune and thus overall body function. Coaching of stress reducing strategies and proactive choices in food and dietary practices are essential elements in restoring health. What are you willing to do to make any contributions to your health?

Try to get clear in your own mind what is really of importance to you.

Can you create intention around making a commitment to your health?

How will you contribute?

At the Kindo Health Center,  we have the experience to help. Our programs are based on over 20 years of experience.

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I was raised on a typical American diet, which consisted of Wonder Bread, which built bodies 12 ways, Oscar Mayer products, baloney, salami, with Hostess Twinkies. Every day after school, I would stop at McDonald’s and have a cheeseburger fries and a coke.  At that time, no one knew it was bad for you.  This was the early 60s, and I was living in the American dream.  By the time I was eight I was overweight and was plagued with many allergies, breathing problems and health conditions. My pediatrician was Dr. Zabattski.  I’ll never forget my visits to doctor Zabattzis’ office.  Next to each and every waiting room chair was a beautiful floor standing ashtray. The long base was made of ornate iron. On the top was a fairly large glass bowl and everyone in the waiting room was smoking.  When my mother and I went into the doctors office, he was wearing his white lab coat, had a stethoscope around his neck, a cigarette in his mouth and he and my mother both were smoking, while they discussed my breathing problems, allergies and my other health problems, I had weight problems too. I was so overweight in my youth that you could have called me “Jabba”. Most baby boomers are of the age where they can remember their doctors smoking and offices full of ashtrays.  Billboards on the highways and full-page print ads displayed doctors smoking cigarettes, “Doctors prefer L&Ms or “Luckys”(what a name for a cigarette). Remember the Rolling Stones song, “Satisfaction”?  A line in the song goes like this;  “He can’t be a man cause he doesn’t smoke the same cigarettes as me”.

As a child I remember studying in school about how we have billions of bodily activities occurring daily.  How do we support these billions of activities?  Many of us grew up eating the typical American diet. I certainly did. This may be one reason our country is in the health state it is in.  The staple of our culture is snacks with names like Kix and Life, Wheaties, the breakfast of champions, cereals with purpose and meaning.

Between the foods we consume, and our fear, anger, and anxiety, it’s no wonder we have chronic diseases in this country running amuck.  Otherwise, tell me how the most advanced country in the world has the most cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, and even constipation.  We could buy stock in Ex-Lax and become wealthy.  It’s time to get our heads out of our rear and get real.  You don’t have to have a degree in nutrition to figure it out or to know the difference between a carrot and a Cheerio. One is made by man for profit, and the other was created by the universe or God for human consumption and nutrition.

The health of our culture is eroding.  Our personal health, family relationships and the relationships with our selves has eroded.  How long must we cling to the paradigm of man is like a machine? In the healthcare industry, this paradigm has raised the doctor’s power were and he is responsible for our health.  If you eat Wonder Bread and or snacks and foods that are produced for profit, as most of your diet or all of your diet, sooner or later, something will break down.  Isn’t that the belief behind buying health insurance?  You know, you’ll need it, it’s just a question of when.  Sooner or later, you will be using this health policy.  That’s why you continue to pay on it month after month, year after year, for many years.

What can you for your health that you are currently not doing?

What are you willing to commit to doing?

How will you contribute to your health and longevity?

Joy, happiness, serenity, fulfillment, compassion, health, these are the qualities of high value within our human experience. The purpose of this work is to share insights and actions, stories and experiences that may inspire others to act out their lives attuned to a higher frequency. To add years to your life and enjoyment to the years you have. to slow your rate of aging and to change our paradigm of health.  Traditionally, modern health care is about treatment of disease with drugs and surgeries.  After 25 years and more than 80,000 patient visits, I have learned that health is more than merely to fix, repair and replace.  Health has to do with what we put into our mouths, minds and hearts. Health principles are the same principles as in farming: plant, nourish, cultivate and harvest health. This is a natural law just like gravity. 

 I am sharing ancient secrets for modern times. I have acquired knowledge of these ancient methods through some most unusual circumstances. Some were from studying and practicing ancient rituals under the mentoring of great religious and philosophical masters. Others were from all the other gifted individuals I have had the blessing to cross paths with and learn from in this lifetime. Most came out of hard lessons from personal experience either way, it was up to me to respond. I needed to begin to think and act differently. I needed to plant, nourish, cultivate and support new beliefs and behaviors. Any personal stories I share with you  accentuate these changes of heart and the subsequent changes of thinking and action.  Understanding how our bodies and minds function requires more than the written word. Learning new practices is imperative to operate on a higher frequency.  I call them ritual practices, because through practice, these rituals will become habits and these habits will change our lives. I suggest that when beginning to practice these rituals you refrain from self-doubt or judgments.  Leave those thoughts out of the equation and certainly out of ritual practice.

 Neuroscience has a subspecialty involving the study of neuroplasticity. There are scientists all over the world studying neuroplasticity. In short, this is the study of changing the way the brain functions through mindfulness.  Mindfulness is a word that encompasses our thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Our perceptions, assumptions and conclusions about our lives and ourselves affect our health and ultimately the health of everyone within our sphere of influence including not only our family and friends, but the entire community. Being Mindfull In Spirit will enhance your health and increase your chances of living a longer, radiantly enjoyable life.

Mindfulness is achieved through planting thoughts and cultivating them into beliefs through intentional thinking. The result is changing the brain through retraining the mind. Changing our thoughts and feelings affect our mental, emotional and physical health through the messages delivered by the brain.

This really is about change. Change for the betterment of you and those who surround you. Planting new beliefs, nourishing new perceptions, cultivating habits and supporting actions that result in the Mindfullness In Spirit Way.

The 3 Cs

I call them the 3cs, I like to keep things simple. Being simple is easier for me to retain my focus.

1. Caring - What do we really care about? What’s important to us?    
2. Committment - What are we willing to committ to for personal growth?
3. Contribution - How will we contribute to others?

Infertility results when the network of hormones, organs, and energy systems are not functioning optimally.  These imbalances obstruct normal function, (conceiving a child every time her ovaries release an egg). Restoring the environment is conducted holistically.  There is not a separation of mind, body, emotions and spirit as in western medicine.  Eastern medicine considers each of these elements to be equal in its assessment of the causes of infertility. Eastern medicines approach is to restore balance to the entire body/mind connective system.

We are all made up of energy. Within our bodies are billions of activities occurring daily, all meant to plant, nourish, cultivate and support healthy function.

Symptoms such as impotence, infertility, PMS, pelvic inflammatory disease, vaginitis, irregular periods, cramps, or morning sickness are all indicators that point to an out of balance internal environment.

Miscarriage, Stress and Conception

The body understands that one should not carry a pregnancy when under tremendous stress.  Our inner wisdom dictates that prioritizing one’s own overall health takes precedence and carrying the burden of an additional life can be an overwhelming strain.

Hormonal response to stress is antagonistic to the required environment for fertility. Examples: under stress, adrenaline is released from the adrenal glands and inhibits the ability to utilize progesterone.  In times of stress, the pituitary gland may begin to malfunction. Stress creates false information and creates a serious of assumptions and conclusions the body responds to. When we are under stress, the sympathetic nervous system is stimulated, accelerating heart rate and constricting blood vessels and micro-circulation.  This is our “fight or flee from danger” warning system.  As this hyperstimulated dynamic is occurring, less blood is delivered to the uterus and ovaries, thus impairing optimal function. One of the biggest stressors for women is the inability to conceive.  There are other internal stressors, and external stressors that need to be addressed.

Acupuncture

In the journal Fertility and Sterility, published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, reported a study in which researchers stimulated acupuncture points that were meant to relax the uterus and create better blood circulation and more energy circulation in the uterus.  Points designed to promote a patient’s general row expedition, and overall well-being were also chosen.  Ultrasound testing, six weeks after treatments were completed, revealed that almost twice as many women from the acupuncture group than from the untreated group became pregnant. Another study by Cornell University, published in December 2002 reported, the peripheral impact of acupuncture in improving uterine artery blood flow and hence endometrial thickness provides encouraging data regarding its potential positive effects on implantation.  The study concluded, “ because acupuncture is non-toxic and relatively affordable, its indications in assisting reproduction deserves serious research and exploration”.

Traditional and modern acupuncture involves the insertion of thin hair like disposable wires into points on the surface of the skin.  Acupuncture’s effects on the body can be explained by a number of theories. 

Acupuncture meridians are paths of electrical energy running throughout the body.  For electrical energy to flow smoothly, there would have to be amplifiers along the lines of current these are the sites where acupuncture occurs. 

Another theory described in western methodology addresses for the neurological effects of acupuncture.  Stimulation of acupuncture points affect the nervous system, releasing chemicals to either alleviate pain, or affect the body’s internal regulating system.  Acupuncture stimulates specific nerve bundles that carry electrical impulses back to the brain, increasing higher endorfin concentrations.  This produces a higher more intense feeling of relaxation and euphoria that most people feel after their acupuncture treatments. Acupuncture transmits messages to the hypothalamus, which controls all hormonal activity, including ovulation, menstruation, and pregnancy. When the hypothalamus receives messages triggered by acupuncture stimulation, neurotransmitters, i.e., dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin it triggers action within the pituitary gland, (which controls the ovaries, adrenals, and thyroid gland), producing both follicle- stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) which are critical elements in a healthy cycle.  Those explanations are derived from the western medical model.

Acupuncture can stimulate the bodies hormonal system into alignment, secreting the appropriate hormones at the right time in the right place during a woman’s cycle thus facilitating conception. Acupuncture and herbal therapy are both natural and effective in assisting in successful conception. According to traditional Chinese medical philosophy, this is achieved through the careful assessment and evaluation of the overall function within the body.  This function takes into consideration the ebb and flow of vital energy, blood circulation, organ function and balancing the activities that occur in about a daily.

Western medicine is specific and reductionistic, in it’s compartmentalized, mechanical medical model. Little to no attention is focused on the overall cohesiveness of an individual’s health.  Eastern medicine strength comes from its overview of balance, harmony and well-being within an individual.  Its focus is always on increasing normal or optimal function.  The first step is to assess and evaluate what’s happening within your system and how it relates to reproductive organs.  Next is to determine what acupuncture and herbal protocol would be appropriate.  This is known as a treatment plan.  Treatment plants can range from three months (three cycles) to one year.  In addition to acupuncture and herbal formulas treatment may include change of diet and therapeutic exercises or rituals to be to be incorporated into one’s daily life.

I was put into a room and visited by numerous physicians, interns, and medical students. By now, I was completely paralyzed from head to toe.  My body had ballooned and my joints had swelled to three times their size.  My ankles looked like grapefruits.  My sister came running in the room, and upon observing my swollen ankles, knees and elbows, she proclaimed that I had polio. He’s got polio, she screamed as she ran down the hall of the hospital. You can imagine how I felt laying there, unable to move entrapped by my swollen bulbous body.  

During this period I was fed only clear broths.  A nurse came into my room with a cup of chicken bullion, a cup of tea and a book.  She began to spoon- feed me, alternating between the tea and the bullion, while she was engaged in reading her book. At this time in my life I was 5’ 2” and weighed approximately 160 pounds. My mother raised me on a routine diet consisted of wonder bread, cold cuts, Hostess Twinkies and soda.  For the next 35 days, I lie in that hospital bed detoxifying, being examined by doctors, interns and students and being fed by a nurse with a book, mostly liquids. At the end of that time, the strangest thing occurred, I began to be able to move my joints, the swelling disappeared, and I began to regain normal function. I was so excited to be able to get up and begin to roam around feeling my hands and my feet.  I felt remarkably lighter and had more energy. The biggest surprise was when they weighed me, for I was 30 pounds lighter. Basically this is a result of being on the liquid cleansing fast for 30 days.

Through this entire ordeal, the doctors had numerous diagnoses pertaining to my condition.  Rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart, kidney problems, rheumatoid arthritis, and finally, the one they settled on, traveling arthritis. My learning points from this experience, which I will never forget are the following:

Doctors really don’t know what they’re talking about, much of the time.

What you put into your mouth as a strong effect on your overall health, I was raised on garbage and my body became a garbage collector.

Health is more than diagnosable disease.

And finally, I did not have polio.

Case Study
Sara age 45, came to me to lose weight. She stated that she had adult onset Diabetes diagnosed for 5 years. She was taking 2 medications to manage her Diabetes as well as medication for her acid-reflux, depression, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. I treated her with a course of treatments that included, acupuncture, Chinese herbs and a change to her diet. Within 3 months she lost over 40 pounds and stopped taking all medications. Her acid-reflux stopped occurring, her blood pressure and cholesterol fell within normal range and anti-depressants were no longer necessary. She is elated with her new health and her new body. She donated 3 large garbage bags full of clothing to charity. She has gone down 3 sizes and loves to shop and try on new outfits that she never could wear before. She used to express little to no emotion and now she is always smiling. She is cured from living a life with Diabetes and relying on dangerous medications to try and manage a condition that she was causing herself by the way she was eating.
Let’s stop the madness! When was the last time your doctor asked you exactly what you ate for breakfast? Did your health care provider ever tell you what to do and what not to do for breakfast, lunch or dinner? No! You know why? There’s no money in it. The way medicine is practiced; the focus is on where the money is at, drugs and surgeries. This is referred to as “treatment of disease”. There just is no money in prevention of disease or cultivating health.
How to avoid Diabetes? First off, eat like your great grandparents did. Eat foods that are produced by the earth for nourishment, not man for profit. Shop the perimeter of the grocery store, vegetables, fruits, meat, chicken and fish. Stay away from the middle of the store where most of the products manufactured by man lie. Stop buying dangerous ingredients! Purchase only products that are hormone free and free of antibiotics. Read the labels, it will tell you if the chicken or meat is free of these chemicals. Growth hormones have estrogen in them and will eventually cause Diabetes and Cancers as well. Do not eat products that use corn syrup or other corn derivatives. Do not choose products that have many ingredients listed that you cannot pronounce. There is a difference between a carrot and a Cheerio. Remember, Cheetos are not really food!
If you have Diabetes and would like to treat yourself using foods and herbal remedies I recommend you to get my diet plan. You will receive the information necessary to restore your health and cure your Diabetes. Certainly you would agree that if there were something you can do for your health that you are not currently doing you would want to know about it. Also, if there is something you are doing that is bad for you and promoting Diabetes and other diseases within your body, you would want to stop it immediately. I urge you to learn how to plant, nourish, cultivate and support your health. Make your health a priority.

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