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Valentine’s Day Hints
Valentine’s Day Hints – Tips on Speaking to your Lover Partner Spouse
Each person has a preferred way to be spoken to. How you touch and play the “heart strings” of those you love and care about differs according to many factors. Their personality type and what they most deeply value are two important elements that drive their feelings and behavior. When you are able to hit upon the messaging that works for them, that creates their “symphony” and inner “singing” (like that song that you just can’t stop singing to yourself at times that lights you up), you will create a harmony and positive response. Closeness and trust are likely to follow.
Valentine’s Day Hints
Valentines Day is an important day to many people, whether they celebrate or not. Because it goes on around us, even if we poo-poo, it there is a social context we operate in. As social beings (even if we are introverts), humans are touched by the social fabric we are brought up in and wear culturally. The excitement and trepidation of “getting it right” and feeling special on Valentine’s Day has at least a little effect on each of us. This may be conscious or subconscious, or both. It might only be a 10% influence or it might be 150%. No matter the degree, our emotional intelligence picks up on it to some extent.
Thus, we might as well give it a little attention.
If you know the predominant personality type of your loved ones, or wished for “person of interest,” you are more likely to vibrate their heart strings in a positive way. That is good for them, for you, and for society as a whole. If you don’t know the predominant personality, figure it out by playing the BANK code cards at www.Four-Cards.com. Then, use the following as some Valentine’s Day hints and tips.
The BLUEPRINT likes routine and safety. Plan out the Valentine’s Day event in advance and let them know what to expect – at least 1 week in advance. During the event or after giving them a lavish gift be prepared to justify the cost by mentioning any discount you were able to negotiate! It may sound odd, but they appreciate a good deal.
The ACTION loves fun and excitement. Sponteneity is a common value, so even if you plan out the event make it a surprise or at least surprise them with something during a planned event. And tell them how fun they are! Brand name gifts are especially spot on.
The NURTURING is often about others. Emphasize the relationship. Talk about the two of you – how much you trust them and how much their caring for others means to you. Maybe attend a charity event related to Valentine’s day or make a donation to their favorite cause (in addition to giving them something).
The KNOWLEDGE is usually pretty logical and has some emotional intelligence challenges. Explain to them the logic and rationale of going to the event together – maybe consider something related to science or even a comicon-like costume party. Watching reruns of “Big Bang Theory” or “Scorpion” or going to the most recent “Star Wars” movie would be a great match to get them excited.
These Valentine’s Day hints and tips are not set in stone, but they might help you create the kind of event that is memorable – and that is the point of Valentine’s Day (besides the commercial aspects that predominate so much of it).
Keep in mind that BANK Code personality typing has applications far beyond Valentine’s Day. It is being applied in education, business, and clinical settings to improve student performance, sales statistics, and treatment outcomes. Trainings are available online and in person – contact the author for the options you are looking for to improve communication and results.
Opioid Addiction
Opioid addiction
Opioid addiction is at all time highs in the US. Television, radio, magazines, newspapers, blogs, and politicians are all ranting about the opioid addiction problem in this country. The basis of this addiction is typically a pain condition that was initially treated with opioids like oxycodone – supposed to be a short term therapeutic regimen – but that turned into long term dependence.
Alternatives exist – such as acupuncture to increase endorphins in the brain, and NRCT (Neurologic relief center technique) that may be helpful to reduce the nerve irritations that can cause pain syndromes not addressed in other ways. Mindfulness, hypnotherapy, guided imagery and a variety of natural supplements can also be effective interventions to replace the addictive opioids or to reduce the dependence over time.
THE OPIOID ADDICTION EPIDEMIC STATISTICS
By far, the opioid crisis is one of the worst epidemics to hit the United States.
More than 2.4 million Americans have reportedly abused opioid medications, many of which are formulated to match pain-reducing properties of opium, including legal painkillers like morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone.
Others have turned to heroin and fentanyl.
Making it worse, according to U.S. governors, as noted by NBC Chicago:
“The federal government needs to do more to block illicit versions of synthetic drugs such as fentanyl from being shipped into the U.S. Last year, the Department of Justice issued indictments of two Chinese companies accused of sending fentanyl illegally into the U.S., one of several anti-opioid moves by the federal government.”
It’s gotten so bad that since 1999, the number of accidental deaths involving opioids has quadrupled. In fact, it’s been reported that 91 Americans die every day from it.
In 2015, 52,000 Americans died from opioid abuse.
According to The U.S. Council of Economic Advisers (CEA):“CEA estimates that in 2015, the economic cost of the opioid crisis was $504.0 billion, or 2.8 percent of GDP that year. This is over six times larger than the most recently estimated economic cost of the epidemic.”In 2016, that number exploded to 63,600. In 2017, early data has it up to 66,000.
It’s why President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a “public health emergency.”
“We have to be careful because there’s a drug epidemic the likes of which we’ve never seen in this country,” he added. “I will be pushing the concept of non addictive painkillers very, very hard. We’re going to be spending lots of money on coming up with a non-addictive solutions.”
ALTERNATIVES TO OPIOID ADDICTION AT THE REDWOOD CLINIC
Alternatives exist – such as acupuncture to increase endorphins in the brain, and NRCT (Neurologic relief center technique) that may be helpful to reduce the nerve irritations that can cause pain syndromes not addressed in other ways. Mindfulness, hypnotherapy, guided imagery and a variety of natural supplements can also be effective interventions to replace the addictive opioids or to reduce the dependence over time.
The functional medicine approach is also very important to get your body’s systems back into balance.
Opioids severely alter the digestive and elimination systems. They are the basis for getting nutrition in your system and the foundation of a healthy immune system. When those are malfunctioning, the brain also is effected directly, and then the natural opiates produced by the brain and elsewhere, the endorphins and enkephalins are thrown out of balance. As are the feel-good biochemicals of serotonin and dopamine.
To break the addiction cycle the body’s natural feel good and pain reducing chemicals must be activated. Functional medicine is the most effective approach for this as it reduces dependence on pharmaceutical agents that cause numerous side effects.
Call us today at The Redwood Clinic +1-510-849-1176 to set up your functional medicine consultation. Delay only makes the addiction worse.
Secret Shopper
Secret Shopper
Let’s pretend that you are getting paid at some job. Maybe in a store in a mall. A secret shopper comes in to see if you can sell something to them. You get paid whether they buy or not. The secret shopper gets paid no matter what happens. For you, it is just a game and everyone comes out with money in their pocket.
I just got another message from an insurance company. They are announcing the continuation of their secret shopper program. Another thing to have to read. Another wasted amount of professional time to deal with some bs regulation. From a company that cheats its providers out of fees needed for the providers to pay overhead. You think I am kidding? Not at all.
In the mall store situation everyone gets money in their pocket during the secret shopper charade.
But in the medical insurance world, the policy wonks and the insurance executives make up rules, getting paid all the way to the bank. The providers that they make up the rules for? It is all just a giant waste of time. They don’t get paid and yet have to take their valuable time to talk on the phone to someone who is just making a fake call, to make a fake appointment for a situation that is a lie. The caller doesn’t really need an emergent appointment or even an less urgent appointment. They are getting paid to essentially hassle the provider and their staff. They waste valuable clinical time and take money out of the pocket of the provider.
Do the insurance carriers care? Is it really necessary? No. Is it just a way for the insurance company “compliant officer” to justify their high salary? More likely.
Nowhere else in the commercial world does this happen.
Well, the insurance carriers are now making huge amounts of money for “administration” of medical treatment. The CEOs and the bean counters make huge salaries. Where do the funds come from? From the payments to providers. The people who have spent time and money to get their expertise to help patients. The people who are actually providing the services. The administrators — just middle people taking a huge cut out of the money that should be going to real patient care.
Unlike the administrators, CEOs, “compliance officers,” government regulators, most providers like acupuncturists and chiropractors and massage therapists don’t have jobs. They don’t get a salary.
They only get paid if they see a patient. If they are lucky, they have an all cash practice so they don’t have to deal with the insurance payment system. Because if they deal with the cumbersome and wasteful insurance administration systems, even if legitimate services are provided, the insurance company decides whether they will get paid or not. And the payments are now, in 90% of cases, 50 -80% less than they were 20 years ago.
Then we get this new rule that insurance companies impose on providers, who are not paid enough to cover overhead and still make a middle class income. Seriously, I hear about the struggles daily for almost all practitioners.
Once again, the provider squeezing insurance middle men are warning again about the “secret shoppers” who will call. The “secret shopper” model is used in which the surveyor calls the practitioner’s office as a potential patient to see how soon he/she can schedule an appointment. Practitioners are surveyed for their accessibility to treat a patient with an urgent (emergent) condition and a patient with a non-urgent (routine) condition.
Many of these calls are from people who won’t even provide any insurance information on the phone. Supposedly the provider still has to provide an appointment. And if they don’t show up? Tough luck provider. You were just suckered by an insurance company’s “secret shopper” sham.
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Amyloid Alzheimer’s Blood Stream
Amyloid Alzheimer’s Blood Stream
Does Alzheimer’s Travel to the Brain
From Other Parts of the Body?
There are many reasons and causes of Alzheimer’s. My two books on the brain (Outsmarting the Dementia Epidemic and Super Brain) talk about the primary factors involved. The connection between Amyloid, Alzheimer’s, & Blood Stream is an example of this whole body causal chain. Amyloid plaques are associated with Alzheimer’s in postmortem studies. But amyloid is produced in other parts of your body and can travel via your blood stream to the brain.
A study published in October suggests that the disease might not start in the brain at all.
Our own blood could carry Alzheimer’s-linked amyloid proteins to the brain from other areas of the body to kick-start the disease process.
Amyloid Alzheimer’s Blood Stream
A study by researchers from the US, Australia, China and the University of British Columbia surgically attached lab animals so they shared the same blood supply.
Anyway, each member of a group of normal, healthy mice was coupled with another that was specially bred to carry a modified human gene that produces high levels of brain-damaging amyloid beta protein.
After 12 months, the normal mice developed the same plaques and tangles seen in Alzheimer’s. They displayed the type of brain cell degeneration, inflammation and micro-bleeding commonly seen in the disease.
There were also marked impairments in a region of the hippocampus, a part of the brain that’s especially important for learning and memory. This disruption in electrical signaling began after just four months.
These results point out important facts I report in my books. Inflammation, blood circulation, and meningeal compression are all relevant in this discussion of brain health.
The Research Showed
The blood study showed that the proteins associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease can travel to the brain via the bloodstream. And those proteins are found outside the brain, They exist in muscles, blood platelets and blood vessels. In other words, the proteins from which amyloid is derived are found in a number of other organs.
The meninges control all of the blood circulating to and from your brain. They are the blood-brain barrier we talk so much about. Addressing a dysfunctional meninges may help to improve the blood-brain barrier.
One research author, Dr. Welhong Song, stated that “The blood-brain barrier weakens as we age. That might allow more amyloid beta to infiltrate the brain, supplementing what is produced by the brain itself and accelerating the deterioration.
“Alzheimer’s disease is clearly a disease of the brain, but we need to pay attention to the whole body to understand where it comes from, and how to stop it.
“Clearance of amyloid outside the brain could help reduce the amyloid inside the brain and might help slow down the disease progression.”
Dr. Song thinks it might be possible to develop a drug that binds to amyloid beta in the body, so that when it enters the bloodstream it is recognized by the kidneys or liver and the two bound substances are transported safely out of the body before the amyloid has a chance to enter the brain.
Drugs developed to address amyloid in the brain have not been successful.
Since the research team is telling us that Alzheimer’s might be a whole-body problem – a systemic disease — it reinforces the ideas of those working in integrative dr
By taking care of ourselves through diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and periodic detoxing of key organs like the liver, kidneys and colon, we are taking care of our minds at the same time.
It is also time to buy Dr. Jay’s two books and read them! Fill out the surveys in them. Learn more about his BRAIN HEALTH program by logging into his webinar. Then contact him for an appointment to review your survey results. 510-849-1176.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29086767
http://www.med.ubc.ca/alzheimers-disease-might-be-a-whole-body-problem