Michel Odent on "love cocktails" in birth

Michel Odent wrote a wonderful book on childbirth "the violence of birth". It is still as valuable today as when it was first published all those years ago.

AK and Holistic approaches take this all to a higher level and with great success. Presently due to a number of enviromental factors/diet/poor nutrition and stress most women are defficient in progesterone and oxytocin and this leads to difficulty in concieving and difficult labours with low weight neonates and the broadspectrum of ADHD/Autism.

The approaches I use make sure all the hormones are at optimimul levels correcting any defficiences and detoxifying any body toxins we find, before conception and then monitoring the hormone levels and spinal and pelvic alignments throughout the gestation period. We are very much in favour of natural births at home in a quite peaceful space surounded by loved ones.

Listen to this man carefully as he has decades of experience with natural childbirth.

Birth Trauma - An Holistic Approach

Here is a short video on my approach to birth trauma and how I correct it using Applied Kinesiology techniques. I'm interviewed by a client of mine who suffered severe physical trauma to the cranium and upper neck at birth, who in later life developed debilitating headaches/migraine and neck pain.All succesful treated by AK, Chiropractic and nutrition. 

Ear Infections in Children - Otitis Media(OM).

OM is extremely common in pediatric patients; in fact, it is the most common reason for pediatric (up to 15 years of age) primary care visits. This is largely due to the anatomy of the pediatric eustachian tube. Studies have found no bacterial etiology in aproximately 60% of OM cases. However, the remaining of OM patients exhibit bacterial pathogens (haemophilus influenza, Streptococcus pneumonia, and Brahnamella catarrhalis)

If Bacterial OM--monitor closely for signs of complication. Please note these are very rare!! T.M. rupture, meningitis, cranial nerve palsies, abscess, lateral sinus thrombosis.

1. Dietary measures

*diet high in bioflavonoids helps decrease allergic and inflammatory responses (like mucous buildup and subsequent plugging of normal anatomic drainage).

allergy rotation or elimination diets are important in managing chronic OM presentations. The most common food allergies include wheat, cow's milk, soy, corn, and strawberries.

*recommended diet: high in fresh vegetables, beans, lean meats, and fish. Avoid mucous forming sources, such as wheat, dairy, and orange juice.

*Probiotics modulate immune function and decrease allergic response. Probiotics given within the first year of life are preventive and can significantly decrease the number of ear infections during childhood.

2. Lifestyle changes

*parental or caregiver smoking is strongly associated with increased risk of upper respiratory conditions and OM in children

*pacifier use and thumb sucking is associated with increased risk of upper respiratory tract infections and OM

3. Botanical medicine 

*Matricaria chamomila/recutita: a safe and effective antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and vulnerary that is used extensively in the treatment of OM. Strong infusions are considered excellent first-line approaches for acute or chronic OM. Chamomile is contraindicated for patients who are allergic to asters and chrysanthemums.

*Echinacea angustifolia/purpurea: well-studied botanical remedies for the prevention and treatment of colds and flue. Also safe and effective in the treatment of both acute and serous OM. Glycerinates are available for infants. Echinacea is contraindicated for patients with autimmune disease.

*Zingiber officinalis: also indicated in OM accompanying a cold with clear and watery mucous. Ginger is best combined with other botanicals in tea or syrup

4.Homeopathy

The following homeopathic remedies are most commonly chosen for acute otitis media:

*Ferrum Phosphoricum: the most commonly used remedy for early OM. Indication include gradual onset of symptoms, flushed face, dislike of noise or stimulation, and desire to lie still.

*Belladona: recommended in right ear OM, flushed face, fever, restlessness, scant thirst, and sensitivity to noise or light.

*Chamomilia: indicated for Om in irritable and cranky children who cannot be appeased for a long time; one cheek is red while other is pale; and aggravation by heat

*Kali muriaticum: recommended when patients experience fullness and congestion in the ear, impaired hearing, and popping or crackiling sounds on swallowing. This remedy is commonly used to clear the eustachian tubes when serous fluid persists after acute OM.

*Pulsatilla: usually used for earaches that are accompanied with white nasal discharge, thirstlessness, and throbbing pain in the ear that is aggravated by heat. Also indicated in the treatment of OM when the child exhibits changing moods (clingy, weepy, fidgety) with a need to be consoled.

5. Applied Kinesiology to treat birth injuries and Chiropractic for very gentle re-alignment of the upper cervicals.

6. Pain Relief

*Ear oil is a traditional and effective method of providing comfort for the pediatric OM patient (and their parents) and in many cases will be enough of an intervention to alleviate the condition altogether. Seek traditional or proprietary ear oil brands contaiing Olive oil with Mullenin (Verbascum thapsus), St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum), Calendula (Calendula officinalis), Garlic (Allium sativa) extracts. Hyperosmotic glycerol "glycerine USP" ear drops, will draw fluid through the semi-permeable tympanic membrane (ear drum) and provide almost instant pain relief. 

7. Clinical Nutrition

• Omega 3-6-9, selenium, Vitamin C complex, Echinacea, Zinc

As always,it is very important to remember that your child is unique and I will treat him/her as a whole being and the therapies are taylor made for him.

In the past I’ve had excellent results in treating these children, especially if the ear infection is chronic and does not clear up with antibiotics.

Epigenetics-more info.

Hi folks,
This is an article that really just says what I've been saying and practising for a while now.
You can change.
You are not at the mercy of your DNA.

You Really Can Change Your DNA – 


If you believe that you are at the mercy of your genetic code, great news, you’re not. According to the science of epigenetics (the study of how environmental factors outside of DNA influence changes in gene expression), stem cells and even DNA can be altered through magnetic fields, heart coherence, positive mental states and intention. Top scientists around the world agree: genetic determinism is a flawed theory.

Curbing the Genetic Victim Mentality

The DNA we are born with is not the sole determinant for our health and well-being. Stem cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., discusses the important difference between genetic determinism and epigenetics in an interview with Super Consciousness magazine:

“The difference between these two is significant because this fundamental belief called genetic determinism literally means that our lives, which are defined as our physical, physiological and emotional behavioral traits, are controlled by the genetic code. This kind of belief system provides a visual picture of people being victims: If the genes control our life function, then our lives are being controlled by things outside of our ability to change them. This leads to victimization that the illnesses and diseases that run in families are propagated through the passing of genes associated with those attributes. Laboratory evidence shows this is not true.”

Lipton’s theory is confirmed by Carlo Ventura, M.D., Ph.D., professor and researcher at the University of Bologna in Italy. Dr. Ventura has shown through lab testing that the DNA of stem cells can be altered using magnetic field frequencies.

“It’s like a time machine. You’re reprogramming somehow backward with these cells to an uncertain state in which any kind of decision is somehow possible; even the decision to become virtually any kind of cell of the organism. And just think about the tremendous potential of this discovery.”

He adds that two Nobel Prize-winning scientists discovered even “nonstem adult cells can be epigenetically reprogrammed backward to a state where they can eventually give rise to neural cells, cardiac cells, skeletal muscle cells or insulin-producing cells.”

Changing DNA through intention

According to the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California, epigenetics encompasses far more than just DNA, our environment and life experience. After two decades of study, the researchers discovered factors like love and appreciation or anxiety and anger also influence a person’s blueprint. In one experiment, select participants were able to change DNA with positive mental states.

“An individual holding three DNA samples was directed to generate heart coherence – a beneficial state of mental, emotional and physical balance and harmony – with the aid of a HeartMath technique that utilizes heart breathing and intentional positive emotions. The individual succeeded, as instructed, to intentionally and simultaneously unwind two of the DNA samples to different extents and leave the third unchanged.”

Control group volunteers who had low heart coherence were unable to alter the DNA.

Healthy cell expression and a quantum nutrient diet

If we want to nourish our bodies at a cellular level (and not promote disease), the institute recommends an abundant diet of quantum nutrients. When we are stressed or negative, our biological energy reserves are diverted from the important task of regenerating and repairing the body. We can counteract this cellular starvation by focusing on genuine states of care, appreciation and love. These positive emotions enhance our energy system and feed the body, even down to the level of DNA. HeartMath calls such positive feelings “quantum nutrients.”

                 WHO ARE YOU? WHO AM I

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1. YOU ARE A PHYSICAL EXTENSION OF THAT WHICH IS NON-PHYSICAL. YOU ARE A WHOLE COMPLETE BEING IN PHYSICAL FORM. YOU ARE ONE WITH ALL WHILE IN HUMAN FORM.

2. YOU ARE HERE IN THIS BODY BECAUSE YOU CHOSE TO BE HERE. THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH WITH A CAPITAL ‘T’. YOU ARE THE CHOICE-MAKER. 

3. YOU ARE FUNDAMENTALLY FREE, THIS IS A  GIVEN, THIS IS A TRUTH.

4.  THE PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE IS TO BRING JOY TO YOUR EARTH JOURNEY. LITERALLY TO BRING HEAVEN TO EARTH. TO BRING ‘ONENESS’ TO THE PHYSICAL STORY.

5.  YOU ARE A CREATOR; YOU CREATE WITH YOUR EVERY THOUGHT AND FEELING.

6. ANY PURPOSE THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE IS YOURS TO BE OR DO OR HAVE. HAVE A DREAM AND IT IS YOURS TO MAKE MANIFEST.

7. AS YOU ARE CHOOSING YOUR DREAMS AND YOUR THOUGHTS YOUR INNER LOVING BEING IS GUIDING YOU.

8. THE UNIVERSE ADORES YOU FOR IT KNOWS YOUR BIGGEST PICTURE, YOUR TRUER INTENTIONS.

9. BE STILL IN YOUR OWN NATURAL WELL-BEING. ALL IS WELL. (TRULY IT IS!)

10.YOU ARE A CREATOR OF BEING-NESS....THOUGHTS...ACTION  ON YOUR UNIQUE PATH OF JOY. THIS IS THE RE- DISCOVERED WAY OF CREATING.....BEING-NESS...... CREATES THOUGHTS .....WHICH CREATE ACTION.   ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN AND POSSESSIONS TO BE EXCHANGED COME AFTER YOUR FOCUS ON BEING-NESS AND OF JOY.

11. ALLOWING OTHERS THEIR UNIQUE EXPERIENCES ALLOWS YOU YOURS.THERE IS NO LIMITS TO YOUR EXPERIENCES AND CREATIONS.

12. YOU MAY APPROPRIATELY DEPART YOUR BODY WITHOUT ILLNESS OR PAIN.

13. YOU CAN NOT DIE; YOU ARE EVERLASTING LIFE.

Epigenetics and Holistic Health

What Is Epigenetics?

Epigenetics offers a new way forward in understanding chronic disease and is often labelled the new biology.

Epigenetic means "on the gene," and the term refers to the recent discovery that stress in the environment can impact an individual's physiology so deeply that those biological scars are actually inherited by the next several generations. For instance, a recent study has shown that men who started smoking before puberty caused their sons to have significantly higher rates of obesity. And obesity is just the tip of the iceberg - many researchers believe that epigenetics holds the key to understanding cancer, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, and diabetes.

So let's be clear about this, Epigenetics is showing that our life style does impact our genetic code and that of our children.

"The potential is staggering.....the age of epigenetics has arrived" Time magazine January 2012.

How Environment, Emotions And Beliefs Effect Our Gene's Expression

Epigenetic changes relate to how our genes express themselves and not a true change of the genetic code. In other words the genes you are born with are your genes and their code is yours but how they express themselves varies according to enviromental factors and emotional or psychological factors.

Toxins in the enviroment and harmful belief systems and emotions actually interfere with the highest expression of your genetic material which in turn produces all the biology that makes up your body. With the aging process this only gets worse.Thus, these Epigenetic changes lead to an unhealthy gene expression which can manifest in chronic illness and are major factors in the cause of diseases like heart disease, obesity, cancer, neurological and cognitive disorders and infertility.

The read out of our genes is affected by enviromental signals, through how we percieve the world around us - Epigenetics.

How you as a unique individual see the world selects which gene sequences are going to be activated and modified to make the proteins (and then enzymes) which best fit your enviromental circumstances at that time.

This is very important - perception runs our genes!!! Your unique perception as a unique individual activates the neccessary gene expression for your unique circumstances at that time.

Now here's the most important part!!! Misperceptions will miss-run your gene expression, which leads to faulty proteins which in turn leads to faulty enzymes which lead to dysfunction and disease!!!!

Mis-perceptions are a 'faulty' interpretation of the world around us. When these inaccurate perceptions run our genes it leads to illness. This is so important!!! 

This is why our thoughts/belief systems and emotions are a prominent factor in our state of well-being.

Implications For The Next Generation

 In the diagragm below the mother smoking introduces a toxin to herself and the developing foetus.This will alter the epigenetic expression in the mother and the foetus.This in turn will alter the epigenetics within the foetus' own reproductive system which will then be 'passed' on to its own offspring - 3rd generation (it may well also alter the gene code).

The mum also has an emotional need to smoke and she knows it is harmful to her so her thoughts and belief system will alter the gene expression as well.

Simply put, toxic enviromental influences and thoughts/belief systems have a significant impact on our biology/physiology/bodies. To the mum and dad in the above example I would say you can change... empower yourselves to change. 

Change your perception and you change your physiology.

Detoxify and support the repair of the damage and you change your biology.

How exciting!!! AK (Applied Kinesiology)  has many of the answers and "how to's" to make these real and meaningful changes  to your life.

For advanced reading and some great short videos go to these links at the University of Utah.       
        

What Is Applied Kinesiology?

Applied Kinesiology is a non-invasive system that evaluates structural, biochemical, emotional/mental and neurological aspects of health by using muscle testing, postural analysis, body language and gait analysis alongside conventional diagnostic methods. Central to the A.K. approach is the Triad of Health.

The treatment modalities used are very gentle cranio-sacral manipulation, gentle spinal manipulation, nutritional supplements, herbal remedies, specific exersises,muscle work and dietary advice.

What Conditions Can Applied Kinesiology Help With?

Some of the ailments/conditions we see include:

In Children

Learning Disorders.
Hyperactivity.

Asthma.

Psoriasis/Eczema.

Food Intolerances.
Low apgar score.
Birth trauma.
Repeated colds/sore throats.
ADHD.

In General

Osteo-Arthritis/Rheumatoid-Arthritis.

M.S.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/M.E.

Crohns/Colitis.  

PMS/Hormonal Imbalances.

Food Intolerances.

Sport Injuries.

Headache/Migraines.
Low back pain/sciatica.


If you would like more information please feel free to leave a question in the comments, or contact me by email (starfieldsholistichealth@gmail.com).