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Urinary Incontinence after pregnancy

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Chinese Medicine Disease Exercise Nutrition & Lifestyle Rehabilitation

I have treated many female clients that end up with urinary incontinence after delivering their baby. From being pregnant, your “core” muscles lengthen and become inhibited (loss of inability to do their job, which is to stabilize the low back and hold the organs in). This is one reason why women loose bladder control (part of the inner unit is the pelvic floor, which regulates this). As well, when these muscles lengthen, the organs “hang off” the ligaments and push down on the bladder, this is another reason why most women have loss of bladder control. If these muscles are still lengthened and the organs are still “hanging” of ligaments, then you will continue to have this issue. The largest issue is from getting an episiotomy, which completely shuts off the pelvic floor. At the same time, the scar tissue that is built up is the roadblock in this situation … Continue Reading

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We are what we eat!

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Digestion Disease Exercise Functional Medicine Hormones Nutrition & Lifestyle Pain Rehabilitation Support Supplements

Josh, I‘ve got a client who wishes to gain weight and bulk up he has a high heart rate and suffers from tremours in his right arm and hand his diet consist of nourishments drinks and protein weight gain drinks along side a normal healthy diet. i suggested that he should have his thyroid gland checked out do you have any suggestions? Answer:There is a lot that you can recommend or even do with your client, but some of it may be out of your scope of practice. Here are my recommendations in no particular order: The foundation of life is food, good quality food. Without it, the body will not function properly, heal properly and dysfunctions will arise. As Paul Chek says, “you are what you eat!” My first recommendation would be to either educate him about food quality or refer him out to a holistic nutritionist, CHEK NLC … Continue Reading

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Can’t you get “fat” from eating “fat?”

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Digestion Nutrition & Lifestyle

I get asked this question almost everyday, all day. Here is my thought process on this, as well as to show you that just because they are spelled the same, does not mean they are the same. If you research this you will learn that it takes fat to actually loose fat. The funny thing is, just because the food we eat (fat) is spelled the same way as getting “fat.” When you eat sugar, carbs, etc, you release insulin, etc from the pancreas to regulatre blood sugar and more. Insulin in excess, along with cortisol, is a fat storing hormone. When you eat fat, you don’t release any insulin from the pancreas. You just release bile from the LV/GB. So you give your pancreas a break. Hence it is impossible to get “fat” from eating quality “fats!”

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Thimerosal, Mercury, and Autism??

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Disease Nutrition & Lifestyle

Josh, What are your thoughts? Well we could sit here and chat for hours, but I will give you my take on this. It is short and sweet. If you want more info, do some research on www.mercola.com, purchase the video called Vaccines by Tenpenny or consult with a holistic ND, MD, DO or someone like myself for some more direct eduation. This was taken from Depression Free-Naturally by John Larson: The first vaccination on record was in the late 1930′s A handful of documented autistic children showed up in the early 1940′s After WWII, as the infant vaccination programs increased, so did the documented number of children with autism. The cases have risen from 11 in 1943 to over 250K in the US today

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Farmed Fish Fed Contaminated Meal Food

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Disease Hormones Nutrition & Lifestyle

Think again before you eat farm raised fish!  By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – Farmed fish have been fed meal spiked with the same chemical that has been linked to the pet food recall, but the contamination was probably too low to harm anyone who ate the fish, federal officials said Tuesday. The Canadian-made meal included what was purported to be wheat gluten, a protein source, imported from China. The material was actually wheat flour spiked by the chemical melamine and related, nitrogen-rich compounds to make it appear more protein rich than it was, officials said. After pigs and chickens, the farmed fish mark the third food animal given contaminated feed. The level of contamination is expected to be too low to pose any danger to human health, said Dr. David Acheson, the FDA’s assistant commissioner for food protection. It wasn’t immediately clear if any of the farmed … Continue Reading

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Amazing Video Detailing Conditions That May Cause Bird Flu

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Disease Nutrition & Lifestyle

This was taken from Dr. Mercola’s blog site, www.vitalvotes.com. The video, a culmination of a five-year investigation by PETA, details the inhumane and unhealthy conditions with which chickens are forced to live, from living, literally, on top of each other from the time they are hatched until they die to being debeaked merely to prevent them from harming or killing their cage mates, largely out of distress. This video is not meant to scare you, but the shock value is amazing! This is intended to educate you on the inhuman conditions that these animals are put through. As well, to show you (if you are eating conventional chicken) what you are eating……yucky! This should give you about 100 reasons why you would want to eat organic. Yes they still kill organic chickens, but I can tell you from research and visiting farms that the living conditions, how they are handled, … Continue Reading

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Wonders of Honey

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Chinese Medicine Digestion Disease Nutrition & Lifestyle Support Supplements

Copied from www.vitalvotes.com, author Dr. Mercola): The uses for honey — already proven to have a natural antimicrobial effect against many bacteria and fungi — may be growing by leaps and bounds, as one University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health professor and doctor learned first-hand in successfully treating a patient and borderline diabetic’s open wounds. The doctor prescribed honey, applied topically, after one very strong staph infection the patient had been fighting for eight months had continued to fester, despite the use of oral antibiotics. Within months, the wound healed completely, without drugs or antibiotics. Considering the incidence of amputations — a patient somewhere in the world undergoes one for a diabetic foot ulcer every 30 seconds — and the dollars associated with them — almost $11 BILLION based on 2001 numbers in the United States alone — the doctor and her school, with help from the … Continue Reading

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Powerfull Video of How Drugs Harm Children

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Disease Functional Medicine Hormones Mental/Emotional Nutrition & Lifestyle Support Supplements

This is a 1 hr and 45 min video on the use of psychotropic drugs on children with ADHD. I have watched it and can give you my views and amazement of what I watched. It is quite educational, but at the same time very perplexing. You begin to wonder about the meds that are given to these children and why. There is actually no research to show or labs to show if a child has ADHD. It is all subjective! Now that gives all the power to the institutes of mental health, Rx companies, etc and scares the living shit out of me! Watch and learn by clicking on the link below:  http://vitalvotes.com/blogs/public_blog/Powerful-Video-Showing-How-Drugs-Harm-Children-14587.aspx

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Mercury Exposure Video: Smoking Tooth

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Disease Nutrition & Lifestyle

The dramatic video titled Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas has had a tremendous impact on both the public and professional audiences.The full version plays 40 minutes with interviews of experts in the fields of mercury toxicology, environmental medicine, politics and dentistry. It is available from the IAOMT for $14.95 + $4 shipping. Send Kym an email at info@iaomt.org to order your personal DVD today. Watch an 8min video clip from the DVD. It is quite disterbing, but educational. Click on the link below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylnQ-T7oiA

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Hair Loss from exercise???

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Josh & Jeanne Rubin in Chinese Medicine Disease Exercise Functional Medicine Hormones Nutrition & Lifestyle

Josh, I got this from a client: “After visiting my doctor, I have to completely stop my workout with you. Unfortunately, the workout is accelerating my hair loss a lot. What the doctor told me was that weight training increases hormone level in the body. There is nothing wrong in this, except that people who have a tendency to lose hair, may lose it faster. I had been observing that too.” I can give you some direction from what I have learned through reading, course work and lab testing: 1. Low thyroid can cause hair loss 2. High cortisol and insulin levels can cause hair loss 3. Decreased testosterone levels can cause hair loss 4. Low levels of both estrogen and progest can cause hair loss 5. In TCM, the KD are correlated with head hair. The kidney are the fire of the body that help to produce the fluids … Continue Reading

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