Recently I interviewed Dr. Christopher Lepisto for one of my hour long teleseminars and he introduced the natural healing technique and concept of hydrotherapy. The doctor explained how this ancient water therapy helps to tonify the immune system and the nervous system.
Wow! That sounded amazing to me. The whole technique, as he explains it, is very doable. Most anyone who suffers with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or most any other chronic illness should be able to do hydrotherapy in some form or fashion.
(Hint: if you want to get in the bath tub, rather than the shower, and you need help getting in and out, ask for assistance. That’s a small price to pay for the opportunity to improve your immune system and nervous system!)
I think it is revealing that something like this has been around a long, long time and few of us knew about it. Modern science and medicine are surely wonderful, but they do not have an exclusive handle on everything that is good for you. Many of the ancient techniques and even the ole’ country doctor remedies still work quite well. When you get honest about it, here is something to help improve your immune system and nervous system that requires no pills, no shots, no surgeries and not even a supplement. That is amazing… .
Unfortunately, the food you’re eating today and next week is at the heart of the following movie. Althought this video only reflects one (albeit large) aspect of the food problem, the topic remains a broad and ongoing mess! You are left to figure it out.
As you consiously choose to eat healthy this week, contemplate what one single change can you make to improve the functioning of your body. What food that you’re eating actually will help you? Improve your life and health? Which ones may potentially harm you? Which ones remain questionable?
Today for the Health Matters Show, I am offering you information from of my most popular topics ever, The Benefit of Eating Live Food If You Have Allergies, Fibromyalgia Or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. In many ways I am a novice, but I’m eager and willing to learn the right information to help me progress toward the end goal of being as healthy as I can be.
The Benefit of Eating “Live” Food If You Have Allergies, Fibromyalgia Or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
This week we’re essentially talking about foods, nutrition and how you can make the food you eat work for you, not against you. (Plus I have a very special offer for new interview guests. Read on.)
Drop by the Health Matters Show on Friday. We’re discussing the topic, Eat Live Foods. That title may cause you to scratch your head at first, but I promise to explain what I mean.
I can only hope that you are carefully considering the food, drinks and water that you put into your mouth everyday. And whether you’re listening to me, a nutritionist like Julie Koritz, a naturopath like Dr. Christopher Lepisto or Dr. Deirdre Rawlings or any respected authority, there are people in the world who are willing and capable of helping you with your health… especially if that means how to get well from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome!
WANTED: INTERVIEW GUESTS
Because of this emphasis of your health through food products and really anything that might help you be healthier, I am opening up the Health Matters Show to new INTERVIEW GUESTS who want to talk about nutrition and proven supplements for helping the symptoms of fatigue, pain and dysfunction of the immune system.
Also authors with a website and a “publicly” published book are welcomed. Your book should be available at least as an ebook download or at Amazon.com. I find that authors in this field often have some very helpful, personal stories to tell.
To contact me, send an email to cinda (at) getwellhealth.com. Put “Interview Guests” in the subject line. Give me a short synopsis of what information and/or product you have to offer and a very brief history (or bio) of “you” in the industry. Essentially, tell me why and what you can bring to my audience. Your product or service must be real; no bogus sales pitches please. Lastly, advise how to contact you.
Being sick with a tough chronic illness like Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome “should not” mean that you’re eating food that’s really junk.
(Today, the common vernacular for that is eating junk food.)
However, I know that when I was so horribly sick and a virtual, bed-bound invalid, I did exactly that. So, I’m wondering today, why would I do that? Well, to answer that question is the reason for this post today.
As humans, we can be tempted to make excuses about the food we eat and feel sorry for ourselves. We feel so badly that the only thing we can muster is the will to stay alive one more day… hoping that tomorrow will be better.
This look at me reveals a glaringly ugly spotlight on a tough, chronic health problem. So let’s talk about 3 stark “reality” reasons why I was eating junk food and maybe why you’re doing it, too: [click to continue…]
I often find myself sitting at the feet of two learned men, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Bruce Lipton, when it comes to the subject of healing and how the body does heal. I probably will never know everything these great men know. But then… they will never know what I know or what you know. Whether schooled or not, we all have a self-knowledge of healing.
I believe that not only did Dr. Bruce Lipton and Dr. Wayne Dyer learn how the body and brain function through such a mechanism as the biochemical serotonin, but they discovered why your body ultimately does not need pills like Prozac to heal itself and function more normally.
They discovered the basic language of how the body loves and thrives and, ultimately, how it is possible for healing to take the place of illness in life. Two key ingredients are intention and attention, but there’s more.
These are important lessons and purposeful mechanisms for people whose health tends to lean more toward sickness than wellness. If that unfortunately describes you, I urge you to be more intentional. Pay better attention in your life and how you can heal. And, finally, I have a couple of soul-searching questions that might make a big difference… [click to continue…]
Today in looking at the basics of Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue (CFS) and more ailments, I’m offering you an audio clip of a portion of the information that Dr. Christopher Lepisto, ND, shared with us recently on one of my teleseminars. The complete body of knowledge that we discussed really was amazing!
Dr. Lepisto approaches brand new Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue patients by starting with what he calls, the basics, thus our title today. He believes (paraphrased) that people get so sick not because of one singular event, but due to a whole host of (I’ll call them) mini-events, knowing full well that some of them are huge. Some of them can even be perceived as toxic!
One of the toughest and most important battles fought by individuals suffering with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia can be trying to obtain Social Security Disability Insurance and SSI (Supplemental Security Income) benefits. The issue of whether someone does or does not qualify under the disability critera was resolved a long time ago with the adoption of
With the wording of this binding regulation, the Social Security Administration sets out guidelines for adjudicators and judges to ascertain claims based upon accepted criteria for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia cases. This regulation removed at least one of the barriers faced by those individuals making claims of disability.
The Social Security Act allows for SSDI or SSI benefits to be paid to persons unable to work by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment (or combination of impairments)….” (emphasis added) The Act and Regulations define the phrase “medically determinable” as a condition that can be established by medical evidence consisting of signs, symptoms and laboratory findings. It cannot be based only on the Claimant’s description of symptoms.
Suggested by a report, claims based upon CFS (and Fibromyalgia, too, for all practical purposes- my words) are tougher to establish because of a lack of medical signs, symptoms and laboratory findings. Therefore many claims are denied on the failure to prove the existence of a medically determinable impairment.
The “free” teleseminar with Dr. Christopher Lepisto is at 2 pm EST today. Sign up now so that you’ll be sure to get the last and final notice with all the details. The last notice will arrive in your personal email box at 1:30 pm EST.
I hope you make it. Register for the “live” teleseminar. OR… catch the replay line after the event is over. Just be sure that you register for the actual event!
THIS REQUIRES YOUR TWO STEP ACTION: First, get on my teleseminar list. Second, register for the actual teleseminar.)
Thanks so much,
Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show
PS: I plan to do more teleseminars more often now that I have the “free” webcast setup in place for you. That means that you have the ability, if you like, to listen to the audio at no cost to you via your computer speakers. Plus, you can access an event from anywhere in the world that you have a computer hookup. (*Note: this webcast service is free for you, but certainly not for me. I would really love it if you could attend and support me in all that I’m doing. I know in my heart that this set up will make a lot of difference to people who cannot afford to attend a teleseminar any other way.)
If you will do me the honor of signing up on my teleseminar list, I promise that you’ll receive notices automatically in your email box about each event. And I also promise to never share your private email address with anyone. Ever. Thanks so much!
To understand the beginnings of CFS and ME/CFS, we have to go back and look at when the term CFS (for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) first came into being in the late 1980’s. It was an insufficient name for a complicated illness even back then. For years people around the world have tried to come up with something better.
In 2007, The CFS Name Change Advisory Board was formed to do just that. See the members of this committee seated around the table in the picture above. They remain as some of the most prominent physician/ researchers in the world on the topic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: (left to right): Drs. Anthony Komaroff, David Bell, Nancy Klimas, Leonard Jason, Charles Lapp, Lucinda Bateman, Paul Cheney and Daniel Peterson. (Pictured separately below.)
From an article in ProHealth, “The CFS Name Change Advisory Board (NCAB) has amended its initial proposal and now recommends that the name for ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’ be changed to the acronym ME/CFS.”
The board realized that the use of ‘CFS’ logically would continue for awhile and it has. Sticking with the term CFS (particularly in the US) prevents harming patients involved in disability and medical insurance issues, and it provides a continuity of sorts in the research arena. However…
The Board encourages the change because the trivializing nature of the name ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’ negatively affects diagnosis, patient care, and research funding.
Okay… to be honest, I wrote this post awhile back. I never published it. I was looking at it today and thought, why not? The name change issue is still viable. The illnesses are viable. And to my knowledge, not a single thing involving this issue has been resolved. That is tragic.
If my interpretation of this issue is no longer true (and that’s possible), please let me know. I’ll gladly add to this information and re-post it. The worldwide population of people suffering with CFS and ME/CFS needs to get things resolved. Eventually… surely… we will be.
These are two very important illnesses.
Changing the name(s) to further the process
of understanding and achieve better results
ought not to be so difficult.
Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Bruce Lipton are surely bringing you great information today by way of this video. They are both smart men and have studied, written about, spoken about and demonstrated their beliefs that what you think and believe in is critical. Your thoughts have incredible power in your life. So as your beliefs impact your health, be sure not to let your (negative) beliefs add to your misery. Why do I say that? Because what you believe is absolutely critical! If you believe disease is part of your reality, it is. If you believe in health and healing, that is true as well!
Dear One, when you have your still, quiet moments with God today, I hope that you feel that you live in a “safe” universe. Don’t let fear rule your life and your health. God guides each of us through the valleys that we walk. He will not forsake us. He promised. Know that no matter what has happened until now, regaining a measure of your health is still possible. You can manifest healing. Learn How to Heal Yourself.
If I’ve made you curious, ask me how I know this.
PS- You may remember that there are books in my suggested reading list and in the Amazon store here by Wayne Dyer and Bruce Lipton. They are classics in understanding why and how it’s possible, as an energy and spiritual being created by God, that you can have a more conscious, happier and healthier life. Remember, how you choose to live your life is your choice.
Many blessings of this good Sunday,
Cinda Crawford
As I began to work on the interview with Dr. Christopher Lepisto and our talk on Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue (CFS) and more for today, I was struck by how much information I suspect that you and I already know and have available to us. So I ask you… instead of blindly waiting for the newest medical announcement about a virus, bacteria or protozoan culprit, why don’t we begin to use the knowledge that we have?
Chances are that the philosophy of people like Dr. Christopher Lepisto is very on target and can help a lot of people (like you?) who are suffering. His Colorado medical practice certainly is bustling with patients seeking his expertise.
Let me explain a bit further why I’m encouraging you to consider taking this “natural” route. Plus, you’ll want to hear our conversation as I interviewed him for the Health Matters Show podcast today -and- learn the details about our live teleseminar coming up this Wednesday!
Be sure to be here at the Health Matters Show tomorrow, Friday, July 9, 2010, to hear Dr. Christopher Lepisto for the podcast. He is a naturopathic doctor who works with a lot of Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue patients in Colorado. He is very knowledgeable about the illnesses and is willing to share what he knows.
Also, I am hosting a special “live” teleseminar with him as my guest on Wednesday, July 14th at 2 pm EST and you are invited. The event is free! [click to continue…]
Brain fog is both a common symptom of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and a recognizable term to people who suffer with it. In medical parlance, it’s called cognitive dysfunction. As a nuisance condition, brain fog can be found among ‘well’ people, too, but it may be more temporary and not a regular symptom.
It certainly shows up readily among people who have certain chronic illnesses or among those who come down with sudden illnesses, like herpes virus infections (e.g. HHV-6, Human Herpes Virus-6 is a horrible virus that affects most every area of the body, including brain functions and cognition).
Over time, I’ve written quite a few posts about brain fog. If you want to know more, go to the website search engine box and put in the term “brain fog”. Right now it’s located in the middle column and titled, Search This Blog.
A couple of weeks ago I announced that Dr. C. Norman Shealy would be on the Friday Health Matters Show podcast on a certain day. It didn’t happen because I was looking at the wrong week on the calendar when I wrote it down! Dratted brain fog is surely the culprit here.
I finally did do the interview and it was fantastic! Be sure that you don’t miss it, if you did not catch it the first time. Brain fog, anyone?
So that’s making me wonder today if cognitive dysfunction ever bothers you? How it affects your life? How badly? How long have you noticed it? Does it every ease up and get some better? [click to continue…]
What we all want is a decent shot, whether it’s at life in general or specifically with something as important as our health. If you’re sick and hurting with Fibromyalgia or CFS, I am pretty sure that you can feel the truth of that statement all the way to your toe nails. I encourage you to watch the video below this Sunday morning. Then take your shot at health by creating a new and better life for yourself.
How do you do that?
By signing up for the Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course. The information and resources included in this course will give you the edge that you’ve wanted and needed. It’s an effective way to take charge of your own health today, like the young man in this video did in his life. Learn how to heal yourself. How powerful! How very possible. If you sign up, I promise to see you at the foul line shooting the winning “hoop.”
Both Fibromyalgia and CFS are darned tough illnesses. If you’re sick, you deserve to feel better. You deserve to get well. This is the way.
Here’s wishing you a fantastic level of renewed health!
Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show and creator of Sacred Cellular Healing and the Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course
(See below- a video of a brave young man who took charge of his life!) [click to continue…]
No matter how badly you feel with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or some other illness, you have an excellent chance of healing and feeling better with this new healing technology called SACRED CELLULAR HEALING. Begin learning how to do it today!
Recently I interviewed Dr. Christopher Lepisto for one of my hour long teleseminars and he introduced the natural healing technique and concept of hydrotherapy. The doctor explained how this ancient water therapy helps to tonify the immune system and the nervous system.
