My team met with a prominent Orthopedic Surgeon yesterday. "Orthopods" are great, most have a very strong demeanor and emphatic about the doctrines they follow. I too would want someone like that on my side if I was contemplating a life changing alteration of body structure. The good ones will know "their business"down to the "micronutia" of bad outcome, good outcome, randomized controlled trials, failed collegue trials.... Aaahhh! but this comes at a sacrifice. Easily explained in yogic terms, this personality type is referred to as a "pitta" dosha. Hot, light, intense, penetrating, pungent, sharp, acidic.....fiery in nature. http://www.chopra.com/pitta Being a balanced "pitta", is not bad...in fact-many successful people in business and politics fall into this dosha-Donald Trump, Lance Armstrong, Bill Clinton, Denzel Washington. The problem with being in any dosha is when the human gets "out of balance". Then we have the presentation of what we know of in western terms as symptoms of disease. 5000 years ago there were no blood test, mri's, Hamilton Depression Rating scales.....Freud was probably a cat to be reincarnated a few times! So healers relied on community, exercise, meditation herbs and food. Going back to my "orthopod", he is very pitta and I embrace it. Those that are not used to this fiery personality, would immediately conceive-"this guy is too pushy with his doctrines". In a battle, people flock behind this personality; in peaceful times-people move away and seek shelter (especially when the pitta's are out of balance). So, I came loaded for battle-(I too am a pitta!) But with my Chopra Center Yoga Instructor training, I balanced myself out with daily meditation and yogic living...in addition to some acupuncture from Dr Zhu. I let him speak.....at times, I let him erupt while trying to interject some "zingers" back to him so as to keep him on track to why he was meeting us. I feel that in dealing with a high functioning pitta, one has to allow the raging river to erupt at first but then, a precise controlled force will be required to direct how the flow continues. In the end, I saw the innocence and beauty of this man with his genuine desire to help others. I mean, where do you find a "pod" that doesn't want to use prescription medicines to control inflammation!!! He actually believes in allowing inflammation, swelling and heat to go its course stating that "from evolution, the human body was meant to use inflammation to allow the body to heal-signals of pain and swelling tell the injured person to "take it easy" and stop using the extremity especially if surgery is contemplated so fibrous collagen pulls torn muscle fiber together and defects close up. However.......(deep breath in)......for those suffering from "non surgical" injuries where inflammation can be a lifetime, or those that are on "pro-inflammatory diets, or those that deal with stressful events by getting more stressfully "oxidated".....inflammation if allowed to continue will stimulate a casade of poor metabolism that leads us like a dog with a leash to the end product of heart disease, obesity, depression or cancer. (People that attend my Whole Foods Market lectures know I always make reference to get on an "anti-inflammatory diet" for any disease process.) This path of detruction, dna mutation, bad gene expression can blossom and perpetuate even if the initial bad joint is taken care of. This is where my "pod" lacks foresight. A bold statement that inflammation should be allowed is wrong. Every human has to be evaluated in a "whole system" approach. Western medicine is powerful but we tend to get too involved with specific studies and outcomes and details that take us into microscopic views of symptoms, forgetting there is a living breathing complex human with a body-mind-spirit connected to those symptoms. Anyone who chooses to ignore the "whole system" approach to decision making will not have the best interest of the individual in mind. It would be like giving you only 2 choices to contemplate versus empowering you with information to make a decision on your own.
BTW-I usually start with Tumeric/piperine (1500mg daily divided), high vitamin D3 (2000-5000IU daily divided with fatty meal), glucosamine sulfate( 1500 mg daily divided if not shellfish allergic), valerian (30-40 mg 3 times a day), magnesium glycinate (400 twice a day if no diarrhea), helicrysum (hourly to affected area), acupuncture (3times a week) and healing visualization maybe arnica montana (low strength 30c) . My prescription pad is always ready to go if everything else fails in addition to physical therapy/hands on healing.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Ice
My team met with a prominent Orthopedic Surgeon yesterday. "Orthopods" are great, most have a very strong demeanor and emphatic about the doctrines they follow. I too would want someone like that on my side if I was contemplating a life changing alteration of body structure. The good ones will know "their business"down to the "micronutia" of bad outcome, good outcome, randomized controlled trials, failed collegue trials.... Aaahhh! but this comes at a sacrifice. Easily explained in yogic terms, this personality type is referred to as a "pitta" dosha. Hot, light, intense, penetrating, pungent, sharp, acidic.....fiery in nature. http://www.chopra.com/pitta Being a balanced "pitta", is not bad...in fact-many successful people in business and politics fall into this dosha-Donald Trump, Lance Armstrong, Bill Clinton, Denzel Washington. The problem with being in any dosha is when the human gets "out of balance". Then we have the presentation of what we know of in western terms as symptoms of disease. 5000 years ago there were no blood test, mri's, Hamilton Depression Rating scales.....Freud was probably a cat to be reincarnated a few times! So healers relied on community, exercise, meditation herbs and food. Going back to my "orthopod", he is very pitta and I embrace it. Those that are not used to this fiery personality, would immediately conceive-"this guy is too pushy with his doctrines". In a battle, people flock behind this personality; in peaceful times-people move away and seek shelter (especially when the pitta's are out of balance). So, I came loaded for battle-(I too am a pitta!) But with my Chopra Center Yoga Instructor training, I balanced myself out with daily meditation and yogic living...in addition to some acupuncture from Dr Zhu. I let him speak.....at times, I let him erupt while trying to interject some "zingers" back to him so as to keep him on track to why he was meeting us. I feel that in dealing with a high functioning pitta, one has to allow the raging river to erupt at first but then, a precise controlled force will be required to direct how the flow continues. In the end, I saw the innocence and beauty of this man with his genuine desire to help others. I mean, where do you find a "pod" that doesn't want to use prescription medicines to control inflammation!!! He actually believes in allowing inflammation, swelling and heat to go its course stating that "from evolution, the human body was meant to use inflammation to allow the body to heal-signals of pain and swelling tell the injured person to "take it easy" and stop using the extremity especially if surgery is contemplated so fibrous collagen pulls torn muscle fiber together and defects close up. However.......(deep breath in)......for those suffering from "non surgical" injuries where inflammation can be a lifetime, or those that are on "pro-inflammatory diets, or those that deal with stressful events by getting more stressfully "oxidated".....inflammation if allowed to continue will stimulate a casade of poor metabolism that leads us like a dog with a leash to the end product of heart disease, obesity, depression or cancer. (People that attend my Whole Foods Market lectures know I always make reference to get on an "anti-inflammatory diet" for any disease process.) This path of detruction, dna mutation, bad gene expression can blossom and perpetuate even if the initial bad joint is taken care of. This is where my "pod" lacks foresight. A bold statement that inflammation should be allowed is wrong. Every human has to be evaluated in a "whole system" approach. Western medicine is powerful but we tend to get too involved with specific studies and outcomes and details that take us into microscopic views of symptoms, forgetting there is a living breathing complex human with a body-mind-spirit connected to those symptoms. Anyone who chooses to ignore the "whole system" approach to decision making will not have the best interest of the individual in mind. It would be like giving you only 2 choices to contemplate versus empowering you with information to make a decision on your own.
BTW-I usually start with Tumeric/piperine (1500mg daily divided), high vitamin D3 (2000-5000IU daily divided with fatty meal), glucosamine sulfate( 1500 mg daily divided if not shellfish allergic), valerian (30-40 mg 3 times a day), magnesium glycinate (400 twice a day if no diarrhea), helicrysum (hourly to affected area), acupuncture (3times a week) and healing visualization maybe arnica montana (low strength 30c) . My prescription pad is always ready to go if everything else fails in addition to physical therapy/hands on healing.
