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Saturday, June 19th, 2010

I went through a seven day process to train as a White Belt in NIA dance a couple of weeks ago. It was intense! We were moving for a large part of the day and learning some pretty esoteric stuff about music and movement as well.

It was also an intense self-learning time as we all saw our tendencies in movement come up time and again. We got our buttons pushed in ways that we protect ourselves from in our normal lives. Most humans move within a certain chosen restricted range and we spend a lot of time in our heads instead of our bodies. The more time we can spend actually feeling at home in our body the easier it will be to adjust to the ebb and flow of our lives. As my first transformational teacher said back in the ’70’s, “Our heads and minds are the last to KNOW anything”.

One thing that came up in the sharing was that three of us had been short-sighted as children and that had not been recognized by adults around us for a long time. We had all chosen to adapt in different ways to not being able to see clearly but it clearly isolated all three of us and caused us to become introverts. I also had a movement pattern of holding my chin up trying to see better which I have not lost to this day, after Rolfing, Feldenkrais training and a zillion other bodywork modalities.

After witnessing this pattern so clearly and having the cause pop up in the general sharing I am able to shift it more easily, in my dance and in my life.

We all have traumas and resistances of various kinds that affect our movement. Recognizing them and releasing them through the dance is a hugely healing part of NIA.

I find that now I am dancing for an hour a day, I am less inclined to enjoy long periods on the computer. I WANT to be in my body again. I think I lost that joy of movement after menopause and after giving up on relationship. Dancing in a group of mostly women is a safe place to explore being in my body more fully.

So this is about me, and about the rediscovery of the joy of being in my body, but it’s also about bones. My bones are so happy that I am moving vigorously every day! I am almost able to back bend to the floor again as I did as a child. When I first wanted to do that a voice in my head said, ” Be careful, what about your bones, what about fractured vertebrae.” Now I get it that my body knows what it can do and what it can’t and I just have to be quiet and listen as I move.

Not everyone has access to NIA dance in their community and hardly anyone has as wonderful a teacher as I have found in Kate, but there are videos available and there are other forms of dance like Zumba, the five rythyms and salsa that are becoming more common across the country. See what you can find.

In my whole life I have never enjoyed working out to the point of sweating, never! I really thought I couldn’t sweat. Now I lie in a soggy puddle on the floor at the end of every class and feel connected to Heaven and Earth through every happy cell in my body.

I feel so blessed that this has come into my life when I am still young enough to enjoy it, in fact, I feel twenty years younger than when I started in February.

So please, get your tushes out of your chairs and tear your eyes away from those addicting screens and join me in the dance of life.

Pam

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Bone Drugs Linked to Broken Femur

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

The New York Times had an article on March 24 about bisphosphonate drugs being linked to the snapping of the femur bone in relatively young women.

After 4 years of telling you about the dangers of these bone drugs I’m probably preaching to the choir and I dislike adding to the fear-mongering that is prevalent in health blogs BUT I guess it’s my job to keep you up with the latest news about this.

“The femur bone was snapping like a twig, sometimes splintering. Often there was no trauma, such as a serious fall, to bring it on. And some of the women were younger, in their 50s, with pre-osteoporosis but without the extremely fragile bones of people with the full-blown condition,” says the NYT.

The fractures are highly unusual because they are occurring in the long bone of the thigh, one of the strongest bones of the body, when ordinarily thighbone fractures occur near the hip socket. Further, because this area does not have a rich blood supply, the fractures are difficult to heal.

Bisphosphonate drugs are poison, they are being given out indescriminately to women who don’t need them and the risks are finally becoming obvious in the bodies of women. That last bit was from me, not the NYTimes. ;-) They were only tested for five years and many doctors will only prescribe them for that length of time. Since most hip fractures occur to women over 80, why are young women under 50 being put on these drugs? It doesn’t make sense. Diet, weight-bearing exercise, supplements and bio-identical hormones can all strengthen women’s bones in a way that benefits the whole body and is not poisonous to the system.

So much for the bad news. The good news is that I am totally loving the NIA dance workout that I started in February. It feels as if every cell in my body has benefitted. I am actually going to 6 classes this week, I’m getting totally addicted. It is dance with martial arts and Feldenkrais thrown in and I have an inspired teacher.

For a person who only did the rebounder in 10 minute segments because of my low boredom threshold, it is amazing to be dancing around for an hour without even noticing the time. At yoga I was always looking at the clock. Dancing NIA makes me happy and I feel more creative than I have in years also. I can honestly say I feel twenty years younger.

So find yourself a NIA class; you can do that at nianow.com and strengthen your bones the happy way.

Namaste
Pam

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Older Women and Low Thyroid

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

To recap my thyroid challenges for new readers; I was first told I was hypothyroid a few years ago and put on Armour Thyroid. It worked for a while but then my body developed resistance and I researched the reason and found that if your adrenals were low then treating the thyroid would not work. So I went on adrenal meds as well.

I felt better for a time then I got reverse T3 which is an odd thing the body produces from the T4 in Armour and which takes the place of real T3 in the cells so the Armour doesn’t work any more. Your thyroid actually runs on T3, that’s the active component, but most doctors don’t like to give you that, so they give most women Synthroid, a synthetic T4, which is supposed to be converted by your body into T3.  However as you get older your body has a hard time converting T4 to T3.

Anyway I was on T3 (Cytomel) and adrenal meds (Hydrocortisone) both in very small physiological doses, taking them 3 times a day to imitate my own hormone production and it was all working quite well. This was after a lot of research on my part and a lot of resistance on the part of my doctor. Way back there was an unfounded scare that T3 might cause heart problems and they’ve never gotten over it.

Then over a year ago I went on the raw fruit and greens diet and I suddenly didn’t need my meds any more. I was really happy about that and assumed that my body was now able to make anything I needed now I was giving it the right ingredients.

After about 9 months without meds my doc said I was getting low on thyroid again and now I’ve been told that I’m getting really low and I should go back on the T3.

Well, I did realize that it was happening because my energy had plateaued and then lowered but I was still so much more energetic than anyone around me that I was ignoring it. But suddenly, after being too skinny for the last 6 years, I gained 15 lbs in 3 months since Thanksgiving. I had gone off my diet significantly at this time and thought that was the reason but I really didn’t pig out that much. I’m actually happy to have the weight gain but I don’t want too much of a good thing, enough is enough.

Since I believe that my adrenals have really recovered I will not add those meds back at this time. I’ll see how I do on the T3. But here’s the point of this story - a woman called me this week who is 50 lbs overweight, has brain fog, is out of work, and has no energy. When I said that she sounded hypothyroid to me, she said “Oh, no, I’ve been on Synthroid for years.”

Well, hello! she may have been on it for years and it may have worked for her at some point in the beginning but obviously it is not working for her now.  But the TESTS may still indicate that she is low normal and many doctors measure your thyroid by your tests, not by looking at you or by asking how your life is going.

This woman is a walking example of clinically acceptable thyroid function that doesn’t serve her in real life. There is an epidemic of this now according to alternative physicians. It is another example of how making certain numbers ok and other numbers not ok without regard to the patient involved is just crazy making. Just look at all the body types and different genetic heritages you can see out on the street in the US and tell me that they will all need exactly the same amount of anything!

So, here is this woman spending a lot of time lying on the couch remembering when she was fit and healthy and wishing she could be that way again; but she can’t get to healthy from there. She knows there is something wrong, that life isn’t supposed to feel like this. Probably the next thing she’ll be given is a prescription for anti-depressants, that’s the standard of care for post-menopausal women.

If she did the research she could figure it out for herself but with brain fog that is difficult to do. She has put her doctor in the shoes of the authority figure in her life and she’s taking his word for her health. I wanted to tell her to kick him out of those shoes and step up herself to be her own authority on what was right for her. She knows she doesn’t feel good. Well, just read a list of low thyroid symptoms and she’s a fit for most of them. But I can’t tell her that, I’m not a medical professional.

So here I am writing in this blog at midnight because I can’t sleep thinking about all the women who are being short-changed in their lives because of test results that don’t mean diddly-squat. This is the only legitimate way I have of trying to clue women in. We’ve got to take charge of our own health, we’ve got to hang together and share information and tell our stories because they might help just one other person to get free and get healthy.

Ok, I hope I can sleep now.

Namaste, Pam

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Think of What You WANT, Not What You Don’t Want

Friday, February 19th, 2010

I think a key to living a life of joy is to notice our thoughts, especially as we get older. There are so many cultural group-thoughts that are fired at us all day long through the media, other people and our old unexamined beliefs.

In this culture aging is not respected at all and is seen as a downhill path from which there is no escape. Yes, we will get old and die, I’m not arguing with that. What I’m arguing with is the additional piece we’ve added. Now it’s get old, DETERIORATE, and die.

To me that part is unnecessary and can be easily avoided. The trick, according to the Law of Attraction, is to focus on what we DO want and not on what we DON’T want.

In the matter of bones it is entirely clear what the medical emphasis on measuring bones is about. It’s about selling drugs, that don’t help, through fear of the numbers. I can’t tell you how many women call me with their numbers, imagining a catastrophic ending as their bones erode out from under them.

So, it’s a little hard to convince them to turn their backs on the numbers, not to live in fear, and not to push against that negative future. But the real trick, as I said, is to look forward to what we DO WANT.

So how do you want your aging to look? What vision do you have for your future? To have an exciting present we have to have an exciting future to look forward to. When I was 55 and I got sick, I know it was partly because I couldn’t see a way to an exciting future. My second marriage was over and I wasn’t feeling engaged by my work and I couldn’t see anything ahead that was bright and alluring.

Now I have earned my way back to health and I am finally as healthy as I dreamed of being, I am inventing new dreams. Not of finally meeting my soulmate or becoming a millionaire, but of fulfilling my own potential in this lifetime. I have many skills and talents, as do we all, and I want to know when I die that I have used ALL of them to the MAX - and then learned MORE!

So, when I was thinking of what I DO WANT in specifics, I asked my Inner Wisdom to bring me something exciting to do, besides my business and my grandchildren. It brought me this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgfiwVaqNSs  I watched that and I was hooked! Just look at all those powerful older women! I knew immediately that I wanted to go out of this life dancing.

So I found a local group and I went for the third time last night and it was heaven, like coming home. In May I will go for White Belt training and then I will work up through the years ahead to Black Belt. All the women in the video were Black Belts.

So, this is my path, my exciting future. What will yours be? If you are stuck in boring relationships, boring jobs and boring lives then it is time to invent a better future. Start talking with your Inner Being, your connection to Source, and ask for some suggestions. She knows you best, she’s been with you forever and totally loves, accepts and adores you. Ask her for help and then just watch your thoughts during the day. Drop negative thoughts as if they were burning coals and think of your wonderful future instead. That’s the way you can, thought by thought, reinvent yourself.

If you are interested in learning more about the Law of Attraction you can find really good information here - http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/index.php Or buy the latest book, “The Vortex” by Jerry and Esther Hicks.

I’ll keep you posted on my journey to Black Belt because it has everything to do with strong bones and a joyful life.

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May 2010 Be Your Best Year Ever

Friday, January 1st, 2010

I’m taking stock of the year in general and health in particular and 2009 was a keeper, a very good year for me. After talking at length to a woman on the phone yesterday about bone loss and thyroid/hormone problems I really got the message about what a good place I am in right now. She has all the symptoms that I was dealing with before I got well and as she talked I remembered all the paths I tried back then. Now it is easy to forget that I was ever sick.

Also since I started investigating bone loss about 6 years ago there has been a huge turnaround in the way women think about their bones. Six years ago I was a renegade. Most women still believed that their doctors knew best and took whatever drugs were passed out. Now most women will at least do a google search before they take a new drug or get a diagnosis. They are finding out that there are alternatives to drugs and that drugs are often dangerous to our health.

It has also become common knowledge that statistics are used in a very misleading manner in order to provoke fear in women so they will accept drugs that have been tested improperly for insufficient periods of time.

Dr Susan Brown’s latest newsletter has a good article on misleading bone statistics. Here is a quote, “When it comes to hip fractures, the Surgeon General estimates that only 17% of women over 50 will fracture her hip in her lifetime — a far cry from 50%. Casting this in a more positive light, 83% of American women over 50 will NOT experience a hip fracture! In consideration of those who can see the light better from the shadows, the average age of hip fracture in the US is about 82, whereas the average life expectancy for a woman in the US is around 80 — I think we can all do the math! “

When they say 50% of women over 50 will get a fracture it is like saying that 95% of girls over 5 will get their period. Yes, but not until they are much older. What is great is that this kind of misleading, often-quoted statistic is finally being examined with scepticism, and the truth that drug companies are not really our friends is becoming obvious at last.

I just read something recently about people’s expectations that is interesting also. Most of us do not do anything new and exceptional because we so strongly believe in our own limitations. I know that is true for me! There are certain things I believe I can do and I do them well. There are others, like riding a bike, that I don’t believe I can do so I never try. So I’m thinking of stretching a bit this year, trying some new skills. I haven’t decided what yet.

I truly do believe that we have a lot of negative stereotypes about aging in our culture and we have to let them go and move beyond them into the infinite realm of possibility. If you are a youtube addict there are so many examples of stretching the human envelope there that just blow me away. The latest one is a young guy who taught himself to do incredible tricks with his bike. Within a year there will be dozens of kids all over the world doing the same tricks! It just takes one person to show us the possibilities.

Our human bodies are a miracle and we certainly haven’t reached the limits of their possibilities yet, not by a long shot. So this year I challenge you to look toward what you do want in your life instead of fearing what you don’t want. Whenever fear comes up, distract yourself back into hope. Leave your inner wisdom to figure out the details.

That’s been part of my success story this year. I have learned that struggle is not necessary, nor even helpful. I trusted my inner wisdom to work on my desires for me and bring them into my reality. If that sounds wahwah, I sympathize but it really did work for me.

Blessings on 2010 for anyone reading. I really do intend to have my best year ever this year and I’d love it if you do too.

Pam

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Supplements and pH balance

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

The company that makes the green food that I sell on my site started out with three products; the green food, pH test sticks and drops to put in your water. They have been adding products ever since and now I just got news that they were changing formulations, packaging and names once again to make room for even more products in their arsenal. They want to be the premier company in the growing field of managing your pH balance.

I know that companies in the health field are in business to make money but, the truth is, you affect your pH every time you put something in your mouth. Why take ten different capsules to affect that when your real food is acid-forming?

If you want to eat acid forming foods, or non-foods, all day, then make sure to take the baking soda and lemon juice drink every night before bed so that you will be alkaline while you sleep, the most important time for your bones. That is half or one teaspoon of baking soda, juice of half a lemon and half a glass of water, it will fizz up. That will cost you a few pennies.

When you read some of the supplement companies sites you might wonder how you lived so long without their products. When I was really sick I bought all of that stuff. Anything that promised to make me well, I bought. At one point I was taking handfuls of pills 4 times a day; for detox, for pH, for blood sugar balance, for longevity, etc.etc. Probably half of them worked as promised, the rest were a total waste of money. I was spending between $250-400 a month. Once a weight vest customer asked me to list my supplements and I was too embarassed to do it.

Now I only take B12 once a week, D3, occasional cod liver oil when I remember. I feel healthier than I have in years and I certainly seem to be getting all I need from the raw fruit and greens that I am eating.

I’m not trying to talk anyone into the rawfood diet. I’m just saying that we probably have to take the supplement companies promises with a grain of salt. They are in it for the money. When I talked to the rep about the new green food she urged me to sell ALL their products. Then you could spend $250- a month all in one place  ;-)

I realized that the difference between me and them is that I want to get women OFF the stuff - drugs and supplements- and realizing that they hold their health in their minds and in their nutrition. Of course I’m not going to get rich from that but I really don’t care! Abundance is all in the mind, just like health.

On a personal note; I just finished a new stained glass piece that I’m really pleased with. I’ll put it on the about me page of the site so you can admire it :-)

Enjoy the rest of the Summer,

Pam

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Update on Bio-Identical Hormones

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

It has been over a year since I gave an update on the bio-identical hormones that I’m taking. I actually looked into having a saliva test done for my adrenals so that I would have some concrete “scientific” results to share, but when I filled out the list of symptoms the only one I had was thin hair and I think I was born with that!

So I decided not to waste the money testing and the results I am telling you are based solely on my feelings and knowledge of my own body.

Since I started the rawfood diet in November 2008 I went off the cortisol for the adrenals and the T3 for the thyroid. My pulse rate dropped from over 100 to about 80. I am now eating some cooked food at dinner, a baked potato or some Ezekial bread with avocado on it, or steamed veggies. Just for the pleasure factor. I think it helps me to be happy with the fruit all day long.

So, the bio-identicals that I am still on are estrogen (2 kinds), progesterone and testosterone. They are all put into one cream that I apply to my arm at night. I tried getting them from many different places, some were over $100- a month, and finally found a great compounding pharmacy online that does the same thing for about $27- a month; lovely, helpful, professional people. http://www.womensinternational.com/

My testing on the last lot of thyroid tests from the doc say that I’m getting lower on thyroid and I do feel a little less energetic than I did when I first went off the drugs. BUT, plenty energetic for my lifestyle still. I’ve finished my house remodel and I’m back to my pretty ordinary life so I have no need of superwoman energy.

I also am thinking so much now about my beliefs and thoughts and feelings and the effect they have on my hormones. I spent a chunk of time with my grandkids this summer and that is always exciting for me so when it was over I was feeling a little bereft and bored. When I worked my way back to being happy I immediately had more energy again.

Now I know the hormone cream is working because I am growing muscle finally with the bodyweight exercises I told you about before. I’m working up to Michelle Obama muscles in my arms! Not quite there yet but I am getting visible muscle. I also woke up with sensual dreams several times in the last few months so the cream is working! I thought I’d give you that information in case you have a significant other in your life :-)

I am perfectly happy with the results of the cream so I won’t worry about increasing or decreasing it at this point. If I do have to take a bit of  T3  for my thyroid at some point then I will. My doc said we’d decide at the next test in 3 months. But you have to remember that lab tests are wrong a lot of the time although doctors believe them like the gospel. Only you know how you feel and that is more important than any test in town.

So, I hit 65 this year and at the moment I am thriving and I really appreciate that my body is working so well and feeling so good. I bought a wetsuit this summer so I could go in the waves and bodysurf with my grandkids. I was actually embarassed at first to put it on. But I got used to it and I loved it. And now I’m looking forward to a trip in the New Year to a place where there is a zip-line. That’s where you sit on this small seat and hang from a wire high in the canopy of a forest and zip along like a monkey. I’ve wanted to do that ever since I first heard about them years ago and now I’m going to.

I think it is important to have something new and exciting in your life to look forward to. It doesn’t have to be big, just a little stretch in any direction can get your creative  juices flowing again. 

 I wish that for all of you who read this,

Blessings, Pam

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Would You Like to Lose Some Weight?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

It seems as if half the women who call me to check sizing for a weight vest say they plan on losing weight soon. I always wonder how long they have been saying that. ;-) I do remember from before I was on special diabetes diets that there was always about ten or so pounds that I was intending to lose.

I heard recently about a man who was over 300 pounds and had tried everything under the sun to lose weight. His name is Jon Gabriel and he wrote ” The Gabriel Method”. He talks about the mind being the most important factor in losing weight, rather than anything you may or may not be eating. I sent for the book because I’m always fascinated by mind power stuff and I thought that maybe I could do the opposite of whatever he said and put on a few pounds.

Well, the book is a total delight. It includes a downloadable mp3 track that you listen to before sleeping every night that is really one of the best hypnotic inductions I have ever heard. You have to be a bit careful listening to other people’s affirmations usually, but he doesn’t say one thing I wouldn’t say myself.

So his premise is that our bodies feel safer being fat because of famine in our history. We have to convince them that it really would be safer for us to be lean and strong. I loved the mp3 because it is full of positive messages, so I changed it so that every time he said anything about losing weight my voice pops up with ‘gaining muscle’ instead. It is working like a charm. I have been doing the bodyweight exercises that I mentioned in a previous post but must know how hard it is to gain muscle after 60. So the fact that I can actually see muscle definition in my arms at this point feels like a miracle to me.

I’m on a personal odyssey of transformation right now. I was inspired by getting off the thyroid and adrenal meds. I figured if I can do that then my body has unlimited potential for positive change. So now I am intent on gaining muscle, improving my eyesight, thickening my skin and thickening my hair. I’ll keep you posted!

Getting back to Jon Gabriel, I had written an email to him when I got the book asking what he thought about my using it to gain weight and his secretary called and said that he’d like to answer that personally and he would call me. The man lives in Australia, for pete’s sake!. Not only that but he doesn’t make permanent residual income from selling miracle supplements that his readers can’t live without. He is just selling his book and hoping to help many people who are as desperate as he was before he figured this out.

I got the call last week and it confirmed what I thought when I first heard his voice on the mp3. This guy is a gem! He was concerned about my diet. Everyone is when they hear I eat almost all fruit so I expected that. But he was very helpful and caring and when I get my after picture of me with muscle I will certainly send in a testimonial.

So get the book. It’s full of really good information and very well-written. You don’t even have to change your diet in the beginning. Like the weight vest, as you start feeling better, you move around more, well, with this you start feeling better so you don’t want to keep eating junk. But you stop yourself naturally by preferring something better. This would be a great summertime read for you and could be life-changing. Find out more at his site - http://www.gabrielmethod.com.au/

Here’s to saying goodbye to that lingering few pounds that your body is hanging onto so it doesn’t starve to death in a downturn.

Namaste, Pam

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Fruits and Veggies Can Strengthen Bones

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Well, what a coincidence! Just as I am starting on a rawfood diet there was a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism saying that fruits and veggies can strengthen your bones.
The study, done by Tufts University, explored the connection between the acid diets that are common in the US and bone loss. Grains, meats and dairy, plus processed food in general, tend to make our systems more acid.
The study included 171 men and women aged 50 and older who were randomly assigned to receive a placebo or doses of either potassium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, or potassium chloride for three months. The people who took bicarbonate showed significant reductions in calcium excretion and bone resorption. I have been telling women for many years to take a drink of sodium bicarb with lemon juice at night before bed to cut down on bone loss and to add to the alkalinity of the body. You’ll find that info on my pH balance page.
So the study didn’t actually test any veggies or fruits because it is already well known that they will also add to the alkalinity of the body in a more natural way. Your body will create sodium bicarb out of them itself.
I heard about Dr Douglas Graham and his “80-10-10 Diet” several weeks ago when I read an interview he had done on a raw food site.I have been using more raw foods lately because I am unhappy with the long-term results I was getting with my low-carb diet.
There are two doctors who I have been listening to, via books, to keep the diabetes under control, Dr Rosedale and Dr Bernstein. They both say we don’t need any carbs at all and should take as little as possible so our blood sugar numbers stay stable. Well, when you cut down on carbs then the only thing you are adding is fat and protein.Long term, that is a nightmare for the body. The liver and kidneys can’t deal with all that fat, even the good fats. And too much protein is just as toxic to the system.
So I have been longing for fruit for the two years I have been trying to stick to this diet. As with all new diets, in the beginning you always feel better, and I did. But for the last 6 months I have been feeling increasingly toxic and sluggish. I found out that my blood was in a rouleau pattern typical of people who eat too much fat. The blood cannot do it’s job of oxygenating the body from that pattern so I was increasingly tired and weak.
So when I read what Dr Graham said about fruit and diabetes and fruit and candida, I was very intrigued. He says that fruit has gotten a bad rap, that it is fat that causes diabetes and candida. The fat eaten along with the fruit coats the sugar in your intestines and prevents the insulin you take or make from being able to react with the sugar and push it into the cells. So I was convinced enough to give it a good try.
This diet is considered radical even in raw food circles because he says that 80% of our diet should come from carbohydrates, 10% from protein and 10% from fat. Interestingly these numbers are supported by the World Health Organization. Since leafy greens and fruit actually have about that much protein and fat in them, it means you rarely have to eat anything else at all, a few nuts a week maybe. Most rawfooders eat huge quantities of nuts.
People who do not like fruit would have a hard time on this lifestyle because you can’t get enough calories from greens. I love fruit but you have to eat an awful lot of it. I am actually eating 5 times a day because I can’t eat too much at once. Some athletes are eating a dozen bananas at one sitting, or a half gallon of fresh orange juice. Dr Graham has coached Olympic level athletes and is an amazing athlete himself so he has a lot of credentials for superior performance on this lifestyle.
My immediate reaction to the diet - one month -has been profound.

  • I’ve got my energy back to where it was before I got sick so many years ago.
  • I’m sleeping less, wide awake at 5 and ready to go.
  • I’ve cut down on the thyroid and adrenal meds.
  • I am calmer, my mental chatter seems to have gone away.

One last interesting thing - I have never been athletic in my life. Work has always been my exercise. Now that my work takes place on a computer a lot of the time that is not good for my body. So I am actually starting to look forward to my rebounding and walking and even considered running or jogging!
Have a wonderful Holiday Season and don’t worry about 2009. Depression starts in the mind, don’t let it take root in yours.
Live in Abundance and Joy, Pam

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Candida and Ghost Links

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I had no idea how long it has been since I posted. Time really does fly by. There have been many things going on in my life, the most important being another flare-up of Candida. I think my original problem was Candida seven years ago when I moved into this mold-filled house. It led to thyroid, adrenal and pancreatic problems which almost wrecked my health completely.

Now I have the hormonal issues under control so I was pretty upset to get the Candida back again. It was probably from the delicious summer fruit we had this year. I got a little careless with my diet and now I'm paying the price.

In the meantime my business seemed to take a nosedive. I suddenly wasn't getting any orders or any phone calls. That finally penetrated my candida brain-fog. I checked my adwords program and my Google ads had gone up from 35 cents a click to one dollar a click. Well, this is a very specialized item that I am selling so the clicks really don't pay at that price. I experimented for two weeks and I paid $220- for clicks that sold one vest. Bad news!

I checked the natural search results also and found that Google had dropped my site from the listings. I was really mad and upset because I thought they were being greedy. But I felt powerless to do anything about it. My livelihood was basically at Google's whim.

Soon after that I serendipitously tried a new search engine optimization program and found out that I had 995 links leading away from my home page. Well, I knew there weren't any. I thought the program was false. Then I found out about 'Ghost Links'. No-one but the search robots can see them.

My site had been hacked and they were all links to filthy porn videos. So Google thought I was a bad person and eliminated me from their search. What a disaster!

I moved to a new hosting company and put up new pages and now I am finally back in search and my adwords are back down to 35 cents. So business is starting to come back. It's amazing how complex this online business stuff is, how much you need to know, how many new things come along to throw you out of whack. I am self-taught in all of this and have no-one in my life who knows just a bit more than me to help me out. Thank goodness someone up there is watching over me.

So, things are getting back to normal. I'm getting the Candida back under control, my mind is clear again and I have a lot of work to catch up on.Tomorrow I will write a post that I thought I had written weeks ago about the new fractures that the bone drugs are causing.

For those women who read my blog regularly, I'm sorry to have been gone so long. I actually got a few emails to see what was going on, thank you for that.

Take care,

Pam

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