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Addressing Joint Health Naturally: Poorly Formed Hip Joint

Addressing Joints Health Naturally: Poorly formed hip joint

Nutrition plays a strong role in helping with the natural treatment of hip dysplasia. It is a degenerative condition brought about by generations of poor feeding practices.

Prevention and treatment:

Feeding your dog raw foods (organic whenever possible) is crucial. Be sure to include plenty of bones. I feed my dog who “once had” inflammatory joint problems the following:

50% raw vegetables (minced through a juicer) (broccoli, zucchini…etc.)
30% bony meat (chicken necks and backs)
20% raw meat

Some days I give my dog chicken necks and backs. Other days I mix raw meat (ground) with broccoli and other raw vegetables (put the a vegetable juicer) and add whole food supplements to this mix.

Recommended Supplements:

Super Blue Green™ Algae:

1 tablespoon of wild-crafted blue green algae powder from Upper Klamath Lake (for minerals and vitamins).

Probiotics:

1 capsule a day of full-spectrum friendly bacteria micro-blended with blue green algae.

One of the best friendly bacteria products in the market today is a wide-spectrum friendly bacteria supplement micro-blended with fructo-oligosaccharides. Following are its ingredients: Lactobacillus acidophilus DDS-1, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus salivarius, Streptococcus faecium, Streptococcus thermophilus, Acerola and Rose Hips blend, wild blue green algae, Jerusalem Artichoke, Lipase, Amylase, Protease, and Cellulase.

Plant based enzymes:

Systemic enzyme therapy is used to stimulate the immune system. Enzymes improve circulation, help speed tissue repair, bring nutrients to the damaged area, and remove waste products. Give your dog enzymes a few times a day on an empty stomach.

One of the best enzyme products in the market today is a wide-spectrum blend of 12 active enzymes with digestion-enhancing ingredients such as blue green algae (high mineral food), fennel, ginger and cayenne pepper.

Wheat Sprouts:

Wheat sprouts as a whole food supplement provides one of the most potent antioxidant enzymes to fight inflammation; superoxide dismutase (SOD). Since SOD requires copper and zinc as cofacters to initiate maximum effectiveness, a whole food supplement that combines other foods high in minerals would be the best type of supplement. We recommend a whole food antioxidant made of organic wheat sprouts, blue green algae and red beta algae (dunaliella salina).

Grape Synergy:

This product combines the antioxidant benefits of the grape seed and grape skin extracts with Super Blue Green Algae and 100% of the recommended daily intake of vitamins C and E.

Joints’ problems maybe related to poor liver function. The liver affects tendons and ligaments and if the liver is weak, the tendons and ligaments that would hold the joint tight are too weak to do so. Antioxidants such as the ones listed above may help strengthen the liver and in so doing the tendons and ligaments as well.

My dog has not had any problems with her joints for several years now since I switched her to this diet and give her these supplements. She is now 14 years old and acts like a puppy.

Mohd. Anwar Rizwi

Natural Assistance for the Repair of  Soft Tissue Injury

Over the years, I’ve recommended the use of “systemic enzyme therapy” in many inflammatory and degenerative conditions, although I have only read about the benefits of this therapy. After recently experiencing a serious injury to my back and using the “systemic enzyme therapy” approach myself, I am all the more impressed with the amazing benefits of enzymes. In only ten days, I went from being an invalid to 95% normal again. I‘ll share what I did to speed the healing process of a serious soft tissue injury so you’ll have that information in your nutritional support files.

Here’s how the unfortunate injury occurred:

Friday is “garbage day” in our neighborhood, so I got up real early and went to the office to take out the trash. It was rainy and windy with leaves flying everywhere. Some of those leaves landed on the lower steps of our back porch at the office, so now we had wet steps with slippery leaves on them. I had both hands occupied, carrying two trash baskets, so I was unable to hold on to the stair railing. I stepped on the last stair and my foot landed in the middle of a number of wet leaves and suddenly my feet and legs went forward, up in the air and I landed on my back, at the waist, on the edge of one of the stairs. My back was ‘wacked’ so severely that I almost passed out from the searing pain. I got up slowly, took a breath and almost screamed in response to the pain of simply breathing. I knew something was seriously wrong, I slowly got myself back into the office and the phone rang. It was Rich, my husband calling. I told him I fell and to please come assist me back home.

My face was pale and sweaty and the pain was severe. Breathing was burning and I was fearful since I had to walk back to the house and experience excruciating pain with every step. With Rich’s help, I got back to the house and was gently guided on to a comfortable chair.

Rich wanted to take me to the emergency ward at a nearby hospital to see what kind of damage occurred to my back. The thought of having to lie down on a cold surface to get an X-ray taken was so unappealing to think of, that I decided not to go. At that point, I wasn’t sure if I’d injured my spine, broke a rib, or had a soft tissue injury (torn or bruised muscle or tendon). I just sat quietly on soft pillows and decided I’d wait until later to see if the pain would subside so I could sleep without going out-of-my- mind from pain. I was able to sleep OK that night and decided not to go to the hospital and I was very thankful that we had a recliner to sleep on.

Here’s what I did as an immediate therapeutic approach to reduce the inflammation and pain:

• Systemic Enzyme Therapy: I referred to Dr. Anthony Cichoke’s writings (1998) as he is a well known expert in “systemic enzyme therapies”. I’ve read many of his enzyme books and he recommends taking plant- and fruit-based enzymes on an empty stomach between meals. He says that enzyme therapy stimulates the immune system and improves circulation by bringing nutrients to the damaged (injured) area and removing waste products. Doctors prescribe ice or heat, rest, and any number of anti-inflammatory drugs and pain relievers to treat strains, sprains, and other injuries. But because enzymes stimulate the body’s own natural enzymatic processes without causing the immune system to be suppressed, they increase the rate of fibrin break-up and increase blood flow. Therefore, improve the supply of nutrients and oxygen to the tissues and healing can take place much faster (pp.384-385).

I immediately began taking ten enzymes every other hour. In enzyme therapy, you need several types of enzymes to be most effective. Dr. Cickoke, feels enzyme combinations are more therapeutically effective than individual enzymes in accomplishing their designed goal. This may be because of their synergistic activity. The enzymes I took have the following enzymes: amylase, lipase, glucoamylase, lactase, protease, invertase, pectinase, cellulase, papain, and bromelain. In addition, this product is micro-blended with nutrient rich foods such as blue green algae, fennel, ginger, and cayenne pepper. Throughout each day, I took ten capsules each hour. I did this for three days. After that I reduced the amounts of enzymes to about ten a day. These enzymes needed to be taken on an empty stomach to be most effective.

• Turmeric Therapy: Since ancient times, turmeric (a spice) has been used as an agent to strengthen the stomach, invigorate vital body organs, and purify the blood (by stimulating the action of the liver and kidneys). However, only recently has modern medicine recognized the incredible healing properties of turmeric in regards to injuries. Turmeric possesses anti-inflammatory properties (Pizzarno, 1998, p. 60).

I’m very familiar with what turmeric can do to heal injuries. My mother taught me a lot about the healing properties of turmeric. I remember a number of times as a child, I experienced some severe bruises and sprains. My mother always knew what to do to ease my pain. She prepared a yellow colored poultice made from turmeric, sesame oil and sea salt and applied it externally to where I hurt and within an hour or two, I would be able to function normally again.

Turmeric is a very common treatment used by Ayurvedic doctors to treat injuries. Turmeric works beautifully by reducing the swelling of inflamed joint(s) and diminishing pain.

Because this injury was to my back I didn’t think I could apply anything externally, since the pain was too severe to lie down. Therefore, I decided to take powdered turmeric internally every other hour. I took a level teaspoon of turmeric ten times in the first day of my back injury. After three days, I reduced the amounts to 2 to 3 teaspoons daily, with the last one at bed time.

Other strategies that help:

• Drinking a lot of water helps in reducing any kind of inflammation. With the systemic enzyme therapy and the intake of turmeric, drinking a lot of water throughout the day is essential.

• Applying ice. I didn’t apply any ice externally because of the pain of the injury and because of the inconvenience of trying to apply ice to my back. It would help however, if ice is applied on any soft tissue injury because it reduces hematomas and restores local circulation.

• Eat simple meals. I made sure to eat simple meals because I wanted all my body’s energy to go towards healing the injured area. I didn’t overburden my body with fried, greasy or very much cooked food. I had fresh fruit juice in the morning and one large raw salad for lunch and dinner with all kinds of mixed vegetables. I had three boiled organic eggs daily to add protein to my diet. Protein is needed for repairing torn muscles or tendons. Eggs provide great protein for such emergencies (boiled is the best way to prepare eggs for this purpose).

Exactly ten days from the time of my back injury I was 95% self-sufficient (I could do a lot of chores on my own). I still was very careful about certain twisting movements because the pain was still there with some minor inflammation. However, it wasn’t much longer and I was totally healed.

I am greatly appreciative of one of the greatest natural gifts of life, the body’s ability to heal itself. The massive amounts of enzyme supplements that I took with turmeric offered support to the normal innate ability of my body to self heal.

To stock up on turmeric and enzymes is a good approach for nutrition and to prepare for those unexpected falls and injuries. Make sure you keep turmeric and enzymes in your home at all time.

References:

Cichoke, Anthony. (1998). Enzyme Therapy. Garden City Park, N.Y: Avery Publishing Group.
Pizzorno, Lara. March 1998. Nature’s Arsenal Against AIDS. Delicious,, pp. 58-61.

Disarm Headaches And Migraines, Naturally!

Henry Bieler, M.D., in my opinion, presented the best logical explanation to migraines and headaches in his book, Food Is Your Best Medicine. I say the best, because I applied many of his recommendations with my mother who suffered from migraines for years and her migraines did go away. Dr. Bieler believes that the best way to prevent migraines is to reduce exposure to toxic substances and improve your body’s ability to detoxify substances in your intestinal tract and liver.

Here’s how Dr. Bieler explains a migraine headache:

“Food eaten today is about as far removed from the natural diet of man as man is from his primitive jungles. Man, however, still has approximately the same digestive apparatus and liver as his remote ancestors. If he lives on natural food, his liver remains efficient; if he fills his stomach with breads, hot dogs, chili, doughnuts washed down with coffee, his outraged liver cannot do its work. Whether his liver breaks down early or late depends upon how good an organ it was at birth. But break down it will, and when it fails to filter and neutralize toxins from the blood, an extra line of defense must come into play. This defense is carried on by the endocrine glands, which try to direct these toxins into other eliminative organs. The principal endocrine glands called upon for this effort are the pituitary which lies at the base of the brain, the thyroid, situated in the neck, and the adrenals, which fit like a cap over each kidney.

Glands of internal secretion then are pressed into hyperfunction, forced to manufacture more of their secretion. However, since the amount of gland’s secretion is in exact ratio to the volume of blood entering it, the gland is enlarged by this extra blood supply, which often can have disastrous physical consequences.

The pituitary gland, for example, does not have much room in which to swell, encased as it is in a bony cup at the base of the skull….very little swelling can take place without creating a pressure on a gland within its box. This pressure can cause alarming symptoms. Four different diseased states, all arising from a toxemia of the blood, can result from the pressure: migraine headache, the common types of epilepsy, acromegaly and blindness.

There are many cases in my files of migraine and epilepsy-cases in which the distressing symptoms have been arrested and the body restored to health. This was accomplished by taking the excessive dietary burden off the liver, which then was able to cleanse the blood stream and restore a balance between the pituitary, thyroid and adrenal glands.” (pp. 44-45)

The worst toxins leading to migraine headaches are simple sugars. Dr. Bieler calls it “alcoholic type of headache”. The alcohol does not come from drinking alcoholic beverages. It is manufactured in the person’s own stomach. It results from the fermentation of the sugars and starches in that person’s diet. This alcohol is more harmful than bottled spirits. “Alcohol made in the intestines has among its ingredients sour mash and other products very toxic to the body.” (p. 45)

A migraine sufferer should remove all breads, starches (rice and pasta), cookies, chocolate….etc. Eat vegetables, low glycemic fruits (apples, oranges, cherries, peaches, berries and pears), fish, nuts, seeds, brown rice and yams. This diet will eliminate the surplus of poisons and migraines will simply not come back.

Beneficial nutritional support:

To help with digestion and assimilation:

• Acidophilus and bifidus micro-blended with blue green algae.
• Plant based enzymes micro-blended with blue green algae. (Use them with cooked foods to properly digest meals and in between meals to help with cleansing).

To help with nourishing the body:

• Wild-crafted blue green algae.
• Organically grown sprouted grains and grasses – a green mix powder.

To reduce oxidative stress:

• Coenzyme Q10 micro-blended with organic flax oil.
• Wheat sprouts micro-blended with red algae and wild-crafted blue green algae.

Drink 8 to 12 glasses of spring water daily. Take small and frequent sips to prevent your cells from shrinking as a result of dehydration. Avoid large amounts of fluid with meals (liquid with meals dilutes digestive enzymes which are designed to work without dilution from liquids).

Migraines and headaches are preventable. Just treat the body right by giving it the right foods.

References:

Bieler, Henry, M.D. (1965). Food Is Your Best Medicine. New York: Ballantine Books.

M. Anwar Rizwi