Announcing our new weekly stress management class with Alex Frigino MT , Sundays 10:00 – 11:00 am
Discover how to use breath, movement and bodywork to access the kinesthetic channel and release chronic stress.
Relaxing, low impact exercises drawn from martial and somatic arts.
Suitable for any age or fitness level.
Location is our lovely yoga room.
$20.00 Call (650)938-8100 or schedule online.
No class Sunday 14th! Class resumes Sunday 21st.
(Adopted and filtered from many articles referenced below)
Recently ( the last 15 years or so) the FDA has done a rather poor job of keeping many unusual things out of our foods. One might turn a jaundiced eye toward the whole of government involvement in our ” well Being” and simply decide that Big business and Big Pharma out weighs public safety – But then you might get put on a watch list- ha!
One such item flying just under the radar is a substance ( ractopamine) used to finish feeding hogs, cattle and turkeys which increases protein synthesis and which made “mice more muscular”. (For those of us who like to have mighty mouse diets!) The major problem with ractopamine is that it is fed at the end of the grow out cycle jsut before slaughter – which means a very high percentage of it stays in the meat bound for human consumption. It was approved by our FDA in 2002.
Ractopamine is responsible for hyperactivity, muscle break down and 10 percent mortality in a recent pig study. It is banned in 160 nations world wide – but not in ours. In China ractopamine was banned in 2002 after more than 1700 people were “poisoned” from eating Paylean (trade name for ractopamine) fed pigs. In Taiwan it has been banned since 2006. There have been no significant human studies and only one I could find as of April 2009.
In that one very healthy people were involved in the study. However ractopamine is a Beta-agonist used to manage asthma in some cases, but also fraught with secondary effects that can be disastrous to people that have cardio pulmonary problems. Listen to any ad on TV for asthma drugs and then listen to all the side effects – “INCLUDING DEATH” that could occur. “Death as a side effect” would be a good motto for our current FDA. In fact Beta Agonist inhalers have accounted for more than double the death rate in people with COPD ( Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases).
With this kind of a track record you would think that there would be warning labels all over ham hocks and steak – but no – it has been APPROVED by the FDA – so no warning labels are required in food- yet they are in medicines. One half of he FDA ( The Food side) has no freaking idea about the other half ( The drug side) so we are faced with fending for ourselves in the face of this institutionalized schizophrenia.
Oh yes — several more major side effects of beta agonists is Cardiac arrhythmia, headches, tremos and oh yeah — it can precipitate angina. Hey nurse can I have the heart attack sandwich for lunch? – ok so this may be a bit inflammatory – but you need to sit up and take note of what is being put in YOUR FOOD.
http://www.cvpharmacology.com/cardiostimulatory/beta-agonist.htm
For those of you wanting to wade through some technical detail try
http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v53je08.htm
and NOTE the only human study was on 6 adult healthy males. Yet the sub groups most likely to show severe side effects ie COPD or cardiopulminary patients were not tested.
One of the key indicators of health is the speed and ease you can rid your body of all kinds of wastes. Your body takes in foods, air, pollutants, poisons, pesticides, tobacco fumes, car fumes — and metabolizes it all. Not only does your body have to absorb all the goodies out of what you ingest – it also has to process and throw away all the by-products of metabolism that are deemed “waste” or even harmful.
The mechanisms your body has for elimination are: Liver, Skin, Lungs, Excretory system (Bowels and Bladder). In addition, The tonsils, thymus and other organs all play together very well to maintain you optimally – all the while taking in and processing stuff from outside of you and getting rid of the “bad stuff”. Try putting together a picture of this from the internet and you will be sifting through over 30,000,000 hits most of which point at each other or do not offer a coherent over-view.
Here we will look only at the Bowels, But suffice it to say – many other systems need to be looked at for a clear picture to emerge. The interesting point is that once one system starts to act up, it will impact other systems in the body. We are all familiar with leaving something unmanaged for too long until a small problem has become a huge problem. This is the “domino”, or cascading dysfucntion situation.
The real impact of Colon Hydrotherapy is to get out in front of these cascading system dysfunctions using the simplest methods available for cleansing, to ensure that if the body is trying to eliminate toxins that the pathway is open and functioning well rather than impacted and shut down.
Colon Hydrotherapy is concerned primarily with the large intestine. However, it is interesting to note that while the small intestine is responsible for sucking most of the goodies out of what we eat, it is the large intestine that is most likely to develop cancer.
The primary job of the large intestine is to absorb water and some vitamins and minerals into your body from all the stuff going through it, and to “package” up all the stuff that is being rejected ( mostly bacteria and non digestible fiber etc.) and shove it on its merry way out of your body.
The bacteria in your colon do an amazing job of breaking down some of the fiber to both nourish themselves, and the cells lining the colon. So transit time ( the time it takes to move stuff through your bowels) is an important consideration in bringing a fresh supply of nutrients to these very important bacteria. The function of your lower bowel and its bacteria buddies is very important.
After a series of sessions, peopel often claim to feel relief from many issues including;
Simply put warm water is allowed to flow into the lower bowel through a plastic speculum that is gently inserted into the rectum. The same speculum is specially designed to allow the materials ot be flushed out as well. If you have any concerns over the process, please call and ask to talk to our Colon Hydrotherapist! A typical session takes between 1 and 1.5 hours.
Colon Hydrotherapy has been in continuous use and practice since 1500 BC. It is one of a number of natural treatments that seems to be ?rediscovered? on a regular basis throughout time. Perhaps the most notable ?modern? era (1850?s) proponent of colonics was Dr John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of Kellogg Flakes!
Many naturopaths insist that regular elimination is one of the keys to vibrant health. One of the serious health problems facing people today is colorectal cancer, and indeed many of the annoying long term health problems are associated with bowels- such as Irritable bowel syndrome, Crohns? disease, and many others.
In addition, headaches, back aches, general pain, fatigue, irritability, general malaise, a host of ?vague? symptoms from bad breath, skin problems, poor appetite, body odor, coated tongue and more, have been attributed to poor or sluggish elimination.
Many people who have had a lot of symptoms and found nowhere else to go end up trying colon hydrotherapy ? almost on a dare – and finding a suitable solution to these symptoms. Other people whose collection of vague symptoms have left them in a debilitating and declining state, and who ? are willing to try anything? have stopped looking when they found some improvement ( often dramatic) from a series of Colon Hydrotherapy sessions.
There are many stories about colon Therapy. One is that it was first used to help ? cure people? of cholera in St Petersburg in 1892. Cholera?s method of infecting the body is through the epithelial lining of the intestinal tract. So in this case there may have been some direct benefit in dealing with cholera this way given that the colonics were given in time to flush out the particular bacteria causing the problem Only anecdotal evidence is available
There are a lot of “myths” that keep flying around about Colon health and you need understand that many of them persist from understandings that people had many years or centuries ago. Many have to be taken with a grain of salt because they are purely anecdotal.
For example, one persistent myth is that the body has from 15 to 25 pounds of fecal matter in it that has been ” dried and packed against the colon walls” that doesn?t get eliminated. This has never been demonstrated in fact in any autopsy around the world. What is true and where this may have originated is that without proper functioning of the water re-absorption system ( primarily mediated by the lower bowel and kidneys) you will cause normally soft stools to harden up in many cases like rock- ask any nurse that has had to manually disimpact some one how hard they can get. The fact that they get hard does not mean your colon is “lined with concrete”. The fact they get hard means that many natural functions of the body are under stress and not functioning well at all. This kind of stress cascades from one system to the next until a real disease pathway exists that is recognized by everyone including medical professionals. Many peopel have experienced benefis in having colon therapy- including stopping or reversing these cascading dysfunctions.
Call us for more information and to set up your first session 650 938 8100
Come celebrate with us by taking advantage of our holiday offerings. you can get these as gift cards or buy them into your own account. The special pricing is good until Jan 31, 2010
This instant wrinkle reducing facial leaves skin firm, hydrated, and silky smooth using anti aging ingredients fromt TRUE (c) , This includes a facial peel with either green apple or TRUE peel products suitable for your skin. No needles, and no toxins!
Using clean bio-active ingredients, this facial treatment leaves the skin toned, firm and radiant. Includes our revitalizing eye care treatment.
The ultimate indulgence for two in our side-by-side massage in our couple’s suite. Includes our foot wrap with lavender and Dead Sea Salts, and a final post massage hot towel exfoliation.
The ultimate indulgence for two in our side-by-side massage in our couple’s suite. Includes our foot wrap with lavender and Dead Sea Salts, and a final post massage hot towel exfoliation.
Feel restored with a coloni irrigation, a skin renewal body wrap, and a 30 minute massage to detoxify inside and out!.
Releive your calves and feet with a warm heat pack massage, joint mobilization and pressure point techniques. Includes aromatherapy hot towel for your feet!
Relieve your calves and feet with a warm heat pack massage, joint mobilization and pressure point techniques. Includes aromatherapy hot towel for your feet!
Adapted from an article in “The Epoch Times” May 28 – June 3 2009 by W. Gifford-Jones MD.
Dr. Gifford Jones is a medical journalist, and Harvard trained doctor with a private medical practice in Toronto