Great Health In Tough Times

Swine Flu - what to do NOW

I'm still out of town with no outgoing internet access although I can receive blog comments.

Since the pandemic alert has escalated to Level 5, I appreciate Marian's posting this brief item to my blog.

In response to the Level 5 pandemic alert, I have two more suggestions:

1.  If you do not already have a MAP (Medical Assistance Program) Team, activate one ASAP. With your team, create a strategy for responding to the flu situation. Of all the responses I know of, your MAP team, of which you are an integral member, is probably the most powerfully protective.  I've been working with my team for over a  year and have experienced healing beyond anything I've encountered before.  Most of my patients who are using MAP have achieved unprecedentedly deep and rapid healing.  If you don't have the MAP book, you can order a hard copy or download the e-book from www.perelandra-ltd.com.

2.  If you are already doing essence testing, test every day.  If you get sick, test every two hours while awake. I believe this will accelerate you through the illness process, substantially shortening your recovery time.  If you are not already essence testing, get the book, Flower Essences, from Perelandra.  Also order the Basic Essence Set in the 1/2 ounce size and get to work.

I had not intended to make these recommendations until much later, but we have been overtaken by events. I'm putting the best I know out there right away, knowing that these suggestions will strike many people as very wierd. (Marian's note: and a pandemic ISN'T wierd?)

Now more than ever, it's important to comment with your questions about and experiences with these healing processes, which can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of your response to the flue crisis - whether or not it goes truly pandemic.

I hope to be reunited with my laptop power cord sometime on Sunday.

In the meantime, please keep in mind that in any crisis the opportunities and the dangers are probably approximately equal, and crisis mastery is seizing the best of the opportunities while avoiding the worst of the dangers.  Let us take counsel together on how to do that!  What we can co-create together will far surpass in effectiveness and power anything we could create individually.

Flu Epidemic Response

I'm out of town with no power cord, 49 minutes of battery left,  few academic building. This is going to be down and dirty.

 

My recommendations:

 

1.
From www.perelandra-ltd.com get and immediately start taking the MBP Solutions: Flu Season, Immune, and Lymphatic.

2. Start taking vitamin D 5000 ITU daily. As soon as possible test to see if you are at 80 mcg per milliliter. But just your dose as needed.

3. Have on hand vitamin D 50,000 IU capsules, 36 for you and each member of your family. See my vitamin D blogs in the March archives for information on how to order. At the first sign of illness began the 50,000 IU protocol as described in the blogs.

4. Go to www.perelandra-ltd.com, read all the flu epidemic info and check the site frequently for updates.

5. Start got tolerance vitamin C and keep a supply of 500 1 g capsules on hand for you and each member of your family. If you start getting sick be sure you increase your vitamin C according to the gut tolerance protocol.

 

Tomorrow I intend to see if I can get better Internet access and fill in some of the details. And the meantime, avoid crowds as much as possible.

 

I believe it's going to be possible to substantially reduce your risk and risk to your loved ones as this epidemic evolves. I invite your comments because I think this is a particularly important time for each of us to put in our best ideas and intuitions.

Magnesium: How to Get It Right, Part 3

We are continuing the discussion of Step 3: Take the right amount of magnesium.

Let's say you have already tried taking magnesium citrate malate 200 mg twice daily with meals. It's been two weeks and your low magnesium symptoms have not disappeared. Now, the right amount of magnesium is the maximum you can take without shortening your gut transit time below 16 hours.

 

Here's how to discover your gut transit time, which is the time it takes what you've swallowed to go through your digestive tract from end to end. There are several markers you can use. The simplest is corn. Eat some whole kernel corn and don't chew it very well. Write down when you swallow the corn and the next time you see it again. Do the math and that is your transit time. You can use other markers such as a tablespoon or two of sesame seed. Probably the most elegant is charcoal. You can get some activated charcoal capsules from a pharmacy or a health food store, take five or six before a meal and watch for the charcoal to show up again.

If you don't want to go to the trouble to do a gut transit time, there is a down and dirty way that may work. You can increase your dose to 200 mg three times a day and see if you start having more bowel movements. If not, and if your low magnesium symptoms don't go way, after a few days, say three or four, you can take 200 mg four times a day, with meals and at bedtime. If after a week on that dose nothing has changed, better do the transit time and follow the protocol in Step 4.

Step 4: Take magnesium at the right times.

With a magnesium, timing is important, like in a trapeze act. You will only absorb a certain amount of magnesium with each dose. If you exceed the amount you can absorb you will absorb even less because of the shortened gut transit time. Frequent small doses work much better than a single dose of the same total number of milligrams. Ordinarily the right times to take magnesium are three times a day with meals. Some people will need to take four doses a day with the fourth dose taken at bedtime.

In the unlikely event that you are by now taking 200 mg four times daily and nothing has changed, you can increase your dose by 100 or 200 mg daily until something does change. If what changes is the disappearance of your symptoms, it would be neat to post a comment about that. If the change is a short transit time or a belly ache, that's worth a comment also and you might want to look for a physician in your area who understands magnesium and may be able to help you. You can see a good doctor finder page by clicking www.acam.org.

Well, this turned out to be little more complicated than I anticipated and I have run out of time for now. I intend to really finish this up with Step 5 in the next post. I'm not sure when that will be because I have discovered I'm going to be out of town for a week and I don't know how much time I'll have available for blogging. I do plan to check e-mail and my blog daily and look forward to responding to any comments that come in. In the meantime, may your magnesium experiences be spectacularly successful. I've been hearing some great magnesium success stories lately and wouldn't mind hearing a few more.

Magnesium: How to Get It Right

If you have low magnesium symptoms and have decided you want to take magnesium to see if they will go away (a therapeutic trial) or if you have had an RBC magnesium test which shows that you are deficient, you need to know how to take magnesium correctly. This involves more than taking a certain number of milligrams of any kind of magnesium. It is possible to make a magnesium deficiency worse by taking magnesium and in the process to create other mineral deficiencies as well. To take magnesium correctly you need to do five things.

1. Get your magnesium from a reliable company. There are some excellent companies making and marketing nutritional supplements and there are some crooks. There seem to be a lot of crooks because the two surveys I have seen published on the quality of nutritional supplements purchased off health food store shelves showed that over half of the products did not contain what the labels said they contained. The health food store brands I trust are Nature’s Way (green leaf logo) and Nutricology. For most people, the best way to get good quality trustworthy nutritional supplements is from Life Extension or Emerson Ecologics.

2. Take the right kind of magnesium. The right kind of magnesium is magnesium citrate malate. The wrong kind of magnesium is magnesium oxide. It is the most difficult form of magnesium to absorb, the most likely to give you diarrhea, and it is also the cheapest, so that's what you find in many magnesium supplements. Magnesium citrate is significantly more of absorbable and gentler on your gut. Malate means that the magnesium citrate is complexed with malic acid, which ushers the magnesium into the cell where it is needed, thus making each milligram of magnesium more effective..

3. Take the right amount of magnesium. Two little will not correct to your deficiency. Too much will make it worse. Too little magnesium often causes constipation, which can be severe. Too much and you get diarrhea. For magnesium and most other minerals to be absorbed efficiently they need to stay in your digestive system for at least 16 hours. The length of time it takes what you swallow to make the trip through your digestive tract from end to end is called your gut transit time. 16 to 24 hours is probably ideal. If you have only one bowel movement a day you know your transit time is more than 16 hours. Start taking magnesium citrate malate 150 to 200 mg twice daily with meals. If your magnesium symptoms are not improving after two weeks you will need to do a gut tolerance protocol. This is similar to the vitamin C gut tolerance protocol but there are important differences.

To do the protocol you will need to know your gut transit time. In the next blog I will tell you how to discover that, how to proceed with the protocol, and do steps 4 and 5.

Magnesium: Do You Have Enough?

It's easy to tell that you have enough magnesium if you have none of the symptoms on the list in my most recent blog.

If you do have one or more of those symptoms it gets tricky because there are causes other than low magnesium that can cause several of the symptoms. This is where lab tests come in handy, but lab tests themselves are tricky. The blood test, which is the one usually performed, is unreliable unless it is low. A normal blood magnesium does not necessarily mean that you are not magnesium deficient. This is because magnesium does it work inside the cell and having enough magnesium in the blood does not mean there is enough inside the cell. There is what's called a magnesium pump in the cell wall. Sometimes the pump breaks down and even with plenty of magnesium in the blood the cell is magnesium deficient and you get symptoms..

 

A better test is the red blood cell (RBC) magnesium test. This test gives you the average of the amount of magnesium that has been in cells in the last four months. The best test is the white blood cell (WBC) magnesium. The white blood cell, unlike the red blood cell, is a metabolically active cell. Its magnesium content lets know how much of magnesium was in the cell at the time the blood was drawn. Unfortunately, the WBC magnesium is complicated to do and most labs do not perform it. We actually get along very well with RBC magnesium plus considering these symptoms. RBC magnesium is the test I use when I need to test. Usually I don't, because I learned in the past 25 years how to recognize the symptoms and symptom patterns of magnesium deficiency.

 

If you have ever been magnesium deficient and correct the deficiency, you are unlikely to forget how it feels to be magnesium deficient compared with how it feels to have enough. People who have had this experience a few times usually become expert at detecting the early warning signs that their magnesium level is about to fall below a symptom threshold.

 

The bottom line: if you have none of the magnesium deficiency symptoms, smile and assume that you have enough magnesium. If you have one of more low magnesium symptoms decide whether you want to try increasing your magnesium intake (a therapeutic trial) or whether you wish to test first. There are labs that will do a RBC magnesium test without a doctor's order. If you can't find one, perhaps you know a physician who would order it for you. If you decide to do a therapeutic trial on magnesium or you test for it and find that you don't have enough, you need to know how to take magnesium correctly. If you don't know that, you can make your magnesium deficiency worse by taking magnesium.

In the next blog I'll tell you how to do it right.

Magnesium, the Master Mineral

This After our preliminary excursion into the awareness aspect of healing, we now return to the biochemical. Just as vitamin D is probably the most versatile, safe, and cost effective vitamin, I nominate magnesium has the most versatile, safe, and cost-effective mineral. Magnesium is an area essential cofactor in 80% of the biochemical reactions that constantly go on in the body. This means that if you are magnesium deficient, 80% of your biochemistry is impaired.

Tony was in his late 20s when I first saw him. He had not been able to sleep well for seven years because he had restless legs syndrome. He was very fatigued. An intravenous infusion of magnesium and vitamin B6 stopped the restless legs like hanging stops a horse thief. Tony began to take magnesium and B6 by mouth. Restless legs started again after a few days. I gave him another IV which was the last one he needed. When I heard from him several months later he was free of restless legs syndrome but it started to return if he forgot to take magnesium and B6.

How may magnesium deficiency show up in your life? As you might suspect, since 80% of your biochemistry is impaired, there can be many symptoms. Some of the more his common are:  

Restless legs syndrome
Weakness
Inappropriate fatigue 
Muscle twitching 
Muscle pain and soreness
Shooting pains
Sound sensitivity
Light sensitivity
Irritability
Delayed recovery from from exercise

Magnesium deficiency may also be a complicating factor in:
Congestive heart failure
Arrhythmias
Asthma
Migraine
Hypertension
Increased risk of death from heart attack

There is a hidden epidemic of magnesium deficiency because:
there is very little magnesium in food produced by agribusiness. Analysis has shown that organically grown food has 10 times the magnesium content of agribusiness food.
Magnesium is difficult to absorb even when taken in adequate quantities.
Overstress causes increased loss of magnesium through the kidneys while at the same time interfering with absorption from the gut.
Another hidden epidemic, gluten sensitivity, causes gut damage that further impairs absorption.
Eating large quantities of sugar increases renal loss of magnesium.

Jennifer was in her 50s when she began to have a esophageal spasms when she ate. These were painful and frightening because she could not swallow and she felt she was strangling. Magnesium injections quickly relieved the spasms. She started taking magnesium and B6 by mouth which reduced her need for injections from once or twice a week to once every several weeks.

In the next blog, I will tell you how to find out if you are magnesium deficient.

How to Read the Message, Part 2, Correction

The correct link to more info on Nature intelligence is http://www.perelandra-ltd.com//PDF/PP11_What_is_Nature_Intelligence.pdf.

How to Read the Message, Part 2

 Today we continue the discussion on how to read the message in a challenge before the signal gets very intense. First, a review of Step 1.

Step 1. Believe there is, or may be, a message for you in the challenge you are experiencing. If you believe everything happens by pure dumb chance and there is no message in any experience, stop reading this post and wait for my blog on magnesium. If you are sure there is no message you're smart enough not to waste your time looking for one.

Step 2. Set and hold your intent to read and understand the message. As I've said before, an intent that you set and hold is very powerful and will contribute to your achieving what you would probably not achieve without it.

Step 3. Learn to communicate with nature intelligence through muscle testing, also known as applied kinesiology.

Nature intelligence: For more than a year, I’ve been testing the hypothesis that nature is a conscious intelligence which it is possible to consciously communicate. During this testing I have had some of the most incredibly productive and joyful experiences of my life. This encourages me to continue testing the hypothesis. To learn more about nature intelligence go to http://http://www.perelandra-ltd.com//PDF/PP11_What_is_Nature_Intelligence.pdf

Muscle testing, a.k.a. kinesiology, is a wonderfully useful skill that will benefit you far beyond reading the message in your challenges, as important as that is. I'll be saying more about this in subsequent blogs but will just mention now that you can use muscle testing to determine whether or not you need a particular nutritional supplement or prescription drug, whether that particular supplement or drug is likely to be harmful to you, and if beneficial, the best dose. But for now, I'll just say that you can use the muscle testing to check out whether what you think is the message in the challenge is correct or not. You say, "I think the message for me in this challenge is_______. Is that correct?" If the muscle you are testing maintains its strength, that's a "Yes". If the muscle weakens slightly and momentarily, that's a "No." To learn more about muscle testing, go to http://www.perelandra-ltd.comhttp://www.perelandra-ltd.com/Kinesiology_W73.cfm

 

If you decide to learn how to use kinesiology, start small. There is a learning curve and we all make mistakes on a learning curves. You have probably learned more from your mistakes than from your successes. I have from mine.  At first,  let your kinesiology mistakes be on things that don't matter a lot. For example, if your question is, "Is the message in this challenge that I should take a second mortgage on my property and invest the proceeds in AIG?" and you get a "yes," don't go right out and do it. Try the process first on issues that won't make a big impact on your life if you missread your muscle test. On the other hand, don't let fear of making mistakes scare you out of taking action. Not taking action because of fear of making a mistake can be the biggest mistake of all because it can prevent your learning what you need to know.

Step 4. Once you believe you know the message, the proof is in taking action on it and observing the result. This is the only way you'll ever know if your understanding of the message is correct or not. Talking about your understanding can make interesting cocktail party conversation. Taking action on it changes you and, to some degree your world--or lets you know you were wrong about the message. Again, don't let fear of getting it wrong stop you. Listen to what Carl Jung, wisest of the psychoanalysts, said about mistakes. "Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."

I'll be returning to this crucially important subject of how to read the message in the challenge, but I believe magnesium is up next for this blog. I chose to digress to this Reading the Message issue because I thought it might be timely for some my readers.

How to Read the Message, Part 1

Here is the edited version of the post I sent raw two days ago. It remains to be seen whether I'll get the timing right this time.

In my most recent blog I said I would tell you why I consider having had cancer one of the great blessings of my life and also give you a process for reading the message in your challenges before those challenges get as tough as mine before I noticed there was a message I was ignoring.

I've been having follow-up visits with my magnificent cancer surgeon for five years. First it was once a month, then every three months, and now twice a year, until death us do part. The cancer can always come back or I can develop a new one, perhaps from the radiation. If that happens, the earlier it is detected, the better.  At each visit, I have told him that the time since my surgery has been the best time of my life. It has been the best time of my life because I have been more focused on doing what I came into this life to do, have gotten more of it done, and have experienced more joy and fulfillment. At the time I got cancer I was spending much of my time and energy in an activity that did not fulfill the purpose for which I came into this existence. Fulfilling that purpose requires full focus and most of my energy and resources. Anything less is a 3 foot leap across a 6 foot ditch, an experience that always gives me a sinking feeling.

Although I consider having had cancer one of my great blessings, I feel no need to repeat that blessing. I like new blessings better than reruns. My intent now is to read my messages from nature intelligence before they reach the intensity of the one that finally got my attention in 2003. I will briefly outline for you the process that I use. I've tried a number of different methods in the past 30 years. This is the one that works best so far. It certainly isn't the only method it may not be the one that works best for you but I believe it's worth a look.

This is a four step process.

Step one. Believe there is, or may be, a message for you in the challenge you are experiencing. If you believe everything happens by pure dumb chance then there is no message in any experience, stop reading this post and wait for my blog on magnesium. If you are sure there is no message you're smart enough not to waste your time looking for one.

 

If you have made it through step one, you'll probably be interested in reading about the other three steps in the next blog.

Please Disregard Previous Post

Please disregard my previous post, "Reading the Message." It is raw copy which I inadvertently sent when I was trying to get it into a form I could edit.

With the help of TypePad tech support, I have learned to get the formatting right. Now I'll be asking them to tell me how to get control over when a document posts. :-)

Sorry for the inconvenience.