Alternative Medicine

Many people don’t feel good, but don’t really know why. They complain of âunexplainedâ symptoms such as chronic fatigue, over-weight, depression, memory loss, fibromyalgia, food cravings, headaches, muscle and joint pain, arthritis, intractable back pain, heartburn, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, mood swings, rashes, itching, allergies, attention deficit, dyslexia, hearing and vision loss, balance problems, high blood pressure, insomnia, …the list goes on. Standard medical tests show little or nothing. Many of my patients have reported over the years that their MD’s either ignore these symptoms or give vague explanations such as:

It is because of your age
You just have to live with it
It’s all in your head
It is stress
It is genetic
It is…

What this really means: nobody knows how to determine the cause for all these symptoms.

Allopathic Medicine

Over the past decades traditional western allopathic medicine has come up with extraordinary number of pharmaceutical drugs in order to fight an extraordinary number of diseases. It seemed in the past, and it still appears that way today, that if we only could come up with the right chemical compound we could eventually conquer and eliminate any disease under the sun. This quest for the “Silver Bullet” continues.

Chronic Illness

Somehow, we seem to have missed the mark. With the amount of medication consumed in the USA one would assume that we are the healthiest people on the planet. However, we have more chronic diseases than ever. Even though our life span has been increased, our quality of life has not. Healthy aging eludes many of us. Diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disorders, allergies, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, depression abound.

Alternative Medicine: No Drugs â No surgery

Alternative Medicine – a different paradigm
The power to heal lies within YOU.
YOUR Alternative Medicine practitioner â YOUR coach, your teacher
YOU must take full responsibility
YOU must be willing to CHANGE
Alternative Medicine – There are No Magic Pills

Who we are is the sum total of our genetic strengths and weaknesses, our upbringing, our education, our environment, the quality of our food, the quality of our water, the quality of the air we breathe, the quality of our thoughts, our emotions, our relationships to one another, our capacity to give and receive love and affection, the amount of bad impressions we take in from horrible TV shows, the amount of ever increasing violence we are exposed to in the movies and/or in real life, the functioning of our brain and nervous system, our organs, our organ systems…

Alternative Medicine – The only Question is WHY

The only relevant question to ask: WHY?

Why do you have these symptoms?

Why is your body malfunctioning?

These are of course the most difficult questions to answer.

Alternative Medicine is concerned with the functioning of the entire human being in the context of his or her life. Genetics and life style are part of the equation. Illness and disease are not seen as independent realities that are explainable by being given a name and treated as such. Illness is rather viewed as an expression of some underlying imbalance and breakdown of normal function.

Alternative Medicine – Illness and Premature Aging – a Call for Change!

Biological aging is related to a noticeable decline in normal function. Function of the brain declines with age, so does digestive function, and many other glandular and hormonal functions. Aging can be accelerated by various life style choices:

Smokers have higher risk of age-related diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
People who consume excessive amounts of alcohol have increased risk of liver and cardiovascular problems.
Poor quality/junk food diets that are excessive in carbohydrates (calories) and low in protein and other essential nutrients lead to obesity, diabetes, digestive stress, heart problems and frequent illness in general.
âRecreationalâ drug users/addicts – you see this in their complexion, their posture, the evidence of their mental decline.
Use and over-use of pharmaceutical drugs â ALL have side effects.
Lack of physical activity and our sedentary life styles decreases brain function.
Inadequate digestive function leads to malnutrition, which in turn affects all aspects of our lives.
Antibiotic use destroys the normal bacterial flora in your intestines.
Antibiotic use causes Candida overgrowth and immune system suppression, with devastating consequences for your health.
Chronic stress accelerates aging
Shallow breathing and/or polluted air leads to oxygen deficiency.
Oxygen starvation leads to cell malfunction, especially in your heart and brain.
Mercury exposure from silver amalgam (mercury) fillings in your mouth is very toxic to your brain.
Environmental toxins in air and water accelerate aging.
Alternative Medicine – Medicine of the Future
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” Thomas A. Edison

We can slow or even reverse our biological aging through intelligent changes in lifestyle, environment, and nutrition:

It is estimated that making appropriate changes can positively influence more than 75 percent of our health and life expectancy after age 40!

The goal of Alternative Medicine is to optimize health through

Chiropractic Neurology
Removing structural stress form spine and joints
Diet and Nutrition
Digestive Support
Homeopathic/Isopathic remedies
Detoxification
Balancing body ph
Improved oxygenation and deeper breathing
Increased physical activity
Brain exercises
Color and light therapies
And more
Health is not seen as merely the absence of disease, but rather as an expression of vitality and well-being. An ever increasing number of healthcare professionals are becoming aware of the shortcomings and failures of allopathic medicine.

Alternative Medicine is slowly coming of age and is the true Medicine of the Future.

Dr. Z – Peter M. Zeischegg received his MS degree in Civil Engineering from Technical University Berlin. In 1986 he is awarded the Doctor of Chiropractic from Life Chiropractic College-West. Through the Occidental Research Institute he is introduced to German Alternative Medicine, Sanum/PleoSanum and Low Level Laser Therapy. In 2001 he launched Alternative Medicine website. He is the Official SelfGrowth.com Guide to to Alternative Medicine.

A new research has been done by the Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which may lead to some very interesting observations regarding the effects of meditation on human brain. The research suggests that meditation can indeed lead to larger brain sizes. That would mean, that people who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t. When it comes to gray matter, the thickening turns out to be more pronounced in older than in younger people. That’s very interesting as the thickening or as regards the sections of the human cortex get thinner as we age.

Meditation practice can promote cortical plasticity in adults in areas important for cognitive and emotional processing and well-being and the findings are consistent with some other studies. The medical society and those actively following on meditation regularly are very excited with the findings. If you are still surprised, be aware that previous findings have led to similar conclusions when it was noticed that visual areas in brains of jugglers get thickened due to repeated practice and more usage of that particular area of brain during performance. The same holds true in case of musicians whose music areas of brains reported thickening. In the meditation related research, brain scans of 20 experienced meditators were compared with those of 15 non meditators. People with varying backgrounds were taken as control groups, those who worked in careers such as law, health care, and journalism. During scanning, the meditators were told to practice meditation as usual while the others just relaxed and thought about whatever they wanted.

Those who meditated practiced Buddhist “insight meditation,” which focuses on whatever is there, like noise or body sensations. No chants or mantras were used during the meditation process There were an average of about 40 minutes meditation sessions per day. As reported, there were mediators of varying experience, some had been doing it for only a year, others for decades. Very profoundly, it was noticed that those most deeply involved in the meditation showed the greatest changes in brain structure. This made the researchers conclude that the differences in brain structure were caused by the meditation.

One great benefit of meditation is that it can be helped to control random thoughts Experts believe that random thoughts and the like actions continually deprive brain of the energies that can be instead used for constructive purposes.

Insight meditation can be practiced anytime by all those people. We all face worries all the time but worrying too much for trivial matters also becomes a habit. Often that leads to self sabotage when we can’t perform to our fullest extent. People tend to worry about what will happen if they miss it, or if the end product will be good enough to suit the boss, at workplace. Most people drive themselves crazy with unproductive “what if” worry. While to increase performance and for greater achievements, “If, instead, you focus on the present moment, on what needs to be done and what is happening right now, then much of the feeling of stress goes away”. The increased thicknesses in the grey matter are very proportional to the time devoted to meditation and the depth of meditation.

Another great benefit that meditation doers find is the way it reduces aging. There are several small benefits as well but you can bet those differences are going to lead to lots more positive changes in your life.

There are still several questions that scientists need to answer regarding the study like whether meditation produces more connections between brain cells, or more blood vessels? Can brain thickness influence daily behavior? And other questions that might lead to even more positive conclusions regarding meditation. Larger studies are planned at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Harvard-affiliated.

Such studies are very encouraging for those actively believing in meditation and alternative therapies. As further research is done on a larger number of people and testing them multiple times, more examination of peoples’ brains both before and after learning to meditate is done, we may find even better results. Scientists are very keen to find the effect of slowing aging on the regular meditators.

Since meditation counteracts the natural thinning of the thinking surface of the brain,there is a high probability that it plays a role in slowing – even reversing – aging? Well, that is what only time and further studies can prove but definitely meditation techniques is something you must have a look into if you are planning to live healthier and longer!

According to a report in the June 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, the meditation techniques of transcendental meditation may decrease blood pressure and reduce insulin resistance among patients with coronary heart disease. Thus, Shoaib Ahsan loves meditation and wants every one to have a look into it and find out how to live healthier and stress free.

Alternative Medicine – Healing Comes From Within

Researchers Find Amazing Effects of Meditation on Human Brain