VITAMIN D CAN WORK MIRACLES

According to Simone Gabbay, a registered nutritional consultant in Toronto, and author of several books on nutrition, cautions that unusually high doses of nutritional supplements should only be taken under medical supervision. A group of patients in western New York suffered from severe myopathy, a muscle disorder had weakened them to such an extent that they were confined to wheelchairs. A team of doctors from State University of New York at Buffalo and Kaleida Health in Buffalo, put them on a high-potency vitamin D supplement. Within six weeks, all study participants reported noticeable improvement, including a resolution of pain and a restoration of normal muscle strength.

Five patients became fully mobile. In each case, weakness and immobility had previously been attributed to other causes, including old age, diabetic neuropathy or general debility. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin which helps the body assimilate calcium and other nutrients required for healthy bones, muscles, and nerves, is produced in the body through the interaction of the ultraviolet rays of the sun with certain chemicals in the fatty tissue under the skin. Food sources of vitamin D are fish and fish liver oils, eggs and dairy products.

In another medical study, researchers found that coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), could successfully treat some cases of hereditary ataxia, a disease characterized by an inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements. It aids oxygen utilization in the body. A team of researchers at Columbia University's College of Physicians in New York identified six patients with hereditary ataxia whose CoQ10 levels were significantly below normal. Five of the six could not walk. After taking a high-potency CoQ10 supplement, all patients showed dramatic improvement in strength and well being.

Vitamin D deficiency is widespread in North America and other geographical areas where people do not get enough sunshine on a regular basis. Billions of dollars are being spent on the development of pharmaceutical drugs for conditions which could and should first be addressed with nutrition and other natural means. For more information on Simone Gabbay's book "Nourishing the Body Temple" and other books, call toll free l-866-322-8209 or contact your local book store.

PAIN HAS MESSAGE WE SHOULD HEED

Pay attention to your pain, listen to it, and maybe it will provide you with some important guidance. So say Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D. and Christiane Northrup, M.D., authors of Awakening Intuition: Using your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing (Three Rivers Press), who find that their patients' symptoms are actually intuitive guidance systems for learning how to restore balance in life.

They advocate learning about the "body genius," which are memories stored within the body that signal when something is not right. Take some time to listen to pain, and the genius within the pain will speak to you. It has a clue about what you need to avoid or change at the moment. Headache, nausea, joint pain, shoulder ache, sinus pressure, sneezing, or hiccups may be such signals. See if you can learn from them.

INVADERS AT THE GATES

The location of the invasion was well hidden even though the site was plainly in view. Though the battle may have been engaged for some months or even years, since it was carried on in silence and was easily ignored. The signs along the way dropped adjectives and adverbs or perhaps added other words that were often easily misunderstood. We're so fascinated by these invaders we pay them for all the ammunition they require and welcome them into our homes. Their uniforms, that feature every delightful color of the rainbow, we also pay for, and yet many of us try to survive on minimum wages with problems trying to pay for our own food and shelter.

Poisonous unseen killing bullets come along with the invaders but we choose to ignore them. How could we fear the innocent, though calculated smiles of those colorful supplies entering our homes. We have many wonderful well-educated scientists and thus can allow ourselves to feel superior in many ways. With lessons learned from history these minds will recognize any Trojan Horse that might enter our territory. We all certainly remember the large hollow wooden horse described by Vergil. The horse was filled with Greek soldiers and left at the city gate of the enemy. The Greek soldiers emerged during the night, opened the gate, and invited the rest of their troops in and burned the city. This sounds similar to the "Fifth Column" we heard about in a more recent war.

Some researchers and teachers found time to do extra research and may have missed socializing, texting, and other pleasures. Perhaps this was better for health reasons anyway because our invaders came to the parties. Check out the fine print on many of these colorful food packages and advertisements. Some may wonder if the food and drink being eaten contained words in the ingredient list that looked questionable. Words like potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate were puzzling for some who were consuming the foods. But many CEOs of food companies said they added TCPS (Taste, Convenience, Pleasure and Shelf life) to many foods stocked on our supermarket shelves.

Who can forget the handsome male mounted on his steed (not called Trojan as far as we know) galloping over green hills and planes while under the picture lurked the packages of cigarettes that suggested the smoker might enjoy a similar pleasure while smoking them. That handsome rider died of lung cancer many years ago. Is it possible that additives needed for shelf life and convenience are among the silent invaders that enter our bodies with our food, take up residence, create a major cancer site, and spread through the bloodstream to all parts of the body. The body is faced with a battle zone within that our great health care system is sometimes unable to conquer with surgery and other therapies and thus be overwhelmed with too many of these unseen killing bullets. A century ago these additives were not used and it would be interesting to know what the health system might have cost per person at that time.

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY NOW RECOGNIZED

In their series on "Innovators," Time Magazine recognized the work of Dr. John Upledger. While involved in a spinal operation, Dr. Upledger noticed a pulse along the spine, where none should have existed. He later determined that the pulse was in the cerebrospinal fluid itself. He then theorized that this life force was important to health and that its blockage could create illness. He developed a form of treatment using slight hand pressure on the patient's body that has become known as craniosacral therapy. Although many doctors are still skeptical about it, craniosacral therapy has been found useful in many pain-control and physical rehabilitation situations.

YOUR MOTHER WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

Breakfast time is always spent listening to the CBC Radio. The first song I heard this Mother's Day weekend was "What are they doing in Heaven now?" It was lovely - I'll be looking on their website for the exact title so I can buy a copy. My mother passed away 30 years ago. During the sixties the topic of meditation was often talked about and I wondered aloud to my husband where the CEOs could find time for it since I worked a full time job and had our family to care for as well. The next morning I awakened early and heard my mother's voice say, "You could always get up at 5:00 o'clock you know." It was just her voice but no image and I wished I could see what she was doing in that other plane we call Heaven.

It was a disappointment to her when I married at age 26. When she was age 26 she had already birthed five children and would have three more. She tells me that I had promised to take care of her when she was old. Though I do not recall this promise, I'm sure I did because she was a wonderful mother and what does a child know of the future. My baby sister was born four years after me and Mother and I had good times together taking care of her, me thinking I was helping especially when I held one side of the bucket handle while she carried the water from the rain barrel to heat it on her coal-burning cookstove for laundry day. She would reach to her highest shelf to get the can of lye to make the laundry soap while warning me of the dangers of lye. The four older children walked off to school and she would let me have a few drops of syrup to paste the colored pictures I clipped from Eaton's catalog to finish my artwork. The rest of the catalog was taken to the outhouse.

Finally, a dreamscape has given me a glimpse of her in Heaven. I am ascending a wide staircase and see Mother on the landing above. She breaks from a large group and comes to meet me with a welcoming hug. She looks about 30 years old, fulsome, handsome and lovely. Forgotten are the years of no communication. My father tells me that she had read all the "Dear Mom and Dad letters," I regularly sent because he noticed when returning from his walk that the letter drawer was always disturbed. She had a good retirement and my brother and his wonderful wife, Anne, took her on a trip to the State of Washington to see her childhood home. Their two married daughters and four daughter-in-laws gave them 17 grandchildren to enjoy. Their firstborn daughter never married and went to Africa to do missionary and dental work. Canada had instituted the old age pension and after selling the farm our parents bought a home to Medicine Hat. The last two weeks before she moved into a senior home I came to Alberta to care for her when she could not be left alone. She was happy to meet our son and see how well he had done at University. Your mother will always love you. The moral of my story is, "Do your diligence, don't worry about the future, and take good care of the environment as we seek to tread gently and carefully upon our wonderful planet called Earth." There must be a poem for me to write for both Mother and Dad, perhaps tomorrow.

MEDICINE OF LAUGHTER IS ADVANCING

We are gaining more evidence that laughter is good medicine. In one study, conducted at the Loma Linda School of Medicine and published in the journal "Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine," a one-hour exposure to a comedy video led to significant increases in blood cell immunities, lasting up to 12 hours after watching the video.

In another study, conducted at the Unitika Central Hospital in Japan, researchers enlisted participants with allergies to stop taking their allergy medicine for three days prior to the study. They then showed some participants the comedy "Modern Times," starring Charlie Chaplin, while other participants viewed a video on the weather. During the viewing of the videos, researchers tested the participants allergic reactions to allergens. They found that the weather watchers showed the usual allergic reactions, but the participants watching the comedy showed reduced allergic reaction, which continued after the viewing.

ADAM - DREAM HEALER

You might find it interesting to look up this website at: www.dreamhealer.com. I've just read Adam's international bestseller "Dreamhealer." which I checked out at the local library. There are three other Adam books that cover his story from age 14, he must be 21 by now. But this one, with the blue cover, gives details of the energy he works with and how he helps bring about energy healing. This complimentary type of healing resonates for some and has helped many people.

Adam says that some people have difficulty accepting their newfound wellness. The injury or illness serves another purpose. A person may feel deprived of attention and recognition (especially with chronic illness). Then illness can bring the person the recognition he or she wants.

An open mind allows change if flexible to incoming information. Possibilities are limitless. Therapists have helped many people by suggestion, and many have been helped with overcoming cancer with chemotherapy. Whatever suits the individual is best. The famous singer, Ronnie Hawkins says . ."Soon after Adam's treatments started, he told me the cancer was gone. . . I am so thankful to Adam for everything." "What's in the mind is reflected in the body," Adam tells us.