Mental Health

Writing on my other Blog about being transformed by the renewal of your mind, it brought to awareness illness concerning the brain.
How widely misunderstood is Mental Illness!!
And how very sad it is, both for the sufferer and their families.

I will go more indepth in future writings, however at the moment I just want to bring to attention that this is an illness of the mind, just like diabetes is an illness of the body.
It's amazing how a physical illness is accepted by the majority yet many shun someone with a mental illness.
During a research I conducted into depression in my University days, I was stunned to discover (and have never forgotten) that by the year 2020 the foremost world illness will be depression.

I'd like to share a story here.
In 2000 I was working in a large Mental Health facility when a young doctor was admitted as a patient. 
This poor man was diagnosed with a disturbing mental illness...
He claimed a curse was put on him and it was sending him crazy. Along with this he was paranoid and delusional.
I was not his primary nurse so did not get to speak with him.
I did however sit in on a meeting about a month or so later,  where his condition and treatment was discussed. As I listened I didn't see the label attached to him.
What I did see was a fellow Christian in torment.
Off duty that evening it was impressed on me (by the Lord), to take him a book by Dr Norman Vincent Peele called "The Power of Positive Thinking."
This was a risky thing to do, as in Mental Health units you are prohibited from speaking on Christian issues.
I placed the book in his empty room without any reference to myself.
A couple of days later he approached me at the nurses station.
He thanked me sincerely for the book? and asked if he could keep it.
Two days later, to the shock of staff, he was discharged, totally healed.
He had been transformed by the renewal of His mind.

One thing I have come to discover...from much observation.
Most people who have or do suffer from mental Illness, are very intelligent human beings.
And Mental Illness can happen to anyone. 

More in depth on:
Bipolar
Schizophrenia
Personality disorder
Depression
later.

  

Testosterone and the aging man.

Young and virile,

 no-one is prepared for what happens with age.

Low testosterone affects two to four million men after the age of fifty!

Yet many are unaware what is wrong with them, so few
seek assistance.

Today only about 5% of men actually get the help they need.  .

So what are the issues of having low testosterone?
How will you know?

1.  A decrease in sexual desire and function.
2. Thinning bones (osteoporosis) which leads to fractures.
3. Reduction in energy, muscle strength and mood.

Often doctors don't perform blood tests to evaluate testosterone hormone levels..

Why you may ask???

Because usually its put down to, the medication you may be taking..... as far as the sexual desire..

Or, osteoporosis is not discovered until you fall and break a bone.

And Depression will be treated with medications without always checking for the root cause.

Low testosterone may also arise if:
Overweight
Have undergone chemotherapy
Experienced trauma to the testes or brain.
Or suffer from diabetes.

So what can you do if you suspect you do have low levels of this important hormone?

You ask your doctor for a blood test.

What help is there?

If you are a candidate for Testosterone Therapy then this may be given in the form of a patch worn on the skin.
Or weekly injection.

WAVE THAT WEIGHT GOODBYE``~~

All of us desire to look good.

We make the excuse of age for putting on weight.

Yet mostly out weight problems are caused by wrong foods..

You know all this, right!

Here are some little clues about food.

Firstly, don't believe everything you read on a food label.

BAD: SUGAR:  Carbohydrates
Is Your Enemy!!
Often those 97% Fat Advertised Reduced foods are high in sugars...  and sugar is your biggest enemy!
Low fat milk, also has MORE sugar!
(buy normal milk)

The only good sugar is the one found in fruit and vegetables out of the garden. (not cans).
Sugar is also in processed foods: Such as many breads.

BAD: Artificial Sweeteners.
They are full of chemicals which over work the liver.

BAD: Substitute margarine and canola oil:
Trans fat is created when processed vegetable oils are hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated.
Food sources include candy, cakes, pies, cookies, pastries, crackers, biscuits, cereals, deep fried foods, fatty meat from beef and sheep,  and some salad dressings.

GOOD: Water!!!!!!!  
(Tea and  Coffee  in moderation)
Fruit and Vegetables                 
Real Butter
Olive oil (cold pressed)
Avocado's
Raw Nuts 
Brown Rice
Oatmeal
Honey
Fish
Lean meat ( not fried )..

By eating what is good for you, like more protein and less carbohydrate's, your brain won't send, 
" I am starving," signals.

Put up a photo of yourself when you were slim..

And think!!  

What are you doing to your poor LIVER...

The liver's main job is to filter the blood coming from the digestive tract, before passing it to the rest of the body.
The liver also detoxifies chemicals and metabolizes drugs.
As it does so, the liver secretes bile that ends up back in the intestines.
The liver also makes proteins important for blood clotting and other functions.

By feeding your liver harmful foods you cause it to over work so that it has little time to do the jobs it is suppose to do.

In turn, this causes you to become OVER WEIGHT or worse still, get sick!!
It may even cause you to die.

Just because you can't see your liver, doesn't mean its okay.

Allowing it to work properly, without clogging it up, will also lower cholesterol....

Take medications with a full glass of water...to flush. 

Walk more OR swim (I go to curves).

Take care of your body, and it will take care of you.

Be Healthy......

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WATER- A Cure In Itself!

I watched a DVD on Dr Batmanghelidj explaining his scientific studies into the roll of water and healing in the human body. As a nurse, I have to say, what he presented as evidence is logical. So from someone who has suffered from allergies for many years, this is an easy remedy, and one I am going to pursue. It is natural and safe, so what could be better???  In the past I have advocated the importance of Oxygen, Water and Magnesium...I stand by that.           
Read for yourself and make your own decision. 

 About This Doctor:
Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D., is an internationally renowned researcher, author and advocate of the natural healing power of water, was born in Iran in 1931. He attended Fettes College in Scotland and was a graduate of St. Mary’s Hospital of London University, where he studied under Sir Alexander Fleming, who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin.

Discovering healing in water.
When the Iranian Revolution broke out in 1979, Dr. B. was placed in the infamous Evin Prison as a political prisoner for over two years. It was here he discovered the healing powers of water. One night, Dr. B. had to treat a fellow prisoner with crippling peptic ulcer pain. With no medications at his disposal, Dr. B. gave him two glasses of water. Within eight minutes, his pain disappeared. He was instructed to drink two glasses of water every three hours and became absolutely pain free for his four remaining months in the prison. Dr. B. successfully treated 3,000 fellow prisoners suffering from stress-induced peptic ulcer disease with water alone. While in prison he conducted extensive research into the medicinal effects of water in preventing and relieving many painful degenerative diseases. The report of his findings was published as the editorial of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983. The New York Times Science Watch reported this discovery on June 21, 1983.

On his release from prison in 1982, Dr. B. escaped from Iran and went to America. At the Foundation for the Simple in Medicine he began to research the effect of chronic unintentional dehydration on the human body. His findings were published in the Foundation’s “Journal of Science in Medicine Simplified” in 1991 and 1992.

Dr. B wrote his first self-help book “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water” in 1992, in which he stated that a dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of dehydration. The body signals its water shortage by producing pain.

Dehydration actually produces pain and many degenerative diseases, including asthma, arthritis, hypertension, angina, adult-onset diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis.

Watching his lecture where he explains medically how this happens is truly amazing. As an ex emergency room nurse I remember watching a patients blood pressure fall dangerously on a monitor as I rushed to insert a cannula and administer fluids.
As the fluids took effect the blood pressure stabilised..


A Very Informative Read..
Reference: http://www.watercure2.org/index.htm

MAGNESIUM Miracle

Many people don't realise the value of Magnesium.  (Epsom Salts)

It can be bought in tablet form, from Pharmacies, Health Food shops, Groceries and Walmart

Magnesium can help those who suffer with:

Angina,
Arthritis,
Asthma,
Chronic fatigue syndrome,
Constipation,
Diabetes,
Facial and eye twitching,
Fibromyalgia
Heart disease,
High blood pressure,
Muscle cramps,
Migraine headaches,
Muscle tightness,
Poor circulation,
Poor sleep, 
Stress,
and many other health problems.

Check out for yourself.
http://www.mgwater.com/

Be Healthy.

"Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well."  
3 John:2