Happy Marriage Helps Heal

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A happy marriage apparently is good medicine, but hostile spouses may be harmful to one another’s health.

Couples in conflict-ridden marriages take longer than the happily married to heal from all kinds of wounds, from minor scrapes or athletic injuries to major surgery, suggests a study out over the weekend.

And the health toll taken by a stressful job seems to be eased when the worker has a pleasurable home life.

This new research, reported at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting here, adds to growing evidence that marriage has an impact on health.

In the wound healing study, 42 couples agreed to let researchers use a suction device to create several minor blister wounds on their skin in two sessions about two months apart. The first time, couples were told to discuss a neutral topic; the next time they were given half an hour to resolve an issue or two on which they disagreed. Their discussions were monitored.

Researchers also checked participants’ wounds over the next few weeks and their production of three proteins created in wound healing. Continue Reading

Hydrotherapy For Insomnia

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What you need:

1. Warm water

2. Pair of regular cotton socks

3. Pair of wool socks

4. Essential oil of choose ( I recommend lavender)

A wonderful tip for those who deal with insomnia. Next time you want to have a sleep filled night try soaking your feet in warm water. While you are resting them soak two cotton socks in cold water with essential oil ( I recommend lavender because it helps with relaxing). After you have soaked your feet for about 5 minutes dry them off and put the cold cotton socks over feet. Apply the wool socks over the cold socks and where them to bed. This helps the body with circulation during the night which helps us to heal and sleep.

This is also great treatment for colds, flu, and other infections!

George Goodheart- The Man With Magic Fingers

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Dr. George Goodheart was a chiropractor who invented applied kinesiology. This is a diagnostic therapy which was developed in the 1960s by a chiropractor named George Goodheart. Applied kinesiology posits that organ or gland dysfunctions show up as weaknesses in certain muscles. Using gentle pressure, applied kinesiologists test muscle strength to identify health problems and nutritional deficiencies. After diagnosis, treatment may involve exercises to strengthen a muscle, hands-on manipulation of the muscles and bones, and vitamin or mineral supplements.

The Man with Magic Fingers
By Janice M. Horowitz

A meat-eating Republican who wears a coat and tie everywhere, including at the breakfast table, George Goodheart wouldn’t seem to have a New Age bone in his body — until you get him talking about bones and muscles.

Like his father before him, Goodheart, 82, was trained as a chiropractor. But then, nearly 40 years ago, he began to focus not just on skeletal structure but also on the hundreds of muscles that support the bones. He thinks of them as the body’s ambassadors — engaged in a constant, lively communication with the rest of the body. He developed a system, known as applied kinesiology, in which the muscles and surrounding nerves are manipulated not only to alleviate ordinary aches and pains but also to diagnose and treat organic diseases.

Linking muscle dysfunction to diseased organs is not entirely out of the mainstream. For years doctors measured thyroid function by testing how fast the tibial muscle jerks when the Achilles tendon is tapped. But for Goodheart, muscle testing is the diagnostic gold standard. He prods and palpates patients head to toe, searching for tiny tears where muscles attach to bone. These tears feel, he says, like “a bb under a strip of raw bacon.” When “directional pressure” is applied, the bb’s flatten, and slack muscles snap back, their strength restored. Continue Reading

What You Need To Know About Vitamin B12

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This vitamin has been getting a lot of attention simply for the fact that most people are not getting enough of it. Vitamin B12 is water soluble which means your body rids the amount it doesn’t need, but even if you are taking b12 in supplement form you may still not be getting the amount you need. The video explains that a lot of what we absorb depend on our stomach acid levels.

Foods high in B12 are clams, oysters, mussels, fish, cheese, and eggs.

Learning Self Massage

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This is a fairly long video, but I wanted to include it because it has amazing information about the preventative ways to keep the whole body and energetic body healthy. This video includes self massage and reflexology. If you want to learn about how massaging the hands, feet, legs, and arms can help with our organs and emotions I recommend this video.