AWeber - FOHAC Newsletter What went wrong? #436

Published: Sun, 12/10/17

Fair Oaks Health News

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December 10, 2017

What went wrong?

Hi ,

How did my body get where it is today? What went wrong? I have been health conscious forever and yet here I am with food sensitivities up the wazoo and a leaky gut generating unnecessary weight gain and limiting my energy abundance. My health efforts have not been completely in vain as the average American male by age 65 is on 6 to 10 medications for such things as cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, and so on. I am 64, and as of this point in time, I am on zero medications. So some things are working, but not everything.

I hear that person in the back saying that I am just getting older. To the extent that means I have accumulated lots of experience, then yes I am older. But at 64 there is nothing natural about the accumulation of reactions to otherwise healthy foods. What’s up?

Actually because of my accumulated experience, I can answer my whining question. The answer lies in the long term effects of very small indiscretions. There is nothing you can point to and say “ah ha,” there is the problem! No, I am dealing with lots of little things that I may be sharing with many other people. The issues are seemingly insignificant. In the moment they are insignificant, but over time they take you down. So what kinds of things have created where I am today?

I eat until I feel full. This seems like a perfectly normal way to eat, but it is a killer. By the time our stomach is full enough to signal the brain that we are full, we have already over eaten. This is exacerbated by the fact that I eat quickly and not in a leisurely fashion. I am focused on what I am doing and I do it until I am finished. This is how I do everything in life. This is great for work, but bad news for digestion.

Focus produces a body state of sympathetic dominance – the exact opposite of what is needed to stimulate digestion. Digestion is stimulated by relaxed leisurely para-sympathetic nerve action. Taking a couple hours to eat a meal is the ideal way to eat for maximum digestion. The consequence of eating quickly in a focused manner shovels in food faster than the body can produce the enzymes and stomach acid to digest the food. Does it matter if I eat this way only once in a while? Of course not, but as your all-the-time way of eating, you end up with a gut chronically full of partially and undigested food. This is a problem.

Any undigested or only partially digested food can not normally move across the gut wall and into your blood stream to feed your body. That means that it hangs out inside the gut until it is either eaten by gut bacteria or attacked by your immune system and neutralized. Unfortunately the foods we generally eat end up feeding bad guy bacteria. Simple carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, and proteins incompletely digested all feed the bad guys. Basically it is the fibers we can’t normally digest that are supposed to be left over after digestion that feed the good guy bacteria. We aren’t supposed to have any left over food for the bad guys to eat.

What about the fats we eat? Fats digest through a different pathway. They have to be combined with bile salts from your liver/gallbladder to be properly absorbed. Again your body has to be in that relaxed para-sympathetic state to release bile for the digestion of fats. Eating bitter foods helps with the production and release of bile as well. I have always hated bitter foods and avoided them with a passion – another little health transgression.

Put simply, years of poor digestion destroys your gut lining and produces leaky gut. Once leaky gut sets in then all sorts of problems result like food sensitivities, auto-immune issues, systemic inflammation, weight gain, hormonal imbalances, nutritional imbalances affecting proper genetic coding and transcription, and so on… All this results from something as simple as not kicking back and being relaxed while I eat.

If I were a typical American, the problems would be a lot worse because of the really terrible things average Americans eat - for example:

Artificial food colors which block protein digestion
Sugar which feeds bad yeast & bad bacteria overgrowth
Grains & flours which directly attack the junctions of the gut lining cells
Hydrogenated fats which create Frankenstein hormones and body chemicals
Vegetable oils & fried foods which promote inflammation and cell dysfunction
Preservatives which disrupt hormone pathways
Alcohol & pain relievers which punch holes in the gut
Medications which poison all sorts of metabolic pathways
Overeat as a sport or under-eat to be thin producing endocrine dysregulation
Eat around the clock preventing systemic detoxification and clean out

Avoiding these dietary “sins” 90% of the time are probably why I am not on a bunch of drugs at this age. But something as tiny as rushing through my meals so I can get back to whatever work I believe I need to do has still gotten me. My workaholic ways are beating me up. Maybe there is a lesson in there somewhere…? I also graze. I like to eat a little protein or fruit while I am working. Again this is the same type of problem – eating while in a work mode for the body. I don’t snack while I am relaxing, like at the movies, watching television, or reading for pleasure. I would probably be healthier if I did instead of snacking while I work. But I am a workaholic. I say that through objectively looking at my behavior. I don’t think that about myself. To me I just have so many interesting things to fill my attention with – so many things to research and learn about. I love being focused, taking in new information and synthesizing new perspectives for myself. But realistically, my body is saying that I am not doing something right.

That is the thing about the body – it does not let us get away with anything for long. Our health is the direct reflection of the balance in our life. Our body is the direct reflection of our consciousness. Bummer, but helpful if we want to actually achieve happiness.

Take care,

David

Ellen update:

Ellen has been shopping for insulated pants. Last year we visited my son Mason and his wife Miki back east. While there we spent a day in our nation's capitol, and froze our buns off. We are going to visit them again, but this time we want to be a little better prepared for the freezing temperatures. Thermal underwear and ski pants are the order of the day.

New referral doctor:

Last week I visited with an Activator chiropractor in Orangevale that had been highly recommended to me by one of Ellen's clients - Dr. Jennifer Webb. She seems to be quite nice and she agreed to care for any of my patients that might need treatment when I am out of town. Here is a copy of her card...

A bonus convenience is that her office is on a drop in basis - no appointment needed. From my office you just go north on Sunrise then right on Madison till you get to Main Ave then turn left. Her office is up a couple blocks on the right immediately after you cross Greenback Lane.

Antibiotics found to suppress immune system

A new MIT study has been looking at the effect of antibiotics on the host cells instead of the impact on the bacteria. The bad news is that antibiotics actually decrease the hosts immune system and cause host cells to release metabolites that make the bacteria more resistant to the antibiotic.

Antibiotics

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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

~ Albert Camus

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Male pattern baldness a strong predictor of heart disease

Balding and premature greying of hair in 40 year old men is a bigger indicator of coronary artery disease than even obesity, family history, or diabetes. Balding carried a 5.6 times greater increase of coronary artery disease compared to only 4.1 for obesity.

Baldness

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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."

~ Albert Camus
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Smartphone addiction unbalances brain

By doing detailed brain scans on cellphone addicted teenagers compared to non-addicted teens demonstrated excess levels of the neurotransmitter GABA in the portion of the related to regulation of mental and emotional processing, promoting anxiety and depression.

Smartphone

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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

~ Albert Camus

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 35 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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