Studies now show when the testosterone pre-curser DHEA (an adrenal hormone pre-curser) drops so does testosterone and libido.  What researchers are not telling you is that when you chronically skip meals, eat junk food, take medication, and stress out – our bodies steal DHEA and Pregnezone to make cortisol (a stress hormone) and not make anabolic sex hormones.

Again, if we continue to choose unhealthy habits (see our 6 essentials) our bodies will do the best they can to survive, and that survival response many times is an adaptation, and not optimal health.  In fact the way we view disease is as an effect of our bodies adapting perfectly to the choices we make!

So you want a better libido?  Here’s a hint

1.  Eat more vegetables, fruits, nuts and omega 3 fatty acids (cholesterol makes sex hormone)

2.  Cut out junk food & drink, sugar, etc

3.  Eat regular meals – no skipping – this stress triggers the need for cortisol (pregnenolone steal and added belly fat)

4.  Every time you get a negative thought or emotion – practice belly breathing and EmPower March

5.  Consider adrenal supplement support – i.e. Adrenergy, Alkadrenergy

6.  Herbal supplements can greatly enhance Adrenal support – Licorice, Reumania, Eletherol (Siberian Ginseng), Ashwaganda, Korean Ginseng, Rhodiola

7. Exercise 30 min. 3x a week for beginners and increase accordingly as fitness level improves.

We check routinely at exams and re-exams for these and other nutritional supplements.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips BA, BS, D.C.

Non-Mechanical (not from trauma) of frozen shoulder

-  2 to 4 times higher in Diabetes than in general population

-  common in Type I/II Diabetes, increasing with age and duration of Diabetes

- the prevalence of Diabetes in clients with frozen shoulder is 76%

Possible causes of the frozen shoulder are poor circulation, inflammation and collagen repair problems.

In our practice we’ve had many cases of traumatic & non traumatic frozen shoulder, the common denominator was sub-conscious unresolved emotional stress and poor diet.  As these issues are resolved, shoulder physiology improves and heals.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips BA, BS, D.C.

The logical conclusion is what creates free radical damage?  Here’s a short list of stimuli that turn on pro-inflammatory genes.

1.  High glycemic index foods that create insulin secretion: once activated in the gut, immune cells crave sugar, use up serotonin,  creating a serotonin deficiency in the brain which results in sugar blues/ “crashes” and more craving of sugar.

2.  Chronic and acute stressful fight or flight thinking activates these same immune supporting cells in the gut and cortisol an anti-inflammatory hormone begins to act like insulin, creating blood sugar imbalances.  When cortisol secretion becomes chronic, receptor sites on cells become cortisol resistant: more uncontrolled inflammation.

3.  Skipping meals creates cortisol release (see above)

4.  Excess athletic training at high heart rates creates cortisol imbalance (see above) , inflammation and many other health issues.

5.  Chronic activation (repetitive) of the innate immunity appears to be the underlying basis of a wide host of degenerative diseases: high blood pressure, type II diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, all inflammatory conditions (arthritis, colitis, sinusitis, thyroiditis…anything followed by “itis”), auto-immune (shogrens syndrome, lupus, SLE) and many more..

Research shows that in some instances pathogens (disease causing microbes) or industrial pollutants can be present.  However in the majority of cases no specific exposure or pathogen can be found.  We know this as B.E.S.T. practitioners too well.  The key to understanding chronic immune activation is current, recent and distant unresolved emotional experiences.  Some which can be remembered and others which can not be consciously recalled, yet nevertheless act as a constant autopilot for inappropriate immune physiology.  Once the experience is balanced and the person learns not to resist or attempt to control life and embrace it as it is, the mind and the body become more appropriate, no longer responding in fight/flight and true healing becomes a natural by product of normal homeostasis.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips BA, BS, D.C.

A person can exude a persona or mask of wealth, bravado, accomplishment, intellect or a number of false displays.  Yet it is what their body displays that can be the true parameter of whats really going on inside, running the show and grounding the ship on the rocks of self sabotage.

Science tells us how various feelings can trigger muscle tension, high blood pressure, increased heart rate, sweating, increased/decreased digestion and variations in all metabolic processes, i.e. blood sugar, hormones & immunity.  And that these physiologic changes are stored in memory along with the actual event that produced the feeling.  If the experience is not learned from and viewed from a higher perspective it can be triggered over and over again (through the senses) facilitating a quicker response by the body and leading to some system getting exhausted.  We then call that a symptom or a disease.  In B.E.S.T. we call this SEMO: Subconscious Emotional Memory Override.

More over, we know that our bodies generate and are surrounded by energy fields.  Research has shown how thoughts interact with energy fields, which validates the Law of Attraction.  Intense or prolonged positive or negative emotions create and attract similar vibrations; persons, places, circumstances or events.  So we can see, regardless of what life “brings us” it’s how we respond that sets the stage for our life experience.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips BA, BS, D.C.

In our practice one of the primary points of focus in care is to create a paradigm shift.  If we can not communicate and lead people to the perspective that we are spiritual beings undergoing a physical condition, instead of we are physical beings with brief glimpses of spiritual experiences, there will be very little true healing and transformation.

A common misconception of our race, society, family lineage and personal perspective is that happiness as a source, is external to me.  Therefore I must always be out of myself, pursuing in desire or dreading in fear the essential happiness that all humans long for.  This outside/in thinking is the essence of suffering.

What Marci Shimoff is getting at is that within us is the eternal source of happiness.  So instead of looking out there for my quick fix of happiness or a need to fight/flight from threat, perhaps we can begin to look at our habits for what is going on in my life i.e. body, relationships or finances.  As I look deep for what I am grateful for, I begin to recontectualize my life and I see it from a different, deeper perspective.

I begin to be happy, joyful, content, enthusiastic for no reason at all, because I am living from beingness which is one of abundance, that seeks to gift its own inner joy, unconditionally to others!

So in the words of Thomas Jefferson, “Let us pursue (which means to practice in habits) happiness in all we think, say and do” and it shall be so, from the inside out!

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips BA.,BS.,D.C.

2.  I always recommend making your larger meals at breakfast or lunch, giving your body the nutrition it needs and not skipping meals.  If you skip meals your body becomes hormonally imbalanced in favor of sympathetic excess (cortisol, adrenalin etc..) which over time leads to hormone resistant syndromes and eventually a diagnosable disease.

3.  Belly breathing through the nose is the best way to keep yourself in Autonomic Balance.  When you start to breath through the mouth you tell your brain there’s a threat when there is really no threat.  Most Americans are literally addicted to neurologically and hormonally to sympathetic excess; then disease follows.  Even during exercise use “breath rights” if you need to keep to nose/belly breathing as a means to not over extend your training intensity.   Yes you can go harder, yet in my office and during consultations with athletes, I find that people push themselves harder, getting great performance/fitness results then getting injured.  They are fit but not healthy.  The sad thing is they repeat this cycle of over training, injury, allopathic symptomatic care and back to over training, never learning the lesson.  This corresponds to the Ayurvedic/Chinese principle of 70% -during exercise, meals, etc.  Going to 70% capacity and living in moderation allows room for recovery, detoxification and rebuilding.

4.  Develop an attitude of gratitude.  The most important thing I can impart to anyone, and this is now substantiated by hard data (Functional Magnetic Imaging, Squid Computer), is that our thoughts and the emotions we generate create our biologic terrain, greater than any of our other choices (eat, drink, rest, exercise, breath).  Various organs in oriental health care have an affinity and predisposition to various positive and negative emotional states.

For example:

Liver/Gallbladder – (+) happiness (-) anger, rage

Lung/Large Intestine – (+) gratitude (-) guilt, grief

Stomach/Spleen – (+) positive self esteem, contentment (-) low self esteem, exaggerated sense of self, worry

Kidney/Bladder – (+) self control, harmony (-) impatient, fear

Heart/Small Intestine – (+) forgiveness, balance (-) abandonment, rejection, loneliness, paranoia, not feeling

5.  Get a body fat measurement; As our waists increases, our incidence of cardiovascular disease, stroke, type II diabetes and chronic disease increases.  See steps 1,2 & 3.

6.  Get a better nights rest: our bodies have natural cycles of healing.  We function best when we do not eat late, which disrupts our detoxification cycle.  We also need to be in bed, optimally, by 9:30-10:00 pm.  This allows ample time to revitalize and rebuild and not interrupt circadian cycles of detoxification.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

-  increase fish for the omega 3  fatty acids

-  flax seed, omega 3 fatty acid supplements, borage oil, evening primrose oil

-  green leafy vegetables (high in luetin and zeaxanthin)

-  colored vegetables: high in vitamin c

-  fruits like blueberries, strawberries, bilberries etc are high in antioxidants which prevent mutation and inflammation

-  decrease junk food and sugar which can lead to liver/gallbladder stasis (stagnation)

-  in oriental health care the eyes are the indicator organ for the wood element (liver/gallbladder)

-  it is interesting to note that in oriental health care the strong emotions of rage, wrath, fury, unhappiness and anger create imbalances of chi (life force) that can create liver imbalances.

So if you have age related macular degeneration, cataracts, computer vision syndrome or glaucoma you could consider some radical dietary and supplement changes as a means of creating a healthier you!

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland Phillips

A) Excess protein consumption- reduce protein to 40 grams a day.

B) Increase green veggies for minerals, vitamins and co-factors.

C) Get active- send a jarring stimulus into the joints and bones by weight bearing activities: walking, running, Pilate’s, aerobics.  (studies of professional cyclists is Europe reveal advanced levels of Osteoporosis).

D) Increase oats and rice which are high in silicon to increase bone density.

E) Alka Green, Trace Minerals, Alka Cal and digestive enzymes all increase alkalinity, adding to the alkaline reserve-your internal bank account of vitamins & minerals!

Depression:  There are no biologic markers for depression.  It’s simply a question/answer based upon subjective assessment.

Consider-

A)  Increasing complex carbs (not enough can be decreasing serotonin levels), brown rice, beans, whole grains.

B)  Reduce activities that create hormonal, blood sugar and neurologic imbalances i.e. smoking, therapeutic & recreational drugs, stimulants, junk food, excessive video games, social networking, t.v., etc…

C)  Get out and get active

D)  Ask this simple question and live by it (if you are willing to be well, or is there a secret payoff to being depressed??)

What am I in charge of? Be It, Bring It, Do It.

What am I not in charge of? Let It Go, Let It Go, Let It Go.

You will not die by releasing and accepting life on it’s terms.  Acting on life’s feedback allows for self correction.  This is a large part of being human.  Yet our ego lives in it’s illusion of omnipotence, omniscience and all powerfulness.

Constipation:

A) Take a look at your consumption of certain foods: excess protein, junk food, chocolate and dairy can all shut down the bowel.

B)  Increase water, roughage and fiber with fruits and vegetables.

C)  Exercise- your choice

D)  Make a list of all the “shoulds” you have about yourself, others and life that aren’t going as expected.  Rigid, dogmatic thinking that is guilt related is the #1 negative emotion, according to Oriental Health care, for the large bowel.

Practice asking yourself: Who said so? Is this really the objective truth? Love it , embrace it, release it and move on in your heart, mind and body in the journey.

Headaches:  Vascular headaches, Tension headaches, Hormonal/Blood Sugar headaches etc. are too much energy in your head.  It’s really only personal when you make it so.

A)  Cut down on caffeine, sugar, junk food.

B)  Get out of your head and into your heart:  Sit relaxed, lights out, breathing deeply from the abdomen.  As you breath in deeply, notice any tension and/or any thought or emotion that arises:  Let it go and focus on your breath.  Being this way over time, roots you in the now and frees you from the internal chains that bind, for what is needed will be provided in the now.

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips BA, BS, D.C.

This is in alignment with every known world philosophy.  Our heart matters. A happy heart (spirit=heart) means a happy, healthy mind and body.  Yet a  misguided, hardened heart (spirit) can create havoc in the mind and body.

In a recent study published earlier this year by the American Heart Journal; 785 men and women age 46-92, who had a baseline of freedom from cardiovascular disease were studied.  They were studied in videotaped interviews on how they responded to life and it’s challenges.  3 types of anger were studied:

Constructive Anger:  The emotion moved them to discussion and problem resolution.

Destructive Anger Justification:  Blaming others for ones anger over a life conflict.

Destructive Anger Rumination:  Stuffing one’s anger over a life conflict.

After a 10 year follow-up the men and women who displayed destructive anger justification for dealing with conflict in life were more than 30 % likely to develop cardiovascular disease.

So what is a constructive way to deal with anger?  Understand that anger as an emotion is a response to “frustrated desire”.  When I become personally responsible for my life, I asses the situation, determine what I am capable of and responsible for and I BRING IT.

I also release what I am not in charge of and be at peace with this.  I do all this from the context that the fulfillment of all desire is an internal and eternal state.  And I re-contextualize life’s many scenario’s, bringing my best, releasing the illusion of control fear and desire, knowing the ultimate all is LOVE and KINDNESS.  If it is to be , it is up to me! So BRING IT!!!

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips BA, BS, D.C.

For if I don’t get the lesson (which is always a higher way of seeing myself & others and implementing the lesson with gratitude) the lesson repeats in my life with more frequency and or intensity.  The difficulty is that the lesson doesn’t always appear the same way every time.  One time it’s a broken water heater, next it’s a business deal gone awry, next it’s an ache or pain, next it’s a relationship not going as expected, and the story goes on and on.  Life keeps giving us an opportunity to learn the lesson until we get it and move on with gratitude.  If we don’t learn the lesson we get more of what we don’t want and less of what we do want!

Here’s a short list to increase your awareness of what’s in your sub-conscious brain/memory:

1.  Bouts of repeated thoughts & emotions that seem to come out of nowhere or are just not appropriate in intensity for life now i.e. criticism, scorn, anger, obsessions, cravings, fears, anxieties, regrets, hopelessness, self-blame… etc.

2.  Repetitive ailments: Any musculo-skeletal complaint, immune related (colds & viruses), inflammatory disorders and female menstrual/hormonal disorders are all a subtle wake-up call.  Are you answering the door? Or shutting it closed with denial, judgment, drugs, addictions?

3.  Insomnia, Indigestion,Fatigue,Poor memory/Concentration:  If this sound like you or any one you know, here’s what you can do today to feel better tomorrow.  Make a list of any person, place, event, circumstance, situation (yourself included) of anytime you felt let down, disappointed, life/others/self didn’t go as expected, betrayed, violated etc..  Take the one that is the most emotionally charged and journal on the 5 step healing process of forgiveness-learning the lesson – gratitude, as described by Dr. MT Morter in his book “Soul Purpose”.

I am intentionally leaving this process out of the blog, to inspire you to call our office and order this great book, to begin to “stress less” today! (480)899-3683

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips BA, BS, D.C.