Nature may have given us a built-in method for regulating thyroid hormone release.... screaming. A surprising side effect of speaking may be the effect it has on the health of your thyroid. For years, I have treated thyroid problems with lymphatic drainage of the throat area and massage to relax the tissue around the thyroid. I have recommended loose collars, removal of neckties and staying away from tight turtlenecks.

How many people believe that the Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamins and minerals is the best guide to human health?  Please raise your hand ... Many of the people who walk through my door pride themselves on reading ingredient labels, taking the recommended amount of Calcium in their daily supplements and don't understand why they don't feel well. 

Do you realize how much information is in your hair?  Hair is not just an outgrowth of the skin, it is an incredible storage facility for the body's minerals reserves.  Hair loss, thinning hair and loss of hair color are all indications of changes in this essential mineral storage.  According to Senate Doc ument No. 264 "99% of American people are deficient in minerals" and a severe deficiency in any one of these can result in disease and specifically gland disorders (think of your thyroid!). 

Immunity is vital to our survival.  If you think about it, almost all illnesses can be attributed to an immune problem of one form or another.  Heart disease?  Yes. Diabetes?  That too.  Psychological challenges?  Yup.  Cancer?  You betcha.

I've been recently thinking quite a lot about Lyme Disease.  I think about it because I know there are so many people out there that are suffering with untreated and what they believe is untreatable Lyme.  I'm here to tell you that it is not as difficult to treat as you might think.  Why?  Because I understand that Lyme Disease is completely treatable when you accept that it is a condition, like many illnesses, that is unique to each person who is infected.

Lots of us wish that insurance would cover natural options such as the therapies, supplements, homeopathics and testing options that we provide at Conscious Body.  But it's important for you to understand why it's better that they don't. 

The reason I feel the need to write about breast cancer is because of the common approach that I am seeing in every single diagnosis - an almost blinding rapidity to rush through treatment.  From diagnosis to the surgical suite is becoming a matter of days and at most weeks.  Prior to it is the multiple visit requirement for additional tests, pre-surgical discussions, and many other honestly, terrifying aspects of this dreaded disease.  What is this doing to women and their chances for complete recovery?

I remember my sister telling me that she was too tired to sleep.  I used to laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of that statement.  But it turns out she was absolutely right.  The fact is that we think of sleep as a passive, completely restful state.  But in fact it is a very active state that requires energy because of the restoration, healing and processing that occurs during the sleep hours. 

The idea of emptiness is something we struggle with.  There seems to be an unending supply of peanut butter in the jar, there is always dirt filling in the edges of the house, there is always something on my To Do List, there is always another bill on the desk.  This also extends into our digestive tract and if you think about it, this is an area of our body that is never empty unless we make a very focused concerted effort.