In 1988, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Even after the diagnosis, at times it was so bad I couldn’t walk, and had to crawl around my apartment, crying in agony. Now, I no longer have any pain at all. I have never had surgery. Listen to this podcast and read the accompanying BLOG POST to find out how I did it.

Usui Mikao was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, on 15 August 1865 and died on 9 March 1926, aged 60, of a stroke. He had previously healed himself of two strokes that he had experienced before.

Having suffered bankruptcy and experienced many hardships, he vowed to find the origin of suffering or die, and with this aim he went to a mountain near Osaka called Kurama, where he meditated for 21 days. He achieved enlightenment, and found that he had developed healing powers. He decided to transmit his healing power to others via attunement.

The core of Reiki are the Gokai:

“If only for today,

There are four levels of attunement, with level 1 being the lowest, where you can heal yourself and and others, to level 4, which is the highest, where you can give attunements to others and teach.

In a Reiki session, the person lies down on a bed or table, and often falls asleep. Traditionally, the practitioner lays their hands in a set pattern on specific points on the body, both on the front and the back, with each position being held for four minutes.

Reiki has been said to help with medical problems, emotional and mental issues, in person or at a distance. Healing has been known to happen in time, both in the past and in the future. People, animals, plants, situations, relationships and places can be healed.

Everybody has their own healing power, but Reiki uses the healing power of the universe, and the practitioner channels the healing power that is all around us.

Do not try to use your own healing power to heal, unless you have attunement or you have been taught how to use the healing power of the universe safely. Watch the video on THIS PAGE of this website to find out how to do healing safely with out attunement.

Reiki can and is used in a medical setting, and is especially useful for people who do not want to be touched.

I recommended: “This Is Reiki” by Frank Arjava Petter.

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Me (on the right), Akemi San (left) and Matthew Thie (centre) in Atami, August 2016.

I went to the TFH Kinesiology course in Tokyo and Atami, Japan, in August this year, which was held by the Japan Kinesiology Organisation and taught by none other than Matthew Thie, of Touch For Health, and author of the book, Touch for Health. Over the course of 8 days, I saw people recover from months if not years of pain, both physical and emotional, in a matter of minutes. These were not fakers, they really experienced healing, right there and then in the room.

It’s true that Matthew Thie is charismatic, and he was preaching to the converted. Out of about 40 people in the room, 5 (including myself) were beginners, and the rest were TFH teachers and professionals; there were shiatsu practitioners and chiropractors, all of whom use and teach TFH in their daily lives, so you bet they believe in it. But this is what I mean about the placebo effect of healing: “whatever works”. Would you rather have painful, expensive surgery over months, with no guaranteed result at the end, or would you rather have half an hour of Kinesiology in the expert hands of lovely Matthew Thie?

History & development

George Gooheart was the first chiropractor to accompany the US Olympic team, in 1976. He noticed that when you balanced muscles, it corrected your posture. Chiropractors say: “If you spine is in line, you’ll feel fine”. He palpated the spine and found that if you massage the spine you find tender points. The tender muscles are not the weak ones, though. In fact, the tender muscles are the strong ones. He found that after the muscles had been massaged, they became stronger, and most of the time the posture of th

“…decades of scientific research have failed to prove ANY benefits of a low-salt diet, and in fact tend to show the opposite. Studies have also failed to prove salt’s connection to heart disease.” Dr. Mercola.

Functions of Sodium:

Therapeutic uses of salt:

Signs of deficiency:

“In 1997, the DASH-sodium study was conducted to determine whether or not a low-salt diet would control hypertension. The DASH diet consists largely of fresh vegetables and fruits, lean protein, whole grains and low-fat dairy and is very low in salt. But it’s also low in sugar. So as people on DASH diets do show reduced hypertension, the reason for this is not the reduction of salt but the reduction of sugar. This diet was also pretty much free of processed foods or artificial additives, which really do contribute to hypertension in a real way.” Dr. Mercola

The DASH-sodium study is particularly interesting because the control group, which consisted of several thousand people, was made up of people who had a diet of mainly or only processed food including meat 3 times a day, and who drank a lot. The group was divided into two: Group A was allowed to carry on eating and drinking as normal. Group B was put on a very strict diet, as Dr. Mercola describes above. The conclusion of this study is that salt is bad for your heart, and not that junk food, a lot of meat and excessive alcohol are bad for your heart, which is what the study actually showed.

In his classic 1988 article “The (Political) Science of Salt,” Taubes wrote:

“While the government has been denouncing salt as a health hazard for decades, no amount of scientific effort has been able to dispense with the suspicions that it is not. Indeed, the controversy over the benefits, if any, of salt reduction now constitutes one of the longest running, most vitriolic, and surreal disputes in all of medicine….

The data supporting universal salt reduction have never been compelling, nor has it ever been demonstrated that such a program would not have unforeseen negative side effects… After decades of intensive research, the apparent benefits of avoiding salt have only diminished. This suggests either that the true benefit has now been revealed and is indeed small, or that it is nonexistent, and researchers believing they have detected such benefits have been deluded by the confounding influences of other variables…”

In this recent study researchers followed 3,681 middle-aged healthy Europeans for eight years. The participants were divided into three groups: low salt, moderate salt, and high salt consumption. Researchers tracked mortality rates for the three groups, with the following results:

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As of 2007, 200,000 bone fractures occur annually with a cost to the NHS of over #1bn. Many studies show positive associations between dietary Si intake and bone mineral density in the US and UK. Shouldn’t more be done to promote this health-giving mineral?

One possible role of silicon in bone health is the synthesis of collagen / stabilization and matrix mineralization. (Other bone minerals include magnesium, potassium, fluoride, as well as calcium and vitamin D. Trace elements are zinc, copper, boron and manganese, the last being cofactors for enzymes involved in the synthesis of the constituents of bone matrix.)

Dietary silicon intake is associated with higher bone mineral density, especially in males and pre-menopausal women.

Therapeutic uses:

Why is zinc necessary?

Zinc is required in large amounts in the diet because it cannot be stored in the body. Zinc has a whole range of essential functions in the body, essentially breaking down and metabolising foodstuffs, repairing tissues and the correct use of energy. Because so many enzymes depend on zinc for their correct functioning, even a mild dietary deficiency of zinc can have far-reaching health implications. It is estimated that 11mg of zinc are required daily.

Zinc is necessary for many metabolic processes, including:

“During the one second that the blood is racing through the tiny capillaries of the lung, the single atom of zinc that is set into the centre of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase is brought into contact with 600,000 of its target molecules (carbonic acid). The result is that each is broken into one water and one carbon dioxide molecule. Only because of the rapidity of the enzyme’s action can the carbon dioxide be freed fast enough from its compounds to leave the blood during that moment on the alveolus when it is separated from the air by only the thinnest of membranes. Our ability to rid ourselves of CO2 through the exhaled air is then utterly dependent on the presence of these critically located atoms of zinc. Yet the total amount of this mineral in the body is so little that it was, up until a few years ago, considered to be of no significance!”

Other therapeutic uses:

What hinders the proper absorption of Zinc?

Phosphorus is a vital part of human nutrition.

Functions

About phytates

Phosphorus in vegetables is in the form of phytic acid. Phytic acid binds together with minerals such as calcium, iron and zinc and lowers their absorption from the digestive tract. In plants, phytic acid is used as storage of phosphorus, to be released at the correct time in plant growth. This is regulated in the plant by phytase enzymes. Bacteria living in the human digestive tract can produce phytases. What this means is that the amount of phosphorus (and calcium, iron and zinc) we get from food depends on our gut health. This bacteria evolves over time, so if you are not in the habit of eating a lot of vegetables, but you are starting to go more along that route, it takes time for the biome to adapt.

Fermented foods such as tempeh, miso soup, pickles and yoghurt can increase phosphorus bioavailability from phytic acid.

Also, soaking of beans and legumes, seeds and grains breaks down the phytic acid to about half. Sprouting breaks down phytic acid even more and makes the phosphorus totally bioavailable.

Yeasts also contain phytase enzymes, so including whole grains in bread with yeast increases the phosphorus’ (and other nutrients’) bioavailability.

Therapeutic uses:

In the US, adult men tend to consume about twice the amount of phosphorus that they need each day. Deficiency is very uncommon. At risk from deficiency are children at times of rapid growth.

The most abundant mineral in the human body is calcium.

Animal Foods high in calcium are:

Dairy foods, such as milk and milk products from cow and goat’s milk, such cheeses, yoghurt and butter. Fish that are canned are especially high in calcium as they are eaten with their bones. Salmon, sardines and whitebait are the most calcium-rich.

Vegetable sources:

The food group with the highest content of calcium is seaweeds, and among them, the top scorer is wakame, with 1,300mg of calcium per 100g. Arame and kelp also score high with 1,170 and 1,093 mg of calcium per 100 g respectively. Dark green leaf vegetables, especially cabbage, watercress, mustard greens, dandelion and collard greens, as well as broccoli, turnip tops and asparagus; dried peas and beans, such as black-eyed beans and soy beans, nuts such as hazels and almonds; also organic unsulphurated blackstrap molasses, brewer’s yeast (Marmite) and curry powder are all significantly high in calcium.

What nutrients and factors enhance the body’s ability to absorb calcium?

The amino acid lysine is necessary for calcium absorption. Lysine is found in meat, dairy (milk and egg) products, soy and lima beans, as well as nuts, especially walnuts.

Oestrogen enhances the bones’ ability to absorb calcium, so phytoestrogen-rich foods, such as grains, coffee, beer and bourbon, help to keep calcium levels in bone high, for men and women. Moderate, load-bearing exercise, such as lifting weights and yoga, also help to enhance calcium levels as it is thought that calcium is laid down in the bones as the body reacts to gravity.

Vitamin D assists in the absorption of calcium.

What impedes calcium’s absorption?

A high intake of magnesium impedes the absorption of calcium, as these two mineral compete for absorption pathways. What that means is that if you have a lot of one in your diet, you have significantly less of the other. Because both calcium and magnesium are equally important to bone density and joint health, if you over-supplement with calcium your bone density will suffer and you will experience fractures and breaks. Nowadays, we are finding more and more evidence that calcium supplementation, that doctors have been offering peri and post-menopausal women for decades, not only has very little positive impact on bone health in women in later years, it actually has a harmful effect. It’s significant that doctors don’t actually study nutrition during the 7 years of their training, so one wonders where they get their nutritional information from.

Even though moderate exercise enhances calcium’s absorption into the body, heavy exercise impedes it. People with sedentary lifestyles also do not lay down enough calcium in their bones; the calcium is leached from their bones to be deposited in their joints: older people and pregnant women, therefore, who have less energy than younger people, are particularly at risk. (Also lazy people like me!)

Oxalic acid is said to inhibit the absorption of calcium. This applies only to foods where the oxalic acid is bioavailable. Foods that contain significant amounts of bioavailable oxalic acid are: peanuts, pecans, spinach, rhubarb, dark chocolate, wheat bran, and beets (tops and root). However, the oxalic acid in the foods only inhibits calcium absorption from that food itself, not other items in the meal. For example, if you eat a spinach and goat’s cheese salad, you will still absorb calcium from the cheese, but not from the spinach. So people who are taking care of their bones would do well to steer clear of this last food group. Apart from dark chocolate, as we should all be eating more of that. See the Ma

Iodised salt scam article: http://iodineresearch.com/debunked.html

Summary: Only 10% of iodine in iodine-enriched salt is absorbed in the body, and iodine evaporates almost totally after about 40 days. Iodine was used as a flour treatment but was replaced with bromine (a sedative), which competes with iodine, as do fluoride and chlorine. Dr. Mercola on Bromine HERE

Therapeutic uses:

About the thyroid:

Full endocrineweb.com article HERE. The sole function of the thyroid gland is to make thyroid hormone. This hormone has an effect on nearly all tissues of the body where it increases cellular activity [so an underactive thyroid means more body fat? Is that why Japanese people are relatively not that fat?]. The function of the thyroid, therefore, is to regulate the body’s metabolism…A 2004 study in the journal Thyroid found that stress is one of the environmental factors for thyroid autoimmunity. Stress can aggravate hypothyroidism, and you can be stressed because of the hypothyroidism symptoms.

Full yourhormones.info article HERE. The thyroid gland produces hormones which regulate the body’s metabolic rate as well as heart and digestive function, muscle control, brain development and bone maintenance. Its correct functioning depends on having a good supply of iodine from the diet.  The release of thyroid hormones from the thyroid gland is controlled by thyrotrophin-releasing hormone(TRH) from the hypothalamus in the brain and by thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) produced by the pituitary gland. This forms part of a feedback loop called the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis. 

What hormones does my thyroid gland produce?

The thyroid glan

The sources I use in this podcuast are:

Janet Hull: http://www.janethull.com/newsletter/0207/the_health_benefits_of_germanium_1.php

NTS Health:

http://www.ntshealth.com.au/wellness/blog/germanium.html

Betty Kamen’s article pdf here

Many of the world’s most medicinal plants contain high levels of germanium, including ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, aloe vera, comfrey and garlic. The highest concentration was found in Russian shelf fungus.

Some scientists believe that germanium’s chemical structure may help the mineral bind or chelate toxic substances and remove them. Dr. Kazuhiko Asai reported Astonishing success with mercury, cadmium poisoning and the removal of PCBs with germanium.  The organic germanium he synthesized is called bis-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide, aka Ge-132.

Therapeutic uses:

Toxicity:

Organic germanium has never shown any toxic side effects. Inorganic germanium – germanium dioxide, is highly toxic and has been linked to over 30 deaths.

Nutritional sources of germanium

No.1 is Russian Shelf Fungus

Japanese Ginseng

Garlic

Comfrey

Aloe

Chlorella

Chaga mushroom Inonotus obliquus

Shiitake

Watercress

Pearl barley

“Although germanium is believed to be absorbed more efficiently in food form, the quantities found in food may be too limited for therapy. Small amounts can, however, serve for prevention.” Betty Kramen