Introduction
I will construct this section as I go along, taking one disease, condition or syndrome at a time. It will be far ‘greater’ in many ways (size, depth, etc) than the entire web sites themselves [DrAlterwein.com and Endurobics.com] which I’ve constructed thus far: I will be considering hundreds of different diseases more specifically than I have already done so, as well consider as many of the signs and symptoms of aging. I will randomly be going from one disease, condition or syndrome to another. Some topics will be uploaded in rough draft (so as to get the information out to you more quickly than otherwise) and will remain incomplete until I get around to completing them. Many topics I will begin in part, only but to come back to them at some time in the future to add more information. If there are any diseases or conditions that you specifically would like me to write about, please let me know via email.
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Okay...perhaps now you have some idea as to what my web sites [DrAlterwein.com and Endurobics.com] are all about, but more likely you are just beginning to get an inkling of an idea.
Actually, I’ve been attempting to communicate ideas (such as I’ve been presenting on these pages) for decades, and not meaning to sound omnipotent by any means, the fact is, the ‘thought process’ of man nowadays is not yet geared toward truly and fully understanding the underlying life-saving methods I am presenting.
...I’ve said it before, but fact is, most people think ‘concretely,’ in almost ‘black and white’ terms, ‘all’ or ‘none’s,’ even if they don’t realize nor admit it. On the other hand, many of the ideas I present here are of a conceptual nature, based on ‘probabilities,’ and which are actually much, much more effective than any concrete thought process could ever be. So I get results, sometimes even to almost miraculous degrees.
In view of all this, I now realize that in order to continue writing these pages, I must redirect my reading audience to those people of a future time who might by then have the underlying knowledge and basic understanding needed to recognize the truths behind the words I say. I need discriminatory minds. It’s difficult enough to understand all of what I say, let alone be able to pick me out, like a needle in a haystack, amidst the enormity of web sites on the internet randomly ranging from those of quality to those deserving of being tossed into a garbage pail.
...But with all that has been said thus far throughout these pages, I feel it is now time to bring cohesion to it all, to all that is written, and in turn to the ‘miracles’ yet to be realized in terms of preventing, curing and offsetting disease and aging.
So to begin, first off, I again refer you to the ‘Disclaimer’ at both this site and my parent site, DrAlterwein.com, and tell you that all the information you are about to read as I continue writing is ‘for informational purposes only,’ and not to be acted upon unless perhaps you are able to seek out the guidance of the proper professionals. Ironically, those proper professionals would hardly be found to exist nowadays, and might first come into existence some time in the future, perhaps hundreds of years from now, if at all. But it is people like myself who will usher in this new knowledge.
When it comes to this type of knowledge, you’re living in ‘pioneer days.’ I don’t know what to tell you. That’s just the way it is, especially when knowledge is new and original, and yet to be sifted through and deciphered by mankind.
I will not say any more on the matter, except that there are now ‘ground rules’ that you must first now know about with regard to the information I will continue to be presenting.
...Without these Ground Rules you will misinterpret just about everything.
The fact is, I will be ‘taking apart’ both those entities referred to as ‘disease’ and ‘aging,’ and in a way (I now realize) that mankind, for various and numerous reasons, is only first ready to begin to understand.
I’ve said it before elsewhere...but I am actually amazed at how it has come to be that the knowledge and principles I discuss have gone unheeded or remained ‘undiscovered’ for so many decades and centuries in the past when in fact, once known, they are actually quite simple in principle, ‘no-brainers.’
GROUND RULES
Reread the Disclaimer stated at DrAlterwein.com. It also applies here and to this site also, in spades.
In these writings any prevention, diagnoses, treatments, cures cannot be looked upon as absolutes, with black and white answers, even if some of the results appear to be miraculous. The information here is based on probabilities. Statements can be made for larger groups of people, not individuals, although an individual can have ‘this or that odds’ for ‘such and such’ result, etc based upon his or her lifestyle and that of the prevailing population.
The information presented is ‘for informational purposes only,’ not for direct action even though I have applied it practically with myself and others. Seek out your own professional guidance, care, etc, if you can find them. Good luck.
All the information on this web site [Endurobics.com], as I have also indicated for my other web site [DrAlterwein.com], will be categorized as theory, even though much of it might not be, and might even be more secure and reliable than fact. But, it has yet to be gone over and studied, etc by society, and for medical doctors and other health care professionals yet to learn. This advanced health care science is in its infancy. I am merely introducing it as a combined science of conventional medicine with many other fields of science, biology, sociological and environmental sciences, and so on. How I apply it you will see as you read on.
I might add more Ground Rules as I go on, or indicate them within the ensuing writings.
Heart Disease
Heart disease. A tall order. People often ask about heart disease, as if it were one disease. ‘Heart disease’ entails many, many, many diseases...most more or less interrelated, but nevertheless categorized as separated ‘diseases.’ These diseases, separately and in and of themselves, vary markedly from the minor to the very severe, from occurrences upon birth and even while in utero, up to occurrences during times of old age.
I was told I needed a heart transplant, and perhaps even a lung transplant. So one of the largest medical complexes in South Florida sent me home from the hospital to die. I don’t need to tell you who they are. You’d be mortified, because many of you have already been within their clutches. But I’d rather not say. The whole place can’t be ‘bad’ obviously.
...At any rate, that was two to three years ago. I’m now just about 62 years old and just about the strongest person in my and many other gyms, among the strongest from all ages, maxing out most weight training machines and lifting over 300 pounds!
I did not have a heart nor lung transplant. I told them what they could do, even though I was pretty much ‘out of it’ by that time. At least I had enough of my wits about me not to be coaxed into their horrible abyss.
I’d been imminently about to die, emaciated and down to just over 100 pounds, in bilateral heart failure with fluid accumulating up to my waist and about five quarts or more of fluid within my abdomen. I looked like I was 9 months pregnant, the fluid distending my abdomen and pressing upon and in the process of beginning to destroy all my internal abdominal organs and even pressing up into my chest. What I just described was just part of it.
I went to over 25 doctors in the year preceding, and had I listened to them, at least five of them would have killed me for reason of omnipotence, greed for money, haughtiness, ignorance, fear of malpractice and being sued, and outright lying even to my face about the nature of my condition for one unsavory, inept, or inane reason or another, financially motivated and otherwise. If you took 1000 laymen in my position (that means ‘most all of you’ who are reading these words), even most doctors in my position...perhaps all thousand would have died had they been in my and in even less severe position, save a few doctors who might have been able to offset their demise through their knowledge or who knows what.
So, there are a lot of ‘less than desirable’ doctors out there and a health care system that often cares more about lawsuits and money than saving peoples’ lives, but for every 1000 such ‘bad,’ dishonorable doctors [the mere thought of it all makes me nauseous]...actually perhaps for every 10,000 such doctors...there is one who is like a god! There is one who is honorable with goodness in his or her heart. There is one who values and cherishes life. There is one who will not let anything stand in the way of what is ‘right’ and their ability to save life. There is one who is really great...a great person, a great doctor, a great human being.
I eventually did have surgery. No heart transplant. The surgery was formidable and I did almost die on the operating table. But the hand of our Creator operated on me. I was led to him by my knowledge and clearly, I now realize, by the Will of our Creator.
For you see, I guess He knew that I had this great knowledge that could save millions of lives (based on probabilities...remember?) I had managed to keep myself alive for about 10 or more years longer than I otherwise would have lived (for I had severe underlying congenital heart disease that had gone misdiagnosed my the ‘best of the best,’ ‘heads of hospitals’ in New York City pretty much all my life...by the best!) And I have, since having survived my surgery...I have managed to bring myself back, now approaching 62 years of age, and stronger than 99% of young men in gyms and elsewhere who are half and even a third my age...who have no heart disease...or so they think! As you’ll see, most of them already have heart disease. They just don’t know it.
So I had the ‘best surgeon’ by virtue of my knowledge and faith...and I played ‘my part’ t being ‘the best’ at what I do.
So here I am, trying to educate you. Like I said, a tall order. Like I said, had you a condition similar or even much less severe than mine, most all of you would be dead...or will be dead!
....I mean to stop that...by imparting to you, as best I can, much of the knowledge that I have obtained over more than 45 years of learning.
Make no mistake about it. Knowledge, education..save lives. The lack of it, and you’re at the hands of...you know what.
So, heart disease...a tall order.
Let’s talk about the most common kind, wherein plaque builds up within the coronary arteries. I’ve said it elsewhere. You don’t necessarily die from the blockage of the artery. You often die from the mere rupture of the plaque, even if it’s not blocking up the artery to any great degree.
I have an appointment to see someone who has heart disease...
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How do I handle such patients, clients with heart disease?...well, the answer is: “...each one differently.” No two patient...people...are alike, even though they supposedly might have the same diagnosis of disease, perhaps a moderate blockage of two coronary arteries, let’s say. But they’re always different, the presentation, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, cure of disease...although of course they do have similarities which of course afforded them similar or the same diagnoses.
“What disease do you have?”
“I have heart disease.”
“Oh...I have heart disease also.”
And that’s that. Two people. Same diagnosis. One disease...
I have a patient/ client I made an appointment to see. [Doctors have patients. Fitness trainers have clients. [I have both.] He had heard about me and gave me a call. We spoke for about a half hour on the phone, no charge. After all, I did it for me. He would never understand, so how could I charge him? I was getting details so I could make a tentative judgment as to what I was up against in terms of why he sought out my services and whether or not I thought I could help him, and so on.
I think I’ll think to myself, have a conversation between ‘me’ and ‘myself.’ I’ll let you overhear.
Myself: How far away does he live?
Me: About 45 minutes. I think we’ll probably have to talk for some time. This guy is 67 years old, overweight somewhat, and says his doctors told him he has some blockage of his arteries.
“The History Is 90% Of The Diagnosis”
Myself:: A detailed history is essential. Nowadays doctors hardly spend time to speak to patients, and without that history, they’re going to miss a whole bunch of things. Fact is, because they don’t get to know much about the patient, or take an adequate medical, social, and occupational history, and so on, they often end up randomly ordering a whole load of tests, trying to compensate for their lack of knowing enough about the patient’s symptoms, etc. In a sense, by randomly taking a lot of tests, they try ineptly to cover themselves for their inadequacies in this regard.
Me:: True. A detailed history often zeros in on preliminary judgments as to what the diagnosis might be and which specific tests to take. On one hand it’s important to lower the cost of medical care, but for lack of time...which over the years becomes an inept lack of experience...they end up ordering more tests than needed, and oftentimes the wrong ones!
Myself: Yeah. I know. And then, the irony, because of continued lack of experience in getting to know the details on patients, they end up often making misdiagnoses. The fact is, taking a number of tests that have been improperly chosen, more often than not results in wrong diagnoses and then treatments, much more so than when just one well chosen test might more readily have given the correct answer.
Me: I know. That is amazing. The history is so important. Without it, not only will the cost of medical care rise and improper diagnoses and poorly chosen treatments result, but the doctors for lack of the proper accumulation ongoing mental expertise (which can only come from taking detailed histories over years), even if they had at one time been a good doctor, they often end up as inept and less than desirable, and even ‘bad,’ doctors. Nice offices. Nice cars. True. But nevertheless, inept.
Myself: That’s right. And they often become nervous and anxious over the years running from the chronic stress resulting from things like running from room to room, from patient to patient, like chickens with their heads off. They often eventually decompensate.
Me: You’re right. And if they’d begun practicing with enthusiasm in their hearts when they first began practicing medicine, over the years they often tend to become disillusioned, and often give in to their stress, time-wise, financial-wise, and otherwise.
Myself:: Do you remember...when we first began practicing over 35 years ago, we used to go around and do little talks and give lectures to various ladies groups, and one of the main lectures we liked the most was, “The History is 90% of the diagnosis.” We had charts made of up everything.
Me: There’s another irony here. Because we realized what was happening, one of the reasons we saw fit to interrelate and combine fitness with medical doctoring (among numerous other and similarly important reasons), was because fitness trainers, by the very nature of their business, spent a lot of time per session with each client. Often an hour, and usually no less than a half hour. And they would often see people on a regular basis, more so than doctors usually. Sometimes once a month, or once a week, or a few times a week. You really get to know people that way, not only in terms of their personalities and how they think, and in terms of their overall lifestyle, but in terms of the details of their underlying diseases. You can often figure things out their other doctors have missed for years, and many times get results that are hardly obtainable when a doctor just sees you occasionally in his other office, and writes you a pill.
Myself: Obviously. Fitness training combined with medical doctoring gave us the best of both worlds, and more!
Me: You’re right. Most people don’t like filling out little history forms instead of their doctor taking the history, or some other office person who isn’t even a doctor. They become annoyed. And they don’t like when their doctor gives them a short time when they do finally get to talk to the doctor.They often feel like they’ve been given ‘the rush job’! But more importantly, what most people don’t know is the significance of the detailed history, and how lack of having proper and detailed information about a given patient can not only result in their not getting better, but in their even eventually dying.
Myself: That’s right. What people often don’t know, the detailed history is so much a part of proper diagnosis and treatment that overall, over the long run, tens of thousands of misdiagnoses and improper and failed treatments are occurring throughout the country, and I would estimate that millions of people in the long run fail to get better because of it.
Me: And chronically ill people, who are always sick...they’re the ones who are practically bankrupting the health care system. And then, this often equates into the eventuality of their dying, people who otherwise would not have died had the doctor simply afforded them proper and adequate time.
The Amazing Advantage Of Combined Doctoring
Fitness Training & With Other Modalities!
Myself: Amazing but true. With the combined fitness training medical doctor, however, it’s not even a question of allotting a certain amount of time for the the history. After all, you see the patient/client so much, you’re in a sense always taking a history and always getting details. And you’re getting details you would otherwise never have gotten because you’re working directly with and observing the patient frequently over time, not just seeing them once in awhile and having the nurse check their blood pressure..
Me: That’s right. I can’t tell you how much we’re learned and discovered merely by always checking blood pressures and pulses in a gym multiple times while they’re exercising on this and that machine. These things, multitudes of them, relating to the diagnosis and treatment of disease has never yet been discovered simply because few people are both fitness trainers and doctors and taking care and seeing people in that capacity in an ongoing manner. You can see things no doctor let alone fitness trainer, who is not a doctor and hardly able to know disease...that no doctor could ever come to see...not sitting in an office just handing out pills. And you can actually see the progression or lack of progression of any given disease...from Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis, neurological and musculoskeletal disease, arthritis, arthralgia, fibromyalgia, and autoimmune disease, and on and on...and not only heart disease, and emphysema and cancer...and surgeries, pre and post op. Oh, the list goes on and on...and oftentimes by being there, ‘hands-on’ with the patient or client, and actually witnessing the development and progression and/or regression of disease, you can often get ‘cures’ and results no one might ever have imagined before!
Myself: You’re absolutely right...‘We’re’ absolutely right! And not intending to ‘put down’ medications, but there’s so much more you can do in addition to medications when you do things the way we’ve been doing them, by combing so many fields, and in addition to and as an adjunct to surgery, recuperation...even psychology and stress management and meditation and Far Eastern methods of motion...and the list goes on and on almost endlessly it seems, or at least to the tune of hundreds of different modalities which when combined together...sometimes you can work miracles!
Me: Yes sireee. It’s one thing to give lip service to it all, to all these different fields, but to do them, hands on, as a medical doctor and surgeon/fitness trainer and so on...the results with so many, many diseases...it boggles the mind!
JUMP AHEAD 45 MINUTES, SITTING IN LIVING ROOM, TALKING WITH CLIENT,
IN THE MIDDLE OF TAKING INITIAL 2 HOUR HISTORY, EVALUATION & CONSULTATION
Me: Well, now I’ve got a pretty good idea as to what’s going on here. Looks like he’s already had an angiogram which showed some blockage in two coronary arteries. I’m gonna have to make contact with his cardiologist to confirm that and get details.
Myself: But he’s pretty good at giving details. I’d say he probably did have some blockage, but it’s important to know the results and get them myself, and speak to the cardiologist to see what he thinks.
Me: You’re right. When we asked him what the doctor said in terms of management and treatment, he was sort of evasive. He might be anxious about the possibility of the need for surgery...but I’m really going to have to go over the records and get more information. He says the doctor said he doesn’t need surgery, but needs to go on some program. We’ll see.
Myself: You’re right. He has some swelling in his ankles, and denies his having told his doctor or his doctor having brought it up to him. And his blood pressure is borderline elevated. He denies any suggestion of heart failure, but I didn’t really want to bring it up and unduly give him concern until further evaluation. But he’s been tired and complains of having some difficulty breathing. He could just be out of shape and out of condition, but it could also be a sign of heart failure and other things. We’ll see. These are just possibilities, potentialities right now. Further evaluation is needed, No need worrying him about a possibility that might not be true. When we’re sure we can speak more frankly. Doctors must be very careful in what they say to patients. The wrong statement could result in worry which could affect the patient for years.
Me: Right. And he’s not sure of the results of the echocardiogram he took. He might have some evidence of heart failure. Perhaps his doctor never told him. Who knows. We’ll find out. And he’s eating all the wrong things. He thinks he’s eating healthy, but the diet he told me about could easily keep him in chronic heart failure.
Heart failure accounts for a sizeable portion of the entire health care system costs throughout the entire country. Numerous people are in and out of hospitals, going in and out of heart failure. By working directly with a guy like this, and spending some sessions explaining the overall nature of how it all works and interrelates with so many things he does from day to day, we can keep him out of the hospital, relatively healthy, and in shape, and the cost for caring for him will be astronomically less. If only insurance companies I’ve approached over the years had the right mind set to listen and put these programs into effect. But last VP I spoke to from a major insurance said he was going to put a program in place just to fulfill the requirements for the new Lifestyle Law in Florida, but he really couldn’t care less about keeping his insurance company clientele healthy. Really dumb of him. I’ve pointed it out elsewhere. His insurance company is going to be financially hurt eventually. He’s a quick fix insurance person. He said he’d call us back for the program, but he won’t. It’s amazing to me. That Law is going to take along time to work, or it might fail, but it will take a whole bunch of people’s health along with it, not to mentioned the insurance companies financies. Like I said...dumb. But I’m used to it. We’re used to it. We’ll just do it ourselves and get the right information out to the people to help them. Maybe one day we’ll make some money from it to keep it going. Who knows!
Myself: You’re right about all that. A little diversion there. Now let’s not let our personal disgust divert us from this guy we’re been considering when it comes to him. The bottom line. After we check into everything, I have a feeling we’re going to find out that he’s in some mild right heart heart failure. His lungs are clear even though he says he’s a little out of breath. Actually, after we talk a little more, we can do simple things right here in his living room to get some ideas as to all this. A little walk, some squats, who knows. We’ll test it out. Perhaps a little more. I can simply look at him, his overall affect, the nature of his pulse and blood pressure, and I’m going to be right on the button most of the time. But this is preliminary, to give us an overall idea how to approach him. Of course we’ll have to check into some of the tests he’s had, makes suggestions for repeat tests we might not trust, or other tests. In the meantime, his appears fine fine, no untoward signs I can pick up without having him move around a little like I said, walking, or squats, or whatever. But in terms of any diagnostic cardiac sounds supporting heart failure with his being at rest, we’ll evaluate and talk to him more, check him a little more, and then we’ll have to see what the cardiologist has to say on these matters.
Me: Whatever. It seems overall like we could really help this guy. But of course we’ll have to go over it all with a number of his other doctors, not just his cardiologist. [He has a few doctors.] And then we can properly suggest Ito him that we should be working with him ‘hands on’ on a regular basis. If he’s compliable and develops trust, I believe his lifestyle followed on a day to day basis via telephone and regular sessions, there’s a good chance we’ll get his blood pressure down to normal. The main thing is his understanding and willingness to work with us. Even if in mild heart failure, I think we can get that under control. We’ve dealt with much worse. All in all, I’m quite confident we can make him feel so much better, but he’s going to have to be open to learning what his disease condition is all about. That’s half the problem right there.
Myself: Most patients like him are routinely given some medication, they go home, and they have no idea as to what’s going on. So of course, without understanding and without somebody there to guide him medically and so on, of course he might get discouraged and do everything wrong, and not get better, and get worse, even though, with the proper attitude and guidance, treating him successfully would be a piece of cake! And actually, he can even have cake from time to time. We’re not going to be compulsive about the diet. Just do the right thing overall.
Me: That’s right. With patients like him the problem often is, there’s no communication with their doctors and other health care professionals, and even if there were adequate communication with his doctors, the irony is, medical doctors or not, they hardly know what to do other than give patients like him some medications and lip service as to the very lifestyle factors that are actually the underlying root cause of his problems! His medications can be prescribed from an office, true, but his treatment is in a gym and at home in his everyday life. Where is the doctor then?...not to mention the doctor’s knowledge as to how this all works. Unless they actually get down to the nitty-gritty as I’ve done and work directly with people one on one themselves, I don’t care how much they know nor how esoteric their knowledge is presumed to be...without this knowledge and ‘hands-on’ form of management I’m introducing here, they remain in the dark ages, and they know nothing. And they remain clueless as to why their treatments might not be working as well as they would have liked!
LIFESTYLE FACTORS WHICH I INSTITUTE CAN OFTEN BE FOUND TO OVERSHADOW AND EVEN DO AWAY WITH MEDICATIONS PATIENTS HAVE BEEN TAKING FOR YEARS!
Myself: I know. Right now he’s not satisfied with what the doctor is telling him since he has no confidence in the doctor it seems, and hardly gets to talk to him. His doctor is in and out of the examining room with him in no time flat. A condition like his could mushroom into a life-threatening status simply from lack of confidence to follow simple things. A few months with him though, if things are the way I think they’re going to turn out to be, and he’ll be another person. When I first spoke to him on the phone, he held back a lot. But now that I see him and am evaluating him this first time, I see a lot more. Seems like he’s already had a couple of hospital admissions. My educated gut feelings tells me there’s poor communication with his doctor or he’s not being given adequate information to follow a proper lifestyle so he doesn’t end back up in the hospital again. I don’t think even doctors realize that just one improper meal can put patients like him right back into the hospital the very next day, especially with heart failure. And I can’t tell you how many people I see having been prescribed 10 to 20 medications hardly able to hold themselves up as they are leaving a restaurant. They stuff themselves quite literally to death. You don’t think it’s part of medical management to talk to them, and counsel them about these sorts of things and behavior. And here we enter what I’ve referred time and again on these web sites as ‘mind control.’ Did the doctor ever really take the time, or even know, that that one meal could kill the patient! Without adequate evaluation of the way people think and behave and so on, they are often doomed to death at their own hand. That’s why we often sometimes spend hours talking to people via educational and motivational sessions and so on. It actually gets quite deep. It’s not easy to change the way someone thinks, the level of control they have over what they do. But that’s our forte, one of the more important things we do, one of the more important aspects of our combined medical, fitness, social, occupational and psychological evaluation, diagnosis and treatment.
Me: His doctor should be real glad we’ll be working with him. He’ll have a healthier patient. But I’ve found, truthfully, that quite a number of doctors just don’t care, even though we can help them to get their patients better and happier. It makes them look better if their patient is feeling better. You have no idea how many doctors I’ve approached. They listen. Appear quite mesmerized when they meet me. But sometimes I feel they might be feeling inadequate or ashamed that they haven’t done what I’ve been doing, or been able to do it. All doctors should have been doing these things. That’s medicine, conventional medicine. I guess again, sadly, many people, even doctors simply don’t care unless, like they say, there’s something in it for themselves, like especially money!
Myself: Well, that’s our advantage. We can get the patient’s confidence because we sit down and explain and spend so much time relative to the doctor, and we do so many things that current day ‘doctoring’ alone doesn’t do, but should. We’ll even accompany him to the doctor if need be, or if he simply feels more comfortable. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve done that, and didn’t even get paid for doing so, like when some of our patients were having hospital medical procedures...remember how we’ve waited with their families in the waiting room?. And we never asked to be compensated financially for it. We thought that it was more important to gain the patient’s confidence and get him better. I
Me: yes, that’s right. In time, he’s going to be quite surprised and happy, especially when he finds that by following some simple guidelines, he’s going to be feeling a lot better. Even his generalized lethargy. It’s probably all part of the same thing. The medications will help, and I’ll go over that with his doctor...but between you and me, what we do in the gym and at home and elsewhere with somebody like him (sometimes accompanying patients with a jog down the street, or even at the beach!)...it should turn him around 180 degrees. Few people let alone doctors realize there are exercises with certain machines which, when performed certain ways and on a regular basis, while I’m observing the patient and guiding him...some of those exercises, and the food I’ll have him on and the motivation I will be giving him, and the hope...I’ve found the medications in general often help, but what I can do in the gym and at home and with lifestyle factors overall, can oftentimes markedly overshadow the benefits of medications alone. What we can do with the patient over and above his medications is like going into warp drive in terms of his becoming better, and in time, people like him are off their medications before they known it. They’re usually quite surprised, especially when they’ve been on those medications for years, like high blood pressure medication...and then they’re off them!
Doc: Mr. McGillicutty...I’d like to check something again. I’d like to check your pulse while you’re sitting, and then I’d like you to stand up. Then I’ll check your pulse again. You’ll then walk around the room for a minute or two, and I’ll check your pulse a third time.
Mr. McGillicutty: Why Doc?
Doc: Well, I can tell a lot of things from your pulse and how it might vary from sitting to standing to walking, at least for starters.
Mr. McGillicutty: Oh, I get it. It probably speeds up. You want to check the rate.
Doc: Well Mr. Mr. McGillicutty, for starters perhaps. But I’ll be checking a lot more than your pulse rate. You see, doctors...or a tleast in medicine, the pulse is checked mainly for its rate, for how rapidly it goes, and for regularity, which help to demonstrate irregularities of the heart rate. I remember though when studying Far Eastern medicine, it was pointed out that there are about 32 different types of pulse.
Mr. McGillicutty: Oh...
Doc: You see, in Chinese medicine they even divide the radial pulse in your wrist into different surface areas and into into variations at different levels. Supposedly they can tell a lot about the human body that way, in health and disease. And perhaps they can. But over the years I’ve been checking the pulse so many thousands of times before, during and after so many different motions and exercises and in so many conditions and diseases, and in aging, that I’ve come to realize there are actually hundreds of different variations.
Mr. McGillicutty: Oh, sounds sort of complicated doc.
Doc: Well, perhaps. But after awhile...when you’ve been doing it as long as I have and under so many different circumstances and conditions and with so many different people with so many different conditions that after awhile you sort of develop a ‘sixth sense’ when it comes to the pulse. I’m not just looking for rate and regularity of the pulse, but a whole bunch of other things. And with that I can get an overall sense of how, on an average, you might be doing overall inside your body. How well your body is functioning overall. And it incorporates not just your internal levels of conditions, fitness and that sort of thing, but effects from the aging of your body and disease in general...and how much these things might have affected your body.
Mr. McGillicutty: So what you’re telling me Doc is that you pretty much figured it out yourself?
Doc: that’s about it. It’s written down nowhere. It’s all new. But it interrelates, almost as ‘one,’ the overall internal function of your body in health, fitness, disease and aging. They’re all interrelated you known. Take a look at my web site Mr. McGillicutty. I begin to explain it there. Actually, overall, I’m looking to maintain the body internally in a sort of balance or harmony. I call it a state of homeostasis. When the body is in balance, in homeostasis, it is most likely to be able to function efficiently, and heal, and offset signs and symptoms of aging. And it entails levels of conditioning I multiple ways.
Mr. McGillicutty: Doc...pardon my ignorance, but I thought once you become conditioned, that’s it, you’re conditioned.
Doc:Well, that’s what most people think. Even experts in the field. But I’ve discovered the body becomes conditioned hundreds of different ways. Like you can become conditioned to walking flat on a treadmill, but that doesn’t mean you would be conditioned to swimming or hiking up a mountain. Each activity, to the tune of hundreds of different activities and exercises and motions, conditions the body overall, internally, differently. And I’ve learned that there is an amazing correlation between multiple forms of conditioning and the development of disease and aging.
Mr. McGillicutty: Wow Doc. I never heard of that.
Doc: Not many people have Mr. McGillicutty. But by merely checking your pulse, like when you’re seated and then standing and then walking or then even jogging or running or exercising...it gives me preliminary ideas as to what’s going on inside your body, an overall barometer if you will of the overall functioning of your body internally interrelating and combining its strength and vitality in health, disease and aging. Like your being slightly out of breath Mr. McGillicutty.
Mr. McGillicutty: Ah...that’s nothin’ doc. I shouldn’t have even mentioned it.
Doc: Well, perhaps. But we’re going to check it out anyway. It might be nothing more than you’re a little out of condition, or other things...but that’s why we’re going to check things.
Mr. McGillicutty: What do you mean by ‘other things’ Doc?
Doc: Well, a little breathiness can come from a lot of things, but nothing we can’t handle. The problem arises when you ignore it and don’t find out what it’s due to.
Mr. McGillicutty: Well Doc...that’s why I called you. My friend told me you could work miracles. And to tell you the truth, I haven’t really been feeling to good lately. I like my doctors, but I’m still tired, and they can’t seem to give me any real answers. I don’t feel exactly like I used to feel. And I get tired so easily.
Doc: Well Mr. McGillicutty, thank you for the compliment, but it is you who will be performing the miracles. I’m just going to show you how.
Mr. McGillicutty: Hey...that sounds great doc. I’m ready.
Doc: Okay...so let’s get to do these little tests...like I said...first sitting, then standing, and then walking.
Mr. McGillicutty: I’m ready doc...
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I will be adding a great deal to this section about the Heart as I get to it. What I’ve written above is only a tiny little beginning, just to give you an idea. There are numerous conditions of the heart and vascular system interrelated with health, disease and aging that I want to get to...and to many new ideas I’ve learned about and discovered, so people who are suffering now and not satisfied with the results they’re getting from what they’re already doing can get new information I’ve learned about and perhaps benefit from it. Perhaps they’re dissatisfied or not doing as well as they would like to with regard to any underlying cardiovascular conditions they might have--their treatments or medications or who knows what...perhaps this new information can be of help to them, of course to be discussed with their own health care professionals. Or they can email me and ask me directly. I’m not charging for that, as might be expected.
And furthermore, if there is a specific condition that you, the reader, might want covered...like I said, again, simply email me.
Or perhaps you’re recuperating from cardiac surgery. The information I can give you, you will be able to get nowhere else in the world...unless of course the year you are reading these words is at least beyond the year 2400. By that time I would hope a lot more people will have knowledge as to the things I’m talking about. But in the year 2005, forget it. That’s like the year 0001 when it comes to this information!
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