Everybody is busy these days. It seems like time is shrinking, forcing us to give up part of our pleasures ans sometimes even part of our duties. Massage is one of the relaxation ways we don’t have too much time for. Going to a massage center requires making an appointment, then respecting it, spending time driving to and from the beauty center… for extremely busy people this may be too much. Luckily, there is a faster way to your daily relaxation: buy a massage chair. I had the chance to try one of these chairs in a shop and I was impressed: that massage chair had air cushions everywhere, so it was able to give you a full body massage, from neck to sole. Moreover, it had the ability to combine different massage techniques, like friction, kneading, tapping, Shiatsu or impact, very easy to select from the remote control that operates the chair.If you are not sure what types of massage to use, you can let the chair do what it has been programmed to, and choose either one of the upper body automatic programs, or a lower body automatic program.

Briefly, I liked the idea of buying such a massage chair for myself, but I had other priorities at that time, so I almost forgot about it. Then I discovered that one of my friends has a company which sells such masage chairs. She promised me to give me the massage recliner I’ve been dreaming of, provided that I help her promote her chairs. This is what I’m doing now, so if you need more info about massage chairs, recliners, or portable massage chairs, just contact my friend and she’ll tell you everything you want to know.

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If you ever suffered from dandruff, then you know how hard, if not impossible, is to get rid of it. Shampoos, treatments, drastic haircuts, all for only a temporary illusion that you’ll get rid of all the trouble, and that you’ll be able to dress in black without worrying that you’ll look like a snowman.

Good news from the science world: the dandruff’s genes were finally sectioned, as announced by Reuters and by the U.S. National Library of Medicine a few days ago. According to this study done by researchers at P&G Beauty, the “creature” responsible for our dandruff (and of another skin conditions) is a fungus called Malassezia Globosa. For scientific details of this study you can follow the links. What’s strange with this fungus is that until now, scientists were not aware that it has reproductive capability, but the study showed that it actually does. This can explain why many times dandruff manages to evade even the most efficient anti-dandruff shampoos.

So next time you’ll have a scalp itch, think at Malassezia, who’s fooling around on your head

My story with psoriasis started about 15 years ago. Even before that happened, about 20 years ago I got TMJ in the left side of my jaw. Here’s the story how my psoriasis started, 15 years ago:

I worked for a living growing plants, after college. The company I worked at use many pesticides on the plants, and I managed a team as well. I was still finding my way in life since I was just out of school. The first instance of psoriasis came up on the left upper side front of my scalp. At the same time it also appeared in the middle top of my scalp. At that point, it did not resemble psoriasis. It resembled scabs and sores that seemed as if I had an infection.

What caused this? Well, there were four things happening in my life any or all of which could have triggered the psoriasis. My family has no history genetically of having psoriasis. The four things going on in my life were as follows:

1. I was very stressed out as I was about to move and my girlfriend and I were in the midst of breaking up.
2. I was in my phase of wanting to try natural and organic products. I went to the store Whole Foods and bought Nature’s Gate Rainforest Shampoo. The day after I used the shampoo for the first time is when the irritation on my scalp started.
3. The place I worked had need of having pesticides sprayed. Within the week before the irritation on my scalp, I was in the presence of pesticides being sprayed, without enough protection to keep me from being exposed.

As these are the things that originally happened, and were happening in the week before the irritation started, because the irritation started on my scalp, I believe the trigger was more number two above than the others. But, on the other hand, who’s to know which contributed the most.

In my early treatment I would just scrape at my scalp in the shower trying to remove the scabs. This obviously wasn’t the best solution, and medical treatment was needed. I went to the doctor and they diagnosed me with psoriasis. For my scalp they gave me Dovonex solution. After that, they gave me Dovonex Cream. I started to get psoriasis on my left elbow. The psoriasis kept growing on my elbow. Eventually, another doctor gave me steroid shots. In future months and years I went through many more medical, herbal, and other treatments. Pages beneath this section will give a summary of how each treatment worked for me. For treatments that I have not tried, I have had other people with psoriasis write those.

Here I am, 15 years later from the start of my psoriasis. Psoriasis over the years has at times not bothered me, at other times been debilitating, and even at other times then unbearable. Not only can this website help you learn from my experiences, but it can help you learn from other people’s experiences as well. If you have had experiences yourself that you feel can help other people, please click on the contact us page on this website and either send me your story, or ask me for a login so that you can post to this website.

Click on the navigation to the left underneath this section in the left nav to read more about each treatment that I have tried. Please note that some treatments were very effective, while others were not. Others worsened the disease. The best treatments for me overall in clearing my psoriasis were Shea butter cream, stress reduction, Dead Sea salts soap, diet adjustment, exercise, and improvement of job situation.

For years I have tested so many techniques to help my Psoriasis, and some things have helped more than others. Some things I have done have worked very well. Many other people have different stories on what helped them the most. This website is here to help you learn from those stories. http://www.mypsoriasistreatment.com/

Pro Ana Tips And Tricks Criticism

It’s easy to understand that medical associations and scientists’ opinions are mostly negative, concerning the appearance of websites which share pro ana tips and tricks for their readers. These activities are perceived as encouraging teenagers to strive for perfection by becoming anorexic.

I think the roots of this eating trouble come from nowadays social standards of beauty, which many times impose that women are skinny. Only look at the fashion parades and shows and observe the top models: they all look like they are always starving, their bones are prominent and many times their face shows illness and malnutrition. If this is beauty, why then are we concerned when we see the young generation trying all kind of pro ana tips and tricks, from collective weight loss diets to tips on how to induce vomiting or on how to hide weight loss from doctors and from their parents?

While I tend to agree that being fat is harmful to a person’s health and well-being, I cannot understand the attraction of looking like an extremely poor person who cannot afford to eat. There are so many children in this world who would give everything to eat at least one meal every day, that it is outrageous to think that somebody would eat with the sole purpose of vomiting everything as soon as possible after that.

But I suppose I’m not entitled to judge anybody, and as long as the net would exist, there would always be places where anorexia sufferers would share their pro ana tips and tricks.

Well, for some of us, finding our marbles turned into a long and painful journey, spread across many years, or many hospitals, or many drugs.
Scott Davis is one of these children, who found his marbles at the end of a 23 years long journey, and who recently started this blog, Finding Your Marbles – A Mental Health Survival Guide. Scott’s purpose is to offer advice and support to all people out there, who are seeking for information on mental health.

When I began treatment for depression, there were many resources available to help me recover from mental illness. However, I found that there were few resources available to help me learn how to live with mental illness. For example, there was little information available about how to stay organized or plan your time when you suffer from depression. The information that was available was either very condescending, or it required a huge investment of time and energy to get started. This was a major problem for me, since I was trying to hold down a career and keep a marriage together at the same time as I was recovering from depression.
I also found that the therapy and the anti-depressant medication had side effects that were affecting my life, and there was very little information available to help me deal with these side effects. In short, I needed advice on how to get through life, and I needed it fast.

Finding Your Marbles can help you choose a therapist, or how to reward yourself, or even how to survive a party. In case you don’t see why you need to survive a party, think a bit further: think of people suffering from anxiety, as this post is addressed to them. Indeed, they tend to worry about everything, they are afraid that people don’t like them… Here, Scott makes a good point: if you were invited, it’s for sure that at least the host of the party likes you and wants you to be there.

I can emphasize that enough. A party is a chance for a group of people who like each other to get together and have fun. If you were invited, it means that your host likes you, and he or she thinks that the other guests will like you too. So when you go to a party, keep that in mind. The people there will be happy to see you, and your host will be glad you came.

Please don’t get me wrong: even if you are in good health, there are also useful resources for you in Finding Your Marbles, such as learning how to relax using deep breathing techniques, or the ten minute therapy.

If you take my advice and stop by Scott’s blog, don’t forget to move your mouse over the marbles in the header. You’ll be surprised.

Good luck Scott, and may you never lose your marbles again. I invite you to take your rolling blogroll badge and put it on your blog.

This review is part of the Rolling Blogroll project.

But did you ever think to renovate your life? Give it a thought right now. Wouldn’t it be great to live a life with no hard feelings, or misery, a life of success and fulfillments, whatever this may mean to you? That’s another kind of renovation, and if you don’t know from where to start it, Craig Harper, motivational speaker, high performance coach and life renovator is out there to help you. This is how he introduces his blog, Renovate Your Life With Craig, to us:

“This site is a blog site, which is kind of like Craig’s classroom; random thoughts, observations and life lessons. It is an educational and inspirational resource for people who are serious about creating their best life. The cool thing about going to Craig’s class is; the only travel you have to do is on the cyber-highway … and the only school fees are ‘the price of creating your own amazing life.’ If you’re genuinely ready to change, and you want to move from mediocre to amazing, then pull up a seat, have an open mind, be prepared to get uncomfortable and start learning and doing.”

If you find “an hour (or three)” to see what’s this all about, you can discover that the best part of renovating your life is the process itself, you can find out what is the price of success, or you can learn about the incredible relationship between our mind and our body, and how happiness can create cures for our diseases.

I have a friend who always says that her life was only a chain of bad lucks, that she never had an opportunity, and other people and circumstances out there led her to misery. I was never able to find the right words to show her how wrong this kind of thinking is. I’m not saying the death of her father was her decision. Of course it wasn’t. But the reaction she had to this death was her choice. She has chosen to become a victim, so she behaves like one. There’s always our choice involved, and after reading Craig’s post about destiny or decisions, I found exactly the words I was looking for:

“I believe your life is a disaster largely because of the decisions you have and haven’t made, and the things you have and haven’t done.”

It’s about choices.
Simple.

“If you decide to do different, think different, react different, eat different, live different and communicate different…. you’ll be different.”

If you are one of those people who started thousands of weight-loss diets and you still did not manage to have the body you desire, you might want to take some advice from an ex-fat boy, and find out about the psychology of weight loss. I don’t know how fat Craig was as a kid, but now he surely looks good (and he shows it on all pages of his blog)

Briefly, Renovate your life with Craig is so real and so inspiring, that I urge you to make yourself some time and go through its articles. After that, it’s your decision if you go back to whatever you were doing, or you take some tools and start renovating your life. With or without Craig.

This review is part of the Rolling Blogroll project.

Environmental analytic laboratory

In the environmental analytic department the concentrations of different organic pollutants (pesticides, wood preservatives, alcohols) in the blood, in the urine, in the sweat and even in the mother’s milk are determined with special procedures (gas chromatography and mass spectrometry).

With the heavy metal investigations after mobilisations tests, with an atomic absorption spectrometry method, urine and chair samples are burned at 2000 degrees Celsius and evaluated. In this way, heavy metal loads are also determined.

Immunology / Allergology

The Immunology / Allergology laboratory uses the most modern techniques to identify IgE and IgG specific anti-bodies. Here important investigations of the cellular immune status and a complex examination of allergic reactions to 60 allergens can be performed.

In addition standardized skin tests are accomplished, covering over 500 allergens.
Furthermore, Lymphocytes transformation tests (LTT) for determining cellular sensitization in the immune system e.g. against heavy metals from dental works are available.

Clinical chemistry

The department for clinical chemistry offers an investigation package of 28 different enzymes, metabolites, trace elements and electrolytes, which are determined fully automated using small serum samples.
Another clinical-chemical investigation is the neuro hormone measurement, which determines the presence of stress hormones in the blood plasma.

Here it can be determined e.g. whether with children a genuine dopamine-dependent hyperactivity is present or whether it concerns educate-conditioned remarkableness.

Further the determination of the fatty acid profile in the blood cells or food can be determined. Among other things, the deficits in omega 3 -, 6 and 9-nonsaturated fatty acids can be determined and compensated individually.

Haematology, free radicals and redox measurements

The Haematology laboratory is furnished with two modern Coulters Electronics Blutmessgeraeten, which make a fully automated investigation of complete blood pictures with the help of the laser technology. Here the analyses take place both for the stationary and ambulatory patients with maximum speed (1 minute/blood profile).

Also blood gas analyses (acid base equilibrium) make possible free radicals and redox potential measurements in the blood. Thus e.g. the effects of each fruit juice or medicine on the reaction spectrum of each patient can be measured. The free radical and redox potential measurement can indicate both the oxidative load and the anti-oxidative capacity of the blood.

Microbiology
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The micro-biological department has a firm place during the routine investigation of the microbial settlement of the skin, the mucous membranes and the intestine.

Besides inoculation and identification procedures, also the examination of sensitivity in relation to numerous antibiotics and mushrooms can be done. The results are of great importance for the acute restaurant therapy and for the proper intestine reorganization.

Further diagnostic procedures

In addition with complex clinical conditions of an unclear cause the function diagnostics are used, such as:

- Ultrasonic diagnostics
- Doppler investigations
- Lung function diagnostics
- Electrocardiogram
- Sleep laboratory
- Computer regularization thermography.

If you want to know more, you can reach Spezialklinik Neukirchen at:

- telephone 09947/28102
- fax 09947/28109
- E-Mail info@allergieklinik.de

Source of the article: http://www.spezialklinik-neukirchen.de/

Dr. John Ionescu in the media attention

Dr. John Ionescu gave an interview to IAS (International Anti-Aging Systems), in which he explained the principles of his methods, mainly addressing the cause and not the symptoms of the ailments.

AAM: I am aware of your ground breaking research and the results you have been achieving in patients with skin disorders. What essentially makes your work different to that of the traditional dermatologist?
Dr. Ionescu: Basically, instead of treating symptoms, our cortisone, radiation and retinoid free therapy concept is addressing the causes of the illness, and ensures a long-term recovery without side-effects.

Dr. Ionescu supports his statements with photos of patients before and after the treatment. He has recently shown such photos in a TV talk show, and it was really impressive to see a wrinkled face rejuvenated with about 10 years, or a patient with severe psoriasis lesions almost cured.

Spezialklinik Neukirchen research materialized

One of the products developed in the Spezialklinik Neukirchen is called Energy cream and it is designed for skin ailments such as psoriasis and eczema.

When using the Energy cream, scientists at the Spezialklinik Neukirchen, also noticed that successfully treated psoriatic areas of the scalp and forehead skin, demonstrated a significant improvement in skin structure and wrinkles. 33 different test formulations were required to improve the original psoriatic cream to a market conforming cosmetic mixture for rapid skin regeneration with prominent anti-aging effects.

Studies done in Germany as well as in Romania, demonstrated the benefits of Energy cream for psoriasis lesions and also for skin rejuvenating.

If you want to know more about the research undergone in Spezialklinik Neukirchen, you can read these older articles of Dr. John Ionescu, published by International Antiaging Systems.

For those who have graduated such schools, and open their own chiropractic cabinets, there are specialized chiropractic software programs which can help them in their current practice.

Chiropractic Perspectives That Reflect a Holistic Approach to Patient Care

• noninvasive, emphasizes patient’s inherent recuperative abilities
• recognizes dynamics between lifestyle, environment, and health
• emphasizes understanding the cause of illness in an effort to eradicate, rather than palliate, associated symptoms
• recognizes the centrality of the nervous system and its intimate relationship with both the structural and regulatory capacities of the body
• appreciates the multifactorial nature of influences (structural, chemical, and psychological) on the nervous system
• balances the benefits against the risks of clinical interventions
• recognizes as imperative the need to monitor progress and effectiveness through appropriate diagnostic procedures
• prevents unnecessary barriers in the doctor-patient encounter
• emphasizes a patient-centered, hands-on approach intent on influencing function through structure
• strives toward early intervention, emphasizing timely diagnosis and treatment of functional, reversible conditions

Source: AHCPR Chapter 2 Chiropractic Belief Systems, Robert D. Mootz DC; Reed B. Phillips DC, PhD

Although these principles sound good, not all people agree with this kind of practice, as they see many dangers in manipulating the bones. Indeed, it is very easy to damage the nerves, so those who seek chiropractic treatment for their ailments should be very careful in selecting the best chiropractor.

I wrote this post because I suffer from low back pain since 15 years ago, I don’t want to go through surgery, and I would be happy to hear opinions from people who considered going to chiropracticians to treat such ailments.