I commented today under part 1, this is additional information after reading part 2. 95% of my diet is home cooked meals, I’m the cook, and am an omnivore, eat a lot of plants, use sea salt exclusively. I do two hours a week of active dancing in classes (breathing heavily but able to carry on a conversation) and swim for 1/2 hour 4-5 times a week. Until 2 years ago I hiked at least twice a week and could comfortably do 6-8 miles per day (now limited by severe back spasms, I also have scoliosis since childhood and believe the spasms to be related to a left convex lumbar curve as they occur in a large wad of muscle left of my lumbar spine).
My treated blood pressures are about 140/85, it was about 5 points lower when I could hike (which I dearly miss). I’m intolerant to several classes of antihypertensive medications. My primary care doctor is out of ideas, and my HMO Orthopedist says “scoliosis doesn’t cause pain.”
I realize I’m asking a lot, but do you have any ideas about things that I could try?
1) As we age, arteries harden to some extent (depending on many risk factors) and there is little utility in trying to fight it by forcibly lowering blood pressure.
2) Are you seeing the sunrise and sunset every day?
3) Are you touching the earth with bare skin (away from major sources of EMF) 30-60 minutes per day?
4) Pain can definitely be a contributor if you are experiencing it
I’ve had chronic daily pain since age 48, from the scoliosis, but also from bicycling injuries and some falls when hiking. Have tried many things, found a few that are helpful (swimming, arnica, massage, Feldenkrais…).
Thank you, I will try your suggestions. They made me realize that since my knees went South during the pandemic, I’ve become much more of an indoor person, so I’ll try to get out more and enjoy more red light in the evening.
Just found your Substack during a bout of insomnia. I appreciate your perspective and will enjoy diving deeper into your writings as I’m able. It was very generous of you to answer my question. Thank you.
I’m an older woman (73) with HTN. I’ve been active most of my life and am on 3 blood pressure medications as well as potassium and magnesium supplements to replenish what’s lost by the diuretic. I know that we are capable of increasing our vascular beds through exercise. Are there other ways to do this?
Fascinating to understand how blood flows. I'd assumed it was entirely the heart's pumping action that maintained flow & thus circulation.
I was excited, expecting to find out further aspects of blood 'pressure' (by the interaction of blood itself with vessel walls, producing a reactive flow of blood), why high pressure is bad, & how to sekf-treat it! I was pumped (!) to learn more. Alas, then you asked for account upgrade to read on. I lack a credit card & couldn't upgrade. You should warn readers ... Lol. Ah well.
Witnessing most or all family members developing similar or the same symptoms of respiratory illness within a short period of time, or most or all patients in the same hospital room or even the same hospital ward, or many elderly at nursing homes dying from respiratory illness, at least intuitively tells you terrain theory is incomplete or even dead wrong. How would you even test terrain theory by the scientific method?
I have taken care of innumerable people with infections, both respiratory and non-respiratory.
I can hardly recall any time that I got sick because I was around patients with pneumonia or other respiratory infections.
Most people in hospitals either come to the hospital because of something they developed in the community, OR they catch a hospital "superbug" because the environment/terrain of the hospital nurtures the development of these bugs.
I can't recall anytime i have seen someone come in with community acquired pneumonia, and then "give" that bacteria to their room or ward-mate.
Because you have already made it clear your preconceived ideas that terrain has to be right. Right?
I’m going to give you a tip because you are clearly not a stupid person. Can you think of life as information? On quantum level everything is information. You must know that chemistry is based on quantum mechanics though nobody likes talking about it.
Any “disruptions” in quantum arrangements of that information in life system can cause problems or illness if you will. We are all connected by what we call quantum fields. In simple terms people can affect other people in close contact because of this evidence.
I know contagion is true because it was recorded 3500 years ago in the records that cannot be denied.
Fascinating re-interpretation & integration of the basics of the circulatory system. Have been reading about the 4th phase of water in recent months & the suction (rather than pumping) action you describe (so many books to read... so little time!); undoubtedly this is of profound importance to our understanding of blood flow/HTN & related. Though I'm going to take a wild guess that the majority of allopathic cardiologists are unaware/uneducated or disregard it as "quackery".
Interesantes y poco conocidos planteamientos que involucran la química y la física así como nuevos planteamientos de la anatomía cardiaca en el fenómeno circulatorio de la sangre así como las causas de su atrofia. Muy útil artículo.
Wow. This truly does turn the conventional picture upside down and inside out. Seems to be heading toward the notion that animals are closed-loop plants, and the heart is more like a synchronizer than a pump?
In terms I'm familiar with, this feels like replacing the older idea that the larynx muscles vibrate to produce sound, with the newer idea that the larynx is just a ramjet creating pulses which drive the resonators in the vocal tract.
I commented today under part 1, this is additional information after reading part 2. 95% of my diet is home cooked meals, I’m the cook, and am an omnivore, eat a lot of plants, use sea salt exclusively. I do two hours a week of active dancing in classes (breathing heavily but able to carry on a conversation) and swim for 1/2 hour 4-5 times a week. Until 2 years ago I hiked at least twice a week and could comfortably do 6-8 miles per day (now limited by severe back spasms, I also have scoliosis since childhood and believe the spasms to be related to a left convex lumbar curve as they occur in a large wad of muscle left of my lumbar spine).
My treated blood pressures are about 140/85, it was about 5 points lower when I could hike (which I dearly miss). I’m intolerant to several classes of antihypertensive medications. My primary care doctor is out of ideas, and my HMO Orthopedist says “scoliosis doesn’t cause pain.”
I realize I’m asking a lot, but do you have any ideas about things that I could try?
There's a few things to consider here.
1) As we age, arteries harden to some extent (depending on many risk factors) and there is little utility in trying to fight it by forcibly lowering blood pressure.
2) Are you seeing the sunrise and sunset every day?
3) Are you touching the earth with bare skin (away from major sources of EMF) 30-60 minutes per day?
4) Pain can definitely be a contributor if you are experiencing it
I’ve had chronic daily pain since age 48, from the scoliosis, but also from bicycling injuries and some falls when hiking. Have tried many things, found a few that are helpful (swimming, arnica, massage, Feldenkrais…).
Thank you, I will try your suggestions. They made me realize that since my knees went South during the pandemic, I’ve become much more of an indoor person, so I’ll try to get out more and enjoy more red light in the evening.
Just found your Substack during a bout of insomnia. I appreciate your perspective and will enjoy diving deeper into your writings as I’m able. It was very generous of you to answer my question. Thank you.
Best of luck Diane. Hope you find the information useful.
I’m an older woman (73) with HTN. I’ve been active most of my life and am on 3 blood pressure medications as well as potassium and magnesium supplements to replenish what’s lost by the diuretic. I know that we are capable of increasing our vascular beds through exercise. Are there other ways to do this?
Fascinating to understand how blood flows. I'd assumed it was entirely the heart's pumping action that maintained flow & thus circulation.
I was excited, expecting to find out further aspects of blood 'pressure' (by the interaction of blood itself with vessel walls, producing a reactive flow of blood), why high pressure is bad, & how to sekf-treat it! I was pumped (!) to learn more. Alas, then you asked for account upgrade to read on. I lack a credit card & couldn't upgrade. You should warn readers ... Lol. Ah well.
Witnessing most or all family members developing similar or the same symptoms of respiratory illness within a short period of time, or most or all patients in the same hospital room or even the same hospital ward, or many elderly at nursing homes dying from respiratory illness, at least intuitively tells you terrain theory is incomplete or even dead wrong. How would you even test terrain theory by the scientific method?
I don't understand why you think these occurrences negate the impact of environment.
The fact that people who share a space and/or time developsimilar symptoms only implicates the role of environment.
Can I ask you a personal question? Have you ever worked in a hospital environment?
I have been working in hospitals for 10 years.
I have taken care of innumerable people with infections, both respiratory and non-respiratory.
I can hardly recall any time that I got sick because I was around patients with pneumonia or other respiratory infections.
Most people in hospitals either come to the hospital because of something they developed in the community, OR they catch a hospital "superbug" because the environment/terrain of the hospital nurtures the development of these bugs.
I can't recall anytime i have seen someone come in with community acquired pneumonia, and then "give" that bacteria to their room or ward-mate.
QED.
Because you have already made it clear your preconceived ideas that terrain has to be right. Right?
I’m going to give you a tip because you are clearly not a stupid person. Can you think of life as information? On quantum level everything is information. You must know that chemistry is based on quantum mechanics though nobody likes talking about it.
Any “disruptions” in quantum arrangements of that information in life system can cause problems or illness if you will. We are all connected by what we call quantum fields. In simple terms people can affect other people in close contact because of this evidence.
I know contagion is true because it was recorded 3500 years ago in the records that cannot be denied.
People just assume this means contagion.
It does not, necessarily, and needs to be shown causally.
Many attempts to clinical study contagion atbest, make things uncertain.
Fascinating re-interpretation & integration of the basics of the circulatory system. Have been reading about the 4th phase of water in recent months & the suction (rather than pumping) action you describe (so many books to read... so little time!); undoubtedly this is of profound importance to our understanding of blood flow/HTN & related. Though I'm going to take a wild guess that the majority of allopathic cardiologists are unaware/uneducated or disregard it as "quackery".
Interesantes y poco conocidos planteamientos que involucran la química y la física así como nuevos planteamientos de la anatomía cardiaca en el fenómeno circulatorio de la sangre así como las causas de su atrofia. Muy útil artículo.
So this is the reason in recent comparisons that near infared saunas give the most benefit?
could be
Wow. This truly does turn the conventional picture upside down and inside out. Seems to be heading toward the notion that animals are closed-loop plants, and the heart is more like a synchronizer than a pump?
In terms I'm familiar with, this feels like replacing the older idea that the larynx muscles vibrate to produce sound, with the newer idea that the larynx is just a ramjet creating pulses which drive the resonators in the vocal tract.
love the idea of the heart being a synchronizer rather than a pump
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