Re your post, yes 7:30 Report or Current Affair would be ideal. ... View more

Tell me about it Helen. I am doing a case study on a boy that was 'diagnosed' with epilepsy and apart from an EEG (normal) the doctor never took a holistic approach with the child, didn't enquire about diet, or infections, or health of mother, or breast feeding or gut bacteria or anything else. Misdiagnosed. On meds that thin bones and cause other systemic disorders.   I test GPs now and if they don't know the answer it shows they don't keep up with the literature and as you put it succinctly - don't care.  There's a lot of money involved in treating sick people. Western medicine is largely about, for many diseases and disorders, a matter of managing symptoms, not curing... ... View more

Hi Mensana You sound great! A two-hour ride is a bummer when there is short shrift. : ((   If I may the shoving out the door can be viewed from two perspectives: positive or negative. And you are paying for it! Let's start with the negative first:   Negative? disrespect. Clearly that is obvious however. Male to male as you know can be gruff, no emotion, no sentiment, do the job, and finish up. You haven't been 'heard' or given the TLC that is part of medical care and that is insensitive and a demonstration of  low EQ. It's probably not his style to be 'sensitive' with patients or even his own wife! or sons. And it sounds like you front up without a support person, that can add significantly to anxiety and stress.  If the guy is old then that would be typical but not excusable. And don't take it personally - you could imagine what their personal life is like...   Neg/Poz: If it's a young guy, or a woman (oh the variables of behaviour are too many to elicit here) or even an old guy, they could be so under the pump because of funding, they don;t have the luxury to scratch themselves. Positive? It's all good, take it and leave : ))))) Make a date for a coffee in a nice place with a view and reflect on a successful journey and make plans for the future!!! You have been brave. The journey is very very hard, but a challenge from which we emerge changed to say the least, in the most positive ways.   Next time: Maybe arm yourself with a list of prepared questions that you have numbered in logical order and written down? Tell the Onc you Also have a number of queries that are worrying you and you would like to discuss at the end. Say this  after your G'day. You know how to fit that in.   I've been tarnished with this brush too. The Sword of Damocles will now hang over me irrespective of the outcome of the biopsy. I have my passions, my goals, and have ditched all ludicrous stress and take tremendous relief from the spiritual, seeing life from a different perspective - you know like the very elderly, so patient, so knowing, so experienced in the meaning of the life  journey.   Ah, pomegranate juice, you can substitute with cranberry - unsweetened. If it is too tart just dilute it with water 50-50 or more and eat a banana with it or 1/2 tsp of high strength manuka honey - no artificial sweeteners and no stevia.  The stevia plant is ok but there is nothing on the market that is just stevia - everything has been processed highly and has added 'food-grade' additives. If you think Oz has a problem with additives - we are highly regulated by the Food authorities and the TGA, unlike the USA which still allows bromide which destroys iodine! No wonder the shameful cancer and disease rates in the USA which then big pharma steps in with its chemical 'cures'.   It's great you are doing the fish and veg thing. How's the exercise? Viruses, cancer, bacteria love anaerobic cold environments - they hate aerobic exercise, oxygenated blood and heat (fever, hot baths, exercise) - it kills them. Sweet human revenge on the parasites, fungi, bacteria and protozoa that call us home.   Have a good day!         ... View more

Hello Angie There are doctors, thank God, who are Integrated Functional Medical practitioners. Suggest you google for PNG, and for Philippines. Traditional Western Medicine is backward in my considered opinion. It's a one-size fits all for every disease and does not address the causes. Google, don't give up, pray. You might like to look for a qualified and registered Naturopath where you are or in the Phillipines (degree qualified). They can work with a Traditional Western Medicine doctors - of course, if the doctors have an open mind. Do not give up. Please watch this video and listen carefully to Dr Li and pomegranite juice (take cranberry if you cannot get pomegranite). He is a cardiologist and now Integrated Functional Medicine practitioner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSWWI2qVt4   Best wishes Janine ... View more

Hi Mensana You sound so much better. I am glad for you. Your 'local' library should have a copy of the book.   Keep in mind every day this fact: viruses, cancers, bacteria, fungi in the body do not like oxygen. Exercise and breathing practice in fresh clean air are killer tonics.   Also iodine in fish (no more than 3 serves a week) and seaweed (low salt variety, Coles and Safeway have it in the Asian section or the healthfood section) is a mineral that we are all deficient in. Iodine is a enormously powerful anti-viral, anti-biotic (ie anti-bacterial), anti-fungal, and has anti-cancer properties. Archeologists discovered a medical hut 15,000 years old that had seaweed 'meds'. Egyptians used it, Chinese used it. And we used it to prevent cretinism, goiter in humans and animals. It has myriad applications. It was THE medication of choice for infections and cured syphillis. Big pharma has steered us away and influenced doctors to prescribe chemicals that are not as effective and look what 'we' have done with antibiotics and drug resistance...  If you are interested, you may wish to read: Healing with Iodine: Your missing link to better health by Dr Mark Sircus.     I don't propose isolated nutrients nor unsupervised usage as all vitamins and minerals and nutrients are powerful. Healthy produce is critical. THeir powerfulness is what kept us healthy until food processing and chemicals (cultivation and food processing) were introduced in the early 20th century. In 1900 Rates of cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure etc etc were unheard of in such milions and millions of cases. A comment from one doctor (I've got the quote somewhere) when he opened up a patient and saw cancer wrote to fellow doctors amazed at what he saw and asked them if they had ever seen similar.  So few people had it. Sure cancer happened, but it was so rare. When we exercised, walked, sunned, and ate fresh and natural we were largely fine: we had the micronutrients, oxygen.   You may also wish to take 1/2 cup of pomegranate juice (or cranberry) organic and unsweetened, on an empty stomach, can be diluted with water daily. Ensure there is no contraindication with your meds - read the fine print. I heard Dr William Li (cardiologist and now integrative practitioner) say that a woman (his mum?) had a huge tumour on her kidney? and he suggested she take the pomegranate. She did, one week later (even I can't believe the timeframe but ...) there was no mass on the mri. https://www.urologyofva.net/articles/category/longevity/3108752/04/18/2019/effect-of-pomegranate-on-cancer-formation-and-growth   I spoke to a young Oncologist yesterday and she admitted the only tools in her medical box were chemical, radiation and the knife, when I spoke about Iodine and cancer and other diseases. She didn't know anything more than that Iodine is an antimicrobial, antibiotic... But her protocol is fixed. I beg to differ, there are medical doctors that work beyond the scope of pharma-med.  I could go on.   Take good care. ... View more

Hi Mensana Sounds good! And you sound good. You are doing fine under the circumstances. You are informed and in control : ) and you have a good respectful team behind you. Things are looking up. This is great news. You will be back visiting the Kokoda Trail in due course.   May I recommend a book for you?   Radical Remission by K. Turner. You can buy it from www.bookdepository.com .  Please read it.   Try to get as much sleep rest and peace as you can. If I may again touch on nutrition without sounding like a broken record: Our immunity is dependent largely on sleep, rest, stress management, and foods that contain beta-carotene, vit. C, and B9 (veg/fruit); iron (for blood platelets and oxygen); B12, Selenium and Zinc (in lean animal protein foods, nuts grains and seeds); vit E nuts and olives;  Iodine seafood and seaweed. B2 (eggs, animal protein, milk, almonds) and vital vitamin D (sun, fish, supps). Without any of these specific nutrients, our immunity is on the back foot...   Good to hear from you. Janine ... View more

Hi Donna I am sorry to hear that about vaccines. I am aware of complications that can occur. There are many factors, across All the parties involved as to what goes wrong. And yes it does sometimes feel like Russian Roulette. I am aghast at GPs who immunise children in one go for 5 to 7 diseases. And then the poor child is severely affected. In all circumstances, it's about numbers and avoiding a scourge like Polio or Small Pox. I got the COVID shot. I was afraid. But, I had it and I do recommend it. Of course, your circumstances are undoubtedly wanting investigation.   Re: your research and mine:   I told (one of my countless) GP that colic can indicate lactose intolerance, but also may indicate helicobacter pylori a bug and that he could read about in the research papers available online. He was also a lecturer in the medical faculty at a university.  He didn't know. I have no respect for him professionally or personally; unethical behaviour because of a lack of duty of care. Helicobacter P. infests, that we know of, half the world population and can be the precursor to various cancers. It is easily killed off with a month's worth of medication. Thankfully.  Like you, so many examples - curing myself because my GP at $400K p.a. doesn't know how to 'cure' because he doesn't know how 'it' starts. Testing him, when I asked this particular GP why many people suffer from swollen feet and ankles in the summer - that GP's reply: 'water in the body accumulates in the feet' (sure if you have a heart problem) - but the usual reason is people are dehydrated. What would that GP do? Put you on heart medication. Another reason could be too much OR too little salt in the diet, out of balance electrolytes. ETC ETC. But he derisively remarked and with satisfaction that "I know nothing about nutrition". What audacity and ignorance, even if he looked like an old Brad Pitt.   You are truly lucky to have that clinic. It is very reassuring. You may like to watch this video - the best hour and a bit you can ever spend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSWWI2qVt4   Go Donna! Hugs Janine     ... View more

Hi Donna How fortuitous to have your therapist!!  If there is one thing I have learned in this life it is to never accept anything as written in stone. New knowledge occurs on a daily basis - people are  doing research left right and centre. Therapies change. If exercise is a problem, there are other exercise techniques specific to your requirements and I suggest you see a physiotherapist as well who specialises in exercise and - I hate the word - specific dis-ease i.e. e.g. not a sports physio or a lumbar physio.   You WILL KNOW what works for YOU. It is important that you take control of your treatment and not just accept things. I have read horror stories where a treatment or experiment is used by unscrupulous care-providers for their own benefit e.g. writing a paper...and sadly know of too many personal experiences (relatives and friends) in detail of shoddy treatment by virtue of a lack of informed knowledge on the part of the GP.  You can read of this in Radical Remission.   And, moreover, nothing lasts forever i.e. things always change. And you will change - for the better. Have faith. A knowledgeable therapist keeps up to date with developments in her field. Furthermore, it is important that you also research your different concerns around the world - Oz sometimes can fall behind, not much, but we do lag behind e.g. Germany, Japan, US ... NB before any therapy by a GP, therapist, or Specialist is permitted to be used (as in accepted by Medicare funding; and insurers; etc, and trained in the Colleges) much umming and ahhing takes place to verify techniques.  And if the GP doesn't keep up with not only their own GP journals but health care and science and are complacent and smug and know it all, that bodes ill.   Let me give you an example. My GP (2 of them) were aghast that I wouldn't take an injection for Osteoporosis, and I wouldn't take the meds either. (I didn't want the side-effects, nor having to eat pills - I want quality not quantity of life. That is my own personal wish and I won't stop anyone having the injection or the meds but I despise GPs who will not discuss the side-effects with their patients and who have no knowledge whatsoever about Nutrition and the MASSIVE role it plays in disease. (In my case, one GP dismissed the side-effects as being rare, sorry I know too many women first hand who have them and still broke bones. I actually had a fall by leaning over too far and fell right on my Osteoporotic hip a few months ago and I had no pain, no crack, nothing so I knew my protocol works. The other GP was so condescending toward me about the injection and meds that I was gob-smacked, and shocked by his unprofessionalism.) They are trained in what they are trained in and the training states give the osteoporotic populace meds. Well, I am a Nutritionist as well as psychotherapist. I said I was going to do it via exercise and diet tweaking (you may wonder how I an intelligent woman got the big O - I was sedentary and non-sporty all my life, and my GPs never ever ever talked about diet and exercise nor the issue of Osteoporosis after menopause... bugga). My GPs (I've dropped both since) thought I was insane. 18 months later I have increased my bone density NATURALLY by 5% and the O in my spine by next year will become Osteopenia, and thereafter I will push it and push it and push it until I have normal bone. Sure some people may need the meds, but no one who takes these meds recovers or grows healthy strong bone. I recently bumped into one of my GPs who still gets my Dexa Scans sent to him (can't change this) who couldn't look me in the eye. He didn't believe I a mere mortal !! and non-doctor could do it, that perhaps, I would fall by the wayside.  He was genuinely surprised. Doesn't he read the literature? I am afraid to say that the literature ie research studies and articles only focus on their studies which are hard to do and fund, I have yet to read a medical article or research paper that conclusively promotes ex and diet for the big O. Why might we wonder? Because the researchers have a mindset borne of their medical or scientific training and why would you promote ex or food when you can't write a prescription for it...? Mind you, chiropractors, naturopaths and I as an example successfully treat Osteoporosis, without drugs. That is why everyone needs to take control of their situation. Sure there are many who leave everything to their GP - that won't work - it might, but what the GP offers is largely a pharmaceutical solution mixed with a silo mentality, not a holistic and integrative therapy.  And you should see how far far far behind the mental health treatment is in treating mental issues. That is why I am a Psychotherapist-Nutritionist... I wring my hands in despair and it keeps me awake, no it makes me wail. That said, it wouldn't be right to condemn allopathic care-providers since that is all they know, alas.   I hope my blog inspires you to have faith that despite what you are told, you can take control and make it right for yourself.   Hug Janine ... View more

Hi Donna I would check out the searches below. The first one (WebMd) has helpful pictures. 1. The important things to remember is that early attention is very important; and making yourself the number one priority; ensuring the person giving massages is a lymphedema qualified therapist. 2.The links below explain how to manage the condition. 3.I would also get the doctor to give you a referral to a Oncology accredited Dietitian or you might like to seek out a Naturopath with Nutrition, and Oncology as a specialty.   4. Above all Stay positive. Do visualisation and meditation with the following : ) record this on your phone and play it with eyes closed or open if you are meditating in a calming setting e.g. garden, botanic gardens, beach you get the drift. Eyes shut is good, and right before bed. Chant this as your mantra, ok? The brain and subconscious only knows what you tell it. You will be fine.            I am now totally centered in the love and joy of being Alive. I flow with life. Peace of mind is mine. This is my precious life. I am flowing with understanding, and compassion and forgiveness. I bend and flow with ease. All is well.  I am divinely guided and inspired. Love, for myself, flows. I move forward with confidence and joy, knowing that all is well in my future. I rise above all limitations and flow beyond past limitations into the freedom of the now. I relax into the flow of life and let life provide all that I need easily and comfortably. Life is for me. Only right action is taking place in my life. I release the old and welcome the new. All Is Well.   https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/ss/slideshow-lymphedema   https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lymphedema/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20374687   https://www.uptodate.com/contents/lymphedema-after-cancer-surgery-beyond-the-basics   Go Donna!!!   Hugs Janine     ... View more

Hi Donna I don't know whether 'fingers crossed' is the word, you have come a long and courageous way and there's no looking back.  You are not your dis-ease any longer.  Wow! Now, Your "body-vehicle of life" will get stronger and stronger; you are ready with a new perspective. Nothing will stop you now, nothing. You have the opportunity to rebuild your body and life to fashion it your way. Fear has no place in anyone's journey. You are on your way!   (A little fact just by the by while I am at it: We rebuild our skeleton every 3 years; our livers regenerate; we can rebuild our muscles and the state of our bodies and we can do so many other so-called miraculous things. How awe-inspiring is that).   I recommend the book by K. Turner "Radical Remission".  I want everyone to buy this woman's book (she's a Ph.D. in oncology counselling and did a lot of research to write this book - in fact every home should have a copy because it is the blueprint to a wonderful way of living wherein cancer CANNOT survive. I got it through www.bookdepository.com    I agree with you 100 times over and over to see a Naturopath - preferably one with Oncology as a specialty, and experience.   Best wishes Janine   ... View more