Recovery Inc and Dr Lows Wisdom for OCD Sufferers

A few years ago I came across the writings of Dr. Abraham Low, a psychiatrist who is a early forerunner of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He created a self-help program called Recovery Inc., in 1937, to help mental patients reclaim peace of mind and their lives. I subscribed to Dr. Low's Wisdom, which mails a daily quote from one of his books. Sometimes he sounds very odd to my ears with his emphasis on complete trust in the physician, but he eloquently describes much of my experience with OCD, and advocates a form of Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy in his slogan "Doing the things you hate and fear to do."

I found an interesting blogger, Not A Saint--Just an Average Person, who describes his process of working through his anxieties and fears using Recovery, Inc.'s tools of identifying the thinking that leads to aggravation of symptoms.

I have not been to a Recovery, Inc. support group, but I know some people who have had a positive experience attending meetings. If there isn't an OCD support group in your area, consider looking into a RI group.

Dr Oz Weight Loss Tips And The Findings On Garcinia Cambogia Pill!

By Randy Cook

Dr. Oz has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to getting healthy and losing weight. From covering the HCG diet to concocting delicious smoothies to showcasing the latest workout trends, The Dr. Oz Show almost always teaches you something new. One of the best parts of the show though is Dr. Oz's weight loss advice.

The latest buzz on Dr Oz weight loss recommendation is Garcinia cambogia. Garcinia Cambogia is a safe and healthy weight loss aid all by itself. But where it really excels is in combination with other products. Because it is more mild than some other diet aids with no caffeine or other stimulant properties, it has been used for many years to enhance the effectiveness of other products without making users nauseous, nervous, or edgy. It isnt really new to the weight loss industry, but is just recently made popular by Dr Oz weight loss show. Garcinia Extract is truly natural product that is made from the rind of the tamarind fruit, which resembles tiny pumpkin. This fruit is full of tons of anti-oxidants, and ingredients that help in combating fat and also reduce the effects of aging.

On top of that, eliminate food which promotes growth of yeast - which is sugar. This is not limited to granulated sugar, it covers all kinds of sugar, including brown sugar, maple syrup, juices and food which are sweet. Typically fruits which are sweet should not be eaten at the time of diet. Dates, grapes, raisins and fig are usually very sweet as they contain high level of sugar. Carbonated drinks is another main culprit. Sugar is the primary source which feeds yeasts.

Dr oz Green Coffee extract contains very little caffeine which is a lot less than what is present in ordinary coffee. Therefore, most likely, the side effects exhibited would come as a result of caffeine. Some of the common caffeine related side effects may include; Insomnia, Nervousness and restlessness, Stomach upset, Nausea and vomiting and increased heart and breathing rate.

Consumption of large amount of coffee might also cause headache, anxiety, agitation, ringing in the ears and irregular heartbeats. Apart from the side effects of caffeine, some volatile compounds present in green coffee are also responsible for nauseating odor and other abdominal discomfort. Under normal circumstances, these side effects are removed from the beans by roasting and this explains why processed coffee records no abdominal challenges.

In summary, being yeast intolerant can present some dietary restrictions that you need to follow in order to prevent the overgrowth of the Candida yeast fungi in the body. An abnormal increase in the growth of candida can cause symptoms such as bloating, flatulence, and irritable bowel syndrome. With a yeast free diet, your body can resume its balance and you will notice an improvement in your general health.

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Man Bites Downward Facing Dog Dr Timothy McCall Takes On William Broad of The New York Times

by Nina

Mugsy, the Yoga Dog by Nina Zolotow

Could yoga make you fat (especially if you're a woman)? Does it cause hundreds of strokes per year? Sex you up so much you'll engage in unethical behavior? Did the entire discipline start out as a sex cult? If you read The New York Times you might think so. As much as I've often disagreed with him, up until now I've been diplomatic in my responses to William Broad's writings about yoga in Times and in his book The Science of Yoga. But after his recent article in which he asserted that "yoga is remarkably dangerous — for men," I felt it was time to speak up. —Dr. Timothy McCall

In his new paper “Man Bites Downward-Facing Dog,” Yoga for Healthy Aging blogger and Medical Editor for Yoga Journal Magazine, Dr. Timothy McCall responds to William Broad’s ongoing sensationalistic claims about yoga. In his post on our blog Is Yoga Really Dangerous for Men?, Timothy addressed Broad’s most recent claim that yoga is “remarkably dangerous” for men. In this new paper, he goes further and responds to other over the top claims that Broad has made previously, such as that yoga can make you fat or that the entire discipline started out as a sex cult. He also makes it clear that he is not denying that yoga injuries are a problem; and he acknowledges that he is not in disagreement with all of William Broad's assertions.

Timothy's article is on his web site, in  PDF format rather than on a web page. So if you want to read it, you’ll need to download it and view it with Adobe Acrobat. To get your copy of the paper, you can either use the link in the previous paragraph or go to Timothy's web site www.drmccall.com. I highly recommend that you go ahead and download the paper. Then feel free to pass it on to your friends. We really want to get the word out!

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Interview with Dr Loren Fishman on Yoga for Osteoporosis and Other Topics

by Baxter

For those of you not familiar with the work of Dr. Fishman, he is a long-time yoga practitioner, a physician specializing in rehabilitative medicine, and someone who is endlessly curious about the power of yoga to address health issues, such as osteoporosis, osteopenia, arthritis, and scoliosis. We are fortunate he agreed to this interview today so we can learn more about his recent research on bone health.  

Baxter: Can we begin with a little background on what got you interested in osteoporosis and yoga in the first place?  

Loren: When I was in India (1972-75) I got the first part of the idea, seeing these people from a truly ancient culture who still walked hundreds, even thousands of miles. These people seemed to me to have such strong, almost metallic bones. Mr. Iyengar gave me the same impression, only more so. 

Afterwards, in medical school, when I learned about Wolff’s law, that the strength of a bone depended on the forces to which it was subjected, I put the puzzle together: Yoga, generating forces many times greater than gravity, built bones up and made them stronger. But it has to be yoga graced by great attention to alignment. Otherwise, those great forces would cause injury.  

Baxter: We have written about your early work on osteoporosis in a pilot study done in 2009, but I know you have done a more recent study with exciting results. Can you tell us about that research and how our audience of yoga practitioners and yoga teachers might use what you have discovered?

Loren: After the pilot study was successful, I made a DVD and gave it away to 1000 people from every part of the world to use for our next study. It took eight years to get all the data we needed to complete this second study. We published this 1000 patient study (241 actually compliant) as Twelve-Minute Daily Yoga Regimen Reverses Osteoporotic Bone Loss, Lu, Yi-Hsueh; Rosner, Bernard; Chang, Gregory; Fishman, Loren M. Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation April/June 2016 - Volume 32 - Issue 2 - p 81–87.  

Baxter: Can you tell us about the safety and accessibility of your bone strength protocols?

Loren: Safety? We asked everybody in the 1000-patient study to get X-rays before and after the two years they practiced using the DVD. About one quarter of them actually did. Results: No fractures, no significant advance of arthritis. No yoga-related fractures reported by anyone in the study. In fact no serious injuries of any kind were seen or reported in over 100,000 hours of people doing this yoga daily. Over 80% of them had osteoporosis or osteopenia when we started. In the final analysis, the spine and hip improved significantly, (p =.02 and.01), and the femur improved more than it does in people using the most popular medicines (p = .0002). 

When we saw that the yoga in the DVD actually worked, we put it up here on YouTube and sell the DVD through PayPal on the website sciatica.org. 

Baxter: Are there any unanswered questions you still have regarding the use of yoga for osteoporosis? 

Loren: Yes. How do you convince the doctors? The study got written up in the New York Times, and the one on scoliosis in the Wall Street Journal, but the medical community remained largely unpersuaded. We are now working on another study that we call a dose-response study, in which we have participants see a yoga teacher who is trained in our yoga every two weeks to see what “dose” of yoga the participants are giving themselves. Then we’ll see what happens to their DEXA scans in two years. I suspect not only does it work, but is synergic with the various medicines, yielding an effect that is greater than just adding the two effects together. But that’s just a suspicion. In a few years or so we’ll see if there’s a relation between how much you put into your yoga and how much stronger your bones become. 

Baxter: What is next for you? Any upcoming or ongoing studies? And can our readers participate in some way?

Loren: Yes, we’re now doing another certification training in osteoporosis, and certified teachers can give classes, report data, and participate in our newest dose-response study. We also have one coming up on lower back pain. After all, back pain is the biggest medical reason people seek out yoga. Here yoga appears synergic with medicine. These courses are analogous to “post graduate work” after becoming a yoga therapist. They have online and workshop components.

We’ve just gotten another study accepted by “Muscle and Nerve” on botulinum toxin for piriformis syndrome. And we just submitted a study in which yoga is more effective for scoliosis than any conservative method ever published, and unlike surgery, innocuous and just about free. We have patients from age 8 to the late 80’s. Then we’re working with Carnegie Mellon’s computer people on a new, objective way to analyze the facial expression of pain, to give a more objective way to understand pain. Do people realize that probably one third of medicine is based on pain, and yet all we have to rate it is the puerile one-dimension 1-to-10 scale?  

Baxter: I understand you have started offering trainings in your way of addressing osteoporosis. What are these trainings like and where can our readers learn more about them?

Loren: The up-and-coming trainings are in North Carolina, at an Appalachian mountain retreat called Art of Living near Boone, starting May 31, and another in San Francisco in mid-July. That San Francisco training is almost full, but the one in Boone is pretty open. They are 40-hour teachings, 20 hours online at artoflivingretreatcenter.org.

We have also developed alternative sets of poses for osteoporosis to ward off the inevitable ennui of doing the same poses day in day out, and also to strengthen the bones of the wrist, the fourth most probably fracture site (as I said earlier, we have put the first group—the group we’ve already proven to work—online for free at YouTube and offer DVDs on the website sciatica.org). And we give workshops, such as the one at Art of Living in North Carolina and online training to teach yoga teachers to train people to do these poses at their proper level. We feel this is an effective, innocuous, and quite valuable skill for yoga teachers to acquire.

Baxter: Is there anything else you’d like to say to our readers?  

Loren: Yes, there’s a recent controversy about how long should a yoga class be, based on an article in the Atlantic Monthly. In this era of Dog Yoga and Pizza Yoga I think people can get on the wrong track. Like anything else, the length of a class depends on whom you’re teaching and what you’re teaching them. The length isn’t important in itself. How long does a word have to be to keep its meaning? One should measure progress not by distance traveled, but by proximity to goal.  

Baxter: Sage advice, and thank you for all of this important and relevant information. We look forward to hearing more of the results of your studies in the future!  

Loren Fishman, MD is Medical Director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York City, author of eight books and author or editor of more than 70 academic articles. He is a world-recognized pioneer in the treatment of piriformis syndrome and rotator cuff tear and an expert in curing back pain. "A Thomas Edison of yoga therapy,” according to Pulitzer-Prize winning author William Broad, Dr. Fishman has done peer-reviewed clinical research on yoga and osteoporosis, scoliosis, and rotator cuff tear. He has integrated yoga into his medical practice for decades. Dr. Fishman received a degree in philosophy from Oxford University. Then he studied yoga in India with BKS Iyengar.

Dr. Fishman is Associate Research Editor of Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, on the staff at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a past president of the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 

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