Guest guest Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Vinod, My situation fits very well with your last post. My mother had six children in nine years, no multiples. I am the sixth child. I have been told that a women loses Jin if she has a lot of children in a short period of time. This lack of Jin is passed to the child, who may have deficiencies for the rest of his/her life. My mother takes one grain (60 mg) of armour thyroid a day. She has no thyroid function. I started taking Levoxyl in my thirties when a young internal medicine doctor thought I should have my thyroid levels checked. My endocrinologist explained that the metabolic disorder I have makes no sense. In cave man days, some people had metabolisms that turned everything they ate to fat. In lean times, these people could survive off of the fat of their bodies while skinnier people died. Unfortunately, most of the people with this metabolic disorder are also infertile, meaning they can survive but not procreate. I have scheduled an appointment with a practitioner at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine for next week. I am hoping that he and I can find a plan of action to help me. I know that the longer these conditions are around, the longer it takes to overcome them. Karen in San Diego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Karen, If you don't mind, could you report back how your experiences at PCOM were? I live in the same geographic area and have considered going there. Nancy S+13 Karen Peterson wrote: > Vinod, > > My situation fits very well with your last post. My mother had six > children in nine years, no multiples. I am the sixth child. I have > been told that a women loses Jin if she has a lot of children in a short > period of time. This lack of Jin is passed to the child, who may have > deficiencies for the rest of his/her life. My mother takes one grain > (60 mg) of armour thyroid a day. She has no thyroid function. I > started taking Levoxyl in my thirties when a young internal medicine > doctor thought I should have my thyroid levels checked. > > My endocrinologist explained that the metabolic disorder I have makes no > sense. In cave man days, some people had metabolisms that turned > everything they ate to fat. In lean times, these people could survive > off of the fat of their bodies while skinnier people died. > Unfortunately, most of the people with this metabolic disorder are also > infertile, meaning they can survive but not procreate. > > I have scheduled an appointment with a practitioner at the Pacific > College of Oriental Medicine for next week. I am hoping that he and I > can find a plan of action to help me. I know that the longer these > conditions are around, the longer it takes to overcome them. > > Karen in San Diego > Post message: Chinese Traditional Medicine > Subscribe: Chinese Traditional Medicine- > Un: Chinese Traditional Medicine- > List owner: Chinese Traditional Medicine-owner > > Shortcut URL to this page: > /community/Chinese Traditional Medicine > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 > My situation fits very well with your last post. My mother had six > children in nine years, no multiples. I am the sixth child. I have > been told that a women loses Jin if she has a lot of children in a short > period of time. This lack of Jin is passed to the child, who may have > deficiencies for the rest of his/her life. This is important as the future of our children depends on how well we understand this. A woman should be healthy when she gets pregnant or is carrying a child. After delivering a child a woman should allow her body to recover - this is not just for the babies sake it is also important for the womans sake. Constant unrelenting stress is what causes people to fall into exhaustive states that they may never recover from. This becomes even more important if a woman was already suffering defeciency states when she got pregnant. Any woman with depression or fatigue syndromes of any type will have difficulty carrying and delivering a healthy child. All children born of overstressed mothers will be born with defeciency disease process. If somone starts out with the burden of stress disorders then life will always remain an up hill struggle. This does not mean that such people can not live happy, healthy lives it means that everything will be more difficult for them to achieve and if they face severe challenges in youth and enter into puberty understress then perhaps they will have a difficult life. Many children born of stressed mothers can be saved from these fates but it will take very careful management based on firm knowledge of how to bring this child out of these reactive defeciencies. If these problems are corrected in early childhood and the ravages of a defecient adolescence are avoided then the chances of success are good. Inherited (non genetic) conditions can be corrected with knowledge and understanding - and even the genetic problems can be suppoted to suffecient degree for good life in large percentage of cases. If we have had long term - perhaps even life time - defeciency states (non genetic)then we can solve the problems even later in life with full understanding of what needs to be done - in a large percentage of cases - quality of life can be improved at the least. The strategy should be to support the Jing as we have been discussing and as many stressors as possible should be removed - which includes not just theraputics but internal stresses caused by bad life patterns - as well as psychological support - and mildly stimulating and quickening exercise. Why is exercise so important? Many hypometabolic people can not do any kind of strong exercise - they really can not do anything without some stress - but activation of the muscles is imperative to get the metabolism going again - one of the major reasons why we are so lethargic is because we are so lethargic - meaning if energy is depressed then it will get worse if we become non active. this relates to another aspect of this disease that i have not gone into recently - which is Catabolism versus Anabolism. The more inactive we become the more Catabolic we become and this is the true symbol in western terms of hypometabolic disease. If we can not do active therapies then massage (preferably Five Element massage), accupuncture, or accupressure will be very helpful. All massage will help in its own way. If one can not afford massage then buy a video teaching Feldenkrais movements - do the exercises that are done on the floor or setting in a chair. The point is that the stuck Qi must be quickened in some way otherwise their is no reason for the tissues to demand more normal functioning. The only people who can maintain health without normal activity are those who follow a very pure diet. The best exercises for those with sluggish metabolisms are non- aerobic Yoga - Tai chi - Chi Kung (if a medical Chi Kung practioner can be found they can save you wasted energy doing less than appropriate exercises). An exercise regime based on your particular disease patterns are of course more useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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