Your health; whose responsibility?

Your health; whose responsibility?
‘I have “Crohn’s” disease’ said a friend of mine.
(For those of you who don’t know what Crohn’s disease is here is a definition; a chronic form of inflammatory bowel disease named after an American gastroenterologist specialist called ‘Burrell Crohn’ whose symptoms is severe irritation in the gastrointestinal tract. It usually affects just the lower small intestine (called the ileum) or the colon, but it can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract.)

Now according to many so called specialists there is no known cause of this disease; so of course we are all at the mercy of the pharmaceutical companies as to which miracle medicine can cure us.

Now I am no medical specialist but I do have an interest in common sense. In my view if there is something wrong with the digestion tract, it is usual one of two causes; physical stress, due to a poor diet or nervous stress due to mental worry, or more usually, a combination of both.
Now I knew my friend had a very stressful job and so I asked him about his diet starting with what he usually had for breakfast. “Oh I don’t bother with breakfast I usually have 5- 6 cups of coffee instead”. I asked him if he thought this might be contributing toward his condition, “Oh I have never thought of that let me see what the specialist says”.
Apparently the specialist said ‘Crohn’s’ has nothing to do with diet.

Another very close relative of mine was rushed into hospital a couple of years ago with agonizing stomach cramps; he had something called ‘Dirvitculitis’ which is inflammation of the wall of the colon. If this goes untreated this can be very dangerous as the colon can actually split and case blood poisoning.

The relative was quickly operated on and had a colostomy bag fitted. Now I know this person had a very poor diet and at the time ate hardly any vegetables. Now we might hope the hospital would speak to him about his diet possibly as prevention to it happening again. In fact less than 24 hours after the operation he was given his first meal chicken curry from the hospital itself. In my view although I am not a dietary ‘specialist’ common sense should tell you this is not right.

I have used these two examples to hopefully show that we cannot leave our health to so called professionals. Whilst the operation to deal with the Dirvitculitis was probably life saving, if you keep riding a bike over glass you will eventually get punctures.

What interests me is that neither of these individuals is devoid of intelligence; yet both seem content to let someone else take responsibility of their health. I have many more examples of how for some reason we feel it is correct to leave the responsibility of our health to so called specialists, who due to there very nature of their work will usually be more interested in ‘complications’ and be suspicious of simple solutions.

Over the last eight years I have developed a treatment which I believe can benefit almost all conditions from asthma to weight loss to stress management; with main emphasis being prevention. It is based heavily upon the ‘Buteyko Method’ named after the late Professor Buteyko. I call it ‘Holistic Buteyko’ and my aim is to put illness to BED with the emphasis on special BREATHING techniques, controlled cardiovascular EXERCISE and a majority alkaline DIET.
The breathing techniques help stabilise both physical and mental health. By learning to breathe calmly, levels of cortisol are lowered; this has both significant short and long term benefits due to a reduction in perceived stress.

Exercising in a controlled manner is essential to good health. For example if someone who is obese suddenly starts to just exercise with no regard to his own heart or breathing rate he could actually be doing more harm than good.

The advice on diet is mainly lots of green vegetables cooked lightly so as to retain the enzymes, essential in the digestion process. Indeed the main aim of the diet is to take as much strain off the digestive system as possible.

In the opinion of this writer it is our responsibility is to take care of our own health first; this comes through self education and self responsibility.

Michael Clark NMQAA
Holistic Buteyko Trainer
www.holsiticbuteykotraining.com

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