Do You Need Healing, Desperately!?

May 29, 2016/0 Comments/in True Health /by Dr. Todd Stone

I am on a mission to bring everyone who needs it, hope for healing.

I will faithfully sacrifice my own well being to get this accomplished, and I mean for everyone. Nobody will be left behind.

My practice had become the home of the desperate. Literally, I have had people say that if I couldn’t help, they were going to accept death. They couldn’t take another failure, and True Health did not disappoint them.

If you are near or even on the desperation spectrum, this article is for you. This is for helping you find your path, the GOOD path, the HEALING path, even if doesn’t include accepting my help directly.

This is my advice for your desperation and lack of hope. My offering of direction.

The first step of easing your anguish is reminding yourself that every symptom is a message pulling your attention toward caring for your needs. Convince yourself, because it is true.

Picture a old, wise guru, giving you the most painful advice that you have ever received. Even though it hurts like crazy to hear, you know from the kindness in his eyes that s/he loves you and wants you to find your direction and expand the gift that you are.

It will help to get the book, Spontaneous Healing, by Dr. Andrew Weil. When you bathe your brain with miracles, you tune your focus and attention to healing and possibility.

This how your brain, which I call Regulation, works. If you focus on finding blue, you miss all the red in your environment. By tuning into healing miracles, you will come across, find, and discover, the resources you need to heal.

My book, “When Did Natural Become The Alternative,” was written with this same purpose. My book is just a few bucks to buy on Amazon. Dr. Weil’s book can likely be found for a buck at a second hand book store.

Bathe your brain in Healing Miracles. Until you understand that healing is your normal state.

Adopt the attitude of the Curious Scientist. To the curious scientist, every failure is an indication of a need for change. To the curious scientist, there is no such thing as failure. The curious scientist is just testing variables. Nothing more. Not getting what you want doesn’t mean you are an idiot or failure. You are NOT supposed to know. That’s the point of a scientific experiment, which is what living your life is.

You are here to find the variables that work for you!

Change variables and be curious. “What will happen if I add this resource?” Your curiosity will drift into excitement, and your excitement will relieve the depression of feeling hopeless.

If you don’t know what to do, how the heck do you change variables?! I am convinced that you know more than you think. I believe you are the perfect person to take the next step in your life.

My mission is to remind our people that Mother Nature is the source of healing. Your dinner plate offers the basics for living, if you eat whole foods, and plant medicines offer the healing, when you need it. Plant medicines nurture and nourish your body to meet your healing needs.

If you believed that you are the perfect person to walk the path called you, you would walk into a store, or click on our online store, that sells plant medicines, and pick the one that most appeals to you. You would TRUST that you are drawn to the name because it is meant for you.

You could ‘google’ “your symptom + relief or remission or cure” and find a story of someone who overcame a very similar condition or situation, and model their behavior. Do what they did, and be curious what your new resources will bring.

You could do your own research. With your brain tuned in to healing, you will likely find something of value. Search “your condition or symptom herbal medicine” on the National Library of Medicine database, pubmed.com. Search “your condition or symptom on Mercola.com, or the Life Extension Foundation. Both are well referenced resources with tons of content.

Now you have a variable or resource with some research behind it. Pick something that feels good and right to you and get curious. Then pay careful attention to the results.

All the while, you must adhere to my dietary guidelines. I have a short video HERE! Don’t worry, I am not of the mindset that dietary perfection is the only path to healing. You will find True Health guidelines much easier to follow than perfection.

You must also meet your life needs. Go to the “Resources” link on our website, and scroll down to find a document called “The Five Energy Needs.” Read and memorize the scripting in that article. Use what it offers you to meet your boundary needs and desire needs. Five percent more each week, aka, a step at a time.

You will still have ups and downs. Everyone does. Remind yourself that you are at least as normal as Dr. Stone. Your health will change in direct correlation to your ability to interrupt your ‘down’ patterns. Focus your attention on finding pattern interrupters that work for you.

Pattern interruptors are anything that changes your perspective or alters your focus.

I spent my most hopeless times watching a film called “What the Bleep Do We Know.”

Some people can interrupt down patterns by reading the Bible or something uplifting and empowering. My wife made me a video of family pictures set to music. I find it nearly impossible to not feel gratitude and appreciation watching our kids growing up.

I realize this isn’t the list you quite expected. But, it’s my best advice after seeing thousands of patients wanting to change! And it appears, based on the tally of results, that I am pretty good at this healing thing.

If you are willing to accept my help, True Health and Mother Nature now offer care without expectation. Healing has been pushed out of way by profit, and my fighting back is a True Health Membership. It’s 7 dollars a month, and it allows you to visit True Health whenever you need, on a donation basis. Whatever you want to pay.

Visit our conditions page to read the amazing stories of healing we’ve seen at True Health!

The GABA Challenge

January 31, 2013/7 Comments/in True Health /by Dr. Todd Stone

WHAT IS THE GABA CHALLENGE?

The GABA Challenge is a test for the integrity of your Blood Brain Barrier (BBB). If compromised or damaged, your risk for neurodegneration and vaccine reactions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder increases. The BBB is a semi-permeable (some things can go through) “wall” that filters needed proteins, nutrients, and hormones into the brain, and keeps “not needed” OUT of the brain.

Not too much different from your skin. The skin is also a barrier system for your body and it keeps a world of dirt and microbes on the outside. What happens when that barrier system is compromised, such as a cut or scrape? The answer, of course, is inflammation, which looks bad and painful. Inflammation is your body’s immune response to any invasions, such as dirt, bacteria, and viruses.

Now think of this barrier around your brain, only cut up, scratched up and scabbed up. The cells within that barrier, now being bathed in inflammation, are your Brain Cells!

This inflammatory process will greatly increase your probability of neurodegenerative diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s disease, and if you’re a child, your routine vaccination allows mercury and formaldehyde to cross the broken barrier, and you end up with an acute inflammatory response we call Autism Spectrum!

The GABA Challenge test involves taking a neuropeptide (big word for protein), called GABA that is naturally made in every cell of your body. When every cell produces their own GABA, brain cells would have to produce it to feel it in your brain. It does not travel from the kidney to the brain, and it doesn’t cross the blood brain barrier if you consume it.

The neuropeptides that work in the brain include GABA, which feels super relaxed and/or asleep. Acetylcholine, which feels like laying on a beach and taking in all the sounds, deep contemplation and/or reflexion on a grateful memory. Serotonin, which feels like accomplishing something or happy for nothing. Dopamine, which feels like a party for you, love, or giving a speech. Adrenaline and Noradrenaline which feel like worry, excitement, fear, or exhilaration.

GABA is the only inhibitory neuropeptide, acting like the brake pedal to slow your brain down. All the others are excitatory or stimulating to the nervous system.

When you take a drug that stimulates GABA production in the brain, you inhibit your inhibitions, start to feel more relaxed, and if you keep consuming, you slow down, get tired, feel sluggish, and lose coordination. If you keep consuming, you will lose consciousness.

Alcohol and Valium are probably the most famous GABA stimulators. If you have ever tried either, you know exactly what I mean.

Consuming GABA directly shouldn’t do this. Alcohol crosses the blood brain barrier, GABA does not. When we take GABA internally, we should not feel brain inhibition. There should not be a slowing, intoxication, or incoordination feeling at all. There should be no brain effect at all.

INSTRUCTIONS

About 1-2 hours after dinner, on a night that you have nothing planned, take the 2 GABA capsules.
Go about your business (like I said, don’t have anything important planned)
Notice any unusual slowing down type feelings, ranging from mildly intoxicated, uncoordinated, lethargic, or simply slowed down.
Notice any excitation, agitation, or other stimulation such as feeling wired, which will happen in approximately 20% of the cases of compromised BBB. Most will feel inhibited.
Go to bed. If you are slowed, it will be gone by the morning.
ANY change, excitation or inhibition is a positive test for damage to the Blood Brain Barrier.

If you have a positive test, don’t get a vaccine containing mercury or formaldehyde!

Follow these nutrition guidelines and get True Tissue Heal and True Pain Relief from our online store, to prevent Neuro-Degenerative conditions.

That combination will heal all the barriers, including the intestinal barrier, aka Leaky Gut Syndrome. Well, unless you had underlying chronic infections in your gut. If you are tired of “trying the next thing,” you can start with our lab test that specifies what YOUR needs are.

It would work for the skin too, if used topically and internally, but we have True Wound Mend that is prepared more for topical use.

Would you like to do this test without buying a whole bottle of GABA capsules for 2 capsules?

If you order True Calm for Anxiety, True Allergy for seasonal Allergies, True Sleep for falling asleep insomnia, or True Blood Sugar Balance for blood sugar problems, and I’ll toss in two GABA 500 mg pills in a little baggie.

Shop around and buy anything that fits you, to improve digestion, energy, or build up stress resilience. Then type “GABA” or “gaba” in the comments and I’ll include 2 capsules to try the GABA test for yourself, or 4 capsules, maybe even 6 if you request.

Dr.Stone

Achieve “Best Ever” At Any Age!

September 13, 2012/0 Comments/in True Health /by Dr. Todd Stone

True Health Functional Medicine Clinic

In medicine, the goal of treatment is to manage the symptoms or slow the progression of the disease process that has overtaken your body. Expectations are fairly low. “There is no cure for your disease, so this is the best we can manage it.” Cancer treatment is victorious if you increase the probability of living more than five years or extend the normal life expectancy of a person with whatever disease…even by a few months.

What if we chose a different goal? Something exciting like “best ever. “

This concept came to me after a discussion with a patient who was about to turn 69. She shared with me that she feels her BEST EVER. Her energy, happiness, resilience to stress and her overall health and vitality are BEST EVER, as compared to her experience as a kid, and anytime in her adult life. She feels BEST EVER at age 69.

She first visited True Health Functional Medicine Clinic in January of 2009,

experiencing what she described as her worst ever (please excuse the picture. Hers was the case study I posted that I was cited for treating a medical condition and terminated from insurance. I asked if she’d pose for a more appropriate picture, lol). She had an autoimmune thyroid condition called Hashimoto’s, plus a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. She was sick, tired, and in severe pain. And naming her suffering didn’t relieve the suffering even 1%.

She had to leave her career because she couldn’t handle the stress of working. She didn’t have the energy or strength to do it or she hurt too much to do it and she was certain she would be dead if she attempted to continue.

At the point I met her, she had little hope, little money, no direction (for improving her health) and no income. Dying was beginning to look like a viable option; at least the pain would end, and she wouldn’t have to worry about becoming homeless. But she wasn’t quite ready for life to end. Ending her career was a decision to extend her life, no matter how much pain there was.

Yes, WORST EVER.

And now, BEST EVER.

It got me thinking. Thinking about the concept of wellness, and my long time patients. Melissa has been checked at least monthly for many years. She is the most consistent fixture in my practice, besides me, my first patient ever.

I started to reflect on my suffering, which was mild compared to hers, but was a pretty good list. Anxiety, shoulder pain, allergies, and although I had never complained about my energy, I had to take naps all through my late teens and 20s. Now, my pain levels are best ever along with energy, stress resilience, anxiety levels, allergies, flexibility, and I’d say happiness too!

Then my kiddos momma, who was nearing 40 at that time. She had chronic migraines, allergies, ear infections (even into college), terrible cramping with her cycle, and

all of that is best ever. Moods, tail bone pain, TMJ pain, shoulder pain, all best ever.

Scoliosis was best ever, which I noticed when she was bending over and looking across her back I saw no “rib hump!”

I asked another “regular” patient about his best ever’s. He said his ankle, knee and hip pain is best ever. He said he used to regularly use 800MG ibuprofen for pain and would almost always hurt after playing basketball which he played competitively in high school and college. He also said his ability to manage stress and emotions is best ever.

Most, if not all, of my patients come in for problem solving, and some don’t come back until the next problem arises. Some remember the help we provided, and others fall back into the “normal” routine of visiting the “real” doctor. A few even went the route of getting named and categorized, and managing the symptoms before remembering True Health.

Others keep coming once or twice a month to accept my care without expectation, which never hurts. And tends to lead to best ever!

BEST EVER. I propose that as the new goal for your health care investment.

One more question for the people enjoying best ever at 40, 50, 60 and even 70s; did you suffer great financial loss on your journey that led to True Health and finally healing? A: “My financial stability increased while my health came into balance.”