Laser therapy
There are three highly effective therapies used in Dr. Max’s office. One is diet and lifestyle changes as explained on this website and in The Basics, a booklet available from Dr. Max. Another uses a specific set of cycles run through a laser head to enhance healing of the body. And the third is a hyperbaric chamber.
Many people have asked how the laser works. The short answer: the energy going into the body can help restore health on many levels.
The long answer from Dr. Max:
Frequency Modulated Light Response
In the 1940s and 50s Royal Rife developed sound and light generators which had the ability to destroy organisms which were placing stress on the body. Rife suggested that if the body could be placed in a light tube the sound wave ability to destroy the organisms would be improved. In the 1990s I began working with low level lasers and frequency generators. I found that making the body a tube of light and modulating this light with frequency generators was now possible.
Red light has the ability to increase metabolic function within the cell. Purple light has a greater absorption rate and helps compounds because the purple band of light controls the DNA expression and replication. The body chooses what is required from day to day.
The light works by modulation of low level laser with sound waves before striking a target resulting in a non-coherent form of light and sound. This energy can then pass through the body — traveling through the water of the body like light traveling through a gas filled light tube. This allows for the whole body to be affected by the light and sound. The frequency generator then passes through all the elements of the periodic table to allow for possible free radical stabilization. Sound and light work wonders in moving electrons and this migration allows for higher energy compounds to be developed. These compounds can then be used for building blocks or excretion of waste much like that in plant growth.
Tannins
I’m sure you’ve heard it by now:
Tannins are bad for your health!
Tannins are a substance found in plants which provide an astringent or bitter taste. Examples of the most harmful ones: chocolate, coffee, tea, colas, root beer, and all tobacco products.
Tannins usually stain things a darker color. A black water swamp is stained dark brown by oak trees. Oak bark and acorns are used to tan leather. Tannins are also found in wine, especially red wine, from the oak barrels as well as the seeds and skins of the grape.
Where are tannins?
They’re everywhere. You can’t live on real food and avoid them entirely, but you can cut down on them significantly so as to improve your health.
Tannins can irritate the entire digestive system as well as the kidneys. They prevent the absorption of iron and calcium. But mainly they irritate your adrenal glands. A lot like caffeine.
Tannins also affect the way you produce enzymes to digest your foods.
When you’re suffering in the 4C’s area you usually crave tannins or caffeine. And if you eat or drink them, they’ll make the cravings worse.
Adding lemon juice to a high-tannin food or drink can help neutralize the effects of the tannin. For instance, add lemon juice to your flax crackers before dehydrating.
If you’re stuck in the tannins and need some time to get yourself out, here are some tips to help:
- only use tannins between meals so they don’t interfere with digestion
- add a lot of milk to coffee or tea so the protein helps inhibit the action of the tannins
- add lemon to any meal including brown foods to help cut down on the effects of tannins
- cut down on the tannins that really don’t add to your life
- substitute other foods or drinks for high-tannin ones
There are two types of tannins and some people are only sensitive to one type.
If you’d like more info on tannins, here’s an excellent article: Tannins.
Triangles, arches, and small round things
Chiropractic theory is based on triangles. If your foot isn’t walking straight, your knee will have to accommodate. And if you knee isn’t walking straight your hip and pelvis will have to accommodate. And then your shoulders and the way you carry your head. That’s the problem moving up the body. In the same way if you deliberately tilt your head to one side when you walk, it will affect the way you swing your arms, which affects the way your shoulders and pelvis move, which affects the way your knees and ankles align, which affects the arches in your feet.
Structurally, your body is made up of triangles, arches, and small round things. Think of the way your bones work together to form your pelvic structure, or your rib cage, or your feet. Lots of triangles, arches and small round things. Your spinal column is a set of arches. Your feet and hands have multiple arches, which is why they can be so small, yet so strong.
This is important because when you are having a problem, sometimes you can ease the situation by massage in the opposite area of that particular triangle. For instance, if you have pain in your neck on the left side, try massaging the right side. Your head tends to tilt toward whichever side you are massaging, so this would stretch the opposite side a bit, which is where the muscles are tense. And when the pain is so intense that you can’t massage that area, rubbing the opposite area might be just what you need.
Another example: if you walk hunched over — slumped — the muscles on the front of your upper chest are tight and pulling you forward. Massage your front and then your back will be able to keep you upright better.
Here’s the tricky part. 
Because we’re made out of all these triangles and arches and small round things, we can use Stickman (illustration to the right) to figure out other places that might be causing the pain you feel.
For instance, if I’m having a problem in my right foot in a yellow area on stickman, I could also be having a problem in any other area of my body that is yellow. And because they switch sides at the nose, navel and knees, it could be my left elbow that has pain. Or maybe it’s my left elbow that is causing the pain in my right foot. Or maybe it’s my ascending colon, which is also in the yellow section.
So it’s not unusual to have pain elsewhere from where the problem really is.
The triangles and arches tend to alternate according to the illustration above — yellow areas are affected, or green areas are affected. But small round things stay on the same side. For instance, if your right eye isn’t working right, your right kidney or ovary might be the cause. Or if your left heel is painful, perhaps your left kidney is the problem. This goes for all the small round joints we have, the eyes, kidneys, gonads, breasts, and the temporomandibular (jaw) joint.
And if that’s not complicated enough, add in the tooth meridians and you can begin to understand how so much of our pain can be deflected from somewhere else in our bodies.
Another tip: when your neck hurts on both sides, push your hand against your forehead while pushing forward with your head. It tightens the opposite muscles to relax your neck muscles.
And yet another: if you have flat feet, which means your arches aren’t arched like they should be, it’s usually a liver and adrenal problem — so LO and 4C’s.
And just about anything on both sides at the same time would be 4C’s — kidneys and adrenals.
If you need a refresher course on which goes with what and what to do with it: Left Lemon System.
And how to walk through it:
It’s About Choice
I was watching a YouTube video the other day and almost everyone in it was of normal weight. There was one person who was maybe 40# overweight, and another about 20# over. These weren’t actors — but people fleeing a flood. I believe this was filmed in France, and yes, I am familiar with the French Paradox and how they are healthier than Americans yet consume more alcohol and fat. They also consume more fresh vegetables and by “fresh” they mean it came out of the ground this morning.
Then I was reading a book that said the French wouldn’t even consider having food at a meeting. And snacks were for children only. They eat meals, they enjoy meals, and they have less health problems than Americans who tend to focus on fast food, flavored drinks, and snack foods.
Here in America we bribe people to come to meetings with the promise of food. Contemporary worship services mean they provide the coffee and doughnuts. No need to eat breakfast before worshiping — choose your poison as you walk in the door.
Add to that the information that high fructose corn syrup is so bad for us but it’s pretty much in everything processed. And how sodas will make you gain weight even without any calories because of the way they change the pH of your body. Or the chemicals food scientists pump into man-made foods to make them bypass your natural inclination to either not eat them at all or to limit their consumption.
If you think about it, sugar and fat do not occur together in nature. The highest fat fruit is an avocado and they’re not all that sweet. Yet most of the enticing foods marketed are high in bad fats and sugar. Or bad fats and salt.
Did you know that fried foods in restaurants are frequently fried twice? The first time is in a factory so as to absorb a lot of fat, and then they are frozen and fried again at the restaurant to absorb even more fat. And of course they’re double or triple breaded with salt and sugars. Don’t forget the sauce — more bad fats, chemicals, sugars and salt.
Why do they do that? Because they pour tons of money into research to find out what makes the ordinary Joe lose control and eat more than he should. And the quicker they can get Joe addicted to their products the less likely he’ll switch to another. You could call it mind control — make Joe act out a behavior without a true choice. Like sinning on auto-pilot.
And they are very brand-specific. See McDonald’s, eat McDonald’s. See Starbucks, get Starbucks.
The point?
It’s about choice.
You can choose to eat for health, or you can choose to eat against health.
Flu Shots
Mercola recently published an article about the dangers of flu shots and how some states are attempting to force all health care workers to get them. “Tell Your Doctor…”
In the article Dr. Mercola talks about the lack of evidence on the usefulness of flu shots, as well as the devastating side effects of vaccines in general — even death.
I’ve had exactly one flu shot, and yes, it was forced on me. If I didn’t submit to the flu shot I was out of the program and therefore out of a job. Of the 30 or so injected along with me that day, three had to drop out of the program due to intense and immediate physical illness (undiagnosable, of course — “they must have come in sick already”), and about 8 of us were sick enough to be miserable for the next four weeks of the training program. I didn’t get rid of that sickness for a long time, and then only through a lot of fasting and gut re-colonization.
There are theories out there about the flu, and I tend to believe one of them because it has proven itself true so many times: there is no such thing as the “flu.” It’s just food poisoning through a common food that most people in an area eat. And that same theory says that if you get a cold you’ve eaten something moldy.
The last time my family had the flu was in Kansas and driving back to SC. My daughter got sick while there and had stopped throwing up by the time we left, my husband (rumored to have a cast-iron stomach) began driving that morning with a bagel in his hand and started throwing up two hours into our 17 hour journey. That left me driving the rest of the way. Thank God for books on tape and a little bit of caffeine ingested very slowly.
Most dairy products are mixed before being packaged, and butter is perhaps worse than others. Milk from many cows is mixed into the farm trucks that go to the dairy co-op, milk from many small farms is mixed in the big trucks that go to the butter plant, and there the milk from many trucks is mixed again. All it took was one small amount of milk from one cow with an oozing wound on her tit and the entire region is thrown into a “flu” outbreak.
What do you do if you feel a case of the “flu” coming on?
The Goal
What is the goal of eating better?
Is it pride and arrogance?
For some people it is. I’ve met a lot of people who love to rub your nose in how inferior your eating is compared to theirs.
Some other answers might be:
- to get healthier
- to live longer
- to feel better
- to stop the cravings
- to look better
I’m going to suggest that BALANCE is the better answer — it takes in all of the good stuff above.
A balanced person isn’t overweight or underweight, doesn’t act out their anger, doesn’t live in fear, knows what good they can do on this planet, knows what harm they are capable of but they don’t do it, and they don’t focus on what goes into their mouths. They figure out what works, they don’t do what doesn’t work, and they make habits that still include variety.
In other words, a balanced person doesn’t spend a lot of time figuring out the perfect diet because they know the “perfect diet” doesn’t exist.
I’m not saying to avoid cruelty-free or organic foods. I’m all for them. But if you can’t get them, or if they’re still overpriced in your area, go for the better choices (you probably know what those are if you’ve had any contact with LeftLemon.com at all) and stop stressing over it.
To clarify:
a balanced meal has about 30% protein which could already be in your other foods because protein is in everything
a balanced meal has about 30% good oils which could already be in your other foods — like avocados, olives, etc.
a balanced meal has about 40% good quality carbohydrates like leafy greens, fresh veggies, raw fruits, etc.
Try balancing every meal with 30/30/40 for a few days and see if your body doesn’t feel better.
observations
A few things I’ve noticed while grocery shopping lately:
Storage Bags
“Ziploc” brand bags say clearly on the side or bottom: “Product not formulated with BPA” — I’m impressed. None of the other reclosable bags in the stores I frequent say anything about BPA. Makes me wonder…
Mayonnaise
Have you noticed most mayonnaise is now low-fat? The same old brands are now adding olive oil to their less-than-wonderful Canola and soy oil, but the first ingredient is water. They boldly advertise on the label, “New! Lower in fat!” That means they have to add other things, non-mayonnaisey things, to make it act like mayonnaise.
I’ve made mayonnaise for decades and it’s wonderful stuff! But it is a bunch of oil that has been thickened with eggs and lemon. The oil is good, the eggs are good, the lemon is good. The real thing is good. Add a bit of garlic and it’s perfect! But you don’t ever use water.
So if you’re trying to improve your diet, make your own (recipes abound online) using good eggs, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and olive oil. You’ll be amazed at how your body responds. And for what it’s worth, I don’t add mustard to my mayonnaise recipe.
You can still find good mayonnaise in some stores — try health food stores or store brands at your regular grocery store.
Or you can whip up a batch of oil and lemon juice (equal parts) and use that instead. That’s what submarine sandwiches are famous for.
“Ultra-Pasteurized”
Ever wondered what that meant?
Let’s begin with basic cooking 101. The higher the temperature when cooking proteins, the more degraded and toxic it becomes.
From wikipedia (emphasis added):
Pasteurization of milk … is the main reason for milk’s extended shelf life.
High-temperature, short-time (HTST) pasteurized milk typically has a refrigerated shelf life of two to three weeks.
Ultra-pasteurized milk can last much longer, sometimes two to three months….
Pasteurization typically uses temperatures below boiling, since at very high temperatures, casein micelles will irreversibly aggregate, or “curdle“.
In the HTST [normal, pasteurized milk] process, milk is heated to 161°F.
UHT [ultra-pasteurized] processing takes it to 275°F.
A lot of doctors and nutritionists believe the protein in ultra-pasteurized milk has a much higher link to colon cancer than just about anything else. Mercola’s website has this article.
Ultra-pasteurized milk proteins are added to health drinks and powders, and energy bars. Heated cheese is about the worst thing you can give your colon.
South Carolina has very liberal laws on raw milk. Most health food stores, especially the independent ones, carry raw milk. You can call them to find out their delivery schedule. Raw milk cannot be kept next to the regular milk in some counties, ask if you can’t find it. Resources.
And just about any good health food store carries cheese made from raw milk.
Dehydration
If you eat a 60 – 80% raw, whole foods diet, you’ll only need about 20 ounces of water daily.
I know this could sound like a recipe for dehydration, but there are scales available that check hydration levels and body fat. Once you program a scale for your height and age, it tells your hydration percentage. You should use your scale at the same time each day. First thing in the morning after using the bathroom is usually the most accurate.
People who strive for 6-8 glasses of water per day usually show up as dehydrated because their body can’t figure out what to do with all that water. Adding lemon juice to your diet and cutting down on water intake makes the body able to get the fluids into the cells where they are needed.
The quality of your water is important too. Water with additions (city water or flavored waters), or leaching from plastic bottles could be a problem. You could install a reverse osmosis carbon filtered system into your kitchen cold water line, or you could go to a regularly tested natural spring and fill your own glass jars. Water should test at 5.5 – 6 pH.
If your body pH is too acid it will be difficult for you to hydrate properly. Saliva pH should be between 7.2 and 7.4.
Drinking with meals can slow down your digestion. A bit of lemon or water with lemon is okay, but iced drinks are the worst thing to drink with a meal. Get into the habit of chewing your food until it is liquefied.
You can only absorb water in the bowel. If your stomach isn’t acidified enough the lower valve won’t open and you just get water logged — you can hear the sloshing in your stomach. The hormones needed to empty the stomach properly and hydrate are related to the LL side – use more lemon.
The Dreaded Diet Diary
Whenever I’m asked to coach someone through a crisis of some sort, the first thing I have them do is email me a list of everything that goes into their mouth each day along with a list of how they’re feeling, and the times all these are happening. This gives me two huge bits of information:
- which system is having the hardest time functioning
- what beliefs this person has about food and nourishment
Then it’s pretty easy to point someone to the appropriate website pages and help them understand how they are shooting themselves in the foot. It’s hard for many to understand before keeping this Diet Diary though, and you can learn much by keeping one yourself.
Some basic rules:
- write down everything that goes into your mouth and what time it happens
- write down when you’re feeling hungry, thirsty, sad, tired, or anything else, especially pain
- don’t try to make your diary look good, just be accurate
- don’t change what you eat just because you’re writing it down
- do this until you have no problems left
- analyze them by going through the Left Lemon System page on the website
Using the information found on that page you can adjust your diet to make your life work so much better! All sorts of **-isms disappear.
For a walk-through of using a diet diary to figure out how to change your diet, read Study: John or Sue’s Skin.
Here’s how I usually tell people to begin:
- Get a smallish spiral notebook. Begin listing your food and drink intake every day along with how you feel before and after each meal (or between if there’s something worth noting).
- If you are significantly overweight or have difficulty losing weight, two scales would be very helpful: one digital scale to weigh you to tenths of pounds, and one scale to weigh your food. I know this sounds tedious, but I was amazed at how much I was eating once I finally got around to counting calories. And weighing yourself every morning helps you to see the impact of that extra whatever you ate or drank yesterday. If you have bone density issues, get a digital scale that includes bone mass. You might have to go online to find one.
Eating Out
I was in Butte, Montana recently, looking for a restaurant. We had just toured the amazing Mineral Museum — a place even normal people might appreciate for the beautiful displays of gems and minerals — and we were hungry. We asked around for a good place to eat and someone mentioned The Hummingbird Cafe, just a few blocks from the museum.
To say we had a pleasurable experience would be an understatement. Great food, great service, and a comfortable place to eat while the weather outside was frightful.
But more than that I was reminded of what makes a great dining experience when you’re trying to improve your health while still enjoying food, friends, and family.
Rule #1: pick a place that knows what “fresh” means
Wilted lettuce or canned guacamole just won’t improve your health like a pile of fresh alfalfa sprouts and a dollop of fresh hummus.
Rule #2: if they won’t work with you, go elsewhere
I don’t eat wheat. Nope, not ever. So when entering a sandwich shop the first thing I want to know is if the chef is having a bad day and can’t handle arranging sandwich ingredients on a plate. By the time you find that out, you already know if your waiter is going to be helpful.
Rule #3: comfort is…, well…, comforting
Is it too crowded? Too noisy? Too dark? Too anything?
A comfortable chair at a table with space to move around, good art on the walls, a bit of tasteful humor in the bathroom — these are all appreciated.
Rule #4: your turn — share your thoughts on finding good food when eating out
Clutter too
I was wondering this morning how I managed to get rid of 56% of the stuff in my house when I’d been through two major (MAJOR!!!) purges in the past 14 months. The conclusion I came to is that I finally figured out a few things:
1) who I am
2) where I’m going
3) what I’ll need along the way
Giving up wheat and removing meat from my home released a lot of unnecessary items from my kitchen. And narrowing down my interests to those I am truly passionate about released items from other rooms. But my desk — where the vast majority of items were removed — found release from knowing who I am.
Finding out who I am came slowly, probably due to the autism thing. But the more I get to know God, the more I see why He made me, and how much better my life will be when my values completely align with His.
I’ve had to fight for health ever since I can remember
And it has eluded me in many ways. I have been told “It’s probably MS.” so many times that I finally forced the issue and demanded an official diagnosis. What I went through with that fiasco would make a great book. Mystery, suspense, near-death experiences, everyone making mistakes, and somehow surviving to tell about it. It turned me off from doctors for a long time.
At some point along this journey I realized vitamin and mineral supplements were doing more harm than good. So I quit.
Health has become a passion of mine
And just finding that passion has released a lot of clutter from my house. I don’t need things that create ill health. I don’t need things to keep me alive while I eat badly. And I no longer need those hundreds of pages of instructions to extract myself from whatever health problem I had gotten into this time.
Emotional baggage is clutter too
Forgiveness is priceless. Knowing that someone refused to forgive me for something I did is one of the worst hurts I’ve ever endured. But I played into that person’s desires to make me squirm until I forgave them for not forgiving me.
Forgiveness leads to less clutter in my head.
Getting rid of the excesses in my life…
Most of my life I’ve eaten excessively – foods or drinks that were bad for me. Those had to be removed from my house until I was strong enough to refuse them. I needed to be able to relax in my own house and not have all those temptations around me. And once I found better health I didn’t want them anymore.
Getting rid of so much stuff from my house means I don’t have to take care of (steward) all the stuff that’s gone, but I also don’t have to clean it or clean around it!
The bottom line
The change I appreciated the most in the Clutterfat Challenge:
The view.
My entire house is pleasant to look at, with only a few exceptions that need more work. I love the look of wood floors with sunlight streaming in. And the thick knotty pine paneling in my den and kitchen.
And now I appreciate the stuff I do have.
(Thanks to D&T for allowing me to photograph the sunlight coming in from their awesome, snowy deck.)
Clutter 1
I recently participated in The Clutterfat Challenge, where I agreed to go through all of my “stuff” over a 30 day period and attempt to get rid of what wasn’t needed or wanted anymore.
William Morris – “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
They expected 50% of everyone’s stuff to accept the label of “clutter” and be moved out.
I, being special, hoped for considerably less.
Why am I so special? Because I’ve worked as a professional organizer for over two decades, because I just went through two major purges of clutter in the last 14 months, and because I like to think I keep a pretty sparse home anyway.
Pride goeth before the fall.
I counted all of my stuff to begin the challenge. I came up with 8748, but I guestimated the contents of my file drawers due to the overwhelming amount of stuff. I figured purging the file drawers would take the most out of my house, but I had no idea as to what awaited me during this thirty day challenge.
What does this have to do with restoring health through understanding — the LeftLemon.com motto — you might ask?
“When you find an excess, something is wrong.”
Trust me, I will tie this together…
I began this journey according to the directions, by downloading the three page worksheet, and walking into the bathroom to begin counting every object in there. I opened the first drawer and realized I wanted to get rid of about half the stuff in that drawer right now! No — I couldn’t! I had to count them.
To say I was angry, depressed, overwhelmed, and maybe even a bit furious during the two days it took me to count all the stuff in my house doesn’t quite describe the emotion I felt. It was horrible. But it was a huge learning experience.
The final statistics
My beginning total: 8748
My ending total: 3841
I got rid of 4907 ite
ms.
Percentage of stuff exited from my house: 56%.
Analysis, in case you’re interested:
Place where the most items were eliminated: my desk at 3580 less items, 71% less stuff.
Place that surprised me the most: kitchen at 621 less items, 43% less stuff.
Place that was the most fun: my closets and drawers — 321 less items, 60% less.
Place with the least clutterfat: the living room.
The hardest part: counting.
How did I get rid of 621 items from my kitchen?
By getting rid of items I would never need now that I’ve committed to a healthy lifestyle.
How about you? Where are the excesses in your life? What could you stand to get rid of? Would it bring you more peace and contentedness? Would it bring you better health?
