01.10.09
Pent up Aching Rivers
Walt Whitman called it (Leaves of Grass) “pent up aching rivers.”
My book, “Anytime…” tells you how to harness it.
This video shows someone feeling its power and being tormented by it.
01.09.09
Health Lessons from a Boy on a Boat
Health Lessons from a Boy on a Dive Boat
Almost exactly 30 years ago, I was on a dive boat, vomiting from seasickness, when I learned a lesson about health from a ten year old boy. Back then, in 1978, sport diving was still new and as a teenager I thought I was pretty cool for participating. The problem was that when I was up on the boat’s deck, I would, with even a moderate swell of the sea, get sick–it’s a little hard to be cool when you’re vomiting. But, when off the boat, and in the water, I usually felt no seasickness and got a charge at exploring the ocean floor.But, this day, I was between dives and vomiting while the captain’s son ran about the boat working, playing, and smiling. When he saw me vomiting, he looked at me with great seriousness and said, “the best cure for seasickness is to go sit under a shade tree.”I thought his advice funny at the time, since there are few shade trees around when you’re a mile at sea and the closest solid ground is 110 feet straight down.But, now, as a physician, I fear that we (physicians) are sometimes guilty of giving similar advice. If I ask someone to walk 3 miles a day and they’re having trouble finding the energy to get out of bed, that seems a little like the advice I was given by the captain’s son. Sure walking 3 miles a day would make me feel great, but I must feel great to be able to walk 3 miles a day.I have a patient who recently conceived who has polycystic ovarian disease. She was told that she could probably not get pregnant. She also had type two diabetes. Losing weight helps polycystic ovarian disease, but the disease causes weight gain. So, the advice to ask her to lose weight would have been like the advice of sitting under a shade tree.The answer, I think, is to make the goals very easy and obtainable, and then work up to the desired goal. The woman with polycystic ovarian disease started out with just 10 minutes of walking per day. I did a few things with her diet and exercise and hormone replacement (she had low growth hormone), and about 18 months after starting with me, she lost over 100 pounds, came off the diabetes medication, and now has a three-week-old son. She now walks three miles a day, but we started with something that she can actually do-not looking for a shade tree while at sea.If you are not doing so well with your New Year’s Resolutions, then consider that you may be looking for a shade tree while at sea.Cut your goals in half (at least). If your goal was to walk three miles a day, cut the goal to 1 mile per day. If you still don’t follow through, then cut it back to one-half mile or less.When you are doing the goal, then stay consistent with that for at least a week or two then go up by about 10% per week.Goals are about new beginnings and the healthiest people I know keep re-starting. Putting all the pieces of a healthy routine in place at the same time can be challenging.If you would like for me to personally supervise a new beginning for you, with fasting, followed by a healthy diet designed especially for you while staying in a beautiful setting on the Mobile Bay, click her for more information.
01.05.09
365 Health Strategies: January 5, 2009
January 5: Health Principle: 80/20
We’re five days into the year and still talking about ways to make New Year’s resolutions that take you where you want to go. Another mistake in resolutions is that of working very hard at the less important. Part of the art of any endeavor is deciding where to focus the most effort for the best results. With only a finite amount of time and energy, focusing on the less important results in wasted time and poor results. The 80/20 rule applies to health just as much as it does to business.
For example: I really like the way I feel when I do YOGA. The focus and stretching make me feel relaxed and focused and seem to release energy. But, research does not show nearly the benefit to health with YOGA as what is possible with walking. I’ve known hundreds of people who have lost 40 or more pounds walking (and kept it off); I know no person who lost more than 40 pounds with YOGA. I’m not saying that no person ever lost 40 pounds with YOGA. I just think it’s less effective as a health maintenance activity for most people. So with limited time, I choose to walk every day and save YOGA for those rare days when I have extra time after I’ve walked at least three miles.
In the effort to build physical and emotional health, is there something you’re including in your day that may be less helpful? Sometimes, people miss out on good health by finding time for a helpful activity but not having time for the activities that could affect a radical change.
I constructed the checklist that is at the end of these strategies with the 80/20 rule in mind.
I’ve read other scriptures and books of philosophy and “self help” and think you should not ignore wisdom wherever you find it. But, I know many thousands of lives have changed and nations have risen and fallen with the power of the Holy Bible. Charles Dickens said, “The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.” Napoleon said, “The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.” Goethe said, “Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in ever greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the gospels, it will not go.” Without bogging down in theology that derails, I choose to study the Bible and love others no matter what scripture they read. These lessons will take you through the old testament once and the New Testament twice in a year of reading 15 to 20 minutes per day.
I know many benefits to activities other than walking or jogging; but I don’t know of another physical activity that offers as much benefit as walking.
Five servings of fruits or vegetables is known to decrease the risk of heart attack, stroke, hypertension, colon cancer, breast cancer. It’s also the “dosage” known to help decrease cholesterol and help to lower weight (by acting as low calorie appetite suppressant).
Sustained good health requires virtue. I’ve slightly modified Ben Franklin’s definition of the virtues. We’ll use his method of daily examination (swapping to a different virtue each week).
__Read Genesis: Chapters 29-35
__Walk 3 miles: Actual miles walked
__Eat 5 fruits or vegetables
__Virtue: Temperance-eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation
Peace & Health,
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01.04.09
365 Health Strategies: January 4, 2009
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01.03.09
365 Health Strategies: Jan 3–Baby Steps
While I was walking recently, two women approached from behind. Both were about 40 pounds over weight and about a foot shorter than I but were walking faster. I said hello and thought as they passed that they probably would not continue to walk every day because their goal was to go fast and hard and would result in discomfort. Most people won’t keep doing activities that cause discomfort. Their goal, in my opinion involved walking at a speed that was driving in 5th gear when their obese body wanted to be in 1st gear.
After choosing a new healthful habit to replace a harmful one, people sometimes make another mistake in the quest for better health-attempting too much too quickly. For example, trying to go from hardly ever exercising to walking several miles a day can be too much of a shock emotionally and physically. It’s analogous to trying to start a car moving by starting out in fifth gear. There’s too much strain on the engine if you start in fifth gear; so the engine sputters, the car moves a few inches. Then the engine dies. If you start the car in first gear, the car starts slowly but there’s no strain on the engine. Then after the car begins to move, you shift into second gear, and then third until finally the car’s moving at 65 miles per hour and the engine never strained. The same inertia, which kills the car engine in the physical world, kills the emotional stamina of most people in the emotional world.
By keeping the goal much smaller than that which you’re capable, it becomes easy to start. After starting, then the momentum makes it easy to shift into second gear and then third-doing a little more than planned.
Here’s the goal I’ve had since I was 19 years old: to walk one mile per day and to do 50 push ups. Even though since I was 19 I’ve done marathons, triathalons, and generally lead a very active life, the underlying goal that got me started many days was to go 1 mile per day and do 50 push ups. Most days, after starting, I would feel like doing more. But, when things seemed impossibly busy, or if I felt fatigue, or emotional upheaval, or whatever might stop me from exercise, the goal was always to walk 1 mile per day and do 50 push ups (about 20 minutes of walking at the usual pace of someone walking through a shopping mall).
Another first-gear goal that keeps me going is to just go to the YMCA 6 days per week, and do anything for 10 minutes. Occasionally (maybe once every two months), I’ll go to the YMCA and start exercising; then, after 10 minutes, I still don’t want to be there. When that happens, I give myself permission to shower and leave. Most of the time, if I arrive not really wanting to be there, after 10 minutes, I feel refreshed and in tune with the spirit of the place and start a vigorous workout. But the goal, when I go to the YMCA, is always to just exercise for 10 minutes.
Forget, “No pain, no gain.” Remember, “Pain will cause you to refrain.” The proverbial “baby steps” are easy so you come back the next day and the next. I hope to offer you one baby step per day with these daily lessons.
__Read Genesis: Chapters 15-21__Walk 3 miles: Actual miles walked
__Eat 5 fruits or vegetables
__Virtue: Temperance-eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Peace & Health,
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01.02.09
365 Health Strategies: January 2
Jan 2: Day 2
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Read Genesis: Chapters 8-14 _Walk 3 miles: actual miles walked _Eat 5 fruits or vegetables _Virtue: Temperance-eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation
Around January 1, I’ve seen patients try to begin or end a habit as part of a New Year’s resolution. Correctly thinking that habits greatly change their health, they use the first of the year as starting point for beginning new habits. I’ve noticed six things that successful habit changers do that the stuck do not do. You might consider these six things as you go about constructing resolutions for the year.
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01.01.09
365 Health Strategies: January 1
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January 1
Week 1 Health Principle: Day-Tight Compartments
Read Genesis; Chapters 1-7 Walk 3 miles: actual miles walked _____ Eat 5 fruits or vegetables _____ Virtue: Temperance-Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
The first thing God did after making earth and heaven was make day and night-to make the “first day.” Did his choice to first make “the first day” indicated some importance to the unit of time, the “day?”
Christ said to pray for today’s bread and that we should “not think of tomorrow” because we have enough troubles today. Does the “day” concept help you to better health?
William Osler, MD-the founder of Internal Medicine at John’s Hopkins, and author of the authoritative treatise on medicine during his generation-when asked to give advice to the graduating class of John’s Hopkins, chose to stress the importance of living in “day-tight compartments.” He taught the benefits to health (mental and physical) of living one day at a time. He also recommended 15 to 20 minutes with the Bible daily (about the time it will take you to read the Bible daily using the plan in this course).
It’s impossible to physically exist simultaneously in multiple days. You can live only one minute, only one instant-the present. You lose the present when immobilized while considering yesterday, last week, tomorrow, or 5 minutes ago. Living the present day stationary because of thoughts of anything other than the present moment, you lose the present and so live more than one day at a time. Present moments pass wasted; in this way you lose the day, a series of days, a lifetime.
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12.29.08
Testosterone Implant for Women
This procedure (where I place testosterone in the buttocks of a woman) allow me to provide her with a steady level of testosterone for 3 to 4 months. Don’t watch if you get sick by watching medical procedures.
12.27.08
Week 52
“Every man is a builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships,…We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”—Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Week 52
Bible Book: Revelations
Virtue: Humility, Love, & Outreach: Do something good for two people per day. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Date Day Bible Reading Health Principle
Dec 24 Revelations 1-3
Dec 25 4-6
Dec 26 6-9
Dec 27 10-12
Dec 28 13-15
Dec 29 16-18
Dec 30 19-20
Dec 31 21-22
12.25.08
Shooting Arrows into the Fog on Christmas for Better Health
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I have the obligation to carefully aim the arrow in a healthy direction. But 
After the fog cleared.