Painless Weight Loss: Three Keys
HOMEOPATHY
Frank King
A a new year begins, we traditionally look toward new possibilities and resolutions. Many of us resolve to lose weight after the holiday season’s feasting and festivities. In addition, many of our patients come to us with health issues stemming, at least in part, from excess weight.
But is excess weight truly the root cause of these other health issues? Evidence is mounting that excess weight is actually a symptom of three other problems. Notice the similarities between symptoms of these factors and dieting:
1. Toxicity - headache, fatigue, illness, toxin-addiction, irritability, depression
2. Candida albicans overgrowth - food and sugar cravings, bloating, fatigue, yeast infections, foggy thinking
3. Glandular imbalance - stimulant cravings, low energy, sluggish digestion and metabolism
Not only do each of these contribute to weight issues, each of the three also compounds the others!
The good news is that homeopathy can help alleviate all of these symptoms and more at the root cause, leading to not only more successful and permanent weight loss, but also a cleaner, healthier body, without all the discomfort associated with typical diets, Candida cleanses, and detox programs.
Which Comes First, Toxins or Fat?
According to Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., many of the toxins that we’re regularly exposed to behave like fats and are sequestered in fat cells.
One reason diets so often and famously fail, is because when fat cells aie depleted, the toxins locked inside are released into the bloodstream, making the dieter feel generally ill. No wonder people dread the whole weight loss process.
The modern Western world enjoys an abundance of food and consumer goods, thanks to technological advances. However, modernization has also produced an abundance of toxins.
Industrialization has produced a staggering number of chemicals, and thousands enter the marketplace each year without toxicity testing. Only after a chemical is suspected of causing harm is it tested.1
The toxins we are exposed to daily aie both physical (heavy metals and chemical toxins) as well as invisible (radiation and EMFs). Chemicals and other toxins enter the body through the air we breathe (indoors and outside); clothing, caipeting and upholstery; products we use on our skin, hair, and in our homes and businesses; and through the medicines, foods, water, and beverages we consume. Enviromnental toxicity is a topic we must not ignore.2
According to mounting research, chemical and heavy metal toxicity are now major contributory factors to weight gain and illness in all age groups, with strong associations linking exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), arsenic, dioxins, and organochlorine to obesity and diabetes.3 Homeopathy can help detox the body and relieve symptoms safely.
The Candida Connection
Candida albicans is a yeast-like fungus in the body that can grow out of balance, which results in many symptoms. It becomes imbalanced through the consumption of antibiotics, excessive sugar, and many prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
The good news in this whole story is that homeopathy can help.
Typical symptoms of Candida overgrowth closely mimic symptoms dieters describe: irritability, stress, headache, fatigue, forgetfulness, bloating, indigestion, and food cravings (especially sugar, starches, aged dairy products, and yeasty foods, including beer). Experts have also linked Candida overgrowth to heavy metal toxicity.4 Homeopathy can help.
People ai e often surprised and relieved to discover that as the correct homeopathic medicine gets the Candida under control, they have willpower to resist the unhealthy foods they craved before (and thought they couldn’t live without). Many unpleasant symptoms people associate with dieting are really from the Candida, and when the Candida is brought back under control, the cravings and unpleasant symptoms leave, along with the excess weight.
The P.H AT. Axis
The primary glands involved in energy, appetite, metabolism, and weight regulation are summed up in the acronym, PH. A.T. The letters stand for pituitary, hypothalamus, adrenals, and thyroid.
Chemical toxins (some of which are called endocrine disrupters) and heavy metals not only impair brain function, but they can also imbalance these glands.
When these glands and their functions become imbalanced, low energy and weight gain can be the result. The good news in this whole story is that homeopathy can help.
Homeopathy to the Rescue
Homeopathy facilitates detoxification, balancing Candida overgrowth and glands, and is both easier and more effective than many other popular methods. And when combined with your own natural therapies, significant results are likely. First, though, exactly what is homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a medical system introduced in 1790 by the German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, who was disillusioned with the medical practices of his day. The leeches and bloodletting, as well as the toxic chemicals that doctors were trained to use, led Hahnemann to believe that the medical system killed more than it saved.
Homeopathy is based on the pharmacological law of similars, which states that a natural substance that produces symptoms in a healthy person (think poison ivy or a bee sting), can also cure the symptoms it produces ... IF it is prepared homeopathically.
Preparing homeopathic medicine involves serial and very high dilutions, along with the potentization process, resulting in medicine that has enough of the energetics of the offending substance to elicit a response from the body to overcome the health issue, but not enough to cause any negative side effects. Homeopathy works bioenergetically on the whole person, body, mind, and emotions, at the cause and core of the problem.
This same law of similars is used today by the conventional pharmaceutical industry when they use allergens in allergy desensitization shots, and viruses in vaccines. However, con-
venti onal drugs often contain detectable levels of heavy metals such as aluminum and mercury, and also carry risks of negative side effects.
Homeopathic medicine, on the other hand, used worldwide for more than 200 years, has shown no known negative side effects, and no contraindications with other health conditions or medications. It is nontoxic and safe for all ages. Thus, I call it the perfect medicine.
Does Research Support Homeopathy?
Misinfonned critics believe there is no research behind homeopathy. In fact, the first double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study ever devised was conducted by homeopaths. Today, hundreds of scientific, modem day homeopathic clinical trials and studies exist, including the multi-year, meta-study completed in 2006 by the Swiss government. They concluded that homeopathic medicine is safe, effective, and cost-effective, and ruled that it be included in their national health coverage.
Long-Term Resolution for Life
Rather than just helping patients lose weight (a short-term goal), help them focus on becoming healthy (for life!) by addressing these three issues: detoxification, Candida, and the P.H.A.T. Axis. Weight normalization and a happier, more vibrant life will be the result.
Dr. Frank King, nationally recognized researcher, lecturer and author of The Healing Revolution: Eight Essentials to Awaken Abundant Life, Naturally! is the founder and president of King Bio, an FDA-registered homeopathic manufacturing company. He is dedicated to completing chiropractic destiny with homeopathy. Learn how to easily incorporate contemporary homeopathy into your practice by downloading your free Physician’s Reference Manual at: www.safecarerx.com. Questions? 866-298-2740, or e-mail: [email protected].
References:
1. Mark Fishetti, “The Great Chemical Unknown, ” Scientific American, Oct. 1, 2010.
2. Resources: Environmental Working Group http://www.ewg. org/; Detoxify or Die by Sherry Rogers, M.D.; Clean by Alejandro Junger, M.D.; The Detox Prescription by WoodsonMerrell, M.D.; 7-Day Detox Miracle by Peter Bennett, N.D. and Stephen Barrie, N.D. ; The Detox Strategy by Brenda Watson, C.N. C. ; and The Blood Sugar Solution: 10-Day Detox Diet by Mark Hyman, M.D.
3. Hyman M. “Systems biology, toxins, obesity, and functional medicine. Altern Ther Health Med. 2007; 13(2): S134-S139.
4. Joe J. Harrison, et al., “Metal Ions May Suppress or Enhance Cellular Differentiation in Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis Biofilms, ’’Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Aug. 2007, p. 4940-4949.
