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Subject: Same bat time Posted Date: Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 2:11 AM

Different Bat channel

Myspace, nice as they have been to host this blog, only keeps a handful of posts active, and I have had many requests to see the back posts, so I have opened a blog at Blogger, whihc I am sure I will regret.

You can find the back posts and future posts there at:

http://experimentofone.blogspot.com/

Thanks to all the hundreds who have visited this blog here. I hope you continue to check it out at the blogspot page.

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Subject: Quakery and Health Posted Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 2:59 AM

So, dear readers, I have returned from the Osteopath. Actually, I suppose the salient feature of his training his cranial sacral therapy. Skull bone manipulation for those of you who are furtune enough to enjoy health so pure that you have not wondered.

His office was plain, and informal, and he wore a hawaian print shirt. Long ago I ceased to asocaite white lab coats with the healing arts, but rather relegate to them only my assocations with the medical industry. No more, no less. The good doctor had a full row of catci craning from his window sill up toward the sun. There was probably a time when I would have thought that the presence of a living thing in a doctor's office was anathema to the necessary sterility in which healing is to take place, but I have been born anew, and quite honestly, I dont think I could trust a doctor who did nt demonstrate the simple ability to keep a growing thing living. Anyperson who fails to appreciate the beauty of growing a plant is unlikley to understand life really at all.

I have said it before, holistic doctors outside the allopathic paradigm may not always get the cuase right, but my word, they find the problem every time. An allopath might waste days mucking about with your head in reply to concern about headaches, but a holist will find if it begins in your hips or feet. This doctor was no different. Seamlessly he found the troubled areas without error. Whether he could do something was another story. He did, however, move things around, a bit like a rolfer, but more gentle.

There were no prescriptions. There were no promises. But there was noone in the waiiting room pressuring him to move on either, and I think the experience was a good one. He felt, chakras I think, or energy meridians. he diagnosed it a "triumph of the will". This is a medical term. He said it felt as if I had my energy blocked, but that I had been dragging myself forward anyway. Quite accurate really. He looked for the source and told me that it was backward. That too comports with past experience. He moved bones, he moved muscles, he applied EMT, and he sent me for X-rays because my hips are out of alignment. That was no supprise. I have crap hips. Born with em. He, in one afternoon, figured out what it took an alopath 4 x-rays, and an MRI to figure out...my right leg is shorter than my left. But instead of telling me that, and moving on, he is measuring how much shorter and will fit me with a lift for my show. I wonder if I can get a flip flop version too.

He moved things around, and I do feel better. Some of the energy returned has been a little, overhelming, and I need to find somewhere for it to go.

I wil go back next week, and I will let you know. He is a good guy really, and I am not holding out hopes for miracles, and I have to admit, that I dont even want toknow what the 7, 14, 12, annd 14s he was muttering ment, but I believe in healers, in white coats and in hawian shirts.

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Subject: Adventures in medicine Posted Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 3:47 AM

Just when you think you have tried it all, along comes cranial/sacral osteopathy. Actually, it is long standing and well known, but new for me. The idea that the bones in your skull may be formed in such a manner as to produce psychiatric symptoms takes a leap of faith for anyone born under the western crisis oriented philisophy. Louis pasteur, for example, would likley roll over in his grave, althout his buddy Beauchomps would likley giggle and kick Louis hard in the groin. But I digress.

I am not too familiar with the process. Often time cranial oasteopaths lay their hands on and manipulate the bones in, the skull, hoping to improve the energy flow associated with the cerebospinal fluid. I am going to let this happen. it is supposedly, very helpful for some schizophrenics, and, as you sports fans recall, I am much more interested in healing than maintianing preconceptions.

quoth wikipedia:

Craniosacral therapy, cranial osteopathy or cranial therapy is a method of alternative medicine purportedly used to assess and enhance the functioning of the craniosacral system, which consists of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid of the central nervous system. Proponents claim that measurements of craniosacral motion are indicative of breath/heart rate, and that by lightly pressing on the cranial sutures of the skull they can remove restrictions in the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, relieving stress, decreasing pain, and enhancing overall health^[1][2][3].

we will see, we will see my friends.

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Subject: B-6 Posted Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 1:05 AM

no, this is not interesting. yes, it might be a bit freakish. This is my life. These are things I think about. I think about b-6.

B-6 is part of my supplment regimine.

The three major forms of vitamin B₆ are pyridoxine, pyridoxal, and pyridoxamine, which, in the liver, are converted to pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) - a cofactor in many reactions of amino acid metabolism. PLP also is necessary for the enzymatic reaction governing the release of glucose from glycogen.

Pyroluria is one potential cause of vitamin B₆ deficiency. In women, another potential cause for vitamin B-6 deficiency is use of oral contraceptives [OCs] and other medications containing estro-progestational hormones (such as those prescribed as part of Hormone Replacement Therapy [HRT]). Other contraceptive medications that may cause vitamin B-6 deficiency include: the patch (Ortho Evra), vaginal ring (Nuvaring), hormonal IUD (Mirena) and shot (Depo Provera). Specifically, habitual use of estro-progestational hormones inhibit absorption of vitamin B-6 (due to a disturbance of tryptophan metabolism), necessitating a larger daily doseage of B-6 into the bloodstream. Signs of a Vitamin B-6 deficiency include: depression, anxiety, loss of libido, insomnia, water retention, inability to process glucose (weight loss/gain). Physicians are now beginning to recommend routine vitamin B-6 administation during hormonal contraception/medication.

This vitamin may increase dream vividness or the ability to recall dreams^. It is thought that this effect may be due to the role this vitamin plays in the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin

Vitamin B6 has been used in combination with niacin in the orthomolecular approach to schizophrenia. Pioneers of orthomolecular medicine reported benefits from this combination.

The condition that is trated by b-6 is pyroluria...

Pyroluria (originally known as malvaria) is a genetic condition resulting in an abnormality in hemoglobin synthesis. People with pyroluria produce excess amounts of a byproduct from hemoglobin synthesis, called OHHPL (hydroxyhemoppyrrolin-2-one). In these people an excess amount of pyrrole is found in the urine. The most accurate test for pyroluria directly measures urinary pyrrole's.

Pyroluria is a form of schizophrenic porphyria, similar to acute intermittent porphyria where both pyrroles and porphyrins are excreted in the urine in excess. (Carl Pfeiffer PhD, MD, 1983).

This abnormality leads to a higher excretion of vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) and zinc in the urine, with deficiencies (or borderline deficiencies) common. Changes in fatty acid metabolism often lead to low levels of arachidonic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid). The presence of pyroluria can have a profound effect on mental and physical health and was first discovered in relation to schizophrenia.

Typically pyrolurics are pale, with stretch marks on thier skin, aching joins, dominant fears, decreased social interactions, look young, etc...

I tested very slightly positive for this in my lab work. It was not thought to be a major problem, but that it might be contributing to my illness. I started to supplment wtih B-6. I started at 50 mg a day. Any more than this and my dreams got very vivid. For this reason, I was slow to increase the amount to the 150mg that the doctor wanted. A year or so later, I learned that I could increase the dose gradually and not have the incredibly vivid dreams. I did that and I felt a signifigant improvement in my health correlating with the increase. This might be coincidence. Still, the other day I decided that after a year on 200 mg a day, I would try 250. I have been at 225 for the last week, and I feel better still.

Why do I metnion this? becuase still with the best orthomolecular clinic in teh country examining me, there is the necesity for personal experimentation. I wish this were not do. I wish that one went to the doctor, got directions, maybe pills, or excersizes and then did them and got well. but doctors are not gods. They are kids like me who were better at math and science than english. They went into medicine instead. Its a good career. Sometimes you need to work with them, becuase noone can defien "feeling well" but you. Sometimes you need to do your own exploration.

I am exploring, and this is a fine line to walk. At a certain point, you see fear and death in every corner. Every picked up teh DSM-IV? After a good read, there is no sane person who cannot see themselves in many psychological conditions. Of course, the irony is taht I AM nuts, but I digress. Over the years I have been convinced, in looking for the culprit, that I had MS, Crohns, diabetes, wilson's disease, hematomachrosis, unresolved family issues, low self esteem, mania, food allergies, lipid metabolism disorders, intolerance of salt, etc etc etc. This is what you get when you look. But I had to look. I had to learn to investigate likley candidates and to take tests that could help me cross things off a list. I had to learn to trust the professionals, and to set out experiments that would result in clean results that were reliable.

This is a test. This is a test of one. it seems to be going fine, becuase I have been feeling very well. But this is my life, a constant state of trust and suspicion. It led me to recovery, so I will not abandon it, and over the years I have learned to modify it.

Glad you all could be a part of it.

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Subject: A new hello Posted Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 2:18 AM

things lately have been hectic, so I have ben remiss in my intention to tell you all about a young man who I have learned about who recently, but suddenly, began to exhibit the same symtoms I have had. he is young, and I think he sounds angry to have been afflicted. He is, like me, highly functional, which is a blessing and a curse. The suicide rates for the highly functional, as well as the hebephrenia type schizophrenics are almost double. They seem to both reatin insight into their illness, and the capacity for dispair. In short, unlike our paranoid and catatonic bretheren, we know just how sick we are and we are not happy about it one bit.

He is a bright kid, according to his mother, and having corresponded with her, if he shares his mother's intellect, then she is not inaccurate. I think the two of them are asking the right questions. he is looking for answers becuase accepting the realities of the condition are not an option. He sounds like he is on the right path.

Well, if you are reading this, dear northern sufferer, then I want you to know my path the health was a long haul. It was demeaning, it was frustrating, and it was wasteful. But there was no other option but to recover. If I could do something to make it all go away in one feel swoop, I would have, I would now, but that option never presented itself. What happened is that I had to take responsibility for the recovery. I had to abandon hope and plug away because there was nothing else for me. In the end there was an answer for me, amidst nightmarish adjectives like permemant, disabeling, improvement, slight, limited, imparired, and shattered. You seem to have a leg up. You have a good support network and have already found the resources it took me years to locate. I think you will recover, based on my experiences and the prognosis' I have read. Have patience, and when you run out of patience have faith, and when you run out of patience, have stubborn bull headed certainty that you will get well.

This recovery may not be what you expected, but you dont have a choice that I know of. You will have to define wellness for yourself and know, not just suspect, that that wellness is possible. Good luck.