Health Lessons

Author: runels

  • Lesson 3: Daily Routines for Automatic Health

    Law 3: Climb

    Lesson 3: Daily Routines for Automatic Health

    I want to see you climb to better health rather than allow your body to slip into disease. Even though I know you’re trying to have your best health and are doing many things right—just as with your house there are things that should be done every day–so with your body you should do some things every day if you wish to see glorious health or miraculous healing.

    If you must every day reconsider what things should be done (redesign the whole plan), you will not practice a consistent routine that leads to health because by the time you figure out what to do every day, you’re tired of the whole process and ready to get on with something else other than your health.

    The people whom I have known who enjoy superior health spend time occasionally thinking in detail about what will be in their daily routine, then they simply go through the routine every day and trust it to take them to superior health.

    If you do the same things, you get the same results.

    If you do something different, you will get different results.

    So, if your body is not where you want it to be or as healthy as it can be, let’s consider carefully what to include in your daily routine so that the routines will take you where you want to go. Then you simply follow the routine most days without needing any energy to decide what to do—you just wake up and go.

    What you do daily will change when you want something different.

    For example, you may develop an interest in a new sport and want to change your physical routines to match the skills necessary for that sport. Or you may want extremely time-consuming career goals and need to decrease the time you spend in daily exercise. Conversely, you may want extreme physical goals and so greatly increase the time spent in physical exercise.

    When you find that you are not following a daily routine (and you often will), then you should not conclude that routines do not help. You should consider that perhaps your routine does not accomplish what you really want. Or, perhaps, the amount of time available does not allow for completion of the routines and so you need to either change the goals or find more time for the routine.

    When your routines match your available time with what you want and when you remind yourself regularly of this matching—then you will follow the routines and find the wanted results.

    Ingredients of a Daily Routine

    Daily routines should consider your mental, physical, and spiritual health. If you do not move forward in all three areas, then you are building your health on an unstable foundation.

    When you design a weight-training routine, you consider all of the muscle groups. If you have an area that is not developing then you find another exercise, or you spend more time working that area. So, as you develop your daily routines you consider all areas of your health. You occasionally reevaluate results and modify the routines to make sure that you’re getting what you want.

    But, and this is the important part, you make the routines separate and calm so that when it’s time to act, you need make no decision except to do the routine. This helps you move forward every day in the right direction and without the inertia of indecision or even thought—you simply wake and go.

    Just as if you were analyzing a diver from a diving board into the swimming pool, you might spend time thinking about each movement and developing where you pace your hands or how you tuck your chin as you go into the flip-in the same way, you think about every part or the routine that brings you to superior health.

    But, then, when it’s time to actually do the flip you execute quickly the flip and it goes smoothly. In the same way, when it’s time to do your daily routine, it should go smoothly with not much thought about the next step and with loss of concept of time.

    Do not be discouraged that routines will consume too much of your time or energy. Routines will require time and energy, but, if the routine is worthwhile, you will gain more time and energy than they require.

    If you want to read more about routines, I highly suggest Stress for Success: Jim Loehr’s Program for Transforming Stress into Energy at Work . Here he describes how he used routines to coach professional and Olympic athletes to their best performance.

    He also makes the case that the man or woman working at a career or as a parent needs for routines even more than does the professional athlete (Example: If you’re a pro athlete pitching in the world series and you have a bad day, then tomorrow you open a car dealership with your millions; if you’re an ER nurse and have a bad day–then someone is dead and you’re looking for a job).

    I used the idea of routines to stay as healthy and focused as possible while working as an ER physician in a busy inner-city ER (where life and death situations and sleep deprivation were common).

    Was not Daniel’s routine of prayer 3 times a day a sort of routine (that landed him in a cage full of lions)? Routines are not a new idea but there’s been some progress about what should go into a daily routine.

    Now let’s consider how to put the routine idea into your life.

    Example Routines

    Here are possible routines that will take you through the day in an energized and health-giving way (all of these routines have been used by Loer to train elite athletes): 1) Go-to-bed routine, 2) Wake –up routine, 3) Go-to-work routine, and the 4) After-work routine.

    Just as the baseball player goes through a routine that prepares him to hit the ball before stepping to the plate. So, your routines will prepare you to do your work.

    Consider some these possible routines and modify them to suit your purposes:

    Go-To-Bed Routine (GBR)

    Most people consider the morning as the start of the day. But the day starts when you go to bed. What time you wake to feel refreshed depends upon the time you go to bed and how well you rest.

    Ingredients of the routine include what you thought and ate or drank the few hours before bed.

    Part of resting properly depends upon going to bed at the same time and getting up at the same time daily. Even on the weekends, you will fell better and do more if you keep a regular bedtime and wake time.

    I have seen times when my schedule became almost completely incompatible with some of these ideas. As an emergency room physician, my job required that I work night shift and day shift within the same week. So, I could not have a regular bedtime. But, I still followed a routine at whatever time I did go to bed.

    Go-to-be might have been 9 am on Tuesday and not again until 8 pm on Thursday, but by following a wakeup routine and a go-to bed routine at whatever time hose events occurred, I found much better health than if I would have seen had I ignored the routines simply because I did not sleep every day and I did not sleep at the same time.

    There are times when vacation, or travel, or work dictates that I must break a routine. That’s OK. The routines are there as a way to keep you in your best health. They are part of the keeping the tool ready but sometimes the use of the tool necessitates that you break a routine. When that happens, simply be grateful for the time you spent preparing and then get back to your routines as soon as possible.

    Sample Go-to bed routine:

    1. Snack and supplements.

    I know that some think you should not eat at bedtime. I think you sleep better if you do enjoy a light snack at bedtime. My habit for years has been to drink a protein shake with fruit as a bedtime snack. At times, if I am fasting, the snack may be water. At times it may be fruit or yogurt or both. It is never junk food or alcohol. I just do not allow junk food to remain in my house. If you do allow junk in your house, then you will likely eat it at bedtime—so simply throw all the junk away and don’t bring it back.

    Snack time is also when you should take whatever supplements you have determined to be most useful to you. What these supplements are will vary based upon what’s happening with you (your physical and mental goals and how old you are) and with advancing research. But, that you should enjoy a bedtime snack and take supplements/super foods will not change with time.

    When I am fasting, my snack may be mineral water and the supplement may be something as simple as a natural source of fiber.

    When I am gaining strength, the snack may be 6 raw eggs mixed with cream, whole mile, and fresh fruit in a blender.

    This is also the time to take any evening medications.

    2. Shower, Skin, Teeth

    Next in the routine is a hot bath or shower. If you have time, I prefer a hot bath at 104 to 106 degrees Fahrenheit followed by a cooler shower. The hot water of the bath helps with relaxation and development of peaceful thoughts and leads to deeper sleep.

    After the shower, then have a regular routine for caring for skin and teeth.

    My preferred products for these routines will change as new products develop but the daily care of body, teeth, and skin will not change because these are areas that by the Law of Health need daily focused attention.

    The health of your mouth and teeth causes a profound effect on your whole body. You may escape attending to your mouth and teeth during the day with not as much harm (though attention after every meal is best). But, the most important time to attend to the teeth is just before sleep. During sleep, you produce less saliva. The decreased saliva production allows for more bacterial overgrowth and tooth decay. Making sure the mouth has less bacteria and less food particle to feed the bacteria will protect the teeth during sleep.

    The natural tooth-protecting ingredients included in saliva are sodium bicarbonate and hydrogen peroxide. The best way that I currently know to use these to keep your teeth white and clean will be found here on TempleRepair.com.

    3. Meditation and Prayer

    After you shower, you will be more relaxed and clean. At this point, most will go to bed and rest peacefully. But with about 20 minutes of additional effort, you can enter a deeper meditative sate and both rest more peacefully and renew your spirit.

    Hatha yoga; followed by meditation and prayer works miracles in your life. Here are instructions for both.

    4. Scripture

    Reading the Bible (or your scripture) for 10 to 15 minutes following your shower puts you in contact with the ancients. Here’s a suggested Bible reading plan. This and other scriptures are around for thousands of years because they work. Some would say discard the old and dusty scriptures and write your own scripture.

    If you feel inclined to write your own scripture, then who am I to argue with you and GOD? But, even if you feel inclined to write your own scripture (which you do with your life even if you never write a sentence), the scripture you write will spring from a deep and pure well if you connect with the thoughts of those who walked the desert when wealth was measured by the number of sheep that followed you.

    Without connection to the ancients, your scripture will likely be polluted by the electronic and mechanical machine guns that pellet your brain with peace killing noise.

    5. Grade

    After reading the scriptures, this is a good time to briefly connect to the virtues to which you aspire and to grade yourself. I prefer a modified version of the 13 virtues as outlined by Benjamin Franklin (see this website).

    You will review the day, whether you make a concerted effort or not. What you grade and measure will improve—automatically—just from the grading. If your mind drifts without direction as you fall to sleep, you will review and grade the more reptilian efforts of the day. But, if you focus and grade yourself upon the virtues, then you will improve those efforts and this will lead to better health.

    6. Goals

    Think of what you want to accomplish the next day—no more than 6 things. Chose the things if you did them not, your family or business would be seriously affected. Write them down where you will see them and carry them with you the next day. One or two is better if you are getting none of your list done. You can work up to six. If you start getting nothing on the list done—then change back to 1 or 2 again.

    7. Sex

    As part of GBR, as part of connecting with GOD and LOVE, you may want to connect with your lover and your family.

    When my children were young, one of the last parts of my GBR was to read to them. We read most of the Harry Potter books, Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, and others.

    When they grew older, then we simply connected by saying “goodnight” (since sometimes they went to sleep after me). But, always, I tried to touch their head or shoulder—just to put a hand on them.

    I never lay in bed with them. If they were sick or disturbed, then I would sometimes lay on the floor beside them. Sometimes I would rub their shoulders or back.

    Everyone needs to be touched. It’s odd that, when our children are very small, you find it easy to touch them or to hug them. When they grow older and connect with a lover, then they may no longer need the touch of a parent. But, in the early teen years, they have no lover and sexual boundaries in the developing child make it uncomfortable for parents to touch their children—it feels inappropriate. These early7 teens will fight with each other—just to be touched. The girls will often experiment with pretend sex with their girlfriends—just to be touched.

    So, if you have children, just a hand on their shoulder or a short upper back and shoulder rub works miracles and fits into a GBR.

    Next, this is a wonderful time to connect to your spouse or lover. Take the love and energy and connection to GOD that you found in our meditation seat and use that to connect to your lover. Then sex becomes worship through the connection to your love you find in your lover.

    Sex is not penis in vagina. Sex is expressions of the deepest love through emotional and physical touching. You can learn more about how to use sex for health and spirituality in my 15-Day course for men, Anytime…for as Long as You Want: Strength, Genius, Libido & Erection by Integrative Sex Transmutation. The deepest sex and most enjoyable sex is an extension of prayer.

    Finally, there comes a time when all activity stops and you give up the day to sleep. Remember the GBR is really the beginning of the next day. So, as you fall asleep, spend the last waking moments in prayer or mediation on goodness, on GOD, or on what you wish to materialize in your life.

    Napoleon Hill, in his The Law of Success – Complete, speaks of visualizing a council room where he met with men that he admired from the ages and had a meeting about his life.

    As a teenager and in my twenties, to avoid continuous sexual thoughts and masturbation, I often fell asleep listening to recordings of lectures on philosophy or the scriptures. Who has not struggled to stay awake during a lecture in a place of worship? It is good that people fall asleep in church. It means that they are filled with peace from the words and thought of the place. So, use this to your advantage and think on such things when you are ready to give up the day.

    Other Routines

    You can see by the GBR that many details are considered. Then no thought is given to the routine, the list is simply followed, at first by a checklist if you want, eventually, by habit without thought.

    When you develop by practice routines that lead you to health simply by following a list, and when the list has be consciously considered by you in such a way to take you to your best health, then you have created a healthy lifestyle that brings health and healing almost automatically without much thought by you.

    Even more exciting, it will feel near effortless to stay healthy when you are simply following what is your natural habit because you took the time and effort to consciously practice health-giving routines until they became unconscious habit.

    To Do Next

    Consider and write out the following routines (and reconsider every 3 to 6 months):

    1. Go to bed routine

    2. Wake up routine

    3. Go to work routine

    4. Come home from work routine

    ©2009, 2020 Charles Runels, MD

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    This is one of a series of lessons in the Law of Health: 10 Essential Steps to Glorious Health & Miraculous Healing

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  • Law of Health: 3 Climb. 2-10 Steps to Climb from Fatigue to High Energy

    Law of Health
    Law 3: Climb
    Lesson 2: 10 Steps to Climb from Fatigue to High Energy

    You often think you are tired when you are simply bored or depressed. 

    You will look with boredom and fatigue at the books that hold the knowledge that will better your life or at the work that will express your love; then wake up to watch the hypnotic poison of mindless T.V. or listen to numbing music. That’s when you know you were not tired, simply bored.

    But, sometimes, you know real fatigue and fear (not boredom that feels like fatigue).

    If you wish to awaken, then you must conserve the energy that powers the engine of your mind and spirit, for each awakens the other.

    Here are Ten Commandments that have worked for me for replenishing nerve energy. 

    Disregard even one of the ten and you may find yourself supine as if covered with a heavy fog that pins you to the bed and chokes the air from your chest–I know from breaking every law on the list.

    But, I also know the energy of following them.

    Law 1

    Rest.

    If you fight a long battle or enjoy extra pleasure (and I will be disappointed if you do not do both), then spend extra hours in bed. 

    Have a day per week of rest. GOD rested one day per week. 

    The honeybees do not rest; they work every day. But the honeybees gather nectar mechanically and store methodically. 

    The GOD in you wants to create the nectar of Love that human bees gather to their hive. For that, you need rest.

    Law 2

    Play.

    All animals play. 

    Watch the dolphin that jumps from the sea. Does he arrive sooner for going vertical, skyward, rather than horizontal?

    Watch the dog that circles chasing his tail. Do you see the smile on his face?

    Only people seem to think that their role becomes so important that they cannot play. 

    Work without play becomes drudgery and uninspired. Play without work becomes a denervating vacation from nothingness and brings no pleasure.

    If work becomes drudgery, play. If play becomes boredom, work.

    Every day, work. Every day, play.  

    Today you may work 20 hours and play for 10 minutes. Tomorrow you may play for 8 hours and work for 30 minutes; but, everyday work and play.

    Every day work before you play, or your play laughter will be muffled by thought of work undone.

    Law 3

    Enjoy.

    Enjoy everything. 

    Enjoy your work (which is Love made Concrete) or find new work.

    Enjoy and find gratefulness for the water that washes across your hands and face when you wake, for the taste of the first liquid to pass your lips and cross your dry throat when you start your day, for your lover’s kiss, for your morning prayer, for the air that passes down the pipe to your lungs to give you the ability to think about the morning sky.

    Enjoy sorrow for sorrow is the vision that allows you to see joy and the possible sorrow of tomorrow is the timekeeper that encourages you to grab joy today.

    Law 4

    Look.

    If you direct all your thoughts to your career, your family, your self, then you develop a tunnel vision that leads to numbness and boredom. Everything relates to everything. Stop directing all your thoughts toward yourself and look away from your private concerns to the universe outside the people and concerns in your mental world.

    By looking outside yourself, you gain awaken to new worlds and new possibilities and new energy that you then import back to your world to make it larger. You also take what’s in your world and find new ways to contribute to the universe around you.

    Develop and study new interests. Study literature, dance, marital arts, music, gardening, or flowers-you decide. But, pick something new and study and you will find yourself looking outside yourself and your circle.

    When you look outside your circle, you awaken to what’s outside your circle.

    Law 5

    Sweep.

    Sweep your mind of the poisons that will dull you to an anesthesia of despair and fatigue.

    Take time to list every worry, every anger, every resentment, prejudice, and jealousy. 

    Then, find an action for each. Do something toward a solution for every worry, even if it does not completely solve the problem. Do an act of kindness toward those for whom you feel the poison.

    Law 6

    Eat.

    Eat least 5 servings of fresh fruit or vegetables every day. When you bite the apple with seeds still able to grow a new tree, you bite into life and swallow vitality. No need to fear food that is not still living, but make sure you swallow life daily and adequate amounts of life.

    Except for days of fasting, eat a minimum of 5 servings per day (a serving is one cup).

    Law 7

    Walk.

    As much as possible, dress for the weather and walk 3 to 5 miles daily in the fresh air (for a total of 21 miles per week). If safety or other problems dictate that you walk inside, then use and elliptical trainer and still go the distance. But, at least go for a short block or two in the fresh air daily.

    You will find more magic and health than is widely known in the meditation and movement of walking. Add other activities if you wish. But, if you ignore walking, you will see more valleys and miss more mountains.

    Law 8

    Release.

    Release responsibility for the results; take responsibility for doing your best at the most important thing you can find to do. 

    Work with your head and hands and not with your emotions.

    Do not worry that the most important thing does not seem important enough to you. More important things will come to you if you do what is in front of you with excellence.

    Do not worry that you may not see the result you intended. If you learn from that result to adjust to something more important or more constructive, then you did not waste your efforts.

    Do not release effort and focus. Use your strongest effort and your most narrow focus to do your work. Survey the promises made to you and to others, decide the best action, then focus and work.

    Do not dash from one activity to the next. Decide the most important thing to do and stay with it until you reach your predetermined stopping point. 

    Then go to the next thing.

    Law 9

    Ignore.

    The only opinion that matters is your opinion while connected to GOD. Worrying about the opinions of others is a huge drain of your energy. 

    You will make enemies and endear lovers with the same action, no matter your action-good or evil, constructive or destructive.

    Connect to GOD, then enjoy the rest, peace, and energy that comes from doing what you perceive to be right and best and ignore the inner voice that whispers the intrusion, “What will people think?”

    Law 10

    Stop.

    Whatever you are frantically doing (thinking that the world will end if you stop), stop doing it.

    At least for the time it takes to do the first 9 laws-stop and know that the world will keep going without you. Though you may think that you are the superhero that must save your family, your business, and the world, if you do not care for yourself, you cannot help. 

    And, when you are gone, the world will keep going without you.

    Peace & health,

    Charles Runels, MD

    1-888-920-5311

     P.S.: These 10 Laws are a modification and expansion of ideas found in a book published in 1954 by Edward Spencer Cowles, Conquest of Fatigue and Fear. I have used these ideas with great benefit since picking up a used copy of the book at a library sale 38 years ago.

    These laws were further modified into the following pocket book…

    © 2009, 2020 Charles Runels, MD

  • Law of Health: 3 Climb. 1-Maintain the Tool

    Law of Health

    Law 3: Climb

    Lesson 1: Maintain the Tool

    I drove a 1972 Ford Pinto to high school. I kept it clean and waxed, but I thought I was too busy to check the oil.

    I let it run low, and caused some severe damage to the engine and found myself with a car that would not run at all. I bought a repair book, went to the junkyard and took the head from a wrecked Pinto, and then rebuilt the engine in my car.  

    During the three days and most of a night that it took for me to repair that engine, I could not drive it at all.

    After I rebuilt that engine and understood more about how it worked, then I used an old-fashioned timing light and other tools to keep it running at optimum speed. I set up a maintenance schedule and stuck with it most of the time. I checked the oil with almost every fill-up, checked the air in the tires weekly, washed it weekly, and waxed it once a month. The car gave me excellent service and looked sharp until I finally traded it for another car.

    Odd that with the body-temple (which people cannot trade for another on this planet), people will not usually set up a maintenance schedule that will keep the body well-and then stick with that schedule.

    There is a time for use and a time to maintain. 

    The body-temple is a tool that you animate. You are not your body, but you are so closely dependent on your body, and its health can so much control what you are able to do physically and mentally that some think of themselves as the body.

    Ironically, you may be more exacting with your body and take better care of it if you think of it as something separate from who you are. You will not pay as much attention to hunger, or fatigue, or the discomforts of exercise if you think of your body as something you are caring for so that you can enjoy and produce more here on the planet.  

    Keeping your body functional will become keeping your main tool operational. Keeping your body beautiful will become the gift that you give to your lover. Keeping your body pure becomes the sacrifice that you offer to the heaven you find on earth.

    If you think of yourself as your body, you will find it more difficult to judge what your body needs and does not need. You consider more personal and threatening the discomforts that lead to better health and will avoid the pains of the maintenance of health and fall into the pains of disease. For example, temporary hunger will feel like a threat to YOU rather than something your body must tolerate because you think it best. You become almost like the supervising guardian of your body.

    The physical and the spiritual and mental giants of all time have taken time to see to the maintenance of the body-temple on some sort of schedule. Since the spiritual leaders have often found refuge and inspiration in the mountains, I call this maintenance time “Climbing.” This contrasts with the “Falling” into disease and despair that comes with ignoring health maintenance.

    Climbing could literally mean climbing a mountain to seek a place to pray. More commonly, it will mean figuratively climbing to better health by going for a walk.

    Areas to Consider

    In considering the methods for climbing, it’s useful to first consider what needs to be maintained. Consider a body without a healthy mind-not good. Consider a healthy body and mind with a troubled spirit-again, not good. 

    For the best health, the Law is that you must have all three: body, mind, spirit. Here is an example of how cliché originates from truth.

    So, whatever method the Law of Health dictates, must care for those three areas of health.

    Schedules

    There must be a balance between using a tool and caring for it–between walking for travel and climbing for fresh air.

    There are those who so much enjoy tuning a car that they make their living tuning cars. But, if they tuned their own car every day with the full maintenance schedule of rotating tires, changing the spark plugs and head gaskets, then they would never be able to drive the car–it would be continually disabled by the maintenance.

    And here lies an uncomfortable law: when you are climbing, you can’t be doing. When you are replacing spark plugs, you can’t simultaneously drive your car down the interstate. When Christ was on the mountaintop in prayer, He could not speak words of peace to the crowd. 

    When I was a teenager, I worked two to three part-time jobs and went to school and ran track. I had places to go. I did not have time (I thought) to maintain my car. 

    You have places to go and things to do and will think that you do not have time to climb to a place of better health. But, the Law of Health is that you must take time to climb or you will fall.

    Because you do have things to do, however, you will want to find the most effective way to keep your health with the least amount of time possible so that you can go about doing.

    There are those who’s main thing to do is to take the body to an almost super-human place. These may be professional athletes or professional models. And there are those who so much enjoy the activities of maintaining the body that they never get around to the doing. There is nothing wrong with looking to find a place in mind, body, and spirit that few find. Find the place of super-health and mind and spirit if you wish. But, you must do this in a way that leaves time for using your body-temple as the tool it was meant to be.

    The Magic Ingredient of Breath

    The Law of Health recognizes that there is a magic ingredient. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. When I saw someone die in the ER, I could often see what was wrong with the heart or lungs to cause their death. But, between life and death, there is an invisible line which when crossed means the loss of breath. 

    The breath that goes into clay to animate it and make it become life is something greater than the mechanics and chemistry of the body. The more you study biology, the more it becomes chemistry; the more you study chemistry the more it becomes math (I was a chemistry/math major in college and worked as a chemist before medical school).   

    Most importantly, the more you study math, the more it becomes prayer. Math and chemistry describe and predict, but they do not explain. 

    There is a law, gravity, that says two objects are attracted to each other with a force proportional to their mass and inversely proportional to the distance between them. This law predicts and describes but it does not explain why two objects should be attracted in such a way. 

    For more understanding about the difference between explaining and describing, you should watch this conversation with Richard Feynman(who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 and helped develop the atomic bomb).

    Einstein died searching for the “why.” In describing his search, he said, “GOD does not play dice with the universe.” 

    So, there is not just an order but also a breath, not just a “what” but an unexplained and invisible “why” that animates and brings life to clay and brings more life when inhaled. 

    Whatever schedule you use to climb to better health, must account for this breath and allow you to inhale more life into your body-temple. Finding this breath may mean being alone, being around certain people, or being in certain places. But to ignore the inhalation of this breath is to miss one of the benefits of the Law of Health.

    Cosmetic is Good

    On the other hand, in considering the mechanics of health and the magic of breath, you may think that you have the complete picture and to simply try to look more attractive is waste. But, imagine an amazing racing car with a 16-cylinder engine. Now imagine not taking time to wash and wax of even paint the body of the car. Sure, the shine of the paint has no direct effect on how the engine runs (or so we think). But, if you wash your car and wax it, then you will find that the engine seems to run better.

    More practically, I have seen some who will become motivated to take better care of the engine after a good wax job. They take a deeper breath when the body temple just appears healthier. Many women will go on diets and eat healthier after the liposuction. When they see all the fat that I suction out of their abdomen, they go home determined to eat more fruits and vegetables.

    Of course, there are those who would only wash and wax the car and never put oil in the engine. This does not work either. The healthiest become the most beautiful by virtue of their health. The best schedules are those that first take into account the mental and spiritual health. From this power, the person takes care of the physical health. 

    Then cosmetic efforts become the wax job on the finely tuned racing car. 

    Some of the catholic priests of the dark ages thought it vanity, waste, and a detriment to spiritual climbing to even take time to bathe. The Law of Health says, “If the temple where you kneel to pray can have thousands of dollars worth of stained glass and carved wood, then the physical temple that houses your spirit is worthy of cosmetic care.”

    There are those who say, “I would rather age gracefully.” But, who says such about their car: “I’m not going to wash or wax or repair that big dent from bumping into a pole because I’m just going to let my car age gracefully.” 

    Who says, “I’m not going to paint my house and sweep the floors because I’m just going to let it age gracefully and crumble and rot.”

    Yet, many will say with pride, “I’m just going to let my body age gracefully.”

    Conclusion

    The body-temple is worthy of scheduled maintenance that involves effort to climb to a better place of health of mind, body, and spirit. In considering schedules, the mechanics, the breath, and the cosmetics are important.

    Peace & health,
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    Charles Runels, MD

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  • 3 Fight Speeches to Help You Win the War for Health

    My healthiest patients are willing to fight for their health

    (it’s one of the Laws of Health).

    Gladiator looks his son’s murderer in the eye and speaks his reason for being alive–which is tied to his Love for his son.

    Do you say you're willing to "die" for the person you love? Then, are you willing to go through the pain of living in a different way for that same someone you love?
If you would die for the person you love, then will you go through the pain of doing without the thing that makes life not as good for that same person because it affects your health?
Will you go through the pain of exercise or of eating the healthier food?

    The healthy enjoy better health because they need their Body-Temple in its best condition to show their Love and are willing to fight…

    The Law of Health, Buddism, the Tao, Christianity, and Al Pachino–all say Life (and Health) begin with the willingness to die…

    Rocky tells his son it’s not how hard you hit, it’s if you’re willing to get back up. Some have the misconception that healthy people never get off track with their health–they do. But,

    The healthy get back on track the DAY they get off track (they get back up), where often the unhealthy give up for weeks or months at a time…

    I said 3 Fight Speeches, but here’s an extra for good measure.

    “Lying in your beds” who would not want to go back and fight for freedom from disease?

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  • COVID-19 Deaths as of April 16, 2020

    The deaths from COVID-19 are tragic and awful in every way. Follow the guidelines of YOUR local officials-some places are much more severely affected than others. This information is only to give perspective on timelines and relations of this pandemic to other dis-ease processes (and to encourage you to stay healthy now and after coronavirus wanes).

    Here are a few facts that may be of comfort…(video explains, references below video)…

    Yesterday (2020April16), two thousand one-hundred and fourteen people (2,114) died from coronavirus. 

    Please: Help us fight coronavirus but helping get the word out about this COVID-19 switchboard to help with this problem (as discussed in the Wallstreet Journal.
    COVID-19: Approximately 138,008 deaths reported worldwide; 30,985 deaths in the U.S., as of Apr. 16, 2020.*
    Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year (average about 40,000 per year in the US–year after year).
    Daily Deaths in the US from COVID-19

    Yesterday, just yesterday, in the U.S.A., the following casualties occurred (assuming we had a day that follows the statistics of the past year)…

    1. Drunk drivers killed 30 people in the US alone (about 11,000 per year)

    2. Around 3,287 teenagers attempted suicide–based on rates (Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers-after trauma).

    3. 3,750 babies were aborted (no matter what your position on abortion, no one likes this number–though we may dislike it for different reasons.)

    4. 42 people were murdered (most of these involve crimes of passion where families are being split or where drugs or alcohol are involved).

    5. 3,109 couples divorced (based on 1998 figures)

    6. 16 million adults (18 years and older) suffered from major depression (6.7% of adults in the US)

    7. Yesterday, more than 1 million people were living with H.I.V.

    8. One person died every 37 seconds in the US from heart disease- that’s 2,335 yesterday

  • 13 Virtues

    1. Here are the 13 Virtues as per Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography
    1. Temperance– Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation
    2. Silence– Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
    3. Order-Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
    4. Resolution-Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
    5. Frugality-Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
    6. Industry-Loose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
    7. Sincerity-Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.
    8. Justice-Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
    9. Moderation-Avoid extremes, forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
    10. Cleanliness-Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
    11. Tranquility-Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
    12. Chastity-Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
    13. Humility-Imitate Jesus and Socrates

    I’ve modified his original list for the Law of Health.  Here’s how and why  (this is the list that will be used in the Daily Strategies):

    1. Temperance-Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.  Eat no processed sugar.  Sleep for 7 hours.  Exercise 30 minutes.  Why modified in this way?  This virtue seems to be a step to allow clear thinking and energy for the remaining virtues.  Avoiding foods with added sugar, sleeping 7 hours, and exercising 30 minutes per day seems to go far toward improving energy and clarity of thinking.
    2. Silence-no modification
    3. Order-no modification
    4. Resolution-Renamed “Resolution & Courage” Without courage there can be no virtue.  Courage allows the implementation of Resolution.
    5. Frugality-No modification
    6. Industry-No modification
    7. Sincerity-No modification
    8. Justice-No modification
    9. Moderation changed to “Thinking & Writing.”  By “Writing” I don’t mean the next great novel.  I mean plans, goals, budgets, love letters, letters of apology, notes about books and manuals read.  I don’t find Benjamin Franklin to have been one who avoided extremes.  He was extreme enough to exercise treason to the King and start a nation.  He was very extreme.  I’m not into being different for difference’s sake, but I don’t see any particular virtue in trying to avoid being extreme.  As for “resenting injuries,”  if you imitate Jesus you will not resent injuries, so it seems redundant to list it separately.  On the other hand, writing clarifies thinking and thinking is such hard work that I need all the tools I can get.  Whether I’m thinking about how to run the next basketball practice for my third grader or how to plan the care of patients who volunteer for my next research project (a new anthrax vaccine), writing helps.  Of course, Benjamin Franklin was a prolific writer, which I think contributed to his clarity of thinking in science and politics.  So, I dropped moderation from the list and placed at number 9 this virtue:  Thinking & Writing-Spend daily time reading and then writing your thinking.
    10. Cleanliness-No modification
    11. Tranquility-No modification
    12. Chastity-No modification
    13. Humility– Changed to Humility, Love, & Outreach-(Because love in a vacuum is worthless)  Do something good for two people per day.  Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

  • Law of Health. Love. Lesson 1

    If you want to find the laws of driving, you go to the courthouse or read a sign.

    If you want to know the spiritual laws, you read the scriptures.

    But, if you want to find the unchangeable laws of health, if you want to know what rules of health have always been and will always be, where do you go?

    The First Law is Love.
    Here’s Lesson 1 (click)<–

     

  • Law of Health…10 Essential Steps to Glorious Health & Miraculous Healing

    If you want to find the laws of driving, you go to the courthouse or read a sign.

    If you want to know the spiritual laws, you read the scriptures.

    But, if you want to find the unchangeable Law of Health, if you want to know what rules of health have always been and will always be, where do you go?

    Eleven years ago (after 20 years of studying those who suffer from disease and those who enjoy superior health) I wrote my best understanding of the unchanging Law of Health. Considering the current worries and needs of the current coronavirus pandemic, I thought the laws might be helpful to reconsider.

    To examine the Law of Health, enter your info in the form below; you will receive the first lesson on the first law as an email. The lessons are completely free and of course, you can unsubscribe at any time and your email is never sold or shared.

    Study the law (will come as an email most days for the next 10 weeks). If it makes sense to you, then do some of the actions suggested (to have a better life requires doing-not just knowing).

    DO NOT GIVE UP THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN. Simply consider these specific laws of health with your physician and other health advisors.

    Live the truth you know today (in an imperfect human way) and tomorrow you will find more truth. Look for the next email lesson within 24 hours. If you do not receive, please let me know at DrRunels@Runels.com

  • Boosting the Immune System

    DISCLAIMER: There is no guarantee that the following would do anything at all. These are only ideas to consider with your physician.

    Follow the guidelines of your physician and of your local public authorities. The following is for information only…

    Transcript Below…

    The following photo from the March 26, 2020 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine shows how interleukin-7 helps fight viruses. Boosting the immune system in addition to using anti-viral or anti-bacterial drugs is called “immunotherapy.” You can read more about immunotherapy here (click)<–

    The idea behind nebulized PRP is to deliver immunotherapy directly to the lungs to help prevent infection.

    Here’s more about boosting the immune system and overall health to help prevent disease…

    You can read the following book free if you have a kindle…

    Transcript

    Charles Runels, MD

    I thought I might clear up a few questions that have come up about what rules you should follow when it comes to staying safe and staying well during the current world pandemic. In the beginning, first a little bit of the numbers and actual risk. In the beginning they were saying 2% to 4% mortality rate, but if you notice, those numbers were based on just checking the very sick, which made me question.

    Now that we know the real numbers, because we’re testing not just the very sick, but South Korea especially, tested people who are not sick. You can’t really know how many people are dying with something unless you’re checking the number of people… Checking people, who are actually well, to see if they have it too. Now we know the number is probably only about one in seven, or about somewhere around 14% of the people who get coronavirus have severe symptoms. And, the mortality rate is much less than what was originally quoted. Because around 86%, the other way of looking at it, six out of seven or around 86% of the people who actually contract coronavirus have minimal if any symptoms.

    So the reason I’m talking with you now is to try to answer some questions about, first of all, how to keep from getting it, which most of you already know. There’s something that hasn’t been talked about a lot, which is if you get it, what can you do to try to make sure you are one of the people in the 86% who get minimal or no symptoms? That is, what can you do specifically to help your immune system to such a way that you are more likely to survive? So when you hear people in the news, now we know sometimes young people do get very sick from it, but mostly it’s people who “have a weaker immune system” either because of their age or we because some underlying disease or medication you might be on.

    So at any age we know there is research showing there are ways to actually enhance the immune system, at any age. And, a lot of it is stuff that your grandmother taught you. So first, a couple of things that there’s a lot of confusion about. How to keep from actually contracting it. One is, can you walk outside? Yes, you can walk outside. When you see the spring breakers being criticized, it’s not because they’re outside at the beach, it’s because they’re sweaty, in an undulating mass, drinking beer and dancing together. So there are too close together. Meaning, they can cough and someone can be within the six foot radius.

    You can’t… If you cough, I can’t shoot my cough stuff across the room, 30 feet. It can go about six feet, so that’s really only about three. But, you give yourself a little extra buffer so no one is within your six foot radius coughing, then you’re okay. In other words, if you go through the grocery store and one question gets asked, can you go grocery shopping? In other words, if someone coughed here 30 minutes ago, is there a cloud of coronavirus still lingering in the air? And, it’s a legitimate question. I saw where another expert agreed. One of the worldwide experts agreed with one I’m about to tell you, which is no, there’s no cloud of coronavirus hanging out for three hours in the grocery store. So you have to go shopping.

    I just got back from the bank. The bank teller had on gloves so that she’s not transmitting stuff, but she was six feet away from me and we did our banking stuff. She’s at work. The reason, of course, the restaurants are shut down is your waiter or waitress comes within six feet of your food and you’re within six feet of them. So things that make that happen are dangerous. But yes, you can go to your doctor’s office. Your doctor’s office is used to dealing with all sorts of infections. They’re keeping the surfaces clean, they’re used to doing that anyway. Every time there’s a flu epidemic, they have to do that.

    So if you can go to the grocery store and walk around, it’s safe to do that, as long as you’re not within six feet of someone and you’re careful to wash your hands. I would shake anyone’s hand right now with coronavirus, but then I would go wash my hands very good immediately afterwards. I’m not going to catch coronavirus with a handshake, as long as I wash my hands. I’ve dealt with many people during flu epidemics as an ER doctor, again, coughed on, blood on, all sorts of things. Every body fluid you can imagine is in the emergency room and you largely don’t get sick because you wash your hands and you wear gloves. So yes, you can go to the grocery store.

    Yes, if you run out of toilet paper today, you can go back tomorrow and buy it. Just wash your hands when you get home. Don’t touch your face and don’t be within a six foot radius of people who are coughing. Now, so can you walk outside? Yes, you can go to the beach, you should be able to walk around. You just can’t be at a big party where you’re all together. Now, what things could you do? Those are some common questions that are coming up, about what can I do and still be safe?

    You can go to the doctor’s office, your doctor will be practicing the same things they practice during a flu epidemic. You’re going to be safe. If you go to the grocery store, you can sure go to the doctor. Now, they’re saying don’t have elective procedures. The reason for that is that you don’t want to be taking up a hospital bed with an elective, say coli cystectomy. That could be waiting until two months from now, in case they need that bed for someone who’s very sick from coronavirus virus.

    If you have an… If you can go buy groceries at the grocery store, you can go in your doctor’s office and have your flu shot, get a prescription for antibiotics, get your Botox for your bruxism and your migraine headaches. Get your O-Shot for your sexual dysfunction or your new incontinence. But, you do it in a place that understands infection disease control. You don’t do it at some fly by night place, that’s pretending to know what they’re doing. Now, other…

    What can you do to help keep from being sick? What can you do to be one of the people who stays well, should you catch it? Well, things to boost the immune system. Some of them are old fashioned things that your grandmother taught you, like you should be getting enough rest. We know that being happy helps the immune system, we know that. So listen to the news once a day and when you’re home, take that time to enjoy your family. Laugh with your kids, play games, make love to your spouse. Sex has been shown to help the immune system. Massage helps the immune system. You’ve got all this time, I don’t think you watch movies that are disturbing movies. Watch happy movies, watch feel good dramas, watch things that make you feel happy. Watch your movies, but watch things that make you feel happy, love on your lover, hug your babies and have fun. And, that actually helps your immune system.

    Keep your nutrition good, it actually helps. I think vitamin C does help. It probably helps to even have the high dose IV vitamin C that some people do, if your doctor offers that. But, at least I think you should take… I think Linus Pauling is right, I think you should be taking 1,000 to 3,000 milligrams of vitamin C every day with your food. There’s research showing this was done and the Swiss did this study with several thousand people sitting in a sauna bath, getting your body temperature up to around 101 degrees for 14 minutes, four times a day, decrease mortality by 50%, following them over several years time and decreased risk of heart attack by 60%. But, it increases the immune system to raise your core body temperature.

    It’s like you’re creating an artificial fever and when you create… The purpose for fever is it demarginates white blood cells. Most your white blood cells are adhered to the walls of your blood vessels, but when you get a fever they become free floating in the bloodstream and become more active. And, things like interferon, which has given to help treat hepatitis C, to help fight viruses. If you got coronavirus, you would want your interferon to kick in and help you fight it off. It helps you find viruses.

    Well, guess what gets jacked up like crazy when you get a, raise your body temperature? Interferon and you can do that with exercise, you can and I recommend you do exercise outside, get some fresh air, get some sunshine. It helps your immune system and raise your body temperature either through exercise or you can sit in a hot bath and sit there until you feel hot and that helps your immune system. Take a cold shower. Cryo treatments, shocking the body with some cold, for a brief time, enough to kind of make you shiver a little bit, that’s enough. And, that helps the immune system, research shows it. So that could be a cold shower, it can be dumping of 10 pounds of ice in a bathtub and sitting there for five minutes, until you shiver and getting out. And, doing that once or twice a week. That’s also been shown to help depression and it lasts for up to a week. Sitting in a cold bath or being exposed to cold.

    So cold, heat, exercise, sleep, happiness, sex, massage, touch, watch peaceful happy movies, not disturbing movies. Take your vitamin C, good nutrition, fresh fruits and vegetables, if you can get them. If not at least some vitamin C and a B complex. Another thing you can do, well actually what a lot of NBA players are doing this now, is you probably saw on the news where PRP is being considered as a possible… Not PRP but plasma is being considered as a possible treatment. They’re thinking of taking plasma from people who are exposed to the virus and that’s under investigation, as a possible treatment. Problem is, by the time it’s approved and available, it could be too late for some of us. And, your own plasma, the platelets in your own plasma, are what will release a lot of growth factors and the white cells in your plasma help fight infection.

    So a lot of elite athletes have been nebulizing or breathing their own plasma, as a way to enhance athletic performance. And, they can use other things like amnion and exosomes, but the FDA is kind of frowning on that for now, until we do more studies. But, it’s a legitimate thing that works, that just maybe needs a little more research before we make that a standard thing. But, your plasma belongs to you, your saliva belongs to you, your blood belongs to you, your urine belongs to you, your spit, that’s yours. The FDA doesn’t regulate it and you can use your plasma, as an inhaled treatment to help improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome. Improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome, as in, make you healthier.

    That’s another way of saying make you healthier. Will it prevent you from getting coronavirus? I can’t promise you that. Will it cure coronavirus? I can’t promise you that. If you already have it, you’ve got it. But, would it perhaps help keep someone… Help them be in the 86% who doesn’t get sick from coronavirus? Maybe. I think it’s worth doing. If nothing else, if you’re a basketball player, you can run faster or at least some of the NBA players will tell you that. If you’re not a basketball player, maybe you can help play the whole Monopoly game before you get tired, when you play that game with your six year old. My sister used to fuss with me because I wanted to play the whole game and she could never last. It was six hours Monopoly game, so maybe you could finish a whole six hour Monopoly game.

    Bottom line, and what I’m trying to tell you is, have fun with your family. Stay happy. Realize that some people were going to die, people die every day and it’s not being callous to give yourself permission to be happy. Even when people are dying, it doesn’t mean you’re being callous. You have the right and those people that are gone would want you to love your family, make love, hug your babies and try to be as healthy as you can. So it’s a little bit longer before you joined them in the afterlife.

    Now specifically, how could your doctor offer you inhalation or aerosolized therapy with your own plasma or platelet rich plasma? And, in this case, I think you even want some white cells in there to help with it and get all those cytokines and all those growth factors that are in plasma into your lungs to increase in into your nasal passages to improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome.

    Well first of all, you probably need one of these. You don’t need a prescription for it. This is the one I bought for $81 bucks, at the local medical supply house. Yes, the world is running short on ventilators, but they’re not running short on nebulizers. It comes in pieces. If you want to show this, it comes… The machine that you plug in and it comes separated into a hose, a nebulizer device and a breathing device. So when you take it out of the box, you connect the tubing to the nebulizer device and then you connect the tubing to the machine. And, it doesn’t heat it, it just uses room temperature air to blow through here.

    And, then you have this. Now, I’m going to demonstrate it. We’ll draw some blood, create some plasma, and put it in this in, not in the center, but in the circumferential donut shaped part on the outside, is where the plasma will go. And, then air will blow through and I can breathe my platelet rich plasma into my lungs and nasal passages and improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome. Improve the health of my lungs and nasal passages. And, maybe even my whole body by breathing my own plasma. Again, I’m not promising this will cure anything, but I’m promising you there’s good science to backup the idea, this could improve your health. Hopefully to help you resist something, namely that goes by the initials coronavirus.

    So now, this should not be done at your doctor’s office because when you nebulize this, now your blood is in the air. So your doctor will draw your blood, isolate the plasma, you’ll take the plasma home and then squirt it in here and nebulize it. And, your doctor can show you how to use this using saline in the office or just sterile water. And, then when you get home you can can do what I’m about to show you. Or, you just watched this video and you’ll see how to use it. So the next step is, we’re going to draw my blood and prepare the plasma. Then, I’ll show you how to inhale it to improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome. Say that three times real fast.

    Okay, I’m going to use, there are lots of brands, I’m using Eclipse to do this one. You’ll see this has a gel at the bottom and this goes… That will become the separator, this is the anti coagulate. Then we’ll just draw my blood here and I’ll show you that step. So here is the tourniquet and I’ll just show you how easy this is. Easy and quick. I need some glasses. So you can see this is vacuum packed. So we’ll just come real… Right here, get close where they can see. You can see there’s blood coming through there. Fill this baby up.

    Can you see Kate? Okay, got that off. So now we’ll take this over here. Now, if you notice the gel is still at the bottom. Stick this in here, turn that baby on. You can see we have a balancing kit, it just has water in it. Now, this is going to spin very fast. Okay. And, it will separate out my plasma now and then we’ll breathe that, I will breathe that down into my lungs to improve my immune system. The immune system and improve the nasolabial microbiome, so that hopefully I can stay healthy in the middle of people struggling to stay healthy.

    Okay, so now watch what we do. We’re outside so that I’m not filling up the room with my aerosolize blood. And so, now we’ll take this and show this up close. You take this little blue cap off and the plasma goes in the circumferential space around the outside of it. So put all that right there and I can actually do a treatment today and treatment tomorrow, if I kept this in the refrigerator. We’ll just use it all right now. And, I recommend, if you really want to be wide open with this, maybe do a treatment every week or two to help you keep up with your babies better.

    So now we just turn this on. If I want to take a break, I can take this and set it down right there, just kind of hooks on to that. But, I’m just going to keep breathing this until all this goes into my lungs, okay? I’m outside, my camera lady’s not at risk but I’m going to let her go inside while I finish smoking my plasma and then we’ll talk about it on the other side.

    See, the level went down or maybe you can’t. But, the level went down, I used about half of the PRP. And, this will keep in the refrigerator for a week or so. People use it for eyedrops, actually for dry eyes. I’m going to put in the refrigerator and give myself another treatment. There’s a couple of things about the treatment. I was breathing deeply into my lungs and then exhaling through the nasal passages. You could use a mask instead of this and then you would be getting it, you could breathe it in through the nose, as well. This came with a mouthpiece, so it was breathing in and out through my nose.

    Remember, I’m not telling you this will cure anything, that would get me cross ways with all sorts of people. I have to be very careful about our claims because I do want to be responsible and not tell you something that I don’t know to be true. Here’s what I know to be true. Plasma is being investigated as a treatment for coronavirus. Plasma, with the platelet rich plasma, the platelets are the part in your blood that actually enhances the immune system by bringing cytokines and growth factors to an area. That’s how you heal every wound. Okay, that’s a fact. We also know that professional athletes are using inhaled growth factors, like platelet rich plasma. They’ve used it for years in their joints. Tiger Woods had it in one of his joints. They use it for joints to recuperate the joints.

    The dentists use it to help heal hard to heal tissue in the jaw and professional athletes are inhaling it to help enhance athletic performance. I’m not telling you this cures anything but all the science indicates that it would enhance the nasal pharyngeal microbiome and help keep you healthy in the midst of what’s going on here.

    I recommend that you don’t have this done in some back alley from somebody who does not know what they’re doing. There should be a link below this video, wherever you’re watching it, preferably at the Cellular Medicine Association video, and that will take you to one of our providers that routinely handles platelet rich plasma. Knows how to handle it with kits, the kit I showed you is one of a half a dozen kits that I recommend, that are approved by the FDA, not for any particular use. But, are approved by the FDA, as a way to isolate your blood in a safe and effective manner. Effective, as in truly isolates your growth factors in your platelet rich plasma.

    You should have… Your doctor should be using a kit that’s approved, not for that purpose. The kits… The tubes that are made to analyze your blood were not intended to be used to isolate blood factors that then go back into your body. That’s a different level of sterilization for different level of standardization. So your doctor should be using one of the kits that are proved, again by the FDA, for preparing plasma to go back into your body. Your doctor may also be using amnion or exosomes. All this is between you and your doctor. This is information on video.

    I’m not your doctor. But, do discuss these treatments and your continued health your doctor. And hopefully you’ll either be one of the lucky ones who are either not exposed to coronavirus or if you are exposed, you’ve done everything you know to do to keep… To being one of the 86% of people who, if you are exposed and contract coronavirus, you have almost no symptoms. I’m told there’s a story where someone said to Mohammed, “I’m going to loose my camel and trusted to God.” And Mohamed said, “No, tie your camel and pray to God that your camel will be safe.” So yes, we pray to our God and we want us to be safe, we want our families to be safe.

    We want our fellow human beings, of every continent and of every color, to be safe. No matter what scripture they’re reading, we want them to be safe. We want them to be well. But, let’s not just loose our camel and trust it to God. Let’s tie our camel are doing all the things we know to keep ourselves safe and just as importantly, to keep our immune systems healthy and strong. And, then trust God to keep us well. I hope this you find this helpful and I hope you’ll discuss these ideas with your physician.

  • Proof the press is lying about coronavirus (and why you do not need to buy a mask)

    For information only.
    Follow the advice of your physician and of your local authorities…

    The following links are referenced in the above video…with the full transcript at the bottom of the page…

    As of today (2020Feb28),
    world-wide, 82,299 people have contracted the coronavirus,
    and 2,804 have died.

    None (zero) has died in the US.

    Here’s where the CDC keeps updated data about coronavirus in the US (minute-by-minute)<–

    Compare…

    The number of people who got the flu in 2018–
    48 million,
    with 959,000 in the hospital,
    and 79,000 deaths<–

    But, talking about the flu does not sell ads…not exciting enough.

    China’s forced abortion policy<– 

    A country that forces abortion if you have more than one child will not hesitate to shut down an epidemic with the necessary quarantines.

    Why wearing a face mask to try to keep from getting sick will not work (and why you should wear one if you are the one who is sick)<–

    The mass shooting at the Brewery from schizophrenia gone untreated<–

    More about mental illness going untreated<-–

    Twenty-nine (29) people per day die from drunk drivers in the US alone (that’s not counting the hundreds per day who are hurt, paralyzed, or otherwise seriously injured). That’s one death every 50 minutes (on average). Watch a movie–2 people died.

    In 2016, the number of children killed by drunk drivers in the US–214 (ages newborn to 14 years old).  That’s more than 4 children per week.

    The number of people who self-reported drunk driving incidents…in the MILLIONS…
    Annual episodes in millions: 1993-123,1995-115,1997-116,1999-159,2002-159,2004-124,2006-161,2008-131,2010-112,2012-121,2014-111

    Carona virus does not leave anyone with broken bones or paralyzed.

    Remember, the number of people dead in the US from coronavirus…ZERO.

    Number of deaths each year in the US from drug overdoses…70,000 a year…give or take…that’s 191 a day or an average of 8 every HOUR!  Watch a movie–16 people died.

    World Health Organization (WHO) corrupt and inept<–

    Is the press talking about drunk drivers, or drug overdoses, or schizophrenia as a cause of violence (and our lack of enough mental hospital beds), or the corrupt WHO?
    No.
    Why not?
    Watch the commercials when you watch the news…alcohol and prescription drugs! If the press talks about the above causes of death, such discussion will hurt their ability to sell ads to companies who make beer and medicines and will hurt a variety of political goals. But, talking about coronavirus, hyping it to be a deadly-world-altering plague, gets lots of attention, and sells ads without hurting the feelings of their sponsors or political friends.

    I’m not saying drug companies are evil…a drug company will eventually make the vaccine that helps protect us from coronavirus.  I am saying the TV/cable news misleads their viewers to make money. In other words, the news organizations know the stats, but the money matters much more to them than do you or your health. 

    ***The news talks about the minor and ignores the major because more major to them than your health is their profits**

    Bottom line–
    It’s all going to be OK.
    Coronavirus should be taken seriously, but it’s not the globe-altering plague it’s being portrayed to be.

    Panic is making it much bigger than it is.
    By summer, coronavirus will be old news.

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    Defeat Fatigue & Fear, By Charles Runels, MD

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    I’m a physician who’s going to prove to you that the press is lying to you and being very disingenuous for profit in regards to coronavirus and your health and why you cannot trust them. Pay attention to them, but you cannot trust them. Normally as a physician, my job is not to monitor politics or the news about what’s going on with the war. That’s for my soldier son to take care of and for the politicians and for the leaders of that arena. My job is to fight disease. On the other hand, when I see the press being disingenuous, basically lying to people and tricking people, I want to call it out. I want to call it out in a way and in words that would not probably be appropriate for video. Let’s just talk about the numbers. I’m going to read them all so I make sure I get this right.

    So far worldwide we’ve had 82,294 cases of coronavirus worldwide, with 2,804 deaths. Now if that death is someone whom you love, that’s a serious, serious thing. I’m not discounting the fact that this is a dangerous thing that is affecting people. If you’re the person who dies even from something rare, which coronavirus at this point is relatively rare, then that’s a major thing to your family and to you. That deserves respect and the utmost solemn acknowledgment of the pain that goes with that. But on a worldwide basis, and when you see politics and billions of dollars and emotional upheaval that’s disrupting my own staff in my office (I had to have this conversation with them yesterday) I’m going to call out the lies from the perspective of a physician who’s worked in infectious disease.

    I’ve done research with infectious disease. I was an ER physician for 12 years. I’ve helped salvage people who were dying from various infections, everything from HIV to sepsis in young children. I know what the disease looks like, and I was a research chemist and physics person and I understand the math. Let me call out the lies so that you understand why this is very disingenuous.

    So far, the average, and for the past few years, the average deaths from drunk drivers is 29 per day. Drunk drivers alone have killed more people than all of our wars combined, including the Civil War. That’s an average of one person dying every 50 minutes. If you watch a movie, two people died during that movie. So far, zero people have died in the US from coronavirus, but do you see anyone on the news in upheaval about people dying from drunk drivers? Never, because guess who buys ads on the news? People who sell alcohol. It would hurt their business to tell you about that, so they don’t. Don’t talk about it. Does it sell ads that would actually kill, the many ads that are being bought by the alcohol companies?

    Now, I’m not saying that somehow alcohol should be outlawed again. I’m just putting in perspective the coronavirus thing. Let’s talk about another thing. Let’s go to infectious diseases. Actually, let’s talk about another thing not infectious. Last year, somewhere around 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, 70,000. Somewhere around 68% of that were opioids alone, 70,000. If you do the math on that, that’s somewhere around 191 per day, or about 8 per hour. Go watch a movie, and during that time 16 people will die from drug overdoses. About somewhere around 60%, 70% of those, so somewhere around 10, 12 of them will be just from opioids. Don’t see anybody talking on the news about that. Remember how many people have died so far from coronavirus in the US? Zero. Total worldwide? 2,804. Total last year from opioid overdoses? 70,000.

    Let’s talk about something infectious. This is from the CDC. Since 2010, it’s been an average of 12,000 to 61,000 people dying from the flu. In 2018, somewhere around 48 million, 48 million people got the flu. Of those, close to a million, 959,000, this is in 2018 from the CDC, 959,000 worldwide went to the hospital. There was 79,400 deaths, 79,400 deaths from the flu. That average is 217 per day if you spread it over the year. It isn’t spread out over the year, but if you averaged it out over the year, that would be 217 per day, or 9 per hour dying from the flu.

    I’m not saying that coronavirus couldn’t wind up spreading like crazy, but if you look at the people that are dying from it, it’s spreading like the flu. Most people who get it, the vast majority of people who get it, have a cold-like illness that’s severe, it’s a severe cold, but sometimes it’s even minor symptoms. Unfortunately, it preys oftentimes on the weak, young people or old people or those who are immunocompromised. What kills the person is not the coronavirus or the flu. Just like with the flu, often what kills people is the secondary bacterial infections. Your best defense to all of these things is to be healthy. It’s not to look to the government to save you, although there are things they should be doing, which I’ll get to, but it’s to stay healthy.

    On those lines, this mask thing, wearing a paper mask is bull. What that does is it protects the person who’s coughing from spreading so much if you’re sick. If you’re the one who has the flu or the coronavirus and you cough, it protects it from as much of those droplets spreading into the room, but once those droplets are on a surface somewhere, if you touch the surface and then touch your eyes or your mouth, then you’re going to transmit and are more likely to catch the thing. Good handwashing techniques, keeping your hands away from your face, keeping yourself healthy. I’m still a big … I think Linus Pauling was correct. I think lots of vitamin C, but the reason the press is basically lying to you is that they’re making a big deal out of numbers that are still minuscule compared to so many other things. They’re not talking about the other things because that doesn’t get viewers and make them money. It actually loses them money to talk about how many people are dying every day from these other things.

    Now, what about how fast it spreads and China shutting down whole cities and such? Okay, yeah, they did. In China, you realize you still don’t get to have as many babies as you want? Nobody talks about this on the news. You still have forced abortion in China. How’s that? You want to go live there? All these people who claim that communism and socialism is wonderful, they don’t understand socialism is not synonym for safety net. My own grandfather never went to school because his mother couldn’t afford him back in a time when if you had a child out of wedlock, there was no government safety net. There needs to be a government safety net, but that is not the same as having the government take your business because you’re making too much money and then spread that around and basically steal from you, take your whole business away and own the business. That’s socialism, when the government takes the business and owns it and then decides who’s going to get paid and who doesn’t. That’s what collapses countries like Venezuela and the Soviet Union.

    The communism is why … I mean, you can count on this. If you’re in a country where you had forced abortion, they’re going to shut down whole cities and lock you up until they’re sure you’re not contagious. They’re going to control it, you watch. The numbers of people with coronavirus will fall. It’s total panic over something that’s going to be controlled and will never approach anything like the flu or just drunk drivers and opioids. Yep, we can die, but we’re not going to die from what the press is talking about. They’re being tricky and they’re being … Basically, they’re lying to you and making a big something out of nothing, because to tell the truth, you would hurt their business.

    Okay, I’m going to go back to reading The New England Journal. Hope this helps you quit panicking. Take your vitamin C. Don’t smoke. Do what your mother and your grandmother said. Get lots of sleep. Vote for capitalism. Make sure there’s a good social net so those who can’t work are taken care of. Do whatever you can to do for mental illness. If you notice, this recent mass shooting at the brewery, the guy had thoughts that the people that he shot were coming to his home and moving the furniture around. Someone should have identified that and had him mentally evaluated. Yeah, he was angry, but that’s schizophrenia if you think people were sneaking into your house and moving your furniture. Watch for it.

    The mass shootings are largely because we’re not taking care of the mentally ill. We need to not be talking and panicking about coronavirus. This is your doctor … I’m not your doctor, but this is a doctor talking. The panic is about the wrong thing. We need to be fighting the things that are getting people on drugs. We need to have more mental hospital beds. We need to trust the CDC to do their job and realize the World Health Organization is corrupt and worthless at this point. It’s become completely, completely corrupt. Research it, read about it. The World Health Organization is a crock. Your press is a crock. Those are the main problems, mental illness … We do need to be thinking about infectious disease, but we need real numbers and we need to support the CDC and the infectious disease and etiology, the epidemiologists, we need to support them and support the research, but not panic over these little numbers.

    Anyway, hope that helps you. Take your vitamin C. Don’t buy a face mask. You don’t need it. Go wherever you need to go in the US. It’s not going to be a big deal. You’re more likely to get hit by a drunk driver getting to the airport.