Noninvasive Brain Surgery - Medical History Made in the Middle East!

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22/23 Adar, 5774

Medical history was made in Israel last week. I'll let the video tell you the story.

I plan to post more miraculous medical stories, so keep coming back for more of them. And remember:

Thank GOD for the miracles!

Learn of other cutting-edge medical treatments and how to benefit from them. 

Read the list of charitable organizations - worldwide - willing to help you to pay your medical costs.

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.  

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. 

Face Your Future with Optimism.

 

Humor and Harsh Medical Realities: What do YOU Think?

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5 Sivan, 5773


 I've toyed with the idea of making the EMPOWER Yourself book funny in specific spots. But I've never felt confident about doing that.

I'm wondering now if  I should. Michael J Fox is terrific with this take on a harsh medical life.

If you've ever read

or even if you have not, what do you think?

The 3rd edition is being prepared for publication.

Should it go for the giggles?

Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter, lighter look at your medical, disability or mental health life. Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Feed your Inner Giggle.

 

Want to Stop Kicking the Other Person in Bed? Want to Lose that Leg Pain?

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27 Mar-Cheshvan 5769

Restless Leg Syndrome is the expensive name for that problem you might have with kicking the other person in your bed or simply kicking off the covers when you don't even realize what's happening.

The good news is that RLS is NOT a reason for a divorce. It's a treatable problem. But if you take allergy medications, your spouse might wonder WHAT is going on in your head! Allergy meds might make you kick more often and harder as you sleep!

Doctors at Johns Hopkins University say that the connection between allergy medications and RLS "is that histamine receptors -­ proteins found on the surface of some cells that are triggered by histamine ­ in the brain - work to modulate nerve responses. When activated, histamine receptors stimulate alertness or wakefulness."

So far, the solution is to minimize the allergens around you. Get rid of what causes your allergic symptoms. Then you can reduce your medication.

Guess what those JHU docs figured out about reducing arthritis pain?

GRAPE POWDER ALLEVIATES JOINT INFLAMMATION

The simple explanation: grapes have something that causes "antihyperalgesic effects... [in] joint inflammation." It's called flavonoids. They seem to have strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Yep, simple grape powder or grapes alone seem to be better at reducing pain than the nonsteroidal drug Meloxicam.

A combination of grape powder and painkiller meloxicam seems to lower pain even more and to reduce the knee swelling associated with inflammation.

"I think there are two important messages here," says Jasenka Borzan, Ph.D., a research associate in anesthesiology at Hopkins. "That consuming flavonoids through natural products like grapes can be beneficial to health in general and also specifically for reducing inflammatory pain; and that consuming natural products like grapes may also be beneficial in reducing the amount of medication necessary to reduce inflammation."

CURRY SPICE AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE?

Once again, those western-medicine oriented JHU professionals learned that another natural solution to a human problem exists in the kitchen cupboard: Curcumin, also called the curry spice turmeric, has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. That prevents oxidative damage ­ damage caused by oxygen ­ and inflammation implicated in the nerve cell death associated with Parkinson's disease. JHU researchers have shown in a laboratory model of Parkinson's disease that curcumin protects cells from dying.

"These results suggest that curcumin is a potential candidate for inhibiting the oxidative damage that leads to Parkinson's disease," says Wanli Smith, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Hopkins. "This common curry spice could be a weapon to protect the brain."

OK, readers, my insistence on the healing and protective effects of an organic foods diet is being validated by medical professionals.

Read my book. Learn how I adjusted my cake and candy-craving, burger wolfing appetite and greatly improved my health when you BUY YOUR COPY of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To today!

It sure is A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

It's Slowing Down Parkinson's Disease

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8 Elul 5768

Parkinson's Disease is a neurological disease caused by the death of neurotransmitter Dopamine cells. Movements are messed up by lost and misdirected signals that can't arrive to their intended destinations.

The good news is that some doctors have created a drug that slows down the Parkinson's Disease process. Click on TEVA AZILECT to learn more.

Scroll around my blog for more good news about Parkinson's Disease. And be sure to BUY MY BOOK to learn how to get financial help for purchasing expensive medications.

To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

Green Tea Builds Brain Cells (And it Can Help You in MANY OTHER Ways!

23 Tamuz 5768

Just the other day I alerted you the fact that green tea and blueberries help to improve memory. Here's a Hot-Off-the-Press update about the many benefits of GREEN TEA for people with cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's and other neurological diseases, and even cardiovascular diseases (er,make sure you drink ORGANIC GREEN TEA):

Sip Some Green Tea, Repair Brain Cells
by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com)

Green tea has long been thought to have a healing effect on the human body. Now a study by an Israeli scientist has found proof in the laboratory of the Technion Institute of Science in Haifa.

A research team led by Dr. Silvia Mandel of the Technion’s Eve Topf Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases found that green tea extract fed to mice with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease protected the brain cells from dying. It also stopped the process of degeneration in cells that were already affected...

READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123968


CAUTION: I recommend that you drink certified ORGANIC Green Tea because green tea has hidden (and not so hidden) problems that very much overshadow its desirable anti-oxidant properties. Here's part of the scoop on those problems: DDT in My Tea?

It seems that the camellia sinensis plant seems to attract high levels of both flouride and DDT, moreso than other plants, which can adversely affect our health.

You can also nourish yourself with high level anti-oxidants other than green tea, e.g. Organic green leafy vegetables, goji berries, other berries, cacao beans, and other items.

If you'll be drinking green tea, be sure to have high level organic young tea leaves (loose), and steep it only for 20 seconds in hot water. Drink infrequently!



When you read my book

(WHAT???!!! You haven't bought your copy yet? CLICK HERE!)

you'll learn about the vast improvement in my health situation once I began dining on organic foods, pure, unpolluted water, nutritious teas and juices. I returned from the almost-dead on my whole-foods program.


OH - wait until you learn why I no longer eat fish! There's a conversation-starter if you ever need one! Flip to page... awww, just buy the book and read the whole story. You'll laugh, sigh and cry as we share the Coping with Medical Crisis adventure between the colorful covers of It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Uh, while you're protecting your precious brain cells, consider getting rid of your cell phone. I keep warning you about the dangers. Now another doctor validates my concern. Click on this: Cancer Researcher Asks Colleagues NOT to Use Cell Phones!


To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

Find Out if Neurological Disease is Brewing in Your Body BEFORE it Affects You

22 Sivan 5768

The medical world in Israel is filled with innovation by people thinking "out of the box." Read on to learn about a dynamic foursome of women working together to identify neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Alzheimer's Disease well in advance of when they begin to affect people.

Within the next four years, a simple blood test designed by those ladies may soon alert doctors and their patients to the need for preventative neurological care. See NEUROQUEST, and stay tuned to future developments.


By the way, if you're willing and able to fund the research of this NEUROQUEST effort, you can find out how to contact the group by watching the video and reading the article hotlinked above.


Think that's a great tip for today's blogpost? There are a whole lot more of that quality in my highly acclaimed book "It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge."

BUY YOUR COPY TODAY. Scroll down the right-hand margin for purchase information or simply CLICK HERE ;^ )

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To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

Good News in the Medical World! PLUS: You can Choose Optimism and Reject Suffering.

B'SD

8 Iyar 5768

Here's a terrific roundup of a few medical innovations improving your life or perhaps that of someone you know. Click on: Just What the Doctor Ordered.

*** I'm the featured writer in this week's edition of Esther Avinoam's Zine about various healing techniques. CLICK HERE to read the entire issue. Meanwhile, you can contact Esther to request being added to her recipient list as well as to receive the mailing featuring my ideas. Here's the featured article:

CHOOSING OPTIMISM, REJECTING SUFFERING: RECREATING YOUR FUTURE

By Yocheved Golani

It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge explains how I survived a benign brain tumor killing me in 2005. Crushing every nerve entering my head, it was why I’d been having problems using my limbs, swallowing and seeing for months.

I agreed to emergency surgery knowing it could kill me or leave me paralyzed. I sought the slim chance that I’d live with only slight impairment of my facial nerves.

The spiritual lessons involved with my life-saving adventure appear in my book and blog.

But those insights didn’t help me in 2008. I had another lesson to learn.

In December 2007, several bones in my dominant arm broke in a freak accident. An orthopedic surgeon reconstructed my arm with metal plates and pins. Months of hum-drum physical therapy SUDDENLY stopped for my medical professionals. Things weren’t normal for any of us!

Therapists noted that my increasing kvetches (grunts of pain) became ear-splitting shrieks. In January 2008, I felt as if lightning were shooting through my arm, ricocheting off every nerve! Therapy became torture. I fainted several times.

My hand developed a weird glow. Swollen fingers oozed sweat when I relaxed. An emergency room doctor revealed that I had Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy, a deteriorating condition of skin, muscles and bones. It sometimes results after a fracture. Doctors don’t know why.

Reduced stress, an upbeat attitude and/or pain-killing drugs help some RSD sufferers to recover within a year or so. But not everyone recuperates.

Doctors ordered gentler physical therapy while remarking on my optimistic personality. Neither prevented nor diminished my pain, though. We had one last option: painkillers.

I reacted poorly to them, almost going comatose!

Suffering’s not my style, coping is. I adore double-crossing the Yetzer Hara (mind-set of negativity) with subterfuge. Knowing that some bystanders had misinterpreted my sobs for laughter and with “upside down mazal” (the time of sudden, G'D-given reversals in luck) Purim approaching, I wondered, “Can I laugh my way out of trouble? Can I trick my body into believing it’s healthy by CHOOSING not to have RSD?”

Then I developed a plan.

Poking fun at my condition weeks later with a colorful costume, band-aid covered Boo-Boo Barbie walked out my door and into Megilla reading (the annual recitation of the "How Jews Were Saved in Ancient Persia") story . I was mimicking history’s most cheerful doll: Barbie always smiles (even with RSD)! And she’d answered “Yes!” to my questions.

I giggled until the day I shocked my medical team with a new reality. I’d laughed away my RSD by March. See me celebrate at Laughing My Way to Better Health

Need to heal? Learn what I did:

Choose a Healthy Reality to Reach Your Surprising Potential.
The future is being revealed before you. Create and become it!

Hear me describe other healing strategies at http://www.ouradio.org/index.php/ouradio/channel/C299/

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Suffering with a Medical Crisis?
Been there, done that, wrote a book about it, and going forward into the future.

Want to learn many more can-do healing/coping strategies?
Then read, benefit from, and tell others about It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To.

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Order it in book stores anywhere if it’s not on the shelves.

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You can hire me to speak for your organization during my US-Canada speaking tour this winter. To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

Wanna Learn to CHANGE Your Brain, Shut Off Pain and/or Tremors?

27 Adar Bet 5768

Dr. Christopher Charms is one of several scientists developing an investigational technology for looking into the brain, particularly your own, and then programming it at will.

A Functional MRI-based technique, it can enable persons with neuropathy (severe pain) to reduce their suffering. It will allow someone with mental anguish to feel joy instead, and facilitate lots of other productive decisions/actions. It is a potential tool for enabling some paralyzed people to move at will.

Want to train your brain for optimum performance just as weightlifters build their muscles?

Shore up your understanding of free will by reading Buddhist philosophy about the mind ("The Places that Scare You" is my personal suggestion) and ANYTHING written by Rebbe Nachman of Breslav (a centuries-ago Jewish scholar who influences Judaic philosophy to this very moment). Then see Control Your Brain

The Functional MRI technique has its critics, but the future awaits the refinement of potential fMRI flaws and the improvement of human health.

BTW, I know to expect some flak from a few of my readers because I suggested Buddhist reading material. Consider that suggestion to be my far-flung invitation to some readers who can now try to realize that when Biblical Abraham sent his children EAST, they carried teachings based on the Jewish Torah with them. Over time, these philosophies, bodies of knowledge and practices became diluted by political pressures, personal imperfections (greed among them) and simple forgetfulness. The origins of many eastern mindsets are actually based upon Judaism.

OK, back to the physical-emotional health purpose of my blog. For more promising news, check out this Israel 21 C video for a brief glimpse about how to overcome the tremors of Parkinson's Disease and to use your limbs effectively:
Israeli company leads the gray product revolution

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Suffering with a Medical Crisis?
Been there, done that, wrote a book about it, and going forward into the future

Want to learn many more can-do healing/coping strategies? Then read, benefit from, and tell others about It's MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry if I Need To.

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To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.