Healing Highly Sensitive Body in Chicagoland

I will give a presentation in the AutismOne conference in Chicago. Please refer to the following link for more information about the meeting:

http://www.autismone.org/content/autismone-generation-rescue-conference-2012

New Office Location:

8870 Oakland Park Blvd. #102, Sunrise, FL 33351

Phone: (954) 682-1749

Our eight-year-old son was always a fussy child when he was younger.  At the age of five, we realized he had gluten (wheat) and casein (dairy) sensitivities.  His mood, behavior and attention improved greatly after we started him on the gluten-free, casein-free diet.  After two years, however, he still had a lot of attention issues and some anger issues, at school and at home.  It was after some research, we begin to suspect the link between his ADD and Genetically Modified foods.  Since most conventional foods found in the supermarket and many gluten-free and casein-free foods are made of conventional corn and soy, they are Genetically Modified (except those marked as organic).  Since the purpose of genetically modifying foods is to produce toxin for the crops to survive various problems that affect their growth, perhaps these foods would leave extra toxin in our body?  It is after that we started to read labels more carefully, and replaced foods that are mostly genetically modified with organic ones.  After just two months our sonâ??s attention and behavior had improved greatly.  He can now read a Berenstain Bears chapter book without getting up many times in between.  He is happier and more relaxed.  His attention is definitely getting better and tamper tantrums became a rare occurrence. 

There is also statistics showing pigs and cows that are feed with genetically modified corn and soy have 45-45% more chance of miscarry their young. 

 

While it is optimal to eat only organic foods, those who cannot afford can try to avoid the following genetically modified foods:

Corn and sweet corn

(Corn syrup of any kind except organic)

Soy

Canola oil (non organic)

Tomato

Potato

Sugar beets

Hawaiian papaya

Rice (grown in the United States)

Commercial milk (producers inject dairy cattle with recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone or rBGH, which is a genetically modified hormone created to increase each cow's milk production)

 

 

If you had realized that you are a HSP, or Highly Sensitive Person, then you know while your mind is brilliant, your body is very sensitive to stress.  Stress from difficult people around you, stress from work, and stress from family life as well as children's homework and after school activities.  You may also realize that all these stress factors can lead to sleeplessness.  But did you know that the sleeplessness can cause leaky gut, severe environmental and food allergies, liver detoxification function being blocked, autoimmune disorders and even cancer?  Here is how that can all happen.

Our body sheds and regenerates our intestinal lining every 48 hours.  The growth hormone that helps your body to re-grow the intestinal lining is produced by the pituitary gland.  When you are stressed, it stresses your pituitary gland and prevent it from producing the vital growth hormone that help regeneration of your intestinal lining.  So the new lining would have holes on them.  When you eat, food particles go through these holes and into your blood stream.  Your immune system now sees that there are foreign objects in the flood so it attacks these particles, thus resulting in an allergic reaction.  As time goes by the immune system gets busier and busier, eventually leading to more serious conditions such as Lupus, MS, and other autoimmune disorders.  A busy immune system could not do much to cancer cells because it is busy attacking things it not supposed to attack.

 

I was often asked the question by my patients, why do we all have leaky guts?  The answer, as I explained above, lies in the busy and stressed lives.  Many parents are pulled to different directions by their jobs and families.  Different kids have different activities, so other than work and daily household work, parents are constantly on the go, always stressed out.  This is very dangerous to the Highly Sensitive People because we can be affected by stress much more than the population of normal folks.  The answer?  De-stress and Slow-down!  Limit your kids activities and have more regular sit-down family dinners and family time.  After all, what makes children are what they learned from their families, more so than what they learned in school and from sports fields.  I understand parents want to give their children all the opportunities in life, in order for them to succeed in life.  However, no children will be happy if their parents are not healthy and happy.  Your health and happiness are the best gift you can give to your children!  Moreover, since Highly Sensitive People like us often have Highly Sensitive Children, it is important for you to demonstrate how to take care of the Highly Sensitive Body, so they avoid the pitfall of a highly stressed lifestyle.  So Slow Down, Eat Well, Simplify Your Life, and Sleep No Less Than Eight Hours a day as a Highly Sensitive Person. I hope this article can save many lives as I have seen enough of serious health issues happen to Highly Sensitive People.

I will be giving a talk in the AutismOne conference in Chicago, May 29th, 2011. Here is the abstract:

Autism affects three major systems, nervous, digestive and immune system. Biomedical approach addresses nervous and digestive issues well, but lack of effective therapy to help immune malfunction such as allergy and hidden infections (Lyme disease and PANDAS), which have to be addressed for those who don’t respond to biomedical treatment. This talk introduces an alternative approach to the immune malfunction with energy medicine, which is complementary to biomedical treatment for autism.

Bio:

Dr. Harry Hong was originally trained with Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. He also received his master and doctoral degrees in Biomedical Science in the States. He has practiced holistic medicine in Chicago area for twelve years. Dr. Hong provides a one-of-the-kind holistic program to address immune malfunction and energy imbalance. He specializes in treating allergies, autism and autoimmune with energetic therapies such as meridian testing, allergy desensitization, homeopathy and Chinese Medicine.

Here is a list of food and stores available in Chicago area:

Fruitful Yield:

White bread:  Udi's original in the freezer  (freeze those you don't need, thaw one and leave it on the counter.)
Pizza: Amy's personal size Rice crust (soy cheese) pizza with Hormal's all natural pepperoni in the freezer
Waffels: A lot in the freezers they are all very good.
Corn Dog: Spatter makes them, we can find it in Chicago, not sure here.
Chicken nuggets:Spatter makes them, so is Ian's gluten free
Bagel:Udi's bagel
Cream Cheese: Better Than Cream Cheese
Cookies: Pamela's raisin "oat"meal
Cereal: Envirokids flakes or balls
Milk: Coconut milk on the shelf by soy milk (its taste and texture is like milk)

Whole Foods:

Hotdogs: Han's originals hotdogs, sometimes you can find little ones next to it.
Ice Cream: So Delicious ice creams made with Coconut milk (just like the real one)
Frozen healthy fries and sweet potato fries
 
Jewel:

Chili: there is a canned chili that is GF as marked on the label somewhere at Dominick's so maybe it is here too, on the regular shelf.
For school: baked potato chips, rick cakes,
Butter: Smart Balance spread, taste great!
Tater tots---also read labels of ready cut fries, if there is no wheat or dairy or gluten, they should be ok too.
 
Eating out fast food choice is burger king, hamberger kids meal without bun or cheese, their fries are ok. McD's fries has gluten powders in them.  Wendy's doesn't taste good.

Current Research on Pulsed Electromagnetic Field

 

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) has become a popular therapy for many chronic disorders. PEMF accesses biological system through electromagnetic frequencies, which is totally different from conventional chemistry-based methodology. This article is trying to review recent clinical and laboratory research on PEMF and discuss its clinical application and its potential to treat Lyme disease and chronic infections.

 

PEMF delivers electromagnetic signals to the body stimulating cellular functions. It has been commonly used in the field of orthopedics for the treatment of non-union fractures and failed fusions [1-4]. Laboratory research indicated that PEMF suppresses bone loss [5] through promoting TGF-beta1 and inhibiting IL-6 [6], promoting tissue regeneration [7], enhancing early cell proliferation in osteogenesis [8], and signaling osteogenic differentiation and mineralization [9]. PEMF has also been reported to help osteoarthritis [10] and proposed to be a viable alternative therapy for the disease [11]. Animal research indicated that PEMF had significant efficacy in reducing cartilage damage for osteoarthritis [12], helped healing of the cartilage defect [13], and had positive effect on viability of human chondrocytes in vitro [14].

 

In addition to its effect on orthopedics, PEMF has also been reported to accelerate wound healing for both animal [15, 16] and human [17], and regenerate nerve tissue [18-20]. It helps to reduce post operational pain [21, 22], chronic musculoskeletal pain [23], pain from carpal tunnel syndrome [24] and diabetic polyneuropathy [19]. It may improve function, pain and fatigue from fibromyalgia [25],  help patients with treatment-resistant depression [26], and reduce symptoms from multiple sclerosis [27]. The possible mechanisms for tissue regeneration and pain management has been suggested as provoking a decrease in the production of inflammatory-type cytokines (IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha) and an increase in cytokines of lymphocytic origin (IL-10) [28].

 

Because of its safe nature, PEMF has a long history of clinical practice. The most controversial figure in PEMF practice is an American named Royal Rife. He believed that each microorganism has its own Mortal Oscillatory Rate (MOR). In early 1930s he published his research and claimed that his Rife Machine, a PEMF device, destroyed microbial with specific electromagnetic frequencies and helped various cancer patients through inactivating the pathogenic virus called BX factor [29]. Although up till now Rife’s research has not been reproduced, some recent publications have suggested that Rife’s claim may not be entirely impossible. Food industry uses pulsed-electric field to control microbial growth and preserve apple juice [30-32], grape juice [33], wine [34], milk [35] and beer [36]. It suggests that pulsed-electric field inactivate yeast and bacteria including Lactobacillus diolivorans [31], Pediococcus parvulus [31], Salmonella enterica [32], Bacillus cereus [35], Dekkera anomala, Dekkera bruxellensis, Lactobacilus hilgardii, Lactobacillus plantarum [34], Kloeckera apiculata, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Gluconobacter oxydans [33]. Although the frequency, intensity and delivery method of the treatment in food industry is different from those used by Rife, the nature of the treatment, pulsed electromagnetic field, remains the same. It is likely to develop therapeutic devices to resolve bacteria, virus, yeast and parasite infections in human body. Most cancer research using PEMF have been done using cancer cell lines. It suggests that PEMF induce apoptosis of melanoma [37], colon carcinoma [38], liver cancer [39] and ovarian carcinoma cell lines [40]. Although the mechanism suggested by above cancer research is different from what Rife proposed, it is still promising to see positive response from cancer cell line research with PEMF. More clinical research is needed to explore this area.

 

Lyme Disease and Chronic Infections

 

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne bacterial infection in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere. The bacteria are called Borrelia burgdorferi. Recently the reported incidence of Lyme disease has increased markedly in many countries [41]. Approximately 20,000 cased of Lyme disease are reported annually in the United States alone [42]. Typical Lyme disease may have three stages: 1) early localized infection with erythema migrans (a characteristic skin rash that looks like a bull’s-eye), fever, feeling unwell, fatigue, headache, muscle pain and joint pain; 2) early disseminated infection (occurring days to weeks later) with neurological, musculoskeletal, or cardiovascular symptoms; and 3) late disseminated information with intermittent swelling and pain of one or more joints, neuropathy or encephalopathy [42]. There is evidence that oral antibiotic doxycycline helps Borrelia infection [42]. However, some Lyme patients have been reported to be antibiotic resistant [43]. More and more of these patients have been diagnosed as chronic Lyme disease. Patients with chronic Lyme disease are those who have the Lyme symptoms but lack of the initial stage of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, or those who have been previously treated for Lyme disease but had continuing or relapsing nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, musculoskeletal pain and cognitive complaints. The latter group should be classified as Post-Lyme disease Syndrome (PLS) [44] and antibiotic has been reported to have no impact on this group of patients [45-48].

 

Typical PLS contains persistent fatigue, musculoskeletal pain and neurocognitive impairment, which are also shown from other commonly diagnosed chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. It suggested that fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue is probably induced by Lyme disease and should be classified into PLS instead [49]. MS is another commonly diagnosed neurological autoimmune condition. Studies suggested that viral infection especially Epstein-Barr infection [50, 51], a common co-infection of Lyme disease, and bacteria infection especially Borrelia burgdorferi infection [52, 53], may play a role in etiology of MS. Laboratory study demonstrated that PLS serum antibody binds cells in the central and peripheral nervous systems and an autoimmune response in PLS has been suggested [54]. It indicated that MS and PLS may have similar etiopathogenesis.

 

Because of the difficulties to treat chronic Lyme disease and PLS, complementary and alternative medical therapies such as herbal medicine and nutritional supplements have been widely used to treat this condition [55]. Many clinicians who specialize in Lyme disease reported success in treating Lyme disease with alternative therapies such as PEMF [56]. With its effect on tissue regeneration, pain relief, anti-inflammation and anti-microbial, PEMF has potential to become an effective therapy for Lyme disease, MS, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, arthritis and many other chronic conditions.

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Dr. Harry Hong's comprehensive program specializes in the integration of a variety of natural healing therapies such as energy testing, allergy desensitization, homeopathy, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, enzyme therapy, flower essences, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and much more. The Healing Light Co is committed to provide quality special care to the Highly Sensitive Person with Highly Sensitive Body. We are located at Hoffman Estate/Schaumburg area in the northwest suburb of Chicago. We have an Out-of-Town program as well.

Here are more links for coupons and sample page. I am glad that people like the info I posted earlier. Recently I am working on a new All Natural Lyme Protocol. Will post details in the future.

Coupons:
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Dr. Harry Hong's comprehensive program specializes in the integration of a variety of natural healing therapies such as energy testing, allergy desensitization, homeopathy, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, enzyme therapy, flower essences, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and much more. The Healing Light Co is committed to provide quality special care to the Highly Sensitive Person with Highly Sensitive Body. We are located at Hoffman Estate/Schaumburg area in the northwest suburb of Chicago. We have an Out-of-Town program as well.

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Dr. Harry Hong's comprehensive program specializes in the integration of a variety of natural healing therapies such as energy testing, allergy desensitization, homeopathy, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, enzyme therapy, flower essences, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and much more. The Healing Light Co is committed to provide quality special care to the Highly Sensitive Person with Highly Sensitive Body. We are located at Hoffman Estate/Schaumburg area in the northwest suburb of Chicago. We have an Out-of-Town program as well.

1. Gluten Free/Casein Free is a totally different way of Shopping, not so much a different way of cooking.

For everything your family or child normally eats, there is a gluten free version out there.  You can find them at Fruitful Yield, Whole Foods Market, Trader Joes, even Jewel/Osco.  You can find gluten free casein free version of pasta, hot dogs, bread, English muffins, bagels, chocolate chip cookies, pretzels, frozen bread, chicken nuggets, corn dogs, batters, bread mixes, even pound cake!  As long as you shop these markets to find out where to get all the usually foods your family needs.  Remember, it’s easier to do Gluten free/Casein free if you don’t keep such foods at home at all.  If the parents want to eat them, they can eat them during lunch or date night, when the children are not around.

 

2. Can I get the diet down in a week or two?

No.  This will be a gradual process, because you have to find alternatives to everything your child like.  So take your time, and call us if you need any help at all

 

3. If one person in a household benefits from this type of diet, you will be surprised to see other loved ones are feeling better also.

Dr. Hong had eye pain in the past, usually happen at night, and usually happen after we eat wheat.  When he went on the gluten free diet, the eye pain went away.  We have seen better temper and behavior in young patients’ siblings who went on the diet with them.

 

4. Are there reactions to this type of diet?  What should I expect?

Yes.  A person who has problems with Wheat and Dairy usually has somewhat of an addiction to them.  Approximately two weeks after you begin this type of diet, they seem to go crazy for a week or two.  That is definitely withdrawal symptoms.  If you stick to your guns and not give in, it will pass soon enough, then your child will have no problem with the diet.

 

5. What is wrong with the dairy in this country?

High does of female hormones and antibiotics makes the conventional dairy a problem for our body.  Moreover, human lose the enzyme to digest dairy around 7 years of age.  After all, what other animals, other than us, would drink milk in adulthood?

 

6. What is wrong with the wheat in this country?

Genetically modified crops, coupled with high level of pesticides and a damaging bleaching process that makes the wheat incompatible with our body.  Parents of our young patients reported that, when in Europe of Asia, there were less problems when they eat wheat.

 

7. I don’t know what to say to explain to others around me about this diet…

At first, the change Gluten free/Casein free bought is overwhelming.  So it’s ok to be in shock when you first hear about it.  However, if the feeling of “I don’t know what to do” continues then you should re-think the priorities.  It’s not about you.  It’s about giving your child the optimal environmental to thrive, so they reach their full potential in life.  Sometimes in order to do that, changes have to be made.

 

Here is what to say to family members: “We brought our child to see a doctor who found out that wheat/dairy gave him rashes (or sinus infections or constipation).”  So he wants us not to give him wheat/dairy for a while, see if he/she gets better.  Explain to others that this is an allergy, which is easier for people to understand.  Having trouble with your own family?   Let you spouse say this to them the very first time.  You can be the one explaining to your in-law’s family.  Our families tend to respect our spouse more than us, at least that the usual case.

 

Should you need a letter for school so your child can have such diet, Dr. Hong will be happy to write a letter for such “prescription”. 

 

8. What do we do when we eat out?

One, you can eat at restaurants with gluten free food.  PF Changs, Claim Jumper and many other restaurants have a gluten free menu.  Triumph Dinning has a gluten free restaurant guide for those who need the gluten free diet.  Two, eat at seafood restaurants where not all food has battering or butter.  Refuse the rolls or butter spread.  Also you can order hamburgers without the bun and cheese.  Keep in mind McDonald’s French fries has gluten!  They put gluten powders on them.  Three, cook more.  Home cooked foods have less additives and preservatives, so it’s healthier for everyone. 


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