Questions

Body: 

I'm not quite sure what being at an acute angle rotated in any direction in space means. Does that mean that I can do bicycle kicks on my back if I hold my legs at an acute angle to my body?

Also, is Premarin both safe and effective as my gyne thinks? I am suspicious of its ingredients. If not, is there a herbal that is safe and effective at promoting some thickening of the vaginal wall?

Also, (this is probably not a bodywork question), has anyone heard of eating according to your blood type? I know there has been some work done on this in the area of treating allergies alternatively, but one book by naturopath physician Peter d'Adamo (sp?) generalizes this to the population as a whole, claiming that different blood tyoes should eat differently, and that what is good for one is bad for another. Some Chinese doctors, according to my Chinese friends, also follow this general concept. What is the validity of this concept?

Hi Bertilsgirl,

That whole angle idea is just a guideline that seems to translate pretty well to many of the positions we find ourselves in. Not that bicycle kicks on your back is great exercise under any circumstances. Unless you are very strong and flexible, the lumbar curve is flattened giving rise to pelvic instability. However, bicycle kicking in an acute angle would be far less stressful than an obtuse one. Other acute angles that come to mind are real biking, rowing, and forward bends.

Premarin is neither safe nor effective. If it were safe women wouldn’t experience unnatural breast enlargement/tenderness – sometimes after one or two doses – and if it were effective prolapse would’ve been cured long ago. Significantly, many believe “energy medicine” to be the most powerful healing modality available to humans. It follows that what we ingest carries much more than the simple chemical structure of the substance. There is tremendous suffering associated with the manufacturing of those drugs. Mares are kept constantly pregnant and in stalls so small they can’t turn around so that their urine can be continuously and automatically collected.

Natural estrogenic substances are contained in parsley, barley and wheat grass, carrots, peas, alfalfa sprouts, apples, cherries and plums to name just a few! But the greatest benefit of eating these foods is not to add to the total load of estrogen in the body, but rather to displace from receptors on our cells the more powerful and less benign forms of estrogenic molecules that are now ubiquitous in our environment and competing with our own natural hormones. The best you can do for your vaginal tissues is to eat a high quality diet and engage in healthful, well-lubricated sex. Hormonal vaginal thickening schemes are risky at best.

Some of the best thinkers on diet and health – notably John Robbins – have refuted the eat-right-for-your-type theory as being simplistic and invalid. There are only a few blood types and hundreds of human cultures eating a wide variety of food. People certainly do have different food requirements – in fact some researchers believe food to have been the driver of genetic mutation that led to the differences in physical characteristics amongst various ethnic groups. Now that we are a “melting pot” everyone must sort this out for themselves through conscious awareness of the way food affects their own particular system.

Christine

Thanks for the information, Christine. I would very much like to read Robbins' work refuting da Damo's book. What title should I check at the library? I've read and very much enjoy his earlier works, which I find very informative.

Thanks again. Bertilsgirl

He makes a very powerful case against d'Adamo in his book The Food Revolution - pp. 71-79.