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How Anger Affects Your Health: "Doc Talks" with Dr. Nuzum

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Dr. Daniel Nuzum: Okay, so we’re talking about anger today. We’re not necessarily doing an anger management program here or anything like that, but we’re talking about anger. What does do to the body? Where does anger seem to hang out in the body? And what to do about it. How do we release anger without hurting somebody or hurting ourselves?
Anger is an emotion. All emotions have to be expressed, or they get stuck in your body somewhere. So, unexpressed emotions become toxins to your being. Not just to your body, but to you as a person.
So, if you have anger that you’re holding onto, it can rear its head in all kinds of different ways. All throughout your relationships, your job, your finances, your health; all these different ways that anger can come out and cause issues in all these other places.
What do you do about anger?
So, let’s say that you have anger that you’ve never let go of. Your homework would be to work on forgiveness. Forgiveness; forgiving yourself. Taking responsibility of the fact that you’ve held on to the anger for someone, and then extending forgiveness to whoever you might be angry with. Then moving into a state of gratitude where you appreciate yourself, and you appreciate the situation for what it was and just let it go.
Other things that help with that process, because sometimes, that’s way easier said than done. Sometimes you need to introduce other things, like exercise. Work out that frustration and anger. Let that exercise, that activity, become a way for you to drain the volatile, nasty emotions that you have in your system.
In martial arts, we say that we would take angry people and make them peaceful people by teaching them kicks and punches. It might sound backward. Why would you teach an angry person how to kick and punch? Well, because in the process of the physical activity of them learning how to kick and punch properly, and then practicing kicking and punching, they drain that anger out of their system. They let go of all of that anger that they may have been holding and been harboring.
It doesn’t have to be martial arts. It can be any other type of physical activity. It could be running; it could be lifting weights, it could be yoga, or whatever seems to work for you.
Physical exercise and physical activity is extremely important in dealing with stuck emotions. Not just anger, but in particular, anger. Those are some things you can do to help with anger.
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Other Uses of Medicinal Mushrooms: "Ask the Doc" with Dr. Daniel Nuzum

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Dr. Daniel Nuzum: Okay, so our question is, “So Doc, is there any way we can benefit from medicinal mushrooms outside of taking supplements?”
Well, the answer is yes. Yes, you can. The thing to be aware of is mushrooms can still have heavy metals, pesticides, and herbicides in them. They’re a food. So, just like the food at the grocery store can still be contaminated with herbicides, pesticides, heavy metals, and those types of things.
It would be important that you find organically grown mushrooms, number one. And you can get things like in tea form, or in powder form, and those types of things. Normally, those types of things, as long as they’re organic, would be pretty safe. I would look for something where they’re actually testing to see whether or not there are heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, in particular, in those mushrooms.
I’ll give you an example. In soil and water remediation, sometimes we use mushrooms for cleanup. So, let’s say we have an oil spill. There are mushrooms we can plant on an oil spill, in the ground, that will—they’ll absorb all of the oil in the ground. And it’s interesting. These mushrooms are white mushrooms. And as they absorb the oil from the ground, they turn black as night. But then as they mature through their life cycle and they get into a full mature mushroom, they turn white again.
Now what’s interesting is when they’re fully grown, they don’t have any petroleum oil or anything like that in their system, but the one thing they still have is they still have some of the heavy metals from the petroleum. So, that’s just one example.
So, these things can pick up things from the environment, so on and so forth. So, I would stick with certified organic mushrooms if you’re going to be consuming mushrooms outside of a supplement. And even like tea products and things like that, I’d look for certified organic products.
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Emotions as Explained in Oriental Medicine: "Doc Talks" with Dr. Daniel Nuzum

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Dr. Daniel Nuzum: Okay, so we’re talking emotions, and I’m going to bring to you the emotional matrix that we teach in Oriental medicine.
We start with the fire emotions. Your negative fire emotions are sadness, and sadness is something that is fed into by what we call wood emotions.
Wood emotions are anger and frustration, left to its own processes, brings about sadness.
As we work behind what’s behind anger and frustration, we go back into the water emotions. And the water emotions are fear. Fear and insecurity. It’s the insult of being powerless that leaves us fearful and insecure, which we lash out against with anger and frustration. But as we become angry and frustrated and destroy things in our lives, it leads to sadness.
Prior to those water emotions, we have the metal emotions. And the metal emotions feed into the water emotions, which feed into the wood emotions, which feed into the fire emotions. Those metal emotions are the emotions of grief and the emotions of not letting go. It’s that holding onto grief that leads us to feeling powerless, which brings about fear and insecurity, which we lash out against with anger and frustration, which leads us to sadness.
Before that even, we have the earth emotions. And the earth emotions are the emotions of overthinking things. And as you overthink things, things get stuck in your system, and they don’t metabolize their way out. All that overthinking brings us to that point of creating grief. Things that just we can’t deal with.
And then if we hold onto that grief and we don’t let it go, that brings us into this fear and insecurity, which then we lash out against with anger and frustration, and it leads us to sadness.
And sadness, again, creates confusion, which makes it hard for us to metabolize things, and so, we overthink things some more. And so, this is the whole cycle in what we call the five elements.
In Western society, we know that overthinking things leads to stress. We just overthink things, and we get caught in that, and that brings about anxiety. Real interesting is the earth element will lead directly to the water element on the five-element diagram. And if you spend too much time in fear and anxiety, that leads you to sadness, which goes back to the fire element.
In Oriental medicine, we use the five-element diagram; it helps us to track what emotions we’re dealing with presently and where they’re coming from.
Let’s kind of recap this. Let’s say you’re having financial trouble. What you’re thinking about is money. “How do I make more money? Where do I get more money? Where do I pay my bills? Where do I do this?” So on and so forth. And you get kind of consumed with money and finances. If you’ve been in that state, well, that leads to anxiety. And as that anxiety builds, it leads to sadness, or we call it depression.
In the five-element theory, all of these things are interconnected, and one feeds into the next, and that one feeds into the next, and so on and so forth.
If you want to research more about this, look up “The Emotions Of The Five Element Theory.”
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Causes of Back Pain and Exercises to Ease It: "Doc Talks"

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Dr. Daniel Nuzum: So, what can someone do for themselves if they have low back pain? What kind of exercises would help with low back pain?
Let’s talk about low back pain for just a minute. Low back pain has all kinds of causes. There are a hundred different causes of low back pain. We’ve got stiff muscles; tight muscles in the low back. We have loose muscles in the abdomen; loose muscles in the pelvic floor. Those are causes of low back pain. We have loose muscles in the rear-end, in the backside. That contributes to low back pain. We have weak muscles in the shoulders can also bring on low back pain. We have poor posture; we have sitting too often, driving a truck, driving a car; people that just do a lot of driving for a living. That sitting position is very hard on the low back for hours and hours on end.
These are all things, not including injuries. So, if somebody has injured their low back from lifting something, or from a fall, or from being hit or ran into, or those types of things, those are all common injuries to the low back.
We have people that have had massive antioxidant deficiencies have very brittle discs. And so, their discs get injured. Disc problems are very, very common low back pain sources.
So, we have all these different things that can bring on low back pain, but if you go to a surgeon, they’ll recommend surgery. If you go to a chiropractor, he’ll recommend an adjustment. If you go to an acupuncturist, he’ll recommend acupuncture. You go to a physical therapist; he’ll recommend modalities and exercise. Depending on the case, all of them could be correct.
So, being that this is—we’re not treating anything here, something that I would tell you, if you asked me, “Doc, what kind of exercises could I do for my back?” There are basic things that you can do.
One is to strengthen your abdomen. Doing things to tighten up the abdominal muscles and doing things to tighten the pelvic floor muscles. Those types of exercises help to maintain the spine in its erect position. When you’re hunched over a lot, or your posture isn’t good, that puts a lot of strain on your low back.
Think of this. If you bend forward at the hips, and your head’s down here, and you stand up straight, and you, let’s say from that position, you lift a 10-pound weight straight up like that, the amount of pressure on your low back, on the—lifting your body upright, is five times whatever the amount of weight that you’re lifting. So, if you’re lifting, if you’re standing up straight like this and you’re lifting 10 pounds, your low back has 50 pounds of pressure on it.
So, doing exercises that help with your abdomen and your pelvic floor, and strengthening your lower back, and then exercises that help with your hips. So, squatting and dead-lifting type exercises, those types of things are very, very helpful for strengthening your hips and low back.
And so, abdominal exercises, lower body exercises. Planks are another very helpful exercise. Both frontal planks, where you’re lying straight down, face down, and then, side planks also. Get those obliques, those muscles between your hip and your ribs. Those are extremely important to strengthen all of those things.
When the muscles in your abdomen and your torso are strong, they help to keep the bones in place. And if they’re not strong, if the muscles are weak and they’re not able to hold things in place very well, your joints take the brunt of all the pressure that your body gets under. Therefore, the joints are more prone to being injured.
So, things that you can do yourself are, again, low body exercises, abdominal exercises, and things like planks. Planks, front planks and side planks are very, very helpful for strengthening the muscles around the torso and the low back and the abdomen.
Jonathan Hunsaker: Thanks, Doc. I appreciate your wealth of knowledge, as usual.
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Best Physical Exercises for Beginners: "Doc Talks" with Dr. Nuzum

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Dr. Daniel Nuzum: So, for those of you that have been inspired by our INSPIRED videos to become physically active, we’re getting all kinds of questions, “What is the best type of exercise for someone who’s either never exercised, or hasn’t exercised in a long time, really doesn’t have the condition to go lift weights at the gym, or go play some sport, or something like that? How do you start from the very, very beginning, Doc?”
The first thing to do is start moving. Just move. Walking as an exercise for a beginner is super important. Getting those big muscles, getting your legs moving, getting the blood pumping, those are all the very first steps that have to take place in order for you to get into better condition.
I get my sedentary patients to start walking 30 minutes every other day. Then, once that half-hour walk is easy and their body has adapted and has gotten stronger, then we start talking about other exercises, like maybe some modified pushups, maybe some knee bends, and maybe some crunches, things along those lines. Maybe starting with planks.
Once we get from there, then we start talking about maybe going to the gym or doing a set exercise routine.
To recap, for someone that’s been sedentary, has not been up moving around, walking half an hour every other day, that’s your goal to get started and get moving, to get into better condition.

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Detoxing While Pregnant and/or Breastfeeding: "Ask the Doc"

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Jonathan Hunsaker: 
Hey, breastfeeding moms out there, make sure you watch this video. We’re going to talk about whether or not you should detox while you’re breastfeeding. Stay tuned.
Dr. Daniel Nuzum: Is detox safe during pregnancy?
No!
I will elaborate as to why detox is not safe during pregnancy, and that comes down to one basic principle. If you are detoxifying and you’re pregnant, there is a risk of circulating toxins that are safely stuck away in tissues and won’t get near that baby. And what we don’t want to do is start detoxifying if you’re pregnant and doing some sort of detox where we unleash toxins that are safely tucked away somewhere, in some tissue somewhere, and circulate that through your bloodstream where that blood may come in contact with a baby. We don’t want to do that.
What you can do while you’re pregnant is eat green foods, green juices, things like that. What you want to do is maximize your nutrition. And by maximizing your nutrition, you’re naturally, as you take in all the good stuff, you’re naturally going to force out a lot of bad stuff. It’s very, very simple. As the good comes in, the bad is going to go out.
Doing a focused or targeted detox while you’re pregnant is not safe. Do not do that. We do not recommend that. I don’t recommend that. I don’t have patients do that. So, no, detoxing while you’re pregnant is not safe, is not recommended.
But what you can do is improve your nutrition. Get good nutrients, get a good multivitamin, get green foods in your system. Flood your system with as many nutrients as possible. You want to have as much raw material available to build a nice healthy baby as possible.
And the more raw material that you have available, the better off you, as the mother, will be afterward after the baby’s born. You will be healthier; you’ll have more reserves.
Should a woman detox while breastfeeding?
The answer on that one is also no. No.
Again, we don’t want to recirculate toxins throughout the system while you’re breastfeeding the baby. While breastfeeding, you want to maximize your nutrition. Maximize your nutrition. Good, full-spectrum multivitamin. Get your minerals. Green foods, in particular, those are the things that are going to support you and maximize your nutrition so you have the best milk you can give that baby.
Again, no detoxing while breastfeeding, because we don’t want to recirculate any toxins that are hidden away in your body somewhere and expose that baby to any toxins. We don’t want to—babies are already born with enough toxins from the environment. We don’t need to expose them to any others.
So, no detoxing while pregnant or while breastfeeding.
But maximize your nutrition. Get as good healthy multivitamins, even probiotics. Very, very, very healthy, very helpful for breastfeeding women. Also, green foods, green foods, green foods, green foods. You can’t get enough green foods.
So, I hope that answers your question.
Jonathan Hunsaker: Well, there you have it!
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