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| Conception: | |||||||||||||
| In the last 50 years, the sperm count and quality have significantly dropped. The inability to conceive for both maternal and paternal reasons is rapidly rising. It is important to bear in mind that kinesiological diagnosis is highly individual, as is the relevant treatment. No two cases will ever be the same! Here is a brief list of common reasons for infertility that have been found with Autonomic Response Testing (ART) and of treatment leading to successful conception. | |||||||||||||
| 1) | Abdominal scar tissue: appendicectomy and hernia scars are the most significant; they often block the motility of the fallopian tube, decrease blood flow to the uterus and decrease sperm production and quality. Treatment is with Neural Therapy. | ||||||||||||
| 2) | Chlamydia trachomatis: a commonly under-diagnosed bacterial infection and one of the most common reasons for not conceiving in the presence of normal hormonal tests. Often the fallopian tubes are patent, but their mobility is impaired. Common laboratory diagnosis is often false negative. Treatment on the physical level is usually with Doxycycline, starting the week before planned conception and for two weeks beyond. An alternative on that level are the Enderlein remedies which succeed but take longer: Pleo Fort, Pleo Nig and Utilin are the most important examples. | ||||||||||||
| 3) | Sperm allergy: the male partner collects his sperm in a jar and it is established by ART whether there is an allergy. Desensitisation is successfully performed with Mental Field Therapy. Successes have also been reported with antihistamines (e.g. anti-allergic cough syrup) or NAET, a special allergy elimination technique. Long-term treatment with Pleo Sancom leads to a decrease in allergic hypersensitivity which also relates to mould and other allergies. | ||||||||||||
| 4) | Low sperm count: it has been shown that taking special preparations of Chlorella pyrenoidosa have led to very significant increases in sperm count. | ||||||||||||
| 5) | Toxicity: This is definitely the most common case of both female and male infertility. A good detoxification programme using for example NDF, Chlorella, Phospholipids with EDTA, sauna therapy and lymphatic drainage is usually required. Prior removal of amalgam fillings and root canal filled teeth may be required to conceive, especially for the mother. It is easier and safer to detoxify a mother before she becomes pregnant; however, it is still easier and better for mother and child to detoxify during a pregnancy than to start only after birth. | ||||||||||||
| 6) | Other common factors involve food allergies, unresolved emotional trauma, poor dental occlusion and geopathic and biophysical stress. | ||||||||||||
| Intrauterine problems: | |||||||||||||
| 1) | Toxicity: During pregnancy and breastfeeding large quantities of toxins – up to a third of the mother’s total body burden – are passed on to the foetus. Dental practices should warn mothers not to have mercury containing silver amalgam fillings (re)placed during pregnancy. A filling outgases 50% of its high mercury content over the first seven years of its existence. Women who have amalgam fillings in place should ideally have them removed before conception. If the mother is already pregnant, amalgam fillings can be safely removed provided this is done by a dentist who is specially trained in safe amalgam removal. | ||||||||||||
| 2) | Nutrition: It is known that the baby of a mother with low folic acid levels in the first trimester of pregnancy has a higher risk of being born with spina bifida or cleft palate. All women should be tested if they would benefit from Folic acid supplementation since it also prevents cervical dysplasia to a high degree. It is no longer safe to eat most fish, especially tuna, salmon and all the others higher up on the food chain where contaminants are concentrated more than a million times. Organic salmon is no healthy alternative since it contains only low levels of omega 3, having been fed organic grains, a highly unusual diet for predator fish. Alaskan wild salmon as well as some mackerel and sardines are some of the few fish still safe to eat. The alternative is fish oil. Some fish oil producers use a proprietary process which removes mercury and other metals. However, they do not necessarily remove PCBs and other chemicals. Good fish oil is absolutely necessary for the child’s brain development. Studies indicate that if enough fish oil is consumed in the last trimester the child is more intelligent and has less chance of developing neurological disorders. The mother benefits, too, by having a reduced risk of developing eclampsia or pre-eclampsia, less post-partum depression and less complications during childbirth. In addition, a number of studies have shown a great reduction in pregnancy-related complications simply by taking a daily multivitamin preparation. Both Italian and German studies strongly suggest that L-Carnitine makes a significant difference in outcome: complications during pregnancy as well as labour are greatly reduced; the child is often larger, healthier and more intelligent later in life. A Finnish study from the university of Turku on 169 children demonstrated how tooth decay in young children can be prevented: if the mother chews Streptococcus mutans-killing Xylitol chewing gum three times a day during pregnancy and for one year afterwards, the child has virtually no tooth decay until age five, as compared to a group which had regular fluoride or chlorhexidine treatments. The WHO estimates that the global IQ has declined by 10-15% over the last 15 years due to malnutrition, including industrialised nations. Lack of vitamin A, Lithium, Iodine and fish oil are most strongly linked to the decline. | ||||||||||||
| Toxic building syndrome: | |||||||||||||
| Many homes are toxic. Most common is electromagnetic pollution from mobile phone towers, poor electric wiring in the home or nearby power lines. Cordless phones have emerged as a major stressor in recent years. Electromagnetic pollution is often the cause of childhood asthma, eczema, hyperactivity and other behavioural problems and the cause of more severe illnesses in adults. One treatment option is to turn off the fuses for the bedrooms with excellent improvements in health-related parameters. Cordless phones should be banned and frequently pose a significant health risk. They broadcast a highly disturbing biological signal to anything alive within a 30 metre radius, 24 hours a day. Other sources of stress in a home include outgasing from carpets,
paint-fumes and biotoxins found in mould. Carpets should not be
used in houses unless they are completely non-toxic which is very
rare. Recently several studies have shown that flame retardants
(PBDs and PBDEs) were found in most mothers’ breast milk.
They also retard the development of a foetus or a newborn child
and are involved in the causation of many neurological illnesses
and cancer. PBDEs are found in all upholstered furniture, some clothing
and toys – required by law. The highest levels are found within
six months of purchase. The flame-retarding effect ceases after
six months, but PBDEs stay in the tissues of mother and child forever. |
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| Cosmetics: | |||||||||||||
| Over the last 20 years, many publications have shown that almost no cosmetic product is safe. The industry is poorly regulated and special interest has stopped the propagation of any critical literature. A German physician published a book on the cancer-causing effect of under-arm deodorants. He lost his medical licence and his house was burnt down. This was in 1997, not 1937. In 2003 a British biologist from Reading confirmed the findings: there is a very significant link between the use of parabens and aluminium compounds in deodorants and the development of breast cancer. This link is significantly stronger than the link between oestrogen from HRT and breast cancer. Only non-toxic cosmetics should be used. Any toxin found in a mother is found in her baby in an even higher concentration. Sauna therapy is a useful method to reduce the body burden of both chemicals and cosmetic residues. | |||||||||||||
| Allergies: |
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| If the mother is sensitive or allergic to certain foods but continues to eat them during pregnancy the child is four times more likely to develop allergies in his/her life. Asthma, eczema, hay fever, some types of hyperactivity, gluten and gliadin sensitivities (with or without colitis) are all part of this symptom complex. Before the mother can avoid those foods they need to be diagnosed first. Lately, blood tests have been shown to be quite unreliable. Clinically, excellent results are achieved with ART testing and, based on the results, allergenic substances can be diagnosed and the mother can be advised as to what to avoid. | |||||||||||||
| Neurosensory stimulation: | |||||||||||||
| Tomatis and many other researchers have demonstrated that children can become more intelligent later in life by stimulating them appropriately in utero. Mozart music, transabdominal light stimulation (Dinshaw method), transabdominal touch, dancing and maternal yoga have all been shown to contribute to a neurologically healthy baby. | |||||||||||||
| Psychological Interventions: | |||||||||||||
| Mental Field Therapy is an effective healing tool on the level of psycho-emotional blockages. It involves focusing the mind on related issues such as, for example, painful images of childbirth relayed by the client’s mother or traumatic sexual experiences. Working with the client focusing on the issues, one stabilises the client’s energy field with a meditative technique and simultaneously taps those acupuncture points which are related to the stressful memory. Most cramps, bouts of nausea, excessive fatigue and a variety of other pregnancy-related symptoms disappear within minutes using this approach. Perinatal psychologist David Chamberlain (“Babies Remember Birth”) compiled the evidence that the baby is a conscious sentient being from the moment of conception. As adults we are able to retrieve, in hypnotic trance, most memories of our earthly life from the moment of conception onwards. Every pain, every emotional upset, every wavering of a parent about the pregnancy is recorded in the mental field (not the brain) and has an effect on the developing person from hereon. Thoughts or attempts of abortion, the possible trauma of an amniocentesis, illnesses of the mother during pregnancy, physiological problems such as vitamin malnutrition all have an impact on the developing foetus – so do all the good things: the love, the intimacy between parents, the music that is played to the baby through the abdominal wall etc. The baby is bathed in the energy field and mental field of its parents. The child starts out with the life experiences of the parents already under his or her belt. While pregnant both parents often unconsciously re-live their own pregnancy and MFT quickly reveals what happened while their parents were pregnant with them. The partners go through a variety of feelings and states which are more often related to their own respective intrauterine time than to current time and space. | |||||||||||||
| Birth: | |||||||||||||
| There are many different ways and methods of giving birth: the Leboyer method of gentle birth, Lamaze, the Brazilian method of squatting, water births and the Caucasian method of lying on the back. Home births in low-risk pregnancies generally have a better safety record than hospital births. In the hospital there is certainly an excess of epidural injections, episiotomies, Caesarean sections and other interventions, which are often unnecessary or become only necessary because the mother is stressed being in an unfamiliar environment. There is a connection between epidural injections at birth and drug addiction of the child later in life. There is a connection between Caesarean sections and arthritis later in life. Every intervention has a risk and should be used prudently. | |||||||||||||
| The newborn period: | |||||||||||||
Once the baby is born, it needs to be handled gently. No slapping, no panicky washing of the skin. Everything about birth is natural and not a medical emergency. There are of course exceptions which should be prepared for and kept in the back of one’s mind. The latter is the job of the midwife or obstetrician. Once the baby is born it should rest on mother’s stomach to bond. The role of the father should not be about being a second mother. His role is to hold, nurture and protect the space. Diapers should be chosen carefully. Plastic throw away diapers have been shown to warm the testicles of a male baby contributing to male infertility later in life. The sleeping location of the baby is important. Most families co-sleep with their newborns for the first 6 to 12 months. The benefits of co-sleeping are not just about the ease of nightly feeding, but also introduces the child’s independence to our world slowly. The newborn still has a feeling of being part of the mother and does not yet have a strong sense of ‘self'. Sudden infant death syndrome has been linked in a number of studies
to a strange phenomenon: polyurethane and other plastic uses of
foam mattresses get soaked with sweat, urine and other bodily excretions.
There is an interaction of microbes, foam and bodily fluids which
creates toxic gases: thioaethers, mercaptans, hydrogen sulphide
and others have been detected. These gases are the same as the ones
used in combat during WWI to paralyze the opponents’ breathing
mechanism. They do the same in a newborn, especially when combined
with the stress of recent immunizations. These gases are heavier
than air. Baby cribs – often with crib bumpers – that
have a wooden frame which extends higher then the mattress often
create a bowl, in which the gases sit and cannot flow over to the
side. The alternative is mattresses made from cotton or natural
rubbers, which do not create these problems. |
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| Vaccines: | |||||||||||||
| The vaccine issue has many layers. It is clear from an epidemiological point of view, that the more people are vaccinated, the less the spread of the related illnesses. It is also clear from clinical experience, that many children have developed autism, hyperactivity, and asthma or suffered severe brain damage within a few days of vaccination. Vaccines are good for the community, but potentially bad for the individual. The immune system of a child takes 24 months to mature and is very vulnerable during this time. Many vaccines still contain ethyl mercury, one of the two most toxic mercurial compounds. By the time the child is six years old, the accumulated amount of mercury from vaccines is clinically significant. No one escapes this damage. Today mercury-free vaccine alternatives exist, but are not necessarily yet routinely used – only by request. More information is available from Dr. Tenpenny’s work and publications or at Dr Mercola’s website: www.mercola.com. | |||||||||||||
| Dental issues: | |||||||||||||
| Significant progress has been made in the prevention of dental caries and furthering proper development of the facial structures and dental arches. As already mentioned above, if a mother chews Xylitol chewing gum three to five times per day during pregnancy and for the first year of life, the child has no tooth decay in the first five years and there is still a statistically significant effect at age ten – even if the child never chews the gum! Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that inhibits the growth of Streptococcus mutans, the bacterium responsible for caries. Research in Japan showed that if pregnant mothers and their children eat chlorella growth factor (CGF, a heat extract of chlorella), the 20 children in the experimental group did not develop any tooth decay for five years (in contrast to the control group who showed a significant amount of tooth decay). The most startling finding in the study was; children given CGF developed beautifully-developed facial structures and dental arches, predicting a lack of facial pain, jaw problems, neck problems, headaches, hormonal problems and more, later in life. In a Japanese study on dogs, perfect dental arches also predicted better general health, a higher life expectancy, higher intelligence, more pleasant behavioural characteristics and a non-scoliotic, perfect spine. | |||||||||||||
| Television: | |||||||||||||
| Only recently a study
for the first time confirmed a direct connection between early television
viewing and hyperactive behaviour. Do not use your television-set
as a baby sitter. Have the child paint, sing, play be interactive
with its new and ever changing three-dimensional world. “What
tomorrow’s children are to be will be determined by what today’s
parents-to-be choose to be.” May we all acknowledge and honour our true responsibility as parents
and enjoy the light and joy our children bring to us. |
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