Unlocking Learning Potential

September, 2009

 

Fall Schedule at the Center – What’s Happening at the Center?

 

            It is not too late to get started for the school year. We will have our regular, free introductory seminar on September 14 at 6:00 p.m. See below for class offerings. Contact us to find out how to get started: – maggie@centerforneurodevelopment.com (253) 581-1588 You are welcome to forward this newsletter or print it out for distribution as long as you include all of our contact information.

 

Also, this month we will begin a 6-week series given by Dr. Gary Kiefer, one of our medical advisors. Every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. beginning on September 16, he will address health issues that affect learning – Heal Your Body, Heal Your Mind, Heal Your Family.  Below you will find an introduction to Dr. Kiefer.

 

 

Position Available: Brain Training Coordinator

 

            We are praying for God to send us a person or persons who will train to work with our clients and their parents on implementing Individualized Neurodevelopmental Plans. Contact us for more details.

Classroom / Meeting Space Available

 

Want to earn some extra cash? Offer classes for homeschoolers in the afternoons. Or, use our meeting room for evening activities. If you would like to offer classes or hold activities in our center, please contact us for information, schedule a time to come by to visit our center so we can get to know you and show you around.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meet Our Medical Advisor – Dr. Gary Kiefer NMD

Naturopathic Medicine

 

Dr. Kiefer is a graduate of Kent State University with a BA in Sociology. His early clinical career began by working in the field of addiction counseling and rehabilitation. Later he earned a degree in Natural Science. His thirst for natural healing became a personal lifestyle along with a growing love of organic gardening and herbal medicine led him to the study of natural healing. He received his Naturopathic Medicine degree at Bastyr University. For the last fifteen years he has studied and used German homeopathic remedies in combination with digestive remedies and a healthy diet. He continues to update his medical skills on a regular basis, a habit he does not want to break.

 

 

A Book Review by Maggie Dail, M.A.

ICAN Certified Neurodevelopmentalist

www.specialhelps.com

 

Feed Your Body Right

Lendon H. Smith, M.D.

M. Evans and Company, Inc.

New York, 1994

 

 

I.                    Key Points of the Book

A.            Why Do I Get Sick - At Least Two Factors ( p. 15-18)

1.                   Your Unique Chemistry - one size does not fit all

2.                   Genetics Explains Some Diseases - only one factor

B.           How I Got From There to Here - Dr. Smith's story (p. 19-22)

1.                     His and most doctor's training - Drugs, Drugs, Drugs is the answer

2.                     John Kitkoski Appears - John contacted Dr. Smith

a.                   John had studied animals and plants and was now ready for humans

b.                   Sense of smell and taste are hooked up with the brain.

C.      A Very Brief History of Mankind's Efforts to Improve Health (p. 23-28)

1.       Hippocrates - (born 460 BC) Accurate observations; "he believed that diseases were the result of natural causes.  Let your medicine be your food, and your food be your medicine." P. 23

2.       Acupuncture and Ayurvedic Medicines - (4,000 BC) "Most of the world's populations used local plants, teas, extracts, and poultices, but the knowledge was transferred orally and some medical methods have been lost." P. 23

3.       Galen - (born 130 AD) Born Greek and moved to Rome.   He washed gladiators' wounds with red wine, saving them from fatal wounds.  "He did believe, however, that some weakness of the patient allowed sickness to invade." P. 24

4.       Paracelsus - (born Switzerland in 1493) Broke from Galen's dogma; he gathered empirical information by traveling and visiting many practitioners; "He felt nature should heal wounds, but he did introduce mercury, sulfur, lead, gold, and even arsenic to the therapeutic armamentarium.  Some of his treatments ended up as cures." In those days cures were few as average life span was 20-30 years.  P. 24

5.       James Lind - (18^th century) convinced British government that citrus fruits prevented scurvy in sailors; took 50 years to convince.

6.       Pasteur - (born 1822) discovered the bacteria that were associated with disease; "finally admitted on his deathbed that it was the territory (the body) that, when weakened, allowed the germs to invade." P. 25 

7.       Efforts in healing included:  bloodletting, mercury salts, arsenic, herbs…aspirin, purges, baths, mercury treatments… p. 25

8.       Death was the result: pneumonia, TB, typhoid fever, abscesses, osteomyelitis, meningitis, scarlet fever, peritonitis, erysipelas, childbed fever --- all bacterial infections. P. 25

9.       Addiction - "In 1912 a higher percentage of people were addicted to morphine than at any time in American history." (in cough syrup) P. 25 - "The Harrison Narcotic Act of 1912 put a damper on morphine's use." P. 26

10.    In 1918-19 Typhoid Mary (influenza epidemic) and streptococcus passed on to public by milk handlers. P. 26

11.    Early 20^th Century "Cures" - sleep with window open, drink three glasses of pure spring water daily, walk in fresh air 30 minutes daily, keep the bowels open, have no negative thoughts, "(Dancing, however, was thought to produce pelvic congestion and increase the risk of sterility for both male and female!) p. 26

12.    "In the second decade of (the 20^th) century the members of the American Medical Association decided that they alone were privy to the scientific basis of medical practice. …the eliminated some medical diploma mills of the time and laid down a rigorous curriculum aimed at teaching medical aspirants the "science" of medicine."  "It seemed a natural progression of logic to blame bacteria for disease; the 'territory' was not important.  It was the pathogen. They could now see the little bugs." (with better microscopes)  p. 26

13.    Antibiotics - arrived in 1930s and 1940s; allopaths put all their stock in the antibiotics.  50 years later…they would see the damage by failing "to address the problem of why the person (territory) got sick in the first place." P. 26-27

14.    The medicine that Dr. Smith's Dad practiced in the 1920s and 1930s.  Dr. Smith lived to see the folly of many of the treatments his Dad, a well respect physician, used. 

15.    "Allopathic medicine is 'modern' medicine.  Make a diagnosis, and cure the disease with drugs.  One definition is 'produce a condition in the body incompatible with the disease.'  If you have enough penicillin in you, you will not have a strep throat.  By the same token, if you can improve the power of the immune system, the body can do the job itself without the drugs that have their toxic effects."  P. 28

 

 

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