Health

Dr. Siegal's cookie diet

Request: A diet strategy in which one eats a number of cookies each day that were specially designed to suppress hunger along with a healthy dinner to lose weight.

acupuncture

Request: I’m considering acupuncture. Each session is $100-150 so I’m curious if it calibrates at least in the 400s before I spend a lot of money on it. [Acupuncture is listed at 405 (motivation, awareness) in Truth vs. Falsehood].

phantom pain

a painful perception that an individual experiences relating to a limb or an organ that is not physically part of the body, either because it was removed or was never there in the first place -- wikipedia.

sleep paralysis

Priority request: Most people will have an episode of sleep paralysis at least once in their lifetimes... Sleep paralysis is very scary and it can feel like someone is holding you down or you feel as if something evil is watching you and you cannot move.

Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)

Request: Uses muscle testing through the acupuncture points to help release emotions and trauma stored in the body. Could be helpful for letting go.

Whole Body Vibration

"you stand, sit or lie on a machine with a vibrating platform. As the machine vibrates, it transmits energy to your body, forcing your muscles to contract and relax dozens of times each second" -- mayoclinic.org

Thought Field Therapy

Priority request. "In order to eliminate the emotional upset, Callahan says that a precise sequence of meridian points must be tapped. He posits that tapping unblocks or balances the flow of qi" -- wikipedia.

Immuno 150 supplement

"Its 70 plant-derived colloidal minerals are the key to its success. This full spectrum of hydrophilic minerals has been blended and synchronized with 80 superb nutrients to produce one of the finest nutritional supplements in the world." Priority request.

Is cancer karmically determined before birth?

Setting aside mechanistic, reductionistic, scientific reasoning.

Olly brand gummy supplements

Priority request: I love the taste of these yummy gummies and their packaging!?! But is there any significant substance to taking them?

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, by Robert M. Sapolsky

"When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal's does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way-through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick" -- amazon.

correlation between eyesight and level of consciousness

Request: As consciousness increases, I feel as if my vision has gotten better. I don’t think this is the case for everyone but it could have a correlation.

tobacco packaging warning pictures

Priority request: found on every tobacco package in Eastern Europe, Austria, among about 80 different countries.

Nordic bath: alternating hot and cold water therapy

Priority request: I’m wondering about the benefits of cycling between hot (sauna, steam or hot tub) & cold (bath or lake), alternating back & forth a few times. Many claim it’s beneficial for lymphatic drainage, circulation, metabolism & the nervous system.

sleeping but not resting

Request: waking up tired.