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Philosophy
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 Throughout these confusing times of change in health care, Dr. Ranheim has consistently followed some basic principles.
He likes to consider the entire person (body, mind, and spirit) because the body is not just an assortment of parts. He repeatedly asks, "What will it take to both get this patient well and keep them well?" Integrity in relationships, personal honesty, and the truth are highly valued. He is willing to try things which may be a little different if they will help his patients. He encourages patients to embrace their given conditions and take personal responsibility for getting well. He likes to see people find their life’s purpose and do all they can to get well so as to fulfill that mission.
Dr. Ranheim believes that the human body has more of an ability to get well, if given a chance.
That leads him to seek root causes of illness and follow more natural approaches to treatments.
Choosing A Healthy Lifestyle
To Encourage “Optimal Health”, we suggest pursuing these 7 principles:
• Avoid Harm
• Eat Right
• Settle Down
• Clear Out
• O2
• Recharge
• Balance
While this planet is not currently perfect, we are confident that by making the effort most patients’ health can improve significantly. It is generally important to be working to help yourself in most if not all of these seven areas at the same time. Do not be overwhelmed but simply start where you are today and gradually build a little bit one day at a time.
Avoid Harm as much as possible; avoid those things that harm your body systems:
Air - Chemicals, toxins, dusts and allergy triggers (pollen, pet, house dust, mold, fumes
Food - Junk foods and allergic foods with artificial additives, preservatives, dyes, flavor enhancer’s, sugars and so on.
Water - Chlorine, chemicals, germs and toxic metals.
Eat Right – learn how to shop and prepare nutritious foods; then digest them well with added enzymes if necessary to be sure your intestines absorb the food you eat. Consistently use appropriate nutritional supplements while taking care of your amazing liver. Utilize IV therapy when absorption is poor or your body needs are particularly high.
Settle Down – a “revved up immune system” (allergies) may require desensitization with allergy shots or drops: Even an overactive nervous system may need help to settle down through counseling, meditation, prayer, massage, neural therapy, acupuncture or chiropractic.
Clear Out – living in “civilization” frequently goes along with accumulating toxins in the body such as chemicals, heavy metals and germs. Detoxification is the process of getting rid of them. Don’t forget to clean out toxic relationships, negative thoughts, personal “garbage” and false beliefs.
O2 – Exercise and oxygen therapies assure that every cell is well nourished. Be sure your exercise is regular, graded, comprehensive and carefully paced. You may need added 02.
Recharge – good sleep, fun stuff, laughter, and creative hobbies, good fellowship, frequent clarification of ultimate life goals and regular worship of the creator build us up and hold us together.
Balance – deficient hormones need to be replaced and balanced. The two sides of your automatic nervous systems (fight/rest) need to be cooperating. There should be harmony between your physical body as well as your emotions, will, mind and spirit. Work hard but pace yourself wisely. Finally, keep a balance between meeting your own personal needs and desires and those of your family and the greater community.
Our staff stands by ready to help you on your path to optimal health. We strive to make our professional services of the highest quality: then we deliver them in a personal way. Let us know if we can do better.
Know that in the practice of Integrated Health there are things, which we cannot do for you: We will help you learn how to help yourself. Remember too that while medications can help, let these 7 basics be your health foundation.
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Endometriosis
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From my personal observation and notes by Mary Lou Ballweg, 8/04
1. What is endometriosis? It is a puzzling hormone and immune system disorder affecting girls and women. The name comes from the word endometrium, which is the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus. In endometriosis, that tissue ends up outside of the womb in the wrong places forming little growths that can cause pain, infertility, and be associated with unusual bleeding and killer menstrual cramps. There may be other associated immune disorders.
2. Who gets the disease? Girls as young as nine years old may get it and even women who are through menopause may still struggle with the disease. It is estimated that more than 50 million women in the world have this condition.
3. Why is the diagnosis often overlooked? Sometimes women do not like to talk about what they are experiencing and sometimes women fail to recognize that pain during or after sexual activity, infertility, heavy menstrual bleeding, fatigue, painful bowel movements and other intestinal upsets, low back pain with periods and a range of other immune disorders may simply not be connected with the possibility of endometriosis.
4. What kind of immune disorders then may be associated? Allergies such as hayfever, asthma and eczema, cancers such as ovarian, melanoma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and autoimmune disorders such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, MS, Sjogren’s syndrome, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and hypothyroidism have been documented. IBS or irritable bowel syndrome is also more frequent.
5. Why is it difficult to pin down the diagnosis of endometriosis? Money. Generally patients are reassured and given the birth control pill rather than doing a laparoscopy to actually make a definitive diagnosis.
6. What kind of treatments are available? In the past only surgical cleanout and medical therapies were offered. The most effective treatment among 4000 women in a review completed by the Endometriosis Association was immunotherapy. In our office, we take the immune approach focusing on controlling Candida overgrowth in the intestinal tract, quieting Candida and hormone sensitivity, and assuring balanced female hormones with bioidentical agents.
7. Can endometriosis be prevented? Avoidance of environmental toxins and control of candidiasis may be helpful.
8. How can I learn more about endometriosis? Contact the Endometriosis Assocaition at www.EndometriosisAssn.org or call 1-414-355-2200. They have published a book recently by Mary Lou Ballweg entitled, Endometriosis; The Complete Reference For Taking Charge Of Your Health. |
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