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It is a spring and simplicity is a necessity, otherwise burnout is inevitable.  Here are seven ways to simplify.

#1 Eliminate just one of your commitments.  Get rid of the one that stresses you the most. #2 Organize your desk.  Be ruthless, clutter fragments the mind.  It wastes time with unproductive distractions. #3 Don’t be late for any more appointments.  It stresses everyone.  Leave 10 minutes earlier than you think. #4 Avoid stressful people.  Energy suckers.  It is hard when they are in your family, but do it anyway. #5 Just SLOW down.  Drive 55 mph, walk if you can, look around at the world, call a friend, CHEW your food (meals should last at least 20 minutes). #6 Exercise…major stress reducer. #7 Make your to-do list shorter and put some open unscheduled time in there.

Our lives in money!

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up.He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple the $20 dollar bill up. He then asked,“ Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up in the air. “Well”, he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.“Now who still wants it?”Still the hands went into the air. “My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson”, he said, “No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.” Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless…. and especially to those who love you.The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or whom we know, but by WHO WE ARE.You are special - Don’t EVER forget it.-Mark Victor HansenI’d love to hear in the comments about how you relieve stress.-Dr. Altman

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A few thoughts to get you going as a healthy woman.You’ve heard it a million and a half times, take your calcium and vitamin D. Those are OK recommendations but you can do sooo much better. You may learn more about osteoporosis than you ever thought possible. So bear with me, if you haven’t heard some of these things before, don’t worry. Most doctors don’t know this stuff, either. Osteoporosis is much more complicated than “Take Fosamax and calcium with D”.

Why does osteoporosis even happen?

• Either you are not eating enough calcium, or
• You don’t absorb it well
• You can’t put calcium in your bones
• You are pulling too much calcium out of your bones

We can’t cover everything, but you will have a good start. But wait Dr Altman, “I’m only 35, I don’t have osteoporosis.” No, maybe not, but bone loss can start that young, though. Today we are talking prevention, NOT early detection.I saw a stick for cancer awareness last week that said “Early detection is the best prevention”. No, it’s not. Prevention is prevention. That means doing the right things 10 or 20 years before “early detection”. Cancer can grow for 20 years before it is detectable.

Eating calcium

When doctors tell you 1200mg per day that includes what you are eating. Two cups of greens has more calcium than a glass of Milk.It is the most abundant mineral in the human body. You need it. But when a doctor tells you to take calcium, that’s it, “just take some calcium”. Well folks, there are different forms of calcium. Most of what is on the market is Calcium Carbonate. It is nothing more than limestone rock. It is great money maker for the supplement companies who spit it out as healthy.

You might not even be getting in you

Since well over 90% of the calcium in the market is calcium carbonate. It is fairly insoluble, and to absorb any of it you need a strong stomach acid. So it would be better to take an ionized calcium that doesn’t need your stomach acid as much. A calcium lactate, calcium citrate, or calcium gluconate would be much better. I’d be very leary of any of the coral calciums for this reason.You can always tell a doctor who doesn’t know much about nutrition when they tell a patient to take TUMS for their calcium. It will make you WORSE. You need the acid to absorb the calcium.Once you have a good source, you need some vitamin D to actually get it into your blood stream. My favorite source is “sunshine”, it is great for you. After that, especially for winter, cod liver oil is my next favorite. Let me know if you would still like a way to order it. It isn’t as easy as Standad Process, but we can find a way if enough people want to.

You’re Not Putting Calcium In Your Bones.

If you have arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) you don’t need more calcium. You need more of the things that put calcium in the bones like: trace minerals and magnesium. They are removed in processed foods to extend shelf life and most food is grown in soil with less minerals.

For women:

• A lack of progesterone (hormone) is a major reason calcium isn’t put in the bones.
• A high level of corticol (hormone) is a second common factor that actually competes with progesterone for places in the bones.

So think about this. A woman takes the birth control pill for 10 years and subsequently has a very low progesterone production. She has the typical high stress (high cortisol) American life, job, kids, husband troubles, debt, and other bad nutritional habits.Over the next 10 years, she continues and gets more tired, more lethargic, more over weight, and starts taking some pharmaceutical hormones to give her a boost.Now there is almost no progesterone coming in to put calcium in the bones and loads of cortisol from the adrenal gland stress to block anything thats left. So now getting calcium is very difficult to get in and make the bones strong.Sound familiar to any one?

You Are Pulling Too Much Out.

The number one thing that can pull calcium out of your bones is phosphates. You can find them in dark sodas. They are also in processed foods as stabilizers, buffers, conditioners, or acidifiers.Some medications also push calcium out of the body. If you want to check any, there is a book called “The Nutritional Cost Of Prescription Drugs”Osteoporosis isn’t as easy as taking calcium

A few other tips for using calcium that may help

If Osteoporosis is already going- Take Calcifood wafers – It has all the proper nutrients in the right balance for building bones.Back pain or bone pain- Take Cal-Ma Plus- It can also be used for osteoporosis temporarily.Muscle cramps- Calcium Lactate- on an empty stomach or try some magnesium, or possibly cataplex F.Osteoporosis- Calcium Lactate- with foodImmune system help-Calcium Lactate- on an empty stomachAllergy symptoms- Cal Amo- the sinus cavities have become too alkaline. This combats that.Difficulty falling asleep- Cal Sol or Calcium Lactate– before bedA little summary for you.This is a big topic, so get your exercise, eat your dark greens, take some Standard Process supplements if you have been slacking, get your hormones checked, and decrease your stress.You can still get FREE consultation time for 3 more days.Just email docaltman [at]gmail [dot] com.

5 minutes can bring you calm and peace to solve all of your problems.  The Ocean began to speak and I listened.

All I Learned From The Ocean.

I recently spent some time staring at the ocean.  I have done that many times over my life and the ocean never ceases to hypnotize me.  It has the power to support life and destroy life, to create fun and pleasure and heart ache and sorrow.  Thus goes the roller coaster of life, like the waves of the ocean.  Sometimes the bumps are small and other times they are tsunami’s.  Even the richest person didn’t get there without some trouble.  Even the most peaceful person had turbulence in their life otherwise how would you know what peace was?  You can’t avoid stress, but what you can do is let it roll through you like the ocean.

“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this:
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you.  You cannot defeat me.” -Ann Landers

If you ever go body surfing and spend anytime in a wave you realize a few things quickly.
#1 Don’t fight the ocean

After the wave dumps you and you remain stiff and struggle for the surface you are going to get hurt.  If you let your body be loose and flow with the water the energy of the wave will pass through you and your body will wiggle and shake but you won’t get hurt.  Once the wave passes you can easily swim to the surface.

#2 Don’t fight the ocean

Let’s say you want to swim towards the beach and you are Michael Phelps.  He is a pretty good swimmer.  If you get caught in a rip tide and the ocean decides you don’t need to go to the beach it will pull you farther away no matter how strong you are.  If you swim straight against a rip tide, you lose.  Think of it as swimming straight into trouble.  You can’t deny that there is a problem, because you are in it.  You probably swam into it without even realizing it.  You need to swim sideways until the current is small enough to overcome.

Some problems can be tackled head on, but large problems often require a more subtle approach.  If a large problem develops and your mind is racing and you are panicking you can’t see clearly and you are wasting precious energy.  Stress and busyness are distractions for the mind.  After a week of sitting by the ocean I noticed one thing.  People are in a real hurry to get somewhere.

Project to fix stress and busyness
Go get some sand / dirt and put it a jar and add water.  Screw the top on and give it a shake.  Cloudy right!  Keep shaking it until it settles.  Come on shake it harder.  Just shake it in one direction so the sand will settle.
Not happening, right!  Put the jar down and let it sit for a few hours.  It will settle all by itself.  Your mind works the same way.  You can’t ask your mind to do a million tasks and expect it to perform flawlessly in a stressful situation.  The calm mind can be focused and solve problems very well.  I always knew I had rocks in my head.  The easiest way I have found to be at peace with the world around me is to sit and do nothing.  I know it sounds obvious, but try it.  Let the sand in your mind settle.  Sit and listen to your breathing for 5 minutes.