Backwards Walking

I feel worried about posting about this topic since it can be kind of gross.

However, I feel that physical health is one of the most important things to understand in life as it controls your energy levels, affects your mental strength, and dramatically affects your physical attractiveness or beauty.

Tracking and problem solving my health issues will not only help me but may provide inspiration for others.

Digestion

Symptoms: bloating, gas, diarrhea, distended belly, sensitivity to cold, stress, and exhaustion

Brainstorm:

• Raw ginger – seems to add an overall boost to blood flow (yang qi) and stomach circulation
• Farmhouse Culture Gut Shots – tastes absolutely disgusting, feels like it may actually help
• Unlocking/moving/stretching hips – ever since my knee injury, my hips are tight and contribute to the blockage in my stomach
• Stomach massage – helps smooth out the knots and blockage points
• Increase overall circulation – qi gong, running and cardio all help increase overall circulation and remove blockages overall
• Activate digestion while eating – eat slower and smell food more
• Eat less – to 70% fullness

Current Focus:

I need to improve my baseline before going after a specific treatment plan. The baseline will focus on two basic areas: overall circulation, reducing strain. The goals need to be very small so they are easy to maintain.

• Circulation – eat ginger every morning, run around the block once every morning (minimum 5 min)
• Reducing strain – focus on eating as little as possible, meditate once in the morning and night (minimum 5 min)

Hair

Symptoms: thin hair (but seems to be thickening), itchy scalp, hair falling out, dandruff

Very strange that my hair is thickening but falling out at the same time. Pretty sure my massage is working but the new hair growing in is so thin it falls out easily.

Brainstorm:

• Vigorous scalp massage – increase blood flow and already thicken hair a great deal
• Wash hair – more often, with cold water and apple cider vinegar if possible to reduce inflammation and increase circulation
• Oil/fatty acids – use huge amounts of conditioner and castor oil to thicken hair and prevent breaking and falling out

Current Focus:

I need to cleanse and increase circulation

• Wash hair every day with cold water and apple cider vinegar, need to use lots of conditioner to counter the stripping effect of washing your hair too much

Knee (injury)

Symptoms: afraid to put pressure or impact, no feeling at surgery area, pain

Brainstorm:

• More movement – motion is lotion to the joints
• Increased muscle mass around the joint – muscle is needed to support the joint
• Gua sha – need to tear up the scar tissue around the area and increase blood flow
• Warmup/loosen hips – hips are too tight reducing range of motion

Current focus:

I need more circulation

• Gua sha (or graston) for at least 5 min per day

Posture and Alignment

Symptoms: jutting forward head, misaligned hips, shoulders rounded forward

Brainstorm:

• Cobra yoga pose – let the hips relax into better balance
• Wall posture exercises – strengthen back muscles
• Foam roller stretch – stretch chest muscles
• Practice standing/walking – try to establish perfect alignment
• Move joints more – joints are where everything attaches, moving the joints mean more relaxed and fluid movement

Current focus:

I need to see a chiropractor and also just slightly improve posture while doing things bad for posture (computer, phone):

• Find a chiropractor within my health insurance
• Focus on finding a comfortable way to look at the phone with head back (put your phone on your knees)

Vision

Symptoms: dry eyes, headaches (happens not very often), worsening vision

Brainstorm:

• Relax into looking farther – stretches eye muscles
• Move vision more – gets the eye muscles to work a little more
• Do more active sports – forces your eyes to focus on things moving and far away
• Blink more – resets the eyes

Current Focus:

I want to just relax my eyes more when looking at far away things, rather than trying to move closer.