Comments on: How to Solve Any of Life’s Problems….. http://www.drnima.com/2009/06/how-to-solve-any-of-lifes-problems/ Health by Educating, Empowering and Entertaining Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dr. Nima http://www.drnima.com/2009/06/how-to-solve-any-of-lifes-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Dr. Nima Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:33:23 +0000 http://www.drnima.com/?p=572#comment-88 I think I see the problem of perspective here: You said it: "if you have an individual who has maintained an extremely healthy lifestyle and still they developed cholesterol it is not inherently their fault." Simon, you're thinking I'm assessing blame. I'm not doing that... I'm trying to shed light on why cholesterol levels go up in the first place! First of all, cholesterol is not the bad guy. Cholesterol goes up as a normal response to a fight or flight-- to make more stress hormones, to make more clotting factors, to help grow and repair tissues that would need to happen during a fight or flight. This is a normal, healthy response to a perceived threat in the environment. If you are in a chronic state of fight or flight (since there is no real threat to our lives usually it is the PERCEPTION of threat... fear/anxiety/stress that is causing the response, NOT THE ACTUAL EVENT) it follows that our physiology can be altered by our PERCEPTIONS to events. This is irrefutable. Eating right, exercising is a great way to start, but now, more and more, we are realizing how our lives are affected by our perceptions and mindset... the body makes more cholesterol in response to a threat. By taking meds, you have successfully lowered cholesterol, but you have not addressed the root cause. Cholesterol meds are on the rise, as drug companies lower the "normal baseline recommendations" through marketing... Of course, there are indications for the extremes, but guys like Dr. Mercola have treated thousands of high cholesterol cases successfully, and only a handful were non - responsive and needed meds. Similar to depression... when you are under chronic stress, your serotonin levels can't keep up to lower your anxiety levels that adrenaline and cortisol are creating... Result... depression and anxiety. At the root cause of all depression is a fantasy/infatuation the person can't live up to. Dissolve the fantasy, and the fear/anxiety and depression dissolves. Your life is a series of challenges to overcome. Walk with the expectation that you're supposed to be happy all the time, and that's a surefire way to create a fight or flight response of fear/anxiety/depression/frustration that over time can lead to a depletion of serotonin. Yes there are extremes. But there are also extreme perceptions. My point: Look at your emotions as feedback to your expectations. And for God sake, Simon, get yourself to one of my seminars, or read one of Dr. John Demartini's books. You'll see a greater possibility for yourself and humanity. I think I see the problem of perspective here: You said it: “if you have an individual who has maintained an extremely healthy lifestyle and still they developed cholesterol it is not inherently their fault.”
Simon, you’re thinking I’m assessing blame.
I’m not doing that… I’m trying to shed light on why cholesterol levels go up in the first place! First of all, cholesterol is not the bad guy. Cholesterol goes up as a normal response to a fight or flight– to make more stress hormones, to make more clotting factors, to help grow and repair tissues that would need to happen during a fight or flight. This is a normal, healthy response to a perceived threat in the environment. If you are in a chronic state of fight or flight (since there is no real threat to our lives usually it is the PERCEPTION of threat… fear/anxiety/stress that is causing the response, NOT THE ACTUAL EVENT) it follows that our physiology can be altered by our PERCEPTIONS to events.
This is irrefutable.
Eating right, exercising is a great way to start, but now, more and more, we are realizing how our lives are affected by our perceptions and mindset… the body makes more cholesterol in response to a threat. By taking meds, you have successfully lowered cholesterol, but you have not addressed the root cause. Cholesterol meds are on the rise, as drug companies lower the “normal baseline recommendations” through marketing… Of course, there are indications for the extremes, but guys like Dr. Mercola have treated thousands of high cholesterol cases successfully, and only a handful were non – responsive and needed meds.
Similar to depression… when you are under chronic stress, your serotonin levels can’t keep up to lower your anxiety levels that adrenaline and cortisol are creating… Result… depression and anxiety.
At the root cause of all depression is a fantasy/infatuation the person can’t live up to. Dissolve the fantasy, and the fear/anxiety and depression dissolves.
Your life is a series of challenges to overcome. Walk with the expectation that you’re supposed to be happy all the time, and that’s a surefire way to create a fight or flight response of fear/anxiety/depression/frustration that over time can lead to a depletion of serotonin.
Yes there are extremes. But there are also extreme perceptions.
My point: Look at your emotions as feedback to your expectations.
And for God sake, Simon, get yourself to one of my seminars, or read one of Dr. John Demartini’s books. You’ll see a greater possibility for yourself and humanity.

]]> By: Dr. Nima http://www.drnima.com/2009/06/how-to-solve-any-of-lifes-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Dr. Nima Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:20:09 +0000 http://www.drnima.com/?p=572#comment-87 Thanks for your comments, Simon. It's easy for someone in academia who bases his entire opinions on research to say schizophrenics can not will their mental anguish away and cancer patients can not will their cancer away... The point of this post was to shed light on the fact that our problems we face are a matter of perspective. Of course, there are always extremes, but when you look at how many people are given meds to face their problems, it's easy to see that they are WAY OVERPRESCRIBED. Doctors are not trained in teaching their patients to look at things a different way. They are doing the best they can in the few minutes they have. It is all up to the individual to empower themselves and to go on their journey to find the answer. You CAN cure yourself from cancer, by taking a hard long look at all the elements in your life. The point is: It's not the doctor's role-- it's yours to do the searching. Love and gratitude, being in the present moment are all ways we can accomplish this. If you start with the notion that the body is weak and we need outside help to make it strong, then we are forever looking for cures outside ourselves for our problems. But if you start with the idea that the body is innately intelligent, and it is responding and adapting to the environment, in how you eat, move, and how you think about yourself and others... then you look at conditions and problems as feedback that your perspective is off track. I have seen so many people who have been labelled "depressed", "bi-polar", "fibromyalgia", and when I dig a little, there is always an event that has occurred, a stressor, a lopsided perception of a person or event that prompted their "disorder". I've also seen and taken people through a process that balances out their perception and their depression dissolves without drugs, and their disorder heals. Let me know if you're interested in learning how to do this for yourself. We aren't taught how to deal with our adversities or conflicts, but these daily conflicts are the source of our chronic mental and physical illnesses. Hear me now and believe me later ;) Thanks for your comments, Simon.
It’s easy for someone in academia who bases his entire opinions on research to say schizophrenics can not will their mental anguish away and cancer patients can not will their cancer away…
The point of this post was to shed light on the fact that our problems we face are a matter of perspective. Of course, there are always extremes, but when you look at how many people are given meds to face their problems, it’s easy to see that they are WAY OVERPRESCRIBED. Doctors are not trained in teaching their patients to look at things a different way. They are doing the best they can in the few minutes they have.
It is all up to the individual to empower themselves and to go on their journey to find the answer. You CAN cure yourself from cancer, by taking a hard long look at all the elements in your life. The point is: It’s not the doctor’s role– it’s yours to do the searching. Love and gratitude, being in the present moment are all ways we can accomplish this.
If you start with the notion that the body is weak and we need outside help to make it strong, then we are forever looking for cures outside ourselves for our problems. But if you start with the idea that the body is innately intelligent, and it is responding and adapting to the environment, in how you eat, move, and how you think about yourself and others… then you look at conditions and problems as feedback that your perspective is off track.
I have seen so many people who have been labelled “depressed”, “bi-polar”, “fibromyalgia”, and when I dig a little, there is always an event that has occurred, a stressor, a lopsided perception of a person or event that prompted their “disorder”. I’ve also seen and taken people through a process that balances out their perception and their depression dissolves without drugs, and their disorder heals. Let me know if you’re interested in learning how to do this for yourself.
We aren’t taught how to deal with our adversities or conflicts, but these daily conflicts are the source of our chronic mental and physical illnesses. Hear me now and believe me later ;)

]]> By: Simonnnnn http://www.drnima.com/2009/06/how-to-solve-any-of-lifes-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Simonnnnn Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:55:53 +0000 http://www.drnima.com/?p=572#comment-86 It's also a moot point to believe that a video putting our lives into perspective through the idea that thousands of people die daily due to hunger could simply cure someone. In your attempt to see all sides of situations you have missed one. That is academic rigor. This one is the most boring, it lacks other options, it seems to doom ourselves at times, so I can see why you want to discount it. There are points that this paradigm makes that no others can account for. Schozepherines cannot will their mental anguish away, cancer patients cannot will their cancer away, alcoholics cannot wish alcoholic did not have that effect on them. To assume that the chemical imbalances which as a result cause depression can be willed away is slightly naive. The brain is an entity in the same way that any other part of our body is. I have *no doubt* you help massive amounts of people. I believe that what you do is great and the people who benefit from you are lucky. Please don't get me wrong Nima you're an outstanding individual and your skills with helping people are unrivaled. I just want you to understand that there are situations where, while people should never give up and should continue getting help from you or others, medication is necessary. But like I said; you're clearly an inspiration and guiding light to many and I have no doubt you have helped massive amounts of people beat symptoms which they otherwise would have just been medicated for. One last little...rational response. I think your argument on why we are the most medicated society is also slightly ridiculous. The bottom line is most other societies cannot afford medications like we can. In addition SSRI's have only been around for 15~ years or so. Before them the trycicilic anti-depressants caused horrible side affects such as tardive-dyskenisa. So our increasing use of anti-depressants is in due part to our wealth to afford them, and new anti-depressants which have very few side effects (in comparison to previous ones at least). It’s also a moot point to believe that a video putting our lives into perspective through the idea that thousands of people die daily due to hunger could simply cure someone. In your attempt to see all sides of situations you have missed one. That is academic rigor. This one is the most boring, it lacks other options, it seems to doom ourselves at times, so I can see why you want to discount it. There are points that this paradigm makes that no others can account for. Schozepherines cannot will their mental anguish away, cancer patients cannot will their cancer away, alcoholics cannot wish alcoholic did not have that effect on them. To assume that the chemical imbalances which as a result cause depression can be willed away is slightly naive. The brain is an entity in the same way that any other part of our body is. I have *no doubt* you help massive amounts of people. I believe that what you do is great and the people who benefit from you are lucky. Please don’t get me wrong Nima you’re an outstanding individual and your skills with helping people are unrivaled. I just want you to understand that there are situations where, while people should never give up and should continue getting help from you or others, medication is necessary. But like I said; you’re clearly an inspiration and guiding light to many and I have no doubt you have helped massive amounts of people beat symptoms which they otherwise would have just been medicated for.

One last little…rational response.
I think your argument on why we are the most medicated society is also slightly ridiculous. The bottom line is most other societies cannot afford medications like we can. In addition SSRI’s have only been around for 15~ years or so. Before them the trycicilic anti-depressants caused horrible side affects such as tardive-dyskenisa. So our increasing use of anti-depressants is in due part to our wealth to afford them, and new anti-depressants which have very few side effects (in comparison to previous ones at least).

]]> By: Simonnnnn http://www.drnima.com/2009/06/how-to-solve-any-of-lifes-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Simonnnnn Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:44:43 +0000 http://www.drnima.com/?p=572#comment-85 I’ve seen people who are labeled “chemical imbalance” (as if there was a way to test this imbalance!) When identical twins are raised apart from each other, they will both become depressed about 67% of the time. Because both twins become depressed at such a high rate, the implication is that there is a strong genetic influence. If it happened that when one twin becomes clinically depressed the other always develops depression, then clinical depression would likely be entirely genetic. However because the rate of both identical twins developing depression is not closer to 100% this tells us that there are other things that influence a person's vulnerability to depression. These may include environmental factors such as childhood experiences, current stressors, traumatic events, exposure to substances, medical illnesses, etc. -http://www.allaboutdepression.com/cau_03.html There are a large amount of diagnoses and ailments i n medicine that do not have an explicit test. Rather, through examination of symptoms it can be inferred they do exist. There is no test to tell whether a person is predisposed to high cholesterol. However, when extremely healthy individuals who are known to be predisposed to high cholesterol genetically end up having high cholesterol we prescribe medications that help this. You prescribe to a theory which revolves around the notion that every human is ultimately responsible for their own happiness. While this is a mindset we should all carry there is a caveat. Depression and similar mental issues are not fundamentally different then my previous example of cholesterol. If you have an individual who has maintained a n extremely healthy and active lifestyle and they still developed high cholesterol it is not inherently their fault. There is no different mindset that will cure them of this chemical imbalance in their body that is high cholesterol. sure, there is no test for this chemical imbalance. Yet we infer that do to their symptoms, their lifestyle, and their genetic predisposition that it is in fact an imbalance. I would argue on this platform your idea that because this chemical imbalance when it comes to depression is not explicitly measure it is fallacious. Now to view it from your side. I will continue the example of cholesterol and relate it directly to the medicine 'lipitor.' There are large amounts of individuals on lipitor for their high cholesterol. Yet they eat unhealthy, don’t' exercise and do not take care of themselves. These individuals are retreating to medicine when a change in lifestyle is what they need. This is the demographic you cater to; and for just cause. However, you miss out on a certain demographic that you must at least pay homage to. For there are those who do work out, who do eat healthy, yet still have high cholesterol. Medicine does help them. And they do need it. You argue on a paradigm that medicine is frequently un-necessary. You should alter that to one that claims medicine is over prescribed. Nima you do not have high cholesterol. But if you did we can infer that you life a very healthy lifestyle and it would not be your fault. Now lets assume after hearing you have high cholesterol you change your lifestyle to absolutely obscenely healthy and active. At your next test your cholesterol continues to rise. At this point medication would be nothing short of a rational and beneficial choice. Depression is not all too different from this situation. The brain may be an entity able of abstract thinking; but in the same way you cannot imagine what it may be like for someone to have high cholesterol; it would be presumptuous to assume you understand what it is like for someone to have chronic depression. There is no chemical imbalance test for alcoholism. Yet we know it is real and encourage all persons predisposed to alcoholism to be extremely careful. Yes there are other factors involved, yes we can control these factors, no we cannot blame genetics for our lack of care for our bodies. However, there are cases where when we carefully maintain all these other factors that genetics to come into play. At which point seeking medication is a rational choice. I’ve seen people who are labeled “chemical imbalance” (as if there was a way to test this imbalance!)

When identical twins are raised apart from each other, they will both become depressed about 67% of the time. Because both twins become depressed at such a high rate, the implication is that there is a strong genetic influence. If it happened that when one twin becomes clinically depressed the other always develops depression, then clinical depression would likely be entirely genetic. However because the rate of both identical twins developing depression is not closer to 100% this tells us that there are other things that influence a person’s vulnerability to depression. These may include environmental factors such as childhood experiences, current stressors, traumatic events, exposure to substances, medical illnesses, etc.
-http://www.allaboutdepression.com/cau_03.html

There are a large amount of diagnoses and ailments i n medicine that do not have an explicit test. Rather, through examination of symptoms it can be inferred they do exist. There is no test to tell whether a person is predisposed to high cholesterol. However, when extremely healthy individuals who are known to be predisposed to high cholesterol genetically end up having high cholesterol we prescribe medications that help this.

You prescribe to a theory which revolves around the notion that every human is ultimately responsible for their own happiness. While this is a mindset we should all carry there is a caveat. Depression and similar mental issues are not fundamentally different then my previous example of cholesterol. If you have an individual who has maintained a n extremely healthy and active lifestyle and they still developed high cholesterol it is not inherently their fault. There is no different mindset that will cure them of this chemical imbalance in their body that is high cholesterol. sure, there is no test for this chemical imbalance. Yet we infer that do to their symptoms, their lifestyle, and their genetic predisposition that it is in fact an imbalance.

I would argue on this platform your idea that because this chemical imbalance when it comes to depression is not explicitly measure it is fallacious.

Now to view it from your side. I will continue the example of cholesterol and relate it directly to the medicine ‘lipitor.’ There are large amounts of individuals on lipitor for their high cholesterol. Yet they eat unhealthy, don’t’ exercise and do not take care of themselves. These individuals are retreating to medicine when a change in lifestyle is what they need. This is the demographic you cater to; and for just cause.

However, you miss out on a certain demographic that you must at least pay homage to. For there are those who do work out, who do eat healthy, yet still have high cholesterol. Medicine does help them. And they do need it. You argue on a paradigm that medicine is frequently un-necessary. You should alter that to one that claims medicine is over prescribed.

Nima you do not have high cholesterol. But if you did we can infer that you life a very healthy lifestyle and it would not be your fault. Now lets assume after hearing you have high cholesterol you change your lifestyle to absolutely obscenely healthy and active. At your next test your cholesterol continues to rise. At this point medication would be nothing short of a rational and beneficial choice. Depression is not all too different from this situation. The brain may be an entity able of abstract thinking; but in the same way you cannot imagine what it may be like for someone to have high cholesterol; it would be presumptuous to assume you understand what it is like for someone to have chronic depression.

There is no chemical imbalance test for alcoholism. Yet we know it is real and encourage all persons predisposed to alcoholism to be extremely careful. Yes there are other factors involved, yes we can control these factors, no we cannot blame genetics for our lack of care for our bodies. However, there are cases where when we carefully maintain all these other factors that genetics to come into play. At which point seeking medication is a rational choice.

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