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This happened four times that a monk walked into my dream and said, ‘You have breast cancer. Can you feel this? You go back to your doctor!’ Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos
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INCREDIBLE AS IT SOUNDS, O’Keefe-Kanavos’s story isn’t unique. Studies have verified that people experience illness-predicting dreams. O’Keefe-Kanavos participated in the 2013–2014 Breast Cancer Warning Dreams Research Project, and an accompanying study published in the 2015 May/June issue of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. The peer-reviewed study by Dr. Larry Burk, who co-founded Duke Integrative Medicine, examined the stories of 18 women from around the world who had vivid dreams warning them about breast cancers that doctors couldn’t see. Inspired to explore the phenomenon in more detail, O’Keefe-Kavanos is currently working on a book with Dr. Burke. The new work will feature a collection of stories from people with precognitive dreams that identified all sorts of cancers.
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severity of the disorder. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the standard treatment for sleep apnea. You will get a device connected to a mask that goes over the mouth and/ or nose and is held in place with straps while you sleep. A motor blows air down the throat to keep airway open at night during sleep. Unfortunately, many people find the device cumbersome.
Snoring can be bad for your health—and not just because your partner may kick you or toss you out of bed! Snoring can be a sign of sleep apnea, a serious condition that is reaching epidemic proportions. Sleep apnea can increase the risk of heart disease, dementia, and a host of other diseases. Like many chronic diseases, the early stages may not cause obvious symptoms and the disease often progresses to cause significant damage before people become aware. If you snore, let your physician or dentist know and they can refer you for a sleep study. Sleep apnea is a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths during sleep. These breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to a few minutes and can happen 30 times or more per hour. Sleep quality is poor as a result and this often leads to daytime drowsiness. Sleep apnea can often go undiagnosed as it is not something that is likely to come up during the course of a routine physical and many people are unaware of it since it occurs while they are asleep. The most common type of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea, which is when the airway is restricted. This causes the soft palate to vibrate, which is the sound of snoring. Doctors diagnose sleep apnea based on medical and family histories, a physical exam, and sleep study results. Your primary care doctor will decide whether you need to consult a sleep specialist. Often your dentist will be the first medical professional to become aware of the disorder since he or she is usually in more frequent contact with you than your doctor is. A dentist may suspect sleep apnea if you report lethargy, morning headaches, or dry mouth, which can be caused by open mouth breathing during sleep. Your dentist may send you to a sleep medicine specialist who will assess your condition. If you are diagnosed with the disorder, you may return to the dentist to receive a mandibular repositioning appliance. Treatment options vary depending on the
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I’ve never met a kale chip I didn’t like, but there are certainly some recipes that win over my heart more than others. This is one of them. This kale chip recipe combines the tangy flavor of limes with the heat of cayenne, along with a bit of pink sea salt, to bring a burst of flavor into each chip. Kale is an incredibly healing plant food, and switching from potato chips to these will not only satisfy your taste buds, but also your need for crunch and nutrients. These are a great snack at any time of the day. Be careful … one bunch of kale chips will go fast!
SPICE LIME KALE CHIPS • 1 medium to large bunch of kale • 1 medium to large lime • 1/4–1/2 cup olive oil • Pink sea salt • Cayenne pepper • Optional: nutritional yeast
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Pull off leaves of kale into bite size “chips” and place in mixing bowl. Add olive oil and massage into kale liberally. Squeeze the juice of the lime onto mixture, and mix. Place kale chips on dehydrator tray or cookie sheet (if using oven) and sprinkle sea salt and cayenne on them, as desired.
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Skiing requires your muscles to work eccentrically, meaning the muscle effort is done while a muscle is elongated. While lowering into a squat your thighs are working eccentrically. Staying in the squat position and pulsing will engage both the eccentric and concentric (shortened) muscle movements.
• Lower your hips so that the backs of thighs are parallel to floor. Stay in the squat position and pulse up and down just a few inches, 10 times. • Then return to standing posture. • Beginners do 5 squats, intermediate 10, and advanced 20 or more.
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Avoid dropping the head or slouching the lower back. • Beginners start with knees on floor and do 0 push-ups. Intermediate keep knees off the floor and to 10 push-ups. Advanced athletes alternate one foot on floor and do 20 or more.
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Although skiing is predominately a lower body activity, you also have to use your arms for balance and for pushing down through your ski poles. • Place your hands on the floor so your elbows are bent at 90 degrees. • Lower down keeping the body straight.
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Why Your PSA May Be Elevated By David Samadi Is your PSA elevated? PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen, which is a protein that is produced by the prostate gland. The PSA can become elevated in the blood as a result of the prostate cells or gland being disrupted in some way. Because the PSA is not specific for one type of prostate condition, it can be elevated due to a number of different conditions. A “normal” PSA level is generally between 1.0 and 4.0 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL). Anything above 4.0 ng/mL is considered abnormal or elevated. The PSA level may differ depending on a man’s age. As men age, the prostate gets larger. A larger prostate produces more PSA. Therefore, younger men generally have lower PSA levels while older men tend to have higher PSA levels. These variations in PSA levels are not always associated with a prostate condition other than an enlarged prostate. The PSA level may also vary depending on the man’s ethnicity or if he has a family history of prostate cancer. If you have an elevated PSA, you should see a urologist. A urologist will do a number of tests to determine exactly what is causing the elevated PSA. Additional tests may include another PSA test, a urinalysis test, a post-void residual urine test, an assessment of your medical and family history, and possibly a prostate biopsy or a cystoscopy, a procedure that examines your bladder. Common Causes of Elevated PSA
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Prostatitis. This also means a prostate infection, which causes inflammation of the prostate gland. Prostatitis is the most common prostate condition in men younger than 50. It can usually be treated with antibiotics.
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Prophetic Dreams Find Cancer That Doctors Missed Dreams continued from B1 The Epoch Times talked to O’Keefe-Kavanos about her incredible dreams. Epoch Times: How did your dreams identify your cancer? Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos: I went in for my yearly checkup. I had the mammogram. I had the blood tests. I had the physical exam. The doctors told me I was healthy and to go home. That night I had what I now call a recurrent nightmare. This was way before I started getting into dreams, way before I started naming the dierent types of dreams, and what they did and how you know about them. So in my dream all of a sudden my screen froze. It was like time had stood still in the dream world, and a pop-up occurred in the dream. Much like a pop-up on your computer— and just as diďŹƒcult to get rid of—that pop-up window turned into a door. And through that door walked a Franciscan monk. This monk walked up to me, dressed in a brown hooded robe, with a rope belt and leather sandals. He said, “Come with me. We have something to tell you.â€? He lead me through a doorway, into what I call the room between realms—and this happens in many of the dreams of the women I’ve been interviewing. In that room were other monks. The Franciscan monk took my hand, and it felt tactile in the dream, and he put it on my breast and said, “Do you feel that?â€? And I said, “Yes.â€? And the monk said, “That’s breast cancer. Go back to your doctor and ask for a different set of tests.â€? Well, the next morning when I woke up I could remember all of it as though I had just had it. So I got in the car, and I drove back to the Santa Barbara Cancer Institute, and I said to my doctor, “I think something is wrong. I think that everything is not okay with my mammogram and my blood tests. I just have that feeling—that female intuition—I just know that something is wrong.â€? And the doctor said, “Kathy, breast cancer doesn’t run in your family. Cancer doesn’t run in your family. You’re healthy as a horse. I’ll give you another mammogram and blood tests, but I can’t feel anything.â€? And I said, “I can feel something here!â€? And he said there was nothing there. “I can’t feel a thing. I’m trained. I’m a doctor, I would know.â€? So he gave me another mammogram, gave me another blood test, gave me another physical, and got the paperwork that said I was healthy. That night I had the nightmare again. The monk walks back into the dream with more monks, and says, “You go back to your doctor.â€? This happened four times, where a monk
walked into my dream and said, “You have breast cancer. Can you feel this? You go back to your doctor!â€? The fourth time I started crying when I saw the monk. I started crying in my dream. And I said, “I know why you’re here. My doctor won’t listen. I don’t know what else to do. If I do really have breast cancer, you need to help me because he’s not listening. Otherwise, if I got it, I’m going to die. If you don’t want me to die, help me.â€? And this monk reaches into his pocket and pulls out this ratty, little white feather. He handed it to me and said, “This is an angel feather. If you go back to your doctor tomorrow without an appointment, and you fence with him with this feather as though this feather were a sword, you will cut through all his arguments as to why you don’t need any other tests, and you will get the test you need.â€? So I grabbed my husband and drove all the way to the Santa Barbara Cancer Institute to see the doctor. I showed up at his doorstep without an appointment. He took one look at me and said, “Kathy, why are you back?â€? And I followed him back into his oďŹƒce, and I said, “I know something is wrong. And I need exploratory surgery.â€? He looked at me like I had just set myself on fire in the middle of his oďŹƒce. He said, “I can’t do that. It’s against hospital policy, and it’s against my policy. You have to think about complications from anesthesia, infection, all kinds of complications. I can’t do that.â€? I remembered the feather from my dream, and I imagined holding it and pointing it at him. I said, “I know something is wrong. I need you to help me. There’s no one else I can go to. If you don’t listen to me, I know there are going to be dire consequences.â€? He looked at me and it was as if a vampire had walked into the room and glamoured him, just like you see on TV. He said, “Okay, just a second.â€? He walked out, made an appointment for me a week later. I had the surgery and they found that I had a stage two aggressive breast cancer within my system. The pathology report confirmed the dream, so there was no argument. I had all the other paper work that said, you’re healthy, you’re healthy, you’re healthy—the yellow ones that come in the mail. I got my last healthy mammogram report on my birthday, when my hair was falling out on the walls of the shower because I had just started chemotherapy. They got me chemotherapy as quickly as possible because this cancer was so aggressive. It took me three and a half months to get that pathology report to get that surgery. Epoch Times: Did the doctor understand why the previous tests didn’t pick up your can-
cer? Why did it take exploratory surgery to finally identify it? Mrs. O’Keefe-Kanavos: When the pathology report came back, I had to get the chief of everybody—the chief of oncology, chief of radiology, chief of oncological surgery—to look at it so I could go into a second surgery. When I took all my mammograms with me into the oncological surgeon, and said “Why is this stage two tumor showing up?� He said, “Well, mammograms are only as good as the people who take them and the people who read them. And this section of the Santa Barbara Cancer Institute is the best.� Well, five years later almost to the date—with those five chiefs and everybody watching me, after having chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery—I had my mammograms read at the Santa Barbara Cancer Institute. That night, I had the horrible nightmare of my spirit guides coming through the pop-up window. They were saying, “Come with us we have something to tell you.� And when I walked through the door between realms, they were dressed with white doctors’ coats over their robes. I thought it was weird, and wondered what they were doing. There was one monk who was holding my mammography results and he motioned for me to come closer. When I did, Poof! All the monks in the room turned into these scary circus clowns with the curly red hair, the big bulbous nose, and the big red shoes, and they were rocking back and forth laughing.
[The doctors] kept saying, ‘There’s no cancer in the other breast ... Look, we did an MRI, it’s healthy.’ But I knew from the dreams ... it’s just not showing up. Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos
of oncology said, “I guess mammograms are not your friend.â€? And I said, “Why would you ever use mammograms to look for recurrence if mammograms didn’t work the first time.â€? And he said, “Well, you know, mammograms don’t work for 30 percent of the population of women. And I said, “What about us 30 percent? We don’t count? You can’t get around hospital policy to take care of us?â€? The doctors at Santa Barbara wouldn’t do a double mastectomy. They kept saying, “There’s no cancer in the other breast. It’s a healthy breast. Look, we did an MRI, it’s healthy.â€? But I knew from the dreams, my spirit guides had come to me and said it’s just not showing up in the MRI. So I had to go to New York to see a new set of doctors to get the double mastectomy, and when they did the pathology report on the second breast, it showed the lobular cancer that Elizabeth Edwards had died from at stage 2, and I was now in stage 4. It was in the other breast, which it has a tendency to do. ‌ That was the third time I had a precognitive dream that diagnosed the breast cancer that was validated by pathology reports. The New York doctors called the other doctors and said, “We’ve got her records. We’re reading her work. We’re shocked. What is going on there?â€? Epoch Times: You had a type of breast cancer that resisted treatment from broad-spectrum chemotherapy, a very common type. It sounds like you had a very special case. Mrs. O’Keefe-Kanavos: Not really. ‌ It’s just like you come down with an upper respiratory infection and the doctor gives you a broadspectrum antibiotic, sometimes it works, but on 30 percent of the people it doesn’t work ‌ You need to know before you take that chemotherapy whether or not it’s going to work. ‌ The test is known as chemo sensitivity and resistance assay (CSRA). ‌ You don’t want to guess with chemo. Epoch Times: We’re very dismissive of dreams in our culture. Are there other cultures that take dreams more seriously? Mrs. O’Keefe-Kanavos: Absolutely. ... In Japan they take dreams very seriously. In ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, if someone felt that they had an illness that the doctors could not find or treat, they would actually go to their place of worship and give prayers, light candles, and sleep on the floor of where they worshiped in the hopes that they would get spirit guides or guardian angels to come into their dreams to give them guidance. They would then take that dream back to their doctor and work with their doctor to come up with a treatment for whatever was ailing them.
And I said to myself, “Wake up, wake up, this is a nightmare.â€? But I got it. I went to my doctors and I said, “I need an MRI.â€? And they said, “Kathy, you don’t qualify for an MRI, your mammograms are all healthy. It’s not hospital policy to give MRIs when you’ve got healthy mammograms, and healthy blood tests.â€? And I thought, “This is like a frigging dĂŠjĂ vu. Somebody pinch me.â€? So I said, “Why are you using mammoThe interview has been edited for style and grams to watch for recurrence when they didn’t work the first time?â€? And again I got clarity. the same runaround answers. I had to literHave you ever had a prophetic dream? ally throw a temper tantrum on his floor in We’d love to hear about it on the Epoch Fit his waiting room. I said, “If you don’t get me an MRI, I’m Facebook page. going to lie down on your floor in your waiting room with all these people watching. I’m going to kick my feet like a 2-year-old. I’m going Ruby* is an active mom of three kids. She developed to scream and yell until you a varicose vein in her leg resulting in throbbing, itchy have to call security to drag and cramping legs. She asked her friends what to do. me out by my heels, and I’m And they told her about Dr. Donna Mendes. going to be on my cellphone $ to channel two news as I’m $ # ! going out the door.â€? $ # ! ! I got the MRI— it took me $ " three and a half months to $ ! # get the results. I was in stage 4 terminal. And the doctors said, “Oh, we just had this big “Competent, courteous, meeting with all the chiefs,â€? professional, caring, understanding, patient, because they were seeing clear, punctual. Couldn’t “lawsuitâ€? screaming across 10 W 66th St # 1B . New York, NY 10023 be better.â€? Verified Patient, Typical, yet (212) 302-3051 the headline. And the chief patientfusion.com fictive, example
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Secrets of Korean Medicine
A Simple Survival Strategy for Mankind in the Era of Viruses COURTESY OF DR. SEO HYO-SEOK
Part 2 By Dr. Seo Hyo-seok
Exercising in clean air is a good way to cleanse and strengthen the lungs.
The Black Death, Spanish flu, the Asian flu of 1957, and Hong Kong flu of 1968, Swine flu, bird flu, H1N1, Ebola, and MERS—it would not be an exaggeration to say that the history of contagious diseases is a history of the crises of mankind. The reality of today’s world is Dr. Seo Hyo-seok that viruses can threaten the very existence of humankind. Understanding the essence of breathing, by transcending simple understandings of life, can become the most important principle for protecting the body from viruses and treating disease.
pumps oxygen to all parts of the body. In overlooking the lungs, we have failed to imagine the unlimited miracles possible when the lungs are cleansed. I remember the words of Alonzo Clarke, a professor in the 19th century at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He said that all drugs taken for the treatment of disease are toxins that degrade the vitality of the body. Clarke believed that we are hurriedly sending many patients, who are likely to recover on their own when their health is left in nature’s hand, to their graves. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said the real doctor is within our body. According to him, diseases that the doctor within ourselves cannot heal cannot be cured even by the most reputed doctor. Hippocrates believed disease is the process in which restoration, the healing ability of nature, is applied. Why have these doctors come to such conclusions? What are the implications behind their words for the direction that modern medicine should take? When the functions of the lungs, the filters for the health of our bodies, are fortified, it is possible to cleanly discharge all the toxic and waste matter accumulated in our bodies. When the lungs are fortified, the restoration function, which is the foremost function of the immune system, will become fully activated. Restoration refers to the force that seeks to return things to their original state when an external force disrupts the equilibrium among all the things in the universe. At the level of the body, when it loses normal vitality and the internal balances have
Breath and Health Life begins and ends with a breath. The first cry that bursts forth from a newborn child is the beginning of its independent life on Earth. With its first breath, the child takes in the energies of the universe. If we stop breathing, we can only survive for a few minutes. Breathing creates and maintains life force. These facts are well known, yet we often overlook the preciousness of breathing. This natural phenomenon occurs unconsciously without our having to direct it. It is very simple and easy to understand how
The human body protects itself and completely heals contracted disease through the functions of the lungs. the human body protects itself and completely heals contracted disease through the functions of the lungs. The lungs take in air, the source of life, delivers it to all corners of the body, and discharges waste gases out of the body. If the lungs are not healthy due to the turbidity caused by various toxic substances from smoking, polluted air, or waste substances, or if heat is accumulated in the lungs due to stress, malfunctions will manifest in various parts of our body. The lungs purify the immune system. Perhaps for this reason, the Creator has placed the lungs in the safest and most protected position deep in our bodies. Among all the organs in our bodies, only the heart and lungs are situated within the “palace” guarded by the ribs. Other organs such as the liver, kidneys, and spleen are situated outside this “palace.” The heart and lungs are the most important organs, which need to be protected with the highest priority. Understanding such fundamentals of life will enable the prevention of diseases and the proper understanding of the rational means for curing disease. Without the rational understanding of the underlying causes, illogical approaches to treating diseases will emerge.
The Key: Restoration The key for mankind’s preparation for the coming era of viruses lies in the lungs. Once this fact is acknowledged, it becomes surprisingly easy to open the door to the once locked-up excellent health of mankind. In taking care of our automobiles, we change the oil filters regularly. In the lungs, we have organs that filter out the waste matter from the air we breathe, preventing that waste from reaching the heart, which
been taking for more than 10 years. Although I had thought that only the lungs had become healthier, the extensive improvements that followed the improvement in the lungs’ health could indeed be called a miracle. All these were the results of the amazing power of cleansing the lungs. The key to eradicating and overcoming the virus that invaded your body is not out there; it is already in your body and only needs to be realized. However, mankind has lived throughout its entire history unaware of the need to cleanse the lungs. We have been completely ignorant of the fact that the lungs in our bodies also need to be cleansed like we regularly replace the oil filter in our cars. We urgently need to realize this now. We can be graced with the maximum restoration power of our bodies, a magnificent ability of life, when the pulmonary functions are maintained at their best state. The true hidden capabilities of immunity that we refer to as the restoration power will become a message of hope to mankind confronted with the despair caused by arduously battling countless diseases. When the restoration capability of our bodies, which is the foremost function of immunity, is enhanced through cleansing the lungs, it is possible to attain longevity with excellent health that mankind has been dreaming of. I have dedicated my entire life to research aimed at the realization of such a dream. At last, I am declaring to all of mankind that this dream can be realized through the power of natural medicine, rather than through chemical drugs. COURTESY OF DR. SEO HYO-SEOK
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The key for mankind’s preparation for the coming era of viruses lies in the lungs.
been damaged due to external factors, the body’s disrupted balance can be restored by maximally enhancing pulmonary function. This will raise the restoration function of the immune system to its maximum level. The functioning of the immune system at its maximum level results in restoration of the innate state of health one is born with and enables the complete cure of the diseases one is suffering. When the four major immune functions of the body, namely, memory, defense, purification, and restoration, are fully exercised, the body will be equipped with the weapons it needs to combat and overcome the attack of any virus.
One of the facilities of Pyunkang Korean Medicine Hospital.
Clinical Experience Throughout my past 42 years of clinical experiences, I have observed countless cases in which people are inflicted with numerous diseases when the pulmonary functions become degraded. I have also witnessed the complete cure of these diseases when the pulmonary functions have been restored to their original levels. According to my clinical observations, only the improvement of the pulmonary functions can make the arrhythmia that a patient has suffered for more than a decade or the cause of stroke— auricular fibrillation—disappear. Then the patient could stop taking the angina medication he had
Dr. Seo Hyo-seok is the director of the Pyunkang Korean Medicine Hospital, which has seven branches in South Korea, one at Stanton University in California, and one in Atlanta. Dr. Seo entered at the top of his class from Kyung Hee University in Korea and after years of research developed the Pyunkang-Hwan herbal formula, which improves immunity by strengthening lung function. It has helped cure over 155,000 patients of various conditions. Find out more at Pyunkang.com Email: Dr.Seo@wwdoctor.com