EP. 614: Root Causes

In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause, explores the complex concept of root causes in health, emphasizing how multiple factors, including emotions, circulation, and vibrational energy, contribute to health issues. She dives into Chinese medicine principles as it pertains to how someone develops a health condition, the pros and cons of modern diagnostic labs, and practical strategies for wholistic health optimization and restoration. Dr. Krause brings over 19 years of experience as a naturopathic doctor to this podcast by sharing trends in alternative health over the last 2 decades and why she’s rethinking the idea of the root cause and what could be a better way to approach health optimization and restoration. 

Resources From The Show:

• Dr. Krause’s Website: https://doctorjkrausend.com/
• Notes and Frequencies of the body with research – http://greatdreams.com/hertz.htm

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Chapters

00:00 Understanding Root Causes in Health

02:55 The Complexity of Root Causes

05:49 Chinese Medicine Insights on Health

11:54 The Role of Emotions in Health

18:14 Circulation and Energy Flow

24:12 Practical Approaches to Health Optimization

30:04 Conclusion and Key Takeaways

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Ep 614 Root Causes (00:14)
Hey Health Junkies, on this episode of the Health Fix Podcast, I’m talking all about root causes. It’s a hot topic. There’s a whole thing of root cause medicine, but I’m wondering if we’ve got some issues with this concept of root cause. The reason I bring it up is because lately there’s been a trend in my practice of folks coming in and saying, hey,

I really wanna keep diving into my root cause. I wanna know why I have the issues I have.

As if there’s some one thing. As if there’s one magic bullet. If there is some one process that we’re gonna uncover and it’s gonna make everything go away. The sad reality is, in the last almost 20 years of practice, I’ve started to realize that root cause medicine does not mean finding one thing. I wish, I wish it was one thing. That would be so easy.

If someone was younger, it may be one thing. But the more we have of life under our belt, multiple things are compounding. And right now, if you follow social media, the hot things are Lyme, parasites, mold toxicity, EMFs, so electromagnetic frequency toxicity, histamine intolerance. These are some of the most popular things out there.

And I’m not discrediting that they’re not real. They’re they are totally real. The point is, this is the hot root causes right now. Ten years ago, it was Hashimoto’s thyroid conditions, gut issues, candida.

Five years ago, SIBO, small intestine bowel overgrowth. We go through trends in the natural medicine and functional medicine environments in which is someone’s condition this? The treatment du jour, right? Even like 10 plus years ago, when I first starting to get into naturopathic medicine, adrenal fatigue.

was a hot topic. And then we debunked that adrenal fatigue isn’t really a thing because if you had adrenal fatigue, if your glands were not working, you’d be dead. So adrenal insufficiency was born.

And everybody had it. And right now it’s kind of like everybody having parasites. And like I said, I’m not discrediting any of these things. These things all are real possibilities of what’s going on. But I’ve come to realize that there are multiple root causes in any one condition. And it’s something that I, of course, decided I had to do a podcast on because

It’s such a topic. And we go over and over again in the office as to what is causing someone’s main symptoms. And I want to tell a little story about someone that I’ve seen quite a bit in my practice and have seen her for a long time. She’s a fabulous person. And we were working on SIBO with her, and we did all the protocols. And SIBO is probably gone based on looking at her GI map testing.

But what we just got back now is the results of a gut test that make it look like her gut is sterile. Like there are no bugs, there are no beneficial bacteria there. And she says to me, Well, I stopped doing my smoothies with vegetables and fruit in them because of the SIBO.

And it’s very important to understand that when you stop eating certain foods, when you change your diet, you’re gonna change your microbiome.

And it’s on me for not saying something about it. I mean, that that is what happens. And in the process of figuring out SIBO, a lot of foods get taken out and then a lot of foods get introduced. And we can’t, you know, it’s it’s it’s this we can’t really gauge, you know, how much someone’s diet is totally changed until we get a result like this where the gut looks sterile. The the beneficial bacteria are not there, even though we’ve been trying to replace them. And we go, okay, how do we swing from one direction all the way to the other?

in the process of treating SIBO.

The crazy thing here is that it was a big reminder to me to go, okay, there isn’t just one thing that we should be looking at when we’re looking at optimizing health, when we’re looking at restoring health.

And I wanted to do a podcast about it because I think it’s so important. We we look back at why do we have issues in the first place? And I think Chinese medicine really explains it in the best way over everything else I’ve heard out there. There are two main concepts in Chinese medicine, if I’m gonna fundamentally bring it down to a a level that one I can understand, but also that makes sense.

And for those of you that might be listening that are Chinese medicine, you know, gurus, you’re you’re a fellow acupuncturist, you’re a fellow Chinese medicine practitioner, yes, I am simplifying this. But the truth is, I have to simplify things for myself just as much as we we simplify them for understanding. And in this case, qi, which is energy or vibration, vibrational energy, folks have characterized every single hertz.

That every single one of your organs gives off. Like, for example, your heart is 528 hertz. That is its vibration. It’s also the vibration of love, which is pretty cool. We’ve looked at vibrations of the brain, vibrations of the liver. So every little cell we have dialed down in terms of tissues, whatever cell that belongs, that cell belongs to, which organ, we have the vibrational energy characterized on that. That’s pretty stinking cool.

But what that tells us is that’s qi, that’s energy, that’s vibrational energy.

Now the other is blood in Chinese medicine. So qi and blood are the two main things that we want to be thinking about when we look at the basics of how we end up with imbalances that lead to dis-ease.

So it starts with where does your qi or blood get stuck? Where does it stop moving optimally? And previous podcasts have talked about how pain is stuck chi and blood. An organ system, which is made up of a whole bunch of cells, when it does not get blood flow to it, it is going to show up in the form of pain. It’s gonna say, Hey, I’ve got some issues. Much like if you whacked your arm.

And we created an injury which would cause increased circulation at first, which is the swelling. But over time, after that circulation, that initial hit, now if the pain keeps persisting, that means because we don’t have good flow of blood and qi in that area. The same thing happens to certain organs and certain tissues. Let’s talk about the gut for a minute. A lot of folks

About ten years ago, leaky gut became really a popular subject. We need to fix the gut. The gut’s the root, you know, our our first brain. All true. Leaky gut’s important to work on.

Start at the gut and you’ll solve all your problems is what a lot of people are saying for many years. I wish that was the case because what we find is if the gut is having issues, we will end up with stuck cheer blood in the digestive system somewhere.

Let’s talk about bloating, for example. And let’s talk about general bloating in the whole abdomen. You eat some food. Later on, you look like you’re three months pregnant. Maybe you look like six months pregnant if the bloating is intense. Maybe nine months. It all depends. I’ve been there with this. Why do we have bloating? Because blood flow isn’t moving well, because the stuff in the gut’s not moving well, because there’s fermentation. Why does fermentation happen? Why do overgrowth of bugs happen in the gut?

Because of not proper qi and blood flow. Now, qi, like I said, vibrational energy. Qi is also signaling of molecules sodium potassium. Those are ions. We are charged individuals. Things like electromagnetic frequencies will their positive, their positive charges will infect us. We need to offset that.

Positive charge. We need balance. This is why people talk about grounding. But at the same time, if we’re not signaling properly across the gut.

We’re gonna have trouble moving the gut. Things are gonna ferment and get stuck.

Over time, these stuck areas where there’s not optimal blood flow, which also means not optimal lymphatic flow, which I’m going to talk about in a little bit here, this is a problem because now when we don’t have good blood flow, when we don’t have good circulation of ions and signaling molecules, think of those as electrolytes, if we don’t have good signaling, we are going to start to have degradation of that particular organ.

Gut lining. It’s not like you’re eating food and it’s ripping apart your gut gut lining. What’s happening is we have stuck blood and qi that are the the the what the contents of the gut are sitting there and we’re having trouble with the gut lining because of those things sitting there. We have decreased blood flow. Anywhere there’s decreased blood flow, we can have the potential for damage to those tissues. The more that something is stuck in the blood flow department, the more there’s a chance for deficiency. And this is the next phase.

Of things that happen in Chinese medicine. So we start with stuck qi, stuck energy, think of it stuck electrolytes, think of it stuck charge, stuck blood, same thing. We need charges to move blood. Our red blood cells are charged. They get, they move based on how we have signaling going on. They are literally moving around based on energy within the body. So your blood flow is dependent on your qi.

your energy, your vibration. Now if that isn’t going well, we can become deficient in a particular area. We can also become excess in terms of things.

One of the biggest things that happens with the gut is something called spleen qi deficiency. The Chinese characterize the spleen, which is actually, as we think of it, as an immune organ or an immune tissue, because the spleen’s in charge of white blood cell production and regulation of red blood cells. But what it also needs is nutrients to make the red and white blood cells. And so Chinese medicine, that’s the absorption, that’s the ability of your gut to get the nutrients.

The more things are stuck in your gut not moving well, like constipation, like even even sitting and compressing your abdomen.

this is more of a chance for having a deficiency in your digestive system. Some people are born with a little bit less qi and blood flow to their digestive system.

But the bigger issue is a lot of us have something called liver chi stagnation. So that’s our liver, which is the emotions that are processed through there: anger, frustration, irritability, which often lead to worry, which is the emotion of the gut. So we have something called liver chi stagnation that beats up on your digestive system. And yes, I’m talking Chinese medicine to you right now, but at the point here,

Is that if you have a lot of emotions and you spend a lot of your time frustrated, angry, irritable, stressed, it’s going to beat up on your digestive system. And this is how we often will also get spleen chi deficiency. So digestive deficiency. Liver chi stagnation is a condition of excess in the liver, excess stuckness, excessive drinking of hot.

Drinks. Excessive coffee consumption can cause deficiencies in the gut. Excessive alcohol, it’s very cold energetically. Excessive watermelon can cause diarrhea, which is a manifestation long term, if we keep having it, we can’t shut it off of a deficiency. Unless, of course, it’s some kind of bug that we took in. Now we have excess.

It’s it’s crazy, right? To think about this stuff. It’s it’s back and forth on deficiency excess. Where are we? The point here that I’m trying to make is that we start with stuck energy. Maybe it’s emotions. A lot of folks are talking about trauma stuck in the body. That is stuck chi. Trauma, emotions stuck in the body cause the body to have a decreased flow of blood over time. Worry, anger, frustration, irritability.

Those two mixed together cause the liver to have trouble and the gut to have trouble. And this is your qi or excess, you know, your your blood and qi deficiency or excess. And then eventually it ends up creating an organ disease. A lot of folks right now have colon cancer, rectal cancer, cancers of the digestive system. How did we get there? Well, food you eat and the emotions you’re holding on to.

Also, not moving your bowels well. Maybe it’s too rapid. Maybe you’re not moving your bowels enough.

But we wanna be thinking about health holistically here. When when people say holistic, I don’t think there’s a full understanding of what holistic even means. I think it gets tossed back and forth, holistic root cause, this kind of stuff. But really the truth is we wanna be thinking down to the granular level of how did this stuff start? Like, maybe if we have gut issues and we have

A leaky gut, a lot of times we’re gonna be thinking about food sensitivities and we’re gonna thinking about the food system and how there’s lots of dyes and chemicals and that stuff beats up on the gut. That is true. But how is it possible that people who eat impeccably, like they don’t even cheat, are still sick?

We gotta go back to the emotions, the nervous system, and looking at, okay, is there a lot of worry going on and you’re still having SIBO and gut gut issues? Or is there a lot of anger, frustration, stress, irritability? It’s all the nervous system. Chinese knew it thousands of years ago. But now we’re talking about the vagus nerve and we’re c talking about nervous system regulation and all that, which I think is awesome. It has to be part of putting the picture together of this root cause business.

It’s not just one thing. So let me recap just so you’ve got this and you can follow, because I know that I dove into Chinese medicine a little bit more than I wanted to there. But cheer stuck blood is step one. This is how things start to have issues. We can intervene, by the way, at this point, but that’s step one. Step two is more stuck something becomes, the more the potential for a deficiency or excess, the signs of dis-ease.

And then the longer we have a deficiency or an excess, the longer the potential or the better the potential is for having true organ system issues. In previous podcasts and workshops, I’ve talked about the heart. If there’s an excessive amount of anxiety, that can cause heart issues. If there’s an excessive amount of worry, gut issues, excessive amount of anger, frustration, irritability, liver issues.

I’m almost convinced that most folks going through perimenopause and amenopause and men going through andropause over 40.

It is quite possible that a lot of the fatty liver conditions that show up as we go through these phases in life may be due to anger, frustration, irritability. For women in particular, progesterone deficiency will cause all three of those complaints. Anger, frustration, irritability, wanting to be on an island, wanting to get away from everybody. That is a clear sign that you’re deficient in progesterone. You may also be completely burnt out, but the truth is progesterone lines up with that.

And for men and men, andropause, I have found that progesterone helps a lot of guys to be able to sleep. It’s not just a hormone for women alone. So we want to be thinking about this. Okay, if we have a lot of anger, frustration, irritability, that has potential to affect the liver. If we have a lot of worry, borderlining on fear, there’s a lot of stuff going on with the digestive system. If we have a lot of fear, now we’re talking kidneys.

We’re talking about blood flow through the body related to anxiety and fear. If they’re if we’re dancing between these two, you could pretty much overlap a lot of different things going on here. The only one I didn’t talk about was long. Lung is grief, but also not letting go of things. Holding on to grudges, holding on to certain grieving certain things, missing certain things, wishing that things were better.

Grieving the loss of jobs, friends, life, homes, pets, whatever it may be. Living in the past. Living in the past can literally make you sick. Not letting go of things.

Where I’m getting at with this is that one of the root causes we have to be looking at is yes, the emotions. And unfortunately, we are stuck in this paradigm of like, what bug is it? Is it Lyme? Is it, you know, is it this parasite? Is it that parasite? What bacteria is it? What virus is it? And I’ve gone down all those rabbit holes and I’ve helped people with those things.

But what I keep finding over and over and over again is that we don’t get results till we start to work on the emotions. So we to we till we start looking at where did the qi and the blood get stuck in the first place? One of the root causes. And as you saw me mention, like we have different emotions. We process different ones at any given time.

So we’re looking at predominant emotions here. And I want folks to be incredibly honest with themselves about their predominant emotions because they will give you clues as to how things may have developed in terms of the dis-ease. I find it incredibly important to look at where you have areas of aches and pains. Because they will tell you a lot. Where do you trend?

on like where is your weak spot. A lot of people have weak spots. For me, it can be either the pain in my back or it can be the digestive system.

What are these? This is fear is low back pain. Gut worry. I can tell you I’ve had a lot of fear and worry in my life.

And if you have it too, you’re not alone. It’s it’s we have these emotions, we hold on to them, we ruminate, we live in the past or we live in the future, we don’t live in the present. And this is causing the disease that happens within the body. And so, do I want folks to stop looking for Lyme and these and that, you know, and other things? No, I think I think it’s worth, you know, if if you’ve been exposed to mold, you know, perhaps looking at a mold toxicity test. If you’ve been exposed to

Parasites, you suspect that you have a parasite, by all means, look into that. Parasite testing is tough to get an actual read that shows true parasites. I’ve started to look down the the department of dark field microscopy for some of these types of things, which is a specialized training that I do not have. I’m curious about it. And I know that there are folks out there that do this.

And dark field microscopy, what it is, is they’re taking your blood and they’re looking at what’s in the blood. Like what kind of things do you see in there? What patterns? This is back to circulation. Qi and blood. Qi, energy, vibration, blood. What is in your blood? None of the quest labs or lab core labs will look at what’s in your blood. They’ll look at nutrients and and different enzymes and different markers. But

Unless you’re in the hospital, no one’s culturing your blood to see what’s gonna grow. And so live real time under a microscope, you can see some really cool things. A lot of people will do live cell analysis, very similar to micro the microscopy for the dark field. There’s some interesting stuff out there. So hopefully I’ll be able to get someone on the podcast to who’s an expert here and talk about that because I am not.

But I am starting to look at that as being a very plausible place to go to look and see about root cause.

Because I’ve seen working on the gut can be beneficial. I’ve seen working on your cell vibration, aka your predominant mood, your energetic levels, how things are working with your mitochondria. Yes, helpful.

But what I keep seeing over and over again in this quest for finding root cause is that we’re getting hung up on looking for certain agents, certain things when we wanna be looking at what’s going on inside of ourselves. What effect did these things have on us?

Lyme devastating to get into the system. How does it get in? Why do some people get tick bites and not have any back backlash at all? Well, their immune system, for one, is stronger. How’s the immune system stronger? They do not have stuck cheer blood issues that are flared up. They do not have cheer blood deficiency. Circulation is good, energy is good.

So, where am I going with all this? We want to protect how blood flow is going through the body and how our vibrational energy is coming off. I recently talked to a new patient to my practice about vibrational energy, and I was told that she did not believe in that and wasn’t really sure that she wanted to talk about it. Okay, great. So I’m left to wonder how many folks out there are still questioning that we are vibrational beings.

There is research, there is back data, and like I said, every single one of our organs have certain vibrations. We are more vibrationally active in terms of volts than an a strike of lightning. Think about that for a minute. We’re incredibly powerful electric beings, and we’re being dampened.

in terms of our electrical powers from things like electromagnetic frequencies. Sitting here on the computer, which after this, go outside, get your feet in the grass, go walk in some sand, water, connect with the earth. Take your shoes off. Something to ground after exposure to EMFs. We all tend to have phones. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t at this point. We all tend to have computers.

So we want to be thinking about how can we offset this kind of stuff? Because with on our bodies, we we only have a certain amount that we can handle. Then we need to discharge, right? We need to to get rid of some of these positive energies and neutralize them with what’s in nature. So this is why getting out in nature, getting out barefoot, taking your shoes off for a little bit.

Just getting out and doing this can be incredibly important for many reasons for your mind, but also for energetic vibration. Grounding mats can be helpful. PEMF, portable electromagnetic frequencies, can help reset you in these cases. I found these to be the most incredible balancing tools for someone that is really struggling.

So as it pertains to those of you who maybe are trying to optimize your health versus restore your health, one of the biggest things is looking back at where are there areas of of pain, discomfort, and instead of like hunting down a bug, a virus, a parasite, whatever it is, maybe looking at how can you optimize your circulation in that area.

For the gut, for example, Qi Gong has the best like upside-down use and circle massages. Opening up your chest, really helping your abdomen and not be cinched down sitting on a computer all day. Even workouts, we’re sitting, we’re lifting, we’re we’re doing different things, and we’re sitting. How can we rotate and open up the rib cage? Get some blood flow moving. One of the most

sad and profound things that I see for most humans this day and age is swelling in the legs, swelling under the eyes. I even have some myself. The the more I get tired and the more that I am bogged down with emotions and energy. Being stuck.

I also find that with the swelling in the legs, in the feet, and in the abdomen, this is lymphatic flow. This is just as much a part of your circulation as blood flow is. It’s also a detox mechanism, your lymphatic flow. And I’m almost certain that most of us have issues with our lymphatic flow, some of us more than others.

With cases like lymphedema and and things that where it’s more serious. But I’m seeing more cases of severe lymphatic stagnation. Lip edema, I mean, I I I would have to say, like probably one in five people I see have some issues with that. And if you’re on blood pressure meds, it’s gonna compound it.

Which is whole nother podcast I will do one day. But for now, the point is if you have swelling, if you have puffiness, if you get sock lines, if your ankles swell on you when you’re on an airplane and it’s tough to get the swelling down, or if you swell just from sitting longer periods, not even on an airplane. If you feel like your legs are heavy and you’re walking through concrete, this is a form of stuck.

Blood.

In Chinese medicine, when things don’t move well in the lymph, it’s described as dampness. And then it turns into phlegm like fatty tissue is phlegm in Chinese medicine. That is like an extreme form of stuck chi and blood.

The more weight you have on you, the more phlegm you have stuck, according to Chinese medicine. That’s a circulation issue. Is circulation related to metabolism? Yes, because to be able to make energy, to be able to detox on a cellular level, you need good qi and blood flow. So if we look at swelling, we look at all of the folks doing the rebounders and the vibration plates, what are we doing with those things?

We’re moving qi and blood.

Are these handfuls of supplements? No. In fact, I’m starting to find that a lot of folks aren’t responding to supplements like they used to. Are we getting sicker? Yes. Are we getting more out of balance? Absolutely. Am I saying throw out all your supplements? No, but I’m saying don’t, you know, start taking 400 things. Go back to the root. How do we move qi and blood? Myofascial work. Movement. Different types of qigong, Tai Chi. That’s why that.

Chai Chi walking thing, which is ridiculous. They’re telling people that they can lose like 20 pounds in a month. It’s AI. But and and it kills me because it really does have benefit. Tai Chi has benefit. Tai Chi walking has benefit, but I’m frustrated by how they’re showing like get your booty and all this stuff. Like it’s ridiculous. I hope you guys see that that’s AI and it’s ridiculous.

But I don’t want it to turn people off from movement because they tried it and they didn’t lose thirty pounds in a month. I mean it’s it’s ridiculous. It’s a continuum. Health is a continuum, nothing’s magic. There’s no one magic bullet, no one’s coming to save you, and stuff online like that is ridiculous.

We get closer into the world of things turning to AI, I cringe more and more.

AI podcasts. Like, what the heck is that? I’m sorry. You will not get that out of me. What you are gonna get is what I see. And like I mentioned before, we’re almost 20 years into practice here in in my world. And I’m seeing people get sicker. I’m seeing it harder to get results with folks.

I’m seeing the shift in my folks who were relatively healthy, just optimizing their health, really needing to dial stuff in better.

And I want folks to be thinking about, okay, yes, there is this root cause medicine, sure. I’m all for looking for root causes. That’s what I do. But I don’t want you to get hung up on that there’s one thing and just go down one rabbit hole. If you’re going down a rabbit hole, don’t ignore circulation and vibrational energy, is what I’m saying to.

You want to look at it as all angles of what creates dis ease in the body. And how does it start? It’s stuck to your blood somewhere.

Whether you believe in the concept of qi, and like I’ve told you, we can talk about qi in terms of vibration, and every organ, look it up, every organ has a vibration. The point is that we’re ignoring this. And we’re not thinking about it as a comprehensive protocol. We’re thinking as I just need to work on my vagus nerve.

I just need to work on my emotions. I just need to work on my trauma. I just need to work on my gut.

We have to get real with ourselves and go, okay, when this all started, when my symptoms started, when I started to show signs of getting older, when whatever it may be, what was going on in life? Where did I have pain? Maybe you can’t go back and you can’t find it, and that’s okay. The idea is spend a couple minutes just thinking on it. And if you get nothing and you know what you have right now, okay, that’s where your qi and blood stagnation is.

Where are your aches and pains? Where is the organ system that you are struggling with? If you have total body fatigue, that’s chi. That’s energy. You’re not making energy like you should. What’s hijacking it? Is there something going on with sleep? Is there something going on with your mitochondria in terms of how they make energy or how they detox it? A lot of people are gonna say, what’s going on with the DNA? You could look there too.

Just don’t forget that DNA is in your cells. Your cells need circulation to them to stay vibrant and weight. They need charges. They need ions, minerals, things of that nature. I’m a big fan of looking into minerals, amino acids, vitamins. There can be true deficiencies that could be causing your issues. One of the really

Interesting ones that seems to be coming up over and over again. And oddly enough, it seems to be something that I’ve overlooked in the past. It’s copper, copper zinc balance. So copper zinc and iron balance are off lately for some reason. Seeing more people having copper toxicity because they can’t use copper effectively. And so these are the things we want to be thinking about.

When we think about our health as a whole, I am a fan of looking at micronutrient tests to see what’s deficient. I’m a fan of seeing, you know, what’s going on in your blood in terms of certain markers in terms of your kidney and liver health. Those are vital organs.

Do I think everybody needs a stool test? No, you can often see what’s going on just by symptoms.

How do you test your nervous system? That’s a good question. How do you test it?

You look at what’s your predominant emotion and where are your main symptoms? Where’s the emotion and the symptom correlation? Do we have some overlap?

So I wanted this podcast to be something that kind of gets you thinking about root cause, gets you thinking about are you focusing on one thing too too much and not seeing results because we’re skipping some of the foundations of what we need to create whole body health. So how do we help with our voltage?

Our energy, our signaling, our qi. As I mentioned before, you can test electrolytes. You can look at your sodium, potassium, and chloride levels. You can look at your magnesium levels. You can also look at your HRV, heart rate variability. Your heart has a great way to give you a clue into what’s happening internally.

I have been using the Alonga armband for the last six weeks, and it’s less than three minutes. You put it on your arm, you do it every morning, and you see how your stress and your recovery levels are. That tells you a lot about what your chi is up to. You could also go to an acupuncturist and work on your pulses. And by the way, you can look at your own pulses. Upper, middle, lower half of the body, you’re looking at your radial pulse, it’s on your thumb side.

and you lay your three fingers down. So your second finger, your third finger, fourth finger, right on that radio pulse. Those of you who are watching on YouTube can see how I’m holding the three pulses. And you want to just sit down, put your fingers on them gently and see do your pulses feel evenly under your fingers. Then press down a little bit more and press a little bit more. What does it feel like on the three different levels? This takes some time to master but you can do this easily to see what’s going on.

Same thing for the opposite side. Upper, middle, lower half of the body. Hold them. Press in a little more. Pressing a little more. See what you got. Right now my kidney pulse is a little bit weaker. It’s not as even. They should all be even under your fingers if we’re looking at a balanced pulse. Now, what do these correlate to? On your left side of your body, this is the heart, the liver, the kidney. First, second, third, heart, liver, kidney. On the right side, this is lung.

Digestive system, kidney to this side. It’s a great way for you to see where am I at, how things feel right now. Now, are there more levels to looking at pulses? Absolutely. But to get a good sense, you do not need to have all the ins and outs. You’re just looking, do my three pulses feel even on each side when I lay my fingers down on my pulse? And if they do great. Side note, some people don’t have a radial pulse right here. It splits

And it might be further over. So if you can’t find your pulse, move around on that wrist and see where you find it.

We have some seriously amazing insights from Chinese medicine that we are overlooking and it makes me sad. And I’m hoping today that you got a little bit of a insight into where you can look at your body to see where your body battery is. You don’t necessarily need HRV to watch trends. You can use your own pulses just to do a little check-in. You could just sit, close your eyes and go, hmm, okay, body, tell me where do I need some help today?

body scan. You can go from your toes all the way up to the top of your head and scan. And just kinda look through, look at the different areas and go, where do I need some circulation boosting today? It’s a great preventative tool to help you to keep the qi and blood moving.

So that being said, going forward, I hope that you guys take some time to really look at this concept and see where you can add in a little support to your body that you might not be doing by looking down a particular route to get rid of a certain condition that you have. Now, like I said, there’s no shame in doing that. It’s just make sure you’re covering all your bases.

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