Dr. Doreo's Health Meditations

  TMJ problems causing jaw and face pain affect many people. This is a little list of self-care treatments to do at home. Please check with your doctor, dentist or health care specialist before doing the treatments, this is not intended to be a substitute for medical diagnosis and treatment, not is it appropriate for all jaw and face pain conditions. WASH HANDS AND WEAR RUBBER GLOVES WHEN DOING THIS TECHNIQUE ON SOMEONE ELSE!! Person is lying supine (soup-pine=face up, "soup is on the belly"). If doing this on yourself, sit in front of the mirror and use the video to help guide you.  TMJ & Face Pain Self Care video 1.    With fingers or thumbs inside mouth, spread the upper molars apart.   Hold for 3 deep inhalations and exhalations. 2.    With fingers or thumbs inside mouth, spread the lower molars.   Hold for 3 deep inhalations and exhalations. 3.    With fingers or thumbs inside mouth, pull the lower molars toward the fee...

Certain features have been elucidated about the tendencies of human infection of the COVID-19 virus. The most recent paper published in The Journal of Medical Virology early in 2020 states: "These findings suggested that the initiation of the immune response result in the production of chemokines and cytokines, which damage normal host lung." 1 Chemokines and Cytokines are the chemicals the body uses to fight infection, with the purpose of creating a healing for the host-human. When the person has a pre-existing high level of these inflammatory chemicals or has a harder time dampening a hyper-vigilant immune response (as in autoimmunity), an infection can hit much harder than for those with normal inflammatory responses. This explains why COVID-19 is worse for people with underlying conditions that often are paired with older age: diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune conditions. Determining the level of inflammationfrom a blood sample might help understand where the in...

One doesn’t have to be an alcoholic to acquire liver disease . As a matter of fact, more people in the United States are diagnosed with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease ( NAFLD ) than Alcoholic Liver Disease ( ALD ). Thirty percent of the population is affected, it is often asymptomatic and may not be detected! The clinical picture ranges from no symptoms at all to discomfort in the area of the liver, fatigue, poor quality sleep, obesity with abdominal (brown) fat and abnormal blood tests. So how does this happen? The liver is the master filter of the blood stream, pulling out toxic chemicals, extra hormones, metals and excess sugars. It’s a complex set of processes that essentially require the liver have a store of materials to pull from, creating the protective network that is essential to life and health. Risk factors abound for NAFLD. The usual suspects include diabetes type 2 (what we associate as adult onset), obesity, high lipids in the blood (elevated cholesterol and...

Methylation is the addition of a methyl group to a molecule or the replacement of an atom or atom group in a molecule with a methyl group. It all sounds like greek and, probably, not that important to you. Even most doctors likely don’t know much, if anything about it. Yet, arguably, methylation may be the most important biochemical process in your body and the most important consideration when your health is in question, especially when nothing seems to help and the doctors you’ve seen just can’t seem to figure out what is causing all the problem. Because cell division and the manufacture of proteins and enzymes within each cell depends on methylation, a huge range of health problems can be due to impaired methylation. Low methylation impairs the production of CoQ10 and can lead to high homocysteine levels in your system resulting in inflammation and damage to the heart and blood vessels. Fatigue is a common symptom associated with this problem because Co...