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My Ultimate Smoothie- The Best Breakfast Option for Herpes 9 y
For my patients with herpes and other immune system challenges, breakfast seems to be the hardest meal to get right. Either because of the lack of time, or bad habits going back to childhood.
The Ultimate Herpes Friendly Smoothie
I’m listening to Ornate Coleman’s 1959 album “The Shape of Jazz to Come” while
writing this- in case you wanted to know.
For my patients with herpes and other immune system challenges, breakfast seems to be the hardest meal to get right. Either because of the lack of time, or bad habits going back to childhood.
Please stay away from cereals and grains during breakfast including oatmeal and toast.
Eggs aren’t a bad idea, but definitely skip the bacon.
A smoothie by far is the best way to start off the day, but please do avoid those mass- ... read more Get The New Edition of My Holistic Herpes Book For Free 9 y
My third edition of my book "Making Peace with Herpes" is available for free to readers of this blog. Get a free copy of the e-book and all I ask in return is you read as soon as you get it and you let me know if it resonated with you.
The Holistic Herpes Treatment Specialist
My name is Christopher Scipio. I’ve been an Herbalist since 1986 a Holistic Viral Specialist for 17 years. I contracted the herpes virus in 1990 and after a bad reaction to drug therapy, developed a Holistic Protocol for herpes treatment, Genital Warts (HPV) and Cervical Dysplasia. The Protocol isn’t a herpes cure (there is no cure)- it is way of controlling herpes by strengthening your immune system, regaining your self-esteem and practicing safer sex.
My book ’Making Peace with Herpes’ is a guide to following my Holistic Protocol and overcom ... read more How Not to Get Depressed This Winter 16 y
Reach Out for Community. Isolation is a slow death.
How Not to Get Depressed This Winter
by Christopher Ricardo Scipio
Homeopath/Herbalist
Change Your Lighting. Switch the light bulbs in your home to Full Spectrum Compact Flourescents with a colour temperature of 5100 Kelvin or higher. This is the closest artificial lighting to the sun’s rays and will help combat seasonal depression along with reducing your lighting bill by as much as 67%.
Vary Your Routine. Lack of stimulation, lack of variety and lack of challenge all contribute to depression. Don’t allow yourself to stay in a rut. Try new foods, go to new places, reach out and tr ... read more First Four Editions of the Holistic Herpes Newsletter 16 y
I no longer have the time to blog regularly so I have started a monthly free holistic herpes newsletter instead. The first four editions are now on my site at http://www.natropractica.com/writings/index.html
There is also a link to subscribe to the newsletter if interested.
regards
christopher scipio
homeopath/herbalist
holistic viral specialist
I no longer have the time to blog regularly so I have started a monthly free holistic herpes newsletter instead. The first four editions are now on my site at
http://www.natropractica.com/writings/index.html
There is also a link to subscribe to the newsletter if interested.
regards
christopher scipio
homeopath/herbalist
holistic viral specialist visit the page New Holistic Herpes Newsletter 16 y
I am especially trying to reach out to those who feel isolated or ashamed of having herpes with the message that there is support and solidarity to be found
I have started a new holistic herpes newsletter to broaden the message of de-stigmatizing herpes and to share insights, advice, recipes, encouragement and empowerment to our herpes community. I am especially trying to reach out to those who feel isolated or ashamed of having herpes with the message that there is support and solidarity to be found. Please do email me at holistic@natropractica.com if you’d like to receive the first edition of the newsletter and be added to the mailing list. And I would love your contributions if you are inspired to send in articles, poems, songs, laments, j ... read more Do You Dare to be Outbreak Free? 16 y
you can do almost anything you believe you can. What a human being can do is almost unlimited. What most people choose to do is disappointing. Choose differently.
Do You Dare to be Outbreak Free?
It has been said that often what you get in life is what you expect to get. This is the root cause of why for example so many people who are born in poverty die in poverty, or why someone who has failed several times to quit a bad habit has a hard time believing that he or she can succeed the next time. Certainly the past doesn’t equal the future- sounds reasonable enough on paper. But whom am I trying to kid? We are emotional creatures and logic often cannot stand a challenge from deeply embedded feelings.
I see this challenge affecting many of my he ... read more 90% of Our Cells are Viruses and Other Microbes 16 y
Your Body Is a Planet
90% of the cells within us are not ours but microbes'.
From Discover Magazine
Your Body Is a Planet
90% of the cells within us are not ours but microbes’.
by Josie Glausiusz
We may not realize it, but each one of us is a walking ecosystem. Minuscule, eight-legged Demodex mites nestle head down inside the follicles of the eyelashes, feasting unnoticed on skin cells. Microscopic yeasts live on the tongue, teeth, and skin and in the intestine. Dormant viruses like herpes simplex may loiter for years inside nerve cells, and are in your body for life. Perhaps strangest of all are the self-replicating, viruslike pieces of DNA that infected a ... read more Negotiation is the Path to Making Peace with Herpes 16 y
Treat your adversary with respect. Understand and recognize what herpes is and what’s its purpose in your body
Negotiation is the Path to Making Peace with Herpes
You need to make peace with your herpes. I understand the instinct to want to fight herpes, to “annihilate it” as one young man told me. I fought herpes for nine years and lost. I didn’t start winning my own personal battle with herpes until I made peace with it and with myself. You cannot win a war against herpes. Like Israel and Hezbollah or the Hutus and Tutsi or the Catholics and Protestants in Ulster you will have to find a way to peacefully co-exist. Herpes is for life, but how peaceful that life is up to you.
Negotiation is t ... read more Why Some People are Afraid of Natural Medicine 16 y
Like George Bush with his Iraq War and Napoleon in his Russian Campaign, some people are too stubborn to admit when they’ve made a mistake or are on the wrong side of an issue.
My Top-Ten List of Why Some People are Hostile to Natural Medicine
Laziness
In this quick-fix, instant-gratification society some people are too lazy and too spoiled to do the actual work required to be healthy. It’s so much easier and so tempting to simply pop some pills hoping that that will somehow deliver health.
Drug Addiction
Between Coffee, Chocolate, Green Tea, Black Tea, Cola Drinks, Yerba Mate, Cigarettes and Alcohol, some people don’t go a day without some sort of stimulant drug or alcohol. For the people already addicted to these legal drugs embracing prescription o ... read more On Herbal Medicine 16 y
In most cases getting an opinion on herbal medicine from a medical doctor is like getting an opinion on the bible from an atheist
On Herbal Medicine
On Herbal Medicine
In most cases getting an opinion on herbal medicine from a medical doctor is like getting an opinion on the bible from an atheist, or like getting an opinion on the talmund from an islamic cleric. It takes just as much if not more years of training and experience to become a competent herbalist as it does to become a competent physician.
Because more and more people are returning to herbal medicine because of the failure of synthetic medicine to treat their chronic health conditions, more and more medical doctors are becoming instant “experts” ... read more Herpes: The Great Illuminator 16 y
No matter how well you feel that you are doing on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels in dealing with herpes it won’t be until you are tested by outbreaks and symptoms that you will know where you truly are.
Herpes: The Great Illuminator
I have written before about the positive aspects of having a life-long herpes infection, and there are several, today another one has made itself known to me.
Herpes can be a great illuminator.
When you are having an outbreak or herpes-related symptoms it can bring to the surface some of your deepest, darkest fears, insecurities and neuroses.
Some of the ones that my patients tell me that come up most often are insecurities about body image, memories of past sexua| abuse, fear of not being desired/being unattractive, fear of rejection, fear of infe ... read more Please Help Spread the Truth About Herpes 16 y
6 out of 10 people have herpes.
Not 1 out of 5
6 out of 10 people have herpes.
Not 1 out of 5.
Please do help spread the truth.
One of the ways of stigmatizing herpes and misleading the public
is pretending that people who get herpes on their face are somehow
not included in herpes statistics. This is especially dangerous when the majority of new cases of herpes above and below-the-waist are from oral sex by people who get herpes on their face.
Please do help spread the truth about the real herpes statistics. Post it on your blogs, tell your friends and loved ones, talk about it at herpes support groups and on online discussi ... read more Herpes and Stigma- a Clinical Study 17 y
The use of suppressive medication did not affect anxiety
scores. In conclusion, the reaction to a diagnosis of genital herpes is
influenced by a socially constructed understanding and the decision to
disclose or not is influenced by this
Chronic genital herpes and disclosure…. The influence of stigma
Itnl Jf STD & AIDS, Sept 2007;18(9): 589-592 Bickford J.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rsm/std/2007/00000018/00000009/art00002
The objectives of this study were to assess the nature and effect of stigma
on disclosure of diagnosis to sexua| partners among those with problematic
disease. Data from questionnaires and semistructured interviews were
collected and analysed. Data regarding anxiety were also collected using a
validated tool. Ethical approval was received from the Chelsea and
Westminster Healthc ... read more Herpes & The DMSO Deception 17 y
It’s bad enough to promote ineffective treatments to the general public but I consider it a crime to promote the use of unsafe therapies just for the sake of taking advantage of the huge population of herpes sufferers.
Herpes and the DMSO Deception
DMSO is a Dangerous, ineffective, un-natural and illegal therapy for the treatment of herpes.
I wrote an essay over a year ago called “The Natural Health Products Hustle: False Prophets chasing Profits”, to describe my dismay at seeing all the unethical businesses jumping into the new gold rush which is the “natural health products” market. You can read that essay here-
http://www.natropractica.com/Natural%20Health%20Prducts%20Hustle.htm
What mostly happens with these companies is that they over-hype the effectiveness of their products which give ... read more Risk and Herpes 17 y
There is no such thing as perfect immunity, that is a myth. Having herpes does not guarantee that you cannot auto-inoculate yourself or be re-inoculated by someone else with the same or a different strain of herpes after antibodies are formed.
I believe that it is misleading not to disclose risk even if that risk is considered to be small.
This is why the government requires drug companies disclose side-effects even when they are rare- so that people can have the information and make their own decisions on whether or not they wish to take that risk.
There is no such thing as perfect immunity, that is a myth. Having herpes does not guarantee that you cannot auto-inoculate yourself or be re-inoculated by someone else with the same or a different strain of herpes after antibodies are formed. The consensus is that the risk is ... read more Love Can Set You Free From Herpes 17 y
The unconditional love from a non-fear based relationship will help set you free from herpes or anything else that may be ailing you.
Love Can Set you Free from Herpes
The best prescription I can offer to anyone with herpes is find yourself in a relationship with someone who loves you unconditionally and isn’t afraid of getting herpes from you.
Hear me well, I’m not saying someone who wants to catch herpes from you, but someone who isn’t morbidly afraid of catching herpes from you.
The onus is still on you to protect your lover by managing your herpes.
The unconditional love from a non-fear based relationship will help set you free from herpes or anything else that may be ailing you.
christopher scipio
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