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I have been practicing and teaching a holistic approach to healing for 30 years. Iโ ve seen thousands of individuals transform their life. Iโ ve also witnessed hundreds of individuals continue to suffer because they were not willing to invest in themselves. Iโ d like to tell you the story about one of those patients, a young mother named Ashley. But you need to hear it in her own words, just go to the home page of www.painandbrainhealingcenter.com.

Ashleyโ s Journey Ashley first came to my clinic about four years ago and went through a free consultation process where we discussed her health challenges and ways to overcome them. She was suffering from disabling myofascial pain throughout her body, severe headaches, pelvic pain from endometriosis and the loss of vitality.

At that time, she felt she was unable to invest the money in her recovery, primarily because we do not let insurance companies dictate what can and cannot be done for your recovery. In other words, we are not an innetwork provider. She would have had to pay for her care, and then submit it to her insurance for possible reimbursement. She left my office and began her conventional medical journey trying desperately to find some relief from her chronic pain and suffering, thinking this would be cheaper.

Well the journey was a frustrating one, possibly like your own. As she explains in her video, they piled on the diagnosisโ s and the medications. By the end she was seeing five different specialists and on 13 different medications.

These drugs did not lead to any real healing and only complicated her health issues. Her life continued to deteriorate, each day was an ordeal of pain and suffering. As she points out in her video, she came to the point where she was even unable to play with her children.

Luckily for Ashley She Reconsidered Ashley returned to my clinic a little over a year ago, knowing that she needed to invest in her life and utilize a natural personalized lifestyle medicine approach to healing. After reviewing her history again and her recent medical journey, a comprehensive neurological, orthopedic and nutritional exam was performed. Based on her history and examination findings, comprehensive laboratory testing was ordered. This included extensive blood lab work, comprehensive digestive stool analysis, food allergy testing and much more.

Many patients ask me why other doctors do not utilize this Personalized Lifestyle Medicine approach. Because it takes a different knowledge base, and it takes a lot of time! Furthermore, generally, disease insurance does not understand this process or pay for it.

As with all patients, I then started the lengthy process of case management and creation of a care program based on extensive review of her history, examination findings and analysis and research on her multiple laboratory results. This whole process is extremely time-consuming for the doctor. In my case it is based on my 30 years of study, teaching and clinical experience in natural Functional Medicine. I then took all this indepth information and began the process of educating Ashley on why she was unwell, and how she could heal.

Ashleyโ s Education and Treatments This is also a time-consuming process. I explained to Ashley and all my patients that what they pay for is not only treatment but a โ tuitionโ for an educational process that teaches them how to regain their health. Imagine what it would cost to pay a college professor to teach you, one-on-one, all about how your body works, and how to heal it. It would be astronomical. Plus, get cutting-edge natural treatments that help promote real healing. Ashley came to understand this and appreciate what a bargain her investment was.

Based on her condition and laboratory findings, a diet, specifically crafted for Ashley, was implemented. This diet, of course, was based on whole, real foods put together in a way that was possible for a busy wife and mother of two. Diet or life lifestyle changes are only effective if they can be implemented. So, we work personally with everyone in their reallife situation. Also, based on her condition and laboratory findings, specific supplements were utilized to restore normal metabolic function and replenish any nutritional deficiencies.

Each visit included a consultation to discuss her recovery and any changes in diet and supplementation needed. The treatment included myofascial therapy, traditional acupuncture, Brain AVE therapy, stress reduction and exercise therapy all personalized for her healing. Instead of five different specialists not knowing what the other one is doing, she had one doctor treating her as an interconnected whole, holistically and naturally.

Now the Good News for You Real healing can be accomplished if you address the underlying issues. Specific functional laboratory tests can identify the type of diet you need to eat and specific supplements to take to optimize your health. You are not going to find the help you need from your conventional health practitioner.

You need a doctor who specializes in Personalized Lifestyle Medicine.

By optimizing your diet and nutrient levels, lowering blood glucose and insulin levels, eliminating toxins, correcting any leaky gut, and removing food allergies you will be able to overcome your chronic inflammation and heal yourself, unlocking the full potential of your life. Many patients have, and so can you! All you need is the proper guidance.

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The city was ripe for an epidemic because of poor health conditions and its attraction for immigrants from around the world. ► On May 17, 1885, the Apache chief Geronimo again breaks out of an Arizona reservation, fleeing with 42 men and 92 women and children, and sparking panic among Arizona settlers. Geronimo surrendered in September 1886. ► On May 15, 1941, the turbojetpropelled Gloster-Whittle E 28/39 aircraft flies over Cranwell, England, in the first test of an Allied aircraft using jet

propulsion. It reached a top speed of 370 overalls.” It marked the birth of one of mph at 25,000 feet. the world’s most famous garments: blue jeans. ► On May 14, 1973, Skylab, America’s first space station, is launched into orbit ► On May 23, 1911, the New York around the Earth. Eleven days later, U.S. Public Library, the largest marble astronauts rendezvoused with Skylab, structure ever built in the United States, repairing a jammed solar panel and is dedicated in New York City. It took conducting scientific experiments during 14 years to complete. The next day some their 28-day stay.

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The collection already consisted of more ► On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II than a million books. is shot and wounded at St. Peter’s Square in Rome by Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali ► On May 25, 1927, Robert Ludlum, Agca. He claimed that he had planned the author of 21 best-selling thrillers, to go to England to kill the king but including the Jason Bourne spy novels, couldn’t because there was only a queen is born in New York City. Ludlum sold more than 300 million books before his and “Turks don’t shoot women.” death in 2001. ► On May 20, 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, ► On May 21, 1932, aviator Amelia Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are granted Earhart flies solo across the North a patent for work pants reinforced with Atlantic, five years after aviator Charles metal rivets, then known as “waist Lindberg made the first solo flight.

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• In the 1400s in Hungary, army generals realized that soldiers who got a ride to the front lines would arrive fresher and fight harder than soldiers who had to march to the front lines. They commissioned the construction of many wagons to carry soldiers. Carpenters in the town of Kocs near Budapest built a fleet, calling them “kocszekkers” meaning “Kocs wagon.” After the wars ended, the wagons were used by the citizens for transport. The English started using similar wagons, shortening the name to “kocs” and pronouncing it “kotch” which then became “coach” denoting not only a vehicle that could carry you, but also a tutor who could “transport” you to a sure win.

• Trench foot is caused by standing in cold wet conditions for too long. It first became common during World War I when soldiers were inhabiting trenches for long periods of time with inadequate

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footwear. Anyone who came down with trench foot was immediately excused from warfare and sent to the hospital to heal. Thus, soldiers who wanted a ticket out of battle would do whatever they could to get trench foot, and then hide the condition until just before a battle started, when they would report to the medical officer and be sent away to heal. This became known as getting “cold feet.”

• In the military, a “field day” is a day set aside for field maneuvers and review, entailing equal amounts of pomposity and celebration. Today a field day is any event when too much fuss is made over a minor thing.

• When armies were preparing for battle, they would dig a series of ditches where they could retreat if they needed to regroup. If they found themselves in the final trench, then they needed to make “a last ditch effort” to stand and fight, or die.

• During World War I, to go “over the top” meant to scale the sides of a trench and commence an attack, an ordeal accompanied by much shouting. Today anything that is “over the top” is an overreaction.

• The word “harbor” is Olde English and means “shelter” or “refuge.”

The word “harbinger” springs from that, and denotes someone in the army whose job it was to proceed in advance of an army to secure shelter and supplies for the troops.

Upon seeing the harbinger in their town, residents

would be filled with dread, knowing that the coming horde of troops were about to eat them out of house and home without leaving anything in return.

• In the 1700s, the quartermaster in the French army was in charge of finding lodging for soldiers on the move. The French word “loger” meaning “lodge” is the root of the term “logistiques” describing the duties of the position, and we now spell it “logistics.”

• In 1811, Colonel Inglis was leading the British at the battle of Albuera in Spain. They were pinned down by heavy French fire and their position was tenuous at best. Inglis shouted to his men, “Stand your ground and die hard! Die hard and make the enemy pay dear for each of us!” During the battle, 438 out of 579 men died, and the regiment was thereafter called “The Diehards.” The term now denotes anyone who refuses to yield despite the odds.

• There was a certain protocol involved in delivering a dishonorable discharge to an officer: He was ordered to face the drum squad while the charges against him were read out loud. While the drums beat, his sword would be broken and the buttons ripped from his uniform. Then the musicians would play a song called “The Rogue’s March” as the disgraced officer was forced to walk the length of the parade ground with his head hung in shame in front of the assembled troops. This is the origin of two phrases: “Face the music” and “being drummed out.”

• Many people assume that the abbreviation “G.I.” stands for “government issue” but it’s actually an abbreviation for “galvanized iron.” This is because things like trash cans and buckets distributed widely throughout military camps were stamped with the identifying mark “Bucket, G.I.” to indicate they were constructed of “galvanized iron.”

Afterwards, “G.I.” came to mean anything or anyone that was solid and reliable.

• In the days of large horse-drawn

artillery, the “limber” referred to the part of the gun carriage that included the wheels, the ammunition chests, and the part that attached to the horses. This limber needed to be removed to use the guns, and attached to move the guns. The call to “limber up” meant to prepare the guns to be moved to the next location.

The more quickly a battery could limber up, the better.

• The English slang word for Prussia was “Pruce” or “Spruce.” The Prussian army was noted for its spit-andpolish approach to every detail of army life, after which “spruce” came to mean anything that was particularly tidy. A type of tree that grows straight and tall while being uniform in appearance was subsequently named spruce.

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MINIATURE GOLF by: Kathy Wolfe

May 11 has been designated Miniature Golf Day, time to step onto the green and learn about this amusing pastime.

• The world’s oldest miniature golf course is still in existence and operating today in St. Andrews, Scotland. While the game of golf had been played by men at St. Andrews for some 600 years, the social proprieties of the day declared it improper for ladies to take a full swing at a golf ball and to “take the club back past their shoulder.” As a result, a miniature course was established for ladies in 1867, The Ladies’ Putting Club of St. Andrews.

Don’t look for windmills and Eiffel Towers on this course. Today’s course is a putting green of 18 holes covering two acres of “humps and bumps, valleys, and pockets.”

• America’s first miniature golf course came along in 1916, when steamship baron James Barber designed his own personal course on his Pinehurst, North Carolina estate. Dubbed Thistle Dhu, Barber included fountains and gardens along geometrically designed walkways. The community of Pinehurst has continued his legacy with the construction of an 18-hole putting course of the same name. It’s not your usual novelty-type course, instead using a traditional style of rolling greens, hills, ponds, and trees.

• In 1926, two ingenious New Yorkers came up with the idea of building mini golf courses on the roofs of the city’s skyscrapers. Drake Delanoy and John Ledbetter copied the artificial surface idea of Thomas Fairborn, and ended up with a lawsuit for patent infringement. After meeting an agreement with Fairborn, there were 150 rooftop courses by 1930.

• In 1927, Tennessee hotel owner John Garnet Carter patented his version of mini golf that he called “Tom Thumb Golf.” Trying to draw traffic to his hotel, Carter built the course on Lookout Mountain, a course designed by his wife Frieda with a fairyland theme. The course was covered with cottonseed hulls mixed with oil, rolled onto a foundation of sand, a technique that had been patented

by American businessman Thomas Fairborn a few years earlier. The Lookout Mountain course was the site of the first documented mini golf competitions. More than 200 golfers from 30 states gathered there in 1930. Carter’s course was so successful that by 1930, he had sold more than 3,000 Tom Thumb franchises through his company, the Fairyland Manufacturing Corporation. About 25% of the mini golf courses in America were Tom Thumb designs, and by the end of the decade, an estimated 4 million people were playing the game.

• The idea of quirky novelty props came along during the Great Depression.

Because regulation mini golf courses were too pricey for most folks, courses were built using whatever everyday items could be scavenged. Tires, rain gutters, barrels, and pipes were incorporated along the paths, and soon the unusual items became the norm. Over the years,

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windmills, volcanoes, waterfalls, moving ramps, and other obstacles were added.

• Due to limited winter daylight hours in Scandinavia, glow-in-the-dark courses are popular. A 40-foot (12.2-m) volcano is the highlight of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina’s course, where the Master’s Tournament is played every year.

Thirty-five peacocks meander the green at the Gilbertsville, Kentucky course. The Cheyenne, Wyoming course includes miniatures of several of the state’s famous landmarks, including Devil’s Tower and Old Faithful.

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• Jail: short-term detention, often for people who have not yet gone to trial. Lock-up: short-term detention in a police station. Holding cell: a jail inside a courthouse. Work house: A county jail housing inmates with shortterm sentences. Prison, Penitentiary: Confinement for long-term and hardcore inmates, also referred to as penal institutions or correctional institutions.

• Coup: short for coup d'état (“blow to the state”) an unconstitutional seizure of governmental power by a small group, normally with the help of the military.

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• Dark Ages: Generally considered to be the 500 years following the fall of Rome in 470 A.D. Europe was overrun at various times by groups of Huns, Goths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, and Vikings.

Although Romans had been fairly literate, literacy rates fell during this period and little exists in the way of written history to tell us what happened during this time, leading to the name of “Dark Ages.” Middle Ages: Encompassed the Dark Ages and included the years up to the Renaissance which began around the year 1300. The Renaissance marked the revival of classical-based art and learning in Europe. The word “medieval” comes from the Latin words meaning literally “middle age.” The word “renaissance” comes from the French “renaistre” meaning “to be born again.”

• Donkey: a species descended from the African wild ass, having 62 chromosomes and able to reproduce normally. Mule: offspring of a female horse and a male donkey (a “jack” if male and a “hinny” if female), having 63 chromosomes and is sterile.

• Flotsom: A ship’s cargo that floats on the water after a shipwreck, from the old French “floter” meaning “to set afloat.” Jetsam: Heavy items tossed overboard (“jettisoned”) in order to stabilize a ship in danger of sinking.

Jetsam sinks. From the Old French “getaison” meaning “a throwing.”

• Gourmet: a connoisseur of fine foods. Gourmand: a glutton.

• Anti-perspirant: an astringent such as aluminum salts which blocks pores, preventing them from releasing sweat. Deodorant: kills the bacteria that feed on sweat and cause the odor, but still allows sweating to occur naturally.

• Cyclone: any storm in which winds spiral inward. Tornado: a circular storm that happens over land, usually between 30 and 300 feet in diameter.

Waterspout: a tornado that passes over water. Hurricane: a tropical cyclone that happens in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.

Typhoon: a tropical cyclone that happens in the western Pacific.

• Asteroid: a large rocky body in space which remains in orbit around a larger item in space. Meteoroid: a very small rocky body in space which remains in orbit around another item in space.

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Sometimes the thieves don’t even get prison time. An ICU nurse stole drugs and didn’t bother to show on her application that she been fired from another hospital.

The nurse was caught after she tampered with the override feature on the medication dispenser and took drugs such as morphine and oxycodone. In a single month she had overridden the machine 19 times. She was sentenced to two years probation for two felonies.

In one of the more gutwrenching cases, in a VA medical hospice in New York, a nurse stole painkillers from dying patients and replaced them with Haloperidol, an anti-psychotic, which did nothing to relieve their suffering. He admitted to doctoring at least 25 syringes of oxycodone hydrochloride, used to treat moderate to severe pain.

The patients were World War II and Korea-era veterans. He was sentenced to only 82 months in prison.

A registered nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center took vials of liquid morphine and other opioids from locked medical carts, painkillers that were intended for patients.

He left behind in the vials a saline solution, basically saltwater.

He was sentenced to two years in federal prison for tampering with a consumer product and acquiring a controlled substance by deception and subterfuge.

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Medicare Scammed Out of $1.7 Billion

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Scary, isn’t it?

If you see an ad on TV about free medical equipment you can get because you’re on Medicare, write down the information and give it to your doctor. Ask whether that device or service is something you really need. If it is, and if it’s something approved by Medicare, you can still get it for free. In fact, whether it’s for free medical equipment, or insurance coverage, or for any reason, if it’s related to Medicare, all the scammers really want is your Medicare number.

In other Medicare scams, they’ll call you and say they need to update your information, including your bank account number where your Social Security is deposited. Whether they use sympathy, offers of help or aggressive tactics ... don’t let it fool you. Hang up.

Remember, once the scammers have your Medicare card number, they can use it again and again.

Scammers have billed Medicare $1.7 billion in phony invoices for selling hundreds of thousands of us pieces of medical equipment we don’t need. Federal agencies have brought charges for peddling unnecessary braces for knee, wrist, shoulder and back.

How did this happen? We answered TV and radio ads aimed at Medicare beneficiaries. By calling them for more information, we were offered “free” devices we didn’t need.

Per the Department of Justice news release, medical doctors were bribed into prescribing the devices to patients they had never even met or those they’d only talked to via brief phone conversations. Once we gave them our Medicare numbers and personal information, our calls would be switched to a foreign call center, and (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc. they were then able to bill Medicare. It was a complicated scam, involving doctors,

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Remarkable People IVA TOGURI by: Janet Spencer

• Iva Toguri was born in Los Angeles in 1916, the daughter of Japanese immigrants. She grew up thoroughly American, yet she was also steeped in her Japanese heritage.

• In 1941, Iva’s parents asked her to travel to Japan to care for an elderly aunt. Although the State Department issued the proper travel papers, she did not have a passport. She applied for a passport in Japan, but all efforts were foiled by the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Now she was stuck in Japan.

• Japanese officials tried to convince Iva to renounce her American citizenship but she refused. She was subsequently declared to be an enemy alien and was unable to secure a war ration card for herself. She got a job as a typist at Radio Tokyo. Despite her meager salary, she risked her life to smuggle food into a nearby POW camp where soldiers were being held. There she became acquainted with Australian Army Major Charles Cousens.

• In 1943, the Japanese government asked Radio Tokyo to begin broadcasting war propaganda over the airwaves. The programming was designed to demoralize enemy soldiers who might be listening

to the radio. In order to accomplish this, POWs who had experience in broadcasting were coerced into helping produce the programming. Because she was a native English speaker, Iva was recruited for this position as well. This is how Iva began working side by side with Charles Cousens, who had previously worked as a radio broadcaster in his native Australia.

• Because Iva and Cousens both spoke English and were familiar with the American culture, they were able to slip inside jokes and cultural references into their broadcasts that Japanese listeners failed to understand.

• Iva’s radio name was “Orphan Annie.” There were many other female Japanese radio DJs, and collectively they became known as “Tokyo Rose” among the soldiers.

• When Japan surrendered in 1945, Iva wanted to get back to the U.S. but she had no money. Meanwhile, the Hearst media company circulated ads offering $2,000 cash for an interview with the famous “Tokyo Rose.” This was equal to a year’s wages, and Iva responded hoping the money would help her get back to the U.S. Instead, she was arrested. She spent a year in an American prison in Japan while the FBI tried to find evidence.

Charles Cousens fought on her behalf.

• Released after a year, Iva petitioned to be able to return to the U.S. Her efforts were foiled by radio host

Walter Winchell, who whipped up antiJapanese sentiment against her. She was extradited to San Francisco where she became the 7th person in U.S. history to be charged with treason. The trial was the longest and most expensive in American history at the time, lasting 13 weeks and costing the equivalent of $5 million. She was found guilty of “speaking into a microphone concerning the loss of ships.”

She received a $10,000 fine and a ten year prison sentence. She served six years of the sentence, and moved to Chicago when she was released.

• Charles Cousens returned to Australia after the war, where he also faced charges of treason. Although charges were dropped, he was stripped of his commission. He made his living in broadcasting until his death in 1964.

• President Gerald Ford granted Iva an unconditional pardon on his last day in office in 1977, and restored her to full American citizenship. Iva Toguri lived in Chicago until her death at the age of 90 in 2006.

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• An A-team is an advance team, and the term is short for the full name of Operational Detachment Alpha, a set of U.S. Special Forces operatives deployed behind enemy lines. The A-team would consist of 12 men: two officers, two experts in weapons, two skilled in engineering and demolition, two in intelligence and operations, two in communications, and two in medicine.

• When British army officers were calling troops for a short day trip, soldiers would be asked to carry a bag with them containing what they would need for the day.

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• The Turkish word “baliklava” means “fishing ground” and is the origin of the name of the city Balaklava located on the Crimean peninsula. During the Crimean War, British troops stationed there suffered from the cold.

Their wives and girlfriends knitted caps that covered the entire head. The troops called this cap a balaclava, and their popularity was ensured following the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade during the war.

• During the Spanish-American War, American marines fighting Filipino guerrillas heard them talking about being in the “bundok” meaning a hill or mountain, and also denoting any remote location. We now call it “the boondocks” or “the boonies.”

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