Purely Living Wellness Blog

Cancer Answers Summit Provides Answers

12/14/2015

This past week Jean Swann, a talented and thorough interviewer on the topic of integrative and holistic medicine, interviewed doctors and practitioners around the world. I have a number of takeaways from The Cancer Answers Global Summit...and I am always fueled with excitement by what I learn that is new, and the affirmations of what I have learned previously.

A couple of key points to keep this brief....
For the holidays, a gift for any cancer survivor or a family member of someone battling cancer, "Cancer Free? Are you Sure?" - written by a breast cancer survivor and RN who shares her journey - and offers a medical explanation of why her cancer returned. What I try to share, and often I feel like my words fall on deaf ears, is the importance of lifestyle change. Conventional treatments are great at removing a tumor., but the oncologists and hospital nutritionists are poorly educated on the necessity of an anti-cancer diet. You cannot cut out a tumor and expect cancer to just "go away". It doesn't. Even if your margins are clear...the stem cells of cancer are present. Chemo and radiation rarely eliminates the stem cells...it may for a few types of cancer, but in general, this is not the case. Opening up the body for cancer surgery allows the cells to hop on the transportation railway called the bloodstream. Cancer cells "jump" at every opportunityto dig in in another location in the bod, according to one of the MDs who spoke on Day 6 of the summit.

EMFs and the cancer relationship (electro magnetic field) - are you carrying cell phones in a pants pocket or bra? DON'T!!! Since the age of cell phones brain cancer in children has increased 35%, or perhaps it was more. I encourage you to look up the work of Dr. Elizabeth Plourde, PhD, CLS- who has written books and research articles on the ill effects of EMF radiation. I have known about this for years. We reduced our use of the microwave - which has the same output as a cell phone. Of course they tell us it is not enough to harm us, right? BUT like the toxins in our skincare, it builds up, and causes microscopic damage to our cells. Some people are more affected than others...in cities where the electric companies have installed SMART METERS, the reports of skin rashes, sleeplessness and unexplained illnesses goes up considerably. Dr. Plourde can pinpoint communtiies that have undergone Smart Meter installation simplyby the origins of the calls that light up her phone - people desperate for help. Years ago I had read a book called "Dirty Electricty" and I highly recommend it. It was the reason we almost ceased using the microwave and stepped out of the room when it was used. When my husband was diagnosed with cancer we removed it all together, and adapted to a toaster oven. In addition, microWVES change the molecular structure of your food and water. If your health coach is giving you quick recipes using the microwave - please direct them to this blog post or to the resources mentioned. Promoting microwave use is not promoting a healthy lifestyle.

So there are my few tips for today:
1. If you are given the ALL CLEAR - know that there is no such thing. Cancer requires a lifetyle change that is permanent. The gift of life comes from God's healing foods.
2. Electric gadgets are not friendy to the human body, but we can't escape them. Find EMF inhibitors such a the BioDot to protect yourself. We use an Alterra home line protector to break up the EMFs of all electronics plugged into our house electrical wiring. Researching these products more thoroughly is on my to do list.
3. It's the holiday season - don't blow your healthy choices, but be smart about your indulgences, how often and what are you willing to give up? Counter your not so healthy choices with high oxygen free radical fighting foods such as the Anti Oxidant ImmunityBooster and Greens Balance products we use in our family. Add a few holistic supplements for an even greater boost - check out this recipe for one of my special wellness "potions".

Be smart, be well, and set up a consultation if you are looking to live a healthier life in 2016!

Rita S

BioMat Used As Cancer Therapy by Successful Doctor

12/5/2015

Dr. Sircus has been successfully treating cancer patients in the tropical jungle....a location in which he is allowed to help cancer patients HEAL their body. You see, here in the United States doctors are not allowed to heal cancer through alternative treatments. We have BIG PHARMA to thank for that.

Today I want to share one of Dr. Sircus' latest articles on the use of BioMat as a part of a wellness protocol for cancer patients. What makes Purely Living Wellness Center unique is that we can off the "sandwich" style therapy that Sircus describes. Many Bio-Mat facilities do not have the BioMat devices on hand to do this. For a person who has cancer, that chooses to do this therapy, the therapy session cost does not increase with the use of multiple BioMats. It has been our mission from the start to make holistic therapies affordable for those who are dealing with chronic disease.

As Sircus states, we are not suggesting that infrared heat therapy is a cure for cancer. Sircus writes, "Oncologists, if they were honest, would not say that radiation or chemotherapy cures cancer either. Both radiation and chemotherapy cause cancer meaning they increase the chances of getting more cancer in the future, besides bringing a whole range of serious side effects that are tough to live with."

If you want to learn more about the mathematical science behind the use of raising core cell temperature to reduce diseased cells and promote healthy cells in the body, I encourage you to read "98.6F Ideal Body Temperature".

I firmly believe that there is no single protocol that cures cancer. Also, one has to rule out that there are other compromising health issues besides cancer taking place in the body. Speaking from experience, once a person is diagnosed with cancer, doctors will attribute all symptoms, no matter what they are to the cancer. They won't look for herniated discs, nor will they look for Lyme's disease when one's body becomes debilitated, as this is what happened with my husband. This is specifically why Purely Living Wellness invested in the Qest4 equipment, to help provide such answers in a non invasive manner for those who are seeking to learn more about their "causal chain". To learn more about this service check out the link or contact me for a consultation.

The Richway Amethyst Biomat is a wonderful medical device, safe to use, and promotes ever-accelerating levels of health when used on a regular basis. Here are some of the benefits of the Richway Amethyst BioMat.

increases core body temperature if used aggressively enough
helps alleviate pain
detoxifies the body
strengthens cardiovascular system
devitalize, and clear pathogens from the body
produces potent antioxidants, neurotransmitters and artery wall relaxers
helps regulate muscle tone of the arteries and prevents arteriosclerosis
is anti-inflammatory, preventing injury to vessel walls and normalizing blood pressure in the process
increases negative ion activity to boost the immune system
increases oxygenation to the cells
increases metabolism
helps reduce anxiety and promotes a feeling of tranquility

During this time of the year stress and anxiety is at high levels for many people. Even if physical health benefits are not your goal in using a BioMat, the emotional benefits cannot be dismissed. We have been fortunate to help offer relief to people experiencing migraines fibromyalgia, chronic pain and more at Purely Living Wellness. Gift certificates are available for someone you care about, that deserves an hour of stress-reducing time in our rustic oasis spa.

Be sure to raise your core cell temperature this winter for optimal health - try a BioMat today!

Feel great, look great, live great,
Rita S.

Surrounded by Conversations of Hopelessness

12/2/2015

This morning I sit at Crossroads Coffeehouse in Cross Plains, typing this blog post...working away from home just to get out of the house for a bit. I guess having an in-home business can be a bit of a downfall if you are a social person. I find I can update my website just fine in a remote location. In this community setting I am surrounded by conversations of family tragedies, injuries and cancer journeys, stories of hopelessness.

To my right a local financial adviser converses with a politician, sharing the story of a head injury his father experienced and his current state, which is not so well. In my mind I want to say, "look into curcumin as a supplement to reduce inflammation in the brain". I would be happy to forward a PDF newsletter by Dr. Russell Blaylock on the subject of brain injuries and suggested holistic treatments.

At 1 o'clock four women are in conversation, with one describing the state of a friend whose cancer came back in the bones. This is how most conventional treatments work, but sadly, people do not receive full disclosure on the side effects of standard treatments. The outcome is not good for this person, and I would love to interrupt and encourage a family member to review my website and find the resources that could turn the doom and gloom picture around for this person. If only to learn of modalities that could provide relief of pain when cancer enters the bones.

At 11 o'clock two men are sharing life. One is also experiencing a cancer journey with a loved one. Apparently the oncologists are honest enough to say that chemo and radiation will not work for this person's advanced cancer, and there is "nothing they can do".

I feel a sense of hopelessness all around me. People resigned to the limitations of conventional medicine. People who are kept in the dark of integrative and alternative treatments...treatments that can provide HOPE.

I sit here with my new Qest4 machine at my side (with purpose of training on it this morning) - a piece of equipment that could provide answers to the functional disturbances of all of the individuals that have been given a limited life sentence. But I sit in silence. A stranger to these people, I am not bold enough to introduce myself and give them a business card with this website so that they may learn that HOPE is available.

Instead, I pray for each of the afflicted individuals...that they or a loved one will continue to look for answers. I pray that some thing will draw them to my cards sitting out by the community bulletin board, or that someone will direct them to me.

This is where I ask for help from you, my readers. Purely Living Wellness is a place of hope. We may provide direction to those who have a strong will to live and are seeking alternatives. Please help pass the word.

Offering hope in this season,
Rita

October 26th, 2015

10/26/2015

Immune System Fuel As We Enter Cold & Flu Season

9/18/2015

Today I was listening to a podcast on NaturalHealth365 which I am privvy to as a paid subscriber to the inner circle - one of the best investments I have made into my holistic wellness training, and for my family.
The speaker was a very wise, quite old integrative doctor who had seen many changes through his lifetime. Through generations we have lost the wisdom of using good things from the earth to help our bodies heal. Such as elderberry to prevent colds and flu. Turmeric to reduce inflammation and pain. Ginger for digestion, and so on.
I would like to give you his name, but it is not one I can pronounce, much less spell. But I plan to look up his site. He commented that cancer is growing in our bodies 25-40 years before we have the symptoms that alert us to its presence. This is why it is often a disease that manifests with age. It only gets out of hand when the immune system is not functioning and doing its job of erradicating free radicals.
What do you use to boost your immune system? My family members are huge fans of a 2 oz power pack of anti oxidant juice. At the first sign of illness, exposure to a slew of viral breakouts at school - we start the day with these powerful shots of super foods and anti-oxidants.
When my husband was on his journey with late stage cancer he never once caught a cold or flu that year - even though he was exposed during the holidays to people getting over the flu or with colds. People did not think we should leave the house and expose him to all the germs - but he wouldn't hear of missing a family get together. Every morning began with an Anti Oxidant Immunity Booster. To the morning shot I would add drops of Lugol's iodine and collodial silver, with the latter being an anti-bacterial (nature's antibiotic). Before bed Jesse was glad to have the super food drink on its own so he could completely enjoy it. That said, it is a great way to mask some other supplements one might take.
As we get into the cold and flu season give your body what it needs to maintain a healthy immune system. Your natural defense system depends on you to fuel it properly to provide optimal performance.

Be well and stay well,
Rita S.

Wellness Summit This Weekend in Madison

7/18/2015

For anyone wanting to be well or stay well!

A hot weekend ahead in Madison, Wisconsin - you may as well spend it indoors learning how to enjoy optimal health at Matrix Business Solutions at 6302 Odana Rd.(across from St. Vincent DePaul) for the Taste of Healing Wellness Summit.
The summit begins Saturday at 10 a.m. and continues through Sunday. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

Yours truly will be presenting a short talk at 3 pm and 3:30 pm about the importance of Anti Inflammatory & Alkaline Lifestyles - The Reset Button Towards Health. Presentations are being offered throughout the day and a part of the $20 event price.

As well, I will be offering healing sessions on both the Richway Amethyst BioMat and the Wellness Pro Plus bio-electro therapy to help reduce pain, anxiety, relieve tension and stress. A new tool in my bucket, is vibrational massage therapy, which was used on my husband with late stage cancer in bones, and helped to nearly eliminate his pain. Healing sessions, of which there are number of practitioners providing treatments, are only $10.

Paleo Mama will be offering delicious healthy treats. YUM! The Weston Price Foundation will be offering free information and books. The energy is GOOD and healing. The people fabulous. So come on by and check it out!

Be well,
Rita

Medication Detox

6/27/2015

This past week I tuned into Dr. Judy Seeger's webinar on detoxification. Seeger specializes in helping cancer patients detox from chemo and radiation - which has a SEVEN year residual in our bodies! (I find that incredibly scary!) The toxins promote acidity and recurrence of cancer. It is important to know that these treatments DO NOT get the stem cells, and because of this cancer is always present even once in remission.

Now, you maybe thinking, I have never had chemo or radiation, so I am good...

BUT have you had an x-ray, CT or PET scan, live on the coast with a high radiation fall out from the ocean (thanks to nuclear disasters)? My husband was extremely senisitie to radiation - the diagnostic CT spread his cancer like wildfire, I am certain from what I have learned.

We ALL have toxins in our bodies - even those who eat healthy. Many of us use toxic skin care products and consume foods with artificial ingredients, without giving a thought as to what is happening inside our body.

An optimal functioning body can take care of and eliminate toxins. Unfortunately one of the biggest contributors to a non-optimal body and detriment to self healing are TOXIC medications - which could be Tylenol OTC, allergy meds, or a Rx from your trusted doctor.

Want to turn your health around? Join me for the upcoming 30 Days to Healthy Living challenge...it is not a diet, but a learning process to make changes that become habits for a more optimal health and well being. Food choices are 80% of any weight loss challenge...you cannot out exercise a bad diet. Nor can you have peak performance as an athlete if you are fueling with toxic foods.

The 30 Day Challenge comes with complete menu planning, grocery shopping lists, and private facebook forum. In addition, I help customize the plan to your needs by listening to your concerns, learning what type of toxins you may be dealing with, and offer additional insight and support. This may include additional supplements from sources I have learned through on-going alternative healthy symposiums, a complimentary session on the BioMat or with the Wellness Pro, or referral to a holistic practitioner.

Medication is so very toxic. pH strips are a great way to monitor how your body is doing with healing itself, and I can show you how to monitor that as well....

To your health!
Rita Shimniok, Purely Living Wellness

Retaining Water? Eat Grapefruit!

5/22/2015

I remember when I was in highschool I seemed to go on a diet every time I had a crush on a boy. I recall the tomato diet - something I invented myself as we had plenty of tomatoes in the garden. Tomato juice for breakfast, wedges for lunch, wedges for dinner... I recall getting some sores in my mouth in addition to the weight loss. (LOL)

Then there was the grapefruit diet - do you remember this? Well, it was founded with good scientific reason. Grapefruit actually help a person shed excess water weight. Whether a person is carrying water weight from lack of oxygen in the cells (oxidative stress), or a person has edema from medications - the GRAPEFRUIT is God's natural diuretic.

My husband had edema from taking Oxycontin and Oxycodeine pain medication. Thes powerful narcotics cause edema, not to mention constipation (allowing toxins to build up), and the drugs also compromise the immune system, can promote fluid in the lungs, causing pneumonia, and shut down the nervous system as well when on the prescription too long...aka atrophy can result.

As we work with Mike "Doc" Witort for my husband's cancer (I hope I did not find Mike too late!) - he was quick to note that I am retaining water. I had noticed in pictures recently that my legs were much larger than a year ago when I started wearing shorts. It did not dawn on me that the stress is causing water retention, and of course, stressor food choices were also not helping.

"Doc" added grapefruit to my husband's diet to help the water disperse from his body, and I have started eating it as well. It is amazing how much weight a person can lose when they are shedding water. Ever lift a gallon of water? It weighs approximately 8 lbs. As I increase my oxygen levels by going almost exclusively vegan (except for White Planet tuna), no refined flour breads or yeast products, and drinking Arbonne's Greens Balance, protein shakes, and GRAPEFRUIT - I am impressed by rapid weight loss.

So if you want to reduce edema, shed water weight - eat pletny of grapefruit (be careful if you are on meds for water retention - they don't want you taking something natural when a pill can handle it, and your meds may have warnings - so talk with your doctor always please). To learn more about the benefits of grapefruit visit this link.

If you find grapefruit to be a little sour for your tastebuds - be sure to get the Ruby Reds - they are always sweeter. A little honey can sweeten them up as well - NOT refined granulated sugar. RAW Honey is a God sugar, and has many healing properties.

Feel great, look great, llive great!
Rita S.
Purely Living Wellness LLC

Using Disease Injections to Treat Cancer?

4/6/2015

I am listening to episode 7 of the Quest for the Cure series...as I type. I quickly took notes (replaying several times to get terms correct) as I wanted to share this specific topic with those of you kind enough to think of Jesse and I with the recent 60 Minutes series, and other stations airing the "breakthroughs in cancer research".

The Topic:
Amgen-oncology - Phase 3 medical trials in the US...what it is... genetically biotechnolgoically engineered virus that will attack cancer cells...aka polio or measles...

Ask a doctor if they would inject themselves with it? 86% doctors said, NO WAY!

Dr Tony Jimenez, at Hope for Cancer Clinic, is using Viral Therapy. It is an oncolytic virus that is non pathogenic (cannot cause disease), not genetically modified. It is a wild strain found in nature, part of your micro flora...found in the healthy gut of children.

Discovered in the mid-60s in the Soviet Union by the same team that discovered the polio vaccine. It recognizes and migrates towards cancer cells (a long scientific word that I could not make out without the transcript), penetrates cancer cells, and breaks up the cells. It has the ability to bind to proteins on the cell surface that cloak the cancer cells from immune recognition. So whatever we are using to enhance the immune system will be able to work on the body's behalf.

Dr.Jimmenez went on to highlight other therapies that are being used at the Hope for Cancer clinic.

We thank you for thinking of us, and letting us know about the television program. Jesse and I were aware of the research that is taking place - which I believe I understood to be a year out...

On the People's Pharmacy radio show a few weeks ago, amgen-oncology was the topic, and of course there are cancer patients participating in the study. One man, a part of the research, developed a disease from a side effect of the treatment (not necessarily the disease he was injected with) - and he has lost use of certain body functions and is on medication for the rest of his life as a result... It is not a treatment without risks, that is for certain.

Already in place is Dr. J's viral therapy - effective, with other holistic protocols in place, and no side effects from getting rid of the cancer.

Consider asking your doctor, next time he prescribes a treatment, or a drug, if he would personally use his own medicine, or use it on his/her child. Their reply, and look them in the eye when they give it, may reveal just how much, or how little, faith they have in their own treatment therapies.

Be well,
Rita S.

Chemical Burden - What's Your Load?

4/2/2015

Over 212 chemicals are found in human tissue of one person – what does the body do with this? It has to process, try to expel, figure it out – chemical STRESS!! The result is compromised immune system. These chemicals mimic estrogen – which drives cancer, interupt the endocrine system...which drives cancer, create hormone imbalances…which drives cancer, in other words – chemical overload causes cancer!

This is just ONE of the highlights from today's Truth About Cancer summit - the discussion - Dirty Dozen - The Top Environmental Toxins That Causes Cancer. From the entire list, the one we as consumers have the most control over - is the toxins we put on our skin, through our choice of skincare, make up, shampoo, and sunscreen.

I have many notes from today's talk and will be putting the list together in the form of an article to place under my education tab. But I want to share with you some additional statistics which I found quite frightening...

Average person urinates 7 pesticides each time they urinate.
Average woman absorbs 2 lbs of cosmetic sludge through their skin each year, per Dr. Keith Scott Mumby
Recent report revealed that 10 newborn infants had umbilical cord blood analyzed, and found 287 chemicals in the blood, of which 208 are carcinogenic!!

Yes, I had to emphasize that last bullet point. That one shocked even myself. Are you pregnant? Whom do you know that is? We all know that what you eat, and your lifestyle (whether you drink or smoke), directly affects an unborn baby's health. But not once, when I was pregnant years ago, was I warned that what I put on my skin could affect my baby's heatlh.

I learned several years ago that if my, or my husband's hormones, were out of balance during conception or during pregnancy, especially lack of the progestation hormone - progesterone - that it could affect the brain development of an unborn child. There is MUCH to consider during pregnancy. Not only eating healthy, but choosing pure and safe skincare, shampoo, deodorant, in addition to proper nutrition and avoiding exposure to fumes, lawn chemicals, toxic cleaners, and more.

Chemical Body Burden organization states, "Of the approximately 80,000 chemicals that are used in the United States, we do not know how many can become a part of our chemical body burden, but we do know that several hundred of these chemicals have been measured in people's bodies around the world."

So what is your chemical burden? And whom might you be passing that chemical burden on to?

Choose wisley,
Rita S., Purely Living Wellness

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Rita Shimniok, CMSA

Health advocate, educator and wellness consultant...I am a forever student of integrative and holistic approaches to wellness.
This blog is dedicated to everyone who is on a wellness journey. Each journey is unique, yet we may share commonalities. You and I may follow some of the same alternative and holistic brilliant minds who practice outside the box of traditional medicine. We may be eliminating the same food groups from our diets. Perhaps you have successfully turned your health around, as have I done, or you are eager to learn more of how you may do so.
With each and every day I believe there is a lesson to be learned. Life is an experience. We all make mistakes, I know I do! But the only true mistake is one in which we don't learn from our errors, or we cease to seek out knowledge from those who have become wise on the journey.
Much of the information on this website, and this blog, are the result of my own wellness journey, and my husband's journey with a terminal cancer diagnosis and an undiagnosed advanced Lyme disease - which ultimately contributed to his earthly body failing him. Yet his Spirit was intact and whole, and he rejoiced the day he went home to his Creator God.

It is my hope that you embrace LIFE, and live intentionally from experience!