Speaking of Things as Though They Were (Biohacking Series 20 of 25)

Speaking of Things as Though They Were (Biohacking Series 20 of 25)
 When my son was born with a diagnosis as serious as Cystic Fibrosis, thankfully my husband and I were on the same page about not speaking negative things over him and his future.  What I did on my own though, was what I was taught in prayer classes: Speaking of things as though they (already) were.   


What does that mean exactly?  Just like Abraham called himself the father of many nations before he even had a child, I thanked God for healing my son of Cystic Fibrosis.  I thanked God for keeping his lungs clear and his GI tract healthy.  I spoke of my son as already having been healed from the Cystic Fibrosis, even though clearly, he was still dealing with the effects of the aberrant genes that cause digestive difficulties and also repeated sinus infections.  
 
In order to see things from God’s point of view, who they say stands outside of time and space, I would have to say that my son’s healing was done.  Paid for by the death of our savior Jesus Christ.  He took a beating so that my son could be healed, body and soul.  So, how did I reconcile that while my son was still manifesting signs and symptoms of CF?  
 
It is a faith and trust walk for sure, believing for what I did not see yet in the natural.  I just kept on thinking on the characteristics of God, being a good Father and one who had healing for His children.  I concentrated on doing all the things in the natural to help his body catch up to what the  Bible said, that He heals ALL our diseases.  And that we must take authority over all things on the earth, and I took that to even apply to Cystic Fibrosis.  
 
You may want to call me crazy at this point but I tell you, the spiritual walk of a Christian is quite counter culture to Western Medicine type thinking; see a symptom, hit it with a synthetic medicine.  The Bible mentions plants and essential oils over 1000 times in Scripture.  



He gave us all we need to expectorate, rejuvenate and heal our bodies, it is just knowing how to use these natural products that seems to limit the number of people using them in aggressive enough manners to really combat a sticky situation like Cystic Fibrosis.  
 
But not to worry, I will be doing a couple videos regarding total body cleansing first through diet and ingestion of herbs and then through all types of application of essential oils, from head to toe. 

 It is important to start thinking differently.  Start thinking about applying plants daily.  Yup, every single day.  Not just when you begin to not feel well, although that could be a good time to step it up!  

 
Much love, His grace and peace to you and yours,
 
 
Paula Baron P.T.
 

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The Role Epigenetics Play in Getting You to A Better State of Health (Biohacking Series 17 of 25)

To those of you looking for the second half of our story, after the post on black mold, I have unfortunately had to hold off posting for legal reasons. Thanks for your understanding.  Now for more on bio-hacking and the role of epigenetics in your health!  

In one of my former blogs I explained about the role epigenetics play in your health.  Today I will go into the explanation a bit deeper and explain to you on a very practical level why epigenetics matter and what it means exactly when you influence your body’s cells, thereby impacting the DNA which then can influence the genes.  

I hope I haven’t lost you.  I know I had to read over and over, the information I am about to share with you, so please don’t worry if you need to read it a couple of times. 

Let’s start with the information that doctor’s aren’t telling you, at least most are not.  You are not a victim of your genes and neither is your child.  Aberrant genes, like the ones for Cystic Fibrosis can be switched on or switched off.  I believe that is why we can see such a radical difference in twins, for example.  

But let’s say you are seeing manifestations of bad information being populated by the genes.  The genes are telling the DNA how to fold the protein and if the gene is an aberrant one giving bad information, then it needs to be down-regulated or hopefully switched off.  

The way I heard it said helped me.  Bruce Lipton said it; you are a “protein machine”, meaning yes, you have gene transcription information in every cell but the cells are made up of more than 50% protein.  That is a lot of cell content to be able to influence.  So, let’s not focus on what the gene is saying but instead, let’s see how much we can influence the rest of the cell's contents to hopefully switch off the bad information that the one gene is sending.  

All the ways to alter the information influencing the cells is called epigenetics.  We are doing things that don’t directly impact the gene but get there by influencing all the things around the gene thereby eventually influencing the gene itself.  

Let me give you an example.  Let’s say my son didn’t want to clean up his room.  I have a choice, I can go in and clean it up, doing all the hard work to manage the mountain of laundry and the plethora of empty iced tea cans OR I can speak to him and tell him of the benefits of having a clean room.  I can also let him know a clean room allows him to keep his car keys and use his cell phone.  

This is every effective, if I take away the car keys and the cell phone, suddenly the room becomes clean.  I have influenced the outer world to change the inner.  O.k. maybe that was a silly example, but maybe someone reading this benefited from it.  â˜º  To finish that analogy, you noticed I first SPOKE to the “mountain”, I then influenced his THINKING, and then I changed my approach to taking some things away and the changes in his room occurred. 

Think of all the things you can do as I have suggested in my previous blogs (vitamin C, CBD, Vitamin D, decreasing exposure to damaging EMF, getting rid of products with synthetics, then changing how you speak and how you think).  All of these things play a role in our epigenetic environment.  It is your choice, what you allow into your home.  You can control at least the place where you likely spend the most time: your home. 

 It all matters.  

Every little thing you change can add up to a great change in the body’s ability to heal itself.  This is the role that epigenetics play in our body.  They are the outside influencers of DNA and ultimately can impact an aberrant gene.  

I saw it in my son and I pray the same thing happens for you.  

Please hear me.  Once you have worked hard to get all the changes in place, it does need to become a lifestyle.  This is not a case of take the pill so to speak for a few months or years and then you can go back to your prior lifestyle.  It takes diligence and tenacity but the results are OH SO WORTH it.  

I am not promising a cure here but a few things:  a great potential for change, less suffering, less dis-ease, less thick sticky mucus messing up the body’s systems, less hospitalizations, less medical trauma, and the list goes on.  I know what I speak of.  I have experienced it both ways so there is NO doubt in my mind.  

When we were going through cleaning our bodies out from the toxic mold exposure, it was a disciplined time, yes, but my boys actually never seemed healthier once the initial process was underway.  My older son had better grades than ever and my younger son was happier and better behaved.  

We must never underestimate (speaking to myself here first), the influence of our toxic world on our emotions as well as our health.  If we make enough changes in our home and even better share all this information with a neighbor, and they change their home products, we can influence the world.  One family at a time.  I honestly cringe every time my neighbor does laundry as I smell the strong synthetic fragrances being blown out of the dryer vent into the air.

If you are battling a disease, the last thing you need rubbing on your skin all day is something with plasticizers in them.  We know we absorb around 50% of what is put on our skin, and babies even more, so why would we use a toxic laundry detergent or dryer sheet and then wear the clothes or sleep on the sheets and expect it doesn’t influence our health?  Our skin is our largest organ, both of absorption and of detoxification.

Thanks for reading what is beginning to feel a little like a “rant”.  I certainly don’t mean to, I am just so passionate about how much influence we do have over our health and we are not being told that by modern medicine.  

Know better do better.  

I love you all!  Thank you for reading, if you got this far, you are a Rockstar! ☺ 

Paula Baron PT


The Power of Your Words and Thoughts (Biohacking Series 19 of 25)

The Power of Your Words and Thoughts (Biohacking Series 19 of 25)

Something that I think can never be underestimated enough is the power of the spoken word.  God tells us in his Word that the power of life and death is in the tongue.  What kind of things do you say about yourself or your child’s diagnoses?  Do you insist your child learn all about how their body is not working properly or what about teaching them instead about how God made several alternate pathways if one part is missing or broken?  
 

Several years ago I went to a teaching at my church that was comparing “the truth” and “the facts”.  
I’ll admit it took me a lot of time to understand the difference and how it mattered.  If we use our minds using earthly thinking then all we will see are the facts.  It takes heavenly vision otherwise known as faith to envision our bodies healed.  
 
Think of all the women in the bible who had to exercise their faith when in fact, the facts looked very contrary to what they were believing for.  Sara for instance.  Well, I guess she laughed when the Lord told her she would bear a child in her old age, but Abraham believed and he was counted as righteous.  And surely enough, 25 years later he started the lineage that would include the Lord Jesus Christ.  Think about it, his lineage had all sorts of crazy characters from disobedient God loving servants like David to a harlot who hid people in her home so they would not be discovered and killed.  


 
Faith is the evidence of what is not seen but what is hoped for.  Did I get that right? Apparently, it got me far enough, as I admit, I felt a little funny at first speaking out over my child at night, thanking God for healing our son’s Cystic Fibrosis, and in the same sentence commanding inflammation to go from his belly and for his liver to be cleansed.  Sometimes I would command for congestion to leave his bronchioles without any further harm and well, you get the idea.  
 

Our words do matter.  In the first book of Genesis the Lord tells us to take dominion over the earth and all the things in it big and small (I take that to!).
28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”

 
What does it look like or better yet sound like to take dominion?  I believe it takes controlling our tongues and speaking life not death over our children.  It takes us commanding things to die and commanding things to live.  We can speak to the inflammation or the congestion and tell it to go or we can be fearful of it and let it rule our minds.  Am I saying you will not have fear?  No, not likely.  Unless you are way way better than me, lol.  But that’s o.k. faith can exist even when there is fear.  
 
Do it afraid.  
 
When I was in the hospital room the night I gave birth, I was complaining to the Lord about how my son was born not breathing.  Nope.  Totally blue and not saying a peep.  A code blue was called and it was as if the rescue team was standing right outside the room right away in case they were needed.  
 
The Lord’s steady reply to my complaint was Psalm 8.  
 
O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
    Your glory is higher than the heavens.
2 You have taught children and infants
    to tell of your strength,[b]
silencing your enemies
    and all who oppose you.
3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
    the moon and the stars you set in place—
4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
    human beings that you should care for them?[c]
5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God[d]
    and crowned them[e] with glory and honor.
6 You gave them charge of everything you made,
    putting all things under their authority—
7 the flocks and the herds
    and all the wild animals,
8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,
    and everything that swims the ocean currents.
9 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
 
I had already forgotten how when the code team was working on my son I whispered across the room, 


“In Jesus name, breathe”.  


My son was fine.  No need for the NICU, no need for anything further.  And I don’t take the credit, all the glory goes to God and the power of his son’s name.  We must be a part of His plan.  Let Him open your mouth.  Use your will to do things even though you may feel silly or are not sure.  
 
Often in the WORD (Bible), the scriptures, we will see “if then” statements.  
“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways then I will forgive their sin and heal their land.  
 
If we seek Him with all of our hearts, [then]we will find Him.
 
Praise the Lord, oh my soul, bless His holy name.
Praise the Lord oh my soul, all my innermost being.
Praise the Lord oh my soul, He who forgives all of our sins AND 
Heals ALL our diseases. 
 
What, you think you don’t have enough faith?  I would say it only takes a mustard seed.  I would tell you that there were plenty of times where I felt scared and confused.  That’s o.k.  Keep on keepin on.  Do your best to make the changes in your environment, diet and lessening the amount of synthetics in your life.  Every little bit adds up.  Make one change at a time or many at one time.  However you can, just begin the process.  
 
I’m not saying it will be easy.  I’m not saying this will be done over night or even in a year.  It took five years for my son to be cleaned out so to speak from the damage done by the black mold that we had been living in for several years, unknowingly breathing in toxins throughout our beautiful home.  
 
Don’t be afraid to try.  I had plenty of times where we fell off the wagon so to speak, I did not do everything perfect but God honors your efforts and hears your prayers, even when it may not seem like it, choose to keep on going, making natural choices in all that you do.  It does really matter.
 
In the famous words of Maya Angelou, once again, “Know better, do better.”
 
Much love, peace and grace to you and yours, 
 
Paula Baron P.T. 

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What Exactly is BioHacking? (Biohacking Series 16 of 25)

What Exactly is BioHacking? (Biohacking Series 16 of 25)
Have you been reading my series on ways you can get your body to heal itself?  Over the past 13 weeks I have been writing and posting a blog a week, each with a tip about what you can do to help your body be able to do what God designed it to do, heal itself.  


For example, when you see you have a scratch on your arm, you may or may not notice that the body goes through a series of steps to get back to normal.  First a red area will appear and if the scratch is deep enough blood will come out.  Immediately if the body is in it’s right state, meaning no disease or excess inflammation, then the cut will begin to clot and the inflammation in the area will show up to bring all the parts of the blood that need to be present to fight off infection and make sure the blood clots and eventually to close up the wound and lay down any new skin needed.  

Now think about if that area had diabetes and the person tended to carry a lot of inflammation in their body.  The cut would have more trouble healing up because there were other factors impeding or preventing the body from doing it’s job.  

It’s much the same when the body is bombarded by all the different pollutants in today’s environment, be it high amounts of radiation from all the electrical devices we use or high amounts of synthetic ingredients from our many bath, body, laundry & cleaning products.  

Now let’s say this person also ingests high amounts of sugar and takes multiple prescription pills.  More inflammation, more foreign substances that the body is already having to deal with.  

Now expecting the body to heal itself is, well, not quite fair.  So then we get irritated with our body and think it should do better.  Negative thoughts towards ourselves. 
It all matters.  So, to circle back around to the beginning, I have written a series of articles on things you can do to start getting the body better able to do what it was designed to do, heal itself.  Shut down misinformation and function as it should.  This is what bio hacking is.

If you want to go back and read my first 13 blogs at: 


 You will find everything from certain vitamins and supplements to decrease inflammation to information on how to decrease the harmful radiation from all your electrical devices, at least at night.  

In the coming weeks my blog will be taking a slight turn to focus much more on your thoughts, words, and beliefs. This is very much needed because the body definitely follows instructions, whether good or bad.  Please stay tuned.  
 
Much love, peace and healing, 
 
Paula Baron PT

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The Benefits of Coconut Oil in Your Mouth and On Your Skin (Biohacking Series 15 of 25)

The Benefits of Coconut Oil in Your Mouth and On Your Skin (Biohacking Series 15 of 25)
 
Have you heard about the benefits of swishing coconut oil around in your mouth?  Some call it “oil-pulling”.  The benefits are many, similar to how using a mouthwash could be beneficial but way better.  First off I would like to let you know about the types and grades of coconut oil.  
 
When you go to your big box stores you are likely to find a couple kinds, but you will get even more selection at a health food store or you can do what I do and buy it by the 10 gallon drum at Costco.  Hehe O.k. maybe not 10 gallons, but you get my point.  Costco does everything bigger and IMO better, kind of like Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas!  Big hair, big trucks, uh oh, rabbit trail.  Sorry. 
 
Back to the topic at hand.  My recommendations are for food grade, unrefined, organic, whole coconut oil unless you are making your own capsules, then MCT oil.  MCT stands for Medium Chain Triglyceride; this is what I would say is a modified form good for massage and making capsules, otherwise why not use the whole natural unrefined form?  The impact of a plant is always greater in the form closest to how it was created.  
 
So, back to the “Pull”.  Putting a tablespoon of coconut oil in your mouth and pulling it forward and back, and side to side will have amazing power to pull out bacteria hiding in gum tissues.  It is good for the health of your whole body actually, as oral health is directly related to gut health and gut health is related to lung health and well, you get the idea.  Our bodies are intricately intertwined.  
 
You might find just swishing for a couple minutes in the beginning will be enough to pull up the unwanted bacteria.  It is super important that you don’t then swallow the coconut oil but dispose of it in a paper towel and toss in the trash.  I don’t want to take the risk of clogging up pipes when it turns back from liquid to solid form and you certainly don’t want to put that bacteria into your stomach.  
 
The mouth is considered a mucous membrane, right?  So, now onward to the other mucous membranes that could benefit from the soothing properties of coconut oil.  Your nasal membranes for example, and the lady bits or your “package” if you are male.  Sorry, I guess I could be more anatomically direct here.  The vagina, rectum and penis/scrotum are also considered internal areas aka mucous membranes.  This is because of the nature of the skin, so thin it has been said to be 300 times more absorbent than other areas of skin on our bodies.  
 
Wowza, hopefully that will make you think twice or three times what lubricants, sprays and gels you might be using in or on any of these orifices.  Have you read the bottle for the ingredients in your nasal spray for example?  Our bodies would be so much better off if they were not having to deal with all the synthetic products that we apply or have floating in the air that we then absorb into our systems via the nasal membranes, mouth or private parts.  
 
Think about it, laundry detergent, simple nasal sprays may contain preservatives, dishwashing liquid, dishwasher detergent, and the list goes on.  You may have already read my blog on household products where I tell the story of smelling a toilet and sink scrub product down the hall an hour after using it to clean my son’s bathroom.  
 
If our bodies are so busy processing, filtering and trying to get rid of synthetics it makes it a whole lot harder to do the job it was designed to do, heal itself.  

And in case you were not aware, mouth health is related to gut health is related to lung health!  We are a very intricate finely connected masterpiece.  Why not start with assisting your body to pull out unwanted bacteria?  

Thanks as always for reading.  Please consider signing up for my blog if you want to know more about the power of plants.  If not, you can come back each week for more information on bio-hacking your health.  In fact, next week I explain that term in more detail: bio-hacking. 
 
Grace, peace and truth to you, 
 
Paula Baron P.T. 


 
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