Fork to Mouth Disease

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   March 9, 2020 @ 6:25 am Atom

   Someone with a weak thyroid has trouble sticking out their tongue in public (or even in private).
   Simple tongue protrusion (letting it hang out of the mouth) isn’t enough to signify and develop will power.
   A more aggressive gesture — like the tongue gesture used by the Maoris of New Zealand during their war chants — works much better.
   Sticking out your tongue for the doctor or dentist doesn’t do much for your health.

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   May 8, 2020 @ 4:45 am Atom

   Restoring the thyroid to health can resolve many health issues, including bed-wetting.
   Herbert Ewan Waller (Theory and Practice of Thyroid Therapy, 1911) wrote …
   “Leonard Williams shows that one of the most important functions of the thyroid gland is that of fixing the calcium salts of the body. He points out further the relationship of thyroid activity to menstruation and pregnancy, and enumerates various minor signs of thyroid insufficiency, such as the presence of enlarged tonsils and adenoids, which are an attempt on the part of the organism to supply a secretion that is lacking. His evidence that nocturnal enuresis [bed-wetting] is due to failure of thyroid function is indisputable.”

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   May 8, 2020 @ 4:45 am Atom

   Here’s a case of a surgeon losing a patient due to a psychiatrist.
   Anita M. Muhl (“Problems in General Medicine from the Emotional Standpoint,” Psychoanalytic Review, No. 16, 1929) wrote …
   “A very famous surgeon sent a young woman who was suffering from a toxic thyroid to him [an eastern psychiatrist] with the request that he get rid of some of her fears so she could be operated on, her pulse being so rapid that surgery could not be considered. The psychiatrist analyzed the girl and at the end of three months sent her back to the surgeon minus fears and minus her goiter. The famous surgeon bewailed the loss of his patient but expressed happiness over the outcome of the case.”

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   May 8, 2020 @ 4:46 am Atom

   Patients with hyperthyroidism may be argumentative.
   Edwin F. Gildea, M.D. (“Special Features of Personality Which Are Common to Certain Psychosomatic Disorders,” Psychosomatic Medicine, Sept.-Oct. 1949) wrote …
   “Patients with hyperthyroidism respond moderately well to supportive psychotherapy but present special resistance to attempts at psychoanalytic therapy. In contrast, most authors agree that a high percentage of patients with peptic ulcer are remarkably improved by psychotherapy. The patients with coronary disease respond with arrest of symptoms relatively frequently to a simple variety of guidance and an authoritative type of psychotherapy. Bronchial asthma also responds readily to either brief psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. This marked difference in response to therapy seems to depend on certain personality factors as well as to the organ system involved.”

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   May 8, 2020 @ 4:47 am Atom

   “Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is ‘schooled’ to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.” — Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society, 1973)