Healing Hacks (eBook)

Bring Your Body Back to Nature

Ian Hart (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
280 Seiten
Lioncrest Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5445-0560-2 (ISBN)

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Ian Hart was on top of the world. He was in peak condition mentally and physically, and his career as a fitness professional was thriving. Then, without warning, the bottom fell out. Ian's health began to spiral out of control. No healthcare professional could tell him what was wrong, and many of their interventions made things worse. When he ended up near death in the hospital with twisted intestines, Ian made a choice to heal himself and share his story with the world. He ditched his expensive medications and began a natural-healing journey that finally gave him control over his health. Now, in Healing Hacks, Ian unveils his step-by-step system for sparking the healing mechanisms in your body. You'll bypass what doesn't work and get straight to the most powerful solutions, saving you money, time, and most importantly, pain. No matter your income or fitness level, these hacks will give your body what it needs to heal naturally.

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Introduction

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

—Rumi

I was standing in line at the pharmacy, about to purchase a medication that was going cost me $1,800 a month. The doctor said I’d be on this medication for the rest of my life. The Mayo Clinic website claimed this medication, Entocort, was only effective about 50 percent of the time for my condition.1

I was 29 years old and incredibly sick. During my hospital stay, the doctor had rattled off a complicated diagnosis: I was told I had Crohn’s disease, had developed ulcers as a result, and that my intestines were twisted. Something in my bloodwork indicated I had been close to death. He said I would never heal fully and that I would have to manage my symptoms with this expensive medication. My health insurance coverage was, in a word, catastrophic. It wasn’t going to cover any of this.

At the hospital, they’d fed me coffee, pancakes, bacon, Jell-O—all the worst possible foods you could put in a body in gastrointestinal distress. At the same time, they were considering cutting out pieces of my intestines. I knew that wasn’t the right environment for healing.

Just after being discharged from the hospital and dropping off the astronomically expensive prescription at the pharmacy window, I broke into tears—both from the state I’d wound up in, and from morphine and Dilaudid withdrawal. They’d pumped both into me in the hospital because the pain was unbelievably excruciating. I hadn’t slept for days. I was confused about what to do next.

Entocort is an immunosuppressant, designed to reduce inflammation in the area of the bowel affected by Crohn’s disease. The side effects of Entocort can be numerous and severe: inflammation of the liver, nausea, and vomiting, just to name a few of a long list. Since the drug suppresses the immune system, the body becomes less effective at fighting off viruses and even cancer. Once I was on this drug long term, I learned, getting off it would be difficult. Some patients become steroid-dependent and are unable to come off the drug without symptoms flaring. Others become steroid-resistant and are unable to stay symptom-free with the same dose.2

I talked to my girlfriend at the time (now the mother of my children) and told her what I’d found out about the drug. We tried to figure out what to do. My mind whirred. What’s going on? What’s wrong with me? How did I end up in this position? How could I be so sick at such a young age?

Just a few years earlier, my picture had been inside two issues of Men’s Health magazine as an expert veteran personal trainer. Men’s Health was putting on a major race they called the Urbanathlon, and I’d created specific training programs for the race that were featured in the magazine. At 26, I’d been in the best shape of my life. Fast forward a year and a half, and the intensity of my symptoms increased until I found myself doubled over on the floor of my apartment in agony. My girlfriend (now wife) took me to the emergency room, where I was hospitalized with a twisted gut, among other life-threatening issues.

Now as I inched closer to the prescription counter, I was caught in a do-or-die moment. I was gripped by fear from what I’d been told by the medical community. What do I do? Do I get this medication, or not? My gut said no. Some voice in my head was saying, “You can heal this. You have to believe.”

Still standing in line, I called a friend of mine, Dr. Peter Osborne.

“This is what the medical community wants,” he said. “They want you to believe you need medication, and that you can’t heal yourself. They want you on a drug for the rest of your life. I’m not telling you not to do it—you have to do what you feel is right for you. But there are ways to heal your body. You can heal it naturally.”

His words rang true for me and gave credence to that voice in my head that told me I could heal without the drug. I didn’t want this prescription—but I’d been standing in line because I was afraid. I had almost died, and the fear that I could end up in an extreme medical crisis yet again was overwhelming. This phone call was the final shift. I hung up the phone, stepped out of line, and never went back to that doctor again.

In fact, I never went back to the allopathic medical community at all. Instead, I started my own healing journey and sought help through holistic means.

The story of how my health spiraled downhill, so far and so fast, is the focus of the first chapter of this book. In my journey to heal, I researched and tested on myself every holistic healing method I could find. I no longer relied on the medical community to manage my symptoms. Instead, I reconnected with myself, trusted in my own experience, and listened to my body to find the best methods to allow it to heal. If you are suffering, you have the potential to do the same.

In the 11 years that I’ve been on this healing journey, there have been massive strides in holistic approaches to healing and new insights on the mind-body connection. I’ve been a sponge, spending countless hours studying all this information, testing new practices for myself, and interviewing with hundreds of some of the world’s leading healers.

As a health and fitness expert with years of experience, knowledge, and certifications, already the creator of an internationally successful natural back pain relief program, this journey took me to a whole new level of understanding and healing. I built a retreat in a Costa Rican treehouse community to help begin my healing as well as help others heal. I traveled all over the world to learn from experts. I became a certified Wim Hof instructor and practiced breathing techniques, cold exposure, and mindset changes. I began teaching these techniques at my training facilities and seeing what worked best. Along the way, I have spent well over a half a million dollars experimenting with every healing method I could find.

This book is the culmination of everything I’ve learned so far boiled down to the bare essentials, the most valuable “hacks.” It’s been an amazing journey with ups and downs, but I’ve managed to get my wellness and my life back. Considering the dire health crisis that began this journey, recovering my health has been a miracle. I have learned we all have the ability to heal and I am grateful for the challenges that have been thrown my way. As the journey continues, I have a deep sense of gratitude for the path I have gone down, however difficult it has been, and my goal is to transfer this experience and knowledge to you so that you may enhance your health and improve your life.

Back to Nature

I’m not the only person in an extremely dire situation to be told by the medical community there was no way I would heal. Even if your healing journey hasn’t involved a hospital visit, you’ve likely been told that any dis-ease you feel, from a debilitating illness to back pain or the common cold, needs mainstream medical intervention and medication to keep you functioning. Many times, this idea that we require medical assistance to get back to health is flat-out false.

Mainstream medicine has its place, particularly for life-threatening traumatic injuries and critical situations where you’re about to die. I am grateful to be living in a society that has made amazing strides in health sciences. When I tore my pec muscle from the bone a few years ago jumping off a cliff in Costa Rica, for example, I was grateful to the surgeons who reattached my tendons to the bone. But much of the dis-ease we experience isn’t from traumatic injury. It’s from our lifestyles and the habits that have pulled us out of our natural state of health.

At my transformation center, I hear the same stories almost every day: “I used to feel great,” clients say. “I had tons of energy. I used to be in shape, and over the years I’ve lost all my energy. I feel aches and pains all the time. My memory is foggy and I struggle to focus my attention.” They describe gastrointestinal issues from bloating to acid reflux. Often, new clients have issues with their digestion, blood pressure, cholesterol—the list goes on and on. This may be a common experience, but it’s not normal. I recently looked at a picture of a crowd of Americans at the beach in the 70s and there was not one overweight person in it. Nowadays, the majority of Americans are overweight, out of shape, and unhealthy. It is a sign that the body has been disconnected from what it needs to function optimally, and on the inverse, the body has probably been given substances and exposed to stressors that are breaking it down faster, causing rapid aging and deterioration, both mentally and physically. These symptoms are signs that the body has been disconnected from nature.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
• ISBN-10: 1-5445-0560-4 / 1544505604
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5445-0560-2 / 9781544505602