RE: This Years Upgrade

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I had to whip out the laptop for this one :D I could have written a long response on my phone but that would have driven me nuts!!

Sooooo, we have a TENS unit. Have had for ages. Rarely use it. What should we be using it for?

A TENS unit is good for muscle stuff. If you've got a pulled muscle in your back or something, a tens unit is really helpful to electronically stimulate the muscles and help loosen it up and repair it. Movement is important but if you have a messed up back, the last thing you want to do is physically move because it involves lots of other muscle groups pulling at once. With the tens, it stimulates very pointed areas and helps loosen the fibers up. Works really well! It just has a sort-of limited use case. Still an important device to have in the medical toolkit I think!

I've heard of vibration plates, but we don't have any and I don't know what they're good for or why they're worth the money. What do you use it for?

Vibration plates have a varied amount of uses for us. It helps stimulate lymphatic movement and drainage which is one of the most important elements of it. It also helps loosen and incorporate things like new exercises with brain blasticity. When you are vibrating and learning a new language or something, it helps wire the brain in some pretty unique ways! It's used a lot of brain recovery therapy for people who have strokes or traumatic brain injuries. Obviously different scenarios, but the vibration helps in a lot of ways! For healthy people, lymphatic is a huge benefit.

"infrared sauna devices" <---- say more on this (please!)

The infrared sauna devices are really good because they use the wave length that we get from the sun, except in a more concentrated fashion of course! It uses electricity to generate a lot of heat, and infrared waves, and it penetrates the skin of our body in certain ways that help make us sweat but also heals at a cellular level. It does something with the wavelengths that penetrates and cleans up our blood cells and carries the waste away. Doing the vibe plate after a sauna is really good, to get the junk all cleaned up, then a nice vibration to loosen it up and get the lymphatic zones to get it into our waste soon after!

I wear blue "blocking" glasses

You should get a pair of amber tinted glasses, if you don't already have them! If the glasses are clear, they don't actually block any blue light sadly. I learned a lot about this from Jack Kruse and Alexis Cowan. They are huuuuuuge blue light scientists!
It also helps to turn our phones and laptops onto "night mode" where it really makes the screen far more orange. Sadly TV's don't seem to have this option that I've found, but it's really common on phones and computers!

What kind of RLT device/s do you have?

We have 3 devices, all reasonably priced. One of them is a red-light belt, where you plug it in and wear it around your stomach or chest or something. This is really one of my favorites! I wear it when I'm feeling under the weather and it boosts my immune system to kick the crap out! Then we've got a red light box, but this one is a little harder. It's a square, maybe 2x2 foot in size but it is best to be used hanging from the ceiling or something. My wife uses this one more, but I don't love it. Then we've also got a small nasal one that goes up your nose for my son when he gets his allergies and runny nose. Works pretty well for him, and does some cellular healing and repair!

PEMF mat! Fun! What's it good for? Noticing any different yet?

I used it the first time the other night, it was good! It's combined infrared sauna (where it gets really warm), red light and PEMF. The PEMF is pulsed electromagnetic fields. What they do, from my understanding, is that they change the polarity of the things in our bodies kind of like an MRI machine. When they do this, it changes the structure of the water and makes it more alkaline and this helps kill the nasty stuff like germs, viruses and also helps promote some healing and regeneration. I haven't looked TOO much into it yet, but I had a chance to get one at a good price and we wanted to invest in another item, so we went for it and will see how it works for us. I guess you can use it 3 times a week to start, so I'm going to do another one tomorrow night!

And finally, you got a LLT device. What are you planning to use it for/to resolve?

We've been to a few functional neurologist (neurological chiropractors) and they've helped a phenomenal amount with my sons issues with school. It may be dyslexia, but it's hard to say because there were a lot of structural things that weren't lined up properly that we got worked on. He's not autistic, but just had issues similar to a kid with dyslexia and one of the most noticeable improvements for him was using a LLT device on his brain stem, frontal lobe and occipital lobes. The lasers, similar to infrared and red light therapy, penetrate the skin and the skull to help add oxygenation to the cells of the brain and it really boosted his brain development. You can only do it for a few minutes a day but we were getting charged 200$ per session that wasn't covered by insurance so we said screw it, and invested in a laser. The company that sells them to American consumers is called Avant. There are LOTS of laser companies out there, since the therapy has been around since 2002 which is pretty wild. We just got the device in yesterday, and haven't really figured it out but I'm excited! It's also incredibly helpful for healing many other parts of the body like sports injuries, organ issues like kidney stones and so much more. It was an investment in overall health more than anything, and we went for it!

Lastly.. an ultrasound device. I know of them in their therapeutic uses, but I don't have a need for one right now so we probably aren't going to get one.

MAN that was a LONG one but it was great :D digest it like a holiday meal hahaha