In this pharmaceutical drug obsessed culture we live in, could you ever imagine a gentler, healthier approach to treating chronic headaches starting with an appendix scar?
CHEK Professional Matt Sorensen explains why most health problems like pain originate from dysfunctions to the glands and organs which illustrates why health practitioners need to look for complications from the inside — not the outside — this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Matt at his HealHub website. Check out his The Wizard and The Priestess podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to them. Find him on social media via Instagram.
For Spirit Gym listeners: Based in Sydney, Matt is offering Spirit Gym listeners a very special 30 percent discount on his programs at this link. Use the promo code CHEK30 at checkout. (Special offers from Spirit Gym guests are time-sensitive and at their discretion to redeem after 30 days.)
Timestamps
2:47 Being a groundskeeper for nearly a decade helped Matt better appreciate the health of soil.
6:19 Matt’s professional life shifted after his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
13:15 An unhealthy migration from a results-based (integration) to a research-based (isolated) medical system.
20:36 Matt’s successful treatment for a client with severe headaches began by locating an appendix scar.
29:06 Visceral manipulation.
40:15 Organ motility.
47:07 Medicine is often practiced from the outside inward rather than the inside outward.
58:40 How often is the origin of pain is really a symptom or dysfunction of the glands or organs?
1:03:14 “Generally, if someone’s got a visceral issue, they’ve got a vascular issue too.”
1:24:25 The story you tell yourself affects your health more than any food or drink can.
1:30:09 The conventional definition of good postural alignment is based on dead people in a morgue.
1:45:00 Matt estimates roughly 85 percent of a person’s visceral or glandular problems start with lifestyle and diet.
1:52:23 The challenges Matt faces with patients during a recent week.
Resources
What Pain is Telling You (Spotify audiobook) by Matt Sorensen
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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music
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