HOW TO LIVE A LONG HEALTHY LIFE

            I am not a doctor.  I am simply a person who practices and has conducted extensive research into healthy living.  For my efforts I have been blessed with an amazing quality of life.  I suffer from no adverse physical or mental conditions other than an enlarged prostate.  I have a full medical exam, that includes blood work, every six months and I visit my dentist every 3 months.  I have my eyes and ears checked every 5 years.

            First and foremost, stop taking prescription medications.  (They are designed to hurt you)

            Do not use over the counter medications either.  (They do more harm than good and most don't work.)  Except for things like fever reducers and pain killers.

            Also stop smoking, reduce your alcohol intake to a minimum and no street drugs either.  I know you've heard this stuff all before.  If you want to live, you should listen.

            Most importantly, absolutely do not take any vaccines of any kind.  You don't need them.  You are better off getting sick and recovering naturally.  It will make you stronger.  I have not had any vaccination or even a flu shot since the 1980s.  I get sick once or twice a year and get over it.  The vaccines are dangerous because they have been tampered with.

            Avoid sugar at all cost.  No processed foods of any kind.  The more processed the food is, the harder it is for your body to digest it.  No red meat, no cookies or candies, no chips, no cakes, no ice cream.  Never consume anything labeled diet or low fat.  

            Reduce your consumption of fish to no more than once a week.

            Drink plenty of spring water and filter it yourself so that you know it's clean.  Drink red wine with your meals and unsweetened tea in the evenings.

            Most importantly, eat a diet that consist of a wide variety of raw vegetables, nuts, and fruits.  Avoid cooking and microwaving your food when possible.  Exercise about twenty minutes, five days a week.  Ideally that exercise should consist of bench press one day, squats on another day, dead lifts on a third, walking, stretching, sit-ups, meditation, and a wide variety of dumbbell exercises all five days.  An elliptical is a great exercise tool to have in your home.  It is low impact and exercises your entire body.  You can take walks in your neighborhood or through your local mall.  It's a good idea to purchase a dog.  Studies have shown that people who own pets generally live longer because pet interaction is a great stress reducer.  Furthermore, the dog will help you stay on track with your daily walks as the dog will anticipate them and encourage you to get up and get moving. 

            American humans are the sickest animals on the planet.  Our body systems are not meant to be regulated by pharmaceuticals.  The homeostatic model that western medicine is based on does not work.  The idea that your blood pressure should be this and your cholesterol level should be that, and if it is not, you need to take a drug.  Hog wash.  You don't need to take a drug, you need to change either your eating or living habits.  In western medicine, doctors only treat your symptoms.  There is no effort made to cure you of the conditions.  You must keep in mind that you are a customer to the medical, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries.  The individuals who own and run these companies have no interest in curing you of anything.  Their goal is to get you to take their prescription medications and keep you taking them and paying for them your entire life.  The medical industry is big business. 

            In 1984, the congress passed legislation that made it illegal to sue a pharmaceutical company.  At that time there were 11 vaccines that children received.  When I was a child it was only 6.  Now between the years of birth to 18 years old, there are 69 vaccines that children receive.  We should be pretty healthy right?  Guessed what?  They are using the vaccines to actually spread disease and give you new diseases.  The Center for Disease Control, working hand in hand with the Medical & Pharmicutacul Industry has genetically modified the Measles, Mumps & Rubella vaccine to cause Autism in African American & Hispanic males, and they have admitted to doing so, and congress has known about it for years.  In 1983, 1 in 10,000 boys suffered from autism.  By the year 2015 that number has increased to 1 in 28 boys.  These numbers are terrifying.  Now if you want to really be frightened, check out how many people are dying from cancer every year.  What's worse, most of those people don't actually die from cancer, they die from being treated for cancer.  Today you would be hard pressed to find a dozen females who have either not had cancer, or had their lives dramatically effected by it, i.e.... a sister or mother has died from cancer.  If we are so advanced and our medical industry is so great, why are we suffering from so many afflictions that we were not suffering from 30 years ago?  Simple, the wealthy powers that control our society are getting rich off of our misery.  You would have to be a fool to believe that modern medicine cannot produce one single medication that does not have 6 horrible side effects, or that modern medicine cannot come up with a cure for one single disease.

            Take control of your own health and live a long healthy life.  Your body will fix itself if you give it what it needs to do so.  We are machines and like all machines, we require certain things to function properly.  What are they?  (Remember, Essential means that your body does not produce them naturally, so you have to consume them)

Essential Vitamins:                                 http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/essential-vitamins-list-4690.html 

Essential Minerals & Trace Minerals:     http://www.simple-approach-to-healthy-living.com/list-of-minerals.html 

Essential Amino Acids:                          http://www.nutritional-supplements-health-guide.com/amino-acid-list.html 

Essential Fatty Acids:                             http://www.nutri-facts.org/eng/essential-fatty-acids/essential-fatty-acids/at-a-glance/

Water, Sleep, Exercise

            For the most part people, it's really that simple.  Oh and by the way, modern medicine has come up with cures for just about every disease on the planet.  They just don't want you to know.  They have also developed longevity drugs that would allow you to live 150 years or more and smart drugs that will make you more alert and some of them will make you more intelligent.  If you think I'm lying, sit down in front of your computer and perform a few simple searches.  You would be amazed at what you discover if you take the time to open your mind and explore the world around you.  So, turn off that TV, and pick up a book.

            This may sound like I'm trying to tell you what to do.  Not at all.  I'm simply trying to let you benefit from my years of experience and study.  I'm just trying to share some useful information.  I hate the fact that each day I see people suffering for no reason whatsoever.  So, if you don't know how to live healthy, I'm telling you.  Do some research on your own and you will find out that everything I've written here is true.  You don't have to live a life of pain and misery.  You don't have to die young or go broke trying to remain healthy in your senior years.  The government is not going to help you or protect you.  The medical and pharmaceutical industry is not going to cure you of anything.  They never have and they never will because you are there cash cow.  So take charge of your own health and in the words of Mr. Spock, "Live Long & Prosper".

P.S.  the government has a plan in the near future to ban supplements and force all adult Americans to take a series of 11 mandatory vaccines.  I believe it's called the Healthy American Plan.  You heard it here first.  Don't you believe it.  It's a plan to make sure we are all sick and in need of pharmaceuticals.

DANE E. GILKEY

INTIMACY

What is it?  How do we obtain it and finally, how do we maintain it?  As of late I have had to struggle with this issue.  I have been alone for a long time and now l find myself actively seeking a relationship.   The dictionary defines intimacy as "a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.  I believe the feeling of intimacy is developed by the act of being intimate with one another.  To me intimacy is knowing, trusting and developing a compassionate love of another person, and making a commitment to that person.  Then I have to ask myself the question, can we ever truly get to know someone.  I have to say yes.   Intimacy is knowing them at the core being of who they are.  It's looking beyond the mask that they present to the public and, getting to know the true person.

So how do we obtain this intimacy?  Now there is physical intimacy and there is emotional intimacy.  I feel the emotional intimacy is more important so I will speak on it first.  I believe we can obtain it by being open and honest with each other.  By being accepting of one another.  Faults and all.  I believe we have to approach our loved one with an open mind and an open heart.  No preconceptions whatsoever.  No judgments, no list of what they should or should not be.  I know we are all hesitant to open up to others, to be vulnerable is frightening, especially to a man.  We don't want to reveal our soft underbelly.  We are taught to be strong but in a relationship we have to open up to others.  Not only letting people into your life, but into your heart.  It is scary to reveal your hopes, wants and dreams.  There is always the fear that you will be criticized or laughed at.  For men there is even the worse fear that you will be thought of as soft or weak.  I say you have to take the chance.  To develop intimacy we have to cultivate a curiosity of one another combined with empathy and understanding.  Getting to know someone takes time, it takes work and it requires patience.

As to the issue of physical intimacy, it also takes time and requires great effort.  In my view to develop physical intimacy requires you to be keenly alert and in the present.  What I mean is pay attention to the little things from the many ways she smiles to the way she holds her head when she has a question about something.  It's noticing and learning all the wondrous unique things about her body.  Observe it and explore it's many intricacies.  It's learning how she kisses and were she likes to be kissed.  It's hand holding,  cuddling, long hugs and how you walk together.  To me it's making that special one on one connection.  It's being able to recognize when something is wrong and caring enough to inquire.  It's learning were and how she likes to be touched.  It's knowing when she needs to talk and when you need to just listen.  It's knowing when she needs you to hold her and stroke her hair.  It's being in tune with her body, accepting it and delighting in every square inch of it.  When your loved one touches you your heart should melt and the cares of the day should fade from memory as in comparison to the joy she brings, they are utterly insignificant.

Now to the greater concern.  Once we have obtained intimacy, how do we maintain it?  It's easy for a relationship to start cruising on autopilot.  Once that starts you run the chance of taking each other for granted.  If you start taking each other for granted you can easily forget how truly important your partner is in your life and screw up your relationship.  Nobody wants to do that.  I know I don't.  It is my goal to make a woman feel loved, wanted and appreciated.  To maintain the intimacy I believe you have to remember what's important and you have to make a conscious effort to maintain the relationship.  Take your automobile for instance.  You maintain that automobile by rotating the tires, getting a tune-up, changing the brakes and the oil when required.  I believe we have to do the same thing with the intimacy aspect of our relationships.  Put some conscious effort into it.  Occasionally get rid of all of the distractions of life and just concentrate on being together and enjoying each other's company.  That means, no TV, no cell phone, no computer and put all other obligations on hold for a while.  Find a quiet place where you can be alone and concentrate on each other.  A former girlfriend of mine opened my mind to the concepts of quality time and quality conversation.  She had me read a book by Gary Chapman called "The Five Love Languages", it helped me a lot and I highly recommend reading it.  Now of course I had to listen to the audio several times for it to stick.  I'm still perfecting my listening skills and have a long way to go but I'm working on it.  If you are not a reader you can find the audio version on www.youtube.com. 

In conclusion, remember what is important.  Relationships like most of the things in life require work.  It's not easy and it can be messy at times and frightening at others.  However, in the long run to experience the love of another person makes life worth living.  I hope this blog can help someone who needs it.  As for me it helps me to put my thoughts down on paper.  Take care and have a blessed day.

Dane Gilkey 3/8/2015

As to the issue of racism.

The racism game is nothing more than a trick used by what I call the Financial class, to keep the people divided and fighting amongst themselves. No different than political affiliation, religion, and nationality. The Financial class, are the 5% or so of mega wealthy families who control everything and manipulate our society.  These are the people who own the banks and the land, who control the media and our access to food, medication and transportation.  These are the people who control our governments and own our politicians.  You know who they are, people like Rupert Murdoch who owns Time Warner, the Morgan’s, the Rockefeller’s, the Koch brothers and so on. These people want to keep you in a distracted naive bubble, so that you never sit back, take a look at your society, your world, and the way things are headed.  They want you to focus on reality TV and the upcoming sporting events.  All they are focused on is maintaining control of the world’s resources for themselves and their friends.  You see as the population grows there’s going to be less of everything to go around.   That is why these people want to keep you angry at each other and bickering over minor things.  In reality the things that unite us are much greater than the things that divide us. People are basically all the same. No matter what race, land or culture, we all have the same wants, needs, fears, insecurities, hopes and desires.  Think of what could be accomplished if we all stopped fighting and started uniting.  We are one people, the race of man, homo-sapiens, the human beings.  This is how we should view ourselves and like it or not, we are all in this thing together.

The 2nd Amendment

History has shown us time and time again, that the greatest threat to democracy is the unbridled power that the state holds over its citizenry.  It is the misuse of this power that often leads to insurrection.  For us to remain a free nation and a democracy, the people’s voice must be heard, and the people must be able to protect themselves against villains, wheater they be the criminal on the street, or a tyrant in the statehouse.  We live in a great nation, where issues like this can be openly debated and the reins of power change hands via the votes of the people.  We must all take part in the political process so that this nation may continue to flourish and change with the times.

Dane E. Gilkey

Your life is happening right now, don't miss it.

     Something I always tell people is, and those of you who know me have heard me say it many times, “Life is happening now”.  It’s not happening tomorrow or next week.  It’s not happening when you graduate, when you finally get married, when you get released from jail, when you retire, when you receive your inheritance, when you get that new job, when your children have grown up, when you lose weight and finally get in shape, Life is happening now.  Right now!  So enjoy the moment, saver it and make the very best out of right now.  Live as hard as you can, right now.  Be in the moment and take note of it.  Take pleasure in the now, the sites, the sounds, the smells that are all around you.  Be observant and focus on now.  Delight in the many blessing in your life.  Don’t worry about what you don’t have or be jealous of what your neighbor has.  Life is too short for that kind of thinking.   

     We’ve all heard the saying that tomorrow is not promised.  Tomorrow, huh, five minutes from now is not promised.  You could have a stroke or a heart attack before you even finish reading this blog.  There is no guarantee that you are going to wake up in the morning, in fact, many of you actually won’t.  Death has no required age.  There’s no time table.  Death comes when it comes.  The only thing that is for sure is that it will happen to all of us.  Your time and your life are equally precious so don’t waist them being lazy or being afraid.  So many people spend their lives being afraid of what others might say or might think.  You cannot live for other people and you cannot please everyone.   

     Something I like to remember in regards to loved ones is, every time you see them, every time you speak to them on the phone, may be the last time.  I remember the last time I saw my dear mother.  I had come home to visit her from the military and it was time for me to leave.  I hugged her, I kissed her on the cheek and said, “Mama I love you”.  Then I snapped a quick photo of her and got on my way.  A few months later I stayed up late at night talking to her on the phone, telling her my plans for the future.  The next morning I received a phone call telling me my beloved mother had passed.  My mother was my very best friend and her passing crushed my very soul.  Fortunately for me I had always kept in contact with my mother and always been open and honest about my feelings.  I was always good to my mother and tried not to give her reason to worry.  There was nothing left unsaid and nothing left undone.  I had been a good son and she had been a good mother.  Live for the now, and live in the now.

Dane Gilkey

Romance is not dead.

     Courtesy, kindness for kindness sake, generosity, valor, romance, all strange and now seemingly alien concepts; there was a time when these things were standards.  What happened?  Somehow we have gotten away from taking other people’s feelings into consideration.  A smile cost nothing.  Very little time and energy are expended when we hold the door open for a woman, or pull out her chair.  What does it hurt to simply say please and thank you?  Being polite is really not that difficult and romance is not dead. Now it may be difficult to find but it's definitely not dead. 

     There are still plenty of romantic people out there, people who believe in happy endings. The fairy tale can come true.  Nowadays so many people are in a rush to just get what they can get here and now. Still others are so focused on themselves they can't see past their own nose. So many people miss out on the good things in life because their minds are closed, their eyes are blind and no matter how loud you shout, they cannot hear. The beauty in the moments of life just seem to pass them by because they don't take stock in their many blessing. 

     A lot of guys are so worried what their buddies are going to think that they miss out on meeting and getting to know many beautiful women. They see a woman and they say, she's too tall, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's too fat, look at her hair, look at her car, look at her outfit. They find everything wrong that they can instead of getting to know the woman, they judge her harshly because they are afraid their friend might find fault in her. God never made anything so perfect as a woman.  Keep listening to your friends and you will miss out on a lot of truly amazing women. Gentlemen, she is your other half and you are incomplete without her.   



     Men have forgotten how to romance a woman and how to make love to her. You don't just make love to a woman's body. You make love to a woman's heart. Many men will brag about how hard or how long they can pump and grind. Fools, making love is an all day process. Making love to a woman is accepting her and not judging her, its supporting her and encouraging her. It is holding her when she needs it, it's considering her feelings, its asking her opinion and actually listening to what she has to say. It is making her feel like she is the most important person in your life. It is putting everything else on hold just for her.  It is putting her needs and her feelings before yours. Making love is not 20 minutes of grunting and sweating, it's making her feel that you can't live without her. It's holding her in an endless embrace, its long deep kisses and soothing touches. It’s touching and kissing every inch of her body so she knows she is completely perfect.  When you are making love to your special someone or even just spending time together, keep in mind that it may be the last time you ever see them, you may be spending your very last moments with them, so make them count.  One last thing for the men, remember that when women loves you she loves hard, from the very depths of her soul, and that is where you have to go to romance her.

Dane Gilkey