ARE HOSPITALS MAKING YOU SICK?
My Experience Through Emergency Surgery (Dos, Don'ts, Proper Recovery)
Are hospitals making you sicker? This past Saturday I got to experience first hand the beneficial arm of “centralized medicine.”
The time was 2 AM, I had just risen to go to the restroom when SHARP, UNBEARABLE PAIN hit my lower right abdomen.
This pain had been lingering for the past day and a half, but nothing pointed to being more than constipation, intestinal gas or perhaps the stomach flu. Boy was I wrong.
”Mid stream,” my vision began to tunnel, my ears started to ring, I was GOING to pass out.
And I did.
My girlfriend came to check on the commotion when she unexpectedly found me on the floor in the fetal position. Her first words to me as I began to come back to this planet, “We’re going to the ER!”
Luckily at 2 AM there was no wait time (which isn’t the norm in my past ER experiences), based on my symptoms the nurses were quick to get me to radiology where a CT revealed what had eluded my senses.
The ER Doctor delivered the punchline “APPENDICITIS" - “We’re going to admit you and you’ll be having surgery in the next few hours!”
After a successful appendectomy I reflected on my experience throughout each step of my time in the hospital. It’s clear centralized medicine has its place in acute/traumatic situations, BUT (and this is a huge “but”) there are EXTREME flaws within said system that if one is kept in too long, can have DRAMATIC impacts on ones ability to heal post procedure.
My friend Kiera Wellness funnily enough made a post on this very subject the day after my surgery and we shared many of the same sentiments behind WHAT’S WRONG with hospitals. Here are our key findings: (credit @kieralwellness)
“Here's one simple change that can be made and implemented into all mainstream hospitals.
Sunlight. Have you ever noticed the windows bolted shut in your hospital room? Have you ever been asked if you would like help walking outside to catch the UVA rays? No? My consciousness tells the time through the numbers on my phone. But my body does not get the message. My body doesn't run on man-made time. So how does my body tell the time? Sunlight. Being disconnected from natural light and surrounded by 400-530nm light all day long has severe consequences for your body, including:
1. Dehydration. Have you ever gone into the hospital for a simple surgery and had to stay way longer than you expected due to post-operative complications? One example is bowel obstructions. Quite often bowel obstructions are followed by bowel complications. When you do not have a functional bowel movement, you're not allowed to be discharged, and this is classed as a post-operative complication. To treat dehydration, you are usually put on Intravenous fluid. Examples include normal saline, which is salt in water, and D5W, which is dextrose (sugar) in water. This method usually fails as it is not treating the root cause, and enemas are used as a more forceful method to stimulate bowel motions. What is a root cause approach to treating cellular dehydration? Sunlight. A hospital environment is heavy in 400-500nm light in an isolated frequency while being devoid of red & infrared. Turns out that the red colors which naturally emit from the sun increase hydration in our body at the deepest level. Did you know that our body actually makes water when it's functioning optimally? Simply just drinking water does not mean you're hydrated.
Non-Native electromagnetic fields One other problem with the hospital setting is the non-native electromagnetic fields that plague the corridors. These electromagnetic fields interfere with our mitochondrial biology and result in cellular dehydration. These fields also cause nitric oxide to be present inside the cell and further impact cytochrome four's ability to produce water. Following? LED lighting The lighting of choice in a hospital environment is LED. LED’s emit light by using an electrical current to create a bond between positive and negative charges. This process is called electroluminescence. This is much more efficient, as nearly 100% of the emitted energy from an LED source is usable visible light. For our biology, LEDs are extremely inefficient. Halogen and incandescent bulbs pass an electrical current through a tungsten filament to produce light. This process also heats the filament, which can waste additional energy, making them inefficient. The heat given off in "inefficient light" by these two bulbs is called IR light. This is the same light which promotes cellular hydration and is also emitted from the sun (kinda). So in order to save money, we swapped light bulbs that provided us hydrating lights to LED lights that passively stimulate dehydration.
2. Sleep quality: Waking up every two hours to be blasted by blue light and woke from your healing slumber? this needs to change. Waking patients up every two hours (even if our intentions are good) can be doing more harm than good. In order to run inbuilt cell repair processes we need to ensure that our patients are sleeping deeply and uninterrupted. When our body does not have access to the right light frequencies which support melatonin production, release or support a healthy circadian rhythm, we are ruining our ability to take out and repair bad cells. In addition, if we are not in an appropriate sleep phase human growth hormone release will also be impaired. Blue light exposure also directly decreases melanin and drive sup cortisol production. During the hours of night time patients should have 0 access to blue light. Did you know the Nurses actually have torches which they can use instead of turning on the lights at night? you just simply need to ask.
THE SOLUTION Sunlight. Hospitals need to ensure that patients have access to sunlight. Through the healing infrared frequencies of sunlight, to utilizing light panels when a patient needs to be in a controlled environment, sunlight is the key. This would decrease the amount of PO complications, improve patient symptoms & decrease admission time.”
- KIERA L WELLNESS
I couldn’t have written it better myself. Now, post surgery, here are the modalities I’ve been wielding in order to have more optimal healing:
Carnivore/Animal based diet: most nutrient dense foods, including broth for optimal collagen repair and nervous system recovery
Removing pain medication as soon as possible to allow my body to do the renovation needed
Sunlight : Sunrise every morning for max infrared/red spectrums (stimulate collagen synthesis and prepare solar callus for UV) Sunbathing in order to max POMC activation (more on this in a future newsletter), promote melanin renovation and re -amp mitochondrial energy production
Focused Red Light Therapy: I’m a huge fan of RLT for circadian rhythm balance and injury recovery, I personally use the Firestorm from EMRTek that includes infrared and red wavelengths with low flicker and EMF (check out my favorite red light) I’m also using focused red light (630,660,710,850 and 900mm) at skin contact to reduce potential scarring.
Grounding - Restore free electrons and balance time around high nnEMF environments. Be careful with grounding in areas with buried electrical wiring, this may cause negative jump conduction connecting to “dirty electricity”
Listening to my body : This part should come as no surprise but surgery isn’t only taxing on the body, but also the nervous system. Allowing my body the rest it needs to recover over the next week or two is crucial for optimal rebound.
Your body is a miracle, we just need to return to nature and let the rest fall into place!
Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood health nerd,
Ryan
Good stuff! Glad you made it through it all bro, now keep that healing-train chugging along the track🚊👊