He complained that he had problems quite often, and often he was unable to work for several days at a time. His work was largely sedentary with many hours spent behind the desk, and also due to having to travel a lot for his work, he also sat for exteneded periods in the car and the plane. He also had some pressures at home. Instinctively I asked the pateint: “What is it perhaps, that your back is trying to tell you?”
Let’s turn the clock back to the 1970s, when there were several pioneers in the Danish health arena. One of them was Julia Vøldan, who is probably best known for her spa where she took arthritis and cancer patients undergoing treatment, and her delivery of plus-minus balance / acid-alkaline balance. Here is an extract which gives an idea of her views on health and disease from “New Time and We” in 1978:
Through my work with plus-minus/acid-alkaline method I’ve got a totally different view of disease than the doctor. I regard illness as a cautionary friend, a friend who helps man to save his life by preserving the life energy. Man can be likened to an electric battery, which has a plus and a minus pole, but one pole is changeable depending on what you eat and drink. One can eat and drink for two similar poles, ie two plus poles or two minus poles, and so the body can not exist without it and it creates a new artificial pole of disease with the lack of electric charge.
If you remove this other pole of disease by surgery, the body will immediately try to form a new pole of disease, if the patient does not radically change his way of life. Think of the large number of women, who after surgical removal of a breast gets a new lesion in the womb or after surgical removal of the uterus gets a new lump in the breast or elsewhere.
If researchers had engaged in talking to sick people instead of practising on poor dumb animals, I think that the fight against disease would have come a lot further. We must get away from all vivisection and instead study the patient’s life, ie their diet and their habits. Only then can one identify the cause of disease and begin to eliminate and heal”.
After three treatments, he was doing much better. He used his “recreation time” to get a grip on its priorities, including his sleep and eating habits, and above all his family. Lots of alkaline and green juices, smoothies and soups were on the menu. And it helped. In the beginning, he saw his back-pain as an annoying irritant and a spanner in the works of his career. Five days at home with his family made him slow down and relax. He went from cursing his back to listening to the real priorities in life. Slowly, he improved with a new diet, better sleep and renewed exercise habits.
Later he told me that when he occasionally has brewing back problems, that he looks in the mirror and asks himself: Why am I being stopped? What is it I have not seen, heard, or felt? He used his back as a kind of barometer. It was not his enemy anymore, but his new friend.
About the author
Dr. Pernille Knudtzon, MD, Specialist in Family Medicine, Acupuncture, New Health Technology and NLP Trainer runs Vitafakta Health Clinic in Southern Spain. Her main medical training was done in Denmark. But curiosity led her to travel and study Holistic Medicine and Lifestyle aspects in many places around the world over the last 30 years. From her consultation in southern Spain she is now providing Personal Health Consultations based on a holistic health and functional medicine approach. She focuses on Health, Wellbeing and Vitality and guides her clients to live a healthy life and to thrive and shine the most. She is presently studying Functional Medicine at the Institute of Functional Medicine https://www.ifm.org/.