Benefits Of A Mini Trampoline
By Dr. Morton Walker, D.P.M.
Dr. Walker writes: “Exercising on a minitrampoline for its beneficial rebounding result enables you to create chelation therapy within your body and brain.” How does chelation take place? First of all, each cell in the body is “exercised” when bouncing up and down. The force of gravity first pulls, then releases each cell, thus stimulating cells to move their fluids and flush out toxic material as well as absorb nutrients. Additionally, the valves in the lymphatic system, the powerful force behind your immune system, open and close and pump lymphatic fluid during bouncing, even with very gentle up and down bouncing movements. The lymph fluid then removes toxins from the body as a whole, and it even produces more white blood cells. Those who have had major illnesses, such as cancer, attribute healing to the use of rebounding once per hour for two to three minutes. White blood cells increase dramatically during a short session of two to three minutes of rebounding.
Albert Carter, who first discovered the rebounding effect in the late 1970s, called it “the most efficient, effective form of exercise yet devised by man.”5 Dr. Walker states that “your whole cardiovascular system becomes stronger even without increasing its heart rate,”5 thus the elderly or ill need not begin vigorously exercising in order to receive chelation or other health benefits from rebounding. One of the many ways rebounding helps chelate toxins from the body and specifically from the cardiovascular system is through the stimulation of production of lactic acid by the muscles.
Lactic acid is a natural by-product of muscular activity. Shirley Vanderbilt writes: “There are elevated levels of lactic acid in muscle tissues after exercise....”6 She cites research by exercise physiologist Dr. George Brooks from the 1980s: “Lactic acid is a key substance for providing energy, disposing dietary carbohydrate, producing blood glucose and liver glycogen.... Lactic acid goes through a chemical cycle ultimately becoming lactate, which can then be transported quickly from the muscle into the blood. Lactate levels in the blood rise during moderate exercise. At the completion of exercise, lactate levels return to normal within an hour. Light exercise is the most effective approach to speed this process. The muscles copiously produce lactic acid during light exercise.”
Dr. Walker notes that lactic acid is a weak organic acid that chelates toxic components. He states, “Because natural lactic acid acts in the same way as does the medical intravenous infusion of the chelating amino acid EDTA, the resulting responses from rebound movements produce numerous therapeutic effects...:
1. They dissolve atherosclerotic plaque attached to the intima (the innermost layer of arteries);
2. They pull [toxins] out of the media layer of blood vessel walls; and
3. They trap the foreign proteins that occupy space between cell membranes and then remove these unwanted proteins for deposition as waste, carrying away also the toxic type of proteins for processing through in the kidneys as urine, through the liver as nitrogenous waste, and then through the bowel as feces.”
Walker cites a study done in Sweden almost twenty-five years ago, where exercise therapists evaluated a group of hospitalized patients whose chief difficulties were palpitations of the heart, breathlessness from cardiovascular inadequacy, peripheral vascular insufficiency indicated by cold hands and feet, dizziness, headaches and deep sighing. He states that “each patient averaged 5.4 symptoms.”
Collectively these patients had been suffering from 150 different clinically recorded ailments, but by the end of the program of rebounding the clinicians found only 21 persisting symptoms; 68 symptoms had diminished and 44 ailments were entirely gone. “The average number of symptoms per patient had dropped from 5.4 to 1.1,” writes Walker. The clinicians at the Karolinska Institute who conducted this investigation concluded that “rebound exercise protects and strengthens the cardiovascular and peripheral vascular systems,” and offsets any potential harm caused by catecholamines, or nerve transmitting chemicals released under stress, that increase blood pressure.
Dr. Walker concludes: “For a sick person who is able to rebound even in the midst of illness, rebounding serves as a physiological antidote to [catecholamines] that act as internal stressors. Besides cellular detoxification and nourishment, rebounding produces a kind of cellular sedative that gives any damaged or sick cells the opportunity to heal themselves.”5
James R. White, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist at the University of California, San Diego, whose research Walker cites, asserts that a rebound exercise program has the following cardiovascular health benefits:
1. Increased strength and size of the left ventricle of the heart;
2. Increased diameter of the heart;
3. Increased diameter of the arteries of the heart;
4. Increased number of latent arteries used for distributing blood to the heart and the rest of the body.
5. Slowdown of the heart rate; and
6. Decreased amount of oxygen needed by the heart.
Rebounding even causes peripheral vascular improvement of occlusive disease by encouraging blood clots in the limbs to dissolve.
Since rebounding also stimulates the immune system through lymphatic fluid drainage and more production of white blood cells—due to the force of gravity pull and then release during the act of jumping—the effects are beneficial not only for the rest of the body, but especially for the blood circulatory system. Walker cites the work of Hitendra H. Shah, M.D. [Dr. Shah strongly recommends rebound exercise. Rebounding, he emphasizes, must be part of any chelation/detoxification program for reaping the optimal advantages of intravenous EDTA chelation therapy], who notes: “Several problems occur when the lymph drainage slows and fluids begin to accumulate around the cells.... Cells are forced to survive in their own waste and toxic byproducts. Such a situation can eventually lead to the degeneration and destruction of organs. For example, poor lymphatic drainage of the extremities can lead to tissue damage and then to poor blood circulation with swelling and pain.... [S]imilar problems can happen in any other organs of the body.”
CONCLUSION
Given the amount of toxins in our water, air and food—and thus entering our bodies—and given the viruses and bacteria we encounter, it is not difficult to understand why doctors and other health professionals not only rebound every day themselves but recommend it to their patients. Rebounding stimulates the immune system like no other form of exercise due to its effects on the lymphatic system; it stimulates cellular cleansing, exercises the musculo-skeletal system, and helps restore bone density—and it is simple, gentle on the joints of the body and an enjoyable! exercise anyone can do. Dr. Walker recommends the Soft Bounce™ Needak® brand of rebounders in his book, but any good quality rebounder will give you results and be gentle on the body at the same time. The Needak® absorbs 85% of the impact when you jump. Imagine the potentials, if rebounding alone can help you achieve these kinds of results, if you combine this exercise with drinking plenty of pure mountain spring or artesian water and a wholesome organic food diet (thus helping clean up the “outer” environment too), along with a balanced spiritual, mental, emotional and physical life. It seems it may very well be easier to be healthy than ill.
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REFERENCES
1. “Reversing Heart Disease Simply and Naturally,” by Elmer Cranton, M.D., Well Being Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, p. 4, P.O. Box 739, North Bend, WA 98045-0739, 425-888-0375. See article also in “back issues” on the internet at www.wellbeingjournal.com.
2. Your Body's Many Cries for Water: You Aren't Sick, You are Thirsty, by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D., Global Health Solutions, Inc., P.O. Box 3189, Falls Church, VA 22043, 703-848-2333, www.watercure.com.
3. Let's All Get Well Soon, by Réné Gaudette and Maggie McGuffin-Gaudette and the Wonders, page 216; The Wonders Press, Inc., 8361 11th Line, RR 2, Thornton, Ontario, Canada, LOL 2NO.
4. “Bouncing for Health,” by Scott E. Miners, Well Being Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4, op cit.
5. “The Internal, Self-Chelation Therapy,” by Morton Walker, D.P.M, in Everything You Should Know about Chelation Therapy, by Dr. Morton Walker and Dr. Hitendra Shah; Freelance Communications, 484 High Ridge Rd., Stamford, CT 06905; $18, includes s/h in U.S.
6. “A New Look at Lactic Acid,” by Shirley Vanderbilt, Massage and Bodywork magazine, October/November 2001, p. 101.
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