Wow! This is a really interesting web page. Very informative. My problem is stretch marks, I have lots of them all over my body, and what really gets me is that I have nver been fat! I've been overweight by at most five pounds, but never obese!
I have a really nice body but cann't show it off because of the stretch marks.... And it is beginning to irritate me because I am so young! I'm only 21 years old. What is your advice Dr.? Is there a magical, yet affordable, eraser?
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Re: Stretch Marks
Posted by Walt Stoll on December 27, 1998 at 12:27:27:
In Reply to: Stretch Marks posted by Maribel on December 26, 1998 at 16:28:09:
Dear Maribel,
I appreciate your question since it gives me, once again, the opportunity to help people understand that "stretch marks" have NOTHING to to with being fat and physically stretching the skin.
Stretch marks are ALWAYS due to hormonal imbalances! They are more common with pregnancy because of the hormonal changes and NOT because of the weight gain or the "stretching" of the pregnant abdomen.
NOW, having said that, I want to also reiterate that only by taking the stress-effect storage burden off the hypothalamus will you ever resolve this. Since the dermis (the part of the skin that holds the epidermis in place (which is where the "stretch marks" originate) replaces itself every 3-6 months, it will be that long after the hypothalamus is back to homeostasis----6-12 months after the effeective practice of skilled relaxation----before the stretch marks are gone forever.
You do not have to live with this but there is no magic pill that will make them go away.
This has been discussed many times under the acne subject in the archives. SOME PEOPLE GET PERSISTANT ACNE FROM THIS KIND OF HORMONAL IMBALANCE AND OTHERS GET STRETCH MARKS.
Write with more questions.
Walt
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Re: Stretch Marks
Posted by Susan MIerswa on December 28, 1998 at 15:10:56:
In Reply to: Re: Stretch Marks posted by Walt Stoll on December 27, 1998 at 12:27:27:
Wow Dr. Stoll stretch marks are stress-effect storage related! It never ceases to amaze me what I learn on this BB. So, in the same vein would scars also disappear? Or is that not related to hormones? How about the elasticity of the skin?
Thanks,
Susan
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Re: Stretch Marks
Posted by Walt Stoll on December 29, 1998 at 10:36:08:
In Reply to: Re: Stretch Marks posted by Susan MIerswa on December 28, 1998 at 15:10:56:
Hi, Susan.
If you are talking about scars from injury, they are not related to stress hormone imbalance so far as I know.
Stretch marks are, in a way, scars in the dermis but their causes are NOT trauma.
Skin elasticity is only tangentially related to hormonal integrity but the loss of that elasticity, during aging, IS related somewhat to hormones.
THe only things like this that are TOTALLY related to hormones are the things commonly called "stretch marks".
Walt
Re: Stretch Marks
Posted by wendy on January 02, 1999 at 17:33:56:
In Reply to: Re: Stretch Marks posted by Walt Stoll on December 27, 1998 at 12:27:27:
Exactly what type of hormonal imbalance do you mean Walt? I am very interested in what you say since my daughter suffered from stretch marks at the age of 16, and was given a diagnosis of early menopause at the age of 18. She is now 24. I have copied your reply for her. She also has persistent acne.
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Re: Stretch Marks
Posted by Walt Stoll on January 03, 1999 at 11:05:15:
In Reply to: Re: Stretch Marks posted by wendy on January 02, 1999 at 17:33:56:
Hi, Wendy.
This is called endocrinopathy and is best explained in Dr Pelletier's classic book "Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer" (most recent edition).
I think both of you should read it carefully and THEN I can help with what to DO about it.
In the meantime, you MIGHT be able to get her to do the skilled relaxation you are getting into.
Walt
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Re: Stretch Marks
Posted by wendy on January 03, 1999 at 21:43:59:
In Reply to: Re: Stretch Marks posted by Walt Stoll on January 03, 1999 at 11:05:15:
Yes I had a feeling you would say she (daughter) could (MIGHT)do the relaxation. I hesitate to burden her further, she pretty well runs her own life and has much difficulty with this natural sensible and practical stuff; I try to have patience while she catches up....try to realise that when I was her age I would never have dared to question a doc. She is only just now getting herself to an endo. who seems to be talking "some" sense;(BTW what is the difference between endicronopathy and endocrinology) I will be watching from the sidelines to see what he wants to prescribe - hate to see her messed about with all this hormonal stuff; am running fast enough right now myself from the HRT regime, hoping the SR will help, as well as for my thyroid/cholesterol.
BTW I have asked for the book at our "World's Biggest Bookstore" here in Toronto MAH-MAS and wouldn't you know they didn't know of it (LOL) ; however, will search on regardless. will try some of the new agers where I can order it.
re: your book, Walt: my response ranges from, initial disappointment that thyroid is treated so sketchily, I had been really expecting a large chapter - TREATISE at least, from you frequent comments in archives on board etc;, to realisation I myself need to go so fast I miss the point easily; to - S-R seems too simple. My Naturopath says the doc in Kingston has died, that's the other thing I meant to say. She says has sent, knows of lots of women treated by/ to him but doesn't know anyone else doing the same work now, do you know of anyone? I have also thought of getting iodine from the drugstore to see what my uptake is like. Is Lugol's special - different? She said "red iodine". Yes, I KNOW, do the S-R, then we'll talk.
I notice elsewhere on the board today there is good info on machines; had already located that GSR-2 page but making the final decision is the hardest - sorry this is so long. Will get shorter as things sort out. - have been quietly lurking for far too long now - 4 months or so. I wonder if there is an average lurker time?
thanks for being there Walt, I appreciate it. wendy.
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Re: Stretch Marks
Posted by Walt Stoll on January 04, 1999 at 14:28:41:
In Reply to: Re: Stretch Marks posted by wendy on January 03, 1999 at 21:43:59:
Dear Wendy,
If the reader only reads about the thyroid in my book, they will miss the entire point of the book regarding thyroid. This is one reason I autographed the book "This is a tool! One has to read the entire book to understand how to look at this & what to do.
I wrote the book, deliberately, to be an introduction to thinking differently since this is the biggest block to people getting well. If I covered everything I know, the book would be so big & expensive that no one would have the nerve to pick it up. There are lots of those books out there and most of them are referenced in the back of mine. I did that so those who actually got the thinking differently part, would have the tools to go deeper. Take a look at "Dr Anderson's Guide to Wellness Medicine". It has more than 2000 references and is more than 490 pages long.
For this condition, I have never seen it be resolved without the SR. Mother Nature is still a LOT smarter that any of us (or even ALL of us taken together). Relieving the unbearable burden from the hypothalamus gives the bodymind a chance to do what it was designed to do---which is still far beyond the ken of we mortals.
Endocrinopathy is the state of the glands no longer working together in harmony and endocrinology is the study of the glandular system.
Remember: "You can take a horse to water---------"
Walt
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Re: Stretch Marks/thyroid
Posted by wendy on January 04, 1999 at 22:08:47:
In Reply to: Re: Stretch Marks posted by Walt Stoll on January 04, 1999 at 14:28:41:
Yes, point taken, I agree with you - what I was trying to say is that I had NOW taken great care to read your valuable and unique book fully. From your answer it seems a possibility that thyroid CAN get resolved and that excites me and I am busily organising my S-R - old walkman machine is kaput. Any news of Dr. Ghent's successor? I now notice you say on page 95 that Dr. Meyer has protocol laid out in his book (published 1979 - a library job I guess). Of course, Mother Nature's way is the only way, and that is why I am bound and determined to avoid the conventional medical approach; thanks walt, for being there, and being uniquely yourself.