I’m not just a yoga teacher btw. I am obsessed with health, on my own health journey. This has lead me through the teachings found in Chinese medicine, western medicine and Ayurveda as well as through my own personal practice as a movement and meditation teacher.

I’ve looked into all diets, all exercise forms and everything I can think of and here it is:

Lipodema or lymphoedema is the symptom, not the illness.

The body protects the vital organs by pushing toxins out to the extremities and diluting them with water or fat, which is stored wherever it can go quickly first.

With lymphodema the problem is bloating of water, which means for sure the kidneys are overloaded. It means they have stopped filtering properly and are simply pushing toxins out to your extremities.

With lipodema you have both water and haphazard fat deposits, which is where there is toxic waste, probably in the gut, that is thrown out with fat and deposited into the closest available fat cell as far from your organ body as possible. Where this is disorganised, since the hormone that directs how fat is stored comes from your bones, this points to a bone injury, or deficiency. As there is water weight too, the kidneys are also affected.

These happen when you have been poisoned through injury, lifestyle or illness.

The kidneys will fail as the last in an organ chain, as your food or liquid is first filtered by the liver and anything inside you will require an immune response in case it is contaminated. This involves your spleen and parathyroid.

So in lipodema (and let’s include lymphodema here for arguments sake) your filtering organs are struggling, or partially failed and so has your immune system.

How does this happen though? It could be too large a toxin (anyone who has been drugged or overdosed can suffer dire consequences, even with moderate recreational use), too little recovery or deficiencies in your organs.

Deficiencies speak to malnutrition which comes from a poor diet or a gut that is not taking in nutrients correctly. So like in all complementary medicine the first thing you need to do to heal lipodema is fix your guts.

Since soft tissue and organs can take a couple of years to replenish themselves, this would take a few of years of focused eating and healing to just heal the gut. This by itself might restore the balance in the body.

Liposuction removes the ugly appearance but causes more problems. Since we don’t regenerate fat cells, without enough storage space if you when you overeat you have nowhere to put excess fat which can cause tax on your organs. You might struggle with your gall bladder which cannot produce enough bile to cope with the fat you eat in your diet versus the amount of fat cells that might need to be utilised if go any reason you don’t immediately use the energy from fat.

I would never recommend liposuction but I know a lot of people have it and it really means you have to address your diet and be very careful what you eat – a low fat diet becomes a daily need, not a weight loss plan.

Lipodema, since it contains the toxins or poison of wherever you had at the time, can be very slow to shift as you cannot lose the fat or water quickly and your organs must process and metabolise the toxins one small shift at a time. I would guess that to reverse stage 1 lipodema would take around five years of dedicated effort.

and I’m sharing this so you know, that working with me is not just a class, it relates to a system and holistic understanding of existing in a human body

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hey lurkers

guess what? I got bored so I asked if I could help out again with the “National Paranoia Network”.

I’ve had a long history with mental health and have been living with severe or incapacitating moments for many years.

if you want to find out how I don’t act up or out, learn something new or just feel the reassurance of my words on a page I suggest you go over to

Nationalparanoianetwork.org and register for their free newsletter as I am doing some charity and donating my time and words.

this is for you if you’ve ever had a diagnosis of paranoid thoughts, intrusive thoughts, delusions, psychosis or any psychotic disorder (eg schizophrenia, bipolar, disassociative disorder) or even if you are living with a relative or friend going through the same.

I maintain what I learned during my personal research over a decade ago, which is that psychosis occurs when you are completely flooded with trauma and stress.

while yoga, meditation and somatic therapies are not a cure, this is an injury and not a life sentence and you can strengthen your own self enough that you avoid acting in a way that creates more and more difficulty.

love you guys. You know, we all each live our own lives in our own minds, and sometimes we meet in the middle.

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