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Fixing More Than Arthritis
Hello Andrew,
I'm a wholesale sales rep of iAdjust Sleep Products adjustable bases. I'm not looking for an endorsement or trying to sell you anything. I'm just excited about IBT and I've been sharing it with anyone who will listen. I will tell you things about our brand and manufacturing that sounds like I'm looking for a sale but it's all just to connect the dots.
About 4 months ago I was introduced to the phrase "Inclined Bed Therapy" by a sales rep that was using that phrase to sell his head-up position as a treatment for acid reflux. As you already know, the head-up only position of a few inches is effective at lessening the severity of GERDS. That sales rep didn't continue to discuss the 6" head lift to a flat bed, so I got curious. I researched what turned out to be his random choice of words that led me to the video on YouTube where you are involved in a 2 hr long discussion about IBT.
iAdjust Sleep Products has designed a full-feature adjustable base with a 10" vertical lift/tilt which will allow for up to 10 degrees of incline. I set our display model at 5 degrees and used an iPhone app to measure the degree of incline. I programed the 5 degree position in one of the available memory positions on the base's remote. The best feature of this adjustable base is that it can be attached to a headboard/footboard and look like a regular flat bed by day and, with a push of a button, move to the 5 degree position. My customers love this.
As a side note, I had my best friend try the free version. I gave him furniture risers and he ran home to get started. After 2 weeks of use his low cost metal frame broke at the weld and damaged his wood floor. He had to deal with it at 2 am.
My wife and I "went inclined" on 6/22/19 and will never go back to a flat bed. My wife suffers from rheumatoid arthritis which is a chronic inflammatory disorder that can affect more than just your joints. In some people, the condition can damage a wide variety of body systems, including the skin, eyes, lungs, heart and blood vessels. She currently sees a therapist and has been prescribed medication to treat her condition. Both Methotrexate and Humira have been medications she has used for years on and off. Both medications have been eliminated from her treatment due to a liver condition. Our current bed is a firm, memory foam mattress with a 3" organic shredded latex topper. The latex alone has made miraculous improvements to her condition over 2 months sleeping flat due to the naturally cool temperature of latex plus no struggle to turn over in memory foam. Once we "went inclined" a new world appeared. She is now able to get out of bed in the morning without pain and without medication. She is the happiest woman alive. Oh, by the way, she hates change and went kicking and screaming into our first night of IBT.
Chronologically, starting after the first 2 nights we both experienced no trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night. After 3 or 4 nights we both became very "regular" with our bowel movements. Also, very comfortable movements that have remained that way since our beginning of IBT
A few more days passed and we noticed we were both sleeping more soundly. In the past I would frequently wake at 2 am or 3 am and stare at the ceiling. After converting to IBT, I still wake on occasion but will go back to sleep almost immediately. Over the past 5 weeks I've had more that a dozen, undisturbed 8 hour nights sleep. I've never slept so deeply in my life. I'm 54 years old. With IBT I feel like I'm 10 years younger. I keep reminding myself that I'm less than 2 months into IBT. My wife has experienced next to no night sweats and it has eliminated her hot flashes.
Fast forward into this past week. Being in traveling sales, I get to enjoy hotel rooms with some frequency. I spent a week in Las Vegas at the furniture market that ended on 8/1/19. It all but completely reversed all the improvements I had enjoyed. I was unable to sleep more than a few hours at a time, the return of aches and pains plus the return of visiting the bathroom in the middle of the night. I need to figure out how to take this IBT on the road. My wife came along for 2 nights and she experienced the same decline in "sleep healing".
My sister-in-law has been staying with us for the past month. One week into her stay she asked if she could go inclined. How could I say no. I adjusted her bed using furniture risers. Some of her conditions prior to IBT were GERDS and frequent night bathroom visits. The severity of both have been decreased dramatically. Bathroom visits reduced by 80% to 90% and almost unnoticeable acid reflux. She is 67 years old and also enjoys the new, longer, deeper sleep. She feels like her dreams are more vivid and colorful from the deeper REM sleep. As a superbonus, she keeps her hair very short and it has become noticeable darker.
My sister-in-law is going home tomorrow to a flat bed. She is one that has a bed that won't easily adapt to IBT with the use of risers or blocks. She is replacing her mattress with an organic latex mattress and a motion base with tilt option.
Until the rest of the world changes, thank you for changing mine for the better.
Vancouver
WA
United States
Posted Date : 03-08-2019
WORKS WELL FOR MY HUSBAND AGE 70
NOTHING BUT PRAISE, I NEED TO DO MY KING SIZE AND MY SONS DOUBLE.
NOTHING BUT PRAISE, I NEED TO DO MY KING SIZE AND MY SONS DOUBLE.
THANKS ANDREW FOR SHARING YOUR WONDERFUL DEEP LEARNING AND CREATIVE IDEA. LINDA
#Osteoporosis, #Suppuratingscar, #Sightimprovements, #Eardischarge on IBT
Ruby, 2nd April 98
Over two years ago I sat in the armchair reading a small advert which asked people to raise their bed by six inches at the head and to reply and tell what benefits had been noted. (No explanation was given)
At the time I could not move my neck to my left or right side and it ached continuously. I was unable to sleep at night as i could not get comfortable. I was only able to turn by gently easing myself. It took about three to four turns. Getting out of bed was a major obstacle. I needed help to dress and undress.
I spent most of my nights in the chair with the result that I was always tired and had no energy.
My problem is osteoporosis of the upper and lower spine. I had tried hormone replacement therapy and wasted a small fortune with bone specialists and osteopaths.
I was resigned to living my days out as best I could, having been told that there was nothing more that could be done for me.
I expected nothing but had nothing to lose, so Harry raised the bed by six inches. We did not take it very seriously but were happy to try anything.
On the fourth night I had the first full nights sleep since I don't remember when. By the end of the week I was sleeping naturally and turning over with ease. My dressing was a problem no longer, each day it became easier. I was able to turn my head without pain, right or left, to see the clock without getting up from my chair.
There have been many other benefits too. I have worn glasses from the age of seven years and I am now sixty eight years. Last year was the first time I was told that there was a small improvement.
My hair appears thicker, my hair brush needs cleaning less often.
Harry had a large suppurating scar since he was six years old. He has had to continually dressed it all of his life. But now it has healed up. His ear which constantly gave him trouble with a discharge has now cleared up completely.
We both feel that the clock has been put back for us! I give thanks for this invention and wish Andrew every success in the future for the benefits he has given us and will continue to do so.
Yours truly,
Ruby
This letter was sent to me in the knowledge that it would be used to help others to follow. Ruby to this day enjoys the continued benefits of this simple intervention.
Andrew
Ruby and Harry were featured on local television news, sharing their story about IBT
#Aches #Pains in #Joints #Soreness in lower back 1 night of IBT
October 3, 2014 @ 4:53 am Kimmy
One Radio Network ORN Listeners Write to Patrick about their experiences using Inclined Bed Therapy.
I listened to an earlier show, writes Kimmy with Andrew Fletcher and his Inclined Bed Therapy
I slept well, but I began waking most mornings with aches and pains in the joints. Soreness in lower back and neck. This has been going on for some weeks, so I got my husband to set up the bed head on six inches blocks of wood from 27th June 2014. Immediately the next morning I woke up with no joint pain at all and from 28th June to this day I have not been troubled by any pain after sleeping in the inclined position and my husband is snoring less and not as noisily. Thanks to Andrew and Patrick.
https://oneradionetwork.com/health/andrew-k-fletcher-results-inclined-bed-therapy-follow-show-september-15
#psoriaticarthritis #pain #pittednails
Penny Meredith Has Psoriatic Arthritis
Read her Reported Improvements From Using Inclined Bed Therapy (IBT) Feature in Woman's Realm Magazine March 3rd 1998
Keep Your Head Up
How angling your bed can improve your health
Three years ago, if anyone had suggested to Penny Meredith that something as simple as propping up the head of her bed could radically improve her quality of life, she wouldn't have believed them. However, today 54-year-old Penny is a firm believer in the practice. Penny, a divorcee from Paignton, Devon, with three grown-up children, has had psoriasis since the age of 18. When she was in her early 30s, she developed psoriatic arthropathy, a painful arthritic condition. 'As time progressed, the pain and stiffness grew worse,' remembers Penny, who runs a guest house. 'I took painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs which took the edge off the pain, but they upset my stomach, so I preferred to do without them if I could. Then, about eight years ago, my condition deteriorated considerably.
'I also work as an auxiliary nurse, which can be quite physical, and it got to the point where I was so stiff, I thought I'd have to give up. It was very depressing.' Then, in October 1995, a visitor to Penny's guest house told her about an inventor he'd met called Andrew Fletcher, who was achieving amazing improvements in people's health, just by raising the head of their beds a few
inches. Penny contacted him and asked him to visit.
He explained his theory by saying that, by lying flat, we're not making use of gravity -the force that powers our vital bodily functions. By raising the head of the bed six inches, so that the entire body is tilted, the circulation and the metabolic rate are speeded up and fluid flows naturally through the body. Andrew had conducted _____ experiments
involving about 300 people with various health problems, from varicose veins to multiple sclerosis. In almost every case, sleeping at an angle improved their symptoms.
'What Andrew was saying made sense to me,' says Penny. That night I propped the head of my bed up with two house bricks. Next day, I had no pain at all and was able to move normally for the first time in years.'
Penny continues to be pain-free and mobile, and is so impressed by what angled sleep has done for her that she's bought an angled bed, made by Oasis Concepts.
'I won't risk going back to the way I was,' she says. 'In fact, if I stay at someone else's house I prop up the head of my bed with books or phone directories - anything to get that tilt!' Penny is now pain free.
Degenerated Hip and Back #Arthritis
INCLINED BED THERAPY { IBT }
SCIENTIST FLETCHER DISCOVERY
HEAD OF 7 FOOT BED HAS TO BE RAISED 7 INCHES AT HEAD END OF BED!
METHODS STILL USED TODAY BY SPACE FLIGHT, FLETCHER FOUND IN NASA RESEARCH THAT FLAT-BED AND HEAD-DOWN CAN INDUCE DEGENERATIVE EFFECTS VARICOSE VEINS AND EDEMA. MAINSTREAM TREATMENT ELEVATES LEGS. HOWEVER, ONCE PERSON STANDS UP, FLUID RUNS DOWN AND SWELLING REAPPEARS. EDEMA IS CAUSED BY GREATER PRESSURE IN VEINS THEN SURROUNDING TISSUE. BY USING INCLINED BED, THIS SLOPE PULL VEINS IN, BY APPLYING TENSION TO BLOOD IN VEINS + LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE, WHICH CAUSES FLUID TO MIGRATE FROM LEGS BACK INTO CIRCULATORY SYSTEM.
FLETCHER'S FATHER WAS IN COMA FROM CANCER THAT HAD CAUSED ACUTE RENAL FAILURE. HE WAS EXPECTED TO DIE IMMEDIATELY AND WAS PASSING TAR LIKE URINE, DUE TO BLOOD CONTENT IN URINE, AT HIS HOSPITAL. WHEN FLETCHER FINALLY CONVINCED THEM TO INCLINE HIS BED, HIS FATHER URINE BECAME CLEAR WITHIN FEW HOURS AND HE GAINED CONSCIOUSNESS + LIVED ANOTHER EIGHT MONTHS.
ALL PARTICIPANTS IN INCLINED THERAPY NOTED: BACK PAIN, EDEMA, DIFFICULTY SLEEPING, FREQUENT NIGHT URINATION, SNORING, MORNING LIGHT-HEADEDNESS, JOINT PAIN. IN EVERY PERSON IMPROVED, TO GOING AWAY COMPLETELY.
12 YEAR OLD CEREBRAL PALSY SUFFERER, ACCORDING TO FLETCHER, NEEDED CALIPERS AND WHEELCHAIR TO BE MOBILE AT SCHOOL. AFTER ABOUT 8 MONTHS OF INCLINED BED THERAPY, SHE GOT OUT OF HER WHEELCHAIR AT SCHOOL, FOR FIRST TIME.
TERRI, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SUFFER, HAD CONSTANT PAIN IN HER LEFT THIGH. SHE TRIED FLETCHER'S INCLINED BED USING BOOKS TO RAISE HEAD OF HER BED. OVER NIGHT PAIN WAS GONE. HER HUSBAND WAS IRRITATED BY THIS POSITION, SO DOWN CAME BED. PAIN CAME BACK, SO SHE RAISED IT AGAIN. AFTER SOME TIME NO MORE DRUGS WERE NEEDED. 2015 SHE HAD RADIO INTERVIEW. TERRI'S NEUROLOGIST SAID THAT SHE NEEDED NO MORE APPOINTMENTS AND NEUROLOGIST SAID HE HAD NEVER SEEN ANYONE IN THIS SITUATION GET BETTER.
WE HAVE FOUND ALONG WITH FLETCHER'S FINDING, THAT FOR MOST DISEASES INCLINED BED THERAPY DOES NOT CURE DISEASES, BUT MAKES TREATMENT FAR MORE EFFECTIVE AND RESULTS ARE MUCH FASTER, SO PLEASE DO NOT STOP ANY TREATMENT. ALSO YOU SHOULD CHANGE YOUR BAD HABITS TO GOOD HABITS { YOUR LIFESTYLES }. SUCH AS ENOUGH REST, EXERCISE, PROPER DIET, AND CORRECT MEDICATION.
OTHER FINDING OF FLETCHER'S ARE: ARTHRITIS PAIN LESSENS, PSORIASIS IMPROVED, COLD FEET AND HANDS BECOME WARMER, HEART RATE DECREASES BY 10-12 BEATS PER MINUTE AND RESPIRATION RATE DECREASES 4-5 BREATH PER MINUTE, YET CIRCULATION INCREASES. MAJORITY OF PARTICIPANTS AFFECTED BY MIGRAINES IN FLETCHER'S STUDY EXPERIENCED RELIEF BY THIS METHOD. SOME HAD BEEN SUFFERING MIGRAINES FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, IN MANY CASES RESULTS WERE FAST, WITHIN FEW DAYS.
THESE STUDIES VERIFIED THAT ACNE WAS GONE IN 2-3 WEEKS.
FLETCHER'S SAID THAT THERE WAS SOME IMPROVEMENT IN BRAIN CONGESTION, ADHD, ALZHEIMER'S, ASTHMA, GLAUCOMA, SINUS CONGESTION, SINUS CONGESTION, BAGGY EYES, SIDS, SLEEP APNEA, STROKES.
ACCORDING TO FLETCHER, MANY PEOPLE AFTER SOME TIME GAINED 1-2 INCHES IN HEIGHT, WHICH FOR FIRST 1 WEEK TO 3 WEEKS CAUSES SOME GROWING PAINS, THAT LEFT AFTER THIS TIME. URINE BECOMES DARKER AND STRONGER, FOR FIRST 1 TO 2 WEEKS FROM DETOXIFICATION, SO YOU NEED TO DRINK MORE WATER. ALSO MANY PEOPLE WENT THOUGH EMOTIONAL CHANGES FOR 3 TO 4 WEEKS. BECAUSE OF MY DIET AND EMOTIONAL RELEASE TREATMENT I HAVE GONE THROUGH, I DID NOT EXPERIENCE THESE PROBLEMS.
I ORIGINALLY ASKED GOD FOR HELP BECAUSE OF PAIN FROM MY DEGENERATED HIP AND BACK. I HAD TO SIT ON BOARD ON CAR SEAT WITH PILLOW ON TOP + BOARD ON MY BACK WITH PILLOW AGAINST THIS BOARD. I ALSO HAD TO GET OUT OF OUR CAR EVERY HOUR TO GET SOME RELIEF. MY DAUGHTER PUT OUR NEXUS MAGAZINE NEXT TO ME TO READ, RIGHT AFTER ABOUT 2 HOURS OF PRAYER AND MEDITATION, { I WAS IN TEARS AT THIS TIME }. I OPENED THIS MAY - APRIL, 2016 NEXUS, ON PAGE 17 I SAW INCLINED BED THERAPY. I COULD NOT FIND ANYWHERE THAT FLETCHER WAS MAKING MONEY OFF THIS, SO I BUILT THIS INCLINED BED RIGHT AWAY. MY DAUGHTER WAITED 2 WEEKS BECAUSE I HAVE TRIED SO MANY THINGS OVER 3 YEARS TO GET HELP, BUT NOTHING WORKED. I AM 77 YEARS OLD AND FIRST NIGHT WITHIN 20 MINUTES, MY PAIN WAS GONE. AFTER 2 TO 3 MONTHS I CAN SIT IN OUR CAR SEAT WITHOUT PAIN, NOW IT IS OVER 6 MONTHS AND I AM BETTER THAT I HAVE BEEN IN OVER 10 YEARS.
MY DAUGHTER STARTED USING THIS INCLINED 2 WEEKS LATER SINCE SHE SAW SO MUCH IMPROVEMENT, IN SUCH SHORT TIME.
HOPE YOU HAVE SIMILAR RESULTS.
HERMAN G. MEINKE
JANUARY 11, 2017
#Osteoarthritis, #backpain and #hippain
I love Inclined Bed Therapy too. I started doing it January 1st and besides sleeping great each night I notice my dreams are more vivid and memorable which could also mean my brain is having an easier time restoring itself due to gravity and blood flow. Maybe that might help prevent Alzheimers in the long run.I used to wake up on a flat bed with shoulder, back and hip pains, but those have been steadily diminishing, and at this rate I think I just may regain my ability to run again. This experience suggests that it could help so many with back and osteo-arthritic problems, and certainly Dr. Mercola should do an article on it. We know too much sitting is bad and sleep is good, but sleeping flat and then waking up feeling pained and cramped in your joints is bad too, and I am happy I stumbled upon this better way.
The mattress industry just wants to sell you a new $2,000 mattress each year, but all you really need is two bed raisers, or books to raise your bed about five or six inches. I think the pull of gravity when sleeping on an incline also keeps the bowels from stagnating, and blood circulation flowing freely to every cell of the body. In short, Inclined Bed Therapy is probably the most important thing I have I have learned in probably my whole life, and I think it could help many people, and cure many problems that people have, and make their nights restful and restorative too, and I thank you for your post, and hope Dr. Mercola writes some articles on it in the future.
Source: comments on Dr Mercola's site
Posted On 5/28/2016 7:33:08 AM
Hello,
United Kingdom
Posted Date : 28-02-2016
#arthritis
Best Decision Ever
Tilting the bed was one of the best decisions I've made in my (long) life. At the age of 70 I have aches and pains, arthritis and a few other physical issues. Pain has been an every day companion but since I tilted the bed a couple of weeks ago the aches and pain has lessened a great deal and I sleep better than ever. I expect it to get better when time passes. If in two weeks I've made such progress what will happen after a few months! Thank you so much Andrew - you ought to be recognized far wider than what has been happening until now!!!