A friend asked me recently why I didn’t have more massage therapists working with me to build exposure for Nikken. I’m told that most chiropractors usually have a product they sell, usually a nutritional supplement or something along those lines. Most massage therapists I know rely entirely on their service for income. That just doesn’t make sense to me.

Service-based businesses are severely limited in the amount of income that they can generate. A massage therapist makes somewhere between $15 and $100 per hour in my area depending on if they work for someone or for themselves. Either way, they are limited by the number of hours they can work in a day, and by how many appointments they can get scheduled. It makes sense to have a product to help supplement their income for the times when they aren’t fully booked or want to take some time off (or make only $15 an hour).

Chiropractors have figured that out.

I am a massage therapist and was introduced to Nikken by another massage therapist. In my opinion, Nikken’s products are the perfect match for what massage therapists do. Their magnetic items help a therapist’s clients to sleep better and take care of their issues between sessions. They even make magnetic massage tools for therapists to use during a session, and I do use them on my clients.

The bottom line is that, regardless of what company, massage therapists and other wellness practitioners must to have a product line to strengthen their income stream.

Wayne Woodworth
service: Massage Therapist
product: Independent Nikken Distributor

Do you have difficulty sleeping more than a few hours at a time? Nikken has just launched a new magnetic mattress topper and will discontinue the current Ultra Kenko Pad once they run out. They are calling the new magnetic pad the Kenko Naturest Mattress Topper. There is also a new Naturest pillow as well that will replace the existing pillow.

The technology advances are cool but the most important thing is how people are sleeping. I used to have trouble getting to sleep at night until I started using Nikken’s current magnetic mattress pad, the Ultra Kenko Pad. Once that was on my bed I could fall asleep within seconds of laying down, and still do. The only down side to that magnetic pad is that it is very firm. If you like a soft bed then it probably took a little adapting to, and it did for me.

There are a few people who still had trouble sleeping with that one. Two people in my upline told me that before the Ultra Kenko Pad they would sleep very little. With that pad they could sleep 4 hours or so at a time and feel great. That was a significant improvement for them and they were happy with that.

Now comes the new Naturest mattress topper. These same people are saying that this new pad is helping them to sleep 8 or 9 hours a night. They might not get that every night, but even just 2 or 3 nights a week of sleeping completely through the night is a huge breakthrough for them.

The new magnetic mattress pad, or mattress topper as they are calling them now, is made using a natural latex rubber and a new magnet technology. Latex provides many benefits. It is a renewable resource, so it is good for the environment. The latex is much softer than the foam from the current magnetic pad, so it is more comfortable and easier to adjust to. Natural latex is also resistant to microbes and such, so it is cleaner and better for the body.

I don’t know much about the science behind the new magnets in the Naturest pad other than that they have figured out how to incorporate 3 magnets, offset from each other to some degree, into each node. They are calling this Radial-Axis Magnetism or RAM and it somehow creates a 3-dimensional magnetic cocoon effect that wraps the body and is able to pull you deeper into sleep.

While all of the new technologies are great, the important thing is that people who had trouble sleeping are now able to sleep through the night. Of course, there is no guarantee that you will experience the same results that they have. The cool thing about magnets is that they don’t have any negative side-effects, so it doesn’t hurt to try it out.

The Kenko Naturest Mattress Topper and pillow is currently in a pre-order phase. Leave me a comment here or use my contact page to reach me to find out more about it and order your own.

Wayne Woodworth
Independent Nikken Wellness Consultant

I was asked yesterday if magnets can help with fibromyalgia.  I would like to be able to just say “yes” and move on, but that would be irresponsible and get me in a whole bunch of trouble with Nikken and the FDA, so I won’t.

Before I go any farther,  I want to make it completely clear that I am not a doctor, I cannot diagnose whether you have fibromyalgia or any other condition, and I cannot prescribe anything for any condition that you may have.

So, what can I say about fibromyalgia?  Well, for one, medicine hasn’t actually decided what exactly fibromyalgia is.  It is closely related to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the lines between the two conditions appear to be very blurry.  It is classified as one of the many auto-immune conditions where the immune system attacks the body as if it was an attacker.  People who have fibromyalgia usually complain that their whole body hurts all the time, and it is a chronic condition, which means that they will probably have it for a very long time and maybe the rest of their life.  People with fibromyalgia don’t usually have much hope of getting out of pain, which is a really sad way to have to live.

I read a good description of fibromyalgia on another site.  It said that it is an inflammation based condition.  For whatever reason, inflammation is triggered and it stays on, becoming chronic.

As a Nikken consultant I have heard many people report that problems with inflammation have improved after using the magnetic sleep system, insoles, and the biaxial magnetic rotation products.  I have also heard several testimonials in regards to fibromyalgia specifically.

As I said before, I’m not a doctor, so I cannot tell you that magnets will help you if you have fibromyalgia.  I will say that magnets have been determined to be completely safe, unless you have a pacemaker or some other battery-powered implant.  With that said, my recommendation is that if you want an alternative to living with pan, give the Nikken magnets a try.  Use the sleep system, insoles, and always drink plenty of water (we are 70% water and need to stay hydrated) for 3 months.  The worst that can happen is that nothing happened, and just maybe something might.

Wayne Woodworth
A good night’s sleep on a magnetic mattress pad makes me feel great.

Acidity is a big problem that causes even bigger problems.  So, do you have problems with acidity?  A lot of people do.

Before I get in too deep, I have to say here that I am not a doctor.  I don’t diagnose problems, prescribe anything, or treat anything.  Ask your doctor before you try anything new, especially if you already have real issues.

First, are you acidic?  It is easy to find out with a piece of litmus paper by testing your saliva.  It is best to do it first thing in the morning before you’ve had anything to eat because the chemicals in your food with throw off the results.

Why do you care if you are acidic?  An acidic condition is a huge burden on your body.  It has to maintain an environment that is slightly alkaline, between 7.2 and 7.4 on the pH scale.  Acidosis is the name for the condition when a person gets too acidic.  A person who gets too far out of this slightly alkaline range will die because certain life-sustaining chemical processes cannot take place.  It is that important.  Since the body’s first concern is self-preservation, it will do everything it can to maintain that pH balance.

Calcium and a few other minerals are used to buffer acid in the blood and those minerals are stored in the bones.  Calcium is also used by the body to build strong bones and to regulate the heart beat.  Here’s a good article about how calcium is used to beat the heart.  So, if the blood is using all of the calcium to buffer acid, what is going to build strong bones and beat your heart?  See the problem?

What are the causes of acidity and how do you fix them?  Diet and stress are two of the biggest causes.  Let’s deal with stress first because diet is the bigger topic.  Stress causes your body to flood itself with adrenaline, which is acidic.   Normally, this is a good thing because it gives us the heightened awareness to deal with a dangerous situation.  The problem for us is that we constantly put ourselves into stressful situations and never give our bodies that chance to flush the adrenaline out and take a break.  A good night’s sleep is the best solution.  I’m talking about a full 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep.  How often do you get that?  Meditation is another good idea.

Now let’s address diet.  Diet is what you eat, whatever that may be.  Most people have a highly acidic diet.  Fast food, processed food, meat, soft drinks, you name it.  If it isn’t a fresh vegetable or water then it is probably acidic.  Actually, the water a lot of people drink is acidic too if it is a purified bottled water or comes from a reverse osmosis or distillation system.  A lot of people don’t eat their vegetables either.  So, how do you fix it?  It is simple.  Eat a lot more veggies, drink a lot more water, and cut back on the rest of the stuff.

Don’t get me wrong on this diet thing.  I’m still not a big fan of a lot of vegetables and I love a lot of acidic foods.  It is something that I’m still working on.  One thing I was able to do though, and I recommend you do too, is to cut out carbonated soft drinks and replace them with water, alkaline water.  The added carbon dioxide that makes the fizz also joins with the water to make carbonic acid.  I’ve heard that it takes 30 glasses of water to neutralize the acid in one can of soda.  It has become such a problem these days that teenagers are being diagnosed with osteoporosis, which used to be a disease you heard mostly associated with elderly ladies.

My recommendations:

• Drink good, clean, alkaline water (read my free report to find out how to get it) .
• Cut out the soft drinks.
• Eat more vegetables.
• Reduce the amount of acidic food you eat.
• Get a good night sleep regularly
• Meditate

Once you have started to take control of your acid then you can think about a calcium supplement and other things to restore the proper balances in your body.  Also, check out my blog post about Osteodenx, a bone density supplement.

Wayne Woodworth
I don’t need an acid trip

My first experience with Nikken was with the Ultra Kenko Pad.  A massage therapist friend invited us to a Wellness Home Preview and we were allowed to borrow the magnetic mattress pad for a week to see what we thought of it.  The short version of the story is that we ended up joining Nikken and highly recommend both the product and the business.

We put the magnetic pad on our bed and covered it over with the sheet  and settled in for the night under the far-infrared comforter.  Nobody told us to put our regular mattress pad over it too.  I wish they had because my first thought was that I was lying on a rock.  Firmness aside, I slept better than I had in years.  With the combination of the magnets, far-infrared, and negative ions everything on the bed just felt right.

Since we joined, Nikken has introduced the Kenko Air mattress which is an air mattress, similar to those number beds, with the Ultra Kenko Pad on top of it.  I tried one out once and it is very nice.  You can control the firmness of each side of the bed independently.  We don’t have one yet because our existing mattress is in great shape and there is no need to upgrade yet.

Wayne Woodworth
Independent Nikken Wellness Consultant
Magnetic sleeper

Disclaimer: I am an Independent Nikken Wellness Consultant and massage therapist. None of my statements have been approved by either Nikken or the FDA. I do not diagnose conditions and I do not prescribe any product to treat a particular condition. These are my opinions based on my experience with the Nikken sleep system.