What is normal?

What is normal? Interesting question. Normal, as defined by Webster's, is "according with, constituting, or not deviating from a norm, rule, or principle or conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern". I have found patients don't often give me the information...

5 Health Myths

Over the years myths about what is healthy and what is not healthy have been circulated as truths. Here are 5 myths, that can impact your health, that are not totally true.1. Probiotics are the "good bacteria" that needs to be in our digestive systems. Having a...

Muscle and organs, what’s the connection?

In 1964 Dr. George Goodheart Jr. DC introduced a new procedure into the Chiropractic profession called Applied Kinesiology (manual muscle testing). This procedure was based on research from 1949 by Kendall and Kendall, physical therapists.Muscle-organ relationship was...

Probiotics yes or no?

People use these "healthy bacteria" by the tons. We see probiotics in commercially made food items, yogurt especially. The companies making these products have zero integrity because they promote these "health" foods to us by putting in Pro-Biotics then load it full...

How much versus what kind of vitamins?

Today's world of vitamin supplements has much confusion and contradiction!I shared this article on Facebook. It was talking about calcium and heart issues. As I was reading the article, I realized with almost all vitamin research they are always talking about "how...

What does it take to be healthy? Part 1

What does it take to be healthy? What a great question, huh? Does any one really know? The medical society implies that being healthy is when "your numbers are with normal limits". Really? My numbers? What numbers and who decides what these numbers are? I mean, where...

What does it take to be healthy? Part 2

What does it take to be healthy? In the last blog, I pointed out the different philosophies based on the opinions of various health professions. WHO's (World Health Organization) definition of Health. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well...

Chiropractors are not just spine doctors!

Although my degree is in Chiropractic, I have spent much time and energy learning about emotions and how emotions impact the body, and how nutrition and whole food nutritional supplements heal, along with homeopathic remedies and herbal remedies (natures drugs, did...

Thyroid, everybody has one and it should work!

In my practice, I am often asked about thyroid gland issues. This is a common problem and is becoming a bigger issue with younger and younger people. Traditionally, women are more affected by thyroid problems than men are, however that is changing and I am seeing...

Your Body Deserves Regular Maintenance

In June I bought a new car, (the 11th car I have owned since age 18). It was needed and well deserved since my last car was purchased in 1998.With the new car comes parking in far away parking spaces, which is nice because now I am getting a little more walking in!...

Disease Process and the Autoimmune Response

Ever Google autoimmune? I just did...9/16/2013 10:39 am. About 10,900,000 results (0.15 seconds). Staggering, isn't it? The medical research world is discovering that nearly every disease process has an autoimmune component to it. Also, based on this autoimmune...

My life is so stressful!

Stress, everybody has it, and your stress is not as bad as my stress! Just ask anyone. It is almost a contest when we start talking about the STRESS in our lives. So who is the winner? The one with the most stress or the least stress?I like to say, it's not the stress...

What does it take to be healthy? Part 1

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What does it take to be healthy? What a great question, huh? Does any one really know? The medical society implies that being healthy is when “your numbers are with normal limits”. Really? My numbers? What numbers and who decides what these numbers are? I mean, where did the medical profession get the “NORMAL” numbers of a person, or persons, who are “HEALTHY”, and should MY numbers be the same as his?

We started treating ‘the numbers’ in only the 20th century; see that’s when man got smart, because for thousands of years prior man was stupid. But yet, people were not dying of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc. Societies like the Eskimos or Australian Aborigines did not have heart disease and cancers. They just ate real food, and used plants for medicines.

Is it healthy to put chemical toxins into the body? No, but this is our traditional medical care of the times.

Now, I am sounding a little harsh, however, I want to point out I am thankful for what modern medicine has to offer, that is emergency care, crisis care, sadly not much in the way of HEALTH CARE.

So what does it take to be healthy? Again, it depends on who you talk to. If you ask us Chiropractors, we say that being healthy is having the body in balance and the nervous system intact. Which is to say, there is free nerve flow from the brain to every tissue cell and then from the tissue cell back to the brain. The spinal vertebra are like switches, when the spine is aligned properly then the nerves flow freely. But if there is spinal misalignment (Subluxation) then the nerve flow is congested (stopped). Certainly the Chiropractic philosophy is a sound one. But is that truly the answer to health? I think it’s part of the picture. I mean, what if the patient is toxic from breathing-in toxins at work? What if the patient has trauma in his life? What if the patient eats Taco Bell every meal? And what caused the subluxation in the first place?

What about Chinese Medicine, and Acupuncture..they claim that poor circulation (either stagnation or excessive energy flow) of the chi (body’s energy) is the cause of poor health. So Acupuncturists stick needles in people to get the “chi” moving and balanced. But if that works for a short term then the problem returns? Well, I would be inclined to ask the same questions; what about nutrition, toxins, emotional stressors, or trauma?

Talk to the psychologist and now it’s all about your emotional state and how your parents raised you. So let’s talk about what bothers you and how that makes you feel. The interesting thing is, the more you talk about it the more you “program” your nervous system to feel that way all the time. So in essence you create more of ‘feeling bad’, without even realizing it!

Then, of course, you have the “religious” side to it. God is punishing you, or better yet the “devil” is out to get you. Then you pray and beg and plead that God (or some other Deity) will miraculously heal you. Without YOU having to make any changes.

What does it take to be healthy? Continue reading the article in part two.

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