Do you suffer from the Monday Morning Blues?
It’s amazing how many people begin their day – not with a sense of inspiration, but with resignation, depression, and even desperation. Their alarm clock rings and instead of leaping out of bed filled with thankfulnes for another day of life, their thoughts plummet into despair as they realize their day is filled with tasks labeled “Must Do” – none of which are things that they love to do!

Statistics reveal that many people feel so despondent about geting up and facing their daly toils and responsibilities that more people suffer from heart attacks at seven o’clock on Monday morning than at any other time of the week. This could be termed the “Monday morning heart attack blues.” And if that many people are having heart attacks from the thought of work, imagine how many people are making themselves sick in other ways.

The irony is that it’s just as simple to fill your day with things you love to so as it is to fill your day with things you must do, need to do, or dread doing! We sometimes forget that we have the power to create the life we love. In fact, when we listen to the wisdom of our intuition, or inner voice, we discover that we are most fulfilled when we’re doing what we love, and loving what we do.

Dr. John DeMartini – Count Your Blessings

Is that Prozac you’re taking? For what reason? The drug has been approved mainly as an anti-depressant. But despite reports of drastic side effects, some doctors prescribe it to treat weight loss.

And is that Seldane in your cabinet? Do you know that when taken with certain antibiotics, this anti-allergy drug can produce heart problems? Does your doctor even know that? Better make sure; the combo can kill you.

More that 1.5 billion prescriptions are written each year. Most are safe, but adverse reactions cause 659,000 hospitalization annually, costing $27 billion. Prescription error is the second-leading cause of malpractice suits, accounting for more than $250 million in settlements.

The elderly are most vulnerable. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that 25% of all older Americans are prescribed at least one “inappropriate and dangerous drug” each year. Other studies say that 3,300 older Americans die of ulcers caused by arthritis medication each year and 1,500 from hip injuries suffered during drug-induced falls.

YOUR BODY CAN DO IT!

“The body has an ability to fight germs and infections and heal itself. Doctors should be concentrating on prevention and stimulating the body’s natural healing power. Most drugs just prevent disease from expressing itself symptomatically. Symptoms disappear but the disease actually gets progressively worse.”

Chiropractors focus on the health of the spine and nerve system as the main vehicle for fighting and preventing cancer and infections disease.

David Feltoen, M.D.,Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, recently discovered “nerve fibers go into virtually every organ of the immune system. We found that if you took the nerves away from the spleen or lymph nodes, you virtually stop immune responses in their tracks.”

“Scientists have found the first evidence of the anatomical connection of the nervous system and the immune system.”

-New York Times, May 13, 1993

Study of 200 Chiropractic children revealed a 79% no occurrence rate of ear infections compared to 19% of 200 children in the average population.

-Journal of Chiropractic Research

Chiropractic research on HIV positive patients revealed that those who received Chiropractic care showed a 48% increase in CD4 immune system blood cells compared to those that did not receive Chiropractic care.

-Doctors: Selano, Hightower, Pfleger, Peeley, Collins, Grostic

While the medical community is just beginning to explore the relationship of the nerves system and the immune system, Chiropractic has been mastering this relationhiip by caring for the spine and nervous system of children and adults for years.

It comes down to this: do you have more faith in a pill, a shot, a vitamin, an herb, or a spoonful of medicine than the power that created you and the entire living world? You are born with an immunity to all disease. This can only be accomplished by God and the body from within. The body always knows what to do unless it is interfered with. You need no help to get well. You need no help to stay well. You just need no interference. Chiropractic seeks to remove this interference.

So why is there such a long time between the onset of the problem and your awareness of it?

Quite frankly, your body is so well-equipped for keeping itself functioning that it often does not use it’s energy to warn you of small, developing problems.

Unfortunately, most diseases are a process, which begins with a small developing problem, which worsens over months or years….and they go undetected until you become aware of the damage that has been done.

Consider this list of conditions, which may have few or no symptoms until their end-stages:

Arrythmia                                                  Coronary artery disease                                             Polycystic kidney

Artherosclerosis                                      Diabetes Mellitus                                                          Polycythemia

Atrial Fibrillation                                    Diverticular disease                                                      Polyps of large bowel

Atrioventricular block                             Emphysema                                                                  Prostate cancer

Benign prostatic hypertrophy                 Encephalitis (viral or aseptic)                                       Pulmonary valve stenosis

Breast Cancer                                          Fibroid tumors of uterus                                             Pyelonephritis (chronic)

Carcinoid syndrome                                Glomerulonephritis                                                      Renal Calculi

Cardiomyopathy                                      Hyperbilirubinemia                                                     Renal failure (chronic)

Cervical erosion                                       Hypertension                                                                 Retinoblastoma

Cervical spondylosis                                Osteoarthritis                                                                Scoliosis

Cervical cancer                                        Osteoporosis                                                                  Tooth decay

Colorectal cancer                                    Ovarian cyst                                                                   Tuberculosis

Vertebral Subluxations are often just as silent…and just a deadly, since subluxations literally interrupt the commmunication between your brain and body.

Therefore, since subluxations are both silent and deadly we want you , as our patient, to be committed to three goals:

1. Following your care plan until your subluxations are corrected (and not stopping one you “feel a little better”).

2. Maintainin your corrections through regular chiropractic maintenance visits and other positive health choices.

3. Telling others you know about getting checked for vertebral subluxation, even if it means they have no symptoms.

Just finished talking to a few patients this morning about working out and keeping ahead of the losing muscle battle. Here’s the thing…if you’re not lifting weights, you’re body is going to soften..Yes EVEN IF YOU’RE ON THE TREADMILL OR STAIRSTEPPER. Patients are constantly telling me about how they are training only to realize they are NOT training/working out at all. You CANNOT consider the type of work you do as working out. The truth is: your body will adapt in a few weeks to whatever you are constantly doing and will no longer benefit from that training regimen. In other words, if you carry shingles up a ladder every day, that does not mean your working out., sure, you’re tired, sure, you feel like you’re working out…but you’re NOT. Adaptation means that your body gets used to whatever task you ask it to do and will be able to perform that particular thing, but nothing more than that.

Just look in the mirror… if you look like a banana, an apple or a pear…..the working out you think you do at your job ISN’T WORKING!! I don’t know about you but I’d rather not look like a piece of fruit!

It’s a common misunderstanding I am coming to realize that the average person doesn’t realize that working out entails lifting weights, just imagine how frail most older people look as they’ve gotten older. As we age we have a tendency to lose 25% of our muscle mass, now if you’re losing 25% of that which you don’t have much of already…that would be a FRAIL looking older person… or YOU when you get there.

I realize that most people have no idea how or what to do in the gym, so what I’ve done is worked with patients who are not interested in going to the gym either because of fear of not knowing, because of economics or because of geographical location to a gym. I’ve helped them put together a way to train at home with homemade equipment in many cases or minimal weight equipment and got them on the right track to stopping the MUSH from happening.

If you never work out, you’ll be shaped like the piece of fruit you see in others, if you never work out you’ll for sure be less healthy then you could otherwise be. Keep in mind that having a stronger body means that you’ll be able to prevent or slow down that frail look that we always see in the elderly, of course we see it because: THEY NEVER WORK OUT!!!!

Here it is in a nutshell: You have to eat right, exercise, get enough rest, think that health is your right, and have good nerve flow. If you do these things you’ll effectively become like super human compared to the others around you. Your body is designed to be healthy, the biggest reason most of you get sick is because of what you’ve done to yourself up until now.

Just think about it… You wouldn’t expect your car to run very well if you put watered down gasoline in it, but you water down your nutrition every day with soda, coffee, juice, alcohol, McDonalds, Burger King, or just JUNK food period and ecpect your body to run well… does that make sense? NOOO!! And then when you get sick, you actually ask..Why am I getting sick? Are you kidding? Have you ever heard this saying: Garbage in Garbage out? Of course you have! That’s why you’re sick and sickly….Most of the time. Get off of the genetic or heredity hunt and realize that if you continue to eat bad, not getting enough rest, not exercising and not having a strong immune system…..YOU’RE GOING TO BE SICK!! A LOT!

Throughout my career I’ve struggled with patients who have no idea that their body will turn to mush if they don’t work out. Sure the’re training in the gym alright, doing things like running on the Treadmill, or using the Elyptical machine, or better yet their taking classes in Kick Boxing and Taebo, but they’re NOT working out their muscle. Here’s the facts, you’ve probably seen or heard this recently on television in an advertisement for some protein drink. They say that after the age of 40 we tend to lose 8% of muscle every 10 years. We used to simply say that you’ll love 25% of your muscle mass as you get older.

Both are true! In other words, getting older means we’re destined to be frail and old looking if we stay on the path of our parents and MOST people. Even a person who is thin or lean we might say, even that person is turning to mush as they age. You have to work that muscle on your body with weights, or resistance exercises, it’s not possible to do all the aerobics out there and still keep your muscle in good shape.

But just about everyone I talk to believes that they are training good enough to maintain at least their muscles. It makes me crazy to hear that and to have to explain that to my patients and non-patients about the truth. I eventually have to tell them that they “WiLL TURN INTO MUSH”, if they don’t change their ways.

I find that even when people DO workout “with weights” they don’t typically know what to do… or that they can lift much more with their legs for instance then they are able to with their arms. Patients are always trying to do 10lbs of curls with their biceps when they can lift 25lbs easily, if you don’t push your body you won’t get results…does that make sense?

The Results I’m talking about is NOT getting large muscles, although who wouldn’t want to be stronger? It’s about getting your body to change it’s shape and the only way is to change the muscle…. Listen, if you already look like a PEAR and you do aerobics to lose weight, (thinking that you’re actually working your muscles out), you’re just going to become a smaller PEAR!! Is that alright with you? Tightening or toning the muscles means you have to workout with weights or at least some good resistance training to get the muscle to respond otherwise you’ll get MUSH. Just look at Jack LaLanne who’s 95 years old…he looks like he could easily be 75. Because his WHOLE LIFE he’s worked out, ate right and made sure to get enough rest!

Wait, that’s exactly what I preach in my office every day. That’s exactly how I live my life as well….Move over Jack!!

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Coffee                 McDonalds       Wendy’s              Walgreens

Alcohol              Coke                    Eli Lilly                Eckards

Aspirin               Burger King       Pornography     Tattooing and Piercing

Fast Food          Junk Food          Cigarettes             Heavy Metal Rock-n-Roll

Antibiotics        Illegal Drugs      Prescriptions & Surgery

Not Exercising              Not Reading Something Positive        News

Negative Influences

From the beginning, we have never been able to make the right choices. It’s not just that we do not choose well, humans have always had this huge tendency to be lured into making choices that cause mental, spiritual, and physical harm to themselves. Give someone enough rope and they will hang themselves, whip themselves, burn themselves, and put it in a pipe and smoke it.

In modern times if Adam, David and Samson were alive today they would smoke, eat at McDonalds, take tylenol, read the Enquirer, stay up too late, miss adjustments, and forget to exercise.

If you could answer the question, “Why do we always do things that hurt ourselves?”, you would win the Nobel Prize. If you could come up with an idea for people to enjoy hurting themselves you could become rich.

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE. LOVE YOURELF ENOUGH TO CHOOSE RIGHT.

All scientific evidence shows that the body is designed to be well for a minimum of 70-80 years if it is taken care of and should be longer.

Spinally Speaking:

If there is a subluxation in your neck or worse you have lost the curve in your neck, or have degeneration it will cause poorer health than you should have all of your life and eventually be responsible for early developemnt of disease and premature death.

1. WHAT IS AN ADJUSTMENT?

A chiropractic adjustment is given to align the subluxation to take pressure off the spinal cord and nerves. This will restore proper nerve supply to the body’s organs and allow normal body function. An optimum functioning spine equals optium health.

2. HOW DOES AN ADJUSTMENT FEEL, AND HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?

Patients report that being adjusted feels great. However, in some cases the individual may be sore the first couple of times. An adjustment takes  only a minute or two, but the vital nerve energy it releases can last for hours, days, or even weeks, depending on the stage of your care.

3. IS CHIROPRACTIC SAFE?

While 2,000 people will die from aspirin this year and thousands more from surgery and drug reactions, chiropracti is safe. So safe that malpractice for chiropractors costs a fraction of what other types of physicians pay.

4. WHAT RESEARCH HAS BEEN DONE ON CHIROPRACTIC?

Literlly thousands of health studies, including research by the U.S. government, have shown that Chiropractic is beneficial in maximizing health, boosting immunity, relieving the symptoms of sickness and disease, and restoring normal function back to the body.

5. SHOULD I BE ADJUSTED IF I AM SICK?

An adjustment will help your body regain control and balance to better fight off your condition.

6. CAN I BE ADJUSTED IF I HAVE HAD AN OPERATION ON MY SPINE OR HAVE OLD, WEAK, BRITTLE, OR BROKEN BONES?

There are many very gentle techniques that can be employed to assure proper safety for newborns to the elderly.

7. CAN I BE ADJUSTED IF I AM PREGNANT?

For normal development of the baby and ease and safety of the birth, being adjusted during pregnancy is essential.

8. CAN I ADJUST MYSELF?

Even chiropractors need chiropractors to adjust them. The worst spines are those of people who manipulate their own spines. Manipulation can even be dangerous. An adjustment moves a specific subluxation in a specific direction.

Has ANY ONE ever told you that getting the flu shot is only a 50/50 percent chance? 50% chance that if you get the shot that you won’t get the flu, and 50% chance that if you don’t get the shot that you won’t get the flu? Or, that the risks of the side effects are much worse than getting the flu?

Has ANY ONE ever told you about the study that says that getting the flu shot 3 years in a row increases your chance of getting Alzheimers disease by 10%?

Has ANY ONE ever told you that the heavy metals in the flu shot like Aluminum and Mercury (which are used as stabilizers) are really really bad for you and cannot be gotton rid of by the body?

Has ANY ONE ever told you that there are approximately 250 different strains of the flu and that getting the shot doesn’t mean you’ll actually get THAT strain? Or, that even if you get the shot it’s an attenuated (weakened) version of the strain and because you received the “attenuated” shot you can still get that exact flu this year and anytime in the future?

Has ANY ONE ever told you that if you didn’t get the shot and you actually GOT the flu, you’d develop a LIFETIME immunity to that particular strain because your body will absolutely develop the antibodies to fight that strain off for EVER?