May 07

Happy Spring – May all your dreams flower and bloom (just don’t forget the fertilizer).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

·Why visit a chiropractor?

·Babies and chiropractic

·Want to Lose Weight?

·One way to Lower your Heart Attack Risks

·Tylenol™ and liver failure

·Where does Eczema come From?

·The Stress and Cancer Link

·What do most Asthmatics die from

·Why we use the Erchonia laser

·The placebo (a true story)

·Humor

Why visit a chiropractor?

Each year millions of people enjoy the most popular natural, drug-free health care system in the world –chiropractic! Chiropractic helps people function closer to their physical and emotional best; recover from sickness, disease and disability faster and minimize the use of drugs and surgery in their lives! Many chiropractic users report less stress, more vitality and more enjoyment in life!

Chiropractic is a system of health care that releases a serious stress from your body: the subluxation, an often painless, tiny distortion in your spine and structural system that can affect your nerves, muscles, internal organs, discs, bones, brain, posture and overall health.

Of course, if you presently are ill and suffering, you need your natural healing ability enhanced so you can better fight disease and return yourself to a state of balance and health. That is a fact no matter what disease or condition you may have. By correcting your subluxations, chiropractors help awaken your natural healing ability to function at its optimum; to awaken your “inner doctor.”

For millions chiropractic has made the difference between living with pain and living without pain, between living with sickness and living in health, between a fast recovery and a slow recovery and even between life and death.

Why live with health problems when you can live without them? Discover chiropractic – discover how natural healing can be.

Babies and chiropractic

You do so many things to ensure your baby's health: during pregnancy you eat right; you avoid cigarettes, alcohol and all drugs (even aspirin, cold, flu and other over-the-counter medications can damage your unborn child or cause problems in pregnancy). You educate yourself so you may have a natural, drug-free birth. After the baby arrives you breast-feed knowing that is the superior form of nutrition; in short, you do everything you can to make sure your baby is healthy.

But have you had your baby's spine checked? How do you know if your child's spine is healthy? An unhealthy spine can affect your child's health for his/her entire life. Your doctor of chiropractic is specially trained to check your child's spine for areas of distortion causing nerve damage – the vertebral subluxation complex (subluxations).

With the birth process becoming more and more an intervening procedure, the chiropractic adjustment becomes even more important to the child's future. –Larry Webster, D.C.

For Over a hundred years…

For over a hundred years doctors of chiropractic have observed the often dramatic responses of infants after chiropractic care. In fact, there seems to be no limit to the conditions that can respond to chiropractic care: colic (1), difficulty breast-feeding (2), Erb's palsy (an arm is limp and undeveloped) (3), torticollis (twisted neck) (4), unbalanced face and skull development (5), foot inversion (6), "nervousness" and ear, nose and throat infections (7), allergies and sleep disorders (8), projectile vomiting (9) and many, many other conditions.

Give your baby the best possible chance to have a healthy life. You have your baby's eyes checked, heart checked, hearing checked – bring all your children in for a chiropractic spinal checkup. A simple checkup now might make a BIG difference for your children for the rest of their lives.

Want to lose Weight…Add Exercise and Protein!

I love this study in The Journal of Nutrition (2005 Aug;135(8):1903-10). It took different groups and put people on two different diets, either high protein and low carbohydrate or low protein and high carbohydrate.It also divided these groups even more and had half of them exercise and the other half perform their daily activities and nothing more. What they found was that the people that ate the high protein and low carbohydrate diet and exercised had the most change as far as body composition was concerned. The other good thing in this group was that there HDL cholesterol levels were better as was there triglyceride levels.

This goes right along with an article I posted a couple months ago on how higher intensity training (weights, running, elliptical) was much more effective than simply walking.

 If you have a hard time getting all of you required protein intake I would suggest you look at our PaleoMeal.

Also, I am currently reading a book entitled “The Paleo Diet.” I will comment on this further in the future but it is a very intriguing diet and way of living. I encourage you to look at it.

One Way to Lower you Heart Attack Risk

Atherosclerosis is a term used when “stuff” begins to build up in your arteries. Atherosclerosis can cause problems with cholesterol levels, High blood pressure and triglyceride levels. A study in The Journal of Nutrition (136:1886-1889, July 2006) showed that “a diet high in green and yellow vegetables inhibits the development of atherosclerosis.” Furthermore they stated that it “may therefore lead to a reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease.”

I think that is very important news for everyone, especially those of you that are battling any of the above mentioned things (High blood pressure, High cholesterol/triglycerides) as these you really need to do everything you can to lower your chances of having a problem with you heart.

Remember, the best way to get these in your diet is to use fresh, organic veggies. If you can’t do that then I suggest you use Total Greens.

Tylenol™ and liver failure

Why are so many people dependent on painkillers to relieve their symptoms when there is chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy and so many other safer alternatives?No one should be living on synthetic pharmaceutical drugs, many of which are very dangerous.

In one study of 662 cases of acute liver failure the researchers discovered that poisoning with acetaminophen (Tylenol) far exceeded any other cause of acute liver failure. Of those cases resulting from acetaminophen poisoning, 29% died. (15)

Everyone, no matter what condition they may have, needs chiropractic care to ensure their body is working without subluxations. If you have any specific questions please feel free to contact us.

The Stress & Cancer Link

We have all heard that stress is not good for you but many people don’t know why. Furthermore, a lot of people don’t know that high levels of stress can promote cancer. One study in the The Journal of Biological Chemistry looked at epinephrine and its effect on cancer cells. What they found was that epinephrine inhibits cellular apoptosis. Now, I know that may not mean much to a lot of you but if you read last month’s eNewsletter entitled “Speaking of Cancer” this may ring a bell.

Apoptosis is basically when the cell kills itself because it knows something is wrong internally. Epinephrine, on the other hand, is an hormone released by the adrenal glands in time of stress.

So the moral of the story here is to try and manage stress as much as possible because high stress leads to high epinephrine. High epinephrine leads to decrease cellular apoptosis. Decreased cellular apoptosis leads to an increased risk of cancer.

Where does Eczema come From?

Atopy is a broad term applied to common things such as Eczema, Asthma, allergic rhinitis, etc… and is commonly considered a type of allergy. A study in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (Volume 115, Issue 6, June 2005) set out to answer that. The objective of the study was to see if there was any relation between the use of Antibiotics early in life and a higher chance of battling Atopy. What did they find? Their conclusion was that “Antibiotic use early in life appears to contribute to increased risk for atopy in certain subgroups of children.”

They also note that “the hygiene hypothesis suggests that early exposure to infections decreases the risk for allergy’s and asthma.” Oh and one more thing, they noted that the children are most susceptible during the first 6 months of their life.

The take home message from all of this is to not run out and get a pill (specifically an antibiotic) for every little cold, especially if there is a family history of allergies. It is good for a baby/child to get sick every once a while. It builds their immune system.

Let’s also not forget that these antibiotics reduce the amount of good bacteria in your system. Another reason why we should all take a probiotic every day!

What do most asthmatics die from?

Asthma drugs. Researchers from Stanford and Cornell Universities reviewed 19 studies involving nearly 34,000 patients and found that people using popular drug inhalers for asthma (Serevent™, Advair™, Foradil™) were 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized for severe asthma attacks and 3.5 times more likely to die than those using different inhalers. Five thousand people die each year from asthma (US) and about 4,000 are caused by these drugs. (17)

I suggest any of you that have problems with Asthma read “Encouraging news for Asthmatics” in my last eNewsletter (April 07) as it gives some good advice.

Why do we use the Erchonia Laser?

Each weak we get a lot of use out of our laser. It is growing more and more popular and if I could only use one tool in the office, it would be my erchonia laser. It looks as though the evidence is starting to pile up and show that I am not crazy (sometimes I need a little reassurance). A group (Photomedicine and Laser Surgery December 2006, Volume 24, Number 6) recently took different strength’s/powers of laser and put them head to head to see if any particular one was more effective. What they found was the laser that was 685 nm, 3 J/cm2 (the one that most resembles the Erchonia Laser) was the most effective.

They found that Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) was very effective at accelerating the healing of a damaged tendon. They also say “A series of studies have demonstrated that LLLT is effective at reducing post injury inflammatory processes and accelerating soft tissue healing.”

This is all very important to me because the reason we spend the money we do on our equipment is to get the best. The erchonia lasers are not cheap! The difference though is that the diodes in which these lasers are made are very exact and the frequency does not waver much. Again this is very important. In fact lasers that use higher wavelengths have actually been shown to increase cancer cell growth where as lower wavelength’s (635 nm) have been shown to stop the growth of abnormal cells!

The placebo (a true story)

A man brings his asthmatic child to the chiropractor.

The child’s breathing improves and the number and severity of attacks begins to diminish almost immediately. The father goes back to his MD.

“Why didn’t you tell me chiropractic could help my child’s asthma?”

“It’s just placebo,” his MD responded.

“Why didn’t you tell me chiropractic was such a good placebo for asthma?” the father said.

(Note: Placebo is just another word for our ability to tap the natural healing ability or our inner doctor.)

Humor

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UP

There is a two-letter word that perhapshas more meanings than any other two-letter word,and that word is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning,why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speakUP, and why are the officers UP for electionand why is it UP to the secretary to writeUP a report?
We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room,polish UPthe silver, we warm UP the leftoversand clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fixUP the old car.
At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, lineUP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stoppedUP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UPat night.We seem to be pretty mixedUP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try buildingUP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will takeUP a lot of your time,but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time isUP, so .... Time to shut UP....!
Oh...one more thing:! What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U P

Bye. See you next month. Don’t forget to stop by for a spinal checkup and an adjustment. And bring in the family too – for a healthier spring!

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3. Harris SL, Wood KW. Resolution of infantile Erb's palsy utilizing chiropractic treatment. JMPT. 1993;16:415-418.

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8. Munck LK, Hoffman H, Nielsen AA. Treatment of infants in the first year of life by chiropractors: incidents and reasons for seeking treatment. Ugeskr Laeger.1988;150:1841-1844.

9. Van Loon M. Colic with projectile vomiting: a case study. J of Clinical ChiropracticPediatrics. 1998;3(1):207-210.

10. Ravnskov U. The Cholesterol Myths.Washington, DC:New Trends Publishing. 2002. http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm

11. Nguyen T et al. Functional outcomes of lumbar fusion among the Ohio workers’ compensation subjects, presented at the Primary Care Forum VIII, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2006; as yet unpublished.

15. Larson AM et al. Acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure: results of a United States multicenter, prospective study. Hepatology. 2005;42(6):1364-1372.

16. Lovett L, Blum C. Behavioral and learning changes secondary to chiropractic care to reduce subluxations in a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a case study. J Vertebral Subluxation Research.October 4, 2006;1-6.

17. Salpeter SR et al. Meta-analysis: effect of long-action B-agonists on severe asthma exacerbations and asthma-related deaths. Ann Internal Medicine. 2006;144:904-912.