June

CRC eNewsletter

Looking for a drug-free lifestyle? For health and wholeness for yourself and your family? Interested in disease prevention and health enhancement?

Then welcome to a more natural world ~ welcome to the world of chiropractic.

This issue’s table of contents

·Father’s Day Gift

·Chiropractic’s message

·Your spinal column

·A must see video

·Link of the Month

·Chiropractic research

·Did you know?

·Is Alzheimer’s a dental problem?

·Confession – Why I left mainstream medicine

·Major mumps outbreak: MMR vaccine doesn’t work

·Study demonstrates chiropractic safety

·Nutrition myths

·Humor

·References

Father’s Day Gift

As many of you know by now Angela Strandland (formerly Meyer) is now offering Massage Therapy at Collins Road Chiropractic. If any of you are looking for a last minute Father’s Day gift (or you are looking for a little pampering yourself) Angela is offering $10 off an hour long massage. You can call the office to schedule your appointment.

Here’s what people are saying about Angela:

“I have had 20 to 30 massages in my life and that was the best massage I’ve ever had”

&

“My Low Back hasn’t felt this good in a long time”

Chiropractic’s message

Your body is the world’s greatest drugstore. It makes every chemical you need to live a long and healthy life.

Over-the-counter and prescription drugs often have side effects that can be deadly. They are never what your body really needs.

In addition, drugs usually suppress acute symptoms (fever, inflammation, rash, cough, aches and others), which prevents your body from performing its cleansing and healing functions. Suppression of acute symptoms has been shown to cause chronic health problems.

Chiropractic’s purpose is to help your body function as it is meant to function – permitting it to be balanced so it may work at its peak and manufacture its own drugs. If your spine is unhealthy, your ability to function optimally is impaired. How can that occur?Read below.

Your spinal column

Without a healthy spine you cannot live a healthy life. Why? Because your spine does so much.

First, what is your spine (spinal column or backbone)?

It is a column (or stack) of spinal bones or vertebrae that start under your skull and end at your tail. It is made up of seven neck (cervical) vertebrae, 12 mid back (thoracic) vertebrae and 5 lower back (lumbar) vertebrae. At the bottom is your sacrum – a large triangular shaped bone made up of 5 fused bones and under that is your tailbone or coccyx, made up of 4 fused small bones.

All the bones in your body attach (directly or indirectly) to these vertebrae.

For example, your head sits on top of your spine, and your shoulders, ribs, sternum and hips connect to it.Your arms, wrists, hands and legs, ankles and feet connect to your spine through your shoulders and hips.

Muscles move you because they are attached to your bones. Therefore your spinal column is involved in nearly all of your movements.

But if the spine contains subluxations (tiny spinal distortions) it is unbalanced.

If your spine is unbalanced your muscles will not work smoothly, your energies will be drained and you will age faster than you should.

But subluxations can also interfere with the flow of energy and information to the nerves that connect to your internal organs. Your ability to fight infections (immune system), digest and assimilate food (digestive system), eliminate wastes (excretory system), produce hormones in the proper balance (endocrine system) – in short, your ability to live a fully healthy life can be undermined.

Chiropractors are trained to locate and correct subluxations. Do you have any in your body?

Get a chiropractic checkup and find out.

A Must see video for all Parents

This is an absolutely great interview with Jenny McCarthy & Jim Carrey on the topic of vaccines. As many of you know Ms. McCarthy has an son who was previously diagnosed with autism. He no longer struggles with the disease.

Ms. McCarthy & Mr. Carrey speak very fluently and passionately about vaccines and their positives and negatives. They also do not “bash” vaccines, which I think is great, they do however raise some good questions.

Click Here for the video

Link of the Month

I absolutely had to share this website with you all. It is aubrey-organics.com

They are an 100% natural hair, skin & body care company.

I have been using the men’s stock (shaving cream, hair gel, deodorant, etc…) and we have been using the shampoo & conditioner on Ava for some time now. They work great!!!

Chiropractic research

Chiropractic and depression. A 46-year-old man suffering from his third bout of major depression presented at a chiropractic office. He complained of neck and low back pain, anxiety, fatigue and little appetite. Many other symptoms he exhibited were adverse effects of depression medication such as decreased sex drive, dizziness, overall muscle weakness and insomnia.

The patient received specific chiropractic adjustments for the correction of his vertebral subluxations. His life began to improve as measured by self-assessed quality of life and wellness indicators such as the Global Wellness scale, Daily Living Health Questionnaire (SF36), and a retrospective Health, Wellness and Overall Quality of Life Self Assessment questionnaire. (1)

Note: For many decades the chiropractic profession owned and ran nearly 200 sanitaria and nursing homes that often helped those with neurological and psychological conditions. There are numerous case histories of individuals suffering from major psychological disorders resolving under chiropractic care. Today doctors of chiropractic are helping children and adults suffering with ADD/ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, depression and many other conditions.

Did you know….?

Mercury fillings are not safe. Studies at the University of Calgary have found that mercury vapor from dental fillings enters the body and may cause brain cell degeneration and immune suppression, among other problems. (2)

Have your dentist use mercury-free fillings and try to have existing amalgams replaced with composite fillings by a “biological dentist.”

Is Alzheimer’s a dental problem?

Researchers have linked Alzheimer’s to the buildup of heavy metals in the brain, primarily mercury and aluminum. Major sources of brain mercury are flu shots and “silver” amalgams used in dentistry. (3) There have been some clinical findings showing that chelation, a process whereby heavy metals are removed from the body, has been able to reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s (and autism) in certain individuals.

Confession – Why I left mainstream medicine

Powerful...9 minutes everyone needs to see this.

Click here: YouTube - Why I Left Mainstream Medicine - From A Nurse

Major mumps outbreak: MMR vaccine didn’t work

Researchers investigating a large outbreak of mumps in 2006, when 6,584 cases were reported among college students, discovered that virtually every sufferer had been vaccinated twice against the disease. CDC researchers are explaining that the failure of the MMR vaccine and the resultant outbreak (primarily among 18- to 24-year-olds) was because the college students got the “wrong type of mumps.” (4)

This is one of many reports of vaccine failure.Of course, in addition to ineffectiveness, the MMR shot has been linked to autism, brain injury, encephalitis, allergies, asthma, eczema and many other conditions.

Study demonstrates chiropractic safety

An extensive 7-year study determined that people who visit chiropractors for a neck adjustment are no more likely to suffer a stroke than those visiting an MD.

The research was conducted by the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders with results published in the journal Spine. “This type of stroke is extremely rare and has been known to occur spontaneously or after ordinary neck movements such as looking up at the sky or over the shoulder when backing a car,” said lead author David Cassidy, MD, professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto. (5)

Nutrition myths from the Weston Price Foundation

For complete references and more information go to www.westonaprice.org

Myth: Americans do not consume enough essential fatty acids.
Truth: Americans consume far too much of one kind of EFA (omega-6 EFAs found in most polyunsaturated vegetable oils) but not enough of another kind of EFA (omega-3 EFAs found in fish, fish oils, eggs from properly fed chickens, dark green vegetables and herbs, and oils from certain seeds such as flax and chia, nuts such as walnuts and in small amounts in all whole grains). (7)
Myth: A vegetarian diet will protect you against atherosclerosis.
Truth: The International Atherosclerosis Project found that vegetarians had just as much atherosclerosis as meat eaters. (8)
Myth: Low-fat diets prevent breast cancer.
Truth: A recent study found that women on very low-fat diets (less than 20%) had the same rate of breast cancer as women who consumed large amounts of fat. (9)

Humor

“The blue-ribbon commission has come up with a list of ways to improve the next presidential election.I’ve got an idea.How about better candidates?” Jay Leno, the Tonight Show,

Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with battery.

A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.

A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative.

My wife really likes to make pottery, but to me it's just kiln time.

Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.

Practice safe eating - always use condiments.

I fired my masseuse today. She just rubbed me the wrong way.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Shotgun wedding A case of wife or death.

I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.

I used to be a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe.

A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.

Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

Corduroy pillows are making headlines.

Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?

Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.

Banning the bra was a big flop.

Sea captains don't like crew cuts.

Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.

Without geometry, life is pointless.

When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.

Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Reading whilst sunbathing makes you well-red.

When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.

If electricity comes from electrons... does that mean that morality comes from morons?

See you next month. Remember, a chiropractic adjustment today can make a big difference for you and your family. Come visit us and bring your family. Remember: friends don’t let friends stay subluxated.

References

1. Desaulniers AMJ.Effect of subluxation-based chiropractic care on quality of life in a patient with major depression. JVSR.April 23, 2008;1-7.
2. www.toxicteeth.org and www.momsagainstmercury.org
3. Transcribed notes of Dr. Fudenberg's speech at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September, 1997. Quoted with permission.
4. Dayan GH, Quinlisk MP, Parker AA. Recent resurgence of mumps in the United States.New England Journal of Medicine. April 2008;358:1580-1589.
5. Holm LW, Carroll LJ, Cassidy JD. The burden and determinants of neck pain in whiplash-associated disorders after traffic collisions: results of the bone and joint decade 2000-2010 task force on neck pain and its associated disorders.Spine. 33(4S) Supplement:S52-S59, February 15, 2008. Press release at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2008/15/c2658.html
6. Baily R. The planet’s future has never looked better. Reason Magazine. May 2000.
7. Am J Clin Nutr. 1991;54:438-463.
8. Lab Invest. 1968;18:498.
9. NEJM. 2/8/96.