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The 80/20 Rule

14 Feb

A few weeks ago I talked about deficiency and/or toxicity and that nearly all health problems can be related to either deficiency and/or toxicity. I also talked about what every man women and child needs to do in order to live in a state of health. First and foremost stay regularly adjusted, it’s the single most important thing you can do for your health.

If you do nothing else at least do that. If you do everything else and don’t get adjusted you will not be able to maximize your efforts. You also need to eat healthy & take proper supplements, exercise & stretch regularly, meditate/pray regularly, and avoid toxins. Sounds easy, right?

The reality is it’s near impossible to do all the right things all the time. No body is perfect and you shouldn’t give up because the task may seem impossible. You don’t have to be perfect, just perfect enough which does take effort. I suggest to follow the 80-20 rule. Do the right things 80% of the time.

That way you don’t feel so guilty the other 20% of the time. Unfortunately, in our society too many spend 80% of their time doing the wrong things and 20% of the time trying to make up for it. Think about it in a practical sense…if you eat healthy, exercise, stretch, meditate, pray, and take your supplements 5.6 days a week that’s 80% of the week.

That would be fantastic and that still leaves you with a little over a day for “cheating”. That way can eat what you want on your “cheat” day and not feel guilty for it.

The body has an amazing ability to adapt to stress but it cannot adapt to overwhelming never ending stress. Don’t abuse the body but enjoy life the 80-20 way.

 
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Interference, Deficiency, and Toxicity

31 Jan

Over the past two weeks I shared concerning information about the latest drugs and their risks. Did you notice that many of the drugs actually cause the problem they are prescribed for? To put things into perspective, emergency situations call for emergency actions.

That’s what drugs were meant for, emergency situations. If your having a heart attack or break a bone, taking a drug or pain reliever may make sense for the time being. But, understand that drugs don’t make you healthier. If a healthy person took a drug it wouldn’t make that person healthier. In fact, it would probably make that person sick.

All health problems can be attributed to interference within the body. Interference can stem from either being deficient in something or having a surplus. For example; deficient in food/nutrients, rest, exercise, or nerve supply. Or have a surplus of something you don’t need; toxins, stress, subluxations.

Therefore it can be said that interference is created when there is deficiency or toxicity within the body. Simply said…achieving your optimal health is as simple as removing the interference. So many people are searching high and low for a cure-all or a “magic bullet” to fix them yet the answer lies within. Remove the toxicity or replenish the deficiency (or both) and you will find all the answers you seek.

What do you need to do? First and foremost stay regularly adjusted, it’s the single most important thing you can do for your health. If you do nothing else at least do that. If you do everything else and don’t get adjusted you will not be able to maximize your efforts. You also need to eat healthy & take proper supplements, exercise & stretch regularly, meditate/pray regularly, and avoid toxins.

No one is perfect and does 100% of what you should be doing 100% of the time. So, don’t get discouraged just get started and keep improving. Next week I’ll share with you my philosophy on what percentage is perfect enough…

 
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Drugs To Fear Part 2

24 Jan

Here is a continuation of last weeks handout…

Adivar– This asthma medicine contains the long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) salmeterol, which can make your asthma deadly by increasing the severity of asthma attacks. It is estimated that salmeterol-containing drugs cause about 5,000 asthma-related deaths each year in the US alone. It’s interesting that this asthma drug increases your risk of asthma-related death!

Avandia– This diabetes drug has been linked to increased risk of heart attack. Confidential government reports claim about 6,000 heart attacks and 3,600 cases of heart failure would be averted each year if patients switched away from Avandia. The drug was recently banned in Europe, but the US FDA has chosen only to continue monitoring the drug, rather than ask for a recall.

Celebrex– This painkiller has been linked to increased risks of stomach bleeding, kidney trouble, and liver damage. Additionally, one 2005 study found that people taking 200 mg of Celebrex twice a day more than doubled their risk of dying of cardiovascular disease. Those on 400 mg twice a day more than tripled their risk.

Ritalin – This drug is commonly prescribed to children diagnosed with ADHD, despite the fact it has the same pharmacological profile as cocaine. By definition, Ritalin stimulates your central nervous system, leading to side effects such as increased blood pressure and heart rate. When taken over a period of years, as Ritalin often is, the drug can cause severe health problems, including cancer. Short-term it can lead to chromosomal damage.

Lyrica, Topomax and Lamictal — These epilepsy seizure drugs increase your risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and all three drugs can cause both hair and memory loss.

TNF Blockers — such as Humira and Prolia are made from genetically engineered hamster cells, and suppress your immune system. Other side effects include tuberculosis, lethal infections, melanoma, lymphoma and “unusual cancers in children and teenagers”. Humira also carries a warning that it may cause or worsen psoriasis — a condition it is supposed to treat.

Bisphosphonate drugs– This dangerous class of drugs include Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva, prescribed to prevent osteoporosis. Fosamax in particular has been linked to thigh bone fractures, jaw bone rot, serious eye problems, liver damage and renal failure, just to name a few potential side effects. Fosamax users are also nearly twice as likely to develop atrial fibrillation (quivering of your heart’s upper chambers), which is the most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat.

Statin drugs—This class of drugs, used to lower your cholesterol, have been linked to an array of devastating side effects, including muscle pain and weakness, muscle atrophy, rhabdomyolysis, increased plaque deposits, increased cancer risk, immune system suppression, decreased liver function, CoQ10 depletion, and death.

Proton pump inhibitors—Drugs like Prevacid, Prilosec, and Nexium are commonly used for heartburn. However, their side effects may be far more problematic and dangerous than your original problem. Side effects include increased risk of fractures of your hip, wrist and spine (the risk of a bone fracture has been estimated to be over 40 percent higher in patients who use these drugs long-term), increased risk of food poisoning, pneumonia and harmful intestinal bacteria.

Drugs are not the answer/cure to health problems! It’s quite obvious they actually cause health problems! Chiropractic care is about maximizing your health! Those who use chiropractic just for pain relief are missing the point. Regular adjustments help to improve and maintain your health! Don’t stop getting adjusted, your health depends on it!

 
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Drugs To Fear Part 1

17 Jan

Chiropractors have always viewed health and disease differently than medical doctors. Medicine believes that disease is a condition caused by bad germs or faulty genes, and this condition can be fixed by ingesting chemicals, harmful chemicals. Chiropractors believe health is our natural state and that the cause of disease is interference to the expression of health.

Therefore, removal of the interference is the cure to all disease. That’s what chiropractic care is really all about. Removing interference by correcting subluxations, releasing the inborn healing power of your body. There is nothing your body can’t cure!

Eli Lilly once stated that a drug without side-effects is not a drug. Below is a list of some top drugs of 2010 and some of their sickening side-effects. It makes me sick to think that these drugs can cause such life threatening conditions and there’s no public outcry and no governmental intervention.

Just think for a moment, if a chiropractic adjustment caused gallbladder disease, heart attacks, psychosis, cancer, clots, and muscle breakdown, the profession would be shut down and banned. Ask yourself, why then dose big pharma continue to get away with just that year after year?

Below is a list of some of the top drugs of 2010 and their confirmed “side-effects” created by Martha Rosenberg on December 24, 2010. You can read more at www.Counterpunch.org

Yaz and Yasmin: Soon after Bayer launched the pill Yaz, 18 year olds started coming down with blood clots, gall bladder disease, heart attacks and even strokes.

Chantix: After cases of possible psychosis, reports of suicidal behaviors and actual suicides, the government banned pilots, air-traffic controllers and interstate truck and bus drivers from taking this antismoking drug.

Ambien: Law enforcement officials say this sleep drug has increased traffic accidents from people who drive in a black out.

Tamoxifen: For every case of breast cancer prevented by Tamoxifen, there is a life-threatening case of blood clots, stroke or endometrial cancer caused by it.

Lipitor and Crestor: All statins can cause muscle breakdown. Crestor is so linked to the side effect, the FDA’s David Graham named it one of the five most dangerous drugs at a Congressional hearing.

Gardasil and Cervarix Vaccines: The Gardasil HPV vaccine doesn’t work for all viral strains, requires a booster and is linked to 56 girls’ deaths as of September in the U.S. alone.

Singulair and Accolate, leukotriene receptor antagonists: These leukotriene receptor antagonists never looked safe. And Singulair, Merck’s top selling drug, is now suspected of producing aggression, hostility, irritability, anxiety, hallucinations and night-terrors in kids.

Scary isn’t it?

 
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Soy…Good or Bad?

10 Jan

If you were to review the thousands of studies published on soy, you would reach the same conclusion as I have—which is, the risks of consuming unfermented soy products FAR outweigh any possible benefits. Notice I said unfermented soy products.

For centuries, Asian’s have been consuming fermented soy products such as natto, tempeh, and soy sauce, and enjoying the health benefits. Fermented soy does not wreak havoc on your body like unfermented soy products do. Unfortunately, many Americans who are committed to healthy lifestyles have been hoodwinked and manipulated into believing that unfermented and processed soy products like soymilk, soy cheese, soy burgers and soy ice cream are good for them.

The Dark Side of Soy

Dr. Kaayla Daniel, author of The Whole Soy Story, points out thousands of studies linking soy to malnutrition, digestive distress, immune-system breakdown, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders and infertility—even cancer and heart disease. Soy consumption has been linked to breast cancer, brain damage, infant abnormalities, thyroid disorders, kidney stones, weak immune system, fertility impairment, hormone impairment in both females and males which can lead to underdevelopment of male genitals.

Here is a summary of soy’s most glaring problems.

91 percent of soy grown in the US is genetically modified. Soy contains natural toxins known as “anti-nutrients.” Soy contains hemagglutinin which is a clot-promoting substance that causes your red blood cells to clump together. These clumped cells are unable to properly absorb and distribute oxygen to your tissues. Soy contains goitrogens which are substances that block the synthesis of thyroid hormones and interfere with iodine metabolism, thereby interfering with your thyroid function. Soy contains phytates. Soy is loaded with the isoflavones genistein and daidzein.

Isoflavones can alter menstrual cycles. Although the FDA regulates estrogen-containing products, no warnings exist on soy. Soy has toxic levels of aluminum and manganese. Soybeans are processed (by acid washing) in aluminum tanks, which can leach high levels of aluminum into the final soy product. Soy formula has up to 80 time higher manganese than is found in human breast milk putting your baby’s health at risk.

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. infants are now fed soy formula, but the estrogens in soy can irreversibly harm your baby’s sexual development and reproductive health. Infants fed soy formula take in an estimated five birth control pills’ worth of estrogen every day.
Infants fed soy formula have up to 20,000 times the amount of estrogen in circulation as those fed other formulas!

A few years ago I was a big soy advocate and my family used many soy products. I’ve since changed my stance on ‘unfermented’ soy and soy protein isolates and limit my soy to the fermented soy products only. In lieu of soy milk and cow’s milk, we use almond milk.

 
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How We Feel

03 Jan

A man jumps off a high rise building and as he passes each window he looks inside, waves, and says, “I feel great and am doing fine so far!”

(OF COURSE THE PROBLEM STARTS WITH THE QUICK STOP AT THE END!)

The real problem begins with believing that how we FEEL is a good measure of how healthy we are! Think about this for a moment… The next time you wake up in the morning feeling yucky, with a fever or a runny nose, or you vomit, think about why! Next time you have a hangover or a headache think about the cause. And the very next time someone passes away because of cancer or has a “sudden” heart attack, think about how they were feeling 2 or 3 years ago. Our bodies are extremely intelligent, we on the other hand are not?

Fevers are very important for immune function. They are a safe way that the body can kill viruses or bacteria that have attacked your health. To take Aspirin, is to inhibit this function thereby allowing an infection a better chance to attack your body! A RUNNY NOSE is merely a defense from allergens, bacteria, and viruses outside the body. Mucus destroys organisms and keeps these things from entering further into the body. To take an antihistamine is to rob the body of its defense system, lowering your immunity, and this allows viruses, bacteria and allergens a greater chance to enter your body! VOMITTING allows your body to rid itself contents which are harmful, and would do more damage if digested further. This is the body’s innate protection!

These are just 3 examples of feeling horrible despite a healthy reaction!

HANGOVER’S & HEADACHES are not due to a lack of painkillers in your blood, like Tylenol. Sometimes it is because you are dehydrated! Drink water! Sometimes headaches can be from subluxation, low blood sugar, or withdrawal from caffeine. Fix the problem, not the symptom! Your body tells you when you are doing something right or wrong…Listen to it!

The AMA tells us that 5 of 6 people will die from Heart Disease or Cancer! These are diseases that rarely exhibit symptoms until it is too late. This means…for years the disease grows within us while we are “feeling fine” before it finally kills us. The worst thing is that these are lifestyle diseases, meaning that we create the condition because of our lifestyle.

Health is a birthright yet you have to learn how to keep it. Just because you feel great doesn’t mean you are healthy! Just because you feel bad doesn’t mean you’re sick. Give your body a chance to heal itself,…after all, it is very intelligent!

 
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