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The Amazing Field of Alternative Medicine

9/7/2014

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I've come across a new technology for pain and wellness. It is based on the science of Acupuncture and Homeopathy. It is an amazing scientific breakthrough that has been around for a few years but just now am learning about it. I put a few patches on a patients knee and his pain reduced from a +8 to a + 4 and put another patch and it reduced the pain to a +1. He could not believe it neither could I!!

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I Want to Be Your Health Coach!

9/4/2014

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I also treat children, teens, athletes, work injuries, senior citizens and car crash victims. There's a lot about Chiropractic that you probably do not know. I am here to help you and your family avoid visits to the medical doctors, hospitals, prescription drugs, needless surgeries etc. I give second opinions. Use me as a source of knowledge and information on achieving and maintaining Natural Health! I want to be your Health Coach! ‪
#‎healthcoachtips‬, ‪#‎chiropractic‬, ‪#‎naturalhealth‬

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Healthcare Reform for 2010- The Self Care Wellness Revolution by Dr. Gonzalez

9/3/2013

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As a Doctor of Chiropractic, I am going to discuss several areas of concern of our present healthcare system. I’m also going to reveal new trends in healthcare and why Alternative Medicine is being embraced by millions of Americans.

According to the Life Association News, Americans paid $13.7 billion dollars for visits to alternative medical practitioners in 1990. More than half or $10.3 billion was paid out of pocket.

In 1993, 1 in 3 persons made 425 million visits to alternative practitioners, exceeding the number of visits to primary care physicians. Those numbers continue to grow every year.

In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, by 1997 Americans made 628 million visits to alternative health-care practitioners. They were spending more than $30 billion of their own money on complementary and alternative therapies each year. Nearly half of those visits were to Chiropractors and Massage Therapists.

Nine out of 10 members who have used alternative or complementary medicine would use it again. 80% would recommend it to others according to the Consumers’ Association. 75% of patients surveyed after treatment report “greatly improved”, and 67% reported “improved” or “slightly improved”, 88% reported they still experienced improvements after 10 weeks as reported by Stephen Fulder in The Handbook for Complementary Medicine.

What this means is that Americans are looking for alternatives. They are fed up with what medical healthcare offers. Unfortunately, medical students are only trained to examine, diagnose then prescribe. And if those prescription drugs don’t work they are trained to prescribe different drugs. And if those pills don’t work still you will get more drugs. Too many times the next option would be injections and then surgery. It would be good for patients if more medical doctors referred to alternative healthcare practitioners.

Please don’t get me wrong. I’m not completely against the use of prescription drugs or surgeries. Some times those drugs and surgeries can save lives. But much has been written about the overuse and abuse of prescription drugs and needless surgeries.

I know from firsthand experience. I suffered from a motorcycle accident where I had a fractured shoulder blade and was told I needed surgery while in the emergency room at a local hospital. Being a Doctor of Chiropractic, I knew I did not need surgery and therefore refused and did not allow the doctors to operate. They were not happy with me to say the least. I cost the hospital several thousand dollars. The average person would have accepted what the doctors said and they would have ended up with a needless surgery.

On another occasion, I was involved in a bad car crash. I ended up having torn cartilage (meniscus) in my left knee after it slammed into the dashboard. I used magnetic therapy to heal my knee and prevented another surgery.

It is critical for you to become your own healthcare advocate. Read self care books, search on the internet and find a holistic practitioner who will find real solutions to your health problems. If you do not have a holistic medical doctor, chiropractor, naturopath or acupuncturist, I highly recommend you start looking. One of my favorite sayings is, “You don’t know what you are missing until you know what you have been missing”.

Discovery Health airs a program called Mystery Diagnosis. Patients may go for years bouncing from doctor to doctor and prescription drugs to more prescription drugs while the patients’ health continues to deteriorate. Eventually some doctor may really listen to the patient or recall a similar case and then the right diagnosis is finally made.

There are numerous books and websites warning the public of the dangers of the medical system and how hospital, doctor and prescription drug errors are now the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.

One of my favorite websites which provides excellent unbiased health information is www.mercola.com. Dr Joseph Mercola shares his knowledge and wisdom to help you become more informed to be able to make better educated decisions about your health.

Needless surgeries range from those performed on children for ear infections, to unnecessary hysterectomies, cesareans (c-section), knee and shoulder arthroscopies, gallbladder removals, carpal tunnel, ulnar nerve transpositions, gastric bypass, lapband and many other needless surgeries.

I would like to switch gears now and share an amazing story with you. Gary was a cattle rancher from Montana. His wife was unable to get pregnant. They had been to several specialists and he had himself checked for any sperm abnormalities. The specialists could not find anything wrong with either of them or why they could not conceive a child.

Finally their family doctor told Gary to take his wife to see another doctor. Gary asked what kind of doctor he was recommending and his family doctor said he was a Chiropractor. Gary was confused as his wife had no back pain. Their family doctor insisted and because Gary trusted his family doctor he took his wife.

One of the goals of Chiropractic is to remove or reduce nerve interference, particularly in the spine. Nerve interference can affect the different organs of the body. By removing that nerve interference, homeostasis can be restored to those organs where there might be nerve interference. Nerve interference was not allowing her ovaries to ovulate.

As a result of Chiropractic care, Gary’s wife had three beautiful healthy children. I met Gary, his wife and their three children while attending Chiropractic school. Chiropractic had made such a HUGE impact in their lives Gary decided to become a Doctor of Chiropractic himself.

If you’ve had a bad experience with Chiropractic you just went to the wrong Chiropractor. If you have never experienced good Chiropractic care, you don’t know what you are missing. I encourage you to experience the many wonderful benefits of the largest natural alternative healthcare system in the world, Chiropractic. It has achieved that status for a very good reason. It provides results.

Millions of adults and children all over the world have benefited. Their lives and health have been greatly improved because of safe natural Chiropractic care. Chiropractic is notjust for back pain as was once believed.

I hope you make the decision and commitment to make 2010 the best year ever for your health and that of your spouse and children’s health as well.

“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny.” ~Benjamin Franklin

Just like you don’t wait until you have heart problems to start preventing them. You don’t want to wait until you start having spinal problems to do something about it either. Make that call today. Get yourself and your family started on a preventative approach to a pain free, drug free, healthy life. What are you waiting for? Join the millions of people worldwide in the self care wellness revolution.

“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” ~ Arabian Proverb

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I’ve been diagnosed with high cholesterol. Should I take the medicine my doctor prescribes? By Dr Carlos & Donna Rock MA

8/30/2013

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You’ve been told you have high cholesterol and you doctor prescribes Lipitor, Crestor, Altocor, Vytorin or a generic form if you ask for it. You want to follow your doctor’s advice and be a good compliant patient. But are you doing the right thing? Should you question your doctor? After all he/she is the “doctor” and knows what’s best for you, right? Millions of people have followed their doctor’s advice only to feel worse or not any better. Why? Prescription drugs carry many side effects. How many times have you seen a TV commercial for a prescription drug that was taken off the market because too many people died from taking it after their doctor prescribed it. The drug had been approved by the FDA so what’s the problem? The problem is many drugs are rushed through the approval process. Studies are flawed or skewed in favor of the Pharmaceutical companies. Research doctors are paid to leave out data in order to get their drugs approved.  So if we can’t trust doctors who can we trust? Yourself! Do some research if you are being prescribed a new drug. Work with a Health Coach who can be unbiased and help you find answers and or alternatives to prescription drugs.

Below is the story of one of my patients. Read her story and see if you can learn a thing or two. I told her about the dangers of her diet and the many chemicals, artificial ingredients, sugars including Splenda but she initially did not believe me. In fact, it was not until her medical doctor had her on “Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy” that was not working and I recommended she try some real natural nutraceuticals. Her hair stopped falling out, her hot flashes stopped her mood improved her energy level increased.

“Several years ago my cholesterol levels crept from the normal range to borderline-high range. My doctor wanted me to start taking medicine to lower my cholesterol.  However, my father had many and most of the side effects associated with cholesterol lowering medications so I was not willing to start taking them.

I promised my doctor I would lower my levels by changing my diet because I knew I was not eating as healthy as I should.

Unfortunately, the journey to lowering my cholesterol through diet changes was not as easy as  I thought.  I tackled the typical culprits like fatty foods, lunch meats, red meat, cheese etc.

The following year, when I got my levels checked….the totals were almost exactly the same!  My triglycerides did improve a little bit….but my total cholesterol was still high. How could that be?

It wasn’t until I started formally studying nutrition that I discovered the real culprit…High Fructose Corn Syrup.   Studies have shown that HFCS elevates cholesterol levels.  Once I discovered this, I started looking at what foods I was eating that contained HFCS.  I was shocked to find out that my granola bars, my energy bars, fruit flavored fat free yogurt, low fat salad dressings all contained HFCS.

Here I was thinking I was eating so healthy…but I was not.   The good news is once I started to read every ingredient and either eliminate or replaced the foods that contained HFCS….my cholesterol levels FINALLY dropped!

High fructose corn syrup is also disguised as Corn Syrup, Organic Corn Syrup, HFC, maltose, dextrose and many other names.”

FDA Boosts Warnings on Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs

Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012 10:12 PM

U.S. health regulators are adding warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, to say they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss.

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday the changes to the safety information on the labels of statins such as Pfizer Inc’s Lipitor, AstraZeneca’s Crestor and Merck & Co’s Zocor that are taken by tens of millions of people.

Lipitor, which became available late last year in generic form as atorvastatin, is the world’s all-time biggest selling prescription medicine with cumulative sales in excess of $130 billion. As a class, statins have helped enrich the world’s largest drugmakers, but most of the major brands are now prescribed as far cheaper generic medicines.

Asked what prompted the label changes, FDA spokeswoman Erica Jefferson said they were based on the agency’s review of medical literature, clinical trial data and reports of adverse events.

The FDA said it was aware of studies in which some patients taking statins may have a small increased risk of higher blood sugar levels and of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

The statin labels will also now reflect reports of certain cognitive effects such as memory loss and confusion experienced by some patients taking the drugs, the agency said. It said  the symptoms were reversed by stopping use of the statin.

The elevated diabetes risk cropped up in a 2008 Crestor study of nearly 18,000 patients. A separate study published in the Lancet medical journal in 2010 found that statins can raise the risk of diabetes by 9 percent.

The FDA also specifically said that Merck’s Mevacor, the world’s first approved statin, known generically as lovastatin, should never be taken with certain drugs used to treat HIV and certain bacterial and fungal infections due to increased risk of a serious muscle disease.

Dr. Kenneth Ong, stated”Every drug has its problems and its side effects, despite the intended benefits for which they are prescribed.”

Here’s the sad part….millions of people will continue to do as their doctor says and not ever question the drugs they put into their bodies. After all it’s medicine…right? And millions of people will suffer side effects for which they will be prescribed more medicine. Many patients will die as a result. Will you?

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The Amazing Field of Alternative Medicine

I Want to Be Your Health Coach!

Healthcare Reform for 2010- The Self Care Wellness Revolution by Dr. Gonzalez

I’ve been diagnosed with high cholesterol. Should I take the medicine my doctor prescribes? By Dr Carlos & Donna Rock MA

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