Insulin Resistance Makes the World Go Round

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Call to Action: Understanding the insidious nature of insulin resistance will help you work on the life style habits that will make your chiropractic more profound and effective.

Insulin resistance is a strong driver of the economy.  Look at it from childhood to older ages:

The insulin resistant pregnant mom gives birth to a baby suffering from nutrition deficiencies.   (Also, born with subluxations.)

The insulin resistant toddler doesn't meet developmental milestones and requires different therapies.  (Probably still subluxated.)

The insulin resistant child is prone to frequent colds, asthma, and misses a lot of school.  Also, the child has learning disabilities and needs more services.  (Subluxations still there getting very comfortable.)

Already at this age, insulin resistant children are on many harsh medications that compound the problem with side effects.  (Talk about a subluxated liver.)

The insulin resistant teenager suffers injuries playing sports or may have anger and depression, feeling frustrated with fitting in.
(Subluxations at play, too.)

The insulin resistant young adult is already on a number of medications for inflammatory disorders that were unheard of two to three decades ago.  (Persistant subluxations.)

The insulin resistant woman has trouble getting pregnant or carrying a child to term.  (Subluxations.)

As insulin resistance continues people are confounded by the level of joint pain they have, stubborn body fat stuck around the middle, and lack of energy most of the day. 

The insulin resistant person needs hip replacements, stents, and other surgeries in order to remain active.  They often speak to their friends about strange disease names no one used to hear of such as lupus, irritable bowel, sarcoidosis, vasculitis. Graves disease. 

The insulin resistant person is more likely to suffer from dementia, and need nursing home care at an unexpected early age. 

Not trying to sound like a broken record but a poorly fed brain struggles with subluxations that disrupt the healing process.

Why am I picking on insulin resistance?  Because no one pays attention to it until lab work meets the definition of diabetes.  It is not common to check someones insulin levels.  

Meanwhile, we are using so many health care dollars and taxes for child services, teachers, social workers, surgeons, nurses, not to mention police, prison, drug treatment centers, nursing homes.  

It sounds like we have a busy, robust economy. however we have more people who are on disability who are no longer in the work force.  We have many people who never made it into the work force.  Heart conditions used to be a major reason for disability, but now back pain and mental disorders far surpass that.  We can do this a better way.  The Brain First Always Way.

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And we an blame it all on insulin resistance.  The most frustrating factor is that the usual blood tests will tell you that you are not insulin resistant, and that you are not near a risk of diabetes.  This is wrong, wrong. wrong.  And we don't even test kids, at all. 

If you want to delve deeper into insulin resistance, check out this link to Joseph Kraft's youtube video. You will hear this information straight from the actual researcher who looked at insulin resistance for decades.  

While chiropractic adds nothing to the body and takes nothing away from the body, we must also consider what the body is made of.  If the body is comprised of inflammation, and poorly formed tissues (due to the Standard American Diet),  we are not working in a useful medium.  We need clear neurological pathways and healthy receptive tissues that can receive the information we have opened up through the chiropractic adjustment. 

Chiropractic can help you improve your energy, sleep and decrease your appetite so it's easier to tackle insulin resistance. 

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What is Dr. Lisa's Brain First Always Protocol?

I Am Horrified that People Are Sick Due to Poor Information

My recent article in the Citizen.  

As always,

---See you at the table....the chiropractic table.

--Dr. Lisa

--Your Health Freedom Advocate

Social media online can be very useful. Folks do their own research as they shop for a product. I use it to converse with other chiropractors who have similar interests. 

One of my colleagues was not too pleased to have a commenter leave numerous unproductive remarks on her discussion page. She was planning on banning the person from the forum but wondered if it would be more productive to engage the person and perhaps provide some education.

This repeat offender made the remark that offering chiropractic to babies was horrifying. Now, to us chiropractors who have been adjusting babies our entire careers, we are saddened to face such an attitude that shuts people off from the powerful life changes we constantly witness in our offices.

I’ve been adjusting my son since he was four days old. He’s been adjusted when he was sick, when he was well, and after many falls and injuries that children endure. He has also been adjusted by other chiropractors.

Children have spines, just like adults, and adjusting them is not that different. In fact, they are much easier. Getting them to sit still to assess their spines is probably the most challenging. 

For something that is very natural to us, we forget that other people have yet to comprehend such an idea. So, pretend you are a chiropractor for a moment and see the world through our eyes.

Most people don’t watch chiropractors give adjustments because the health care norm is to place people in a private room for a consultation and treatment. The learning atmosphere was much different in the group settings of chiropractic college. Similar to gatherings at healing retreats and seminars, there is an inspiring intent shared by the participants.

It is this excitement that brings chiropractic alive as it is used to enliven.  And watching children get adjusted conveys that beauty. They don’t question it. They don’t obsess over symptoms or make comparisons to someone else’s ideal of wellness. Once they get adjusted they instinctively know it was something special.

In the same manner that we lose our childlike curiosity and creativity as we grow up, we starve ourselves from our natural state of well being. We can’t live the carefree life of childhood but we have the opportunity to remain as connected as possible to the innate energy that guides us through healing, feeling, thinking and learning.

What allows you to make an impact in the world? It takes a lot of desire, dreaming, and elbow grease. We develop these traits as our whole being absorbs life around us.  The brain, body, and emotional spirit rely on the intricate connection of nerves and electrical impulses. How nerve impulses travel through the body shapes how a person lives, achieves, and cares. 

Is it horrifying to give a child or an adult the best chance to be alive? I hope not because that is the main objective I have for everyone I meet in the office.  If you think chiropractic can’t be more than a limited clinical tool, I invite you to step into my world.  

Flu Emergency? Not Really.

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 I am in a Chiropractic adjustment state of mind. I read in today's paper that the NYS Governor declared a state of emergency because of the flu.  Now pharmacists are allowed to vaccinate babies and children without a physician's prescription. I don't want folks to be in fear, so let's benefit from the chiropractic adjustment state of mind.  We can adjust our thoughts.


Will getting a flu shot now prepare your body for a "flu season" that is nearly over?
Why is the flu season only in the winter months?  Could there be other reasons?
Did you ever get the summer flu?  Why don't we vaccinate for the flu in the summer?

Are you aware that many deaths attributed to the flu had other coexisting factors?
Other infections are lumped into the flu tallies, so do we really know what is the flu and what is not the flu?

How come there is no "herd immunity" with flu vaccines?
How come those who get the flu shot still get the flu and with a vengence (although some media stories state vaccinated people will have a less flu reaction)?

Are you fed up with all this flu nonsense?  I am.  There are a lot of flu cases at the hospital, but does that mean everywhere.  When you consider 100% of people at an ER are sick, does that mean an entire city is sick?

At this time, I only know of a few people who had a vicious bout of the flu or illness where they had to lay low and rest for more than a week or longer. There are still pockets of healthy people around here who are doing just fine.

I suggest we hang around those folks.  Not because we need to avoid sick people but because we can learn something from the healthy people.  There are a number of habits of highly healthy people.

Let's call it intelligent immunity.

Here's some tips:
1. Get to bed the same time every night and sleep at least 7.5 hours.
2. Get adjusted on a routine basis.
3. Don't just take Vitamin D, take the other needed supplements that make Vitamin D work.

Can't wait to see you this week.  Let's stay healthy together.

See you at the table....the adjusting table.

--Dr. Lisa
--Your Health Freedom Advocate

Children are Lucky to have Chiropractic

Why are children lucky to have chiropractic?  Why am I jealous that I never received chiropractic care until I was an adult?

READ MY CITIZEN ARTICLE HERE for the rest.

See you at the table...the adjusting table.
--Dr. Lisa
--Your Health Freedom Advocate

Can you cook dinner with the lights out? Neither can your nervous system.

I love this short article. It gets to the point so well.

Taking healthy children to the chiropractor protects them from a world of unneeded grief.

Many adults think chiropractic is reserved for bad falls, back sprains, and headaches, etc. We know they are missing out on much better experiences in life.

This goes even more strongly for kids. They grow so fast from age 0-18 (especially in the womb) that they need chiropractic to help them develop properly.

So, I like the author's question: Can you cook with the lights out? No, you can't cook with the lights out. Can you imagine trying to decide when a skillet dish is ready when you are stirring the dark?

The same goes with the nervous system. It can't do two things at once. When the nervous system is stressed, it can't heal properly.

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Head Injury Crisis Makes Chiropractic a Crucial Life Saver

This is my recent Citizen article published today. I am adding it to my blog because I can't locate the link on the Auburnpub.com website. As I reread the article, I can't over emphasize how many injuries children sustain on an almost daily basis that affects the brain. The foundation of adult health begins during childhood. Whenever I hear someone say, "Oh, he'll grow out of it," I wince because the person is woefully uninformed of the chiropractic advantage.
Thank you for reading. Thank you for telling the truth to your friends and loved ones.
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The recent TIME magazine “Tiger Mom issue” contained another child centered article about the dangers of concussions. A survey shows 3.8 million Americans suffer this head injury every year. The number of ER visits for children has doubled between 1997 and 2005.

Sports such as football are given a lot of the blame but 66% of children’s concussions are attributed to regular play activities. It also doesn’t help that children seem to be attracted to trampolines and extreme sports such as skateboarding.

Mild injuries that do not get the attention of parents, coaches and physicians are of concern to chiropractors. This is because the accumulation of jarring hits to the body can do considerable damage to the developing brain.

A brain injury does not have to be a direct hit to the head, either. Any whiplash like trauma such as a blow to the chest can be just as serious. Neck pain in a child is a warning sign the head was snapped around enough to create brain swelling that erodes vulnerable nerve coverings.

The TIME article noted the suicide death of college football player, Owen Thomas, who didn’t have a history of mental illness. Upon autopsy, it was discovered he had physical signs of brain damage indicating a long term buildup of damage in nerve tissue.

With children, their heads are like bowling balls bobbing back and forth on a neck that is more like a slinky. Babies’ heads are cradled very carefully when held by adults but as they grow older and learn to walk it is a different story.

For younger children who have different health problems it is important to consider trauma to the head and spine. When children don’t meet their developmental milestones or they exhibit difficulty learning, their past episodes of falls should be considered.

Stomach issues or bed wetting in a child can be caused by milder traumas. Children who often have colds or bronchial infections have immune systems that are struggling due to past bumps and bruises.

The most heavily researched topic in pediatric chiropractic is injury to the spinal cord and brain stem resulting from childbirth procedures. Babies can be brought into the world unknowingly injured.

This is why regular chiropractic examinations are so important from infancy to adulthood. Neurologists are necessarily focused on the seriousness of concussions making the public aware of early interventions and chiropractors provide similar interventions, too.

Children often do better than adults with chiropractic adjustments and find the experience very enjoyable. Even when children are too young to express themselves, they quickly respond to the calming effect of a spinal adjustment.

Every parent needs to be aware there is real problem of accumulated damage to a child’s brain and spinal cord. A chiropractic assessment can reveal a great deal of information about stressful interruptions in a child’s development.

While children are at risk of damage from mild or severe injuries, the outcomes are very positive when parents are quick to choose chiropractic care for their families.

60 Minutes Questions Drugs for Children

I just watched the 60 Minutes episode about toddlers being treated with drugs for bipolar disorder. Psychiatrists believe 2 year old children can be depressed and manic. A mom and dad are charged with murder because their 3 year old daughter died of heart and lung damage due to prolonged drug abuse, according to the medical examiner. The mother was interviewed saying she was only following the directions on the bottles...
Yes, I said bottles. Three different drugs because the child was "driving me crazy." And, the other children in this family are also diagnosed with mental disorders and there was a huge risk on this child because of a family history.

Here are my questions that were not asked in the 60 Minutes episode:

What is this family's home life like?

What kind of nutrition is this family eating?

Did this child have a traumatic birth?

How healthy was the mom during her pregnancy?

Did this child ever suffer a serious trauma such as a fall or shaking?

Were there any reactions from vaccines, even if they were weeks after the administrations?

What could life have been like if every family member was getting chiropractic adjustments?

I cannot over emphasize the different ways spinal distortions, spinal injuries, and progression of subluxations affect the quality of life of the individual.

Help me spread the word.

See you at the table...the adjusting table.

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