The Doctored is In

My copy of the new documentary, "Doctored," came in.  You can watch it in the office.  It will be playing it in the waiting room for quite a while.   It has an important message about patients' freedom to choose the health care they want.  

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



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Chiropractic Insights: You Are Your Health Care

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Here is my chiropractic article in this week's Citizen.  I debunk the myth that insurance coverage makes you healthier.
We need insurance for emergencies and hospitalizations, but chronic health problems should not really be the burden it is on the health system.  It starts with us.

READ IT HERE

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

You Really Want Health, Not Health Care

Let's be honest here, folks do not want health care, they want health.  What's the difference?

This post could go on for days, so I will try to keep it concise.

Why are we in such fear?

People are really fearful of losing their health insurance.  They must have some sort of security that little plastic card gives them.  They stay in stressful jobs because a new job prospect is bleak and they work more for the health insurance than the paycheck.

Why are we in such fear?
1.Because we don't know and understand our bodies.  Plain and simple.
2.We also have addictions that start in the soul and then transfers to the body.  This is not just about drugs and alcohol.  We are addicted to poisonous foods and the lies used to promote our buying habits.
3. We don't have real care for the soul when it comes to addictions.
4. We have addictions to prescriptions because we don't know our bodies.
5. We are fooled by the term "side effects" and convince ourselves it is the lesser of two evils.
6. We convinced ourselves to like being sick and this dependency just continues as a vicious cycle.

Are you still healthy when you have access to health care?

What do you get from a visit to the physician's office?  Vitals are recorded.  Blood work is recorded.  Symptoms are measured in some fashion.  A professional with experience explains how disease progresses and tells you what to expect. Sometimes you are told to take a medicine to change the numbers on your blood test.  Most of the time the numbers don't change and even if they improve, you don't feel better.

The best thing you can do with your physician visits is take the numbers that they record and use them as a guide.  Your health is determined by what you do outside of the office, not inside.

The cost of obtaining health is very reasonable
You don't need a prescription for the most basic ways of getting healthy.  Your everyday habits make you healthy or risk your health.  Changing your habits is up to you. Procedures are expensive, there's no argument there.  But, prevention needs to be utilized more than procedures.

Would long lines and worse service make you do healthier things?
 I talk to people almost everyday who say they skipped the ER because they didn't want to wait all day to be seen.  It is usually on a weekend and then they wait to see me.  Obviously it wasn't an emergency.  We need to help people understand what really is an emergency.  By the time they come to see me they are somewhat improved and the feeling of panic has been long gone.  This is where knowing and understanding your body comes in.  It helps reduce panic.  When someone sees me after they got over the panic, we are always talking about knowing and understanding their bodies. It is a time of learning and a pep-talk about doing the things that are more nurturing to the body.  Getting out of pain is not the issue.  Getting through an acute illness is not the issue.  Knowing and understanding the body makes a huge difference.

Do you want to know and understand your body?
1.Visit me.
2. Get adjusted more often than you are getting adjusted now.
3.Take the neuro-digestive stress test every six months and learn how to translate your body language of stress.


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

P.S. Chiropractic   .  .  .  What's that?

Are You Mimicking the Titanic

Here is today's Citizen article.

READ ARTICLE HERE

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

--Dr.Lisa
Your Health Freedom Advocate

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

--Dr. Lisa
--Your Health Freedom Advocate

Auburn's Community Connections

I was one of the vendors at the YMCA health fair yesterday.  The hospital was providing blood testing services.  It was mentioned in this Citizen article here.  The YMCA holds a number of wellness events each year.

While I was there, I promoted the Change Your Plate Change Your Pain program.  This includes a quick survey that shows how the body is responding to dietary stress and I teach folks how to make healthier changes.

Margaret Hartman, a licensed occupational therapist who teaches deep water fitness provided information on how to add more balance to your day.  She was talking to health fair attendees about  recognizing how they react to various sensory stimuli that may cause them to spiral into a negative pattern of behavior, poor eating, and other quality of life issues in their relationships, ability to work, etc.

Connecshen Acpuncture was also there.  Susan Sheldon and I  were talking to another attendee how taking care of yourself is more than making it to your doctor appointments.  It can mean having to quit your job because the job demands are so out of balance that the immune system is weakened by lack of sleep, high cortisol output, etc.  Receiving a pay check is not as important when there is personal conflict due to unethical business practices, overwork, bullying co-workers, or an unsafe environment.

I ran into Kelly Cleason-Kelly, who graduated from my alma mater, NYCC.  She offers a free book on making food a complementary part of your lifestyle rather than an enemy that you are always at war with.  Her approach doesn't focus on restricting calories or banning a certain food.  She shows you how nourishing your body also nourishes your life's meaning.  CLICK HERE for her book.

I also met another upbeat lady, Michelle Dart who has devoted her nutrition expertise to diabetes education.  View her website here.  Something she didn't tell me is that she is an author of nursing textbook.  Look at it here. 

Deb Turner is a local partner with Seniors Helping Seniors, an organization that matches up seniors who help each other.  Ms. Turner is very inspirational to talk to.  She shared with me how valuable people are and this program helps older people remain purposeful in their community.  The founder of Seniors Helping Seniors worked with Mother Teresa in India for 14 years.  Ms. Turner is continuing a great lineage of handing down the gift of relationships.

Shelley Augustine is a Community Services Representative for Home Instead.  She emphasized the importance of older people feeling confident in their own homes.  After all, your home is your castle.  She was very cheerful and knows how to make a person feel good.  She boosted me up when she told me she reads my monthly Citizen columns!

I talked with fellow chiropractor, John Lesch.  We were discussing how the insurance industry has restricted chiropractic coverage which gives the public a limited view of chiropractic's health benefits.  Without our educational efforts, the public we deal with will miss out on important healing information.  We are dedicated to making sure our clients are well educated and tuned into their own healing power.

There is so much going on in our small city.  Please share these people's names with those who would benefit from their knowledge.

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

--Dr. Lisa
--Your Health Freedom Advocate



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