A medical genocide. This is his descriptor and I agree 100%
Improperly used testing in order to sell more drugs. They serve no other purpose than to ignore the real cause of the problem. If you don't understand the metabolic functions of your cells and organs, you may be duped into taking medications that make your health worse.
"We've been conned again," says Dr. Cywes. He has jumped ship ship because he realized his own food addiction was not addressed going the usual medical route.
Dr. Cywes is a bariatric surgeon who has gone the education route in order to help people avoid surgery. In fact, he says bariatric surgery only a success for one to three years.
A lot of patients look to weight loss surgeries to help control diabetes. This gives them a head start and a feeling of progress which may be necessary for someone depending on his or her situation. But he says the surgery does not lead to behavioral change unless the sugar addiction is addressed.
He'd like to see the processed food/starch/sugar addiction addressed first. And that was him at one time.
In the video above, he tackles the misinformation people hear about certain lab tests that measure fatty acids in the blood. And he's not happy with the drug companies that push a chemical solution for a life style problem. He even explains that the numbers may improve on your follow up blood work, but the potential for heart attack has not changed.
He feels lasting change comes from your own decisions and not what's on the shelf at the pharmacy.
Call to action: take a mental inventory of your overactive interest in carbs that have addictive brain responses.
Why do I Crack
Down on Carbs?
Don't
pick on the cocaine addicts. It's not that simple.
Did You
Know?
The
Standard American Diet endorphin high is no different.
The opioid crisis got its start from carb induced inflammation on the brain.
U.S.
children have grown up high before trying any illicit drug.
What's
your dietary crack?
The
toughest health problem to fix is persistent systemic inflammation
caused by society's acceptance of carb addiction. It's not only an obesity issue. It is about inflammation, no matter how much you weigh. Inflammation is the basis of all dis-ease and sickness.
None
of us is immune. Modern foods have impaired our brains.
Signs of carbohydrate addiction: weight
gain low energy stiff/achy joints high blood
pressure
insulin
resistance frequent blood sugar drops
high
triglycerides brain fog anxiety poor stress
adaptation
We typically choose these foods not for nutrients, but for the endorphin reinforcement. You're thinking right now about your next meal, but not for the nutrition, but for the emotional gratification. Your next next snack is going to give you a nice, warm, happy feeling. You can't deny it. Before your next meal or snack, stop and think about the longing, anticipation you have in the back of your mind. What if you delayed it another hour? Yikes...yes, that anxious feeling your just felt for one second is the craving for your next endorphin surge. This continues the steady influx of inflammation.
Dr.
Lisa's Ketolox Phasing Program is your food freedom tool:
Overcome
the “food like” substances that monopolize our diet.
Experience
the physical and mental freedom when the brain's food obsession is
gone.
Free
up your brain so it can concentrate on healing.
Remember*****Chiropractic influences the limbic system
(fight or flight, pleasure/pain balancer) You have limbic system cells in every level of your spine)
Call to Action: Evaluate your diet of addictive foods and consider how they might be pushing you toward unnecessary medication use. This is a part 2 to my previous post about food addictions being an underlying cause of depression and anxiety. Here is the Link.
If folks think I am putting a stretch on this idea, but baseline poor nutrition runs you down the road to sickness and discomfort. I am concerned about the medication usage in our society. People younger than me are on 3-4 different medications. Why???? From a WebMD article: prescription use has risen 85% from 1998 to 2016. Incredible. And this is normalized. It is a natural progression, if you're not feeling better on a medication, you try stronger versions, and now we have an opioid crisis because people were led to believe that they were not addictive. Yet, the Standard American Diet is highly addictive. People often swap one addiction for another. This is something our young people need to be taught. Non-foods often believed to be foods are changing the brain. They deprive the body of nutrients, which makes you constantly hungry as the body is calling out for better food. Continuously eating the American fare of grains, sugars, and seeds oils keeps your blood sugar high inviting more addictive cravings. This is very similar to the blood glucose problems of people who are abusing heroin. See the connection there? I focus on this pretty seriously because the Standard American Diet is all over the place and it takes quite a bit of planning to avoid the foods that are plentiful. Considering they never go bad since they are dead foods sealed in a plastic bag, they are cheap and it's easy to just store it up in huge warehouses. And, interestingly, our health has steadily declined since our modern way of preserving foods has taken us away from traditional foods and traditional ways of preparing foods. Check out this video from Dr. Berg. Yes, he has references in the description. Our food has changed, but 100 years later we don't know the difference. We have normalized sickness.
Conclusion: I want your chiropractic adjustments to react like rocket fuel (Powerful)!! Removing the toxic stress of these addictive, anti-nutrients makes a major difference from ho-hum to Amazing. See you at the table The chiropractic table. --Dr. Lisa --Your Health Freedom Advocate 7 Days Free Coaching
Call to Action: While we look at exercise, physical therapy, sleep, prescriptions, even surgery to free ourselves from pain, anxiety, and chronic degeneration, stop ignoring the first door way to this personal destruction: Our food! Go to YouTube and watch any interview with Joan Ifland. She is amazing. She has some nice kindle ebooks for sale at 99 cents and up to $2.99. I am listening to an interview here where Dr. Ifland said the term: "The Addiction Model." It took about 20 years for food companies to really ramp up this model to get everyone hooked on processed food. First there was sugar, then high fructose corn syrup burning out the brain with addictions to these refined ingredients (I can't even call them food.) How do we activate those famous opiate pathways? We consume sugars, salts, caffeine, and food additives. You don't even need to take an actual opiate. Who really belongs in prison? Fruits and starches are now problematic because we have programmed our brains since birth, probably in utero. We don't eat food anymore. We use food. Just like a drug. We use food to get an emotional high, emotional rush. Admit it. (It's not a calculated decision because the frontal cortex has already been shut down. It is now a primitive reflex from the limbic system.) You wouldn't drink alcohol in front of your loved ones who are in recovery. Shouldn't we do the same thing with addictive foods? What if all of society did that? I invite you to dive into the ketolox phasing program to show you how addicted you are, by getting you off the addictive substances so you can feel the difference. This is really what I call the Food Slave Tragedy. It got everyone running around in circles, as they assume food choices aren't that impactful. The definition of insanity...... You don't have to do it alone. You have support at the office. --Dr. Lisa --Your Health Freedom Advocate READ MORE: https://createpurpose.blogspot.com/2019/10/your-anxiety-and-depression-is-food.html
Call to Action: What toxins are getting in the way of your chiropractic care? How can you make your adjustments more powerful? Constant toxic exposure messes with your brain. Food (that term is used loosely) is the #1 problem. We need to eat to live, but not everything edible is nutritious. I mentioned to someone the other day, why would I want to adjust an unresponsive spine? It took her aback a bit, but she quickly understood. When your body is clogged up with inflammation, how can the chiropractic adjustment give you positive benefits? It does help the body function better. I wouldn't deprive anyone of the opportunity. But a plateau is often reached when there is a constant stream of interference. Toxic exposure is the #1 threat! Toxins consumed, inhaled, and absorbed, not to mention toxic thinking. (Toxic build up of muscle waste products, from overuse, and injury is also a concern. but that's a lesson for another day.) One super quick way to impair the brain is with foods that lack nutrients forcing your body to crave, hoping for more food. An insatiable appetite makes someone hungry every 2-3 hours. Being hungry often is not healthy. This snowballs into metabolic syndrome, diabetes, chronic pain, poor energy, memory problems, difficulty concentrating, digestive disturbances.... Overlapping causes.....compensating effects.
Dead tissue cannot respond to the chiropractic adjustment.
Starving tissue is a close 2nd.
Chronic inflammation takes up residence in tissues that are toxic and starving.
Feeding your tissues properly ensures the chiropractic adjustment can deliver healing energy.
For a nice summary of food addiction and how understanding it has evolved over the decades, watch this video of an interview with Joan Ifland. Her personal story is quite compelling.
Call to Action: Understand why fruit is just another addictive substance that adds more nerve stress to your body via an insulin response that increases inflammation slamming more chemical insult on a subluxated spine. And then, don't eat any more fruit. (Ask me about the ketolox phasing program for brain health.) One thing that changes your brain is an addiction that fries your dopamine neurotransmitters and making it difficult to experience that natural energy we were born with. If you are living in modern America, you are addicted to carbohydrates and it is ignored until you become obese or diabetic. How do you "feed your brain?" I prefer nutrients, not toxins. Listen to Dr. Robert Cwyes give a very short and sweet (sorry) explanation.
1. It's bound to happen. Obesity makes it hard to pin point causes of health problems. Doctors who are sincerely trying to help someone can be accused unfairly for missing a disease.
2. The article specifically states there is a high risk of complications and death when an obese person undergoes surgery. The cost goes up for additional professional training, additional surgical supplies, equipment, etc.
3. Fat tissue synthesizes inflammation which damages organs. Fat tissue pumps out painful inflammation. Taking a pain pill is not appropriate treatment, it just covers it up.
4. It has been surveyed that most doctors do not address obesity with their patients probably because it is now considered a disability that needs protection under the law. Make a comment related to weight and a lawsuit could follow.
5. The average doctor is not a weight loss specialist and probably prefers to refer their patients to those who are specialists.
6. I used the words client and customer because doctors are also in business. Hospitals cannot turn away someone during an emergency, however doctors have every right to choose who they will work with. Patient may be a misleading term. The person seeking health care is still a customer. The doctor sells a service. The doctor can't sell everything. Doctors are not Walmart! Doctors do not sell cures either. Doctors provide a service. They serve. But the customer also has a responsibility to work on his or her personal health. If they lack knowledge, they need to find knowledge.
7. Obesity may be seen as an addiction. The addict has to make the decision to detox and get under continued treatment.
Just my views. This shows a serious problem with health care that won't be solved by changing the way we pay for health care (health care reform). I hate to see people suffer. We all do. The most important step we can take is in our own self care habits.
Chiropractic is not a treatment. It is a mind-set.
Happy November! This is my first blog entry in a while. My environment seemed more noisy than usual and I put my creative juices on the back burner. In fact, I wrote down numerous notes for upcoming blog entries but seemed to have misplaced them. That is really on the back burner...maybe all the way out of the back door.
This week's podcast delves into emotions becoming physical in the body. I've talked about emotional subluxations being more pravelnt than the typical physical subluxations that seem to get more attention.
Wayne Pickering, a Success University faculty member noted in a health talk that we get a whole lot more attention from our problems than the solutions. Once a solution is reached, there's nothing left to talk about, but I have to disagree. It allows more time for being more alive. While I see the societal oddity of bragging about everything that is wrong, you can join an exclusive club that focuses on the opposite. It's called wellness in body, mind, and spirit. Learn more about Dr. Pickering at http://www.healthatlast.com/.
The podcast touches on a few related topics, but I chose to put information on injuries in the work place in the title:
Injuries that lead to disability in the work place are highly correlated to emotional dissatisfaction with work or personal issues. Can managers and employers recognize when workers aren't using their talents effectively and help them find the appropriate path? This is just one example of translating the body's unique language. It's difficult to listen to what our bodies try to tell us. Afterall, there doesn't seem to be much excitement in balanced solutions when we have become accustomed to the persistent negative reinforcement of dwelling on the immediate problems. Addiction reframing is another example of translating the body-mind language.
Chiropractic
as a maintenance routine for brain protection.
Once a week
is considered a beneficial frequency for maintenance care after
the spine feels more stable, however, twice a week or three
times a week is not downplayed either. Stress is very intense
and it makes sense to counteract our stress with ongoing
subluxation removal.
Sometimes folks
need to come in twice the same day. There's nothing wrong
with that.
A 30 minuted
extended chiropractic session using vibration, sound or silence,
adhesion release, and essentials oils with adjustments to calm an
over-active nervous system.
S.T.A.R.
Sessions are especially useful when other typical stress
management approaches don't work for you, or you want some extra
down time to release tension from your body.
Standard
Process Nutrients
The
nutrients in our food have been greatly diminished over many
generations. Even organic foods have their deficiencies due
environmental challenges. Glyphosate is now in all plant foods,
animal products and water supplies causing leaky gut and other
health problems. This requires us to be diligent with adding back
nutrients and detoxing our tissues. Standard Process provides
food concentrates that have the best bio-availability. It's no
coincidence that people are getting sicker and are stuck on
maintenance drugs. (That's the wrong kind of maintenance in my
book!) Don't forget- chiropractic care also helps with
digestion and nutrient uptake,too.
Dr. Lisa's
“Keto Phasing”
People are very
hesitant to adopt the ketogenic diet because misinformation
abounds. It is truly the original human diet. Sadly, healing has
been elusive to most people who continue eating inflammatory
foods. The best healing takes place when people are in a state
of ketosis, and this includes fasting, so it's not all about
food. I offer a coaching program that helps people “phase in”
the keto life style with confidence that they are meeting their
health goals without feeling they must say good-bye to the
enjoyment of food. This is also another brain re-wiring exercise
where the addiction to insulin spiking foods is resolved and the
false-satiety of unhealthy foods is also
extinguished.
Hi folks. I just uploaded 2 of the 3 videos of my latest mini-course: Food Maturity.
If you're done eating as if you are still in your 20s, this video is for you.
I remember those days. I ate anything I wanted. I wasn't bloated and logy back then. But looking back I had a horrible time moving my joints. It took me a while to get up from my chair. I had to pry myself out of bed. Even talk myself into getting out of bed. And I thought it was normal because I must have felt that way most of my teenage years and early twenties!!
It was after I became a vegetarian that I realized I was no longer a mess. It was a good start, but I've matured even more and will talk about the Ketolox Phasing program I designed to help people wade through the keto confusion.
The CDC has depressing stats about our health:
60% of Americans have a chronic condition
40% have more than one chronic condition
50% of us take one prescription
24% take 3 or more drugs
13% take five or more prescriptions
And the saddest statistic shown by Dr. Joseph Kraft: 90% of teenagers are already ill by the age of 19, yet it goes unnoticed.
I'd like to show you how to change the simplest markers of inflammation such as your blood pressure, blood sugar, triglycerides, Vit D levels and waist measurement.
Also, following a keto diet will help you manage the five annoying signs of brain impairment.
So, I'm not a famous guru and I don't have my own personal chef, but I live in the real world just like you. We can do this!!!!
The Food Maturity Video Course is available on my Patreon Channel.
Count Down Live Up!! If you can count backwards from 5, you can have amazing health!!!!
In the intro video I discuss
- Why is this information important
- What will you be after completing this mini-course
- What will you have to show for it
- Why me as your teacher
Where is the video course? https://www.patreon.com/countdownliveup
Topics covered during this 3 video course.
1- Eating Real Food - What's disqualified
2- Addressing the SAD, sugar, cravings, deficiencies,
3- Eating Keto, the diet closest to nature, and human needs
4-Ketolox Phasing, pacing yourself, gradual detox
5- Constant glyphosate defense
6- Food and friendship
7- 5 Signs of blood sugar issues
8- Inflammation markers
9- Whole food concentrates - fill the gaps
10- Where to go for intermittent fasting advice
11- Processed food addiction
12- Apps that help you stay on track
Ready to dive in? https://www.patreon.com/countdownliveupBrain Sense Tele-Health http://createpurpose.blogspot.com/2020/11/half-healthy-is-still-half-sick.html
Disclaimer: this video is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice.
Stop scrambling to find out the Zn, Magnesium, Vit C, Vit. D. etc., combo to get over the current pandemonium over a so called novel illness.
Yes, by all means, get the nutrition you need. But....this is something you need everyday of your life, not just when the world is freaking out over an out-of-control media.
Now-Rant over.
Also, check out my YouTube Commentary:
It's time to admit that mainstream medicine, or the medical industrial complex (whatever name suits you), has been leading us down the road of poor health for generations.
For most of my grandmother's life when I knew her, she was over-medicated for problems associated with life style and terrible dietary advice from the "Public Servants." Every once in a while the media talked about the elderly being on too many medications. Here we are, it's been 34 years since my Grandma died and we are worse.
I don't even want to quote the CDC's numbers. A majority of people are on over 5 drugs at at time. There's no plan to get better, folks. Doctors can't win the battle over our poisoned air, water, and food. Also doctors can't win in the food addiction department. They just medicate you so you can tolerate your terrible life style habits. Personally I can't imagine tolerating life like that. Medications just put you on a slow, miserable decline.
Go to Google and type in "medication induced mitochondrial damage."
Find this article:
Medication‐induced mitochondrial damage and disease
Ah Ha !!! This is the hard truth about the media. They keep important matters under wraps until it is too late. Then the media acts as if it is doing you a favor by reporting on it.....years... decades too late.
This is media-malpractice. Or you can just call it plain old deception.
What I am about to discuss here on my blog today is nothing new. For me, it is old news. But for most of America, the people are in shock!!
Allow me to give you my take on Matt Walsh's recent video:
(By the way, let's see how long it stays up on YouTube.)
Just a reminder here: If you wonder why I go on on these tangents, not related to chiropractic, that's because they are not tangents. They are important. They are very much important to me as a chiropractor because chiropractic is about how the brain is perceiving your environment. If your brain's perception is not what you like, you need to change it. We use chiropractic to set the stage for new learning, new experiences, and efficient healing/rebuilding.
Here we go. Matt Walsh relives the Tom Cruise/Matt Lauer confrontation about psychiatric medications in a Today show interview from 2005. Mr. Walsh commends Tom Cruise for being "right on the money," that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance and that no one has really tested people for proof before putting them on a psychiatric drug.
The conversation played on Matt Walsh's video centered around Adderall and Ritalin. What wasn't included was Tom Cruise's criticism of Brooke Shields' use of medication for postpartum depression.
Tom Cruise mentions psychiatric abuse, the history of psychiatry, and the drugging of children. He adds that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance and he has gone far back in the research to understand how the faulty theory took on a life of its own.
So, Molecular Psychiatry published an umbrella study last week showing there is no evidence that low serotonin is correlated with depression. Please take note, this study was a collaboration of scientists from the U.K., Switzerland, and Italy. Would this have happened in the U.S.? I highly doubt it.
On a side note highlighting the bias in American research, the researchers who published findings that popular drugs caused mitochondrial damage revealed it was very difficult getting published because it was an ugly truth about prescription medications. Academic freedom and peer review are jokes. (I'm not laughing.)
There is a strong, rich pharmaceutical lobby. You understand which groups pay for TV advertising. Remember that.
I recently read an article discussing the questionable ideas about inflammation. Inflammation may NOT be the enemy or the cause of diseases, such as atherosclerosis. The author had surprising findings that led to a backlash. Publishers don't want to upset the apple cart when old ideas are shown to be wrong. Doctors are in a panic if their entire career is based on faulty information.
Many have questioned the biological theory of mental illness for a long time. I was one of them. For example, Linus Pauling was one who had strong opinions, and experiences with Orthomoleculuar Psychiatry. Peter Breggin also knew drugs were not the answer. I wrote about him in my Doctors Who Jumped Ship Series.
This news story about the debunked serotonin theory can no longer be hidden, thanks to Molecular Psychiatry. The news has to report on it, finally. In addition, I will mention, Molecular Psychiatry is the same journal that highlighted subluxation based chiropractic (a brain specific niche in chiropractic) as a very successful approach to addiction treatment, with longer lasting results (2001). We have so many safe treatments that are the opposite of the brain damaging poisoning of psychiatric drugs.
My master's degree was not about drugging. I was learning how to introduce people to new ways of thinking, helping them work through their problems so they could be self empowered. My goal was to help people grow from their challenges. (Not numb them from their challenges.)
That's why I first studied to become a teacher at SUNY Cortland. My passion was short lived because of a compelling talk in my creative discipline class taught by Dr. Thomas Lickona. That one day, it was brought to our attention that Japan had a very high rate of student suicides.
This reminded me of our neighbor to the south, Cornell University. The gorges and bridges have been sites of many suicides. Although, Cornell does not have a higher rate of suicides among colleges, it's still a sobering thought. During my freshmen year at Ithaca college, one week before Thanksgiving break, a student jumped to his death from the 13th floor of the East Tower. That may have had an impact on me.
So, during my fourth year of college discussing suicide rates for Japanese students, I was wondering if I really wanted to be part of any kind of high pressure educational system. I knew then I was going to eventually become a counselor.
The emphasis on medication for mental illness threw me for a loop. In my position as a therapist, I quickly learned the ins and outs of psychotropic medication.
When I first heard of the biological theory of mental illness, I was confused. I didn't learn it in my master's program and it was just a given in the psychiatric world. I wondered how it was known that someone had an imbalance of brain chemicals? I wondered if people really had chemical imbalances in their brains, shouldn't they be dead? I mean, it's a legit question worth asking. No one talked about measuring these chemicals. Would you have to cut open the brain? But if you had 5 out of 10 symptoms, according to the DSM, (a big fat book that makes you look really smart) congratulations! You are depressed. Now take these toxic substances....forever!
It became depressing to me. People got worse. They did not get better. They were called non-compliant if they complained about side effects or quit taking them. Family members belittled them. It was not a pleasant environment sometimes. And when professionals are fed up with someone's darkness, ship them off to the hospital so you can have a break. It's not a break for the patient. It is a nightmare.
I ran a support group for people labeled "bi-polar." They were devastated that they could no longer cry. This was a medication side effect. They became robots. Many were severely preoccupied with suicide feeling as if it was their only way out. Their lives were miserable. But I had strong empathy and my eyes were wide open to the over emphasis on drugs stripping away people's self respect and independence.
And, the mind-body connection was ignored. When patients fell through the cracks because they talked about physical pain, they were sent off to internal medicine. When their tests were normal, they were told it was all in their heads. Bounced around with no one taking a real interest in their misery.
I decided I couldn't participate in a system that I would never send my family members to. Black box warnings weren't a thing until 2004, but I saw the writing on the wall. SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) were bad news. I knew this back in 1995. And it took so many decades for the institutions to admit it was a fraud.
I left my job to go to chiropractic college. I learned on my own that chiropractic had a successful history helping people with mental challenges. Chiropractic hospitals were a huge success until they faded away, thanks to the drug monopoly.
It's also disappointing how my chiropractic forefathers in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s have whittled chiropractic down to a back pain specialty. Nothing special about that. They abandoned the successful chiropractic hospitals. They gutted the real approach to whole body health just to feel accepted in the sandbox rather than stand up for health freedom OR TRUTH.
The interesting follow up on the Tom Cruise sound bytes is he is being criticized for being a scientologist. For some reason his opinion should be barred from public discourse. Yet, he is certainly allowed to do his own research and come up with a conclusion.
I am a chiropractor, and the same goes for me. How can I be so critical of a health care program? Because I look at what doesn't make the news. I look at the information that's placed on the back shelf. I dig for the buried stories that aren't popular.
Many medical frauds could no longer be hidden away. Illegal research such as Tuskegee eventually was revealed. The deception of Thalidomide couldn't be hidden. A Chocrane Review published this year (2022) shows 94% of established interventions are not evidence based. Are you following the crowd just because it's the thing to do?
Let's look over the timeline of voices trying to get the truth out:
Linus Pauling - 1960s
Peter Breggin - 1970s to the present
Tom Cruise - He happened to have an opportunity on a talk show in 2005, yet he is told to stay in his lane. But this is everybody's lane.
I don't want to be told there is only one option for my health. You don't want your loved ones suffering because of misleading information.
Matt Walsh touches on subjects that get people emotionally riled up. I get especially riled up over deceptive medical practices that are obviously dangerous. Poison is not progress. It never will be.
Do you want to build your health in a way that is logical? Are you interested in working with your body, not against it? Yes, this requires you to redefine health, and redefine treatment approaches. I redefine what pain and sickness really means, so you are not at a loss and full of fear. You already have the tools. You just need to learn how to use them.
I teach that. I teach you to ask the unpopular questions and not shrink away from unpopular answers.
Chiropractic is a teaching method. I teach you to make different choices. I teach your spine to help your brain perceive the environment properly.
Call to Action: The Secret Service needs to learn about the BFA Protocol. (image: timesofindia.indiatimes.com)So, now that the g o v t peeps have flagged my blog, I want to talk about the bullying report released by the AP last week. If you go to the AP news website, search the title; Secret Service Study: School Attacker Showed Warning Signs. Just the fact that the conclusion states the violence was not impulsive, but rather the incidents could have been prevented. Also, people who noticed problems in the children did nothing about it. Perhaps, in my opinion, no one really knows what to do. Most mental health care is a dismal failure, but that's a discussion for another day. I want to broach the topic by discussing what was not mentioned by the report. They could not come up with a predictable profile. The only similarity was that they were absent from school for a time before they returned to commit violence, and they had a history of behavioral problems along with being past victims of bullying. From what I remember from past news stories, their family lives were a mixture. Some had an intact home with both parents, others were not. There were weapons in the home, but I think that weapons are not the problem. There is a correlation with violent video games, but not all kids who play these games leave their homes to harm to others. I have watched my share of horribly violent movies, and I'm not walking the streets looking for a fight. Many violent movies have won Academy Awards watched by millions, so I can't put all the blame on the media. What the Secret Service didn't tell us is how many of these aggressors are on a number of legally prescribed psychiatric medications. It has been mentioned in the news after previous shootings. Now, if you just google Peter Breggin MD and look up how often he is an expert witness regarding violence after prescription drug use, you'll be shocked at the court cases the drug companies have lost. What I want to bring up now is why these people are put on drugs? They weren't coping well with life. After being put on these drugs they still were not coping well with life. Drugs like these are mitochondria poisons. How does the brain work when mitochondria are damaged? How about the damage already occurring because of dietary poisonings, carbohydrate addiction that clearly changes the brain, and other injuries to the body that have changed brain and immune function? We now know that disturbances in the gut directly affect the brain. See the many brain conditions already at risk? Talk therapy will not work if someone is nutritionally deficient and their brains are high on sugar, processed foods, etc. I've seen it when I was a mental health therapist. When I ran a group therapy for individuals labeled bipolar, they were all addicted to cigarettes, Twinkies, and caffeinated soda. I didn't have to do any nutritional studies back then to know they were trapped in a cyclical mess of poisons. The information is out there. We all know the Standard American Diet is problematic. We have found ourselves in this predicament because the compounding affects of stress are difficult to overcome when children are starving, yet they look pretty robust and normal on the outside. It's a sad domino effect when children exposed to harsh experiences can't heal because they are nutritionally deprived. In fact, this new story should urge us to work on better ways to feed our children, as well as ourselves. Please revisit my previous blog post about behavioral problems associated with processed food addictions
Am I saying by the time law enforcement gets involved it could be too late? Yes. If we are using the same strategies in the courts and mental health systems. More to come as I continue commenting on this issue....stay tuned. See you at the table. The adjusting table. --Dr. Lisa --Your Health Freedom Advocate BFA Coaching online to keep you focused on daily healing.
It wasn't back pain or a headache that brought me to chiropractic. In fact, I was pain free when I received my first adjustment.
I had a condition more painful than a physical injury because it was not physically obvious. I had a certain arrogance that would have taken my health away if I hadn't been exposed to chiropractic thinking 17 years ago.
I was arrogant about health and healing because I was young. I took my health for granted because I thought nothing would make me sick. I thought I knew how to take care of myself. Boy, was I wrong!
I worked with people who were challenged by the label of mental illness. They were told they had a brain imbalance and they needed a steady supply of brain altering drugs to keep them "normal" by society's rules.
No one proved they had brain problems. No one measured brain improvements to check if the drugs really helped. No one gave them an option to stop taking these drugs. It was all one sided and my clients were actually getting worse.
I started teaching a few of my clients about stress reduction techniques and dietary changes. Much to my surprise, they were improving and gaining self confidence. While I was addressing their physical health I began to see how the state of the body has a great deal of influence on mental function.
I realized my job as a therapist was a joke. If the body isn't healthy, the mind stays stuck (more like
trapped).
After prayerful consideration to change careers, I looked at chiropractic. I had no pain or health problems, but I volunteered in a chiropractor's office to learn about this drug free approach.
Not much of a science buff, I was awe struck when my new chiropractors (a married couple) taught me how the nervous system controls every cell, organ, body function, thought and emotion. The nervous system is also considerably affected by the condition of the spine.
It was also a major revelation when I learned how damage progresses for years but we don't feel it.
They showed me my X-rays and explained how mechanical disruptions of the spine adds incredible stress to the brain and spinal cord. A sample X-ray above is very similar to my own X-rays.
This was a big mind shift to me. I thought spinal cord damage was paralysis like Christopher Reeve. I never considered milder forms of damage could have such an impact on disease and mental status.
If I never addressed this 17 years ago, I would have suffered from a gradual and progressive degenerative process. Pain doesn't show up until damage is fairly permanent. Combine it with a stressful life style and poor nutrition and chronic disease takes hold.
I also learned chiropractic gave mental patients great results in the early 1900's before drug therapy became the monopolizing treatment. It is now showing great promise for addiction recovery.
I often think about my therapy clients who felt helpless and defective. Their nervous system/life force was stifled and no one offered them the release chiropractic can provide.
Chiropractic is not about pain relief. Pain is part of being human. Chiropractic is about knowledge, personal power and being given options.
My first interest is in mental wellness.
Inside the mind are the sparks that ignite great
ideas. The body is the engine that allows us to push our ideas forward.
They work as a team.
In my work as a mental health counselor I saw a serious separation
between this awesome team.
When physical health is not properly addressed, it clouds the mind.
The body often
gives us important clues.
Chiropractic rejoins the mind and body in an extraordinary
way as the adjustment enhances how the nervous system
fosters innate intelligence.
Thanks for being curious.
It means you are looking for something new to try.
You are in the process of a personal evolution.
It's a superb journey!
I can't convey much more of it on a website. Come to a health talk, come in for
