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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It’s brutal treatment, really.  For most who have gone through it, they’d do anything to avoid repeating the experience.  You are stabbed repeatedly, fed horrible food (if you’re lucky enough to get fed at all), you may be denied […]

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Olympic fireworks

OK, so it’s not really health-related, but I thought I’d post this as something to simply enjoy.
What a show!
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In many stories about natural healing methods and alternative medicine carried by the mainstream media, no matter how favorable or negative the overall story was, there is a tendency to close with the familiar “Ask your doctor…” advice.  Now, I realize that this is often a form of “CYA” (Cover Your Assets), but when […]

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There is a common error in thinking when it comes to healthcare that is so common, it’s nearly universal in the U.S. and other industrialized countries.  In my opinion, it is this one error in the way we tend to approach healthcare that has produced our incredibly expensive, yet remarkably ineffective healthcare system.  And […]

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I have been a chiropractor and holistic health care provider for over 16 years, and frankly, some of the methods I use are pretty weird - even to me. Some of my patients jokingly (at least I think it’s jokingly) refer to me as their “witch doctor”, because I do things that certainly are […]

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One of the main criticisms I hear from skeptics regarding nutritional supplements, herbal remedies, chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. is that these methods of healing are unscientific.  Now, I could debate that point on many specific alternative medicine treatments, but what I must object to is the HUGE double standard being applied. 
What those who are hung up on the […]

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It has been my observation that most people define sickness and health based almost exclusively on symptoms.  That is, most people have the concept that if you have symptoms, you’re sick, and if you don’t have symptoms, you’re healthy.  But is that actually true?
Let’s consider for a moment the person who has no symptoms […]

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I thought I’d inject a little humor into the blog today.  Although it is far from funny for the gentleman it happened to, we can laugh with the knowledge that it didn’t happen to us (at least for the sake of my readers, I hope not!).
This story comes to us from the Weeks MD […]

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The writer of the following post describes his frustration with attempting to get reasonable medical care at a reasonable cost from his primary care doctor:
My Medical Last Straw About 8 years ago Jan started treatment for high blood pressure. That locked us into our Blue Cross policies because, as you know, when you change policies […]

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Magnesium is a widespread deficiency in the United States and being deficient in magnesium can have far-reaching health effects.  
Magnesium is needed for hundreds of biochemical reactions in the body.  It is critically important in muscle (including heart muscle) and nerve function.  It is involved in the functioning of the immune system and is necessary for […]

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