PATIENT EQUALS DISEASE

PATIENT EQUALS DISEASE

A doctor treats disease.
A patient is a person who receives treatment for a disease.
A patient going to a doctor means they are very sick, diseased or close to death.
A doctor who has visits from the same patient multiple times through out a year is a terrible doctor.

If you were at Wal-Mart and a friend of yours came up and "I have a doctor's appointment," your first thought would be, "There is something wrong with them." If you talked to this friend every week and they had a doctor's appointment each week, you would come to a handful of conclusions. First, by having a doctor's appointment, you are a patient with a sickness. Second, because your friend is constantly going to this doctor, he or she must not know what they are doing and, consequently, is a bad doctor.

These thoughts are a form of psychological understanding, whether discussed or not, between people in the community. If you are a patient, you have a problem. Most importantly, every one of us has friends who are constantly seeing doctors. There is another psychological evaluation that goes on; that these people are just constantly sickly. And that is creating a misunderstanding of the friend's doctor appointment.

Human beings that come to a chiropractic office are not sick and do not have disease. This is a very bold statement that must be clarified. Chiropractic is not about treating disease. Chiropractic is not about treating symptoms. You do not come to a chiropractor to treat your health problem. You must choose psychological understanding as a human being, patient, and person going to human being, doctor, and health care provider. There must be a very large distinction between a doctor treating a disease and a patient having a health problem. Human beings who go to the chiropractor must have a completely different psychological understanding, and the chiropractic office must treat the person with a totally different psychological direction.

With these concepts in mind as you enter the chiropractic office, you are no longer called a patient. In addition, the chiropractor can no longer be called the doctor. The reason is, when you come to a chiropractic office, your sole purpose is to get vertebral subluxation corrected to allow the power of God to travel from the brain over the nerves to create physically, spiritually and emotionally harmony within your body. The doctor, no longer called a doctor but the chiropractor, is now "Master Health Coach." The purpose of the chiropractor is not to treat a patient. The purpose of a chiropractor is to make adjustments to the spine to allow the power of God to flow through you.

So when you are out in the community, do not tell people you have a doctor's appointment, tell your friends that you have an appointment with your health coach. The chiropractor is no longer called the doctor, the chiropractor is now called master health coach. You are no longer called a patient, you are now a health member.

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Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 9/07/2008 at 6:30 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

IS IT THE PRINCIPLE OR THE SPINE?

IS IT THE PRINCIPLE OR THE SPINE?

Many people that come into my chiropractic office because they are in pain. This accounts for approximately 70 percent of new patient visits to my chiropractic office. Some 30 percent of the visits my chiropractic office are for the simple fact that a person is concerned about their health and well being.

Why have you chosen chiropractic? Many of you look at chiropractic as a structure problem, you spine is out of alignment causing muscle spasm and pain. An evaluation was performed, X-rays were taken, you were shown your X-rays and you saw that your spine was crooked. At one point, one will sit and looks at their X-rays and determine in there own mind how bad there spine is. This severity can sometimes be based on a scale from one to 10. Many patients will say, "Wow, my spine looks really bad, maybe I better do chiropractic." Others will look at their spine on the X-ray and say, "That it is not so bad, maybe I will not do chiropractic right now." This is a very devastating trap to get into as a patient. It is very wrong. Please do not evaluate whether you use chiropractic because of structure.
For a human being to look at chiropractic properly, they must make the decision to use chiropractic based on one thing: It is something they should be doing for life since birth. Not for the fact of keeping the spine healthy, but for the purpose and principle of keeping the nerve system free of subluxation (interference) for life. Every human function - physical, spiritual and emotional must occur from the brain. The brain is there to send the life force of healing through the spinal cord to allow every function that goes on in your life to occur. These include perception of hot and cold, whether you see today as a beautiful day or not, the fact that your heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and all your other organs are functioning at 100 percent. You must understand that the reason you are choosing chiropractic should be to allow the expression of God through your nerve system at 100 percent for the complete physical, spiritual and emotional ability to have proper health and healing.

Remember many human beings in the community do not understand this concept.
Please take your gift of knowledge to the community.

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 9/06/2008 at 6:20 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

OVERCOMING ADVERSITY

OVERCOMING ADVERSITY

"The things that are impossible with men are possible with God."

"Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, 'This is the way, walk in it.'"

-Isaiah 30:20-21

Aman found a cocoon that had a small opening. He sat and watched for hours as the butterfly struggled to force its body out of the hole. When it appeared to be making no more progress and seemed to have gotten as far as it could, the man decided to help. He took out some scissors to make it easy for the butterfly to get out. When it emerged it had a swollen body and little shriveled up wings. The butterfly was forced to spend the rest of its existence crawling around on the ground, instead of soaring above it.

The man was totally ignorant of God's awesome plan. God designed the cocoon so that in the butterfly's struggle to get through the tiny opening, the fluid would be forced from the body into the wings.

This is like inducing labor and forcing delivery. How do you or some doctor know when God's baby should be delivered? It's also like swallowing diet pills, which can cause heart attacks and eventually will slow down your metabolism, making you even fatter. It is also like taking drugs to get over the symptoms of allergies and colds. You stop the fevers, coughing and sneezing, which is the body's way of getting rid of the germs and strengthening your immune system. You end up sick more often with a weak immune system that will end up letting cancer develop.
The reality is that if you took all man's knowledge and understanding about God's plan, multiplied that knowledge by a million and took that to the depths of infinity, you would barely have a glimpse of understanding. As a human, however, you want control. You want something concrete that you can force to happen or create for yourself.

It really takes someone with incredible intelligence and thinking ability to know they don't know anything, to have the patience to let God handle the outcomes of life. Life literally can be defined as "a bunch of stuff you can't let go of."

It is impossible to deny the science of chiropractic. It is based on pure textbook literature of the spine and nerve system, literally thousands of research studies and real clinical evidence that all prove its effectiveness. Chiropractic only works because you do. But this is a difficult thing to let happen. To just get adjusted, then let God's body do the healing takes a leap in faith, particularly when your friends, family and associates speak out of ignorance and try to convince you to trust medicine and not God or a crazy chiropractor. It's much easier to just swallow the pill, take the shot or cut the part out all together. But again, men do not have a glimpse of understanding.

You complain about your struggles and pray for God to deliver you, not realizing it was God who handed you this cup. The truth is, only by seeing above the conflicts and the contradictions of life and working through them will you ever truly fly and see the gifts God has for you at the end of your trials. Quit early, and you will find only disaster. You will end up crawling when you could have soared.

Focus on wisdom and let God determine the outcomes of life, and you will find yourself happy and your tree of life will bear much lasting fruit.

Focus on taking control of your situations and listening to the advice of others, and you will find one ugly, dead, fruitless tree.

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 9/05/2008 at 6:30 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

How Broccoli Fights Cancer

How Broccoli Fights Cancer

Just a few additional portions of broccoli each week could protect men from prostate cancer. Researchers believe a substance called isothiocyanate in the broccoli sparks hundreds of genetic changes, activating some genes that fight cancer and switching off others that fuel tumors.

Prostate cancer kills more men than any other kind except for lung cancer. Each year, 680,000 men worldwide are diagnosed with the disease and about 220,000 will die from it.

The benefit derived from broccoli would likely also be available from other cruciferous vegetables that contain isothiocyanate, including Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, arugula, watercress and horseradish.

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 9/04/2008 at 6:30 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

20 Diseases and Conditions Directly Attributable to Being Overweight

20 Diseases and Conditions Directly Attributable to Being Overweight

Obesity is a growing concern in the United States; overweight rates have doubled among children and tripled among adolescents. This increases the number of years that they are exposing themselves to dangerous health risks associated with obesity.

Here are 20 diseases or conditions that can be attributed to obesity:

1. Diabetes, a disorder where the pancreas is not producing enough or sometimes not any insulin. Diabetes can lead to a whole host of other medical issues and obesity is one of the main causes.

2. Cancer has many different forms and types; many of them could be prevented with more attention to eating healthily and avoiding obesity.

3. Congestive heart failure is a condition in which your heart can't pump enough blood to your bodys other organs.

4. Enlarged heart is another heart condition where the muscle of your heart becomes larger due to being overworked, which naturally happens if you are overweight.

5. Pulmonary embolism is a sometimes fatal blockage of an artery. Being overweight causes most people to reduce activity, and after time lack of activity can result in an embolism.

6. Polycystic ovarian syndrome is a condition in which cysts develop in your ovaries. These can burst, causing even further problems.

7. Gastro-esophageal reflux disease happens when stomach acid and juices flow from your stomach back up into your esophagus. It is common in overweight people.

8. Fatty liver disease is a reversible condition in which large pockets of fat accumulate in liver cells.

9. A hernia is caused when the hole in the diaphragm weakens and enlarges.

10. Erectile dysfunction is the inability to develop or maintain an erection, which can be caused by a medical problem due to obesity.

11. Urinary incontinence is the inability to control urination. It is frequently associated with obesity, weak bladder and pelvic floor muscles

12. Chronic renal failure, meaning your kidneys fail to work, is a much greater risk to those who are overweight or obese.

13. Lymph edema is a condition that occurs from a damaged or dysfunctional lymphatic system, sometimes caused by people suffering from obesity actually crushing their own lymphatics.

14. Cellulitis is a spreading infection, involving both the dermis and subcutaneous skin tissues, resulting from poor lymph flow caused by obesity.

15. Stroke is caused by a lack of blood supply to your brain.

16. Pickwickian syndrome is characterized by sleep apnea resulting from obesity placing an excessive load on your pulmonary system.

17. Depression is a condition where a person feels miserable constantly, even to the point of being suicidal. It can be worse for someone who also has a weight problem.

18. Osteoarthritis is a clinical syndrome in which low-grade inflammation results in pain in your joints. It is caused by abnormal wearing of the cartilage, oftentimes due to obesity.

19. Gout occurs when uric acid accumulates in your blood. Nerve endings then become irritated, causing extreme pain, which is made worse by carrying extra weight.

20. Gallbladder disease commonly affects overweight people as a result of high blood cholesterol levels, which cause gall stones.

According to a Surgeon General report, obesity is responsible for 300,000 deaths every year in the United States.

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 9/03/2008 at 6:38 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Will All Americans Be Fat in 40 Years?

Will All Americans Be Fat in 40 Years?

If the trends of the past three decades continue, it's possible that every American adult could be overweight by 2048. The figure might sound impossible, but two-thirds of the population is already overweight.

The new projections are based on government survey data collected between the 1970s and 2004. If the trends of those years continue, the researchers estimate that 86 percent of American adults will be overweight by 2030, with an obesity rate of 51 percent. By 2048, all U.S. adults could be at least mildly overweight.

The health care costs directly related to excess pounds would also double each decade, reaching $957 billion in 2030 and accounting for one of every six health care dollars spent in the United States.

The time has come and it is now that we need to become more proactive in our health care. It is critical and vital to our survival to "move".

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 9/02/2008 at 6:30 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

WHEN YOU FEEL BETTER FROM TAKING...

WHEN YOU FEEL BETTER FROM TAKING A PILL OR GOING TO AN M.D., MAN IS GLORIFIED

When you get well with chiropractic, God is glorified.

For Moses to feed 3.5 million people, he would have needed 1,500 tons of food each day. It would require a two-mile-long freight trains each day to bring that much food. To cook the food, they needed 4,000 tons of wood and a few more freight trains, each a mile long, just for one day.

And they did this for 40 years!

If they had only enough water to drink and wash a few dishes, they would need 1 million gallons a day. This is the equivalent of a freight train of tank cars 1,800 miles long.

They had to cross the Red Sea in just one night. If they went over the narrow part, double file, the line would be 800 miles long and would take 35 days to get through. So there had to be a space in the Red Sea three miles wide, and they would have to walk across 5,000 abreast to cross in one night.

Every time they camped at the end of the day, a campground two-thirds the size of Rhode Island was needed (750 square miles).

Could Moses have pulled this off? Of course not, but Moses knew God, so he knew God would take care of things.

When people are ill, suffering or just trying to take care of themselves, they are motivated by fear. As a result, they use drugs, immunizations, flu shots, surgery and follow the opinions of others.

There are many things that seem right to men that in the end bring death. But if you depend on God, you can't go wrong. "If God be for us, who can be against us."
You must realize, "The Kingdom of God is within you." The power that made your body was intelligent enough to fulfill your every need.

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power."

Chiropractic moves the bone, God does the healing.

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 9/01/2008 at 6:30 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN THE PURSUIT OF AVERAGE OR THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE

ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN THE PURSUIT OF AVERAGE OR THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE (GOD)?

Av' er-age (av' er-ij): typical, derived from the Arabic term for "damaged goods."

Ex'cel-lence (ek' se-lens) great merit, efficient, remarkable. In the Bible, people who were "of God" or "with God" were said to be of an "excellent spirit."

Average also has been described as being: "The best of the worst, the worst of the best, and the cream of the crap."

Searching for excellence is hungering and thirsting for God. You are commanded to search for it. The Bible says you won't even be good because there is only One good, but you must seek Him, seek excellence.

With the degree of unhappiness (Prozac is our top-selling drug) and with disease on a rapid incline, you and those around you obviously have been in search of average. And doing an excellent job of it, I might add.

To stop what is happening, you have to stop doing what you and those around you have done in the past and keep doing. What makes you on the pursuit of average is that you follow very few programs or disciplines designed to improve the health of the body, mind and spirit. You tend to quit either because of poor discipline, short memory, everyone talks you out of it or you get choked by the "cares of the world."
Every man dies. But average men never really live. The Greek word for "healed" in the Bible actually translates to "saved." If you are healed of the epidemic disease of average, you truly are saved.

If you are already presently working at excellence or if you have achieved some level of proficiency in your life, you are still average until you become a good shepherd to others. You cannot consider yourself with God or of an excellent spirit if you are only managing to improve yourself. You must love others as well by being their keeper and leading them out of the marsh of average and back into the sea of excellence.

If you achieve proficiency in martial arts, you are a black belt. But to be a master, you must create other black belts. The word "apostle" in Greek is actually "apostolos," which means, "messenger." Once you are "healed" from average, you must be an apostle to go out and save others.

What we hear, we tend to forget. What we see, we tend to remember. What we do, we understand. What you give is yours forever.

Give thanks to the Lord (His Excellency), His love endures forever.

"Wise is the one who sees with his own eyes and listens with his own heart."
-Albert Einstein

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 8/31/2008 at 6:30 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

BODY BY GOD

BODY BY GOD AND NOT JUST BECAUSE HE'S READING THIS NEWSLETTER

A little boy wrote a letter to God saying, "Dear God, thank you for giving me my mommy and daddy and for doing such a great job with the animals and trees. You also really made something beautiful when you made the ocean and beaches. Oh, and by the way, I am not saying that just because you're God."

When you look at how top college, Olympic or professional athletes prepare their bodies to perform, it is both admirable and disturbing to you at the same time. Disturbing in that it should horrify and amaze you that athletes can care so much about their body that they focus on everything necessary to get totally healthy, like getting adjusted when necessary, following a diet regime, practicing and training. But most people will not get themselves and their children adjusted in a timely manner, eat proper nutrition, get any exercise or train for their chosen fields of endeavor regularly. You should be disturbed that the best of the best refuse to compete in their sport without making sure that everything in their bodies is right and that all of their skills are sharp while others are willing to compete in life without that same concern.

At an awards banquet for Olympic legends, Dan Gable, an Olympic gold medalist and the winningest coach in college history, spoke and made a very significant comment at the close of his speech. He said, "Whether you are competing in sport or in life, success is determined by a day-in, day-out, endless pursuit of many little things. So often, the difference between winning and losing is just one or a few of those little things."

People love sporting events. But the truth is, the tiniest baby, the people in wheelchairs and you, who seem perfectly normal with little symptoms but are developing disease, are the ones chiropractors love to be with. Athletes strive to be all that God has created them to be. They do everything they can. Chiropractic longs to see you do everything you can.

Show appreciation for God by doing all you can to reach your potential. Commit to this for the rest of your life and not just now because He knows you're reading this blog.

One of Mother Teresa's Favorite Prayers

Dear Lord,

Help me to spread your fragrance wherever I go. Flood my soul with your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of yours. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel your presence in my soul.

Let them look up and see no longer me, but only you, O Lord. Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as you do, so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Lord, will be all from you: none of it will be mine; it will be you shining on others through me.

Let me thus praise you in the way you love best, by shining on those around me. Let me preach you without preaching, not by words but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to you.
-John Henry Newman

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 8/30/2008 at 6:30 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

NATURALLY (Part 2)

Natural Pain Reliever Alternatives

Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID's) are better known to the public as over the counter pain killers. Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, Nuprin), Aspirin, and keptoprofen or Orudistm are a few of the most well know pain killers. And these drugs are just that, killers. Many of us take or have taken these drugs blindly, following their advertisement of everyday use without any knowledge of the real damage that they cause. Because of their toxicity, NSAID's are now associated with gastrointestinal disorders, ulcers, kidney and liver disease, cataracts, high blood pressure, chronic headaches, and heart disease. The list does not end there. See the box below for the list of common side effects that NSAID's cause.

The side effects are not the only reason to be weary of these pills. While they do "kill pain" they also allow us to remain active before our bodies have had the chance to heal. So without the warning of pain, we may re-injure or make worse a wound that has not yet completely healed. As NSAID's block the messages from the brain that tell us we are in pain, they also block messages that tell the body to create collagen and elastin which are necessary for healing. Not only are these drugs causing damage to internal organs, and helping us to hurt ourselves worse, but they are inhibiting the body's ability to heal. Tell me, where is the good? It is no wonder that more and more of us are turning to natural healthcare for answers about our families' health.

Common Side Effects of NSAID's

Dizziness Skin Rash
Nausea Heartburn
Ulcers Stomach Pain
Fluid Retention Indigestion
Constipation Rectal Bleeding
Rectal Irritation Edema Headache Vomiting
Bloating and Gas Diarrhea
Nervousness Irritability
Gastrointestinal Irritation High blood pressure
Abdominal Cramps/Pain

Natural Pain Relievers:

Ginger - Anti-inflammatory
Turmeric - Anti-inflammatory
Vitamin C - Anti-inflammatory + healing
Valerian Root - Pain reliever
Cayenne Pepper - Anti-inflammatory
Arnica - Pain reliever
Fish Oil - Healing properties
Evening Primrose Oil - healing properties + Pain reliever
Borage Oil - healing properties

Also :
Magnesium
Calcium Lactate
Passion Flower
Glucosamine Sulfate
Zinc
Manganese
Kava kava

Posted by: Dr. Jerod on 8/29/2008 at 6:30 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink