Chiropractic Care Summerville, South Carolina

NY TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, AND CNN REPORT

Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often not acknowledged at all and a crisis that goes on un-fought. Perhaps the report’s most stunning finding was that, on average, a hospitalized patient is subject to at least one medication error per day.

A serious drug error can add more than $5,800 to the hospital bill of a single patient. Assuming that hospitals commit 400,000 preventable drug errors each year, that’s $3.5 billion — not counting lost productivity and other costs — from hospitals alone. “I’m a patient-safety researcher (yet) I was surprised and shocked at just how common and how serious a problem this is,” said Dr. Albert Wu of Johns Hopkins, co-author of the report.

Worse, there’s too little incentive for health providers to invest in technology that could prevent some errors today, added Dr. J. Lyle Bootman, the University of Arizona’s pharmacy dean, who co-chaired the IOM probe.

“We’re paid whether these errors occur or not,” lamented Bootman, who recently experienced the threat firsthand as his son-in-law dodged some drug near-misses while in intensive care in a reputable hospital.

The new probe couldn’t say how many of the injuries ended in death and the number 1.5 million was for Medicare patients and hospitals only. This number didn’t include all hospitals, care at your personal M.D., or at home. If it did, the number could be in the tens of millions! In fact, research is now showing that the health care system; doctors, drugs, surgery, and hospitals is the runaway #1 cause of death in America. Tragically, this problem doesn’t exist in any other country on this level.

Four of every five U.S. adults take at least one medication every day; almost a third takes at least five! The more you use, the greater your risk. Of course the recommendations to correct these problems include new hospital software and tips for consumers. Well, here’s a tip -TRY LOWERING THE USE OF MEDICATIONS AND SURGERIES!

OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: 1. Fails to keep us well -we’re ranked at or near the bottom in every category of health as well as being ranked second last overall in world health. 2. Is the leading cause of death in the U.S.

3. Kills and injures radically more people today then any war or natural disaster YET, PEOPLE ARE COMMITTED TO IT? ASK YOURSELF WHY?

Structure, function, proper care and movement of the body and LESS, not more drugs is the answer to this deadly problem. A healthy spine and nervous system (One with proper curves, angles, and positions) = optimum function, the right levels of nutrients, activity, and as little toxicity as possible (drugs being the most toxic, common substance). Why won’t people commit to this obvious alternative? Another good question to ask yourself.

What are you committed to? Have you done your best to make sure everyone in your family has had their nervous system checked? Are you letting your children stay home and develop the problems you are coming in to correct?

The greatest advantage of getting multiple degrees and certifications in wellness areas (Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and the Spine) is that it allows you to separate a whole lot of fiction from fact. Going through this education you get to study science and research. As a result, it’s shocking, amazing, and at the same time horrifying to see how much of what we the public have been led to believe is simply made up. Some time it’s a legend in that you have no idea where it came from, some times it’s a myth from grandma, and now more and more – it’s just simply marketing (or lying however you want to put it).

In the mid eighties, the medical profession released a statement that good nutrition had nothing to do with health and that supplements give you “expensive urine.” The truth behind this came out later in the early nineties when they tried to have the sale of supplements banned so that they could control the sales – threat that still exists in potential legislation today. Of course, going to Chiropractic school, I don’t have to tell you the myths, legends, and marketing that medicine has put out to stop that.

Recently, we’ve all became aware of the fact that all medication holds dangerous side-effects, medicine is the leading killer in America, margarine and other foods containing trans-fats are bad for you, and more recently that aspartame, splenda, soy products, canola oil, and too many processed carbs are really bad for you. What’s funny, however, is that when I went to college 11 years ago (my God has it been that long), these studies were already in existence …ad nauseum.

Before they started pulling the mercury out of the vaccines, before the black box labels went on all of the hyperactivity/learning disorder medications, before the class action suits against Vioxx/Celebrex and all the antidepressant manufacturers, before hormone replacement therapy was halted for causing cancer and heart disease, before we understood the damaging effects of toxic foods and tap water, etc., etc., etc. Before all of this was common knowledge IT WAS KNOWN KNOWLEDGE. I’ve been reading about these things and warning people about them since I was 18 years old. I’ve watched an endless amount of people suffer intensively and/or die a tragic, early death because they’re hopeful the myths and legends are true so they don’t have to change. Or just waiting …..

In the last 18-24 months, major Medical Universities, the Mayo Clinic, medical researchers from Japan, and the Journal of Geriatrics have released studies showing that subluxation, a loss of the normal 34-43 degree curve in the neck, and/or humping of the mid-back causes early death and major organ dysfunction, yet still 85% of the population has never even had their spine checked! Worse yet others actually get their spine checked, see they have a reversed cervical curve, and decide not to fix it! How long will people wait to act on this knowledge? How many have to die?

PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD. IF NOT YOU, THEN WHO?

Adapted from: May 29th/06 -Cover Story: Newsweek

It’s Unbelievable! For what has been months, nearly every major newspaper and magazine has been riddled with cover story after front page story pointing out the dangers of going to your medical doctor, hospital, or drug store. These stories are replete with scandal, the fact that medicine is unproven and unscientific, that prescriptions and over the counter medications are the leading killers in America, that prescriptions are the top sources of drug addiction and street drug-pushing, and that M.D.s fear M.D.s and hospitals. The U.S. is ranked at or near the bottom of the world in for every category of pre-natal, infant, child, adult, or geriatric health. . .despite the fact that we spend 2-5 times what healthier countries spend per person on health.

THIS WEEK: The Newsweek article points out what we have known all along about medicine and why we chose Chiropractic college over Medical. Chiropractic and wellness care is simply far more scientific and cutting edge. In an article entitled “Medical Guesswork,” the author reveals that 85% of all medical care is unscientific and unproven. So, as you look back over your life, your child’s life, your pregnancy, all treatments or medications you’ve ever had, and everything you know to be true about medical care, only 15% of it was real, necessary, or proven to be safe or effective!

Dr. David Eddy, presenting at the Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute board meeting, presented information exposing what he called the “dark secret” of medicine. “The problem is that we don’t know what we are doing,” he says. Even today, with a high-tech health-care system that costs the nation $2 trillion a year, there is little or no evidence that many widely used treatments and procedures actually work better than various cheaper alternatives. This judgment pertains to a shocking number of conditions or diseases, from cardiovascular woes to back pain to prostate cancer. ”

“Dr. Eddy has showed, for instance, that the annual chest X-ray was worthless, over the objections of doctors who made money off the regular visit. He proved that doctors had little clue about the success rate of procedures such as surgery for enlarged prostates. He traced one common practice — preventing women from giving birth vaginally if they had previously had a cesarean — to the recommendation of one lone doctor. Indeed, when he began taking on medicine’s sacred cows, Dr. Eddy liked to cite a figure that only 15% of what doctors did was backed by hard evidence.”

Chiropractic and wellness care doesn’t have a billion dollar marketing budget. Resultantly, although its effectiveness and safety is proven over and over and over again in study after study and clinic after clinic, the belief is that it’s odd, outside the box, “alternative” care. The facts are, however, and you know in your heart it’s true, that if you look at our family, our Maximized Living patients, and the thousands of chiropractic families we know and work with who are not part of the medical system. . . you’ll find that they’re far, far healthier. The medical U.S. might have the worst health in the world, but the chiropractic U.S. has the highest.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…

You have more luck than a million people who will die and suffer this week!

If your parents are still alive and haven’t been diagnosed with heart disease or cancer…

You are luckier than you can imagine!

If your child is not taking Ritalin or Antidepressants…

You have more luck than 2 million parents whose children are!

If you have not been diagnosed with cancer yet…

You have more luck than the 2600 people who were today!

If you’re not taking any medications daily…

You have more luck than 70% of the population who is!

If you or any of your family has not been killed living in the Medical Model yet…

You have more luck than the 1.1 million people who did last year!

If you and your family are living in the Maximized Living Model…

-Getting regular Chiropractic check-ups

-Eating a Body by God nutrition plan

-Exercising on a regular basis

You have more luck than 97% of the population who will die an early death of heart disease, cancer or a medication error!

If you and your family are under regular Chiropractic care…

You are extremely blessed because you are becoming one of the healthiest people on the planet!

There is no more waiting! There is no more time!

Everyone you know is going to suffer, build disease and die an early death if they are not living in our MAXIMIZED LIVING MODEL!

You have 3 ways to refer a patient this month!

1. Bring them to our patient dinner!
2. Bring them to one of our 2 advanced talks!
3. Give us their name and we will do a free phone consultation!

American Academy of Pediatrics says Stop Prescribing Antibiotics for Ear Infections!

Childhood Vaccines Cause Brain Disease!

Antibiotics Cause Cancer!

Advil, aleve, tylenol, & ibuprofen destroy the heart!

Here is the newest headline:

Breast cancer rates have decreased by up to 10% because less women are taking Hormone Replacement Therapy!

One of the cancer specialists said, “We have found something better than a cure. Stop taking all of these MEDICATIONS!”

When will this nonsense end?

The practice of Medicine is now the #1 cause of death!

That’s not ok with me!

We can’t keep doing the same things over and over and expect a different result. The research is now showing that Americans take more drugs than all other countries combined (we are 5% of the population taking 56% of the drugs), yet we are still one of the sickest nations in the world.

Better health through better chemistry doesn’t work!

Better health through Maximized Living does!

The 5 Essentials of Maximized Living

1. Avoidance and Reduction of Medications

2. Maximum Nerve Supply

3. Quality Nutrients

4. Optimum Oxygen Levels and Lean Muscle

5. Peace of Mind and Strong Relationships

Living a Chiropractic Maximized Living lifestyle raises the immune system and decreases your risk of dying an early death of heart disease, cancer or a medication error!

Why would you want to live any other way?

You can’t sit by anymore and let anyone suffer in this medical model way of living!

You need to do whatever you can to get them into our office and give them the best gift for the new year!

A Better Quality of Life!

Current statistics show that our chance of going through life without suffering greatly or in fact, dying early from degenerative disease isn’t good. More then one out of two – therefore “almost two out of two 2″ people now die early or are prematurely stricken with degenerative illnesses like: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s/dementia, diabetes, and/or severe arthritis.

Additionally, as we share with you each week, those aren’t even the top killers. Research shows it’s even more likely you’ll be hurt or caused to become room temperature (dead) by prescription or over the counter medications.

America is fairing poorer and poorer when compared to other nations. In recent weeks, the health of U.S. citizens was compared to that of England’s. Those in England were found to be far healthier in every single category of health despite the fact that the U.S. spends twice as much per person on “health” care. Lifestyle in England including; smoking, drinking alcohol, and diet are worse than in the U.S. and they have our same genes. So the question remains, why are we sicker. Evidence has revealed that it is the “health” care that people in the U.S. receive that causes us to be overwhelmingly sicker than the other industrialized nations. The truth is our health care system clearly doesn’t actually provide any “health,” but rather sickness.

So here’s your question: Do you want to be part of the U.S. “health” care system? If your answer is no, we can help. If it’s yes, let us know where we can send the flowers.

Instead of a U.S. “health” care person (USHCP) you can be a Maximized Living person (MLP). MLPs have far, far greater levels of wellbeing in every category over USHCPs, England people (EPs), or any other country’s Ps for that matter.

Proactive:                                             Reactive:

Align with God’s intentions                           Work against God

(Natural lifestyle)                         (Medications, chemicals, surgery)

Healthy spine and nerves               Spinal degeneration and  poor posture

(chiropractic maintenance)             (Need for spinal correction, ignorance)

Godly priorities                    Material accumulation is at the center

(God, spouse, family, business)               (Busyness with business)

Food by God                                          Food by man

(Alkaline, anti-inflammatory diet)   (Commercial -acidic, inflammatory diet)

Exercise/regular activity                                Sedentary lifestyle

(Resistance and aerobic)                (Exercise is more of an annual thing)

THE PRINCIPLE OF MAXIMIZED LIVING:

Through Maximized Living, we understand that there is more to life than physical law . It really is a “Body by God.” When healing from a godly perspective, the modifications that are encouraged are ones that allow the healing process to take place naturally by respecting the normal way God created the body to function. When adjustments are made to the body or nutrition and lifestyle changes are utilized, it’s not for the purpose of treating symptoms, but for restoring balance and establishing or maintaining health. In this way, when health and wellness prevail over sickness and despair, we glorify the power of God and the power of no one and nothing else.

SOME ESSENTIALS TO KNOW ABOUT ESTABLISHING HEALTH THROUGH MAXIMIZED LIVING:

• Commit to a relationship with God. There’s no such thing as a healthy miserable person. This connection helps you prioritize your, time, your other relationships, and build on a key area of wellness – peace. He also has the power to heal!
• Cooperate with the design of your body. Healthy posture, structural integrity of the spine and nervous system, the right quality and quantity of nutrients, stress management, and cardio-vascular and muscle function obtained through regular physical activity.
• Nurture a non-toxic internal environment for your cells. Key toxins that interfere with normal function: medications, refined foods, sugar, additives, colorings, preservatives, alcohol, and smoke.

All of which is the inherent consequence of a natural lifestyle that respects your body and falls into alignment with the ultimate intent God has for your life.

We get into specifics each week and through our books, tapes, and videos. However, you’ll find, if you can get the BIG IDEA about life and health. . . all else follows.