COVID and the Deer Population

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I came across an interesting bit of information the other day regarding animals contracting Covid. I saw they were testing animals in a zoo and getting positive results in some animals, which displayed no symptoms.

Then, someone sent me an article published by NPR, titled, “How Sars-Cov-2 in American deer could alter the course of the global pandemic.”

It states that scientists have evidence that Cov-2 spreads explosively in white-tailed deer and that the virus is already widespread in the deer population across the entire United States!

"Pandemic of the Unvaccinated": Liars!

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The latest data on vaccinations has been reported by Dr. Mercola. He has been banned on all social media and has to remove his published articles from his website in 48 hours. Today’s article is just a fact filled number fest; no interpretation is needed.

The Delta strain is now the dominant virus across the globe. The original Wuhan virus mutated into the Delta strain. Researchers have proven that those who are “fully” vaccinated are indeed more susceptible to Covid variants than unvaccinated people.

We hear it shouted from those in command, “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated!”. They are liars, and the numbers prove it.

Simple Pandemic Data

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For several months now, I have purposely not written on this pandemic of stupidity. Most of you know where I stand from previous articles. This week I simply want to look at data.

Some of this data is from the United States and some is form around the world. But data are facts and numbers, not rhetoric and speculation.

We’ve all heard from the high and mighty gods of government that the unvaccinated are 1. Why we aren’t done with the virus; 2. Why everyone still has to mask up; 3. Driving the mutant variants; 4. Just selfish and irresponsible. If all these are true, then the areas that are highly vaccinated should be pictures of health, right? Er…..not so much!

Is Chiropractic Maintenance Care Effective?

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When I sit down with a new patient for the first time, one of the questions I ask is if they have ever been to a chiropractor before. I’d guess about half of them have not. My next question is usually, “Why not?” The most common answer is, “I’ve never needed one before.” For me, that translates into, “The pain I’ve been having off and on for years won’t go away this time!”

Needing a chiropractor should be on 100% of everyone’s list of necessary doctors. Not just for getting rid of pain but for maintenance of joint function to prevent future problems. Do you not change the oil in your car? Rotate the tires? Wash it once in a while? Why do you do this? It’s called preventive maintenance, right? Spend a little bit of time and money now to protect your huge investment for years to come. Isn’t your health worthy of investment? How can you eat right, exercise, avoid bad health habits, yet not consider maintaining the vital function of the spine and nervous system?

Do Prescriptions Really Expire?

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Have you ever wondered if that old prescription sitting in your refrigerator is still any good?  You see the expiration date is well past, but it was expensive and you may need it again, right?

If the expiration date has come and gone, is it safe to keep? And for how long? Will it hurt you if you take it “out of date”?

Let’s start with how medication expiration dates came about. There were no expiration dates on medications until 1979. The FDA started requiring dates to “ensure effectiveness.” The generally accepted minimum standard for potency is a concentration of 90% or better.

Vitamins: Part 2

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Once we realize that we cannot obtain the essential nutrients we need form food alone, you can then conclude that some sort of supplementation should be added to our diet.

There are good whole food vitamins on the market. I’m not here to sell any of them. Do some research and find them. None of them will be one pill a day. Most will need to have 4 or more capsules taken per day simply because you can’t compress all the ingredients into one pill, it ain’t possible! And that is your first clue to a good supplement. It takes more than one pill to get the needed ingredients.

They must have essential vitamins at levels above the RDA set by the government. The RDA’s, I believe, are bare bones numbers just to stay alive, not for optimum health. Take the 400 iu RDA for Vitamin D, for instance. Vitamin D at that level doesn’t even provide for essential body functions, let alone provide enough to improve your dietary intake. You need 5 to 10,000 iu’s per day from sun and supplements for optimum performance of body systems.

Vitamins Part 1

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Do you take vitamins and supplements? Why do you take them? How did you choose what you currently consume? Price? Ingredients? Availability? Recommendation? Why?

I talk supplements with many people in the office, and most are just winging it, hoping it helps their health. Many people have fallen for the “one a day” advertising. Some buy supplements as cheaply as possible. Others look for certain ingredients, but really have no idea what should be in them. It is hard to know what to look for and how to buy when your knowledge and time are limited.

Sell By vs. Use By Dates

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How many times have the ‘use by’ or ‘sell by’ date on a packaged food caused you to rethink eating or purchasing a product? Does either of those dates say anything about whether the product is safe to eat? Are these dates regulated by the government or backed by any research showing good reason for them?

The average family in America wastes over $1500 worth of food each year. Moldy bread and spoiled produce should be discarded for obvious reasons. Yet many perfectly fine foods are tossed based on the ‘use by/best by’ and ‘sell by’ dates. A recent report from Harvard found that 90% of Americans throw out food prematurely based on a misunderstanding of what these dates really mean.+

Allulose: Another Natural Sweetener

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In the last article we talked about the failures of artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose and saccharin. They are terrible for your health and well being. I’ve written other articles on stevia, which I regularly use, and tastes fine in drinks or sprinkled on foods for extra sweetness. But, you can’t really bake with it without altering a recipe markedly.

I am going to introduce you to an all-natural, actual sugar substitute called Allulose.

This real sugar is found in kiwi, jackfruit, figs, molasses, and raisins. Commercially it is extracted from corn sugars that are altered by a single molecule to become this sugar.  It is a monosaccharide, or simple sugar, and is absorbed by the body, but not metabolized. That is what makes this sugar have zero calories. It is excreted by the kidneys before it is metabolized, leaving you with “effectively zero” calories.

Artificial Sweeteners: Are They Safe?

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Artificial sweeteners have become as common as sugar was 50 years ago. In today’s world of overweight people, some are constantly looking to reduce calorie intake. In a previous article a while back, I detailed how these sweeteners actually cause your body to crave more sugar and more food because they do not satisfy the body’s insulin receptors. This can lead to actual weight gain instead of the intended weight loss.

Artificial sweeteners like Splenda may lower your good gut bacteria, increase your intestinal pH and accumulate in fat cells. It is linked to leukemia. Aspartame (Nutrasweet) is linked to insulin intolerance, leading to diabetic issues.

Eat All the (Dark)Chocolate You Want

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 Chocolate is one of those foods that few people would do without.  In America, we rank about 20^th in the world in pounds eaten per year, at about 9 lbs. per person, per year.  The Swiss rank number one in the world and eat about 20 lbs. per year.  I’m pretty sure I fit in with the Swiss more than most Americans. Chocolate is just a good part of a healthy diet if you choose your chocolate correctly.   

Obviously, most candy is nothing but sugar and generally not what we look to eat regularly or in any serious amounts. Sugar in general is just not healthy and most candy is just that, not healthy.

Why so Many Meds?

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Medication use as we age will likely increase to some degree. The older we get, the more things that can go wrong with our bodies. The problem is that it is getting out of control compared to years ago.

The New York Times reports that the average person in their mid to late 60’s today is taking 15 prescription medications per year! That doesn’t even count the over-the-counter medications many are adding.

In 2016, 75% of people over the age of 50 were taking at least one prescription regularly. Today more than 80% are taking two, and 50% are taking 4 or more regularly.

From 1988 to 2010, adults over 65 doubled the prescriptions they took regularly from two to four. The proportion taking 5 or more tripled in the same time frame. Yet the health of seniors overall is declining

Pandemic Fear Mongering

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The fear in this “pandemic” is like nothing I’ve ever seen. The breadth and depth of the strategies used to stoke these fears is insane. Emergency use orders, mask mandates, stay at home orders, arresting pastors for holding church services are all part of the mass propaganda narrative. All of this over a disease with a survival rate over 99%.

“It bears repeating that a review of literature by respected Stanford University professor of medicine and epidemiology, John Ioannidis, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), found the infection fatality rate for Covid-19 as of September 2020, was 0.23%!”, Says Dr. Mercola. In people younger than 70 years it was much lower. This rate is determined by dividing total deaths by total cases.

Sleep: Do You Get Enough?

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When is the last time you got a full eight hours of sleep? Have you been conditioned to think getting a full night’s sleep is not that necessary? When I asked one patient about his sleep habits he said, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead!” Prophetically, a lack of sleep will get you there more quickly.

It is estimated that 40% of Americans do not get proper sleep time. Many get less than five hours per night. Even the CDC has stated that a lack of sleep is a public health epidemic. Improper sleep habits are linked to a wide variety of health problems. Tired drivers are as dangerous as drunk drivers. By lacking sleep, you are risking far more than accidents, you are affecting your entire health picture.

Colloidal Silver: A Natural Infection Fighter

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For thousands of years health care practitioners and health minded people have been using the health benefits of silver to treat a myriad of human ailments. The ancient Phoenicians understood that keeping water, wine and vinegar in silver lined vessels maintained the freshness of each. Silver is a germicide and a disinfectant. It is a natural antibiotic, anti-viral and anti-fungal agent. The only problem is that our wonderful government agency, the FDA, does not agree. They decided in 1999 that all colloidal silver products sold over the counter are unsafe and mislabeled. They state they are unaware of any evidence to support its use for any serious disease. [www.FDA.gov/ohrms/dockets/98f/081799a.txt]

NEW!! COVID survival rates soar

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I’ve gone an entire month without writing on this plague we are living, but that ends this week. This is not going to be a long article, and that is on purpose. I want you to ruminate on a few simple numbers.

The vaccination push is getting totally heavy handed. Your right to choose your own medical treatment is being squashed. Vaccine passports to do virtually anything are coming. All of this is based on what data? Absolutely none that shows its necessity!

Posture Pointers - part 2

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In the last article we looked at what issues negatively affect general posture, from heredity to cell phone use, and how to improve general posture in a daily routine.

In this, the second part of the series, we are going to investigate good sitting posture and effective standing posture.

Sitting posture is very important for the spinal discs. Your body literally starts to shut down specific parts of the brain related to muscle tone, cognitive awareness and breathing, the longer you stay sitting in one position. This process starts at about 15-30 minutes of sitting.  Sitting also puts 13 times more compressive force on the low back discs than any other position.

Look at your own posture when sitting at a computer for a length of time. We start out upright and alert, but before an hour has passed, we are slouching and distracted, right?

Posture Pointers - part 1

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As a chiropractor, posture is of great importance in my evaluation of a patient. Your posture tells me a lot about your work habits, your sleep habits and your sitting and standing tendencies.  There are three basic areas of posture: general posture, sitting posture and standing posture. Being aware of your body position in all stages can be the difference between daily pain and no pain at all.

This plandemic has forced many people to work from home. Most thought it would just be for a short while. Well, we can all see how that turned out! Now, many are faced with home working environments ill-equipped at facilitating good working posture. Very few people have good work stations set up ergonomically correct, at their home. When I hear people say “I work at the dining room table,” or “I sit on the couch,” or “I use the bar stool at the counter,” I immediately know those postures are creating issues of pain somewhere in that patient.

IVERMECTIN Treats and Prevents COVID

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There is huge breaking news on the China Virus treatment front. The Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC.org) has just fully endorsed the use of the 2015 Nobel prize winning anti-parasite drug, Ivermectin, as a must use treatment and prophylactic treatment for this disease.  Now you all know I am not drug guy by any means, but in a situation like this, when lives are on the line in some cases, it is prudent to look for all the help you can get.

The FLCCC is a group of infectious disease research doctors at the top of their profession here in the USA. One of them, Dr. Pierre Kory, lectured the US congress a few weeks ago on the importance of using this drug, along with several natural immune system boosters, to ward off infection.

There are some 27 studies with over 6,500 patients studied since last June that show this drug, Ivermectin, can be used to keep Covid away and to treat infection when present. It appears from the studies it is more than 85% effective at keeping Covid away and also very effective at treating even in the worst of cases.

Humidifiers to keep Covid Away?

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“Flu season” has that name for multiple reasons. One that I preach about regularly is the “lack of sunshine” season, or loss of vitamin D in our bodies. Another is the cooler weather in the Northern hemisphere during winter months playing a role in viral particles being able to sustain themselves for longer periods of time.

But there is very recent research that shows the indoor humidity level also plays a key role in viral transmission rates.

Researchers from MIT collected data from 125 countries regarding Covid-19 cases and relative indoor humidity. They analyzed the data for three months. What they found was that relative indoor humidity (RH) had the most significant correlation with daily new cases and daily new deaths.

Fake Meat.. Fad or Fiction?

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Have you joined the newest fad of eating fake meat? Have you been persuaded that the ‘Impossible Burger’ and ‘Beyond Meats’ burger are healthy options? Did you even look into what these things are made from? Don’t believe the hype, they are awful for your health and as sustainable food.

Let’s start at the very basic level of why they are bad. First you must know what linoleic acid (LA) is.  LA is an omega-6 fat which contributes to metabolic dysfunction. It is literally a metabolic poison that contributes to systemic inflammation. It is found in higher quantities in all grains and oils from them.

LA consumption should be minimal in our diets, less than 3-5 grams per day. Today, most diets contain 10-20 times that amount. This leads to severe insulin resistance, obesity, mitochondrial dysfunction, and loss of cell energy.