The Key to Optimal Health
What
you need to know about your health
What
western society has taught us about health
The
problem with prescription and over-the-counter drugs
Healthy
aging is possible!
The
real key to fixing your health
WHAT
YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR HEALTH:
Listening to our bodies.
Your body speaks to you through symptoms. It is the
language of your body, similar to learning a foreign
language or the language of a computer, you must be
able to understand it in order to communicate with it
and fix the problems.
When you are feeling a symptom, whether it is a headache,
migraines, digestive troubles, PMS, allergies, asthma,
aches and pains, stiffness, or whatever, it is important
that you listen to it. Too often we are taught to just
cover up our symptoms with different forms of medications
or over-the-counter drugs. When you cover up a symptom,
your body must now develop a new symptom to continue
to warn you that there is still an underlying problem
somewhere in your body. The more you try to cover up
the problem, the more problems your body will make until
you decide to listen to it and fix the problem that
initially caused this downward spiral. Symptoms are
in fact a very precise mechanism that lets us know we
have an imbalance somewhere in our body.
Don’t be fooled by “fake”
health.
Symptoms have nothing to do with how healthy you are.
If you do not have a symptom, are you healthy? The answer
is no. Just because you do not have a symptom does not
mean you are healthy. Often times with heart disease,
the first symptom is a heart attack or death, and similarly
with cancer, the first symptom may be a tumor the size
of a grapefruit. Now, just because there were no symptoms
felt prior to the heart attack or tumor doesn’t
mean the person was healthy. Likewise, when a person
is suffering from a fever or vomiting, this does not
mean this person is ill. On the contrary, fever and
vomiting are two very healthy ways your body rejects
toxic substances from itself. Rather than cover up the
fever or stop the vomiting, we want to find the problem
and help the body to rid of it.
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WHAT
WESTERN SOCIETY HAS TAUGHT US ABOUT HEALTH
Allopathic Medicine – is it making
us healthier or more sick?
Most of us were brought up with the idea that we only
have to go to the doctor when we are sick. Here, they
would diagnose our condition with some arbitrary medical
name and give us some sort of prescription to get rid
of it. The only problem is that whatever originally
caused this condition to begin with, was never addressed!
It always seemed to me that there was a problem with
this. Of course allopathic medicine has made some great
achievements in emergency medicine, but it is no longer
the best choice for the chronic disease that affects
over 100 million Americans, and is the major concern
for our sick society. This is so, because the allopathic
doctors are taught to treat symptoms, and not the person
who has them. Diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis,
rheumatoid disorders, allergies, chronic fatigue, Lupus,
heart disease, cancer, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, depression,
etc…. are all chronic in nature and epidemic in
our society! These are all diseases that appeared after
years of mistreatment to our bodies structurally, chemically,
and emotionally. For instance, a herniated disc usually
does not happen from shoveling snow, or lifting a box.
That may be the final movement that initiated the pain,
but the disc itself had been unhealthy and ready to
herniate for years. There are usually imbalances due
to a record of past trauma’s including but not
limited to car accidents, sports such as football, falls
as a child, etc… Heart attacks occur usually after
a lifetime of unhealthy dietary and lifestyle habits
in addition to uncontrolled stress, not just because
they happen to be too stressed out the particular day
of the attack. Lastly, depression or anxiety disorders
are often caused from toxic substances in the person’s
body as well as years of emotional perception patterns,
not just because of one particular event. These and
other issues will not heal through a prescription, but
only through finding the cause of the problem and allowing
the body to heal that!
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THE
PROBLEM WITH PRESCRIPTION AND OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS
If there is a fire in your house and
the alarm is going off, do you point the hose at the
alarm, or the fire?
The fire of course, because aiming it at the alarm
would only hide the warning! It’s the same with
your body and the symptoms you have. If you have a headache
and cover it up with aspirin without finding the cause
of the headache, you will only hide your body’s
warning that there is a problem. Believe me when I tell
you that if you don’t address the cause, your
headache (or whatever symptom you are feeling) will
come back again and again, and usually worse than the
first time! After all, headaches are not do to an aspirin
deficiency! On that note, Cancer is not due to a chemotherapy
deficiency, allergies are not due to a Zertech deficiency,
and depression is not due to a Prozak deficiency!
Check out these articles on “ethics”
and “death
rates from prescription drugs".
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HEALTHY
AGING IS POSSIBLE!
There are no magic pills.
What happened to the doctor’s of the past whose
prescriptions would consist of getting more sleep, eating
better, and exercising more to reduce stress. Yes, this
is what the doctors of the past who went door to door
with their little black medical bags would say.
Our life span may be increasing, but our quality of
life is not. Who wants to live to be 100 years old if
they can’t move, can’t play with their grand
kids and great grand kids, can’t think clearly,
and can’t function without the help of a caretaker.
Let me tell you something, health lies in our body’s
ability to adapt to our environment and to maintain
balance and homeostasis. When we take an antibiotic
for an infection, we throw our body’s own healing
mechanism out of balance. These bugs causing our infection
on the other hand learn to adapt to their surroundings
and the antibiotic trying to kill it, and evolve into
a new strain, naturally. Our body’s have the same
capability, to adapt and overcome, and heal. Everything
we do to block this process takes us further and further
out of balance and homeostatis until we hardly have
any fighting capability whatsoever anymore and we need
to rely on prescription and over-the-counter drugs to
keep us going. There is another way, the healthy way,
the right way.
Don’t you want to feel 100% alive, all the time,
with energy and vitality?
Don’t you want to grow into your elder years with
good health, energy, clarity of thought, and mobility?
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THE
REAL KEY TO FIXING YOUR HEALTH
So why do I have these symptoms, and
how do I know what the underlying problem is?
Every symptom or disease process you may have is due
to an imbalance or blockage within your body’s
natural healing mechanism. When you get a cut, your
body will heal it, when your liver is damaged your body
will regenerate it, when you break a bone your body
will reconnect it. Your body’s
natural response is to heal itself.
The force that made the body will heal
the body!
The only time your body cannot
heal itself is if there is a block either structurally,
emotionally, or biochemically (nutritionally) that doesn’t
allow the body to do its thing. All that any
health care practitioner can do is remove these blocks
so the body may heal itself. Unfortunately those that
just prescribe medications are covering up these blocks
rather than removing them, so your body cannot heal
as it would like to.
To allow your body to heal itself,
we must remove the structural, chemical, and emotional
blocks!
Structural Blocks: A structural
block can occur anywhere in the musculoskeletal system,
but perhaps the most critical area would be in the spine
and cranium and surrounding musculature. It is your
spine and cranium that house your brain and spinal cord,
your nervous system or your “life force”.
From here come all the nerves that send messages from
the brain to every organ, tissue, and muscle in your
body. If there is a blockage in the brain, spinal cord,
or along any nerve, the message will not be conveyed
to its corresponding target. It is your nerves that
send the message from your brain telling your heart
to beat, your lungs to breath, your leg muscles to move
so you may walk, your eyes to see, your ears to hear,
etc. These nerves conduce LIFE from the brain to the
cells. You can see how a block here can cause a major
problem. These most common blocks that occur are called
subluxations. Subluxation (partial dislocation) is a
situation when a vertebra (bone of the spine) or cranial
bone misaligns and causes irritation and dysfunction
to a corresponding nerve. Similar to a water hose that
cannot deliver water to a designated area of grass if
someone is standing on it, an irritated nerve cannot
send its energy to that portion of the body it serves.
The result may be anything from poor eyesight and hearing,
to weakened muscles, to allergies and asthma, to deafness,
to heart attack, or a myriad of other symptoms. For
example, if you were to cut the nerve to your tooth,
it would blacken and die over time, or if the nerve
to your finger were cut, you would not be able to move
it properly. It is so important to get checked out now
for subluxation and other forms of blockage to prevent
future problems, possibly life-threatening, from occurring.
It is only through chiropractic care that these subluxations
can be removed to ensure that your nervous system is
always functioning at 100% and without any blocks. This
then would be called true structural health.
Nutritional (Biochemical) Blocks:
Once the body is aligned and structural blocks are removed
the nutritional or chemical blocks need to be addressed.
Your biochemistry can be disrupted by either lack of
nutrients or a particular substance, which is called
deficiency, or too much
of a nutrient or substance, which is called toxicity.
Deficiency of nutrients can cause a myriad of disease
processes from lack of energy to life-threatening illness
such as scurvy and muscular dystrophy. Toxicity can
be seen in many forms, from skin irritations such as
rashes, acne, eczma, to headaches, allergies, dizziness,
fatigue, and even arthritis. Both are equally damaging
to your body’s function. In addition to addressing
toxicity and deficiency, how your body digests and absorbs
is of major importance. You can eat healthily but still
have nutritional or chemical problems if your main digestion
mechanism is not functioning properly. Conditions such
as “leaky gut” or “dysbiosis”
can be major factors in your bodies ability to process
nutrition. This can be due to imbalances anywhere along
the digestive pathway from mouth to anus. It is of vital
importance to get your digestive pathway checked out
to ensure everything is functioning properly. Other
areas of chemical health that are vitally important
are diet, eating habits, prescriptions medications that
you’ve ever been on, food allergies, supplementation,
and weight management.
Emotional or Mental Health: The
third link, and the most often ignored, to optimal (true)
health is removing emotional blocks within your body.
It is thought that many disease processes begin from
certain emotional patterns that begin early in life,
such as cancer from a lifetime of repression. Emotional
stress is one of the best known causes of illness. Most
of us have fallen ill or have certain conditions that
only prevail during times of stress. This is very common.
It has been proven that emotions are physiological occurrences
that can alter the function of your body. A lie-detector
test is a perfect example of reading the physiological
change that occurs as different thoughts and emotions
are brought to your consciousness. The biochemical component
of emotions are called Neuro-Emotional Complexes (NEC’s).
Research shows that neuropeptides are activated when
a NEC is present. Dr. Hoffmann clears NEC’s through
a method called Neuro-Emotional
Technique (NET). When NEC’s are cleared,
it is the neuropeptides that are being balanced in the
body. NEC’s can be cleared in a matter of minutes
allowing for breakthrough’s in health that you
may not have thought possible. This is often the missing
link to optimal health and needs to be addressed for
a life of energy and vitality.
Removing the blocks and achieving
true structural, chemical, and emotional health is the
key to optimal health. With optimal health comes ultimate
life and vitality, reserves of energy, and true inner
peace and happiness.
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