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Health Hints February 2010
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Dr. Douglas Pfeiffer
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My take on our February "Holidays"
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Everyone in America should sit down and watch this movie with their families, or at least view the trailer. You will never want to eat fast food again,a nd you will want all range fed, antibiotic and hormone free meat.
www.foodincmovie.com
Thank you to Silver Inner Health Circle Member Donna Wardle for sharing.
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Words of Wisdom
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“Fake food – I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut – is unnatural, a bane to good eating and good cooking.”
--Julia Child
Well said Julia, but I would go even one step further. I would have ended this quote by saying that this is not only “…immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking”, but also to “achieving and maintaining Optimal Health and Wellness!”
Keep striving to achieve “IT”!
Yours in Health,
Dr. P.
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February 2010
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My Recent High Blood Pressure Experience
That headline may have been a little bit deceiving, and I apologize for that. You see the high blood pressure event that I am referencing did not happen to me, it happened with me. O.K., that one sounded wrong too. I have been known to raise peoples’ blood pressure before, but in this case I did just the opposite. You see I was able to reproduce the events that have been reported in the news recently link with a Chiropractic Adjustment to the cervical spine (neck) of a patient of mine. Read entire article.
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THINK RIGHT
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 Re-Boot Your Thinking
You know, sometimes we all get caught up in the insignificant “Important Things” that we have to “get done” that day, and we forget to marvel at the “Simple Wonders” that we encounter each and every day. These are truly the “Important Things” in life that we all overlook every day.
I am currently reading a wonderful book which was given to me as a gift by a very dear friend, who is also a Silver Inner Health Circletm member. I would like to say thank you to Dave for this wonderful gift. The book is called “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. Read entire story and see Randy's lecture.
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EAT RIGHT
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 The Drive-Thru Diet
O.K. Silver Inner Health Circletm members, the American public is being lead down the "Mega Marketing Path" once again, this time by none other than Taco Bell. Yes, Taco Bell is trying to convince you that weight loss at any cost and done in any way is the way to create Health and Wellness. Now I know that you all know better, and you know that eating "product" will never make you Healthy. In order to create Health and Wellness you must eat whole foods, and not product. So can you lose weight by eating at Toco Bell every day? I don't know. I am sure that by eating just a limited number of calories you can lose weight, and my thought is that this is just what they are having you do. I also know that you need sufficient nutrients in order stay, and or become Healthy. That means that you must get as much of your food in the form of raw whole fruits and vegetables, and fresh range fed poultry, and freshly caught fish as possible. Read entire article.
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CHIROPRACTIC CORNER
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 Maybe Medicine Isn't the Answer For You Either
As you may know I have been a practicing Chiropractic Physician for the last 24 years. I have seen many amazing and dramatic “Healing Events” take place over those wonderful years. I have witnessed patients who have entrusted their most precious possession their infant child, to me to help them with the severe “colic” symptoms that these new parents had been experiencing with their new little “bundle of joy”. In numerous similar cases I was as elated as these parents were surprised to see these symptoms resolve after 2 or 3 adjustments.
The most recent case that prompted my writing this note, which I might add I am doing at 10:00 p.m. after arriving home from a long day in the office, was a wonderful middle aged patient who I had adjusted last week. She called my office to schedule an appointment a little earlier than her next scheduled “maintenance” appointment. Read entire article.
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Parting Thought
Shatter This False Belief and Be Free
Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.
Guy Finley
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Recent and Upcoming Events:
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Blood Pressure Experience - continued
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So, here are the details. I recently had a patient come into my office for a back injury. In the course of our examination we discovered that "John" (protecting this patient’s identity) blood pressure was significantly elevated. It was actually 165/104 mm. Hg. That is pretty significant! Now let’s understand that there are many things that can affect a patient’s blood pressure ranging from pain to kidney or cardiac disease to “white coat syndrome”. At any rate, I treated this patient for what he came in for, "back pain”. However when this high blood pressure persisted (we checked it again on this subsequent visit) and with the patient’s full consent I examined the cervical spine and found that there was in fact an Upper Cervical Subluxation. We decided that that “bad guy” (Subluxation) had to go. So, I did what I do. I adjusted John's neck to remove the “Nerve Pressure” that the subluxation was creating. John immediately went up to another examination room and had his blood pressure checked again. This time to his amazement the blood pressure came down to 140/89 mm. Hg. A profound 25 mm dropin systolic (the upper number) and a whopping 15 mm drop in diastolic (the lower number) blood pressure.
You see Silver Inner Health Circletm Members, as I always tell my patients: “You will receive fringe health benefits beyond just relief of your back pain, from your Chiropractic Adjustments. As we free up the nerve pressure the body will come back into balance and heal.”
Don’t ever forget: “The power that made the body heals the body.”
If you want to take the next step to Health and Wellness make an appointment to have a Complementary Consultation and see if Gentle Chiropractic techniques can help you. Call us at (215) 679-7800 or email today. Onto next article.
Yours in Health,
Dr. Pfeiffer
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CHIROPRACTIC CORNER - continued
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The reason that she scheduled an appointment a week earlier than I had planned for her was because she was overwhelmed and overjoyed with the results of her last adjustment. You see she had been taken to the Hospital the week before her last appointment, by her husband. The reason was she had begun experiencing symptoms which led both she and her husband to believe that she was having a “heart issue”. When she contacted her medical doctor he simply stated that she was experiencing the affects of “stress” and that she should increase her dose of anti-depressant and would be fine. She knew that this was not the issue, and therefore went to the E.R. when the symptoms persisted.
The E.R. ran a battery of blood tests, and cardiac tests. When the results were completed they said that she was in no immediate danger, recommended some medication and sent her on her merry way. The only problem was that she still had the symptoms. Since she was already scheduled for her appointment in our office she decided to see what her adjustment would do. I adjusted her and she went on her way, as she always did after her “maintenance chiropractic adjustment”. This time however, things were different. You see when she called to come in the next week she did so in part due to her excitement and frustration. Her excitement was due to the fact that she had experienced a “90%” reduction in her “cardiac symptoms” after her adjustment. Her frustration was that she had spent so much time, energy, money, and insurance company money on the issue prior to getting adjusted, with absolutely NO answers to her concerns, and definitely no relief. “Why don’t they refer someone like me to a chiropractor?” was her question to me. My response was the same as it has been for the last 24 years to thousands of similar patients. “This is the reason that the profession of chiropractic has survived for the last 115 years; we get results with things that standard medical care just can’t. We are often and quite unfortunately, the profession of last resort which gets results with things that others just cannot.”
In light of these facts I have put together some information for from the most recent research about chiropractic and different conditions that we as a profession treat better than any other health care profession you to review. So read and enjoy.
1. The average time for a whip-lash injured patient to improve is 7 months 1 week. (Spine, 1994)
2. Chiropractic spinal adjusting has been shown to be better than 5 times more effective than NSAIDs pain drugs Celebrex and Vioxx in the treatment of neck and low back pain. (Spine, 2003)
3. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for rheumatoid and or osteoarthritis conservatively cause 16,500 Americans to bleed to death each year, making it the 15th most common cause of death in the U.S. (New England Journal of Medicine 1999)
4. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to significantly lower blood pressure. (Journal of human Hypertension 2007)
5. Those who consumed the highest amount of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pain drugs increased their risk of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease by 66%. (Neurology, 2009)
6. Meniere’s disease has been linked to a disorder of the upper cervical spine joints. (International Tinnitus Journal, 2007) top of page
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THINK RIGHT - continued
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You may have seen glimpses of Randy’s lecture on your Public Broadcasting Station.
As a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University Randy had given many lectures. This one was different however. This was to be his “Last Lecture” ever. You see Randy had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. No one knew what a dying man would have to say. The audience was packed. Some had come to hear what it was like to be dying and know it. Some I am sure just wanted to see how this terminally ill man looked. Whatever the reason they were all in for a surprise. Randy truly took the proverbial lemons and converted them miraculously into lemonade. You see Randy engaged his “Think Right” as he prepared his lecture, which he called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. This lecture had nothing to do with dying, not at all. It had everything to do with living. You see, at this point in life a person realizes just how precious is every moment with which we are blessed.
I want to encourage all of you right now to take a moment and watch the video that we have for you this month. I want you to re-boot your “Priority Meter”. Take a moment to look at all of the beautiful and wondrous things around you. They are all free for the taking. They have been given to you. Don’t miss them, because you may never have the opportunity to witness them again. Randy taught in his “Lecture” the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment, since “time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less time than you think." Onto the next article
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EAT RIGHT - continued
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We have just completed our "New Years Cleanse Event" link (Kim, please put up the link to our web site) with 22 motivated Cleansers. These special folks learned how to "Eat Right" while they performed a full system detox which cleansed their systems of toxins while they fed their bodies good health producing whole foods. These "Storm Troopers of Health" all lost weight, and they did it as a by-product of creating Health and Wellness in their bodies. Our next group is forming now for our "Spring Cleaning Cleanse Event". This is the way to become Healthy and as a by-product lose weight.
So, don't be duped like you may have been for many years by the "low fat fad" of the last 3 decades. It just doesn't work! Please think, learn, study and incorporate so that you become Healthier this year. Onto the next article
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This email has been sent on behalf of your practitioner, Dr. Douglas G Pfeiffer DC | Center for Nutrition and Wellness |215-679-WELL (9355)
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