Rebuilt U: A show about unlearning

If you ever thought life was tough, this will inspire you.

If you thought you were strong, this will make you stronger.

If you need hope, this is it.

If you think America is bad, you absolutely will want to listen to this.

This is not a typical interview about health, but it is about perseverance and human endurance and an unbending will to survive.

This was an inspiring interview for me. I hope you enjoy it.

-Dr. Altman

Are you over 30 and getting REFLUX? PART 2: Digestion

Part 2 is on digestion and getting this right can make everything else you do better.

So why is digestion second on the list? Your nervous system is first because it controls everything. Digestion is next because it controls whether or not nutrients get into your body. Since, nutrition is one of the cornerstones to your health, you need good digestion to utilize the good food you're eating and the whole food supplements you're taking.

Take a look at the symptoms ABOVE.

These all represent some kind of digestive problem, but the most common, the most insidious, the most over looked, and the most dangerous is acid reflux. So, if you get the burning after supper, we should talk.

It is alarming to me when I walk down the grocery store aisles and look at the empty shelves of acid blocking products. There are countless people, unknowingly, slowly, killing themselves and it doesn't have to be that way.

This is physiology 101.

#1 You were born with, and need stomach acid. Stomach acid is there to digest food, ionize minerals, and kill bacteria.

#2 That burning people feel coming up the throat ISN'T stomach acid over-production. It is organic acids from food putrefying, rancifying, and rotting in the stomach from LACK of stomach acid. (Think roadkill in your guts)

#3 What does your body do when you eat bad food? You throw it up, and/or have diarrhea to get it out as quick as possible. Your body isn't dumb, it is trying to send this rotting mash back to where to came from. So if you take an acid blocker, you temporarily quell the rebellion and pass the fight on to your intestines.

#4 Right now, if this is you, you are likely thinking you like being able to pop a pill and prevent that burning. I get it, but...it's not natural, and it will slowly starve you of minerals like calcium. That's a well known side-effect. So, if you are female, worried about osteoporosis, this is a bad scenario.

#5 So how does this happen? When you were 18 you likely didn't have too many problems, right. First, nutritional deficiencies play a role, and especially if people are eating processed foods and a lot of simple carbohydrates like bread, cereal, and pasta.

Second, It takes water to make stomach acid, and I rarely meet a new patient who's drinking enough water.

Third, as you age, your stomach acid production drops.

Fourth, and my favorite, subluxations (bones out of place) in the mid-back and the upper neck. Those nerve areas control the stomach. (This goes back to part 1)

-Dr. Altman

P.S. Quick bit of trivia. Nearly all fibromyalgia / chronic pain patients have digestive problems.

P.P.S. To fix this is fairly simple, stop in and ask, or send me an email [email protected]

Why 30? This is the magic age. I thought it was all BS too, but once I crossed 30 years old, I noticed more aches, more pain, less energy, and in general, a feeling of not being quite the same.

If you feel terrible and you aren't 30 years old, you have more trouble than you realize. Why? Because every decade after that gets harder, degeneration accelerates, nutritional deficiencies compound, and your ability to heal, in general, declines.

Take advantage of youth. If you are like me, and well north of 30, then life can still be great, it just takes a little more work. Hence, this 6 part series. We are going to walk through a basic plan to get most health conditions resolved.

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Take a quick look through the list above.

If you have no problems in this section, congrats. If you do, why do you think the problems exist? "Why" is the best question to ask.

For this particular section, these are all nervous system problems. What I didn't tell you on the graphic, is that there are parasympathetic and sympathetic problems mixed in. Those 2 parts of your nervous system control how you speed up and slow down your body. Are your organs running like the cartoon road runner or being dragged through the mud by a horse?

If the balance is off, you will be off.

There is a combination of chiropractic needs and nutritional problems mixed in there.

Earlier in the year, I put out a quick survey on what interests readers the most. Guess what was the run away winner?
Detoxification. I'm cool with that. It's incredibly important in the modern age.

So why am I not starting with that? Well, there are two main reasons.

#1 I used to consult with people about nutrition and supplements 15 years ago. Back then, It was mainly over the phone. After 5 years of doing that, I noticed something that changed how I did everything. The people not getting adjusted by a chiropractor, even in their home towns, did significantly worse, no matter what supplements they took. Your nervous system is the master of your body. If it isn't balanced, nothing else works right.

#2 Dr. Nuzum said it best. He is a toxicologist with 7 doctorates. "If you are nutrient deficient, you are a toxic sponge." To give you an example, if you are iodine deficient, you will soak up fluorine and chlorine to block the function of iodine. That spells bad news for your thyroid. We will get to detoxification, but we have a few things to cover first and to get you ready for that.

If you have or still have problems in section one, I'll bet you want to know why?
There are a lot of variables at play here. How old you are, how long the problems been there, what you eat, what your hobbies are, your work environment, your stress level, etc. It ultimately boils down to your ability to heal.

I even put a video online of a guy who was remarkably better in just a few visits, I interviewed him on his lifestyle. He ate amazing food. Two years ago, I wrote an article on accelerated healing. It was about my wife and an injury that left her unable to walk and 13 days later she ran a 1/2 marathon, on trails in Moab, Ut.

What I've noticed over the years is that healing takes time. Often times, patients ability to heal is outpaced by their lifestyle, hobbies, or work stresses. When my daughter broke her leg, she needed time to heal and not be training for a 5k.

You might remember Rulon Gardner from The Biggest Loser or the Olympics. He won an Olympic gold medal against a guy who hadn't lost in 13 YEARS. He retired in 2004 and didn't take good care of himself. He ballooned up to 474 lbs over the next 8 years.

How humbling would that be? To go from the Olympics to the Biggest Loser.

Healing comes from within, right?

Do you think he's mad at the gym, or his coach, or at his spouse, because he let his body go?

Did he go to the gym just once? No, they worked him to death daily.

What if he only went to the gym every 3 months? What about every 6 months? Do you think he'd lose weight at all?

In a 2012 interview with ESPN, he said "Yet, in the end, it wasn't enough. Gardner admitted Saturday that his one regret was not focusing as much on his nutrition as he should have."

Rememeber those check boxes above?

Do you know what symptoms tell you? I know, stay with me though. They tell you something is wrong. Not only that, they tell you something is wrong enough, that your body can't deal with or adapt to it any more.

This survey section is a mixture of chiropractic specific problems and nutrition. If you aren't getting adjusted regularly, you are taking the longer, slower road to recovery. I've seen it in clinical practice over and over. This is why they've had a chiropractor head up the medical team for the Olympics. Chiropractic has saved some gold medals, but that's another story.

On the flip side, if you give no thought to your nutrition, you will never ultimately get 100% better. You will linger in the middle. This is why most people don't do very well if they don't get adjusted at least once a month. Life is busy, stressful, and hard on the body. Most people don't have the time to cook every meal or exercise every day, or go on TV and exercise your guts out and have a professional chef cook for you.

You can't go to a chiropractor once and expect it to undo 20 years of deterioration. Just like you can't go to the gym once and undo 200 lbs. of weight gain or just cook one organic meal at home and have it undo eating fast food all week. The laws of thermodynamics can't be ignored, the farther you drift from being healthy, the more work it takes to get back. The good news is that Rulon proved you can get back.

If you are struggling with section one, talk to me in the office or send me an email, because I can't give specific advice in this format.

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-Dr. Altman

Yes, it's the 1980's all over again. It seems unbelievable, but this is a reality.

Let's say your kid falls and need stitches -$10
Let's say you break an arm -$10
Let's say you need a strep test -$10

If you participate in the regular healthcare system, those could be $100's to $1000's of dollars. It doesn't have to be that way. Dr. Rachot pulls the curtain back on medical care in America.

We have been forced into a health (sickness) system that is unsustainable. Copay's are at an all-time high. Deductibles are at an all-time high. What do you get?

Basically nothing but a big bill.

I speak from first hand experience. The system exploits patients, it's wrong and it needs to change. But, it can't until you and I do something.

If you are tired of paying obscene amounts of money for nothing? You can change that. That is today's podcast.

If I get my way, you'll be able to use chiropractic care to prevent problems and basic medical care for 90% of the other problems that pop up in life, all for less than you are paying now.

By the way, this is a wonderful system for your business. If you are an employee, send this podcast to your boss.

If you are listening outside of Utah, buy Dr. Rachot's book and give it to your doctor and they can possibly reduplicate his medical system. You win, and they win.

Listen to the podcast with Dr. Rachot

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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof, but on the basis of what they find attractive. - Blaise Pascal

I've had 2 instances in my life that made me stop and question my beliefs. The first one was when I hurt my back. I was just playing volleyball and instantaneously my back went into a crippling spasm. I spent the whole night on the floor (literally I couldn't get into bed).

I was 21 and thought I could do anything. I could do anything, until that day. It was so humbling. Heck, I'd even broken my leg 7 years earlier and that didn't phase me like this back pain. I think it was because I was debilitated. I realized I could be taken down at a moments notice.

That chiropractor changed my life forever. I saw scoliosis, I had been accumulating for years and didn't know it. I changed my behavior and I've had adjustments almost weekly ever since. I didn't know what I didn't know. My beliefs about myself, life, and health were completely upended.

The other time, I was sitting in a lecture and the speaker was talking about how destructive soy products are. I was drinking soy milk at the time and buying American made tofu.

What?

My ears perked up because someone was challenging my beliefs. At the break, the guy behind me confirmed what she said with a scholarly tone of voice. After doing my own research, I quit taking soy products of any kind.

I'll bet when you think about your life, you can find instances like that where someone melts your mind.

Over the last 20 years, "truth" has been a quest of mine. As a chiropractor, I get to see a constant stream of lies and misdirection from the health care "business" industry.

The truth can be elusive because your beliefs can create a filter for your mind.

I'll give you an example. Where do we see evidence needed most? In a court case, right? Each side, piles up their own facts and a jury or judge makes the call on who's right.

Back in 1987, a trial between the chiropractors and the AMA concluded. (The Wilks case) The AMA was guilty of conspiracy against chiropractors. Crazy right. They had a committee with one job, to smear chiropractors. For decades that propaganda hurt people. People still "believe" the propaganda, even though the mountain of evidence says otherwise.

So where do your beliefs come from?

The first place is your parents, then maybe your friends, and society in general. You might have a church leader thrown in there. Now it starts to get more interesting, i.e...things that Blaise Pascal was talking about in the beginning. Things you find attractive, peaceful, and give you comfort.

Are those really good reasons to believe something?

Just because triple brownie fudge ice cream makes you feel amazing, is it true that it's good for you?

Just because your parents taught you that a certain race of people are evil, does that make it true?

Just because heroin can make you feel great, is it true that it must be good for you?

How you feel about something isn't a great way to decide if it's true. If you believe something that isn't true, it can kill you. The truth protects you. If you keep shooting heroin into your veins, you'll eventually die.

The truth may hurt if you challenge it. If you like standing in the street, sooner or later when a bus hits you, the true pain of physics will be revealed.

I have believed many lies over my life. Now, to me, finding truth is an adventure. Here is a way to evaluate something that challenges you.

Truth: is true 100% of the time, for all people. Truth is timeless and absolute. Truth exists whether we believe it or not.

The earth was still round even when people believed the world was flat.

If you feel something is true for you and someone comes along and says they believe the opposite, by simple definition, you both can't be right.

You can believe something different from someone else, but you can't have two different truths.

Why is this so important? Who cares if things are true or not?

Discovering the truth will help protect you in life. If you hold onto false beliefs, you will be lead down many false paths in life.

For example, I have "discovered" 100% of patients tested have aluminum in their bodies at a toxic levels, myself included. Now, if someone comes along and shows me one person without it, I should, and will change my belief.

Aluminum is a neurotoxin and the primary cause of Alzheimer's. If I believe it's no big deal and harmless then I'll suffer the consequences over time.

Pain is another one. Do you believe pain is a signal that something is wrong? Is that true for 100% of normal humans? There are a few people born without pain sensations, but that's not normal. If you just suppress pain and don't investigate the cause you are traveling down a false path. Whether you believe it or not. The truth that pain is a signal is still valid.

I sat in on a patient consult once where the lady's arm was completely numb. It didn't work...at all. The other health practitioner asked my opinion on the relevance of chiropractic in this case. She'd already done everything else more extreme, including steroid injections and neck surgery.

I did a 5 minute presentation on how releasing the nerve compression might help. She nicely turned me down saying she didn't believe it would help. She was 100% right. I left and 5 minutes after that, the other practitioner dismissed her from the office. Her belief was so strong, she had no chance of getting better.

Things to think about this week.

1. Seek the truth in all areas of your life. If you disagree with someone, that might be an opportunity to learn a new truth, or teach one to someone else.

2. People spend a great deal of time, money, and effort to hide the truth. So don't be afraid to challenge them. It could save your life. It makes the truth fun and frustrating.

3. If the people you try to help with XYZ belief, and you care about them, try and get them to agree to the definition of truth. Ie...Use gravity for example, it always works, 100% of the time on earth. Gravity doesn't just work for me and not for you.

-Dr. Altman

P.S. Silent Soldier day is on the 7th of July. If you know a active military member suffering in silence, have them come to the office Thursday the 7th. It's free to them and they may discover some new truths about health.

The great thing about this job, is that I get to meet a wide variety of people. I think every one has something to teach me. The super healthy and the super sick both offer lessons.

A couple of months ago I had someone come in that was "too late", much too late. Advanced neurological destruction and severe liver problems. Those are hard ones, because there is a point of no return for the body.

One of my pet projects over the last 20 years has been to find as many ways to prevent problems as I can. I think it's important because it can keep you from jumping the rails and going off course.

Yesterday was Fathers Day and I took the day to read, and read, and read some more. I'll admit, I was very lazy. I had some interesting things jump out at me.

Health is a nebulous concept, like wisdom. There is no end point to arrive to. But, we definitely know what unhealthy is. That's pretty easy.

You have pain.
You are over weight.
You are chronically tired.
You have diabetes.
You have XYZ disease.

There are more than 10,000 labels of problems I can give a person in the insurance code book. To my knowledge there isn't a code for "healthy."
They sure as heck don't pay me to keep you healthy. That's crazy talk.

Being healthy is when your Mind, Body, and Soul are at peace with one another.

Good health practices have known for thousands of years. You know veggies are good for you and cupcakes aren't, right? The basics aren't hard to understand. It gets tricky in the modern world with man-made problems.

The temptations from advertising are everywhere. Your friends will tempt you and the sirens song of sugar is always playing.

When I was reading yesterday I came across this from C.S. Lewis. I thought it was a good way of looking at temptations.

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie.

Only those who try and resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in.

You find out the strength of the wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later."

You might be thinking, "that's all well and good, but I don't know how to exercise, I don't know how to cook, and my spouse isn't on board."

In modern society, you'll always encounter roadblocks...always. I have them too. You'll also constantly have temptations. You will fall off the wagon, every one does. The difference will be if you get back on.

It's actually good for you to fall off every once in a while. It makes you appreciate the wagon more.

Ultimately, you are responsible for you. You are a priority. You are "the" priority. If you are ill, everyone around you suffers. If your spouse refuses to get on board with doing healthy things, then let it be and focus on you. Maybe, slip an extra life insurance policy in there :)

You can't force someone to believe something. It won't work no matter how hard you try. Have you ever tried to force some one to believe anything? What happens, they dig their heels in against you. Just like trying to push a dog forward, they resist. Try pushing a string.

You can't force people to believe in chiropractic, in organic food, or even God, for that matter. I get the "I don't believe in chiropractic" all the time. That's nice. Can I change that person's mind? Probably not. I actually can, but they have to crash and burn first, then try all other options.

Then we run into the problem of "it might be too late."

If your spine has old injuries (i.e.. Car accident 30 years ago), you can't exercise or eat your way out of those problems. I've had plenty try. Not happening. Last November's blog post had a great story on this.

So how can you help yourself?

You can be on the lookout for more skillful living. This is the seeking of wisdom. Wisdom allows you to make better choices. Your life is a reflection of your choices.

The sermon I heard on Sunday highlighted four characters you will meet or you may become in a pursuit of wisdom. I see these characters in health care all the time. When I find someone with a lot of wisdom in an area I interview them for the podcast (SLCSAW).

The naive: This person lacks experience. It's fine, you know you don't know. Nothing wrong with that. It's actually an intelligent place to be. We are all there at sometime. You can't know everything about everything. This is a proactive mindset because you are aware.

The fool: knows right from wrong but doesn't care. You know smoking or fast food is bad for you, but you continue to believe nothing bad will come from it. You can get here by accident because there are often no immediate consequences. This is a reactive mindset.

The mocker: Makes fun of what's right. You can also get here by accident. You run into this mindset with people that are resistant to change. They are tough to be around. They will make fun of people eating organic food or doing anything else healthy.

The wise: Knows right from wrong and chooses the best option. You CAN NOT get here by accident. You need to be deliberate in your path. This is the fun part of constant learning. You need to study yourself and others that have gone before you.

The first step is to just be aware that learning is a life-long process that never ends.

Look within...If you are unhealthy, realize you need to learn more. Remember the naive person is the intelligent person. They recognize they need to change something. I'm learning more about toxic metals every day. Where ever you are on your health journey is perfect for you, as long as you are learning to be better.

Look around... If your grandfather is slumped over and in constant pain, and you don't want to end up like that, don't do what he did. If your doctor is overweight, maybe get a second opinion on health advice. If your friends tease you at lunch about eating "health food". They are just mockers and their opinion doesn't count. Wisdom is trying to make the best choice, not the easiest or most popular choice.

Would you like more info on what I've learned about proactive health over the past 20 years?

-Dr. Altman

9 Secrets of Energy Production (+Memorial Week Hours)

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Is energy is in short supply for you? Today, we're not talking about the basics, I'll give you a little more to think about. And...don't even think about an "energy" drink. The shear popularity of these drinks is a indicator of the need for real energy and not stimulants.


Just to refresh.  The basics of energy are function and nutrition. So look to these and check yourself. If you have these down, then the 9 secrets will kick you up a notch or two.


#1. Nutrition. Energy is a fundamental byproduct of food being broken down into the useable form called ATP.  ATP is the bodies gas. Think of it like raw oil coming from the ground and being refined to a useable gasoline.


If you put bad gas in your car, it'll run poorly. Your body needs good whole foods, not cereal, pasta, donuts, and soda. Processed foods have all the real energy producing nutrients stripped out.


#2 Sleep. This is pretty obvious. If you don't sleep, or sleep well, you're pretty tired the next day.


#3 Chiropractic. This is one of the first things I noticed getting adjusted. I had more energy. Basically, you have more because you are wasting less. If your muscles are in spasm or 1/2 your body is not working properly, your other half is working overtime.


#4 Water. 70% of your body is made of water. It makes you go. The number one cause of afternoon fatigue is lack of water. You don't need a $3 "energy" drink.


#5 Rest. You do need to give your body time to heal and recuperate. If you owned a million dollar race horse, would you keep training it until it collapses?


Ok...so you have those down. Pretty basic, and you should be doing those without much effort. But, life happens. Sometimes you need to dig a little deeper and try and find the smaller problems. These can come over a lifetime of stress, toxicity, etc.

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The secrets

#1 Adrenal fatigue. I've had 2 rounds of this. One was bad enough I couldn't get out of bed after 10 snooze alarms. The easy warning signs are fatigue, getting dizzy when standing, and not being able to get up in the morning. This is primarily a lifestyle issue. Just stop being busy. It's hard, but necessary.


#2 Thyroid issues. This can have a myriad of sources, but for today, we'll stick to low iodine levels. For one, people don't eat enough natural sources, i.e...things from the sea. Secondarily, people often eat or drink too many iodine blockers. Those would be things with chlorine, fluorine, and bromine. Municipal water and bread are probably the biggest contributors.


#3 B vitamins. These are a real common deficiency. They are one of the first vitamins ripped out of food after processing. Also, synthetic versions are often sprayed back on the "food". We do a simple, cheap test. We just give a patient one tablet of Cataplex B from Standard Process / hour and if the patient picks up and feels better, there's likely a nutritional problem.


#4 Minerals. magnesium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, iodine are the big players here. It takes a bit more testing to figure these out. Hair analysis and a urine test will do quite nicely to get a handle on these. One thing I've learned over the last few years of testing, is that most people are fairly low in minerals. If you have grey hair you should check on these.


#5 Mitochondria damage. These are your energy powerhouses inside of your cells. They make the ATP your body runs on, but like any factory they can be shut down. Toxins, inflammation, infections, nutritional deficiencies and low thyroid function are all capable of making you tired. Eating whole foods and detoxing daily will help this a lot.


#6 Lipoic acid. Common place to find this is in Cruciferous vegetables. Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, broccoli are the most common.


#7 CoQ10- Gateway to Energy, primarily something called the electron transport chain (ETC).  The ETC is the most efficient was to create energy.  It's 16x better than just burning sugar. When your body can make energy with the ETC, you are rockin. The best sources are fatty fish, beef and chicken. You can get some from veggies and nuts, but not near the same concentration. Plus, CoQ10 needs fat for absorption. If you are on a low-fat vegetarian diet, you might be tired because of this. Also, cholesterol drugs block this from working.


#8 Medium chain fatty acids. The BEST and easiest source is coconut oil. These go right into the Electron transport chain to make the most energy for you. If you aren't using coconut oil in your cooking or smoothies, you are missing out. This is 16x more efficient than eating sugar.


#9 Essential amino acids. They are called essential for a reason, you need them.  If you cook all your food, you could be low in these. Let's say you are a car manufacturer, except someone forgot to order ignition systems. You'll have the most beautiful car that can't start. Amino acids can act like that.
Eat more raw foods. Also, if you have trouble sleeping, this may be a problem and taking them as a supplement may help. We use Protefood from Standard Process.


Modern life is stressful, busy, and tiring. If you don't take active steps to take care of yourself, you'll eventually get beat down.

-Dr. Altman

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This is a fun, quick episode. This is really and episode to get you moving. 

With today's topic, I'm going to give you some insider perspective. I see all aspects of health every week. Some people are struggling to rebuild their bodies and some are setting new records for strength.

Talk to any doctor and they'll ask about your exercise and tell you it's good for you and you might even need more.

What if you didn't exercise for a year? 

Did your heart just stop? Would you be relieved?

Ask yourself this...

What do you ultimately want from exercise?

Do you want to be healthier?

     -Great, exercise can usually do that.

Do you want to look better?

     -Exercise might help, you might need something else.

Feel better?

     -Exercise might help, you might need something else.

Lose weight?

     -Exercise is definitely the slowest way to do this.

Maintain your strength?

     -Exercise is your ticket.

Gain strength?

     -Gotta go with exercise again. (Really just free weights are the way to go) Yes, I realize body weight works for a while. 

Do you want more endurance?

Do you want some competition?

Do you want a challenge?

I normally try and give you something useful to do and think about at the beginning of the week, but this has proven to be a very large topic. 

We can all agree that you need some level of activity every day. I prefer that you be active. You don't need to join a gym for basic levels of healthy activity. Get out and walk, run, garden, do yoga, chase your dog, anything that gets you moving.

If you have a sedentary job and lifestyle then this is where to start. Get out, and get moving. Life is about movement: your blood, your muscles, your lymph, your spine. If you don't move a muscle for a month, it dies off. If a joint in your spine doesn't move, it dies. If you've seen bone spurs on an X-ray, that's spinal death.

If you are already exercising, great, keep it up. 

Now ponder if what you are doing actually matters. The body is a system. It works together and is meant to be trained that way. 

How many times (sarcasm is coming) do you curl your hamstring at your job? Do bicep curls help you work around the house?

My point is... If the body works as a unit, don't try and train it in parts. You could think of it like this, exercise to be useful. Probably the worst thing to happen to exercise is the invention of nautilus machines.

If you are stuck doing machine based training, start working your way out of that. It just sets you up for future injuries, and muscle imbalances. It helps give you "show muscle" but not "go muscle".

This is the last type, and by far the trickiest. If you love to exercise and it is a large part of your life, slow down and read this section. Let me tell you the story of Jill. She shows up in the office one day with her 2 kids and with her husband. Her husband was the patient, not her. 

Her hubby mentions that she has back pain, while I'm adjusting him. So after some casual conversation I come to learn that she has pain so bad she can't even sit at the dinner table with her family. Are you kidding me!

She had just adapted her life and "pain" became her norm, so much so, that she didn't even think it was abnormal not to "sit" at dinner. Her perception of life and pain was way out of balance.

Come to find out, she's also exercising 2 hours a day to make herself feel better. She's using exercise to combat pain and loss of energy.

You might be thinking "what's wrong with that?"

Sounds like a good plan, right?

Exercise is stimulating, fun, and makes you feel good, but it can be used as a crutch. Here's how you tell. If you stop exercising for 3-7 days and you feel depressed, tired, or more aches and pains. That's who you really are. 

If you are a hard core exerciser and keep finding that you are doing more and more exercise, you are living off the narcotic-like effect of the stimulation.

You can get away with that for awhile because you have reserves of minerals to draw upon. It's a very interesting phenomenon. As the reserves deplete, your natural ability to produce energy declines. The energy loss, starts to change your brain and numbs it, so you can still function. You actually start having perception problems. Just like Jill. She had no idea how bad she was.

You can feel healthy, but your not. Let me give you an example...me. I was working out, hard, in 2014. The kind of workouts that end in laying on the floor, gasping for air. Sometimes I really dislike being the Guinea pig.

So, in the fall of 2014 I did a tissue mineral analysis. Here is what the lab told me.

Basically, I felt really good, but I was burning through minerals at an accelerated rate. If I kept going, I was going to be in trouble.

What kind of trouble? Well, everything you do, your life, is revolving around your ability to make energy.

Do you know why most people succumb to cancer? They run out of energy.

Energy and the lack of energy should be taken very seriously. If you've read this far, I'm going to give you a real gem. There is one easy, easy way to tell if you are in trouble. Whether you feel good or not. Remember exercise and other stimulants can trick you. If you have grey hair, you are running low on energy. There is much more science behind that, but that's a whole other email.

Summary for you. Exercise is good for you, but maybe this will help make it better.

1. If you are doing nothing, get out and be active. 

2. If you are active, do something useful.

3. If you are dependent on exercise, stop for 7 days. See who you really are.

P.S. If you do have grey hair, you should get a hair analysis done. It's the best way to look at minerals.

I have 2 teenagers and I am fully aware of the increase in stress. Being a parent could be one of the most stressful things in life, especially now.

Todays guest will impart 35 years of wisdom on parenting and as a pastor he sees all manners of family dysfunction. 

If you improve your skills as a parent, your life will be much less stressful. As a chiropractor for nearly 2 decades, I can tell you stress is one of the primary causes of poor health.

So when I hear patients saying their kids are killing them, they are actually speaking the truth. 

If you get a lot out of this interview, you can get hours of more free info on his churches website. 

Smccutah.org

Just do a little today and every day.

Would you rather fill your house up with garbage and take it out once a year?

Or

Would you rather take it out daily?

If you answered with number one, I think we can get you on a guest appearance of "hoarders".

Many people actually never take the garbage out...of their bodies that is. Your body has the ability to take the garbage out with it's own detoxification mechanisms. But, it needs certain nutrients to do that.

Popcorn and chips don't qualify.

If you've never done a detox program or do something to improve your liver daily, this is for you.

Ideally, helping your liver daily is the best thing you can do. Why? We are surrounded by a toxic soup. Toxins rain down from the sky, are in the water, and on the food you eat. You can not escape them no matter how hard you try. No matter if you live in a cave in the mountains.

If you don't believe me, we can get you tested for about $250. National geographic paid more than $10,000 to have a journalist tested for everything they could.

Many health practitioners will advocate a yearly cleanse. That's fine we do that too. But, daily is best with a yearly to deep clean. Kind of like spring cleaning. The house just feels better.

If you want to spring clean your body, you can read more about that here.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/slcsaw/Patient-Purification-Program-Guide.pdf

What you do daily will matter over time.

#1 Eat clean. Organic would be best.

#2 I take Livaplex from Standard Process to feed the liver lots of good things daily. The liver needs certain nutrients to clean.

#3 Increase your Glutathione. That's the most powerful detoxifying enzyme available. It's mainly made from Palmitic acid. So where do you get that? Meats, butter, and palm oil are good sources. If good, clean saturated fats scare you, we should talk more in the office.

#4 Kale and Brussels sprouts also supply some of the other components your liver likes.

This is a short list, but a good, easy list. The main thing to notice is that whole foods make your body happy. Just don't make it a high grain diet, that'll back fire on you.

Enjoy an organic salad with a grass-fed steak tonight :)