Wednesday, May 27, 2009

To Live a Long and Happy Life We Must Change

I just read a research paper from Medical Examiners in Florida stating that prescription medication (legal drugs) kills 300% more Americans than Illegal drugs annually. Why do we as a nation continue to put toxins in our body? It is POISON!

What would happen if you gave medication to a healthy person? Would they not become sick? Why then would you give it to a sick person? We say we have a "health care crisis" but continue to use the same medical interventions...that is insanity defined (doing the same thing and expecting a different result). We consume 90% of the worlds pharmaceuticals and are near the bottom in overall health, yet are still slow to seek change. Real change would be decreasing our reliance on medicine and taking responsibility for our own health...NOT getting on the latest and greatest new superpill.

Surprise, insurance won't pay for you to maintain or expand your health, they propagate the system by forcing you to be sick in order to receive care. With Universal Health Care on the horizon, this is cause for alarm. Using drugs and surgery is sick care, that is treating people who are sick. It has no place in the realm of Health. When you use Sick Care and disguise it as Health Care, you end up with a sick society and a Health Care crisis. Sound familiar?

The bottom line is if you do not have someone helping you to maintain and increase your health, you will surely lose it at some point in the future. Health, like finances, requires us to take responsibility to secure a happy, long life. Be proactive, seek out wellness, get adjusted regularly. If you do not have a Wellness Chiropractor or health coach, please come in for a consultation with me. It is up to us to create change.

In Health,

Dr. Cole

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The Cost of Getting and Staying Well

IS INSURANCE THE ANSWER?

"Nobody's safe! Health insurance? That did not protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year." - Elizabeth Warren, Harvard University

It is clear that our current health care model does not work. People are not physically or emotionally well. Oddly, rather than figuring out a model that does work, the focus has been on, "How do we pay for it?" 

Now, new Harvard research shows, even if you are insured, insurance does not help you financially either! A March, 2009 Time Magazine, Cover Story was named "So You Think You Are Insured?" showed the real facts. Harvard studied 1700 bankruptcies. Researchers found that medical problems were behind half of them. The shocking fact was 75% of these people bankrupted by medicine actually had insurance coverage!! 

Every 30 seconds in the United States, someone files for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious health problem. Even in the midst of a housing crisis more than 25% of them said the reason they cannot pay the mortgage was due to medical debt. 1.5 million families lose their home to foreclosure each year due to unaffordable medical bills not an unaffordable mortgage.
There is no such thing as 100% coverage. If you allow yourself to become ill, the fact is that the uncovered percent can cost you everything. So, the bottom line is insurance cannot get you well and in the long run, does not save you money.

It might be easier to bear the medical bankruptcy if the return was a cured disease. If you had the choice between keeping all of your money and being sick or dead or giving up your money and being well the choice is easy. Unfortunately, you spend all of your money and you are still sick. You are broke, and still broken.

A SANE, PROFITABLE SOLUTION

The question we should ask is not, "Do you take my insurance?" The questions should be, "Are you the best person to help me and my family be well?" Because, whether you are uncovered, covered, or partially covered other than in the case of emergency, Western medicine has failed as a whole. So what difference does it make to how you pay?

There are tremendous amounts of scientific, long term studies done on large sample groups that show that there is a direct correlation between better living and preventing pain, illness, disease, and prolonging life. So obviously, if you spent your time, money, and insurance premiums on tools and treatments designed to build your body's health you would not only be well, you would likely avoid a bankruptcy hearing. People will often say, "I do not have the time to exercise," "I do not have the money for Chiropractic if it is not 'covered,'" or "I cannot make it to one of the Weekly Wellness classes or events because I am working or have my kids softball game." 

Yet, ask any child who has lost a parent to heart disease or cancer or has a grandparent who can no longer play with them because they are crippled with pain or illness if they would rather have them around and well or have them never miss a single ball game or day of work?
ALSO, skipping care you need now in order to save a few thousand dollars can equal medical bankruptcy or literally tens or even hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars later. 

Any financial expert will tell you the reason for the current financial crisis is ultimately shortsightedness on behalf of the people. To skimp on your health care now because money is tight and then end up being unable to work or function and with tens of thousands of dollars in medical expenses later is exactly the kind of thinking that leads you to economic ruin. It is simple math, investing in wellness now pays dividends tomorrow.

-- from Dr. Ben Lerner and Dr. Greg Loman

Exactly, Insurance pays for sick care, but will not even touch Health Care. It is your responsibility to create and maintain health, and your safest investment. Come see why we are the Headquarters for the Family Wellness Movement -- Trinity Chiropractic Wellness

Live in abundance,

Dr. Cole

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Why Chiropractic IS Wellness

What is Wellness?  It is a ten-cent word that is heard everywhere and has effectively lost its meaning.  You see “wellness” at local gyms, in the supermarket, on pharmaceuticals, and at physical therapists, but it is never truly explained or measured.  I find this aggravating because Wellness is the core of my vision for this community, and I am taking a moment to explain what it truly is.


To talk about wellness, you must know what it is.  Wellness defined is “the degree to which an individual experiences health and vitality in any dimension of life.”  What keeps us from experiencing health and vitality?  Stress (physical, biochemical, emotional).  Stress includes everything from injuries to poor nutritional choices to a sedentary lifestyle, and it puts your body in “survival mode.”  When stress occurs, one of two things happen:

  1. You deal with it immediately
  2. Store it in your nervous system

Our technology will let us measure the lifestyle stress that you have been keeping within, and how it is affecting your nervous system and general health.  I mention this because there are two things you can do with stress:

  1. Medicate it so you don’t feel it, but it still kills you
  2. Come see me so we can develop a plan to release it.

When you are in survival mode, you are not growing, adapting, and healing like you should.  This brings me to how wellness is possible!  It is because your nervous system learns, which means that your body adapts.  Only a chiropractic adjustment reprograms the nervous system, so when you keep someone adjusted they stay out of survival mode and the nervous system can start learning from its environment and expand its efficiency, which increases your health and vitality.  


I believe to claim wellness, you have to measure wellness.  Because of this, we have invested in NASA certified technology that measures the efficiency and performance of your body and nervous system.  It is the same technology used on the Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens, and USA Olympians.  Whatever your wellness goals may be, we will deliver on the promise.


In Health and Happiness


Dr. Cole