Wednesday, July 29, 2009

You Were Born to Be Healthy

According to common beliefs in genetics, God has a plan to give you hope and a future only if you’ve chosen your grandparents carefully. The belief is that if I have bad genetics, I’m cursed. Fortunately, science has proven that despite your genes, there is hope.

In a 2002 study called Balancing Life-style and Genomics Research for Disease Prevention, Dr. W.C. Willet revealed that only 5% of all cancer and heart disease comes from hereditary factors. The rest come from lifestyle choices such as how we think, live, eat, and deal with our health.

When it comes to cellular success, it is nurture and not nature that makes the biggest difference. The vast majority of diseases we face aren’t due to poor DNA. Single gene disorders affect less than two percent of the population. That means that 95-98% of us are born with the ability to live with outrageous health and incredible happiness. Mostly, we’re born with hope and a future. These new discoveries show us that there is an on-going creative power in our life and we are not “fated” at birth to feel a certain way, act a certain way, behave a certain way, and die a certain way at a certain time. NO. At this point we know that we have something to say about that. The diseases, depression, aches, and pain we face today are not a result of dysfunctional grandparents, but because we’ve lived and thought in such a way that created disharmony in our bodies.

God has a plan for your life; the question is “Are you on the plan?” It is your environment and not your genes that make the difference. If your lifestyle lines up with God’s plan for your body and you provide a healthy environment for your cells they will thrive. Get off of the plan and the cells falter. By the grace of God, if you’ve been causing your cells to suffer in a less than advantageous environment and they become sick, you can improve that environment so that they can become well.

God’s common sense plan for a good environment:

• Keep all your parts
• An optimal spine = optimal function
• Move
• Keep out artificial invaders as much as possible: medications, other chemicals,
and refined, artificial, chemical-laden, or genetically modified foods
• Lots of food still in their natural state

If any of the above five is ignored, it will alter this safe internal environment, throw it out of balance and cause chaos in the cellular community. This will create an incredible disadvantage to survival and reduce quality of life. It will show up as pain, depression, disease, and a failure to thrive. The quick fix of choice may be medication. While this may be necessary in emergency situations, chemicals do not create harmony, order or balance, they disrupt it. The real solution is to embrace what is necessary to get back on God’s plan once again so the body can restore, rejuvenate and heal. A plan with hope and a future.

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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Celebrity Fatalities - Could They Have Been Prevented?

THE HEADLINES EVERYWHERE READ: "Michael Jackson's fatal cardiac arrest: The result of psychiatric drugs and painkillers?"

In a May 2009 study (which was largely ignored by the mainstream US media) Jussi Honkola MD, at the University of Oulu in Finland, concluded that people who suffered fatal cardiac arrest were more likely to have taken antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs than those who survived.

"Our study shows that medications may negatively impact a person's chance of surviving an acute coronary event such as a heart attack," Dr. Honkola warns. "With more people taking medications such as painkillers and antidepressants, the public needs to understand the potential risks and serious consequences."

Mr. Jackson's battle with (legal) psychiatric drugs has been well documented. In court papers filed in Jackson's Santa Maria county case, Neverland security guard Chris Carter testified that Jackson was "taking ten plus Xanax pills a night."

Additionally, Jackson had been receiving daily injections of Demerol, a narcotic painkiller.

In high enough doses, Demerol can slow respiration almost to the point of suffocation, which can lead to sudden death by depriving the heart of oxygen, according to Dr. Douglas Zipes, a Cardiologist at Indiana University and past president of the American College of Cardiology. Demerol can also cause a sudden stoppage of the heart in patients who are dehydrated. The drug causes blood vessels to dilate, or expand, and dehydration would impede this stretching, leading to a dangerous drop in blood pressure and blackout, which can cause sudden death.

Interestingly, an AP release came out just days after his death, from the FDA related to eliminating certain painkillers from the market.

Between an over utilization of surgery that ruined much of his life, the medications that he was addicted to, mind altering drugs that were impacting his decision making, and the combination of these drugs that finally ended his life, Michael represents the worst of what medicine does to people. I am certainly not defending the poor guy, as I don't know anything about him, but at best - he never stood a chance.

It is unknown how Farrah Fawcett took care of herself. Being in Hollywood, it is unlikely she escaped without some overexposure to bad lifestyle and medicine. Certainly most of the people around her had severe issues. Given that she had colon cancer; chances are she was not living a Chiropractic lifestyle.

Multiply these celebrities by millions and you have the state of the nation - and quickly becoming the world. Can you imagine what it would have been like if these stars had been regular patients in a principled Chiropractor's office? They would be traveling the world at the top of their game right now, instead of passed on while millions mourn.

Our goal is to introduce a way people view and receive health care. We do this through 5 Essential components of health and wellness. Had Michael and Farrah been educated on the principle of supporting health and function as a way to look and feel your best rather than interfering with drugs and surgery, their whole life stories may have turned out differently. Certainly, with much happier endings.

--from Maximized Living

Health is an expression of our lifestyle choices. How can you possibly have health when you are always taking shortcuts by treating symptoms? Come find out the true meaning of health at trinitychirowellness.com

Dr. Cole