60 Day Turnaround

Join Me!  Over the coming months, I am going to take some steps to accomplish a very clean lifestyle, an anti0inflammatory diet, a reduced calorie diet (normally I don’t preach this, because I am high in fat, but I want to increase my fasting from Friday to multiple days a week).

We have some cool stuff.  So this week and next we will be talking up the suero challenge like crazy, and I would like everyone to try three days, just three days of this.  And perhaps some will go longer.  But anyone can do three days.

At the end of the Fall Break we will launch our next TOTAL FOOD MAKEOVER which will include 40 days of education including two shopping excursions.  I am working with a video editor to launch the Pantry Diaries finally (whew), so that is on the way.  And I want to do some two hour workshops in your environments, work, home, church, meetings, whatever.  We want to take the DIET education to a new level this Fall, and see how well we can do getting through Halloween with healthy families, and then keep that going until Thanksgiving Day.

Our practice has been growing again since the shoulder has been better, and I want to make sure that the new faces get a chance to see what we teach, and how effective it is.  I was adjusting the Friday AM before I left on vacation, and I was confronted with a room full of people who had lost from 20-40 lbs on the Advanced Plan, and I was amazed.  There were five people over the course of three minutes who I spoke with who had these results.  And I thought… its time.

So it is time.

If you are a HYPO-GLYCEMIC patient who weighs 100#, the Total Food Makeover is for you.  If you are weight loss resistant, it is for you.  You have to do it, and stick to it, and let your life be changed!  Before that, I need you to sign up for next weeks talk.  Don’t let me put all this effort into Tuesday night, then NOT have you come!  No way, too important, sure there is a strong Juice Plus educational side to it, but isn’t it about time you understood why we stand by this product so strongly.  Why it is better than green powder, super greens, or enzyme blends.  I am not naive, well, yes I am, but I am not when it comes to supplementation.  I have asked all the questions, and see the products.  My choices come with reason, so check it out next Tuesday Optimal Health Through Nutrition (and sign up, we need your name on the sheet, email Angel if you can’t get in).

Yep, fired up.  Lets get healthy… real healthy.  Cancer and heart disease need to start losing, and only we are going to make that happen!

Be well, be blessed, Dr. E

Naturalnews.com – a Leader in Health education and investigative reporting in the health world, has called for a boycott of Larabar and Kashi, including other natural products.  Their reason for the boycott, is to take a stand for Proposition 37, which is n effort to force food companies to add labeling WHENEVER a GMO Food is used in a product.

I am confident that eventually laws will be passed to require GMO labeling, but I am greatly concerned that if proposition 37 does not go through, that we will be waiting a very long time before we will know for sure if what we are eating is GMO or not.  GMO (genetically modified organism), would be any organism that has had the genetic structure altered.  If you search through my daily sprouts for GMO, you will find MANY references, and great opportunities to brush up on WHY we cannot stand these.  I recommend all of my patients avoid these, but especially if you have any signs of immune compromise such as cancer, or chronic inflammatory conditions you  MUST avoid these.

So in the meantime, why a boycott of these “Natural” companies?  Silk, Kashi, Larabar and more are on their list.  But something important to figure out first, is why.  The reason is because these companies are owned by LARGER companies that have given money to the effort to stop Proposition 37.  So my point, is that you need to first STOP buying products from the larger companies if you want to make a difference.

Kashi is owned by Kellogg.  And though it would be a stand to stop buying Kashi, and to make a stink about it, you should be looking for ways to stop buying Kellogg first.  If you eat their cereals, guess what… you eat GMO’s every morning.  Silk is owned by Dean Foods, who also own Mayfield, Horizon Organic, Land O Lakes, PET, International Delight and more.  Cascadian Farms is also on this list of companies owned by larger companies trying to kill the proposition, General Mills, who is also the owner of Larabar.

I really think our stance has to be one of a unified desire to give yourself information.  Without the information of whether GMO ingredients are present in the foods you eat, you cannot decide to be GMO free or not, as it simply isn’t your choice.  And that is wrong.

I will continue to follow this debate, in the meantime, please read the article HERE.

There is great call for concern, when historically it seems as though any time we have tampered with the body through chemical introduction, we have caused problems.  And it usually takes a decade before we realize it.  Be well, stay healthy, Dr. E

As we prepare for the August-September Suero Challenge, we wanted to refresh your mind.

So we are in the Suero Challenge for many of you, and some are getting ready to get started.  30 days of healthy cellular detox.  Build a healthier intestine, and utilize the cultured whey to drive your cellular metabolism.  This will improve your energy (if you have deficiencies in mineral content), it will improve your digestion (if you have deficiencies in healthy bacteria – this includes just about all of us), it will improve your energy systems (if you have low levels of cultured foods in your diet already), and it will help stabilize your blood sugar (if your leptin levels aren’t below 12 already).

The plan to acheive these wonderful goals over 30 days:

Basic Plan:

1. Drink One bottle of Suero Viv a day
2. Drink 64 ounces of water everyday, most with lemon or enhanced with minerals (artesian/sparkling)

Mid Plan:

1. Drink One to Two Bottles of Suero Viv per day
2. Drink 64 ounces of water everyday, most with lemon or enhanced with minerals (artesian/sparkling)
3. Eat no solid food for 6 hours each day, while drinking the Suero Viv over that time

Advanced Plan:

1. Drink two bottles of Suero Viv per day
2. Drink more than 64 ounces of water everyday, most with lemon or enhanced with minerals (artesian/sparkling)
3. Eat no solid food for 10-12 hours per day, while drinking the Suero Viv over that time
4. Take Daily Detox everyday

BONUS:

Stick to the advanced nutrition plan during this time (buy the green book)

I recommend purchasing three of each of the Suero Viv flavors from our office to get started (we are fully stocked).  They are $4.50 each, but we will cut the price to $4 if you buy six.  Then place an order by becoming a preferred customer ($20) at beyond organic, and then order three cases of the Suero (pick your favorite).  In order to sign up to be a preferred customer, you can go to my Beyond Organic Website Here and pick the preferred customer route (if you want to introduce these products to anyone else, you can pay $39.95 and then have your own website).

We’ll be throwing a Detox Closing Party/Healthy Spine Day at the office, and we’ll be cooking Beyond Organic Hot Dogs (100% Organic Grass Fed Beef) for our party!

I recommend everyone jump on this.  No matter who you are, where you are, or what you have been doing!  The reason why, is because anyone can do the Basic Detox Plan.  It is affordable, especially given its impact, and it takes minimal commitment!  Be well, live the toxin reduced and detoxifying improved, lifestyle!

God Bless all of you from Hilton Head!  – Dr. E

Two whistleblowers said that Merck failed to update a lack of effectiveness with their MMR vaccine, and in the process made false claims to the FDA to obtain government funding that should not have been available!

Merck has been put under the gun for false claims, and has been penalized severely in the past for wrongdoing.  $950M for Vioxx, $250k for failing to report routine followup studies on a diabetes med, and $1.6B in total fines for FRAUD reported by USA TODAY.

Basically Merck is bad.  You might have heard me tell the story from my patient who sold Mevacor (the first Statin Drug on the market, produced by Merck), back in 1987 when it was first released.  She talks about how they simply needed to get docs to sign up 100 patients, and that doc had a Hawaii vacation in the bag.  Part of the life of a late 1980’s drug pusher, as it so commonly seemed to become.

New laws have altered that fiasco, thus pushing large Pharma companies into even more wrongdoing it seems.

Check out the excerpt from this article regarding the MMR Vaccine and the whistleblowers:

Two former Merck ($MRK) employees lodged a whistleblower suit against the drugmaker, alleging that it overstated the effectiveness of its MMR vaccine. The False Claims Act lawsuit says Merck didn’t revise its claims about the combination shot’s efficacy, despite the fact that it had become less effective. So, the employees say, government health programs paid for the product for 10 years without knowing it didn’t live up to the company’s claims.

As Dow Jones reports, Merck disputes the allegations, calling them “completely without merit.” The company also points out that the Justice Department has declined to join the whistleblower suit, which was filed two years ago, but unsealed last Thursday in a Pennsylvania federal court.

Read more: Whistleblowers: Merck hid declining efficacy of MMR shot – FiercePharma http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/whistleblowers-merck-hid-declining-efficacy-mmr-shot/2012-06-26#ixzz23OhyK6VG
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With the upcoming Suero Challenge (get ready we are going strong for the next six weeks, leading up to the Total Food Makeover which will start after the Fall Break), I decided that this Mercola article would make a great lead in Daily Sprout.  In addition, it will help you get a feeling for HOW important cleaning out the system is, but then how important it is to  live clean.

Over the years, we have given about six different detoxification workshops, and EVERY ONE of them has hit on the importance of cleaning out the mercury in your teeth.  So to see this article, makes me happy.  Phasing out is long overdue, but it has to start somewhere.

What does your mouth look like?

If you are like me, you got silver (amalgam) fillings growing up, and now they leech mercury into your system.  Don’t trust that, then be sure to go online if you are reading this on a sheet of paper in my office, and watch this video:

Smoking teeth, that is exactly what those are.  From Mercola’s Article :

It’s important to understand that the term “silver filling” is profoundly deceptive, as the composite material contains anywhere from 49 to 54 percent mercury, not silver. The American Dental Association (ADA) has historically covered up this fact, and at one time even declared that removing mercury fillings is unethical — despite the known fact that dental amalgam emits mercury vapor after it is implanted in your mouth, and this mercury is bioaccumulative and endangers your health in many ways.

Mercury is one of the most difficult substances to remove from the body, so our goal has always been to not put it in.  But once it is in, improving glutathione production really just makes sense.  We prefer Daily Detox as the method to accomplish this, and support using this product during the Suero Challenge.  Suero is primarily used to enhance the gut, by giving it an incredible boost or probiotics, while stimulating gut healing through minerals from cultured whey.  The challenge is to drink two Suero-Viv bottles per day for two weeks, and during this two weeks, to remove most of all other foods, except for some greens.  It might require more than two Suero’s per day, but it is a great step towards healing the gut.  Why?  Because it is the most common place to absorb toxins.

Sure the mouth is key in mercury problems, but it has been postulated that most of the mercury absorption from amalgam fillings, still is through the gut.  Look at the EU report from the Mercola article:

“The current levels of mercury pollution in the EU are such that all the EU population is exposed to mercury above the natural background level and certain population groups such as high-level fish consumers, women of childbearing age and children are subject to high risk levels, principally due to their high exposure and/or high vulnerability to mercury in the form of methylmercury, which is ingested through the diet…”

The diet.  The diet is the problem.  Clean.  Lets get there!  More to come on the Suero Challenge, but start looking at your best two weeks during the next six to get committed.  Be well, be BLESSED!  – Dr. E

Olympic good, that is how good you need to be in your knowledge of health if you want to make sure you are giving your family the best opportunity for long term health.  Yes, this part is paramount, OLYMPIC GOOD is necessary!

But read it again… olympic good at what?  Not your commitment to health decisions, not your ability to hold yourself to a workout or a perfect diet.  Not your ability to get in for every adjustment and every moment of home care (traction, headweights, specific exercises); no these are SUPER important, but more important is the knowledge behind them.

Now, doesn’t that seem opposite what you would think?  We always talk about how knowledge is useless without action, and how in a world where there are so many diet books, why are we so obese?  Because of lack of action!

So why would I put knowledge as the top need?  Because knowledge allows you a path to discernment.  We teach the culmination of years of testing, over hundreds to thousands of chiropractors (the Max Living group) to hundreds of patients who visit these offices each week.  This adds up to several hundred thousand people who have been touched by the diet efforts that we teach.   Somewhere around 100,000 people who have learned that short high intense exercise is best, and that living a detoxification lifestyle is better than the buzz word “detox”.

YET, we still see so many people who come to us telling us they are eating a healthy diet, we ask what, and they say low fat (makes me cringe to hear that).  I hope you realize that any low fat diet is going to be high carb, and that is the worst thing possible.  I see people who ask me how much cardio they need, and when I say their 12 minute burst is all the cardio they need, they think I am crazy.  But if they come to a workshop and listen to fifteen minutes on why, they think we are brilliant.

So, you see, to be Olympic Good, starts with knowledge.  Team USA is really good, across the board.  Right now China has 61 medals, USA has 60, UK 37, and the dropoff is pretty good from there.  Why do these countries lead?  Because they have an incredible base of knowledge about what works, and what doesn’t.  Have you noticed how different the swimming strokes look today than 12 years ago?  Its like they have been completely morphed by knowledge… swimming under the oncoming wave in a turn, slapping the water madly in the freestyle vs. the controlled graceful pull of the past.

I don’t expect anyone of you to be any better than the next at being committed.  This is a difficult world when it comes to diet and exercise.  Stress, and getting to the chiropractor.  But if there is one thing I know, if you let yourself be exposed to good knowledge, the effort at pulling away from cultural living becomes less effort, and more natural.  We are here to help that path.

As the workshops start to be announced again, I would push you to gain some knowledge and be at these workshops, whenever you can.  Culture will tell you chiropractic is unnecessary, that your diet cannot impact overall health, that exercise is best done 60 minutes at a time.  And sadly, this same culture is dying from heart disease and cancer at the rate of 2/3 of our population.

Gain insight, be well and blessed!  Dr. E

This is a great story, one that I can pull a bunch of positive learning opportunities from, and simply great education.  Check out this abbreviated version from a well known CrossFitter employed by CrossFit Headquarters. FULL STORY HERE

CrossFit is Dangerous??? And How It Very Literally Saved My Life.

Immediately when the car stopped I was in severe pain, mostly in my neck.  Both of my hands were on the dashboard and I was leaned toward the passengers side.  Because my neck hurt so badly I just kept repeating to myself out loud “you’re ok…don’t move…it’s ok…”.  All of the airbags were deployed and the entire passengers side where I was looking (trying not to move) was MANGLED.  The door panel and glove box were almost unrecognizable.  The windshield had shattered and I had glass, and coffee, ALL over me.  I was bleeding but I didn’t know from where.  I was too scared to look…too scared and in too much pain to move.

Luckily, there was an ambulance that saw the whole thing go down.  Pretty quickly I had someone talking to me.  I realized my hand hurt…and shortly after learned why.  The paramedic (I think….I couldn’t turn to see any of these people) asked me to turn the car off.  I couldn’t.  Because somehow I had managed to karate chop the keys during the accident and break the key of in the ignition…..with my hand.

Change.org = controversial.  There are some things that come across this email system that I do not agree with.  But I sometimes  find great value in their efforts.  This is one of those.

The timing is SAD, because the BPA restriction happened awhile ago in so many other countries (Canada is one), but  in the USA there was a push back, and so many “experts” came out and said “it is too early to say that BPA is bad”.  I wonder if  the time that was given was just enough to allow the major food companies to get it out of certain products without missing a moment of profit.  This is from the email I received today:

The FDA just announced that baby bottles and sippy cups can no longer contain bisphenol A (BPA), a controversial hormone-disrupting chemical that studies show is linked with cancer, obesity, heart disease, and other life-threatening diseases.

This is a huge step towards getting dangerous chemicals out of our food supply. BPA isn’t just found in baby products – routine tests have found BPA in more than 80% of Americans’ bodies. It’s used in packaging food, lining cans for soups and sodas, and more.

Protecting my kids doesn’t stop when they graduate from bottles and sippy cups. I am counting on the FDA to help regulate this dangerous chemical so the people I care about most in the world are safe — no matter how old they are.

I know that together we can make a difference. Last year, I helped pass a ban on BPA in children’s products in my own community in Oregon. Doctors, researchers, and medical experts testified about the risks of this chemical and the importance of keeping BPA out of our children’s bodies. I was moved to tears by the hundreds of people who signed my Change.org petition in support of that campaign, and I hope this petition will make the FDA take notice, too.

Major brands have already begun distancing themselves from BPA due to consumer outrage. These companies have shown great leadership, but moving company by company and product by product is taking too long. BPA will continue to make people sick until it’s out of our food supply for good. We need strong action from the FDA now to protect us, and our kids, from these dangerous chemicals.

Tell the FDA to ban BPA now.

The reason I find so much value in this message, is simply that BPA is bad.  Its the truth.  The announcement came to me via The New York Times, and as I would think to write, so did they… about the fact that this ban leaves so many products on shelves, that are rich with BPA.  And sadly, it goes unnoticed in most of those, even by wary and considerate consumers.  This is a problem.

Does it bother you that our government is slow to act?  That we have the highest expenditures of any country in the world on our “healthcare”, yet our health is awful?  So much waste and inefficiency in our system.  The New York Times points out:

The F.D.A. declared BPA safe in 2008, but began expressing concerns about possible health risks in 2010.

Really?  Really?  Come on… SAFE then two years later, unsafe?  These are not idiots, these are scientists who can see the writing on the wall, but their position statement is all about security for the large corps using the BPA, and the reality that they would lose millions if they were told that their products are no longer any good.

And I get it.  Our country doesn’t need an employer losing millions.  We are bad enough right?  But tell that to the parent of the child with an odd cancer that developed in their teens… or the child of a mom who has been using BPA for years and ends up with a liver cancer that spreads everywhere.  “Sorry, but you are a sacrifice that had to be made… its for the good of the country you know”.

Be Well, Be Angered, and then be sure to express it in love!  – Dr. E

It was only a few weeks ago, when one of my patient families was sitting in the hot seats, and I thought “I’m glad they are here, it is always good to get this family adjusted”, and as the kids filtered through, their mother shared with me a tragic story that she was right in the middle of.

Her “away at school” daughter (Emily Sue), 20 years old, was in a major accident… this is from her daughter’s care page:

Emily is a student at SAIC in Chicago, IL. On Sunday, July 8th, She fell 30 feet and sustained major injuries. Her back is broken in two places, her pelvic bone is cracked, her leg, ankle and foot are broken. However, she is ALIVE and God has protected the gift He gave her – the ability to create art.

As she told me about the accident, she explained how she was the one to receive the call… “Are you sitting down?  Your daughter fell four stories and is now paralyzed.”  Fortunately, the paralysis was only temporary, as the swelling went down, function returned.  Talk about a fearful moment, what do you do with a call like that?  Act… pray.

Now she has been up and down, back and forth, but ultimately moving forward.  Not charging, like a tailback making his way through a hole in the line, but more like the efforts of a new flower, working to shed its petals and reach for the sun.  It is slow, and all who witness it wish it would just happen.  I am sure right now Emily’s family and herself share this common desire, to just get well.

Healing is a slow process, and often times we ignore the underlying thing that heals.  But put it in the right perspective… your brain, is sending some kind of message, how it is communicated, we really don’t know.  Chemicals in just the right frequency, or amplitude, or something; are sent down the spinal column to a receiving tissue.  That tissue somehow deciphers those signals to make a message, to activate DNA strands out of thousands, to formulate just the right proteins to tell each individual cell (of millions) to heal.

There is an intelligence in the cell, that just might eclipse what we think is possible. Consider this, your thoughts, those you are having right now… where are they coming from?  One cell?  Twenty, fifty million, fifty billion?  How do these cells work together to let you think fluidly?  Could you without one of those cells?  What if there were fifty million less?  Do you see the trap that we are in?  Too much intelligence within the cells, for us to understand what gives us intelligence.  Science continues to stay stumped by this.  Check out more of Emily Sue’s story below.

Wednesday,July 25, 2012